Hey there, Kerbal veteran here I really love your curiosity in this video. But if you want to get better at the game you should watch the tutorial series from Mike Aben. Once you understand the controls and the mechanics better try out the mod called hyperedit it allows you to control the details of any orbit and teleport you places that you want to play around with. Another recommendation would be Kerbal engineer Redux as it gives you readouts of all of the orbital details in real time. Hope this helps
Thanks for taking the time to comment. :) I'll check them out for sure! I got most of it sorted within the first 30 minutes to an hour of looking around though, this video was just a recreation of the funny stuff I did for humor's sake while looking around on first run before I forgot what had happened. Just recreating the first 3 or 4 things I stacked up while looking around in the first few minutes to maybe the first 30 minutes or so before I forget the funny things that happened. I'm not really dropping Kerbal's head first into terra firma or using srb's as stage separation (At least, not anymore anyway! He died like he lived.. Smiling and happy!). :P Though I have to admit, I did leave a few on the mun for a while and whipping around Kerbal after docking them together. Okay, so a few still *are* on the mun, but eh. Strangely, they don't seem that unhappy about not having brought anything to eat or any other hardships! Just all smiles and giggles! Lol! Having said that, they also don't seem that sad about re-entering without any heat shield either! Your description of Redux sounds like one of the two things I'm after, the other being able to create arbitrary values for engines, tankage, atmo/planet size, etc to test/play with various stuff. I'll probably be doing at least a few more video's about Kerbal, especially a really trivial fast start guide for science/engineering folks like myself for the basics since most of the issues I had was just looking up keybinds and figuring where/why/how various systems were and how they worked. I suspect I'm not the only one who just wants it as a physics simulator. I have to say, I *really* like how they simplified a lot of this, but still kept the physics accurate enough to play around with simulating real world type stuff. I think they struck a pretty good balance! Thanks again for taking the time to reply! :)
this is very interesting to watch because I have a lot of experience playing ksp but I don't know a ton about actually rocket science (outside of what is directly in the game) would be cool to see more of this
Maybe I'll try and record more stuff when I play around then. :) Are you meaning that you would like to hear more about the physics and hardware and such? I didn't think hardly anyone would even be interested in the science/tech aspects of it. I even deleted the real physics stuff I'd talked about at the end of this recording here before rendering/uploading. Lol! I'm probably the rare type of player in that I started from the other end. When my health was still okay and I was younger, I did a lot of small personal test stand stuff like build/test ramjets/rockets/small turbojets and such. Heck, my blowgun I use for my air compressor to blow dust even has a delaval nozzle on it that I built (Rocket nozzle). I took a shadow graph of it in use and you can see the mach diamonds plain as day. I like doing trivial back of the napkin type stuff too like fiddling around to see how small of a solid rocket booster stack you can go with (Both for number of stages and size of stages) and still get a small stick of gum sized RF transmitter into LEO and other such silliness. Needless to say, I like that kind of stuff, but doing back of the napkin stuff is a lot of math doing it the old fashioned way. Stuff like Kerbal lets you play with it a lot more casually. :P But the real rocket science stuff *is* why I bought Kerbal. I want to test stuff like Oberth effect first hand, seeing if my mental map of orbital mechanics details holds up, test having to boost in the wrong direction to catch stuff in orbit and all those weird kinds of counterintuitive stuff. :) That boosting backwards to get a lower orbit to catch up apparently even threw the guys during the Gemini program when they were first fiddling around with docking in orbit. They'd boost towards the target and it would get further away. Boost at it again, STILL got further away. It's neat as heck to get to play with that stuff. Thanks for taking the time to comment, it's appreciated!
Personally, other than the first bit/intro, I'd just scrub through this video. It came out to almost a half hour long which is ridiculous, but I didn't know what else to cut. Also, I WILL be making some help/tutorial/get started type video's for Kerbal a bit later, but it might be a while. I'm currently dealing with a pile of personal stuff lately (Doctors) which is very serious. I'd already put gaming on the proverbial backburner around last November, but things are getting even more serious here now so I have to deal with it first. I'll try and get a basic getting started video as soon as I can though. Unless of course Stalker 2 comes out first. In which case, the only thing you'll see past that point is Stalker content. :P Lol!
I doubt I will. I only bought it as a visual orbital mechanics simulator. It's less hassle than using a calculator and paper/pencil. Though I *was* hoping you'd have far more control over things, but I haven't looked at mods and such yet, maybe they have what I'm after. I'd like to be able to simulate arbitrary stuff right down to arbitrary size stages, delta V, size/scale, and such. Once I get some more free time, I'll probably have a peek.
I generally recommend starting on the science gamemode for newer players, as in sandbox you get too many parts to choose from and it gets really confusing. Science lets you unlock parts instead of getting them all at once while being easier than career mode.
That's probably good advice. This was just a recreation of the first hour. I found all the stuff I needed immediately after this, then spent the next few days doing redneck things in orbit like playing space bumper cars, docking stuff and fiddling around, and my personal favorite: Putting Kerbals on the moon (Mun? :P ) and leaving them there for a few days while I think up a rescue plan! I have to say, these little fellas are REALLY hard to make sad. It's like there's no failure big enough to turn that frown upside down! Lol!
I'm not quite sure how I feel about that. :P *Goes into Crabby Old Bugger (COB) mode* Dang kids these days! Deadass, no cap, these gooners edgin' in their gooncaves be freakin' me out! Lol!
