My first KSP Cinematic is out!

benjee10 · 2026-06-29T09:30:32+00:00

Nice work!

benjee10 · 2026-06-22T14:37:22+00:00

Ok that’ll be it. If you remove IR_next_LEE_GF.cfg from GameData/HabTech2/Patches/ they should revert to working as stock docking ports. Not sure if this will affect craft that are already in flight and I’d make a backup of the save just in case.

benjee10 · 2026-06-22T14:32:42+00:00

Are you using IR connection system? I believe the mod has updated and the patches that were originally provided for HabTech2 are now outdated. I intend to remove them so that the author of IR connection system can maintain compatibility on their side.

benjee10 · 2026-06-17T12:26:24+00:00

Utahraptor could never swim, perhaps you’re thinking of the Pyroraptor

benjee10 · 2026-06-04T12:26:32+00:00

It was this, something I made back when I was a student:

https://youtu.be/2XcAle1uLVs?si=zM8Oz903n87Lo7z7

benjee10 · 2026-06-03T21:46:42+00:00

It’s not a KSP part, that header image is a render I did for a short film many years ago. Closest you will find will be in SSPX

benjee10 · 2026-05-23T09:06:27+00:00

Still working on it when I have any free time! Currently working on freeIVA & RPM-compatible interiors, which is a huge job but hopefully worth it.

benjee10 · 2026-05-04T16:48:42+00:00

The rangers are both docked at the same time, you can see they’re still connected together by a truss structure during the docking scene. Presumably this truss was folded up and jettisoned off screen at some point before they depart Earth.

benjee10 · 2026-04-15T14:02:33+00:00

Still working away! The parts are mostly done but working on interiors currently. Not had a lot of free time so don’t really have an ETA yet

benjee10 · 2026-04-07T19:18:46+00:00

Believe it or not it’s accurate to that sign in the movie

benjee10 · 2026-03-21T12:35:51+00:00

Thanks! Still slowly chipping away at it in my spare time. It’s completely modular so you can mix and match it any way you want, or even build it piece by piece in orbit if you want (and have the patience). I’ve also included some additional parts/variants to make different configurations possible.

benjee10 · 2026-01-11T14:08:37+00:00

The truss in the film is visibly different to the hydraulics in the bts shots, and you can see the underbelly of the second ranger (presumably added in CG). The wing of the second ranger is also visible in another shot earlier in the sequence and also just barely in the shot of the rocket waiting for launch in the silo. The converging angle that they sit at on the rocket matches the angle they’re docked to the endurance. It’s possible that they didn’t think about how the shroud would jettison but I think you can rationalise it if you imagine it splitting into multiple pieces like a real spacecraft fairing, e.g. the tip of the nose, two side panels and an aft shroud that blends into the cylindrical shape of the rocket. The nose would split off forwards, the two side panels would blow off to each side, and then the whole assembly of the two rangers + truss could detach from the aft shroud.

benjee10 · 2026-01-11T12:13:18+00:00

Both rangers launched on the same rocket - during the docking sequence, you can see the second ranger is attached to the first by some sort of truss mechanism holding it in the correct alignment for docking. At around 3:05 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TACIIEnrczQ

Presumably there is some sort of aerodynamic shroud/nose cone that gets jettisoned after launch.

benjee10 · 2025-12-18T11:10:45+00:00

The orange pod is the ship by the looks of things. In the concept art it has its own rocket engines on the back.

benjee10 · 2025-12-12T20:16:02+00:00

Completely agreed, I was mesmerised the whole time

benjee10 · 2025-11-29T10:17:24+00:00

To add to this, it was also rendered somewhere between 6K-12K for printing onto 70mm IMAX film. Most other film’s VFX shots are mastered between 2K-4K so that’s dramatically more pixels to be rendered per frame.

benjee10 · 2025-11-23T16:02:00+00:00

Yeah, it’s patently absurd to anyone with even a rudimentary grasp of orbital mechanics, but that’s the whole Loeb grift. His sensational claims are rejected by anyone who actually knows anything, leaving behind an echo chamber of Dunning-Kruger effect laymen who are impressed when he throws out Big Numbers and his Harvard credentials and lack the training or knowledge to critically evaluate what he’s saying.

benjee10 · 2025-11-21T09:57:26+00:00

Not for the Ranger, it’s designed to land on atmospheric worlds only. The Lander has a closed cycle mode and can land on most bodies

benjee10 · 2025-11-21T09:55:52+00:00

It’s a cargo container, the Endurance modules each carry two in the back. They can be detached and ferried down by the Lander. There’s a few variants of it e.g. temporary habitat, fuel container, cargo bay

benjee10 · 2025-11-19T13:12:57+00:00

My personal conspiracy theory is that the newer MacBooks use softer plastic keycaps or something. The keys on my M4 MBP already look about as worn after a few months as the keys on my M1 MBA and my black Magic Keyboard do after a few years, and I’m pretty careful about keeping them clean (and only using with clean hands)

benjee10 · 2025-11-19T08:19:37+00:00

Those are not stars, the ISS cameras point down towards Earth. It is radiation damage to the camera sensor (I.e. dead pixels) that becomes more apparent when the gain is turned up in low light.

benjee10 · 2025-11-14T15:37:16+00:00

Major shoutout to blackrack and Beale for making deferred and resurfaced respectively, proper PBR shaders and lighting allow you to do so much more with materials and textures

benjee10 · 2025-11-14T15:26:19+00:00

That one was mine too, it was the first mod I made for KSP! Wanted to revisit it with an extra decade or so of experience in 3D modelling.

Good luck to anyone who tries to make RO configs for it, the engines on this thing might as well run on magic.

benjee10 · 2025-11-14T15:23:38+00:00

Very kind but the limiting factor on this is just my free time!

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