Simple/Quick Questions (For more complex questions please make your own post)

[spiral plover]

yeah i dont think there is

[dire plume]

there is one, but its ancient

[unborn gust]

is it easy to just port some parts

to like 1.12.3

[unborn gust]

Nvm i found one updated!

[dire plume]

nice! must've missed it since its not on CKAN

[unborn gust]

yeah

[ebon wigeon]

Where can i read some career guides? For new players? Thanks

[austere cloak]

Why are all these icons off

[wooden sundial]

How close do you have to be for the Mun flyby contract to be completed?

[arctic citrus]

i believe all you have to do is enter its soi

[dire plume]

wasnt sure if this warranted its own post but any tips on going to "planets" with high inclinations + small soi? trying to go to Lint/Mikey from MPE and can't for the life of me get a close approach marker to appear

also i have fairly limited fuel, the maneuver i have set is just a plane change

[river bluff]

I'm having an issue with mirror symmetry. The part attaches normally on one side, but on the other side it is in the completely wrong position, floating in the air either several meters away from my craft or completely outside of the SPH.

It seems to only happen when attaching a part to a part that is already attached with mirror symmetry.

[dire plume]

is there any way to force the Closest Approach nodes (the ones for targeting planets/moons, not the craft ones) to always appear when something is targeted? ive seen someone mention a setting that does that before but it doesnt seem to exist

[knotty vigil]

I had this problem yesterday and I had to reinstall ksp to fix it

Don't know what caused it

And why does my ssto start to pitch up on its own when I reach 20000m

I didn't do anything

And the ssto just flips out eventually

[river bluff]

Did you keep your mods?

[knotty vigil]

Just install them back with ckan

[ripe dune]

i forgot what the ideal alighnment of center of mass and center of thrust and center of aerodynamics was?

anyone know

i havent played in a while

[waxen comet]

Aero below mass to make it stable, though rockets do not have to be stable. Never put fins anywhere but the bottom.

[glad quest]

hey

so I got this science thing

I forgot the name and already closed my game

the one which has doors that you can open

my question is: is the data saved in my cabin or in the science module? this last meaning that I could hypothetically separate my rocket from the science module, throw it away and still get the science?

[waxen comet]

the science jr?

science is always stored in the experiment part, you can move it around by going and getting it with a kerbal or using a dedicated science container part

[glad quest]

not sure

[glad quest]

oh

[waxen comet]

if you collect it with a kerbal and then get back into the pod etc., it will be transferred to the pod

[glad quest]

okay, thanks

[stuck wasp]

does the sentinel telescope part stack of I include more than one on a vehicle or more than one in orbit?

IE does two telescopes increase the odds of finding comets

[dire plume]

i'd assume it doesnt, but it wouldn't surprise me if multiple probes means more objects found

[stuck wasp]

thanks! I would do an experiment but I cant think of a good way to quantify the results

and compare

[queen fractal]

If I recall right they need to be relatively close to the planet they're monitoring. So having multiple spaced out in the orbit should help since you can't park one to lagrange point between the planet and the star

Unless you're station keeping it maanually there

[stuck wasp]

No but i do have it and didnt think of that

Thanks!!!

[slender canyon]

I just installed blackracks volumetric cloud mod and the instructions say to remove the EVE clouds first. How do I do that?

[balmy sapphire]

he meant if you have boulderco folder remove it first

[unkempt turtle]

I accidentally dropped a jetpack on the ground, how do I pick it back up? Right clicking it doesn't give me any useful buttons, even when standing right next to/on top of the jetpack.

[hardy arrow]

Im practicing docking. how much room for error should I give between the two crafts?

[tropic shuttle]

wdym with room for errors

[hardy arrow]

Like how much distance in Km apart shoudl the craft be at the intersection. RN i have them at about 2 Km

for docking

[tropic shuttle]

go as close as you can. if you want to be sure keep the vesele size of both ships as save distance

[hardy arrow]

OK

also, how do I turn up brightness?

theyll be docking over the night side of kerbin

[hardy arrow]

how do i tranfer kerbals and fuel between rockets?

[tropic shuttle]

Right click the pod and press transfer crew, for fuel: pin all tanks you want to transfer fuel from

[hardy arrow]

and how do i disconnect from the docked vessel?

[tropic shuttle]

Right click the port

[fallow axle]

so i got some mods downloaded my my gamedata for ksp, anybody know y they dont work?

[hollow kestrel]

can somebody help me in #1080266612600479775

[hollow kestrel]

why does it say 1.10?

[waxen comet]

presumably you've managed to set your KSP version to use 1.10.1

not sure how you managed that if you don't know how you did it, but open the properties menu in steam and go to the betas section

[hollow kestrel]

you need a code

[waxen comet]

no you don't

the betas menu is how old versions are available

[hardy arrow]

is it possible to have engineers build struts in EVA?

[waxen comet]

No

[gritty frigate]

Not in stock I think

[hardy arrow]

so i put the first part of my space station in orbit, but one of the stages i used to move the unit of the space station didnt deorbit properly when i decoupled and I dont have any docking ports or probe cores attached to it. It is bound to crash into my space station sooner or later. How do I bring it out of orbit?

[balmy sapphire]

Then bring a engineer and attach probe core on it

[hardy arrow]

Will do then

[queen fractal]

C.L.A.W.

[gritty frigate]

@gusty lance Sorry to ping you but do you recommend FreeIVA or De IVAExtension? I have had FreeIVA with the interactable screens but I don't know if De IVAExtension has more features or less. I am asking you since you make the De IVAExtension

[gusty lance]

I think you’re confused about what those do..FreeIVA lets you move around the IVAs, and you can use it together with de_iva.

If you’re asking about some other IVA pack, you can get Reviva which lets you select the IVA to use for each command pod

[hardy arrow]

Can a grabbing unit grab a kerbodyne part?

[queen fractal]

it should be able to grab onto anything with a collision box

[hardy arrow]

Ah

[gritty frigate]

Kool

[robust canyon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1075578544563953815/1080522646246133850/2023-03-01_09-03-02_Trim.mp4

weird issue with maneuver nodes, they keep snapping around.

Any explanation for this?? My per and ap need to be pretty specific for the relays.

[ripe dune]

how do i connect this subassembly space stations docking port to the booster docking port?

[waxen comet]

you can only attach merged-in segments via their root part

[ripe dune]

How do i get my space station into orbit then? I tried to get it into orbit by attaching it to the top of a booster but that just kept flinging around

no matter what i did with the aerodynamics*

[waxen comet]

wait is this about in-space construction or are you trying to attach it to something in the VAB

[ripe dune]

what

im trying to get my space station into orbit

[knotty vigil]

Why is my apoapsis so high but periapsis so low, it looks like a oval shape

I'm flying a ssto

[dry lintel]

Launch individual parts with docking ports

[dry lintel]

You need to circularize it by burning prograde

You can’t orbit just by launching into space

[ripe dune]

its not very big

[tropic shuttle]

Watch that https://youtu.be/WkU08pXUPKc

[dire plume]

is there a good way to get this affront to god's lower section (everything below the rotor) to stop rotating when the propellers are rotating?

[ripe dune]

what the fuck is that

[dry lintel]

Sas

[dire plume]

eve lander

the propellers are meant to ascend higher in the atmosphere to save in fuel

[dire plume]

already tried sas with rcs spam, didn’t really help

[dry lintel]

Make a tail rudder

Like a real heli

[dire plume]

I assumed something like that would work

this does seem to have helped, the max height before it fell over was 1300m, from 500m before the rudders were added

it still spins but it seems to have much better control

[vestal trout]

Have another rotor spinning the other direction

[idle wharf]

question

is there a way to install real solar system without installing all the realism mods

i just wanna play RSS without anything else but when i install it on ckan it installed RP-0/1 and kerbalism aswell

[idle wharf]

fixed it myself nvm

[austere cloak]

Should I be burning at full blast to escape kerbin's atmo, when flying a ssto

[tropic shuttle]

No. Orbit first

[austere cloak]

Got it

How should I meter out my engines when climbing then

How should I handle thrust

[tropic shuttle]

Wdym?