Hey there, Kerbal veteran here I really love your curiosity in this video. But if you want to get better at the game you should watch the tutorial series from Mike Aben. Once you understand the controls and the mechanics better try out the mod called hyperedit it allows you to control the details of any orbit and teleport you places that you want to play around with. Another recommendation would be Kerbal engineer Redux as it gives you readouts of all of the orbital details in real time. Hope this helps
Thanks for taking the time to comment. :) I'll check them out for sure! I got most of it sorted within the first 30 minutes to an hour of looking around though, this video was just a recreation of the funny stuff I did for humor's sake while looking around on first run before I forgot what had happened. Just recreating the first 3 or 4 things I stacked up while looking around in the first few minutes to maybe the first 30 minutes or so before I forget the funny things that happened. I'm not really dropping Kerbal's head first into terra firma or using srb's as stage separation (At least, not anymore anyway! He died like he lived.. Smiling and happy!). :P Though I have to admit, I did leave a few on the mun for a while and whipping around Kerbal after docking them together. Okay, so a few still *are* on the mun, but eh. Strangely, they don't seem that unhappy about not having brought anything to eat or any other hardships! Just all smiles and giggles! Lol! Having said that, they also don't seem that sad about re-entering without any heat shield either! Your description of Redux sounds like one of the two things I'm after, the other being able to create arbitrary values for engines, tankage, atmo/planet size, etc to test/play with various stuff. I'll probably be doing at least a few more video's about Kerbal, especially a really trivial fast start guide for science/engineering folks like myself for the basics since most of the issues I had was just looking up keybinds and figuring where/why/how various systems were and how they worked. I suspect I'm not the only one who just wants it as a physics simulator. I have to say, I *really* like how they simplified a lot of this, but still kept the physics accurate enough to play around with simulating real world type stuff. I think they struck a pretty good balance! Thanks again for taking the time to reply! :)
this is very interesting to watch because I have a lot of experience playing ksp but I don't know a ton about actually rocket science (outside of what is directly in the game) would be cool to see more of this
Maybe I'll try and record more stuff when I play around then. :) Are you meaning that you would like to hear more about the physics and hardware and such? I didn't think hardly anyone would even be interested in the science/tech aspects of it. I even deleted the real physics stuff I'd talked about at the end of this recording here before rendering/uploading. Lol! I'm probably the rare type of player in that I started from the other end. When my health was still okay and I was younger, I did a lot of small personal test stand stuff like build/test ramjets/rockets/small turbojets and such. Heck, my blowgun I use for my air compressor to blow dust even has a delaval nozzle on it that I built (Rocket nozzle). I took a shadow graph of it in use and you can see the mach diamonds plain as day. I like doing trivial back of the napkin type stuff too like fiddling around to see how small of a solid rocket booster stack you can go with (Both for number of stages and size of stages) and still get a small stick of gum sized RF transmitter into LEO and other such silliness. Needless to say, I like that kind of stuff, but doing back of the napkin stuff is a lot of math doing it the old fashioned way. Stuff like Kerbal lets you play with it a lot more casually. :P But the real rocket science stuff *is* why I bought Kerbal. I want to test stuff like Oberth effect first hand, seeing if my mental map of orbital mechanics details holds up, test having to boost in the wrong direction to catch stuff in orbit and all those weird kinds of counterintuitive stuff. :) That boosting backwards to get a lower orbit to catch up apparently even threw the guys during the Gemini program when they were first fiddling around with docking in orbit. They'd boost towards the target and it would get further away. Boost at it again, STILL got further away. It's neat as heck to get to play with that stuff. Thanks for taking the time to comment, it's appreciated!
Personally, other than the first bit/intro, I'd just scrub through this video. It came out to almost a half hour long which is ridiculous, but I didn't know what else to cut. Also, I WILL be making some help/tutorial/get started type video's for Kerbal a bit later, but it might be a while. I'm currently dealing with a pile of personal stuff lately (Doctors) which is very serious. I'd already put gaming on the proverbial backburner around last November, but things are getting even more serious here now so I have to deal with it first. I'll try and get a basic getting started video as soon as I can though. Unless of course Stalker 2 comes out first. In which case, the only thing you'll see past that point is Stalker content. :P Lol!
The game IS the sandbox. Don't expect much from career mechanics if you ever try it.
I doubt I will. I only bought it as a visual orbital mechanics simulator. It's less hassle than using a calculator and paper/pencil. Though I *was* hoping you'd have far more control over things, but I haven't looked at mods and such yet, maybe they have what I'm after. I'd like to be able to simulate arbitrary stuff right down to arbitrary size stages, delta V, size/scale, and such. Once I get some more free time, I'll probably have a peek.
I generally recommend starting on the science gamemode for newer players, as in sandbox you get too many parts to choose from and it gets really confusing. Science lets you unlock parts instead of getting them all at once while being easier than career mode.
That's probably good advice. This was just a recreation of the first hour. I found all the stuff I needed immediately after this, then spent the next few days doing redneck things in orbit like playing space bumper cars, docking stuff and fiddling around, and my personal favorite: Putting Kerbals on the moon (Mun? :P ) and leaving them there for a few days while I think up a rescue plan! I have to say, these little fellas are REALLY hard to make sad. It's like there's no failure big enough to turn that frown upside down! Lol!
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I'm not quite sure how I feel about that. :P *Goes into Crabby Old Bugger (COB) mode* Dang kids these days! Deadass, no cap, these gooners edgin' in their gooncaves be freakin' me out! Lol!
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@@johnroscoe2406 Nice! Your rocking chair and shotgun are in the mail from the COB organization too then! :)