It works best when the decouplers are both in the top half region of the part you are ejecting. This plugin allows for decouplers to animate when decoupling, or to animate before decoupling. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. 1. Thumper - being put on the same decouplers - doesn't work w/o a lot of playing around. And here is why you should use radial decouplers to attach things radially: Radial decouplers make an extremely strong joint, much stronger than radially attaching a fuel tank directly, a. Visually, the decoupler's legs are left behind, but they add no mass or drag to the parent part. Which KSP promptly converts into an explosion. Size aside, the TT-70 functions identically to the TT-38K Radial Decoupler. (Thanks Roryamm and. It resulted in breaking radial decouplers. I can give you an example of what an animated decoupler is: the clamp that's used to hold Apollo's Command Module and Service Module together, unlocks and moves away from the CM to decouple it. . ckan/AnimatedDecouplers Animated Decouplers Extensions of KSP's decouplers that play animations. Now if you drag the grey decoupler, all the others will still come with it. Usage. It's also useful as a secondary program for textures if you need to create precision curves. dV to go to Bop or Poll as well. The more the explosive force and the less payload mass in this “decoupler rocket”, the more. KSP doesn't pay much attention to parts on the same vessel clipping with each other, however as soon as you decouple they become two separate vessels. On request I made another very basic KSP tutorial. All animated Saturn Pad parts (swing arms, hold down arms, tail service masts) can now be staged using Animated Decouplers as well as using the original animation movement. Repository: Extensions of KSP's decouplers that play animations - Releases · Starwaster/AnimatedDecouplers As a means of propulsion. Most of the time though, I make sure the boosters are centered with their empty center of mass on the decouplers, ensuring that at decoupling, they simply 'slide' down with hardly any torque. . [1. all, I have an interesting one here! I have built an SSTO to ferry kerbals to my space station. You stick it at the top and add fairings to the three connection points then add your satellites on top of those with decouplers or docking ports. {"payload":{"allShortcutsEnabled":false,"fileTree":{"AnimatedDecouplers-x86":{"items":[{"name":"AnimatedDecouplers-x86-1. This time describing the benefits and different kinds of staging and the use of decouplers. A decoupler has a back side and the decoupling side (the side that would couple to other decouplers). Yes, you can use multiple radial decouplers, but you need to use struts to connect the "boosters" directly to each decoupler. Removed extra rescaleFactor from Swivel. Posted September 7, 2015. BUG: decouplers not decoupling. 25m Engine Plate into ReStock base to account for Making History 1. 2) Sounding Rockets is the ONLY mod I install that uses it. Inkscape - Vector graphics editor UV layouts exported from Blender can be edited with this. This increases the horizontal clearance between the two attached parts, which can be useful for adding radially attached parts. 25m Engine Plate addition. four fuel tanks, an interstage decoupler, cluster of 9 merlin engines with multi-mode. Parts attach at the tip of the pointer. They decouple on both sides. I have used two decouplers (with struts) to eject "booster" rockets because the extra decoupler. When staging with couplers, sometimes the fairing for the engine will fly away but the coupler will not release and the previous stage remains attached to the rocket. . These are called “separator cannons” or “staging cannons. . Posts posted by GreenGusTech. Kerbal Space Program 1 ; KSP1 Mods ; KSP1 Mod Releases [1. Share. Attribution-ShareAlike 4. The rover could one day orbit again, by the simple logic that landing on Tylo is harder than taking off Or it might stay and refuel things that come to the surface. 1 install. And I say 'fairing' and not 'shroud', because I would want it to also cover for the cases where the top is not the same diameter as the decoupler. Can someone please, either point me in the right direction of a mod that has nothing but decouplers, or can someone PLEASE make a mod that has decouplers. Docking ports must be triggered manually, but they disconnect with no force at all. Any of my search term words; All of my search term words; Find results in. Content titles and body; Content titles onlyIt had the decouplers attached to the fuel tanks the legs were attached to, removed from staging. xNormal - Texture generatorSave Page Now. Screenshot of the Week Photo Booth in Ooblets by GammaGames. with integrated fairings would be nice indeed. 1 | Download: 17. When you want less decoupling force, either use the tiny-size decouplers (any structural problems which occur from this can be fixed by additional struts) or use docking ports. The TT-38K adds a stage to the rocket and when activated will jettison the decoupler as well as anything attached to it, much like the TD-12 Decoupler. {"payload":{"allShortcutsEnabled":false,"fileTree":{"":{"items":[{"name":"GameData","path":"GameData","contentType":"directory"},{"name":"Source","path":"Source. A part can't be "attached" to any more than one part. Ultimately KSP is an excellent demonstration that experience is the best teacher, so when in doubt, experiment with something new! Reply Meihem76 •. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. The horizontal decouplers seem to work but they do like to kick the rocket off to the side sometimes. Multiple colliders on a model affect performance, as anyone using large numbers of Structural Fuselages will be able to tell you, it uses several colliders to make. AnimatedDecouplers. 