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Modular fuel tanks and engines, with real fuels and realistic performance.
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Tank thermals by type #317

Open Capkirk123 opened 1 year ago

Capkirk123 commented 1 year ago

I'm not entirely sure which mod this would belong under, but as discussed on Discord, being able to set tank thermals by tank config would allow more realistic thermals on steel vs aluminum tanks, as well as allowing some meaningful variation in the shielded tank type and the potential for suborbital-rated tank types.

Starwaster commented 1 year ago

If I understand the question correctly, this is already a thing.

look at the configs for LOX tanks vs LH2 tanks. LOX are steel. LH2 are aluminum. That is reflected in conductivity and thickness. If those are set correctly then conduction will be calculated correctly, taking into consideration the necessary abstractions due to this being a game and not a supercomputer simulation.

Caveat: I designed and implemented the system in use post KSP 1.xx but am no longer involved with Real Fuels and can’t guarantee that what I wrote above is current. Indeed there have been a number of changes made (in the past couple of years) which I would never have made that affect tank thermals in a bad way. I created an issue over a year ago addressing that but it has not been answered.

Capkirk123 commented 1 year ago

That is not what I intended, although it would be good to do also. I would like to be able to change the part max temperature based on what tank config is selected