5:32 YOU CAN MAKE IT SNAP TO NODES WITH THE ALT KEY?????????? I HAVE SPENT A RIDICULOUSLY LONG TIME IN TOTAL PLACING MY CAMERA IN STRANGE ORIENTATIONS JUST TO GET A NODE ATTATCHMENT AND I COULD HAVE JUST HELD DOWN ALT????? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Dunno how I went years of watching KSP before discovering your channel. Showing some tricks that I haven't seen elsewhere until now like the rapier nosecones and reentry probe. Curious if you'll do any new "Build it with me" videos for a workhorse lander design for most planetary bodies and/or interplanetary hauler? But primarily commenting for the metrics
Even as a somewhat experienced KSP player, I still found this build-along to be very cool and somewhat helpful! Please keep on doing more of these! I love the look of the star boy, such a simple yet cool design
As someone who has followed your videos on ksp, studied ksp and lows of physiques and created all sorts of crafts myself in ksp it's fascinating how your content even on topics are still very entertaining and useful. Very slick video indeed. For future content ideas. Can you make a stock simple to understand bush plane. Recently I have looked into creating as small of a bush plane as I could using the small roster engine with rover wheels. It's a small project for one of your videos, something that won't take long, so if you have any spare time I would love and appreciate seeing a VAOS tutorial on bush planes and future builds/tutorials. If you see my comments thank you for reading it. Have a good day, space cult forever brother 👏
It's nice to see the return of Star Boy! I copied the original after watching your original Simple Cargo SSTO video, though for my game it has grown quite a bit into my enormous CargoMax series. Absolute workhorse of my game, built my space station and first interplanetary ship, and I even have a science variant with its own lander and lab. Thanks for making your SSTO tutorials, they're super helpful!
1:45 additional auto strut advice: When you place your root part you should set its auto strut to heaviest. When you attach parts to the root those parts auto strut should be set to root. Next up is your moving parts like ailerons, wheels, landing gear, thrusters, these should all have it set to Heaviest. And finally literally everything else should be attached to the grandparent part. I hope that clarifies how auto strut works
i suspect the amount of drag an occupied node generates depends on the size difference of a connected node. a 1.25m nose cone would create the least, more with the 0.625m, and the most without any.
I found your channel a few weeks ago and I freaking love it, you're entertaining dude. Can you design a SSTO with like everything on it or as much as you fit, I'd love to see that. And thanks for inspiring me to get back into KSP, I have 3k hrs and learned so much more from you.
I love the tutorials on your channel. On my game I now have three different classes of ssto. Before I found your channel, I couldn't make a single spaceplane
Sorry to resurrect this but I had so free time this evening and decided to build this, exactly! and it works! Straight out of the box. Yay! Of courss seer it does. Well I didn’t add the reaction wheels but it doesn’t need them. However, the aircraft wanders down the runway like it’s drunk very hard to keep it going in a straight line. And every thing in the cargo has drag and yes I checked, the doors were closed. gremlins? Kraken? Bath tub gin in The cockpit?
nah just ksp being ksp. the wondering problem is wheel traction. make wheel traction highest in the back and medium high in front. And the drag is coming from the cargo part itself while the stuff in it is considered “stowed away” and has no drag. I could make a whole video on why the cargo bays in KSP make so much drag but I definitely don’t have time to type it out here. All in all, just normal game play physics.
To space with it, the best ship! thanks to you my endless work for ssto is done it's beautiful and perfect. Spent days dangling not knowing how an ssto should be. Keep it up i love this!! now my girl would never anymore feel bad of seeing my failures! beautiful!
8:58 you need to disable symmetry mode when attaching landing gear like that. There's now 2 gear right there. Check the part count and see for yourself
When you said you said you could hold down the alt key to snap it on, my mind was blown, the number of times I've had to make a workaround to do that...
Another great video! Would you be interested in building an Eve SSTO in a future videos? Maybe add the challenge of 16 passengers or a large full tank for cargo?
@@vaos3712But very wanted! I would love a tutorial/what you did to make it work! Also what is the best amount of nuclear engines/ton for a interplanetary ssto?
Vaos why not add an APU (a wheezly with thrust turned down so it only generates electricity) to the third fuel tank on the tail? That's where most passenger airplanes have there APU's anyways...
I play other games. Sometimes I stop playing games altogether. I’ll watch other KSP players or si-fy videos on youtube and think how I could make that craft way better or be inspired by it. Then I’m re-inspired to play KSP again.
Halfway thru the vid and even I leaned a few pro tips lol. I didn’t know about the alt key being able to get rid of radial attachment, console player so….. but I also never thought of a re-entry probe core. Excellent.
