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I found some craft called Tiny on the forums in a thread about making the smallest craft possible that could go to the mun and back, then land, then go back into 100km orbit, removed the landing gear, added a launching cradle(or else something on the bottom would get destroyed before you'd be able to launch it) and put a laser on its headWorks surprisingly well, now I just need to find out how to get close to other crafts more easily without spending like an hour doing the rendezvous manually.
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They are the Kosmos expedition legs, and they're okay.That face....its like its telling me to go out to do some exercising
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Where are people finding those legs at the bottom of your craft? they look so good.
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I really want to do a mid-air docking. Anyone have any guides or tutorials? I am going to use MechJeb and Kosmos' docking pieces.
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> Mid-air
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What has two thumbs and just put a space shuttle into orbit with stock parts only?
This guy
Man, I missed this game. Now to see if I can land it
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Oh my fucking god yes
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BTW, forgot to mention: it takes off like the real world shuttle, not a spaceplane.
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Attempting to rendezvous manually for the first time:
Overshoot, overshoot, overshoot, overshoot, overshoot
repeat for an hour
rage deorbit
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Right into the ground
angry ground
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Yeah, I just noticed that...> Mid-air
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Well, new update today, I've been poking around at having Kerbals spawning in the main flight scene, and found an issue that needed to be taken care of.
When parts unpack, they reset their rigidbodies in a pretty agressive way. That causes the ragdoll on the Kerbal object to lose references to the root rigidbody, which means the ragdoll joints lose the attached body link, and attach themselves to world space. I don't need to tell you just how much that disrupts normal functioning of the whole system. It's pretty bad.
Fortunately, it was a simple fix. We just needed to reset the ragdoll links that get broken when the part unpacks, and everything worked just fine. Trouble was, the EVA controller didn't know when the part was unpacking, until it was too late. So I set up the vessel and part components to fire off messages when packing and unpacking is being done, to give other attached bits a chance to do stuff.
That worked out pretty well, and I just needed to tweak a few details to get the kerbals packing and unpacking in the game, just like any other vessel. Some cheating later, we had a Kerbal walking on the Mun:
That same jump wouldn't get you more than a foot off the ground on Kerbin. Things are a lot more bouncy and fun at 1/6th of
a gee.
That's about it for now.
Cheers
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It looks like whatever Kerman that is completely indifferent about jumping around on a moon.
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..Kerbals are implemented as ship parts?
Can you strap them to a SRB?
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They aren't exactly a "part", it's just that the games regards them as so which means persistence with them is possible. If you wanted, you could, for example, crash another spacecraft into them!
However you cannot actually physically place them in the V.A.B, them being a part is just for behind-the-scenes reasons.
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Kerbal's definitely need eyebrows.
they look silly. I don't want to compare them to this, but they kinda look like they have a mental disorder expression
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It'd be fine is they just added some animation bones there so instead of an actual, textured on eyebrow; that'd change the look of Kerbo dramatically methinks; rather just have the skin there kinda crumple up whenever an exaggerated expression is made.
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They remind me of those raven rabbit things to be honest.
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That's half the fun!
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Regarding their faces:
Also, a spoiler, do not click to keep the suprise:HarvesteR posted:
http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?topic=13912.msg218847#msg218847
Possibly accidental leak by Nova, docking will be in 0.16
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Don't get your hopes up.
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I wonder what kind of stuff you will be able to do with EVA's in the future. I want to walk around my mun base and look at mun stuff and do mun things
EDIT: Are spoilers really necessary? It's an update not a plot twist
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Well, they implied docking has already been partially done for a while, but they needed to finish a few parts of it that might not be done for a while. Harv himself said we might get some parts of it, but it'll probably be simple things like just being able to latch onto another pod and transfer crew.
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Do you guys prefer SAS or ASAS?