[slender canyon]

How do I get the whiplash jet engine to work past mach 5? it alwasy flames out and Im wondering if theres smthn in the configs i can change to fix that

[waxen comet]

the engine's performance at speed is dictated by by the velCurve parameter in the cfg, which gives it in the format of Mach, thrust multiplier, in tangent, out tangent. Since you can't really edit these without visualising the curve, use Amazing Curve Editor or a unity plugin to toy around with it.

[slender canyon]

And once I visualize the curve, what then?

[waxen comet]

then you edit it and copy over your new values

[jade mango]

how to avoid 'obstruted' airlock?

damn, blocked airlock again, tried to change node and use offset

i guess game checks bad hitbocks each time i try to use airlock

[dire plume]

are there any tutorials for an Eve landing & return that were made somewhat recently? ive wanted to do an Eve mission, but ive been having issues with actually having enough fuel or a high enough TWR, and i'd like to be able to get some suggestions

[high basalt]

How do I get apoapsis and periapsis/ maneuver node in career? Google says lvl 2 tracking station but mine's lvl 4 and I still don;t have it

Is it because probe core isn't good enough?

[tropic shuttle]

No

[high basalt]

Ok so then what's the cause

[vestal inlet]

is there list of transfer angles for stock solar system? or does it not make sense?

[dire plume]

on the left side of this image, along with a delta V map for the stock system + OPM

[queen fractal]

https://i.imgur.com/JhZZrgb.png

[vestal inlet]

@dire plume @queen fractal thank you!

[silk glacier]

anyone know why this is happening, cant see my craft at all
fixed it by viewing a different craft and going back

[near jewel]

I am looking for some IVAs and installed RasterPropMonitor with MK1-2 IVA Replacement but neither of my pod has usable probs, it only works for the Mk1 Cockpit when I install Mk1 Cockpit IVA Replacement by ASET

[river bluff]

Please help why is mirror symmetry broken

[gritty frigate]

@gusty lance Do you know why the monitor is at such low resolution, even with full res it is like this, should I redownload IVA?

[gusty lance]

This happens when your texture resolution setting isn’t on full

[bronze grotto]

it is worth it to buy the ksp dlcs?

[tropic shuttle]

yes, but wait for a steam sale (50%)

[bronze grotto]

They are in sale, at least here in Brazil

That is why I am asking

[tropic shuttle]

yeah 30%. but 50% is very often too. I mean they are really nice so if you have to money you can get them now

[bronze grotto]

Yeah 25%

[ripe dune]

is this a decent rocket to practice gravity turns??

ignore the fucked up stages i havent done that yet

Also this is a new career game

Ahh

[tropic shuttle]

No. Srb are hard to control

[gritty frigate]

No even when it was on full

[gusty lance]

twr is way too high. If you're using thumpers, aim for more like 1.8

you can probably just get rid of the SRBs entirely

[gusty lance]

did you restart after changing it?

[gritty frigate]

no, but it was ok before with low res. (as you can see this is very high res)

[heady girder]

why is my mirror mode like this

with larger parts it looks like this

it's mirroring onto itself for larger parts

[snow echo]

My game crashes whenever I dock to my space station, it is somewhat complex but what would cause the game to freeze?

[queen fractal]

does it crash crash or just freeze? if the latter: how long did you wait while it's frozen?
Log file probably gives a good idea on what went wrong

[queen fractal]

something to try is to disable SAS or any other automated controlling of both crafts

[gritty frigate]

guys do you know what is a good duna tutorial

[snow echo]

It freezes. I've waited up to 20min

[balmy sapphire]

I wonder ksp community fixes texture caching could cause that "bug". Since I tried to turn down texture res to reduce ram usage like during october, but avp still look like max res in main menu even I turned to lowest (oct res), no matter how many game restarts. Until I reinstall ksp community fixes and disable caching on start up fixed it

[gusty lance]

Ohhh good question

[azure crescent]

is there anyway I can open the mk2 cockpit like this?

I hv tried a hinge but the hinge cant withstand the weight and it nearly brakes

[tropic shuttle]

cockpit? Or do you mean the cargobay

[azure crescent]

cargobay have door
but I want to move the cockpit sideways too

https://youtu.be/41ok7X3NK90

like this but I want to move my cockpit aside

[queen fractal]

Someone remind me: for naming priority: was smaller more important or larger?

[tropic shuttle]

do you know about the near future launch vehicle mod

[azure crescent]

[tropic shuttle]

thats are the original parts to the doors in the trailer

[snow echo]

Higher the number the higher the priority, 20 is the max

I usually reserve 20 for space stations

15 for crewed vessels

[serene cairn]

How to change focus back to ship if you accidentally double click kerbin?

[tropic shuttle]

key left to the 1

[hardy arrow]

Are puff monopropellant engines any good?

[snow echo]

Probably the worst engine ingame relatively speaking. It’s good for very niche uses though.

[snow echo]

How to I see what went wrong if the game freezes?

[queen fractal]

Logs might have a hint there

[dire plume]

pretty terrible engine on its own but makes a good emergency engine if you run out of lf+ox and still have monopropellant left

[small ivy]

can this thing make it to duna/eve?

(it definetly cant make it off eve tho)

[tropic shuttle]

Do you know how to read a dv map?

[small ivy]

honestly no

[tropic shuttle]

https://youtu.be/uhDvp9FaFkI

[snow echo]

How do I access the logs?

[tropic shuttle]

They are in your ksp folder

[small ivy]

well good news is i got an orbit around duna, bad news is i ran out of fuel before i could get to the surface

i think with some better manuvering i could get there

[ocean kraken]

This is the equation for communication distance, right?
sqrt(antennaStrength1 * antennaStrength2)

[waxen comet]

yes, though having multiple antennas adds their strengths non-linearly

[near jewel]

Any Idea why I can't drop my ship?

[tropic shuttle]

you are not allowed to drop the rootpart there

[near jewel]

ah, okay. understand. but I want to build a Mun mission apollo 11 style, with a lander and a command module, both separate ships and I want to combine them and add a booster

I tried to add load the lander (which I could add to the buildgroups) and then add the command module, but I can't connect them

[tropic shuttle]

fro that i use normaly the combinate fuction when loading a save. then you conect the rootpart from the new ship with the existing ship

[near jewel]

you mean that?

"Verbinden"

[tropic shuttle]

yes

genau das

[near jewel]

I did that, but cant connect them

[tropic shuttle]

you only can put the root part at your new ship

[near jewel]

ah, now it works. I loaded the lander, set the decoupler as the root part, saved it, loaded the command module, added the lander and then it worked

[tropic shuttle]

yes

[near jewel]

Thanks

[serene cairn]

engines are supposed to be completely silent while in vacuum/orbit right?

[gusty lance]

in stock? no

mods like audiomuffler or rocket sound enhancement will change the sound as you get to space, but by default it won't be silent (I'd imagine the microphone / listener is actually on the rocket)

[serene cairn]

Hmm, weird, my sound must be bugged. It's not working on the landing pad now too. Happened mid way through my last play session too

[gusty lance]

hah, yeah there is a stock bug that makes all spatialized sounds stop working. install ksp community fixes

[serene cairn]

cool thanks I'll install that and give it a shot, I never saw it rec'd as a mod, surprisingly

[midnight bane]

I have a circular orbit that I’m trying to get to match an elliptical orbit, and the circular orbit’s apoapsis is lower than the elliptical orbit’s periapsis. What positioning and order should I do my burns?

Nvm I already planned it

Big burn first: 728.5+36.0
Small burn first: 100.5+727.1

So I’m going to match apoapsis first

[late lantern]

How do you drop an inventory item?

[tropic shuttle]

For eva deployable science

[late lantern]

Fuck. Apparently only Engineers can drop stuff because they are the only ones with the EVA construction menu.

Welp, Jeb is stuck in Minmus with an EVA experiment on his hand. Lol.

[tropic shuttle]

The green kit?

[late lantern]

A~nd the game crashed. Great stuff.

Yeah. He can only carry one of them and the jetpack, so 1 extra kit got stuck on my cursor.

