Artificial Gravity Station

[Myslius]

I always wanted to create artificial gravity station (AGS). Today have found some time to do that and I would like to share my work.

The goal was to build whole station with interior, capable of generating 1G.

Here's the results, a ring shape space station:

By rotating this station you can generate artificial gravity and literally drive inside the station:

I've learned that you can't use standard rover with only wheels and electricity. Artificial gravity in KSP doesn't work that way. You need to attach some kind of engine. I've used RCS to do the job. Also, you can't steer with wheels, it's strange but steering doesn't work as supposed to. To bypass that, you need to attach RCS trusters for steering (left and right in front of the rover). The end result is quite good, and it's possible to drive inside the station (when artificial gravity is on) without any problems. Heres how the garage and rovers looks like:

What kind of station without food , here you can see a kitchen:

I know, you probably will say:

A kitchen in KSP? You must be mad... Yes, a bit mad.. At the end I've tried to generate maximum G. The station was spinning like crazy (but didn't crash):

A total of 20G was generated. The station barely stood alive. The floor split into pieces: (Notice: accelerometer is attached to the rover to measure G forces):

Over all, I had a great time streaming today: http://www.twitch.tv/myslius

Unfortunately twitch didn't save my stream. Well, you can enjoy the pictures

Also, i can confirm that kerbals can't walk in artificial gravity, they just roll around. I hope this bug gets fixed soon, so that people can enjoy AGS.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask

Peace out.

Edited January 28, 2015 by Myslius
i hate vBulletin

[Marine07]

I think 20g is too much for kerbals

[Rolanvorxariat]

the pictures aren't showing up...

[ZodiaK]

you have to copy the img URL and place it in between the "IMG" and "/IMG" tags (with square brackets)

[Myslius]

the pictures aren't showing up...

Is it good now? Not sure what was wrong, i was able to see pictures.

In case it doesn't show again:

http://postimg.org/gallery/1ilc3rl0e

Edited January 13, 2015 by Myslius

[Rolanvorxariat]

Well, that is one Station with the BadS=True tag.

By that, i mean one badass station. Dat kitchen doe

I want download.

[Myslius]

Download http://www.filedropper.com/mysliusags

Version:0.24

Parts:700+

Non-Stock

I will redo it for 0.90, stock only, one way or another. Here's the thing, I've added 3x3 structuralPanel to it. Why? Because it's not good to have a height of the ceiling as 2, it must be 3. When the height=2, kerbals might hit the lamp on the ceiling with their heads while driving a rover and die. Even if i keep the rover low, it might still happen. Also camera control is way harder with height=2. I could make height=3 from stock parts, but i'm afraid that the part count might reach 1000. I could make this station smaller in radius, just to reduce the part count, but, station won't be that round. A dilemma.

[Voyager55]

Wow that is impressive! If kerbals could somehow register the wheel as a planetary surface and walk on it my dreams would come true.