I don't know how or why, but every time I test one of your ssto builts there is a buttone of drag on my plane. And I follow your steps to the letter. Teach me sir how to limit the drag
It doesn't care that the wing's trailing edge is the same profile as the leading edge? Doth mine eyes deceive me? There's a section of backward wing inside a frontward wing, is there not? I don't have this game, I don't know how it thinks.
@@joek81981 in most cases the wing lift and drag are calculated by 3 axis on a preprogrammed set of values. what the wing looks like doesn’t matter in most cases.
I mean, I just got this thing to LKO with 1500 DeltaV...A refuel and I can get to Laythe... P.S. Admittedly, with 2 extra Rapiers and a little massaging... That cargo ramp hides a couple of Aerospikes or NERVs, quite nicely.
Adding the nosecone makes the rapier look like it's aerospike derived. Very cool
5:32 YOU CAN MAKE IT SNAP TO NODES WITH THE ALT KEY?????????? I HAVE SPENT A RIDICULOUSLY LONG TIME IN TOTAL PLACING MY CAMERA IN STRANGE ORIENTATIONS JUST TO GET A NODE ATTATCHMENT AND I COULD HAVE JUST HELD DOWN ALT????? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Dunno how I went years of watching KSP before discovering your channel. Showing some tricks that I haven't seen elsewhere until now like the rapier nosecones and reentry probe. Curious if you'll do any new "Build it with me" videos for a workhorse lander design for most planetary bodies and/or interplanetary hauler? But primarily commenting for the metrics
Workhorse Lander Design? Maybe. It depends on if I have time. Some projects are easier then others.
This particular episode has so many hard-earned lessons packed into an itty-bitty nutshell it's like a gold mine.
Even as a somewhat experienced KSP player, I still found this build-along to be very cool and somewhat helpful! Please keep on doing more of these! I love the look of the star boy, such a simple yet cool design
this is the best SSTO tutorial i have seen yet, you actually talk about what you are doing and why, i LOVE it!
As someone who has followed your videos on ksp, studied ksp and lows of physiques and created all sorts of crafts myself in ksp it's fascinating how your content even on topics are still very entertaining and useful. Very slick video indeed. For future content ideas. Can you make a stock simple to understand bush plane. Recently I have looked into creating as small of a bush plane as I could using the small roster engine with rover wheels. It's a small project for one of your videos, something that won't take long, so if you have any spare time I would love and appreciate seeing a VAOS tutorial on bush planes and future builds/tutorials. If you see my comments thank you for reading it. Have a good day, space cult forever brother 👏
It's nice to see the return of Star Boy! I copied the original after watching your original Simple Cargo SSTO video, though for my game it has grown quite a bit into my enormous CargoMax series. Absolute workhorse of my game, built my space station and first interplanetary ship, and I even have a science variant with its own lander and lab. Thanks for making your SSTO tutorials, they're super helpful!
1:45 additional auto strut advice:
When you place your root part you should set its auto strut to heaviest.
When you attach parts to the root those parts auto strut should be set to root.
Next up is your moving parts like ailerons, wheels, landing gear, thrusters, these should all have it set to Heaviest.
And finally literally everything else should be attached to the grandparent part. I hope that clarifies how auto strut works
A really good video for a simple SSTO. As ever, you’re a great designer who is seriously underrated on TH-cam :-)
i suspect the amount of drag an occupied node generates depends on the size difference of a connected node. a 1.25m nose cone would create the least, more with the 0.625m, and the most without any.
I found your channel a few weeks ago and I freaking love it, you're entertaining dude. Can you design a SSTO with like everything on it or as much as you fit, I'd love to see that. And thanks for inspiring me to get back into KSP, I have 3k hrs and learned so much more from you.
I love the tutorials on your channel. On my game I now have three different classes of ssto. Before I found your channel, I couldn't make a single spaceplane
Wow. I just started KSP and found your channel. You are a legend. You know so much and you communicate that knowledge so well. Thank you!!❤🎉
Sorry to resurrect this but I had so free time this evening and decided to build this, exactly! and it works! Straight out of the box. Yay! Of courss seer it does. Well I didn’t add the reaction wheels but it doesn’t need them.
However, the aircraft wanders down the runway like it’s drunk very hard to keep it going in a straight line. And every thing in the cargo has drag and yes I checked, the doors were closed.
gremlins? Kraken? Bath tub gin in The cockpit?
nah just ksp being ksp. the wondering problem is wheel traction. make wheel traction highest in the back and medium high in front. And the drag is coming from the cargo part itself while the stuff in it is considered “stowed away” and has no drag. I could make a whole video on why the cargo bays in KSP make so much drag but I definitely don’t have time to type it out here. All in all, just normal game play physics.
