SpaceY Heavy Lifters Parts Pack

SpaceY Heavy-Lifter Parts Pack

Cooperates with other mods:

• TweakScale
• FAR / NEAR
• AVC (Add-on Version Checker)
• Engine Ignitor
• Community Tech Tree
• HotRockets!
• Connected Living Space
• DefaultActionGroups (enables automatic toggling of SAS light on radial reaction wheels)

Part of the NecroBones suite of mods, that work nicely together:

• Modular Rocket Systems (stock-alike parts pack, NASA-like alternatives, and filling the gaps)
• SpaceY Heavy Lifters Parts Pack (stock-balanced large rocket parts, 5m parts, large SRBs)
• Color Coded Canisters (replacement models/textures for stock fuel tanks: prettier, cleaner, and diameter color-coding for the tank end-caps)
• Fuel Tanks Plus (collection of large stock-like tanks with Color Coded Canister style)

 Design Goals:

• Maintain a "pretty", but still mostly stock-alike appearance. While KW goes a long way toward realism, we want to have a smaller pack that blends nicely with stock, and other stock-alike packs.
• While extending the stock game, try to maintain a gameplay balance with stock.
• And do so while adding:
  • Another layer of large rocketry, beyond the 3.75m ARM/NASA update that was added in KSP 0.23.5. Specifically, 5m parts.
  • Large SRB options with high thrust and shorter burn times than the NASA/ARM SRB.
  • Large rocketry utilities– Big radial decouplers with thrusters built in, larger sepratron, etc.

SpaceY Lifters is a parts pack that is intended to extend the stock line-up of parts for lifting heavy payloads to orbit, by providing a similar update to the NASA/ARM pack from 0.23.5, in the next size up.

It provides a range of 5m fuel tanks and engines, a fueled 3.75m nose-cone, both "stack" and "radial" decouplers, a fueled size adapter, and a range of powerful SRBs.

The name is a play on "SpaceX" in the real world, but also has the amusing double connotations of being "spacey", and also "Space, why?" — Because it's there!

All of the models and textures were made 100% from scratch, using Blender, Photoshop, and Unity.

Related mods:

OPT Space Plane Parts V2.0 Stock-Like RCS Block Behemoth Aerospace Engineering Large Parts The Maritime Pack RLA Stockalike SpaceY Expanded CONTARES 1.6.3 Spacetackle’s K.I.E Fighter mod for 1.1.3