Dragonfly mission to Laythe! - KSP 1.10 

If only there was a crack team of Kerbonauts who could recover the dragonfly...

Top 10 saddest anime deaths. Number 1 : Dragonfly

"Harmlessly crash back on the ground" *Tank falls on a wedding ceremony in some village*

Viewer: Any tips on how to do gravity assists? Matt: *git gud*

To make rotors throttle-able, act as if you were to tie an action group to the rotor motors, then tie them to the action group called “Throttle,” no KAL required! Just make sure one of the two little boxes on the side of the part’s action “tag”(idk what to call it) has ascending lines, not level ones. The other little box should have an arrow, it dictates the direction of rotation. That one’s best figured out by trial and error on the pad.

This video had the perfect timing. Needed something to watch while eating.

When a drone gets stranded beneath the oceans of Laythe, who ya gonna call? The Blunderbirds!

“It’s not really based on anything” Proceeds to make a near exact replica of an Ariane-5

Everyone else: we can’t wait for a movie sequel Me: I want a life on laythe sequel

"I don't know the plural of land masse(s)" -Matt Lowne, 2020

"I didn't watch tutorials, I taught myself. I just played the game". "I've got Scott Manley to thank for my skills in KSP, his tutorials were really helpful".... I may mock you, but I haven't got a leg to stand on; my best accomplishment in KSP is returning a manned craft from Duna. Once.

Gravity: Exists Matt: I can milk you.

Hey Matt, you were woundering how to control the rotors from breaking ground so here's a little tutorial: (works on already launched crafts) In real life the rotation speed RPM of a helicopter and most rotor craft stay the same, while the blade pitch to increase the force or lift generated upwards (or downwards) (yes helicopters can fly upside down). This allows the helicopter or rotorcraft to spin up while landed as the blades remain at a 0 degree angle wich is much safer than the lift being generated being tied to the rotation. To do this in KSP: you can do this in two ways; the first way, and the best way imo (as you can do this on already launched crafts) is to go into key-mappings in settings and find the analogue key-binding. Assign two keys, personally i mapped two analogue keys to numpad-2 & 5. What you do next is enter the action group thingy (witch you now can do in flight now) and click on the blades and assign the blade pitch to your analogue keys. When you have selected it, there will be a arrow pointing north east, you can click the arrow one to make the selected key increase or decrease the blade pitch. Assign all the blades to the two analogue keys you mapped in the settings and make one decrease the pitch and the other increase it. That's it. All you need to do as you fly now is to start the blades at 0, spin the rotors up and then gently tap the mapped analogue key. You can see the angle of the blade by right clicking it (recommended you do this before you spin the rortors and sticky it). In general you don't want the angle more than 15 degrees. This way you can control the lift the rotors are generating by the angle of the pitch and keep a constant vertical speed without pressing any buttons (like spamming the breaks over and over) The other way is to assign the pitch of the blades to a controller where the start of the sequence has the blade pitch at let's say -20* and at the end of the squence +20* and then you could move the slider to get precise control of the blade pitch, however you need a controller alreday on the craft. Sorry it was a bit long and hopefully Matt or anyone who wounders how to make propellers reads this. feel free to ask questions or whatever. Also if you find this really cool, most of what i know comes from YT: "Smarter Every Day", he did a series called "helicopter physics" where he explains all this stuff and more (like a squash plate etc)

"a lot of nice gravity we can milk", lmao it reminds me some meme I can't remember which

Matt seeing tylo: I can milk you...

the ending: **is sad** somewhere in the distance: "on a lowly planet slowly spinning itself to damnation..."

Someone: ...line... My brain: From Kerbin to the Sun

Send the Blunderbirds to rescue the Dragonfly with a clamp-o-tron equipped submarine!

I just landed on laythe for the first time and this guy be making quadcopters bruh

Word: Geyser Matt: Geezer

Takes me back to the Dragonfly replica I made last year, I should totally update it to a 1.10 version!

18:31 yes, there is an action group bound to the throttle, and you can hook up the rotor RPM or torque to those.

Nice Life on laythe is back!

KSP No0b: “Hey, how do I do gravity assists?” Matt: “Idk get good lol”

"Scott Manley rendezvous tutorial" Google: *helpful* *KSP* *related* *video* Bing: *take* *him* *out* *to* *dinner*

Matt: revisits destination Duna Matt a few months later: reboots life on laythe Destination Duna: 😑

The dragon fly went to get milk from laythe but never returned

Make a submarine to save it! Normal: make a submarine attachment that can find its way to it and be carried by it flight mode! Hard: Only the rotors from the original craft can lift them!

