Abonner for at downloade
Realistic Space Suits

UPDATED to support Europa DLC.

A simple mod to make the Take On Mars spacesuits reflect real spacesuit capabilities a bit more closely.

The heavy suit has its life support duration extended to 8.5 hours. The low oxygen caution is set to 30 minutes, with the low oxygen warning set at 10 minutes remaining supply. This is intended to replicate the Shuttle / ISS era Enhanced Extravehicular Mobility Unit, which has an 8 hour primary life support system with a backup system rated for 30 minutes.

The medium suit has its life support duration extended to 4.25 hours. The low oxygen caution is set to 15 minutes, with the low oxygen warning set at 5 minutes remaining supply. I have not based this on a real spacesuit, but the suit seems about half as bulky as the heavy suit, so I gave it half the life support capability. Considering that this seems to be a suit which is custom-designed for Mars surface operations and which is intended to enable EVAs independent of the MDV or MML, having sufficient life support for a full morning's work seems reasonable.

The light suit is unchanged, as this seems to approximate the Modified Advanced Crew Escape Suit (MACES) being considered for the Orion spacecraft, which uses a closed-loop system to preserve resources and is intended to provide the capability for limited-capacity EVAs in addition to providing life support for an emergency bail-out.

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Updated for compatibility with the Europa update.

Europa Suit - oxygen capacity increased to 2.5 hours supply, with low-oxygen caution set at 30 minutes and low-oxygen warning set to 10 minutes remaining supply. The logic here was that the PLSS on the Europa suit looks to be about half the size of the Medium Suit and therefore about half the oxygen supply seems reasonable. Additionally, an oxygen supply of less than 2.5 hours is impractical for surface EVAs, as it leave insufficient duration to perform tasks once contingency and safety margins are considered. Radiation shielding reduced to 50% (same as Heavy Suit), as a wearable shield capable of stopping 98% of high-energy particles in a vaccum seems improbable.

Dry Suit - oxygen capacity increased to 5 hours supply, with low-oxygen caution set at 30 minutes and low-oxygen warning set to 10 minutes remaining supply, based on the capabilities of a modern civilian electronic closed-circuit rebreather.

I hope that you like this mod, I'd be grateful for any suggestions for improvement.