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benjee10 / HabTech2

ISS-inspired space station parts for KSP.
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Feature request: Robotic truss for realistic ISS assembly #15

Closed JacobB094 closed 5 months ago

JacobB094 commented 6 months ago

An alternate setup that would divide solar truss parts in a realistic way, similar to old HabTech truss. SARJ would be a separate part that would work with either stock robotics or IRNext.

Use of robotics in this role would allow separating the P5/S5 trusses into discrete parts and enabling surface attachment on the P6/S6, thus enabling robotic arms to handle the modules. If the structural parts of the trusses was also provided as a separate part, this would enable building a truss made only of rectangular pieces, in a manner similar to Freedom variant seen in ETS.

JacobB094 commented 5 months ago

Going off the comment on the forum, I think that a whole family of rectangular truss pieces could be composed from bits the solar truss assemblies. This would be of great utility.

benjee10 commented 5 months ago

Not possible unfortunately due to the complexity of the P6/S6 mesh and textures not allowing for it to be separated out easily, and partly down to the original files being lost in a hard drive failure making the entire operation even more complex.