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Originally Posted by K.M.Knox
Is it possible to have the capsule style nose cones in Rocksim? I have yet to find a custom nose cone tab like the custom fins you can do, I am guessing that is not an option in it. Yet?
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It can be done, with patience, by using sections that can be modeled and attached together. It may also require a bit of "CGI" with the PODS feature, adjusting the location until the appearance is what you want.
Most "capsules" can be modeled using a basic conical transition, or (in the case of a Soyuz) an elliptical or ogive section. Example - A workable complete Soyuz is a composite of three sections, a PPB (ping-pong ball), an elliptical/ogive, and a cylinder. The rest is just goo-gahs and fidly bits.
You can create a library of your own capsules, in a manner similar to the way I created engine mounts and posted them (somewhere) here last year. You can either create them as PODS (easiest), or as SUBASSEMBLIES (more difficult). Using PODS, you just create one master file and keep each capsule as a POD. The advantage of the SUBASSEMBLY is you can save it separately as a complete file.
I know this is not an exhaustive description of how it's done, but it's basically what we do to get any compound shape. RockSim has some restrictive limitations right now, but with practice we've managed to work around most of them.