[0.90.0] SSNC-Space Shuttle RCS Nosecone

[Kamik423]

Ever thought, that you need an actual nosecone for plane parts?

This mod adds a nosecone containing Monopropellant and mostly translational RCS-Thrusters.

Ideal for keeping your nose up during reentry!

now with 2 Nosecones, one actually looks like stock

My first mod, hope you like it!

Kamik423

Download (Curse)

Changelog:

V3:

• Better Texture
  
• Fixed thrusters not being symmetrical
  
• Fixed not showing up in Career mode (Specialized Control)
  

V2:

• Added a new nosecone that has fits with the MK3 Cockpit
  
• Bugfixes
  

V1:

• Added first nosecone
  

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License v3

Edited December 29, 2014 by Kamik423
V3

[Woodstar]

No pics, No clicks!

[Aningaaq]

No pics, No clicks!

The photos are on the curse webpage. (link he provided)

[paladin061]

Pretty. Maybe update the textures to fit better with the MkIII parts?

[paladin061]

How do you have such great internet

[Kamik423]

Added images

[biohazard15]

Great idea! But I do agree with paladin061 - you really should update textures.

[Helix935]

can you please post photos from different angles, i want to know how far this sticks out the front so that i know if it looks good for my OCD or not...

[trekfan42]

update textures and make the nose less pointy. more dull rounded. follow the gradient of the mk3 cockpit.

also add tweakscale support

[curtquarquesso]

Can you post a side profile picture?

[Greys]

It's not really fair to Kamik to just compliment whatever; while this certainly isn't the worst part I've ever seen, it has a lot of problems. First and foremost it's profile is completely unrelated to the stock parts it could go on. I assume this is because Kamik didn't have a good reference to design against.

Kamik, you can use Taniwha's Import/Export plugin for Blender to access the stock model, even if you don't use Blender you can use it to extract the stock model into a format your preferred suite can handle.

Second, the RCS ports appear to actually be modeled as holes in the nosecone mesh; this results in weird lighting artifacts, and the normals were not fixed after making the holes so the area around them has also gone all wibbly. These details are just so small that they should not be modeled, they should only be represented by textures; perhaps going so far as to use normals to create a lighting effect, but on suck small parts that seems unnecessary and may actually look worse at a distance; given how small they are they will usually qualify as 'at a distance'.

Get rid of the holes, and draw them on the texture

The color pallet of the texture is wholly too light, and the lines between tiles are a bit thin, and not dark enough. You can try to sample the original textures, you can use Zeblote's MBM->PNG converter to access the original texture and sample it's colors but you may still need to fiddle around and just test stuff until you get it right.

[Kamik423]

Thank you all for your ideas and suggestions, especially Greys!

I tried to implement it all, now with 2 nosecones!

[Mykill Metal]

What direction do the nozzles spray? Is it just up, down and backwards? ...or is there roll and forward as well?

[Kamik423]

Left, Right, Back, Up, And down (but that is angled to not be heated during reentry)

inspired by this, but added yaw thrusters, and changed shape to fit better

they can be used for pitch and yaw, but I think roll is not very effective

for forwards direction you would need to add something like the OMS engines

Edited December 22, 2014 by Kamik423

[falken]

This looks interesting, especially the reshaped nose. How difficult would it be to chop the front off the mk3 cockpit a bit closer to the cabin, and have a much larger nose section where you would have more room to work with the rcs ports?

[kiwiak]

Nice one, but it feels like it shoudl belong to some bigger part pack

[Kamik423]

Nice one, but it feels like it shoudl belong to some bigger part pack

Well, it was kind of my modding "test" the first part I ever modeled, mainly to gain experience. Probably I'll add more parts later on.

nice that you like it!

kamik423

[NathanKell]

Kamik423, that's a great first mod!

Alas, it's my sad duty to inform you that per the Add-on Posting Rules, you need to add a license to the download zip and to your first post in this thread. If you need help selecting a license, here's a guide.

[Kamik423]

Thanks for informing me. i added one.

[NathanKell]

Kamik423, thank you for adding a license to the OP. As I mentioned, however, you also need to add one to your zip.

[Mykill Metal]

Yeah this won't show up for me in the R&D, VAB, or Hangar. I tried re-installing, and nothing. I edited the .cfg because it looked a bit off. (There were spaces missing, and it looked different than it usually does) Nothing helps.

[Kamik423]

I tried downloading it, and it works. Possibly it needs moduke manager, but I don't know either. sorry

[taniel0401]

Would it be possible for you to reshape the smaller nosecone so it would match the curves of the cockpit? Most people are looking for that...

[Kamik423]

But isn't it quite well-fitting yet?

Edited December 27, 2014 by Kamik423

[Kamik423]

Kamik423, thank you for adding a license to the OP. As I mentioned, however, you also need to add one to your zip.

Ok, added license to file