inflatable heat shield

[Juan Angel B747]

This mod adds an inflatable heat shield in different sizes which covers 4 times the area of a normal shield when deployed.It is really useful for protecting large objects and atmospheric deceleration maneuvers.

You can download the mod here : GitHub - juan-angel-b747/inflatable-heat-shield: This mod adds an inflatable heat shield in different sizes which covers 4 times the area of a normal shield when deployed.

It's my first mod, I hope you like it

(by the way, they also work as umbrellas)

 

[Lucsong52]

Amazing!

 

[Dahzito]

This mod adds an inflatable heat shield in different sizes which covers 4 times the area of a normal shield when deployed.It is really useful for protecting large objects and atmospheric deceleration maneuvers.

You can download the mod here : GitHub - juan-angel-b747/inflatable-heat-shield: This mod adds an inflatable heat shield in different sizes which covers 4 times the area of a normal shield when deployed.

It's my first mod, I hope you like it

(by the way, they also work as umbrellas)
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Interesting mod actually!
Are you planning on doing more things?

 

[TeckSky_Space]

Good to see you have your fisrt custom part mod!

 

[Mario Hobbs]

This mod adds an inflatable heat shield in different sizes which covers 4 times the area of a normal shield when deployed.It is really useful for protecting large objects and atmospheric deceleration maneuvers.

You can download the mod here : GitHub - juan-angel-b747/inflatable-heat-shield: This mod adds an inflatable heat shield in different sizes which covers 4 times the area of a normal shield when deployed.

It's my first mod, I hope you like it
(by the way, they also work as umbrellas)

Wow I've been waiting for a mod like this to exist for so long; Glad someone finally had the sense and skill to make it.

 

[Juan Angel B747]

Interesting mod actually!
Are you planning on doing more things?

of coures my horse

I have many Ideas like
- a flag
-octagonal solar panels
- a NERVA engine
- an aerospike engine

 

[Juan Angel B747]

I appreciate that you liked my mod

 

[ilikespace]

Found a bug:
When you duplicate the 12 wide part in build grid it becomes a 4 wide
Other than that its awesome

 

[GOOBER2133]

i was working on making one with solar panels you saved me alot of pain!

 

[Darthan]

Found a bug:
When you duplicate the 12 wide part in build grid it becomes a 4 wide
Other than that its awesome

I've found a related bug. When you launch any size other than the 4-wide one it becomes 4-wide. I think it may be necessary to store the size, a bit like the width is stored for the vanilla heat shields. It is quite easy to work around the bug by editing the blueprint setting o.x and o.y as needed.

 

[GOOBER2133]

hey i have a suggestion for the mod maybe make it so there's a white and orange one?

 

[ilikespace]

Can you make it texturable?
They work nice as antennas

 

[Mario Hobbs]

Recommendation: make them like the ones in ksp where before they deploy they are square so they can be attached to things without need for a separator

 

[Juan Angel B747]

I've found a related bug. When you launch any size other than the 4-wide one it becomes 4-wide. I think it may be necessary to store the size, a bit like the width is stored for the vanilla heat shields. It is quite easy to work around the bug by editing the blueprint setting o.x and o.y as needed.
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I found what the error is, use size for all measurements and that's what caused it

I'm going to try to use both the width and height measurements

 

[Juan Angel B747]

Can you make it texturable?
They work nice as antennas

Great idea, so I can kill two birds with one stone

Although I don't know how to make a part textureable

and I need to know it because for the flag I want to make it will be very necessary

 

[Juan Angel B747]

I've found a related bug. When you launch any size other than the 4-wide one it becomes 4-wide. I think it may be necessary to store the size, a bit like the width is stored for the vanilla heat shields. It is quite easy to work around the bug by editing the blueprint setting o.x and o.y as needed.
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Your idea worked

Thank you very much

By the way, I made some slight changes to the shape since I decided that it should look a little more like the KSP inflatable shields

 

[Juan Angel B747]

I fixed the size problem and improved the shield shapes

Why did I skip from 1.2 to 1.2.1?
Because in the test I did on 1.2 I discovered that the base (the grey part) was without a collision system and when I fixed that problem I decided to put it on 1.2.1

link: Release 1.2.1 · juan-angel-b747/inflatable-heat-shield

 

[Juan Angel B747]

i was working on making one with solar panels you saved me alot of pain!

I think I'll have to make a new texture for this part.

By the way, I think it won't be that difficult to make the deployment animation.

 

[Juan Angel B747]

One feature of this piece is that it can be folded and unfolded

and I managed to figure out how to change the color of a piece, so with a texture pack you could put any flag on your ship or on the moon, Mercury, Mars or 3 of the four moons of Jupiter

(only crazy people would put a flag on Venus or Io)

 

[ilikespace]

If possible can you make this?
(The blue are solar panels)

 

[Juan Angel B747]

that's the same Idea how I had because that's the form how the mars mars insight deploys them solar panels

 

[kebabas]

in what folder the pack needs to be?

 

[ilikespace]

in what folder the pack needs to be?

See this thread: Mods and installation: Questions and answers

 

[kebabas]

See this thread: Mods and installation: Questions and answers

Thanks

 

[roshan]

do i have permission to add this to SFS Mod Installer