[PLUGIN, PART, 0.17] Bigtrak KSP Edition v.30 Liltrak

[Monkthespy]

Of course, double post, but, here you go.

I am your first lander using the motorcycle (other than you of course), yay.

[chickenplucker]

Haha, nice Monkthespy.

Tumblebot reminds me of...

[purple100]

Everybody! Mun is made of cheese!

[deadshot462]

Washing machine driving a motorcycle on the moon.

*Head explodes*

Pretty cool though, I\'ll give this a shot. Time to speed really fast up the Mun arch with this rig

[noneyabidnis]

Wow - Kiwi Cycle is awesome! It even lets you do tricks with it! (Try a wheelie at 45 m/s - keep holding down the i key and press s key for a second).

I can\'t wait to get it to the moon. I haven\'t been this excited about a game since GTA Vica City came out and they had motorcycles. I wonder if I can scale down a couple of solid rocket boosters and strap them on the side.

I see a lot of challenges emerging from this. For instance, I wonder how many rockets I can jump over on the moon?

Evil Kernibal !!

Thank you, by the way. This is a lot of fun. And will no doubt become legendary.

[madmat]

oh god yes, please strap some boosters onto this sucker and DL some pic\'s of the result. I love Evil Kernibal BTW. How about Krusty Kerbals.

[noneyabidnis]

Is there a way to record video in KSP? Or do I need 3rd party software?

Evil Kernibal is doing so wicked tricks on the moon. Cruise along at 30m /s and then while driving forward, hold down the s key - does one back flip and lands it = keep holding and it pops him way up. I also just jumped across a huge crater.

I love this thing!!!!!

[chickenplucker]

lol everything is better with more solid boosters attached I\'m not very good and modeling figures but I may have to make a Evil Kernibal guy to ride this now.

Again, thanks for all the nice comments everyone, I\'m glad your enjoying it

[noneyabidnis]

I would use WebEx conferencing software to record my screen, but that\'s all hosted at work and I\'d probably get a 'don\'t do that again' talk.

There are plenty of other video makers here - I\'m sure the next few weeks are going to be very, very entertaining.

[noneyabidnis]

I love how fast it looks like you\'re going because he\'s so low to the ground.

I think I have to adjust node properties in CFG to allow side boosters - I will give it a shot. And then figure out how I can make a part super small. Surely it can\'t be that tough.

[cardgame]

I think it may be as easy as rewriting a line of code (of the model itself) to set the scale to a certain size. Someone made a part bigger than the whole launch tower once by accident because their scale was too large or something.

[Kreuzung]

I don\'t think you can scale the model in the config file. You\'ll be able to do that in .16 to avoid size issues, but not now.

You can still do weird things in some .dae exporters ;P

[chickenplucker]

In the cfg if you just tweak the scale and it should take effect:

// --- asset parameters ---

mesh = model.mu

scale = 0.1

So if you did .05 then it would be half as big as it currently was in game.

[Kreuzung]

I thought scale only affects the values in part.cfg...

[cardgame]

Once you start tumbling, you never stop. That being said, tumbling can propel on to some sweet jumps. I flew for a solid two minutes on Minmus with that bike before I came down and exploded the landing.

[chickenplucker]

Haha, oh man I need to fly a bike there. That sounds like a riot.

Your correct Kreuzung, the cfg only scales settings/nodes. I was thinking it did the mesh too for some reason. Have been up faaar to long, way over due for some sleep.

[chickenplucker]

Small update, Tumblebot is neat and all but the Kiwi really needs a Kerbal at the controls. So heres Evil Kernibal. He still needs some size tweaks, textures, and details yet but is coming along nicely. Can\'t wait to get started on texturing him.

[Lazurkri]

Hmmmn, no way to have the bike stream a trail of flame?

*has evil image of Ghost Rider joyriding across the surface of the Mun*

[cardgame]

Any possibility we can get a four-wheeler of similar size but hopefully more stable?

[chickenplucker]

Sure! If I can find time this weekend I\'ll start on one.

[colmo]

Here\'s a snippet of code to insert in the Bigtrak\'s part.cfg file that automatically provides a cabin-view camera using r4m0n\'s new camera mod.

// Camera settings for chickenplucker\'s Bigtrak:
MODULE
{
  name = MuMechModuleHullCamera
  cameraName = Bigtrak_Cockpit
  cameraForward = 0, 0, 1
  cameraUp = 0, 1, 0
  cameraPosition = 0, 0.6, 1.4
}

Screenshot:

[madmat]

That looks better CP. Love the cape

[G Addict]

Wow, the bike\'s fast! Maybe it caps off at a lower speed, but it certainly hits 50m/s easily on Kerbin. Can\'t wait to get it to the mun! Though, while it seems rock steady even while turning at high speed on Kerbin I doubt it\'ll be so well behaved up there.

[cardgame]

Yeah, it doesn\'t really turn faster than 30m/s on Minmus - it flies. Mun probably won\'t be much of an issue though.

[Volt]

camaroiowaguy, could you create a version of that that uses a stock capsule instead of a \'kerbabl\' capsule?