Ambaryerno
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As I said, it's not so much how I WANT it to perform, but seeing how it WILL. The theory I'm testing is whether or not it's possible for a vessel to steer without traditional RCS thrusters (if you remember my DLL name, you might see where this is going).
In this specific case the craft has four engines and I'm using the torque generated by differential forward and retro thrust from to cause rotation on the pitch and yaw axes (IE, to pitch up, main engines accelerate forward while the upper engines fire in reverse).
I just did my first test. Let's just say four engines rating at 300,000N each worked a little bit TOO well.
I'm going to keep the RCS instead of tying the main/retro thrusts into an attitude control group, and just say that the engines don't accelerate at maximum power in response to the flight controls.
In this specific case the craft has four engines and I'm using the torque generated by differential forward and retro thrust from to cause rotation on the pitch and yaw axes (IE, to pitch up, main engines accelerate forward while the upper engines fire in reverse).
I just did my first test. Let's just say four engines rating at 300,000N each worked a little bit TOO well.
I'm going to keep the RCS instead of tying the main/retro thrusts into an attitude control group, and just say that the engines don't accelerate at maximum power in response to the flight controls.
