What is this mod?
Variety is the spice of life. BDB doesn't necessarily add new gameplay hooks, new systems to the game, new features. What it does add, are parts. Lots of parts. The mod adds a tremendous number of parts, including launchers, spacecraft parts, and probe parts, all in a stockalike style. The focus lies primarily on the US space program, mostly before Apollo but including several other parts. The parts are not perfect replicas, but rather take inspiration directly from existing designs. Care has been taken to research and include parts for projects that were proposed but never happened, to increase the possibilities available to the player. Parts are made in a lego frame of mind, and I greatly encourage you to mix and match parts to see what cool things you come up with. The mod is not recommended for new players, as the mod adds a good deal of clutter to the VAB lists. The mod also adds new standard sizes (such a 0.9375m, 1.5m and 1.875m diameter) of parts in order to more accurately scale to KSP. Extreme care has been taken to leave the mod with as small a footprint as possible while keeping the graphical fidelity to acceptable levels. The textures are not HD, however they are intended to look as good if not better than stock textures. For example, the entire Titan rocket series (39 parts total) is made using 1x 1024 texture sheet and five 512 texture sheets (1 per fuel tank series, 1 for SRBs and 1 for Transtage). Compared to stock, which generally uses a 1024 texture for a single part, the savings are enormous. I have also held off from making normal maps for parts in order to keep the RAM impact as low as possible. For those familiar with KSP mods, BDB can be considered a stockalike equivalent of FASA, and a US counterpart to Tantares' soviet rockets. Currently, the mod includes (but is not limited to) parts to make:
Mercury capsule
Vanguard rocket with Able and Ablestar upper stages
Redstone rocket
Juno II, IV rockets
Diamant rocket
Thor-Delta rocket
Delta 2 rocket
Atlas 1 rocket
Agena upper stage
Centaur upper stage
Atlas V rocket
Titan 1, 2, 3, 4 rockets, with SRMs and Transtage
New probe cores
New antennas and dishes
New science experiments
Planned content includes massive Saturn rockets including unflown variants, and parts based on proposed projects for Gemini and Apollo.
Version v1.4.2 for Kerbal Space Program 1.4.3
Released on 2018-02-02
- AJ-260 solid boosters\
- Too many bug and balance fixes to count
Version v1.4.1 for Kerbal Space Program 1.3.1
Released on 2018-01-01
-Fixed Saturn S1 issues
-Fixed Titan radial decouplers
-Fixed Titan 2 engine shroud
-Fixed HLR-ZOID radiators
Version v1.4.0 for Kerbal Space Program 1.3.1
Released on 2017-12-23
-Atlas revamp -Centaur revamp -Vega revamp -Saturn 1 revamp -Pioneer 6 -Ion probe parts -ETS Apollo revamp -Spacelab -Venus Flyby parts -probably a lot more stuff -merry effing christmas
Version v1.3.1 for Kerbal Space Program 1.3.1
Released on 2017-10-14
Minor update to fix issues with KSP crashing. Does not include any new/updated parts.
Version v1.3 for Kerbal Space Program 1.3.0
Released on 2017-07-18
-Skylab
-Lunar Orbiter
-New textures for Titan rocket family
-New textures for Mercury
-New textures for Agena
-Agena Materials Bay
-New textures and meshes for Apollo CSM
-New textures for some of the probe parts
-New textures for Diamant
-Probably more stuff I'm forgetting
Version v1.1.5b for Kerbal Space Program 1.2.2
Released on 2017-06-04
Final Ksp 1.2.2 release. New parts: -Sea level J-2 -Mini radial decoupler -Titan 1.875m radial decoupler -Sputnik 3 probe core. -Centaur D3 and D5 tanks.
-Lots of new textures everywhere.
-Moved Prometheus IV single chamber engine to Heavy Rocketry. Adjusted alternator, cost and mass. Changed title to Prometheus-X-350. -MOL lab settings tweaked to generate science faster. Mass and cost adjusted. -OSO experiment mass fixed. -S1E engine mount, SLA heat tolerance increased. -RCS cost balanced. -Balloon and Cryo tanks cost reduced. -All engines cost adjusted. Huge solids now very expensive. -More tags
Version 1.1.0 for Kerbal Space Program 1.2.2
Released on 2017-02-24
1.1 -SAVE BREAKING UPDATE - Backup saves (KSP\saves) and remove any previous version of BDB (KSP\GameData\BlueDog_DB) before installing. -New parts. Apollo Block V and AARDV, Scout rocket, Centaur T stage redone, Vega upper stage, OSO experiment. -Tech tree completely redone. -Lots of testing and adjustments by minepagan, IronCretin and Komodo and probably others. -Far too many bugs fixes, tweaks and graphic improvements to list.
Version v1.0.1 for Kerbal Space Program 1.2.2
Released on 2016-10-13
Added Saturn, Apollo, LEM. Can't be bothered to rewrite the full patch notes in this markup.
Version v0.11 for Kerbal Space Program 1.1.3
Released on 2016-08-06
0.11 (Vaquero!) -Tweakscale support on all compatible parts (hopefully) - Cowboy-WY -Bulkhead profiles corrected everywhere - Cowboy-WY -Heatshields separated from pods -Antenna Range, Community Tech Tree Support, and Science definitions updated - rasta013 -Saturn 1/Saturn IV and H-1 engines -MOL -Gemini reentry issues fixed -Gemini parts renamed to avoid conflict with TRAILS. Totally save breaking! -Numerous cost/mass/balance/description adjustments just about everywhere -Too many bug fixes to list -Part tags getting better
Version v0.10.5a for Kerbal Space Program 1.1.3
Released on 2016-05-17
0.10.5 (Krikkit!) -KSP 1.1 Compatibility -Updated DMagicScienceAnimate -Added TRAILS Gemini parts. -Added Agena docking parts. -Added specular maps to some of the parts -Redid all the antennas -Added several new antennas -Misc fixes -Screw you I hate changelogs
Version v0.10.5 for Kerbal Space Program 1.1.2
Released on 2016-05-17
0.10.5 (Krikkit!) -KSP 1.1 Compatibility -Updated DMagicScienceAnimate -Added TRAILS Gemini parts. -Added Agena docking parts. -Added specular maps to some of the parts -Redid all the antennas -Added several new antennas -Misc fixes -Screw you I hate changelogs
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