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

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ultradude25

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The orbital construction mod has been pretty useful in setting up shots like these;

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I really want a version of that empty truss that allows you to place parts between the bars and the center (attaches to the center).

My ship would look much better if I could put the RCS and batteries inside the truss, instead of hanging outside.

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Or make that large fuel tank truss also carry RCS, don't know if you'd need to make the tank parts separate to do that though, although that might still be a nice idea.

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Sherbetlemons

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Nice ships :D

The first part of the new version of the pack will be out in the not too distant future, and the first release may or may not include a pod. If it does, it'll be able to hold crew and such. I've just not got round to looking at the changes for pods, so I can't tell you how to fix the current version's. I'm working on the new version of the pack atm, so I'm going to remove the old version when the time comes.

And ultradude25, I hadn't really thought of that, but it does sound like a good idea! The only issue is that you would not then be able to attach parts to the outside, and the outer bits of truss would simply move through things, as unity doesn't support concave colliders. But, it would be relatively simple to change the colliders on the new parts to allow attachment on the inner truss rather than the outer. Maybe after the first new release is out I'll release some alternate versions :)

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ultradude25

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What about if you split the middle and outer parts into separate parts, and put an attachment point in the center of both of them? Then you could put the center on, surface attach any things you wanted on it, then attach the outer cage to that middle attachment point, and be able to surface attach parts to that too.

I made a mockup by editing existing parts' attachment points (I had to cheat to get the outer part to place inside the center though):

Move the bottom attachment point to the middle.

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Same with the outer part.

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Surface attach some RCS tanks and attach the outer part's middle attach point to the center part's.

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Then surface attach more RCS to the outer part!

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Nori

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I like that! Nice work.

Don't know if you've used the Deep Space Mission pack but they have a cube truss thingy that has connection points on all sides. It is rather nice to use to connect things together and as a bonus you can attach things inside it (not sure if that was intended though). So I put my AdvSas, RCS tanks and SAS modules in them and it works great.

Anywho, love the parts you have made, I use em all the time.

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Bluekommeh

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What about if you split the middle and outer parts into separate parts, and put an attachment point in the center of both of them? Then you could put the center on, surface attach any things you wanted on it, then attach the outer cage to that middle attachment point, and be able to surface attach parts to that too.

I made a mockup by editing existing parts' attachment points (I had to cheat to get the outer part to place inside the center though):

Move the bottom attachment point to the middle.

SS_08-27_12-29-32PM.png

Same with the outer part.

SS_08-27_12-30-38PM.png

Surface attach some RCS tanks and attach the outer part's middle attach point to the center part's.

SS_08-27_12-31-41PM.png

Then surface attach more RCS to the outer part!

SS_08-27_12-32-33PM.png

It needs more rcs though, might want to work on it more.

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Sherbetlemons

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Right, I've been away for a bit which should explain the lack of response. Well, I understand that people might be a little annoyed with the download that's available, and I've come to realise I really should have made more patently clear that the download on the first post is very much an antiquated version. A newer, shinier Truss pack is in the works, and it should fix all these issues. But I can't give a release date other than 'when it's ready', not even 'soon'. The parts in the downloads are old, buggy, and use the old part import method. Fixing them would take a while, and would serve little purpose considering they'll be replaced at a hopefully not too distant point.

But I didn't make it clear, and for that I apologise. I've been putting off modifying the original post, but I think a few changes need to be made. Thanks for your patience and support :)

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Sherbetlemons

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Truss 2.0 will have hatches, both on pods and airlocks and whatnot.

I know it's frustrating, but there's not much point spending time adding a feature to a version that'll be gone in a short while when it could be spent improving the replacement/getting it out earlier.

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