[icy hemlock]

Do anomaly detections in KerbNet include geological formations? Is there a way to tell those apart from more funky stuff without landing there?

[jade shard]

Why do aerodynamics not exist on this thing

Like, they are thanos snapped outta existance unless I put a fin on it

and it flips at exactly 6000m every time

somehow

[tropic shuttle]

Aerodynamics are weaker as irl. But the flip is caused because of bad aerodynamic/ mass movement

[waxen comet]

The blunt end in the middle makes the drag profile top-heavy, the boosters are placed higher than they should be and I'm not sure how you're flying it, but if you try and fight the natural arc of the rocket and go in a straight line it'll become unstable.

[rustic basalt]

How can I plan out my return trips?
I usually use a Delta V map to figure out how much deltaV I need to get somewhere, but I have no idea how to figure out how much delta V I need to get back to kerbin, I usually just pack way too much and hope its enough but, id like to know how to do it properly

[dire plume]

read the dv map in reverse starting at the planet you are going to and ending with kerbin

[queen fractal]

You follow the map backwards.
When going from moon to the parent body (ie mun to kerbin surface) the transfer can be.... inaccurate.
For example you don't need 900dv from mun escape to get periapsis below 100km

[rustic basalt]

okay so if I want to get to duna and back I realistically have to pack the 1450 m/s of delta V to land only once because I can use parachutes to get there, I just need the delta V to get out?

[waxen comet]

returning from a body to its parent, you only need enough dV to achieve escape velocity and a very little bit more. When returning to a planet with an atmosphere, you can also ignore the costs to enter orbit and land.

though for Duna the atmosphere is a bit too thin to stop you on your own so you will need to do a little bit of engine burning

[queen fractal]

LKO to duna surface can be as low as 1100 dv.
duna surface to kerbin surface can be as low as 1450dv for ascent and 800dv for transfer.

Assuming you can aerocapture on both planets. Which can be... tricky... for Duna

[serene cairn]

Is there a way to unbind the atmospheric stuff that’s on F12 by default? So when I take steam screenshot it doesn’t toggle it

[silver cloud]

How dv would it take to go from the surface to orbit in a ssto

I just need it to get to orbit

[tropic shuttle]

more as with a rocket. it depens much on your twr and ascent profile

[silver cloud]

I got a twr of one

[tropic shuttle]

that also change form engiens(mods) you are using in higher altitueds

[silver cloud]

I mean i can send u a pic of the ssto

[tropic shuttle]

that dont will reach a orbit

[silver cloud]

E

Dv calculation is set to eve altitude btw

[tropic shuttle]

so you want a eve ssto?

[silver cloud]

Bassically my plan is

Send ssto to kerbin orbit

Dock with a other ship

That has efficient engines that takes it to eve

Then undock in eve orbit and enter atmosphere to a base

Refuel and rescue crew

Then go back into orbit and redock and fly back to kerbin

[tropic shuttle]

its hard to build a eve ascent vehicle (not ssto). i dont recommend a eve ssto except you are duckweed

[silver cloud]

I need to land at a site

It's very hard to do that

I'm using plain ksp so no fancy calculation mods

[tropic shuttle]

a eve ssto is way harder

[silver cloud]

I don't think so

Fuel and engines are the solution to everything

[tropic shuttle]

weight, drag and twr are your enemy

[silver cloud]

Ehh

Doesn't matter

Gonna make it look sleek

[tropic shuttle]

try to make a normal asxent vehicel first to get a feeling what a eve ssto needs

[silver cloud]

It needs fuel and engines

And jebediah

[balmy sapphire]

what engine? jet won't work in eve 😎

[tropic shuttle]

terrier

[silver cloud]

No vector

[tropic shuttle]

even with dart you will get problems to make a eve ssto

[silver cloud]

Anything is possible

[balmy sapphire]

make a propeller to get out most of the dense eve atmosphere

[tropic shuttle]

you need 8k dv with a twr >1 for a eve ascent. with a ssto more. try to reach the 8k with a staged lander first

[silver cloud]

I'll add boosters

It's not a ssto anymore

But still cool

[dire plume]

im having an issue where the portraits in the bottom right are missing, is there a possibility i disabled them somehow? or is it an issue with sspxr?

[near jewel]

I try to stack my Lander and my Command Module above each other, but everytime I separate the fairing of the decoupler won't go away (the left part of the booster)

[tropic shuttle]

do you have stack decoupler or engine plates

[near jewel]

Decouple TD-18

[tropic shuttle]

yeah, but do you have them in you part list

[near jewel]

Not sure what you mean 🤔 Isn't every part of my rocket in my part list?

[tropic shuttle]

wait do you want to dock to the science jr?

[near jewel]

no, it looks like that: Bottom is booster, then fairing, then my lander, on top of the lander with the "Zwischenstufenknoten" of the fairing, a decoupler on top of my clamp-o-tron, and then my command module

[tropic shuttle]

you cant get rit of the interstage while in flight. you have to disabel it in flight. also a docking port works as decoupler even there is no other port

[barren quiver]

anyone know why my propellers spin off of my motor and smack into the ground, its not a matter of the plane being too low to the ground, the propellers bug out and shoot away from the motor when im flying it

[slender canyon]

Has KSP been know to cause problems on windows 11? Errors coming up a couple days ago idk if they’re related or not.

[tropic shuttle]

NOT REALLY

[slender canyon]

Not really? Has it caused problems for any other windows operating system?

[tropic shuttle]

i am only win10 and have no problems too. but if there would be problems with win11 it woul be mentiont more often

[stuck wasp]

your only option is to send a scout of some kind to find one ahead of time or come prepared to travel for one

[balmy sapphire]

I have used win 11 for half an year, aside during Oct-late Dec there were memory management bugs causing error and lag in old games there wasn't any problem

[pearl vault]

how to return to space center

after crashing

[tropic shuttle]

Escape-> return to ksc

[pearl vault]

o

tysm

i simply alt+f4 the game 💀

[pearl vault]

will jebediah respawn

after they got killed

[queen fractal]

depends on save settings

[pearl vault]

wdym

i dont wanna fly with engineer

or scientist

my pilots all got killed

[queen fractal]

when you make a new game you can change settings for that save. One of the options is for how long kerbals are MIA after dying, or if they're permanently gone

[queen fractal]

you can hire more

[pearl vault]

o

why theres even

stupidity

💀

and no courage pilot

[queen fractal]

stupidity and courage are both just flavor and have no effect on gameplay

Some mods do use them though.

[pearl vault]

can new recruit pilots

be used immediately

[queen fractal]

yup

[pearl vault]

in action

ok

tysmmm

[pearl vault]

this is my first day

playing ksp

just bought ksp

and everything i made is failure

[queen fractal]

Best part about ksp is that when you fail, you get pretty explosions

[pearl vault]

💀

[silver cloud]

Should I get bg?

It's usefull for eve i guess

[queen fractal]

It worth it, but I would suggest waiting for a sale

[silver cloud]

I got ksp free from epic

I don't think it will go on sale anytime soon

fuck it

it's only 15 euro

[tropic shuttle]

The ksp complete edition is on sale on steam btw

[silver cloud]

I can refund if it's not worth it so cool

[silver cloud]

how much

[tropic shuttle]

25€

[silver cloud]

in my country I can't work yet

[queen fractal]

Deployed science is... weird. It takes a looong time for it to make significant amounts of science. Then again if you plop those down in every biome that can add up pretty fast.

Surface features are fun additions, especially for rovers.

Robotics open new stuff to make, even if they don't like to work under aerodynamic stress

[silver cloud]

so uhh

I too broke

I got 19 euros in my bank

that's it

[tropic shuttle]

_Credit from parents _

[silver cloud]

nah I took 5 euro from my mom and 7 euro from my dad for groceries

[queen fractal]

" I would need 25e to acquire a software that is one of the best ways to learn orbital physics intuitively. NASA engineers have gotten better at orbital physics with it."

