Project Aquarius B1 + A-II launch vehicles (5m+ diameter rocket thread)

[ISProgram]

Going to wait a bit before I give out a beta, still working on a few issues. Still working of textures and meshes.

A rather recent development, unfortunately, might be the exclusion of the Verseau and the Aquarius B2, leaving just the Aquarius B1. Verseau would be a future release. Not sure about B2.

 

[ISProgram]

Just necroposted this thread. Great.

Okay, decided to go ahead and continue with this addon, after taking a break from it for a while. One of the factors into the hiatus have to do with textures, want to make them look good. Unfortunately, I'm with textures, so...

Anyhow, preliminary test of the MLP in Orbiter:

Yes, I know its sideways, but I don't always have access to Anim8or, so I have to seize opportunities when they come. When my laptop gets fixed, this should be less of an issue.

I'm rather pleased the poly count wasn't so much, Orbiter was performing as it always does.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Are there any list of all the variants of the rockets you are developing? I may have some use for them as well.

 

[ISProgram]

Are there any list of all the variants of the rockets you are developing? I may have some use for them as well.

Well, there's this...but that isn't entirely accurate anymore.

At the moment, the initial release will only be the Aquarius B1 (the 102, 104, and 124 configurations); subsequent additions in later updates will include the Verseau (or A-II) launch family.

Not entirely sure when the Aquarius B2 will debut, it's still more or less theoretical at the moment, and it's having some feasibility issues (like, the # of upper stage engines).

 

[ISProgram]

Still flight testing:

The more detailed flight models are still in the works. I intend to start work on texture maps soon.

 

[Pipcard]

Did you disable the atmosphere?

 

[ISProgram]

Yes; I did it because I'm also looking into ground station overpass(es), and most importantly, because it reminds me of the ULA launch simulations. :thumbup:

Like this:

 

[Pipcard]

Did you just disable it visually, or are the rockets actually launching from Earth in a vacuum? Because real life ones obviously don't do that.

 

[ISProgram]

I just disabled the clouds visually. If it had actually removed the atmosphere, that would've been very hard NOT to notice. Wouldn't the sky have been pitch-black as seen from the surface?