Rate Agree (
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Rated autistic for mechjeb
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Mechjeb is an amazing piece of tech, but honestly it makes stuff too easy. I've managed it all; rendezvous (even in munar orbit, and without RCS), landing back on the runway with no thrust after deorbit burn, I've found the arches, made rovers out of stock parts, landed on every body... and if using mechjeb you don't get the same feeling of accomplishment. It just really isn't the same, y'know?Rated autistic for mechjeb
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Well, piloting everything yourself is only really fun for the first 1000 times. Honestly as long as you can do the full trip once, you should be allowed to use mechjeb. It isn't cheating if you know you can do it manually. Besides mechjeb facilitates the process so much; taking huge payloads into orbit is no longer incredibly annoying (only mildly
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I only use mechjeb because I'm sick of some of the bullshit that vanilla parts will give me.
Sometimes I'll be flying a rocket, turning into orbit angle then being unable to stop turning and thrusting myself straight back into Kerbin.
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i still can't properly figure out how to do a rendevouz with mechjeb
only case i could was when i was already close in the first place (with my asteroid) and then i could just use TGT+ to point at it, burn, and then correct on manualguess™ mode
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making a new mach jeb model >.>
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guy says no docking in 0.16... I think it is a pipe dream. if there is not docking I will make docking nodes have an animations that will let them lock....
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Use TGT+ , then when you get closer use +RelV until you kill all your relative velocity. Rinse and repeat.
I highly suggest the launch to rendezvous option in mechjeb.
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Haven't played in like a year. I'm so bad at building rockets.
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HarvesteR posted:Well, more progress news now:
I've been tinkering with the part physics and how the Kerbals interact with that, and I think I've been able to simplify the part packing/unpacking system to a point where it is not only more reliable and stable, but also much less laggy on the transitions.
This is a change that's right on par with the same-vessel part collision ignore thing, as far as how deeply-rooted it is, and how fundamental the changes are, so it needs to be under observation here, to make sure it doesn't cause any unwanted side effects.
So far though, it looks good, and some more cheating later, I got a Kerbal on Minmus. Here's me jetpacking around over a frozen methane lake:
This reminds me, I need to get the EVAPack thruster effects in still... Well, one thing at a time.
Cheers
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lol, I've been using the TRANS button under orbital operations to do it this whole time :X
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is that even possible?
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on a body like minmus I mean
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Given Kerbin's distance from the star, only in the shade. But since every part of Minmus sees sunlight except for polar craters it wouldn't be covering it.
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My craft keeps flipping over when it's going down the run way. I don't know what to do to fix it.
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That's supposed to be frozen methane? I thought it was like, sand or something, needs a reflective material on it. Like the ice in Halo CE or something.
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Are you using an ASAS? I find it works wonders when your plane has unstable landing gears.
This and a less grainy texture on it. Maybe a sharper shoreline as well.
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huh. so liquid fart is blue... who knew.
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Where do you get the Laser parts?I found some craft called Tiny on the forums in a thread about making the smallest craft possible that could go to the mun and back, then land, then go back into 100km orbit, removed the landing gear, added a launching cradle(or else something on the bottom would get destroyed before you'd be able to launch it) and put a laser on its head Works surprisingly well, now I just need to find out how to get close to other crafts more easily without spending like an hour doing the rendezvous manually.
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SAS makes my plane never take off I think. So i'm trying to leave it on during take off and then take it off when I'm actually pulling up. Except my plane might simply be too heavy.
I might either need a shit ton more speed or more wings. Except my whole thing is wings.
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I need a longer run way...
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SAS just locks rotation, doesn't it? So turn it on after you take off and you should be fine
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Turns out I wasn't using control wings...
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Also what the fuck, I Ran out of fuel in like 15 seconds, but kept flying around the base for like 5 minutes. With no engines or fuel. Going up and down in the air. I managed to land and take off 3-4 times. Some how pulling up = more speed because when I pulll up to take off my speed goes from like 60m/s to like 110m/s
I think I broke the game.
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going to record it and see if I can do it again.
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That's understandable. You'd be really surprised what you can do with gliders if you get them going fast enough first.
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