[silver cloud]

bro I already got the base game free

it's only 5 euro more expensive to just buy it from epic

I only want bg cuz making history doesn't add anything special in my eyes

[tropic shuttle]

The thing on steam you get both dlc (and game) for 25. At epic its are 30€

[silver cloud]

yeah but i'm only getting 1 dlc

[queen fractal]

fair

[silver cloud]

I just want one

[tropic shuttle]

Makeing history has some really nice parts. Wolfhund is a insane vacuum engine, the 5m tanks and the soviet style capsule are nice too

[silver cloud]

e

[queen fractal]

thing is there's a lot of part mods

[silver cloud]

I dont use mods

[tropic shuttle]

Agreed.

[silver cloud]

If i'm gonna use mods there probably just visuals or just calculators

but I just look at mike aben videos and it always turns out well

[tropic shuttle]

Its starts with visuals, them planet extension, qol.and calculation and then parts.

[silver cloud]

look at it this way. you get a menu where u get 1 burger for 5 euro and a menu with 2 burgers for 7,50. you know ur not gonna eat the second burger

[tropic shuttle]

I only say that making history has some really useful parts

[silver cloud]

ok

epic terms say I get 2 hours and after the 2 hours i am no longer eligible for the refund

ima come back in 2 hours

then decide

[silver cloud]

it was worth it. I made a helikopter

[tropic shuttle]

in my opionion both dlc are worth it even BG is better. But like i said at steam you get the better offer

[stuck wasp]

devils advocate: neither DLC are worth it for practical gameplay. This is gonna be long, I dont expect anyone to read my essay but nonetheless.

breaking ground:
The only fully working aspect is the science stations which, while really cool, arent super interesting nor do they do anything. EVA construction is stock and you can make your own science station with it. Put some cubic struts down, put an experiment on them and presto. I can especially murder your dreams of using them as they are one use, per celestial body, forever. If you put another mystery goo station down in anothert biome -you get nothing from it. The only exception (I think?) is the impact generator which will make science from impacting things into the surface.

breaking ground rotors, as featured above, are a big selling point. But guess what? KSP suffers from bugs related to joints and will move the rotor blades over time. My helicopter that once worked perfectly is now a paperweight on laythe because getting it up to RPM makes the blades clip into the vehicle and explode. The hinged, alligator clips, pistons and motors all have the same issue especially with landed vehicles. They will literally offset themselves from their original positions. The only fix is to take an engineer kerbal and re-place it. This doesnt work if the part you want to move has anything else attached. not to mention all of these break under phys warp. If you try to fly a helicopter at 4x phys warp the rotor blades physically separate from the vehicle and stop making lift (and then kill you)

Making history:
it's a mission builder, if you bought it you played yourself. Plus some parts you could easily find in mods.

btw I own both DLC and to this day desperately try to use them because the parts are cool. They just break shit constantly to the point I would argue mods are better quality (you can get all these features with mods)

it's KSP2 levels of quality

[waxen comet]

it would be the devil's advocate if you were taking an unpopular stance

[near jewel]

can anyone tell me how to use the Kerbodyne Engine Cluster Adapter Tank? I mean, what engines to attach to that thing? the are either too big or too weak

[silver cloud]

how do I make the helicopter tail always be balanced no matter the angle of my main helicopter blades

[stuck wasp]

by the way, case in point:
https://discord.com/channels/132478131490521089/1082748710322184283

NEVER use robotics while landed. splashed down is probably fine

[silver cloud]

uhhhhhhhhhh

nah im using them to walk

[silver cloud]

fixed it by putting the rotors on reverse and then just putting the stabilator fan blades on -2 deploy angle. You cant do much about the little spin so just SAS to make ur life easier. you can go with reaction wheels if u want

Ok I played around more

just play around with inverted rotors and inverted blades on the stabilator and you shouldn't have to touch the deploy angle at all

[near jewel]

I am currently on my first interplanetary trip, to duna. now I want return to Kerbin but always miss by a few 100.000km, I get an encouter but too far away for a capture burn. While flying TO duna I could set the view to Duna and then saw my maneuver trajectory and could fine tine everything but I cant find a way to see that for kerbin

[severe tiger]

is it possible to load a craft that has parts you havent researched yet, and actually load the missing parts?

[silk robin]

The OX-Star-PD Photovoltaic Panel needs a central station, what does that mean?

[waxen comet]

yes, not having unlocked them in the tech tree just means they are hidden in the VAB. Craft using them will load into flight and the VAB fine.

[dire plume]

is there a mod that adds a larger RTG (preferably standalone)? The amount needed to keep ion drives running is a bit annoying and i'd prefer to cut down on part counts where i can.

[tropic shuttle]

Near future as a 3ec/s rtg. But in a case you need to power more or a stronger ion i recommend reactors or large solar pannels

[dire plume]

i likely can't use solar panels (unless they are overpowered as hell) since ive got OPM and MPE, which at Soden's distance from Kerbol solar panels are literal dead weight (.001ec/s with a giganator i think?)
ive looked into it, i think i might use near future electrical as the larger batteries would also be useful

[tropic shuttle]

Yes. Also the nf capacitor are nice. a lot of ec on a small part

[queen fractal]

Near future should have reactors too if you need more power than what rtg:s provide

[dire plume]

yeah i saw those, not sure what i'd need that kind of power for in a stockalike pack but they'd still probably be useful for something
always good to make your ship more radioactive

cant get attacked by the kraken if it died of radiation poisoning first

[queen fractal]

Ion:s can be expensive on the power requirements...

Also with that mod you get capacitors which are amazing for doing ion burns at unsustainable short power draws.

[limber wasp]

how do you launch to rendevous in mechjeb 2?

[obtuse inlet]

I recently started KSP and i just started my first career.
I would like to know, how to transmit/recover some science data ?

and how to upgrade the launchpad ?

[tropic shuttle]

data gets automaticly recoverd with you recover the ship, to transmit you need a antenna and electric charge. But when you are a new player i really recommend the science mode

[obtuse inlet]

ty

do i receive some science points if i simply recover with some sciences data in my vessel ?

[tropic shuttle]

yes

[obtuse inlet]

i didn't receive anything

wait lemme make a try

(i opened the goo thingy)

[silver cloud]

@tropic shuttle the dlc was worth it

It took me a lot of head aches but I finally managed to make a stable transport/ cargo helicopter

[silver cloud]

bassically when ur piloting ur ship you have the ability to do science experiments (crew report, mystery good etc).

When you want to claim all those sience points you either transmit the data via an antenna capable of transmitting data or recovering your vessel at kerbin.

to transmit the data you need to right click and press ''view stored data'' (the button name may vary but it should start with view) then you get a option to either keep or transmit. the sience is ussually stored in the experiment itself but you can move the expirements to other modules.

Ideally you want to recover your expirements because transmitting ussually decreases the value of the sience but it's up to you

[queen fractal]

Worth it to try and talk you out of buying it

[silver cloud]

Bro i can finally have helicopters and zooming fast planes that run on electricity

Also i can send droid army to duna now

[dry lintel]

Cluster bomb ike

[pearl vault]

will orbiting kerbin and gather science

earn science

while ive already gather science in space

ig no right?

[queen pond]

Real newbie here, how should I go about orbiting the moon in career mode? I have very limited rockets

[cedar meadow]

Do you have the terrier engine unlocked yet?

[queen pond]

yes

[cedar meadow]

Do you understand how delta V works?

[queen pond]

no

[cedar meadow]

Go watch Scott manleys tutorial series on YouTube. It’s fairly old, but almost everything is still accurate

[hollow kestrel]

Why is north in the south on my navball?

Used one probe and capsule which are mounted correctly

[queen fractal]

Try selecting the capsule and the option "control from here"

[dire plume]

ive been trying to get mechjeb to create a maneuver node, but it keeps giving an error. does anyone know why it is doing this/how to fix this?
im not sure what is means by manual selection

[sour wadi]

can i run it on this?

[tropic shuttle]

ksp1 or 2

[sour wadi]

1

[tropic shuttle]

should be ok

[sour wadi]

actually?

[dire plume]

it'll be laggy but playable

[sour wadi]

lol all that matters

[dire plume]

im running on vaguely similar hardware and its fairly playable

[sour wadi]

i wanna use it during lunch break since i have a pc at home but not at school

also

will it save from mac to pc?