@@vaos3712 yes! Of course that was right. It’s like I did a major brain dump when I started a new career mode. I’m getting old. Thanks for the help.
As the crowd chanted “SSTO- SSTO…” the x was born
WOAH, I did not know about that dry COM feature of RCS Build Aid!!
C@m 😂😂😂
I don't know why, but you saying the exact title of the parts was funny when placing them was kinda funny ^^
I rebuilt this design, and god damn it works like a charm! Great work!
To space with it, the best ship! thanks to you my endless work for ssto is done it's beautiful and perfect. Spent days dangling not knowing how an ssto should be. Keep it up i love this!! now my girl would never anymore feel bad of seeing my failures! beautiful!
8:58 you need to disable symmetry mode when attaching landing gear like that. There's now 2 gear right there. Check the part count and see for yourself
bottom left shows symmetry of one . sooooo…. 🤷♂️
@@vaos3712 hm. Maybe it's a mod that does that. I don't remember that being a stock feature
9:26 you installed a mod for an utility that already exist in the vanilla game? or you installed it for another function?
That was really cool. I like that build alot
there's a neat setting that you can enable from the pause menu called "ambient light boost". i think it would help.
Another good video hope to see more
When you said you said you could hold down the alt key to snap it on, my mind was blown, the number of times I've had to make a workaround to do that...
i was WAITNG for this video
wow i never seen that nose cone on the back of the engine before
5:35 I HAVE BEEN PLAYING THIS GAME WRONG FOR YEARS....
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
Your re-entry prob system is so smart
Another great video!
Would you be interested in building an Eve SSTO in a future videos? Maybe add the challenge of 16 passengers or a large full tank for cargo?
That would be a long project.
@@vaos3712But very wanted! I would love a tutorial/what you did to make it work!
Also what is the best amount of nuclear engines/ton for a interplanetary ssto?
yeah that new parts manager in KSP 2 needs changing.
adding the "demonic " nosecone
can you build an external tank ring station with that SSTO. you couldf just launch a one or two tanks and cheat the assembled items into orbit.
16:10 you think the devs of KSP2 will listen to us about their UI design?
I would say, … no 😐
you should be a rocket scientist
Vaos why not add an APU (a wheezly with thrust turned down so it only generates electricity) to the third fuel tank on the tail?
That's where most passenger airplanes have there APU's anyways...
Hmm 🤔
It can't be, IT WAS 5 MINS AGO!?!😂
There is a question though, that i havent gotten an answer to: How to cope with KSP burnout (it has been 6 months since i touched KSP)?
I play other games. Sometimes I stop playing games altogether. I’ll watch other KSP players or si-fy videos on youtube and think how I could make that craft way better or be inspired by it.
Then I’m re-inspired to play KSP again.
That’s crazy
I always build my planes with empty tanks so I can see CoM. I wish Xbox supported mods, that RCS one seems useful
Halfway thru the vid and even I leaned a few pro tips lol. I didn’t know about the alt key being able to get rid of radial attachment, console player so….. but I also never thought of a re-entry probe core. Excellent.
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Build a BOEING S-1C Winged Booster, BUT just lengthen it to convert it into a SSTO! 😱😁👍👍🇺🇲
Would disabling the control surfaces during reentry help with the shakiness at all?
I love you videos and can you see if you can make a small version of the space shuttle
i tried to follow this to a tee, but i have no lift, and the nose constantly dips downwards even after 500 m/s
Wait so you tell me you’re not supposed to land at 100 m/s 22:42 22:10
what mods do you use for the shaders?
I don't know how or why, but every time I test one of your ssto builts there is a buttone of drag on my plane. And I follow your steps to the letter. Teach me sir how to limit the drag
It doesn't care that the wing's trailing edge is the same profile as the leading edge? Doth mine eyes deceive me? There's a section of backward wing inside a frontward wing, is there not? I don't have this game, I don't know how it thinks.
@@joek81981 in most cases the wing lift and drag are calculated by 3 axis on a preprogrammed set of values. what the wing looks like doesn’t matter in most cases.
i couldn't replicate it. Could you give us craft file
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I highly recommend watching this on 2x playback speed.
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Why?
Because yes
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Word of advice: Don't use the MK3 cargo ramp on SSTOs. It produces unnecessary drag.
I mean, I just got this thing to LKO with 1500 DeltaV...A refuel and I can get to Laythe...
P.S. Admittedly, with 2 extra Rapiers and a little massaging...
That cargo ramp hides a couple of Aerospikes or NERVs, quite nicely.
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I can never make anything out of the MK 3 part's, I just think it looks so ugly and nothing I make looks good.
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Ew, no! 😂
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I turn around and bend over in your general direction! 😱😝🤪🤣👍👍🇺🇲