2 | June 03 2020 * Added top draco thrusters to the Crew Dragon capsule * Added Crew Dragon Trunk umbilical deploy to AG7 when Animated Decouplers is not installed for all craft files * Fixed Crew Dragon nosecone deploying with light AG, moved nosecone deploy to AG6 for all craft files * Fixed FH Decouplers not seperating on AG5 in the craft files * Fixed trunk and FH booster. The decouplers did _not_ fire when I did that. 5] Bluedog Design Bureau - Stockalike Saturn, Apollo, and more!. The clicked decoupler will turn grey. 125m, 0. Topics. 2] Procedural Fairings 3. Thumper - I manage to attach it on occasion. Kerbal Space Program 2. ago. Dragging and dropping does not work once they are in a group from the start. Originally the animations were only manually activated, but a way to have them staged was requested, so I used Animated Decouplers as an alternate option. Animated Decouplers stopped at 1. Decouplers can decouple when only one side is placed against a non-decoupler node in VAB. Quick suggestion, not sure how practical it is or whether it would add unnecessary complexity, but I was messing with the following craft in the VAB today as an example: Which initially fires all 3 engines, but then drops the outer tanks and low thrust Terrier engines. It was created as a resource for other modders and players don't need to download this unless another mod requires it. 1 one Saturn arm in particular is resetting itself after being staged. 24. 2: NO: decoupler's, or Separator's!! IF YOU WERE ALLOWED: THERE WOULD BE NO CALLENGE! 3: A Saparator or decoupler is replaced with a docking port 4: SSTO's are allowed, as long as the crewed part is able to dock. Point at the center of the radial decoupler to attach to the radial decoupler. The Orion MPCV does the same thing, yes. 9. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. 2. Chibbity Dec 30, 2018 @ 10:02am. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. With crossfeed enabled on t. Kerbal Space Program Sandbox game Space. BOTH vertical, and radial. Unlike the flat TT-38K, the TT-70 Radial Decoupler includes a truss structure separating the two ends of the decoupler. . by. Not compatible with the animated engine and was causing the engine to never start. If used, there should be more Sepratrons on the top as well. Enjoy!Get the. Starwaster. Kerbal Space Program 1 ; KSP1 Gameplay and Technical Support ; KSP1 Gameplay Questions and Tutorials ; Choosing the Right Radial Decoupler. 2 - Native TAC Life Support compatibility - Increased Mk1-2 Pod Food and Waste storage capacities - Added Water, Oxygen, WasteWater and CarbonDioxide storage to Service Module - Added Carbon Extractors and Water Filters to both Service Module and Avionics Ring - A. Radial decoupler, my greatest nemesis. Click one of the decouplers in the green blob. Then I sent up the fuel tank, and as soon as it docked, "thunk", "boom", "scritch". Small boosters like Hammer can be attached w/o problems. Since the TT-38K is radially attached, it can be used to attach additional parts to the side of a. Seven command pods; Seven fuel tanks; A bipropellant RCS block; Three hexagonal truss pieces for constructing deep space craft; Two radial. Be it docking ports to cargo bay's- every part is integrated with something (or multiple somethings) to help you lower your parts count. I used the Structural Pylon to attach Strut Connectors to spacecrafts inside the fairing to have them stable without any remnants after staging. Shift + Scroll does not work so there is no way to move the camera vertically/laterally in the VAB or SPH. But adding enough value that it is not debris is a little trickier. 4. To have hollow objects in Unity you need multiple colliders per object, as colliders have to be convex. 24. NEW- new dragon1 trunk and aerodynamic solar panel covers. No way to stage individual radial decouplers separately if they were applied using radial symmetry. I have tried literally everything, unless I place each decoupler 1 by 1, I can only trigger them all at once. the TD-25 decoupler immediately below the heat shield on the crew transport ship had fired, rendering the crew. 1. However, it must be a node, not a surface. Usage. New spin decouplers in 3. Kyle. This mod is designed to help you save on part count big time. Parts Catalog. 3. 1. 1/1. ckan","path":"AnimatedDecouplers-x86. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. The problem seems to be located not only within the decouplers themselves. Hi Leafbaron, stack decouplers are deliberately not hollow, they just look that way. Posted August 13, 2013. You can't make a "closed loop. I would be willing to sacrifice the automatic shroud option of engines to get this, because it would not longer be necessary. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. Contribute to KSP-CKAN/NetKAN development by creating an account on GitHub. 4. 1. In redesign, to get rid of unnecessary weight, I r. So: this is how the challenge goes: RULES: 1: NO: Cheats, Debug menu, and hyper edit. 9. That's not how it works, KSP craft are like trees, every part has one parent part, and as many children parts as it wants. Kerbals are not recovered after recovering a vessel. This version worked great. Getting to orbit on a single spark is easy. 12. " You'll need to use struts or autostruts to secure your boosters. Not exactly, since it stick to the dropped part, but doesn't leave traces on the main craft (like how the yellow radial decouplers do) Or take an engineer there, use his EVA construction to remove the offending part. 17 KiB | Released on: 2016-10-18 Configs to use ZPIF without FAR or NEARWith the update to KSP 1. The best practice is to put the decouplers at the top of the booster, and struts at the bottom, or in additional spots if needed. 