[0.16 ish] The Truss Pack - Rugged parts for any eventuality! *2.0 NEARING RELEASE!*

[Sherbetlemons]

Decouplers are going to be the next addition, probably going to do a 2m one, and 1 or 2 1m versions, and maybe a radial or two. It shouldn\'t be too hard to do a little 0.5m tank. As for the truss, I could do a few versions (the 2 links, maybe the adaptors?) without the central \'trunk\'. I\'m also planning on adding a link the same diameter as the pod and 1m fuel tank. After that, engines, and maybe some landing legs and other moving parts, and then I\'ll start doing some nicer textures.

- Thanks for the suggestions and screens

- Sherbetlemons

[mincespy]

Okay, this is just the most awesome looking mod pack ever.

This will aloow for AWESOME inter-planetary vehicle designs! Thank you!

[aryeon]

wow looks great can`t wait to start playing with it. 8)

[madmat]

Lord stimpy, That rocket looks GREAT,,I\'ll be replicating that today while waiting(painfully) for the 14.2 release.

[Cthulufaic]

Awesome pack! Though, I do wish that some of the trusses would crossfeed fuel. Anyway, you should make an adapter for the bigger parts, like a 2m(or whatever) --> 4 1ms Cause that would help A LOT.

[Sherbetlemons]

I was planning on adding a 2m to 4x 1m, a 2m to 2x 2m, and a 2m to 4x 2m, but they aren\'t a priority atm :/

Today I got distracted and tried to a (landingleg) cargo clamp thingy, but animations are playing havoc with my mind. Perhaps I\'ll do one with that fancy multi joint plugin that\'s the talk of the forums...

I\'m going to work on decouplers and engines next (2m fission torch anyone?), then perhaps some radial bits, including in-atmosphere shroud panels that just stick to the side of the drag prone truss sections, and also function as radial decouplers. I\'ll do a truss link the same diameter as the pod, but longer, and perhaps do few pod variants (a more lander freindly version, and a 1.5/1.75/2m one). Then I\'ll have a stab at a launch vehicle, which can be used with the pack or on it\'s own as a heavy lift vehicle, and will probably feature a heavier version of the fission engine, and 2-4x1 adaptors of it\'s own (possible with 1m engines to match, possibly not). Then I\'ll do those adaptors

And then, I\'ll do smoothing and textures. Oh, and I don\'t think I\'ll smooth the girders, just tanks, engines and such. I sorta like the cleaner edges =P

I\'m very indecisive, so this probably won\'t be quite the order.

The idea is that these parts will be about 10% more efficient than stock, not haxxor territory, but a little further up the tech ladder perhaps.

[benjaminlawrence27]

(2m fission torch anyone?)

Yes please. Besides, who needs Hohmann Transfers?

Another thought: If your going to make command pod variants, could you make one that is spherical? I\'ve been looking for a 2001-esque command pod for sometime, but none as of yet exist (so far as I know).

[pina_coladas]

Maybe you\'ve mentioned it already but I haven\'t seen it: radial truss adapters? That way we could have trusses going out sideways to living quarters and rotate the ship to provide some artificial gravity. It would be cool.

Also a large spherical command pod like in 2001, I agree that would rule.

[andrewthecool]

I created a Drydock type thing using this and the Interplanetary Infrastructure pack, but sadly I can\'t even get it onto the pad to edit it into orbit.

Probably the way it was designed, but oh well.

Keep up the good work!

Also, a request: The Command pod as a fuel tank or simple pod.

[Jesus KerBeard]

spherical pod, etc

It\'s 1m, but the pod from Sarkun\'s Baker lander is spherical, as is the RocktCo Soyuz/kerbabl pod. You may also be interested in searching for MaryG\'s munlander, it\'s a replica of the lander from 2001.

[willow]

I love this pack, is it possible for you to include/adapt some pieces so we can build in the horizontal? A 3 by 3 by 3 block would still fit on the launch pad and I like the borg like quality

[EDF]

I really like this pack, something new to mess with, great work!

I can\'t agree more with Leicontis\' suggestions

EDIT:

Can we have dat .craft file?

[madmat]

Lord Stimpy,I know i\'ve seen it somewhere, but where did you get the 'nose' for that ship. I can\'t find it.

[Lord_Stimpy]

Lord Stimpy,I know i\'ve seen it somewhere, but where did you get the 'nose' for that ship. I can\'t find it.

http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?topic=9258.0

Space 1999!

[madmat]

I thought it was there but the download link has been removed, No wonder i couldn\'t find it, ,,I\'ll have to wait till he finishes the whole pack i guess :\'(

[Guest GroundHOG-2010]

Crap, and I wanted to download it today... (internet bandwith has been refreshed, I don\'t have to worry about being on dial up for the next few days).

[Sabactus]

Your parts allowed me to make my first interstellar flight today (reached Kerbol escape velocity). Now Im using them to try to reach 1% C. Hope the space kraken isn\'t hungry.

[Sherbetlemons]

Attempts at modelling a fission drive have failed miserably. Will try again soon. Then you could crash a big long stick of fuel AND weapons grade fissile material into that darned octoped.

[TheProdigy]

Your parts allowed me to make my first interstellar flight today (reached Kerbol escape velocity). Now Im using them to try to reach 1% C. Hope the space kraken isn\'t hungry.

Well, that isnt really hard to do...even with stock.

[Stoormer97]

This really is an excellent pack, great work! However, if I may offer some constructive criticism:

-Parts are not fuel crossfeed enabled (no reason I can see for them not to be? in my game I modified the module .cfg s to enable fuel crossfeed on all of them).

-both the 1m and 2m fuel tanks have a fuel/weight ration of 250 fuel: 1 weight, the stock parts have a ratio of 200:1, because the 2m module is so large, I think it can stay the same, but I think the fuel/weight ratio on the 1m modules should be either 200:1 or 225:1 for balance reasons.

Keep up the great work!

[erkha343]

What kind of engine is recommended for the interplanetary design?

[Sherbetlemons]

Stormer97, I think I\'ll go with 225:1 with the smaller one, thanks for the suggestion

and I\'ve been using Novapunch or K & W myself, but I\'m working on my own engines.

[erkha343]

Stormer97, I think I\'ll go with 225:1 with the smaller one, thanks for the suggestion

and I\'ve been using Novapunch or K & W myself, but I\'m working on my own engines.

Oh I meant what type of engines. . .

Small thrust with small consumption or big thrust with big consumption?

[Sherbetlemons]

Aha, I see. Up to you, I suppose, but lower consumption and thrust seems sensible...

Anyway, completely contrary to that, an engine. I got bored, and threw this together this afternoon. It\'s big, it\'s ugly, and it has frankly unnecessary redundancy when it comes to reactor chambers. Oh yeah, it\'s meant to be nuclear

Will sort out texture bugs and balance at some point. Release...? well, I\'m working on a few things (radial decouplers, launch vehicle...) but have done some linear decouplers for this engine (a \'truss\' one, and a shroud/adaptor one that goes to 3m, the size of the planned launcher). So a release should be ready in the near future. And don\'t worry, all textures are just placeholders.

[erkha343]

I love your parts man, they\'re really nice

Keep up the good work

That Nuclear engine thingy looks awesome, now I can finally make my Nostromo :3