Any chance you would do a paid commission?

I dunno

is there a possibility you'll make an atmo version of this? ^^

The movement animations (like animated gimbal for example) would be basically impossible with AE in mind because there's currently no way to get a grid's position or orientation using animation engine API only

hello, this animation only work with ON/OFF, coudn't be activated by movement, without any interaction or activation ??

Should be fixed now

There's an issue with retractable thruster animations rn on Animation engine side

Do not grind them down or this would crash your game

Mod got merged with my big proplusion systems pack

you did what the devs, getting paid for it did not manage in 8+ years of SE. You are the goat modder. Cheers to you mate.

HOLY COW! Where have you been all my life?

There's a retractable landing gear mod by Killerbee

I've been waiting for this since game launch!! How about a landing gear version?

I'm so gonna make some sort of F-35 like stealth jet with these, Thank You so much.

So these are retractable landing thrusters? In that aspect then they make sense to me. Any plans for larger or different versions?

@humanoid.mp4 Functionally in the context of aerodynamics, this makes sense. Since if SE had aerostatic friction, the fixed parts on the underside and nose of a ship (even the mains on the stern if its the belly taking the heat) the heat created by the friction would damage or destroy the exposed parts and in the case of engines possibly cause a chain reaction in the fuel system that would destroy a ship.

So this adds a solution to that, shield the thrusters. Also as you mentioned earlier these thrusters are intended for landing and breaking, so it makes even more sense to shield them. Because lets face it, how is a ship going to stop if it's main method of deceleration is slagged?

Thank you for adding a touch of realism to the game. This would be a great addition to go along with the friction mod, provided it still works.

Very nice work, thank you!

I'm surprised game has no 'hiding' devices sans doors and pistons. At minimum deployable solar panels would have fit righ in (admitedly trivial to do now with hinges) and landing gears would have won immensely from being somewhat extendable (wheels do).

any chance for some atoms like this??
love the mods so far btw.

Is the breaking power similarly boosted? These would be great as emergency breaking thrusters!

reminds me of the lift thrusters on the Jupiter 2 from lost in space, This is awesome and looks great. Looking forward to any future versions.

Great mod gives other alternative to normal thrusters

Also I’m planning to merge this with a bigger mod which is currently WIP

It's supposed to be a block for landing/takeoff, not for regular flight (otherwise there's almost no reason to turn the block off in the first place) Also it's only 0.8 efficient compared to vanilla thruster which is not that bad in terms of designing your builds. I will not change that because I don't want to.

If you really want to make changes, you can do it yourself and re-upload the mod, I'm ok with that (as long as you put a link to original mod in the description and me as one of the authors)

I'm with Zzzosi on this. Performance changes on an aesthetic block are an instant "no."

The animation does otherwise look quite nice.

Why'd you add the stupid ass thrust/durability/fuel changes instead of just making them a simple, cohesive and even alternative to vanilla/dlc thrusters? There's no trade-off for other aesthetics, yet you've forced 3 performance trade-offs for this?

man now i gotta remake my orbital drop APC for these....amzing build

Hey, could you make an ion thruster version of it?

I added SG version

No worries. Thanks, really lovely design.

Currently there's only large grid version. I might add a SG one eventually too. Also the block is pretty powerful in both vacuum and atmo, so definitely no "atmo" version

Very cool! Love the direction this game is going in! If you get a chance, do you think we could have these in different sizes and in atmo version too? Thanks you. :)

is it possible to give it separate health values when its open vs closed i.e. make it so when not in use the armor value is higher

I love that idea. Is it only one size?

cool

interesting mechanics...

It extends when it is working and retracts when it doesn't

what does it do?