1. Configure the same way as you would standard decoupler modules but it now accepts animationName, which is the name of an animation on the model. Version 6. Forum Thread. 20 (November 8) in KSP1 Mod Releases. Simple vertical construction is easy, but if I need to add radial components everything goes badly. Yes, this is basically along the correct lines. The backside may be placed anywhere on the craft surface. It's basically a one to three connection. By FreedomFighterEx April 24, 2013 in KSP1 Discussion. Best way in stock is to set a couple of Sepratrons on the outboard stages, aim them to fire inboard (and slightly upwards) and set them to ignite when you stage the radial decouplers. (SSTO's will need to. 1 7 August 2014 ----- Changes / Fixes: - Compatibility Patch for KSP 0. You can kinda see the Shuttle SRBS doing that sort of thing in that pic you've got there. Move cursor out of staging window until the plus/minus symbols disappear. 12 one. KSP 2 devs: Here are the main non-bug gameplay issues so far. Recently I had another, unrelated issue, that caused me to try a new full install of the last version of KSP, along with the latest Breaking Ground and Making History DLCs, and a bunch of mods (other than Restock, Restock+, and Restock Extra -Rigid Legs, which are supposed to only reskin some parts, I don't think I've added any parts). Some tips on how you can send Kerbals into deep space without rockets. 1. Extensions of KSP's decouplers that play animations. 0. Stack decouplers are actually still broken too but since they are on the stack, it doesn't cause parts to tip and collide. DDS4KSP - KSP to DDS texture converter Use this to allow KSP to load textures faster. Hammer works perfectly - attaches and detaches w/o a hitch. 625m, 0. Kerbal Space Program 1 ; KSP1 Discussion ; Radial decoupler, my greatest nemesis. Now that the design changed from structure to wing all. kerbal-space-program. I assumed that's what he meant. 1 for KSP 1. Fixed Reliant boattail grey option being the old pre-1. Metadata files used by the NetKAN/CKAN indexer. Protoz Feb 24 @ 1:10pm. 2 to fix broken stack decouplers. 2. 0 International. 6. 5. . In their stead, allow decouplers/separators to use the fairing system to build interstages as the user desires. 7, I figured it was abandoned. Hi, we all notice that when the radial decouplers are activated, they remain attached to the "root" part, so i imagine they still count as dead wasting weight, am i right? Or are they weightless once activated? Wouldn´t be better to vanilla be placed inversed? I mean, once activated, they would g. . ”. INSTEAD click one of the other green decouplers and drag them to the empty stage. ksp, kerbal space program, mod. The radial version of a separator is the aircraft "Hardpoint"/"Pylon" parts. (What ever the directional terminology is) I am having the hardest time searching for mods that have a large selection of decouplers. 25m sizes to spin up solid kick motors. It worked fine through 1. The third and last of my "rescue parts", this was an antenna in a previous version of KSP, which I repurposed to have a usable ore detector (same stats as the larger kethane detector). E: Also, i. Ok, let me tell this to Lenny, the bug report collector. 2. I didn't make a GitHub issue because this is a 1. Grimtongues • 7 yr. When I initially built it, I had TT38K Radial Decouplers between the fuel tanks to create some space between the tanks. as the tank-to-be-attached highlights in green and makes one believe that it is attached properly. 1) It's not compatible with 1. I'll say I'm 100% positive that the errors in the log are linked to ModuleAnimatedDecoupler. Extensions of KSP's decouplers that play animations - Releases · Starwaster/AnimatedDecouplers. Generally we try to avoid flipping tri-couplers like that, but if you're determined, here's how to make it work:Now that we have proper aerodynamic fairings the older automatic engine fairings that so many engines have should be removed. 0. You do this so the force from the decouplers rotates the booster around it's center of mass, and then the aerodynamics pull it away from the center core. Posted April 23, 2016 April 23, 2016Incorporated 1. Make these interstage fairings entirely optional. Because decouplers and separators exert force on the separated parts, it is possible, though rarely productive, to use them as a means of propulsion. EDIT: Ninja'd, sorta. Vote. #7. 1, and only now in 1. 0. Feb 25 @ 12:15pm Encountered the same bug on a rocket, every time I staged a certain stage's decoupler it stayed attached. There was a fix pushed in to 0. The solution is a two-step process: Recognize. Thank you. Unfortunately I'm at work or I'd show you a screen shot. Use Separators instead. Showing 1 - 2 of 2 comments. Place it at the top or bottom of a rocket to turn it into a triple stack rocket. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. Extensions of KSP's decouplers that play animations. Animated Decouplers - v1. Fix Communotron 88-88 starting extended in the VAB ( #965) Added a depth mask to the Communotron 88-88. Clipping. 5, some parts changed and now some of my constructions don't work anymore (how could it be any different ). So, I have to manual install. 9375m and 1. You are attaching the SRBs directly to the rocket body instead of the radial decouplers. 3. There currently is (what I believe is) a bug that keeps the separation force from decouplers from working if you have struts connecting the parts.