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[BFEL]

I just recently downloaded FAR with B9.
This is my first time with FAR, on science mode.
Any tips on building spaceplanes that don't explode magnificently seconds after take-off?
I'm very low in the tech tree (have yet to unlock anything costlier than 90 science points)

For one thing, ALWAYS put the CoL behind CoM. After that, just make something vaguely plane-shaped and you will usually be good.

As for with FAR, the biggest issue it introduces is that you can't go around making super tight turns and such like in stock, at least not at high speeds, else you will either stall or deconstruct, possibly both.

Other thing to worry about with FAR, particularly in relation to rockets is that now kerbals can die from G-forces! (I'm pretty sure that's from FAR, MIGHT be TAC life support though.) So none of those "barrel straight down through the atmosphere at 3000 kps and expect to live when the chute deploys" anymore

[BFEL]

Other things to keep an eye on: put elevators (control surfaces) on the back of your main wings and make them only apply...um...for some reason I can't remember what up/down movement is for planes atm

Then put control surfaces on any tailplane and assign it just yaw, and maybe have some canards or somesuch in charge of roll control.

[BigD145]

As for with FAR, the biggest issue it introduces is that you can't go around making super tight turns and such like in stock, at least not at high speeds, else you will either stall or deconstruct, possibly both.

Yeah, FAR is no fun. Same with DR.

[PTTG??]

You can disable areodynamic failures. I usually do.

I find FAR (rather, it's simpler cousin, NEAR) to be essential to designing real aircraft. It lets you build more realistic aircraft and it rewards you for making them look airplanelike.

[BigD145]

B9 has an official new release, complete with a whole new class of parts. Rejoice.

[miauw62]

B9 has an official new release, complete with a whole new class of parts. Rejoice.

About damn time.

[BigD145]

B9 has an official new release, complete with a whole new class of parts. Rejoice.

About damn time.

It's been mostly functional for the past week or so. Today marked version 5.0.

[miauw62]

I was under the impression that B9 was sort of nonfunctional and required external .dll's which may or may not cause issues for several versions.

[BigD145]

Everything has been internalized with this release. The other big update I forgot about is KAS. The original author is back in the saddle and has a .24.2 release.

[BFEL]

I tried to get the new B9 running and it totally failed just as magnificently as every other time I tried to install B9. Eventually just said fuck it and installed Spaceplane+

Hurray Cmega! Honestly I'm still working on landing my planes on the runway...or anywhere for that matter... for some reason I have issues either turning the thing to the right angle or slowing it down enough that it isn't trying to land at mach speeds... my latest model doesn't want to go ANYWHERE at less then 200 kps so its kinda difficult.

[BigD145]

I tried to get the new B9 running and it totally failed just as magnificently as every other time I tried to install B9. Eventually just said fuck it and installed Spaceplane+

You have to run activetexturemanagement.

[nogoodnames]

I tried to get the new B9 running and it totally failed just as magnificently as every other time I tried to install B9. Eventually just said fuck it and installed Spaceplane+

Get the active memory management mod. The new B9 caused the game to crash after loading for me until I applied it. Probably all the high resolution textures for the many hull variants.

[BFEL]

THATS EXACTLY WHAT I DID.

Still epicfailed.

Even now that "everything" has been internalized B9 is just such a hassle of managing tertiary mods and plugins and miscellaneous junk that its just not worth the bother.

[nogoodnames]

You can delete the huge sci-fi parts if you just want the spaceplane parts. I think they're in their own separate folder. That should clear up about half the memory usage, if that's even what's wrong.

[BigD145]

THATS EXACTLY WHAT I DID.

Still epicfailed.

Even now that "everything" has been internalized B9 is just such a hassle of managing tertiary mods and plugins and miscellaneous junk that its just not worth the bother.

B9 5.0 gives it all to you. You just copy it over. I'm not seeing the issue.