[tropic shuttle]

steam cloude should work

but if you play modded your hardware is maybe not enough

[silver cloud]

https://medal.tv/games/kerbal-space/clips/YJUtwIEmZpmOq/d1337sSw3LYG?invite=cr-MSxIQW4sMTc1MDY1NDM1LA what is the cause of this problem with the propelors?

[sour wadi]

i wan to to base

and modded on pc

[tropic shuttle]

stock will work but diffrent save dont work then

[sour wadi]

ah ok

also for this game i have played similar games like automation. is it kind of similar?

[gritty yew]

people who make spaceplanes launched on top of a rocket (like dreamchaser)
how do you stop flipping with the wild center of lift?

[queen fractal]

1. Bigger fins on the bottom stage.
2. A lot of reaction wheels.
3. fly-by-wire system that can handle unstable crafts.(atmosphere autopilot is what I use)
4. Careful flying, anything more than few degrees off prograde is dangerous.
5. Combination of the above

[hollow kestrel]

How do you change crafts in flight view?

[gritty yew]

[ or ]

[hollow kestrel]

Thanks

[obtuse inlet]

thank you now i did it

[silver cloud]

did u land on the mun yet?

[snow echo]

What fuel should I use for Mun/Duna ISRU? LF/OX, Methalox or Hydrolox?

[jolly mantle]

The default orientation on the launch pad has the dorsum of the ship facing south. So your head is pointing south and your feet are pointing north, which is why north is at the bottom of the navball at launch.

[snow echo]

Is there anyway to adjust the default orientation in the cfg files of the command pods?

[jolly mantle]

No idea. I always thought it would make more sense to launch with east at your head or foot because yawing to turn is a weird thing to do in atmo flight.

[snow echo]

Exactly what I thought

[tropic shuttle]

A atmoics mothership. The lander dont really matter

[snow echo]

Ok

So LH2 and whatever fuel the lander uses?

[tropic shuttle]

Yes. Depends what you need. Lh2 would be the best cases. Because you could use fuel from the lander for the transfer vehicle but that doesn't really matter. Also i recommend to get so much delta V that the transfer stage is reusable. Save coast a by lot

[snow echo]

Nice

So fly from LKO, arrive to Duna, Land, dock with transfer stage and refuel in LKO?

Makes sense to me

[tropic shuttle]

But i would dumb the lander after its use. Dead weight mostly.

[snow echo]

Use it to land back on Kerbin?

[tropic shuttle]

No. The mother.

With a reentry pod or a small rocket from kerbin collecting the crew in lko

[midnight bane]

Validate game files

[azure elk]

im in laythe orbit, is 1052 m/s enough to get back to kerbin somehow?

[dire plume]

Do you have a engineer kerbal? you could probably take off a bunch of unnecessary parts via eva construction to get more dv, saved my tekto mission the other day

[queen fractal]

That's tough. 60km laythe orbit needs 1070dv for escape.
In theory as long as you can escape laythe you could get anywhere with gravity assists planned to hell.
Might take hundreds of years but in theory it's possible

[azure elk]

sorry i messed up the value

i meant 2057 delta v

i was docked with the space station

so it showed the delta v at the current additional weight of the station

i actually have 2057 delta v

[azure elk]

read my messages above, sry

[queen fractal]

should be doable with enough planning

[azure elk]

what kind of planning?

gravity assist?

or can i just do it with a regular manouver node

[queen fractal]

yuup

[azure elk]

also my orbit is very inclined

is that going to be a problem

[queen fractal]

nope you can use assists to fix that, just going to take a bit longer to execute

[azure elk]

so

what do i do first

im really new to returning from other planets

only done it once before from duna

[queen fractal]

Oh boy you sure chose a difficulty spike here

[azure elk]

[azure elk]

so what do i do

this is the craft i would be returning with

poodle engine, 2057 delta v

3 crew members

[queen fractal]

First things first go to settings and increase the conics amount because you're going to be doing a lot of intercepts

[azure elk]

already did that once

conic limits is set to 6 rn

the max

[queen fractal]

First plan is to escape from laythe prograde that gets you another laythe encounter, or a Tylo encounter.
Then you need to tweak that node so that during that encounter in the future you fix inclination, or atleast almost.

[azure elk]

quick question before i undock

should i leave bob behind

so he can continue researching

[queen fractal]

Second step is to add a node at the PE of that encounter to get a tylo encounter for more energy.

Tricky part is that AP in Jool orbit should be to Jool retrograde. Also this shouldn't be an escape.

Then get a second tylo assist to get even more speed to escape Jool. This should get you Kerbin encounter

Timing stuff

You need to leave laythe at the right time so Tylo is in the right part of it's orbit so you can get the two tylo assist to kick your AP in the right direction

Also you need to time ALL of this so the last tylo assist happens at the Jool>Kerbin transfer window

[queen fractal]

Is there an antenna to transmit science? if yes, why not

[azure elk]

there are 4 antennas lol

im gonna leave him behind

alr one sec

im gonna do what you said

[queen fractal]

You should be able to plan most of this before doing any burns

If you need to tweak, AP is the best place to tweak timing for the gravity assists, failing that, as soon as possible

Another thing you should know is resonant orbits, you'll be wanting to aim for those

[azure elk]

what should my tylo peri be?

[queen fractal]

Lower means more energy gained, but what's more important is the direction you leave in relation to tylo orbital direction

[azure elk]

this would make me lose speed, right?

-gravassist

[fickle bloom]

https://i.imgur.com/uQUQUDK.png

[azure elk]

nvm it wouldnt

[queen fractal]

Ideally you leave towards Tylo prograde

[azure elk]

wdym towards prograde?

[queen fractal]

Imagine your craft is tylo

so it has velocity in relative to jool, right. So the prograde for tylo is where it's going to the orbital line, right?

[azure elk]

yes

[queen fractal]

So in the image you linked on the grav sassist tylo prograde is to the left

and the craft coming from the bottom leaves more to tylo prograde than it entered, thus gaining speed in relation to Jool

[azure elk]

yup /lh

[azure elk]

oh

OH

i read "towards prograde"

instead of "towards tylo prograde"

so this is not ideal?

[queen fractal]

yeah that does nothing, higher PE will get better results

[azure elk]

or should i go ahead with this assist

[azure elk]

wait what

i thought lower pe does better results

or are we talking about fixing inclination?

sry if im confusing rn

[queen fractal]

full comment

ie you want to leave towards tylo prograde

[azure elk]

more?

[queen fractal]

looks like it yeah

THe idea is to leave more towards Tylo's prograde than you arrived in

[azure elk]

should i do this?

[queen fractal]

Now what direction in relation to Jool's orbit is the Jool AP after this?

[azure elk]

u mean the jool apoapsis?

[queen fractal]

yeah

[azure elk]

idk whioch is which

buti think

but i think

74 million meters

74.000km

theres another one tho

idk what that one is

[queen fractal]

Hate to break it to you but that red orbit is the resulting one after the tylo assist

[azure elk]

oh

yup

so is this good or bad?

[queen fractal]

bad

[azure elk]

so should i go through with it?

[queen fractal]

So where you went wrong is that you looked at Tylo where it was currently, instead of where it's going to be when you arrive to it.

[azure elk]

yup

[queen fractal]

you're pretty much leaving to tylo retrograde

[azure elk]

wait what

doesnt tylo rotate ccw?

wait yes

tylo rotates ccw

so im leaving tylo prograde

[tropic shuttle]

All bodies rotate and orbit in the same direction

[azure elk]

isnt this leaving tylo prograde?

im confused

should i make an independent post?

[queen fractal]

probably a good idea

[azure elk]

alr ill ping you in ti

it*

[hollow kestrel]

I mean even in flight.

[warped tulip]

why rp1 crashes

[tropic shuttle]

4gb ram is very les for rp-1

[warped tulip]

somehow that works

its fine-ish

better than my grandpas BS laptop that i sold for $6.33

[hollow kestrel]

Why does reentry heating not work in ksp 1?

