Kerbal Engineer Redux v1.1.4.8
1.1.4.8, 2018-04-08, KSP 1.4.2 #2110
New RCS Simulation
This update brings in a new simulation for RCS thrusters. This is a full flow simulation, similar to the existing staging simulation that KER does. The RCS sim runs twice (in the VAB, anyway), once before and once after the staging simulation. This provides RCS data for your vessel 'full' and 'empty' for each stage.
The simulation should handle fuels of any type and interact properly with normal engines that consume RCS fuel or RCS thrusters that consume rocket fuel. Only works for parts that implement ModuleRCS. (Are there mod RCS parts that don't?)
Also in this update is some new Rendezvous readouts that expose the stock 'time to closest approach/intercept' and 'separation at closest approach/intercept' values, and I've also gone and added 'relative velocity at encounter' because that's something I'd like to know. For some reason the stock calculation isn't available for encountering a body in the tracking station, vessels work there tho.
I've removed 'time to rendezvous' and 'relative radial velocity' as these were simple Cartesian calculations instead of orbital and were basically always wrong. If anyone would like them added back you can file a petition in my office on the 2nd Tuesday of any month ending in T from 1 to 1:15 PM so long as it's raining.
Full notes (and pictures! below)
- Added 'RCS' toggle to the VAB/SPH build overlay. Shows thrust, isp, min/max twr and min/max deltav for the RCS system at each stage.
- Added 'RCS DeltaV', 'RCS TWR', 'RCS Isp', 'RCS Thrust' to Vessel readouts.
- Removed 'Time to Rendezvous' and 'Relative Radial Velocity' Rendezvous readouts.
- Force xml settings to encode in UTF8, fixes issues on some language platforms.
- Update distributed help strings.