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Water rocket

Postby Kilinich » Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:28 pm

I've try to build water rocket as powerful as it can be, unfortunately it's too weak anyway.
So prototype is only first stage without any improvements.
L to launch.

Stabilization - k-probe and thrust vector adjustment.

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Re: Water rocket

Postby KarateBrot » Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:51 pm

To make it more powerful just spawn one single water droplet on laserhit and turn up attraction until you get your desired power. 1 droplet @ -1.000.000 attraction lifts off the rocket easily.
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Re: Water rocket

Postby Kilinich » Fri Nov 06, 2009 8:12 am

KarateBrot wrote:To make it more powerful just spawn one single water droplet on laserhit and turn up attraction until you get your desired power. 1 droplet @ -1.000.000 attraction lifts off the rocket easily.

Yes, but why water than? I've try to do it with water for good "jet stream" look.
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Re: Water rocket

Postby davidz40 » Fri Nov 06, 2009 10:14 am

I believe that water density can be changed somewhere to get desired thrust.
I always use water because by tuning sph.vaporisetime I can get rid of used water easily.

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here's my non-spawning water rocket.
Limited fuel supply, "jet stream" look (mainly because some water escapes without being accelerated lol) and fairly big thrust. Can be even faster when using strong stabiliser.
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