[warped tulip]

huh

maybe ask dis guy@tropic shuttle

[hollow kestrel]

I just reentered with 680m/s and there wasn't even a bar

[warped tulip]

that is too slow

[hollow kestrel]

Wow

[tropic shuttle]

680m/s is very slow

Heating is 1km/s at 20-30km

[hollow kestrel]

Alr

[jade shard]

How did you find that message lol

[midnight bane]

It was only 4 days ago. 3 days when I sent that.

Also I think you just need to add a nose cone to the top. You can add a decoupler to it if you want, but those solar panels make a lot of drag

[hollow kestrel]

Is this an issue with waterfall?

[midnight bane]

I can’t undock

I have two clamp o tron jr’s

And neither of them are letting me undock

This is a serious issue I can’t continue my mission without this

Both of them say “make primary docking node” where the undock button should be

Is the game not sure where to re-root to so it’s asking me to choose?

@balmy sapphire

Hello?

[vestal trout]

omg be patient

holy shit

[obtuse inlet]

only on training

[silver cloud]

try watching mike aben

[dire plume]

is there any mod/setting that allows you to toggle a heat shield's active cooling? ISRU sometimes easts all of my ablator, and i dont have any way to get it back since its isnt refillable

i need it since im coming from a pretty far planet

i'll try heading back to kerbin without it but it'll be risky

[waxen comet]

No. If a heat shield gets hot, it will burn ablator to stay cool. This is passive cooling, so you can't switch it off.

not that you need ablator anyway, heat shields are so thermally tough you can remove it without risk in all but a few scenarios

[dire plume]

unfortunately i might be in one of those scenarios
i should be coming back to kerbin at 6500m/s, although i should have about enough dv to brake
unfortunately im forced to use three ion drives since thats where the 9k dv comes from, not sure i'll have time to get to a safe speed
i'd use sarnus/jool/duna to slow down but the orbit of the planet (MPE Geito) is inclined at about 106° and has an eccentricity of .9

[midnight bane]

You need more radiators. The ones that fold out.

[dire plume]

thats what i used, although i probably could have put more on
the lander is ion based, so was trying to conserve weight everywhere i could and assumed the smallest stock drill and smallest converter wouldn't need more than two small deployable radiators

i had like 3km/s dv left i could have spared the weight

[midnight bane]

Bruhhhhh you made an ion ISRU lander????

Go nuclear ffs

At least you can refuel nuclear with ISRU

[dire plume]

i have Xenon ISRU
nuclear was too high thrust and too low isp for what i needed

Geito's escape velocity is like 2m/s

[midnight bane]

Oh this is modded

[midnight bane]

You mean gilly?

Or is this a modded moon too

[dire plume]

i mean Geito
from Minor Planets Expansion
its a 1km wide Halley's Comet analog

[midnight bane]

Ah

Can you push it?

[dire plume]

if it was slightly smaller probably lol

[midnight bane]

Lame.

[waxen comet]

Radiators are ineffective on atmospheric entry. They won't save you.

[midnight bane]

If you can’t push a celestial body into kerbin orbit then what’s the point

[midnight bane]

We’re talking about ISRU

Also the radiators will just snap off anyway lol

[dire plume]

you can push minmus into kerbin orbit
possible because it is already there

[waxen comet]

If you want to conserve every gram, use the fixed panel radiators, not the deploying ones

[dire plume]

i assumed they'd be too weak

[midnight bane]

Eh true

The expanding ones are pretty heavy for their performance

Wait, if you have xenon ISRU, do you have ablator ISRU?

[dire plume]

i'd get it if it existed
cant find a mod for it

[waxen comet]

Have a look at the stats infoboxes for the radiators. The important stat you want to look at is core heat transfer - this is effectively the amount of heat it can extract from a single part. So if a part needs 100kW of cooling, you'd need one radiators with 100kW core heat xfer or two with 50kW etc.

[dire plume]

thanks, never really look into how much cooling each part needs and instead just kinda put them on until it works

[waxen comet]

this isn't actually stated ingame but the fixed panels can only cool the part they are mounted on and any parts attached to that. So if you want to get the most out of them, you have to be strategic with your placement, but they are smaller and lighter than the deploying ones that don't have this restriction

[dire plume]

i though the deployable ones had that restriction, huh
good to know

[waxen comet]

and one of the several ways in which the 1.25m ISRU is terrible is that at max capacity it produces 250kW of heat, but the part only allows for up to 100kW of cooling to be applied to it, so you can only run it at max 40% capacity

[midnight bane]

Wait

This is the main help channel

We should have made a thread

[dire plume]

the question i originally asked was just a "yes, here it is" or "no"

[waxen comet]

Eh, the threads are just there if you want to split off a question so it doesn't get lost in the noise

[dire plume]

although im happy i asked because i know how the radiators work now

[waxen comet]

I don't think KSP tells you any of the mechanics of how they work ingame

it's been a long time since I opened the kspedia, if it has anything on this

[dire plume]

theres a heat category in the kspedia but i found it hard to read

another random question: is there a way to get all of these EVA Construction parts to despawn? needed to save a mission from having too little dv and now theres thirty pieces of debris orbiting Sarnus

[midnight bane]

Go to the tracking station, select the parts, click terminate, and repeat for every piece.

[hollow kestrel]

How do you balance a topheavy craft with heatshield?

[midnight bane]

Add fins and more reaction wheels. An unbalanced craft isn’t a big deal as long as you have the power to deal with it. Also an engine with gimbal can completely eliminate the issue.

[hollow kestrel]

Problem is, I can't fire engines while reentering😄

How many reaction wheels would you need?

About 10 big ones?

[dire plume]

would probably be easier to just move the center of mass

[cinder drum]

Does anyone here know how to make a plane roll-stable?

I've got yaw stability from tailfins and I'm using delta wings for all my pitching needs

However, rotational instability is fucking me up out here

[midnight bane]

Oh I thought you were tipping over while launching

Just put drouge chutes on the top of the craft

Oh yeah and set SAS to retrograde

[hollow kestrel]

That would be a solution but parachutes are single use and all of that...

[hollow kestrel]

Used it

[midnight bane]

Make a thread. What exactly are you trying to do in your mission?

Also screenshot of your craft

[hollow kestrel]

Landing on duna

[midnight bane]

Oh

You don’t need a heat shield for duna

Just take a shallow decent

[hollow kestrel]

I don't have enough delta v to slow down and my craft is too heavy to do that

Will do

[midnight bane]

Yeah you definitely need chutes

[vestal trout]

Shit misclick

Accidentally deleted it lmao

[midnight bane]

Drouge chutes and normal chutes. Unfortunately, duna makes it so you also need to thrust to land even with chutes.

[hollow kestrel]

But aren't parachutes for noobs or something?

[midnight bane]

Yeah, and so are reaction wheels and solid rocket boosters

FFS

If it’s in the game, you can use it

[mellow owl]

SAS is for noobs, not parachutes

[midnight bane]

… you mean you line up your maneuvers manually?

I only ever do that when I forget a probe core lol

[obtuse inlet]

How do i increase the mass my launching site can support ?

[tropic shuttle]

upgrade the launchpad

[obtuse inlet]

how ?

[tropic shuttle]

ksc overview, rightclick

[obtuse inlet]

Thank you, just upgraded it

[stuck wasp]

worth mentioning you can totally land small payloads on duna with regular chutes. just make sure nothing sensitive is on the bottom

its gonna be like touching down with a m1-2 pod and one chute: about 8-15 m/s

[hollow kestrel]

Can somebody answer this?

[stuck wasp]

uninstall waterfall and see if it still does it

[midnight bane]

Why can’t I push the linear button in docking mode?

Oh I can just use IJKL. But still, why won’t it let me click the “LIN” button in docking mode?

[stuck wasp]

I noticed it stopped working for me, too. Spacebar will switch it though.

I just use spacebar.

[midnight bane]

Ohhh ok

[lusty fossil]

how to dissasemble girder

[midnight bane]

You mean the launch clamps?

Or a strut?

Oh you already made a post for it. You need an engineer.