When I saw this thumbnail, I was happy. The video is now finished, now I am sad.

Oh nice! It's good to finally see a Dragonfly recreation. You know in order to be accepted, Dragonfly was competing with a mission called CAESER, which was a comet sample return. Perhaps as a challenge, now that the game has comets, you could try and recreate that mission too? ;)

At 0:11 "something similar starting with S"… Such Spectacular Sibilance! XD

Hahaha. "let's see if this will float" followed by "ohh look it's now a submarine"

"Interstellar colonization of Jool's dampest moon" ah yes, interstellar

That ending had me in tears; “Pour little dragonfly that could.”

Your videos are a massive help to someone who only discovered KSP a couple of weeks ago! Great videos mate! I tip my hat to you dear sir ...Top work.... 🍻😁

The genuin concern for the dragonly broke my heart. Rip

There is no more life on Laythe 😢 I need a whhhhhiskey after watching the end of that.

Matt, u can throttle the rotors up and down by going to the action groups menu and binding the rpm to the main throttle. No need to faf around on the kal controller

I am so excited for this new start to life on Laythe. No pressure Matt, but yeah, I'm super keen to see what you have in store for future episodes.

I love this already perfect timing Matt!

22:09 I noticed a Laythe geyser spraying out underwater.

ok

i love your ksp videos! keep up the great work Matt!

Please Matt, I'd love to see at some point in this series a functional submarine sent to Laythe. Perhaps as a rover for an ocean base? I would love to see that submarine have one of the grabbing arms and a compartment bay, and I'd love to see the submarine rescue our adorable dragonfly, please? P.S. Amazing video as always, so glad to see the return of this series! Maybe it'll help teach me how to rescue my, uhh, 7 stranded Kerbals from repeated failed rescue attempts...

Matt, goddamnit, I was not ready for that ending! (T~T)

Amazing! It would be cool build some sort of heavy quad for Eve. Maybe it could be a flying base or a drone?

These videos are a “blast from the past” for me. I used to watch them and this get’s my mind off 2020, as well as anything that reminds me of even 2019, which feels like forever ago.

I am also Ready for the dragonfly mission! So much more info and even the surface features of titan! :D

1:42 Laythe was created as an analog of Io, not Titan, before NovaSilisko left there were plans to make Laythe more Io-like and add a true Titan analog along with a new gas giant analog of saturn

People: everyone has a drone now, this is getting out of hand! NASA: hold my rocket

Your creations really gives us innovative ideas.

I learned most of my KSP prowess from you Matt. Because of your videos I've been able to do missions to all the planetary systems.

future mission idea: save the dragonfly with a submarine and keep it at your future base!

soooo, Blunderbirds mission to rescue the Dragonfly coming when?

this channel is perfect for studying, since i can just look up now and then and not get super distracted

That's very cool! I exited too about the dragonfly mission!😃

Het matt, you can assign the rotoration speed an torque to the throttle action group in the VAB. I always to do when building stock propeller planes and drones.

I turned into an ape after seeing the announcement on discord

Oh no... poor dragonfly!! Great video Matt!

That ending makes me question if Matt has heard of the quicksave option ;) /s Fun video! It's nice to see use of the rotors

You keep saying interstellar... you’re only going interplanetary.... your last name is Lowe, not McConaughey 😂

You always make my day better Matt :)

For rotors what I always do is on action groups the throttle actuation in the robotics area can be selected then click on the rotors and make it to set torque limit and it gives you throttle control

No clickbait about the tragic plot in the title. Missed opportunity to say it 'Dragonfried' at the end. 10/10, love an unpredictable video

wow i cant believe u just uploaded this vid it was the perfect timing i wanted to watch u while i was eating

Since I don't see anyone else mentioning this, that Titan submarine mission Matt was talking about is the "Titan Mare Explorer Mission", designed to be an unmanned submersible that is capable of traversing and analyzing the hydrocarbon-rich oceans of Titan in great detail.

