whiteshark12 posted:

you lot using the horizontal hangar to build planes have been missing out on the fun stuff.



Space: 1999, gently caress yeah!

Bentai posted:

For anyone that is still up, SpaceX will be launching the first commercial spaceship to dock with the International Space Station in a little over an hour (4:55am eastern, 1:55am pacific) and there will be a stream up at http://www.spacex.com/webcast/

Samhem posted:

^^^ That is ridiculously large and amazing. Woudn't the spaceship fold if you wobble a bit?

Could anyone help me with getting a Aerospike Rocket to fit directly under a tri-coupler? I browsed the part.cfg, trying to see why it woudn't fit while the others do, but I have had no luck so far.

Makrond posted:

It is and I thought so as well but it's surprisingly not very wobbly at all. I even managed to land it on the side of a mountain after falling a few hundred kilometers short of the northern ice cap.

As for your question, usually if parts won't fit on the default tricoupler even though they look like they should, it's because their collision box is just a smidgen too large. You may also need to put jet fuel or structural fuel tanks on the tricoupler, as apparently the air-breathing engines can only be attached to certain objects.

zedprime posted:

The aerospike is a rocket engine.

I have found no rhyme or reason to why it will or won't attach somewhere, tri couplers aren't the only place. Its collision model apparently extends beyond laterally beyond the visible model

I was really disapointed when "we're adding spaceplanes!" turned out they were just including a slightly tweaked version of the C7 stuff. All that talk about spaceplanes and we've got a spaceplane guy made me think we'd be getting some aerodynamic tweaks.

Dolphin posted:

Yeah, as it is the game is a pretty decent rocket ~simulator, and this update just added an awful flight simulator. It's really bad. It's like flying wooden planks with engines strapped to them.

DrSunshine posted:

You would have to admit that this would be the most drat thing.

withak posted:

I think basically spaceplanes are there for the handful of people who know exactly how the oversimplified airplane physics model works. Anyone approaching it from a point of having played with flight sims before is going to find themselves probably unable to get off the ground.

HoldYourFire posted:

I still don't understand how the bug whereby you can't take off from the runway wasn't caught in testing.

Isorenieratane posted:

How on earth do you get control surfaces to attach to wings properly? I can only seem to get them perpendicular to the wings which looks dumb as hell.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Hmm, now I want to make a taildragger spaceplane...

Samhem posted:

I think most of my spaceplane design problems would be solved if there was a ramp at the end of the runway.Does there happen to be a mod for this?

Mr. Despair posted:

Man, I'm glad they added pod racers to this game!





e. holy crap it actually works well now!

Mr. Despair posted:

quote:

"Oooh!! And there goes Quadrinaros' power coupling!"

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Those calling it a poor flight simulator are probably not used to playing sims of planes crazily cobbled together out of random bits. This plane flies like a proper plane - but one with a really inefficient wing that stalls really easily and has a really violent nose-down behaviour on stall. Which is about right for the design, really.

The Butcher posted:

I remember some people posting a parts pack that had an unmanned command module. What was the name of that one?

Srebrenica Surprise posted:

Harvester confirmed there's no stalling behavior present for .15 a few days before the release. You might be able to get it dynamically with hosed up airflow or drag bugs (someone suggested a shadow casting simulation on the GPU to make drag actually work properly in a reasonable computational framework) but that's kind of one of the issues.