Parts progress for the month of Febuary! Alongside a big push to get IVA implemented, we have a handful of new parts....
To make building a little easier; we have a series of modular low-profile structural plates. These are constructed around a central "node" system where the actual attachment point is a standalone subpart, allowing you to cluster them into any arrangement you want, outside of the dozen or so pre-built prefab variants. Very handy for a clean foundation for engine mounting, or stepping down in diameter to a smaller profile, as you would on a lander design. Going forward these will expand into a larger family of generic structural parts that will hopefully make building extremely flexible.
To complement these, we also have a few interstage bridging adaptors to help make your rockets look a little more streamlined. These have multiple variants (hollow and fueled) alongside a few capping nosecones to, well, cap things off.
Also in the mix is a large radial decoupler, giving you the ability to radially attach and seperate stages when we get the attachment logic working cleanly.
And the landing legg, of course! Based on the Soviet LK Lunny Lander, it's pneumatic with flexible (and interchangable) feet. @gravhoek and I are very mindful of creating part designs that represent logical engineering; and the leg ideally needs more struts to help give it more lateral support. I couldn't really get a good system working with such a compact base and basic translation controls for the actuators (no rigging and skinned meshes if we can help it) - inspiration might strike me again when I approach the other leg designs.
To make building a little easier; we have a series of modular low-profile structural plates. These are constructed around a central "node" system where the actual attachment point is a standalone subpart, allowing you to cluster them into any arrangement you want, outside of the dozen or so pre-built prefab variants. Very handy for a clean foundation for engine mounting, or stepping down in diameter to a smaller profile, as you would on a lander design. Going forward these will expand into a larger family of generic structural parts that will hopefully make building extremely flexible.
To complement these, we also have a few interstage bridging adaptors to help make your rockets look a little more streamlined. These have multiple variants (hollow and fueled) alongside a few capping nosecones to, well, cap things off.
Also in the mix is a large radial decoupler, giving you the ability to radially attach and seperate stages when we get the attachment logic working cleanly.
And the landing legg, of course! Based on the Soviet LK Lunny Lander, it's pneumatic with flexible (and interchangable) feet. @gravhoek and I are very mindful of creating part designs that represent logical engineering; and the leg ideally needs more struts to help give it more lateral support. I couldn't really get a good system working with such a compact base and basic translation controls for the actuators (no rigging and skinned meshes if we can help it) - inspiration might strike me again when I approach the other leg designs.
