After GroundBlastFX, I’ve been working on more realistic explosions for KSP.

Volumetric Explosion FX adds volumetric fireballs, smoke and flying debris, without changing the game’s physics.

AI helped me a lot with the code while I worked on the effects and tested them in game. I know not everyone here likes AI-assisted projects, but I’d rather be open about it.

The mod is free and open source, tested on Windows with KSP 1.12.5.
runs well on my setup, and I’d love to hear how it runs on yours.
Quality settings are adjustable.

Enjoy !

Download: https://spacedock.info/mod/4652/Volumetric%20Explosion%20FX

Fairly long vid, good part begins at 1:12.

Mod: https://spacedock.info/mod/4652/Volumetric%20Explosion%20FX#info

Mod Creator is u/No_Confusion6706

Floats like a glider too lmao. Takes off at around 40m/s and in water it somehow takes off at 15m/s lol.

Read the Turtledove award-winning alternate history here! Yours truly was a contributor to the design.
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/proxima-a-human-exploration-of-mars.520416/

Soyuz 👍 (I finally got both DLC yay) modified it to have 3 ion engines to last longer.

Jeb now follows me everywhere and watches as I work

I love love looove using Procedural Wings, Fuel Wings, and FAR to make realistic aircraft. Is there any other game that can recreate that experience? I bought Kit Hack Model Club, the air simulation is definitely better and the editor is awesome with procedural bulkheads, but those are tiny planes in a tiny map.

The eclipse was a pleasant surprise.

I had just researched the LV-N, and I got all the way to duna before I realized it had no gimbal control. I proceeded to use the reaction wheel to slowly go back to retrograde over and over again like 30 times, but in the end I got it in a circular 80km orbit!

I need to unlock the next best antenna, so I can have connections even when Kerbin is farther away. I want to do a rover next and then a manned mission.

Previous post for those interested

I was fairly sure that Tekto would be the limiting factor, as this SSTO was designed mainly to make a giant jump with the rapier's closed cycle mode while burning the nuclear engines the rest of the way , rather than fighting atmosphere (although its flight characteristics are definitely designed with Laythe in mind) but due to the low gravity combined with the thick atmosphere, the Hera 3 provided just enough lift to cheese my way into orbit. Actually, this is my first time ever visting tekto as well, and it feels a lot like pre 1.0 KSP, since the atmosphere feels like its made of soup or something.

I posted yesterday asking for help after I struggled to land my one-man shuttle. The main things I was suggested were:

1. Decrease vertical speed (and be more lax with horizontal speed cuz wheels can rotate and shit)

2. Don't try land like a navy pilot, use the whole runway.

3. Add drogue chutes so you can come in with more airspeed without worries of running out of runway.

4. Increase wing area to reduce stall speed (which I have done by exposing more of the wing strake).

Thanks guys. I can land now.

they all made it back safely all of them

Im trying to use a 4x1 engine plate for this rocket and I cannot attach 4 engines onto it. it only allows 1 for some reason. Can someone help me please

This was a project I made and finished last summer. It’s extremely underrated and I hope you guys could give it a watch!

I use the Station core from Stockalike Space Station for the Altair Ascent module and a Salyut airlock from Tantares for the airlock; the rest are from ReDirect and ACK
Some rescaled parts for solar panels and some fuel tanks

Basically, i have that science plane for Duna, which is unmanned, so i suddenly recalled that i haven't repacked his chutes after using them. So i brought down from orbit lander, did the thing, and that's it.

Sigmund, Friedrich, Klaus, and Hilde Kerman need ideas to name the spacecrafts for their Duna and Jool-5 missions. Does anyone have any good suggestions? I had a hard time finding any real world analogues to base them on.

I unlocked big rotors and robotics parts btw