Surviving high speed impact with water?

[power5000]

Hello, I'm looking to recreate the re-entry and submerging of the carrier ship from Gundam 00 season 2 but I know of no way to survive an impact of more than 10 m/s let alone something like 300-400 m/s so any ideas?

[Cannon]

i don't think you can, it's like hitting the ice or ground, use some parachutes and you'll be fine

[Epthelyn]

It's near impossible to survive an impact at that speed on land*, and water is far more deadly.

I suppose you could make a buoyant 'shield' out of a stupidly large number of radial intakes (they float) and see what happens, but otherwise I don't think what you're asking is possible.

* With structural parts used in the same way intakes might help you with this, it's actually fairly easy to survive an impact at speed; the protected 'payloads' involved tend to be small though.

[Superfluous J]

Yeah it won't work. If you build a shield, the best you'll get is a shield floating alone in the ocean.

Water physics are interesting in this game, as are collision-based destructions. Further, what you want to do would likely not work even in a more reality-based game because something that large hitting water that fast may as well be smacking into the ground.

[Geschosskopf]

Have you tried the "no crash damage" cheat?

[power5000]

No The idea popped into my head this morning and I haven't got home to try anything yet...

[Laie]

likely not work even in a more reality-based game because something that large hitting water that fast may as well be smacking into the ground.

That reminds me of something:

[Loligoat]

Have you tried the "no crash damage" cheat?

You'd think so, but even with no crash damage turned on, the parts still get destroyed.

[magico13]

You could go into the configs for each part and set the crash tolerance to something really high. Or better would to use a ModuleManager config to do it automatically without permanent changes. Parts only get destroyed when they hit water at a speed higher than the crash tolerance. Don't ask me how to do it with ModuleManager, I don't ever mess with configs.

[power5000]

I just started trying that I got it to work but I need to mess with the configs a bit