I've actually done my first tylo jool capture recently and will always be doing it from this point on. It makes jool trips so much easier because of the DV you save on the capture

the best update to lathe an asteroid crashes on laythe thus heating the atmosphere evaporating the oceans a bit exposing some more land and giving laythe clouds a big crater and possibly life.the earthquakes gives laythe some quicksand and caves

To tie rotors to an action group, there are Axis action groups. Under there, there are some tabs that say "wheel throttle" and "translate throttle". This ties robotic parts to either the throttle or the translation controls. I've used them before with some of my quadrocopters and it works pretty well

What I did in my quadcopter was, I had the rotors fire up at maximum RPM when I enable RCS, be unpowered (but unlocked) when I turn off RCS and lock when I turn on the breaks. I used the action group tab to bind the deploy angle of the propellor blades to the main throttle. This gave me precise control over how much thrust I was producinf

Nothing better than waking up and watching a new Matt Lowne video

I am SOO GLAD THAT MATT STILL MAKES CONTENT!

I did a similar mission but on a larger scale. Amazing video as always.

Matt, I'm not even sure you need KAL-9000 to throttle the rotors, just use the "throttle" action group and put rotor "torque" into it. Then again, that "throttle" action group may or may not only be available with a KAL-9000 on the ship :-) I don't remember! Great video BTW, I love the original concept, and I really like what you made with it! Also, something tells me there has to be a "fix" for the fairing thing, I can most certainly decouple things inside fairings without staging the fairings themselves here, just did it for transposition & docking of a mini-Apollo lander (yes, inspired by yours! except my margins are so thin, the lander can't re-orbit and I gotta rendezvous the CSM using EVA thrusters hahaha).

Impressive video as always but your fairing building skills are the real mvp

THIS IS WHAT I NEEDED AHH

8:54 Tylo's gravity: exists Matt: I can milk you

If Squad adds clouds into the stock game, then it would also be a good excuse to add scanning equipment to the game. For example, you could send a probe to scan a planet to make a map of said planet, then you could use that to figure out where you can land.

I like how sad movies with millions of dollars put into them can't make me cry, but Matt playing kerbal space program and sinking a drone with hopes that it would float is what makes me cry

This little dragonfly you made is so cute😂

This is one of the best mat lown videos.

22:49 "please, please, please, what ever" well that's a quick change in emotion for sure lol

Matt Lowne today thank to you i managed to capture my first asteroid. You videos do a great deal. Thanks man

In order to have speed controlled by main throttle, you have to go to the action groups, go to the second order, go to main throttle, click on the propellers, and then press control angle, and don’t mess with the propellers at all after. Done your props are controlled by main throttle

Matt Lowne: Builds rockets to reach every planet in KSP. NASA: *Takes Notes*

Hey Matt the probe not detaching is likely because the faring has strut support turned on which supports everything inside of it, you needed to turn it off to have it fall out as intended.

No one: Not a single soul: Preview: LAY THE QUADCOPTER

You can bind the speed of rotors to action groups and you can use main throttle as an action group input. So you can either directly, or through the use of a KAL controller, control any analog signal with throttle or any other axis input in the game.

I’m really happy that ksp challenges are back even if they are unofficial

YES ANOTHER VIDEO YOU WORK IN MEDICAL AND YOU STILL MANAGE TO PUMP OUT THESE VIDS

About rotors: you can use custom axis controls (assigned in the same GUI as custom action groups) to throttle them. But I would not recommend controlling them via motor torque or God forbid changing the RPM of the motor. What I found works most smoothly is assigning one custom axis to blade authority limit (de facto controlling blade angle of attack) and another to motor torque just in case you need a rapid change of altitude. I also usually leave the aerodynamic overlay on to see how my angle of attack on rotor blades affects my lifting power, at least until I get a good hang of the vehicle.

you can bind the Rotor RPM speed to your Shift/Ctrl tsrottle for fine speed controll in your action groups so you dont have to keep using the brake to stop and start the rotors. I've made a laythe elecric plane using one of your designs using the throttle for my rotors.

I would really love if you did like a career mode walkthrough. I feel so lost every time I start over. Love the videos! Thank you for all your hard work!

Fully expecting a Blunderbirds mission to rescue the Dragonfly now.

18:40 I imagine your question has already been answered, but I use the docking controls for rotors. I like to set torque limit to U/D (Reversed or up goes down), RPM to main throttle, and I put rotor deploy toggle on custom group 1, then the blade angle on F/B.

18:30 You can set the rotors' RPM limit on "main throttle" axis group

Matt, the Rotors can be controlled with throttle control if you link the rpm and torque limit to the “main throttle” control in ksp action groups.

Hell yeah. I dont even play KSP, and rarely know whats going on, but im so excited

Yes, you can control angle of attack of the blades with KAL while keeping the rotational speed the same thus easing use of hovering.

Torque control and rotor rpm can be added to throttle control in the button control menu thing in the vab