Anyone have a guide for this at all? I seem to be able to just build a rocket big enough to get me just out of the atmosphere, but then I fall back. If I build it with more solid fuel rockets or liquid fuel tanks it seems too heavy to even take off, so I'm not sure how to get more boost out of it and still leave me with plenty of fuel to fly somewhere once out of the atmosphere.
This is my moon lander. I reckon if i stop wasting fuel, i might be able to get back to earth, but I haven't landed with working engine yet so hard to tell.
hopefully those pics with the stage lists you'll be able to work out what is where.
The big engine cluster is first stage, then the small centre engine is second stage, third stage is the mun lander.
Next is some basic stuff to obtain orbit you need to bank the craft all the way over, so its on the line between blue and brown.
with small ships you can do this in the atmosphere when your around 40-50k. and you'll hit an orbit about 70k ish.
However big rockets do not like manoeuvring and like it even less in atmosphere. So on that above design I wait till I'm totally out of atmosphere (still on first stage) you also want to throttle engines down towards end as once your in high atmosphere and burning fuel, it gains speed stupidly fast.
so once you are out the atmosphere and trying to keep sub 1000m/s vertical. You want to bank it all the way over. To meet the Mun, you need to be 270 or 90 heading.
once its banked over press M to go to map view and bring up huds. Bottom middle. once you obtain orbit. throttle all the way back to off.
Next important thing to remeber is when you throttle up and your pointing at the green circle with straight lines, your orbit grows on the opposite side.
keep the throttle on till it just intersects the moons orbit, then throttle off. now its just a matter of hitting time speed and waiting till you and Mun line up. this may take a fair few orbits. Eventually you will get a fairly straight line. at this point stop the time shift. you then need to turn rocket round, till you get the other green circle, one with lines at 120 degress to each other, then throttle up, the green line will eventually shrinkand encircle the moon, you want to keep going untill it actually goes into the Mun.
Throttle back off. wait till you get to about 200,000m height then slowly start throttling back up. Same green circle as last step. then its a matter of trying to not waste fuel and hit the floor at sub 10m/s
I'll relaunch and take pics. or actually is there a free video capture?
you have to pay for fraps..
