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TVSI-Tech XL Thruster [DX11]

Revision: 3a
Direct X: 9 & 11
Date: 15/12/2015
Version: 01.112
Model Sizes: 2,120 kb
Texture Sizes: 1,700 kb


Description

Attempting to bridge the gap between the mass market produced 'large' thruster and the popular after-market Titan Engine, TVSI-Tech Engineers have produced the Prometheus XL Thruster. Made using readily available components and technologies, the XL Thruster provides a deeper engine for larger crafts.


Author Notes

This is the first in what I intend to be a series of 3-4 engines, helping to cover all the size range of craft people are currently producing. The problem currently is that as ships get larger, they can only increase their engine quantity on two axis while the ship itself expands on three. Something the size of a Dreadnought will only have a tiny percentage of its volume dedicated to thrusters no matter how many you stack on the stern.

The other problem is that if a larger ship like a dreadnought COULD dedicate the same percentage of its volume to engines with stock performance, there would be no speed differential between the smallest and largest capital ships. I have thus tried to balance things out as much as possible - as engines get deeper their performance in both thrust-per-block and thrust-per-MW begin to fall. The first ensures that a patrol boat and a dreadnought with the same percentage of their volume dedicated to engines will still have a speed difference in favour of the smaller ship. The second forces the use of more and more power and should hopefully prevent small ships from stacking oversized engines. Don't misunderstand this though - having the Prometheus filling the same area of the stern instead of a large thruster will always result in superior performance by quite some margin.

If you're looking for an outright 'more powerful' engine like many of the ones released so far, this is not it. I'm a big believer when modding that the developers sets the balance for the game and user added parts should perform according to (or indeed even below) that threshold.

In short, this should fit seamlessly into the game world and remain balanced and ‘fair’.

Finally, the re-use of a lot of the stock texturing keeps the file sizes low and the feel true to the original parts.


Details - Large

Size: 3w, 4h, 8d
Colourable: Yes
Available On: Large Ships, Stations
Survival Ready: Yes
Build States: Yes (6!)
Collision Mesh: Yes
Correct Mirroring: Yes

Thrust (Manual Firing): 14,400,000 N
Power Usage (Manual Firing): 144 MW
Thrust Per Block: 150,000 N (Compared to 150,000 Stock)
Power Used Per Block: 1500 W (Compared to 1500 Stock)
1W Power Provides: 100 N Thrust (Compared to 100 Stock)

Planetary Performance: Inline with Stock Ion Thrusters

Current Functionality: Thruster
Future Functionality: Considered Complete


Details - Small

Size: 3w, 4h, 8d
Colourable: Yes
Available On: Small Ships
Survival Ready: Yes
Build States: Yes
Collision Mesh: Yes
Correct Mirroring: Yes

Thrust (Manual Firing): 576,000 N
Power Usage (Manual Firing): 9.6 MW
Thrust Per Block: 6,000 N (Compared to 6,00 Stock)
Power Used Per Block: 100 W (Compared to 100 Stock)
1W Power Provides: 60 N Thrust (Compared to 60 Stock)

Planetary Performance: Inline with Stock Ion Thrusters

Current Functionality: Thruster
Future Functionality: Considered Complete


Current Content

TVSI-Tech XL Thruster 'Prometheus' Large/Small


Planned Content

Add-on functionality.


Licencing

Provided with no stipulations for personal use; may be used freely for workshop entries, private/public servers and competition entries. It is polite but not required to have a mod listing for workshop submissions.

May be freely redistributed without prior permission via steam collections and also through custom mod re-packs (credit and link required on workshop item).

May not be redistributed with any changes except flame effects. This include renaming the part(s) or changing the performance.


Version History

15/12/2015: Rev 3a: Added atmospheric performance and power usage groups.
15/08/2015: Rev 3: Updated performance to be inline with patch 01.095 stock changes.
04/07/2015: Rev 2: DX11 Compatibility and Re-texturing.
06/02/2015: Rev 1a: Added Flame Damage Effects.
29/12/2014: Rev 1: Added small ship version. Added colission mesh to both sizes. Larger idle flame to fill nozel.
07/12/2014: Rev 0: Initial Release.


Credits

All work by Tristavius.
Much of the texturing by Keen Software House (re-use of parts of the stock textures). Additional texturing elements from licence-free stock sources.