SSTU - Shadow Space Technologies Unlimited

SSTU - Shadow Space Technologies Unlimited

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New Part: Radial Booster Decoupler

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Features:

  • Has scalable and movable geometry to form a surround ring for the booster
  • Has included SRB-based jettison motors.
  • Can move thrust transforms for the jettison motors along with the visible model; hopefully to allow positioning into realistic positions for the jettison motors.
  • Will investigate possibility to custom reinforce the joint.
  • Can adjust amount of jettison fuel / force in the VAB (Need to find a good way to do this, currently it is just the stock force, thrust, and fuel sliders).
  • Everything triggered as one action through staging - no special functions to learn. Use it just like any other radial decoupler.
  • Works properly with MJ/KER dV calc, and for MJ auto-staging

Progress:

  • Basic plugin code is complete and seems to be working good during initial testing.
  • Need to find best placement and orientation of thrust transforms -- should probably move them off to the sides of the decoupler
  • Should probably make geometry to represent the ejection motors?
  • Basic geometry for ring-style mount is finished, needs UV/AO/Tex - will likely use simple diffuse only, though may want spec/norm.