[balmy sapphire]

The bug is mysterious so no one actually knows how to fix it
Try Eva construction to reattach the port

[midnight bane]

Oh

I already got it

It was what I thought it was

The game just wanted me to pick a “primary” port

[balmy sapphire]

Weird

[midnight bane]

And then that one got the undock button

[balmy sapphire]

Must be mod

[midnight bane]

I mean it makes sense with my context, I had two robot arms coupled to the same craft

Nope, full stock with DLC

[balmy sapphire]

Oh

[midnight bane]

And the two robot arms were connected to the same center

It was for this monstrosity

I’m cutting my losses and disassembling it

Every segment has its own fuel tanks and thrusters, and each part has the required TWR to do what they need to do

[lusty fossil]

like what do i do with the engineer

[midnight bane]

Ok so

[midnight bane]

You see all those buttons on the top right along the right edge of the screen?

While the engineer is on EVA, one of those will look like a crane hook

Click that to enable EVA construction mode

Then it’s just like you’re in the VAB, but you can’t remove any parts that have other parts attached to them. You have to detach the outward-most parts first

[lusty fossil]

oh sick

tysm

[midnight bane]

Did it work?

[midnight bane]

Hey do we have a starboard in this server?

#starboard ayy we do

[lusty fossil]

halfway

[midnight bane]

Screenshot?

[lusty fossil]

i fixed it completely now

[south rampart]

I am using the real antenna mod, and when I launch I have no connection to ksc and limited control. I am only trying to get into a low kerbin orbit. What am I doing wrong?

[zinc field]

For the hopper, the first spaceship that you build, when do I deploy the parachute

Mine travels upto 20km whereas in the youtube tutorials that I've seen it only has a max altitude around 10km

[stuck wasp]

you can deploy it whenever but once youre about 750m above the terrain you're cutting it close

[silver cloud]

when I am in the VAB and use the dv calculator for eve altitude the numbers are off. I go and make a rocket with like 2k dv for eve and then tp it using cheat and suddenly end up having my dv beeing more then cut in half and mu twr lowered too

is it because I'm using aerospike?

[dire plume]

did you set the altitude in the VAB and the cheated altitude on eve to be the same
also the VAB calculator can just be plain wrong sometimes

[silver cloud]

the vab was plain wrong

the 0 altitude wasn't the same as sea level

probably a bug

[cinder drum]

@soft arch mister moderator man, would it be appropriate to ask a question about aircraft aerodynamics in this thread

[soft arch]

You do you

But if it gets complicated a post might get you more satisfying answers

If it's not ksp related this is probably not the best place to ask

[cinder drum]

A post has already gotten me 0 answers, so I'll take what I can get

My SSTO keeps turning backwards upon re-entry despite the CoM and CoL being in the right order.

https://gyazo.com/d5764af795bc7097842ced554f806454 Here is a screenshot of my SSTO in the SPH with all fuel drained. Despite the CoL being as far behind the CoM as I can realistically get it, it still doesn't wanna reenter the right way. How can I fix this problem? All modded parts are from B9 Aerospace, btw

[gilded condor]

ur com is near the back of the craft which is why it turn backwards it needs to be more centred i think

[cinder drum]

not possible

the number of engines you need to get something this heavy into orbit is simply too high

what's something else i can do

[gilded condor]

then it will keep doing that wiith empty tanks

[cinder drum]

well, fuck

[gilded condor]

u could just not use the fuel in the middle tanks maybe lol

[cinder drum]

this'll require me to completely redesign the craft

[soft arch]

13 minutes ago...
Best you ping the helper role in your post

[gilded condor]

or add something heave to the centre but that would be stupid too

[cinder drum]

a craft should never rely on having fuel to be able to glide

[cinder drum]

this too

hmmm

[gilded condor]

i dont make planes often so idk

[cinder drum]

ok

[vestal inlet]

what's the point of using the lab?

[tropic shuttle]

If you but science in a lab you get 5 times of the normal science Value in science points

[vestal inlet]

so if i have been getting science from returned spacecrafts, i've been wasting gathered data?

[tropic shuttle]

Yes and no. You can but all expirements in a lab. No Matte if you allready recoverd the data or had them in a different lab

[vestal inlet]

ah, so i still can processes data in the lab, even if i gotten science points from it. thanks for help

[austere cloak]

Does Fly-by wire avionics hub plus any drone part equal a drone with full capabilities

[stuck wasp]

I believe so as long as you have a commnet connection

[dire plume]

it does. it's main purpose is to allow non-pilot/low level kerbals to fly with all SAS options, but it works for probes too.

[vestal inlet]

(modded question) in Kerbal Engineer Redux, the two parts it adds, what are they for?

[tropic shuttle]

tbh idk, i never needed them for anything

[austere cloak]

Ok nice

[queen fractal]

They add the functionality in early career. I think there's a setting to disable thaty feature

[vestal inlet]

you mean disable the parts completely?

[queen fractal]

I think the parts stay but the functionality works regardless if they're present or not even early on in the career.

[vestal inlet]

is 100km over kerbin good height for small space station?

[mellow owl]

yeah why wouldnt it be

[queen fractal]

As long as it's above 70km, everything's great

[vestal inlet]

i was thinking if putting it higher might be better, but it would make sending stuff to it harder

[queen fractal]

If you launch late to it, it can be easier/faster to catch up to it since you need to be on a lower orbit than the station to do that.

[near jewel]

Quick question? How do I test this part?

Ah, nevermind. Stage it

Expected a "Test" button

[waxen comet]

open the note dropdown

[fallow axle]

Will a rover work on Vall even with its ice?

[waxen comet]

Surface material is aesthetic only

[dire plume]

yeah, every surface is slippery

[midnight bane]

Yeah, surface grip is entirely dependent on gravity

https://youtu.be/rScYJVzelO4
1:52 is a good example

2:36 in particular lol

[vestal inlet]

which way does "flow priority" work? is the bigger number used first, or last?

okay, just checked, bigger number is used first

[silver cloud]

How do I get 6 tons into eve orbit

7*

[tropic shuttle]

from lko or eve surface

[silver cloud]

surface

[silver cloud]

DV calculator is set to eve vacuum

i need enough fuel for orbit and rendevouz

but rendevouz is only like 200 max

[tropic shuttle]

let your orbiter do the rendervouz, focus only on the ascent

[silver cloud]

yeah I know

but I tried a lot

and the ships keep getting way to big and delta v inefiecient

i tried mamoth vector and dart

ima try propelors

[tropic shuttle]

us a aspagus staging

[silver cloud]

yeah I do

still very chunky rocket

[tame stump]

You need a fuck tone of DV and TW ratio for eve

[silver cloud]

no fucking shit

[tropic shuttle]

First remove the rcs of the upper stage and make the ladder so you can stage it away. 2nd send a full screenshot what you got eo far

[silver cloud]

I think im gonna use propellors untill like 10 km

that should save me a lot of delta v

[tame stump]

i would recommend atleest another asparagus stage of vectors possibly even 6 outer in total

[tropic shuttle]

More booster, more aerodynamics

[vestal inlet]

what are good tips for preventing rocket from "tipping over" during ascent?

[stuck wasp]

try putting fins at the bottom

[vestal inlet]

i have 8 of them

i solved it by lowering max thrust in the first stage engine to 75%

[vestal inlet]

what was the trick to rendezvous with object on orbit?

i have orbit close to that object, i just can't get close enough

[spark prism]

How do I use manuever nodes?

[vestal inlet]

click on it, then pull one of the directions to increase planned thrust in that direction

e.g. to go faster, you pull the prograde direction

[ashen chasm]

how do action groups work

[vestal inlet]

you press a button, actions happen

[ashen chasm]

No i mean how to assign them

[vestal inlet]

in editor, top-left, 2nd button

[balmy sapphire]

then click on a tab (like custom0, equal to key "1" on ur keyboard), finally click on a part that can have interaction (e.g service bay in above pic)

[late lantern]

Where can I find kOS projects/codes to... Ahem... Take inspiration from?

[stuck wasp]

you basically have to go around the internet finding them and fixing them

the kerbalvr dev has a discord channel for them

here is the spacedock with it

https://spacedock.info/mod/3117/KerbalVR

[tawdry cape]

i need some immediate help on my post.

it's been open for 17H and no one can help me :(

[tame stump]

How do you find ground features as I cannot find minmus sandstone

[tropic shuttle]

did you found surface features somewhere eles?

[tame stump]

Yes

On the mun and kerbin

[tropic shuttle]

some surface fetuere are biom specific

[tame stump]

Can you use kerbnet to find them?

I think I did it before but cannot remember how

[tropic shuttle]

not for surface featuers

[glacial furnace]

anyone know why I dont have any crew capacity even tho i should have it?

[stuck wasp]

link it please

[wooden dome]

What engines am I supposed to use on a mk3 shuttle?

Can’t figure out which ones fit properly

[queen fractal]

Vectors are a meant to be the counterpart of what was used in the IRL spaceshuttle

[wooden dome]

Thanks 👍

They seem huge

Oh well I’ll just go with it

[bold kraken]

lol

[tawdry cape]

https://discord.com/channels/132478131490521089/1084969138461622343

[fair lava]

How many of the big radiators do the Hermes reactors from the near future electrical mod need?

[tropic shuttle]

Use heat controll radiators, the stock are too weak, also in your toolbar should be a tool to see the heat and cooling

[fair lava]

Alrighty, thank you :3

Wait which one is it?

I can't find it lol

[tropic shuttle]

One with a lightning/flame

[fair lava]

Ah I found it, thank you :3

[dire plume]

does anyone know if there is a 1.12-compatable version of the Discord Rich Presence mod (i think its DIscordRP actually)? the only version i can find on CKAN is fairly old and i highly doubt it is still compatible with current versions of the game

[waxen comet]

go to the last page of the forum thread, someone made a fork that supposedly works

[dire plume]

i see, i'll try it out when i get a chance

[near jewel]

Why does my rocket flips seconds after launch?

[vestal inlet]

try adding wings at the bottom and/or lowering thrust

[near jewel]

there are 4 basic fins

ah, and I use FAR

I try bigger fins

[vestal inlet]

is apollo style mission easier for mun landing or not?

[vestal trout]

imo yes

if you know how to dock

[vestal inlet]

well, docking is somewhat easy, esp. with the lazy method

[feral fractal]

Why does my experimental plane flip backwards as soon as it takes off?

one second after take-off

[rough hazel]

how do you activate multiple solid boosters at a time? space activates everything including parachute

[stuck wasp]

pull the wings back more

you want CoL behind CoM even more when flipping

[feral fractal]

Move the icons around in the staging tree, preferably in the editor. Create a new stage using the plus sign and move parachutes there. Stages go from bottom to top. In the example of my screenshot, 2 1 0

[rough hazel]

i have that

that

's what i do

[feral fractal]

Move boosters (and maybe the main engine) to the same stage

parachutes to the last stage

[waxen comet]

You use staging. If you look in the lower right of the screen in the editor or left in flight, you see a series of stacked boxes. The icons in those blocks correspond to parts being activated, and every time you press space it activates stages in sequence. Move things to higher stages if you want them to activate later.

[rough hazel]

also how do you get 4 symmetrical boosters/fins on a rocket

mine always have a weird tilt

[feral fractal]

Do you know how to activate symmetry?
If it still doesn't work, you might have to use the rotating gizmo by pressing 3 or clicking the sphere as seen here

use the second mode (or press 2) to offset parts

and go back to the first mode (1) to place parts normally

[rough hazel]

ty

[near jewel]

Anyone has an idea why I can't deploy this antenna? It says "Cannot deploy while stowed". It worked in the VAB

[vestal inlet]

don't test in vab, since it will always "work" here. test on launchpad

[slender canyon]

Is it possible to activate solar panels (unfold them) with a kal controller?

[fair lava]

Hi, my MechJeb window is stuck up here in the corner and the other windows keep opening up in the corner and won't move, does anyone know a way to make it move? I've tried in the VAB/SPH, on the launchpad, in orbit, and on ascent, both right and left-click. The sub-windows I can get to move briefly but they jump back out of view as soon as I'm not holding down a mouse button.

Nevermind I figured it out, I just opened settings and it teleported the window over to a better spot

[severe tiger]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[dire plume]

just got it installed, nothing seems to have gone wrong but also it isn't doing anything, my profile just has the generic status, despite being in the VAB where the mod should have added the part count and fund cost
i took the DiscordRP folder out of the .zip -master folder and put it in ksp/gamedata, did i do something wrong? were there more files that needed moved?
or is this version of the mod just likely non-functional

[waxen comet]

That's not how you download a mod off github, what you've done is download the uncompiled code

on the github page, look for the releases section

[dire plume]

ah, never really use github so im unsurprised it didnt work
i'll try it then, thanks

[waxen comet]

specifically, you want Release 0.1.0, DiscordRP.zip

[dire plume]

Yep! that was the problem

[serene cairn]

What’s a good altitude for space station for Kerbin?

[tropic shuttle]

Somewhere around 100km

[balmy sapphire]

I prefer 150-200

[stuck wasp]

it really depends on what your use case is

easy of access? as low as comfortably possible to reduce costs to rendezvouz

going to the mun? you could maybe make a gateway station on a highly elliptical orbit

getting science from being above every biome on kerbin? low and 90 degree inclination

im having a hard time imagining a use for a deep orbit station but im sure there is one

[peak girder]

how can i tell if my engines could use a bit more air, like if i should add more inline pre-coolers

[peak girder]

do 100-200km

[waxen comet]

If they say propellant requirement met is 100%, they're getting all the air they need

also if you lack fuel or air input, engines get throttled sequentially rather than in parallel so your thrust would become alarmingly lopsided. Ion craft also suffer from this when running low on power.

some notes on flying though, engine thrust is a function of atmospheric pressure and airspeed. The ramjet engines will rapidly increase in thrust with speed up to a multiplier of several times at a few Mach, so you have to get that thrust feedback loop going before you start your ascent proper.

[stuck wasp]

you're just about always going to run out around 12000 km

10-12

go ahead and do a test, just spam a couple intakes. it wont make a difference, the pressure thins out too much

[rugged root]

Can you stack antennas? So say I had one, and it only went so far, but then I put another, would that distance double?

[vestal trout]

yes

but not double

[rugged root]

How much would you say? Is there some set amount that decreases eventually?

Sorry maybe I should have made a separate post for this

[mighty jacinth]

Hi. Does MechJeb allow for autopilot for currently not controlled spacecraft? Like can I set a rocket on an autopilot for Mun and then go fly another rocket while the first one autopilots towards its destination?

[tropic shuttle]

No. Mechjeb can only controll the actie spacecraft, like you

[stuck wasp]

If i recall correctly the final range is the root of the sum

So not linear and if i recall the graph, diminishing returns

Oh you figures it out elsewhere

I waa wrong for anyone curious

[peak girder]

I have gotten to 22000 meters before it ran out before

[stuck wasp]

that's probably on the upper end and depended on your ascent profile

[peak girder]

So go fast in the lower atmosphere, then increase?

[balmy sapphire]

depend, small wing you can do it, if you have big wing go as fast as you can on mid alt then dive down to pick up speed

[peak girder]

Alrightly

[waxen comet]

You just have to go fast enough for the thrust to start to ramp up, then start ascending since you should spend as little time in the lower atmosphere as possible

[stuck wasp]

for me once I make it past the sound barrier and keep accelerating the only thing usually stopping me is having enough gas to reach orbit

[tame stump]

are the both small mun craters

[dire plume]

they both looks like the same size, the difference is very noticeable with the other variant

[analog valve]

where is the undo function in the editor?

there should be one but I'm not really sure

[dire plume]

ctrl + z

[analog valve]

and redo ctrl + y ?

[dire plume]

yes

[analog valve]

ok thx

[vestal inlet]

is it common for screenshot button (F1) to stop working with mods?

[severe tiger]

Does a light-scanning arm need an ore holding tank?

[vestal inlet]

scanning arm? i don't think so, i think that counts as "experiment data"

[inland void]

soo im asking how airbraking works, i have my pe set to 53k above kerbins surface,will i get a stop or keep travelling?