Drew Kerman

Son of a... How'd I not think if this. And I already lost 4 solar panels ascending thru atmo (DREC) when the fairing dropped with an early stage. Now - never again!

much better, thank you!

aaand no. You're still missing closing braces. I can see several just paging down through the file

Me again at T+48s I lose a solar panel due to excessive G-forces. I didn't even really realize it it was so quick. But when I checked a bit later (shown in the video) I saw the status message. Thing is, by that time my G-force had become even greater, yet I didn't lose any more solar panels (except for the fact that I was ascending too flat and slamming through the atmosphere fast enough for DREC to overheat and eventually explode them all. Oops I should have left the fairing on longer...). So I'm guessing it wasn't acceleration that damaged the panels but the fact that I was maneuvering in my gravity turn at the time? Or what? I've already launched this same satellite (communication satellite) using the same launch vehicle, and I didn't lose any solar panels due to G-force although I mostly went straight up to stay over the KSC for maximum comm contact length. For the second satellite I was able to use the first to bounce signal and fly over the horizon on a flatter trajectory - too flat it would seem

w00t! Now I can send someone up with replacement parts to service the two communication satellites I've launched so far that have failed for various reasons, hahah. Always an adventure...

Getting the following in my KSP.log [LOG 04:22:36.556] Load(Model): HullCameraVDS/Parts/Telescope/telescope [ERR 04:22:36.719] Unsupported texture format - needs to be ARGB32, RGBA32, RGB24 or Alpha8 [ERR 04:22:36.728] Unsupported texture format - needs to be ARGB32, RGBA32, RGB24 or Alpha8 [LOG 04:22:42.266] PartLoader: Compiling Part 'HullCameraVDS/Parts/aerocam/part/aerocam' [WRN 04:22:42.280] PartLoader Warning: Variable impactTolerance not found in Part [ERR 04:22:42.282] Cannot find a Module of typename 'HullCamera' [WRN 04:22:42.282] Could not create PartResource of type 'Resolution [LOG 04:22:42.294] PartLoader: Compiling Part 'HullCameraVDS/Parts/aerocam/part/aerocam180' [WRN 04:22:42.309] PartLoader Warning: Variable impactTolerance not found in Part [ERR 04:22:42.310] Cannot find a Module of typename 'HullCamera' [WRN 04:22:42.310] Could not create PartResource of type 'Resolution [LOG 04:22:42.322] PartLoader: Compiling Part 'HullCameraVDS/Parts/hc_booster/part/hc_booster' [WRN 04:22:42.325] PartLoader Warning: Variable impactTolerance not found in Part [ERR 04:22:42.326] Cannot find a Module of typename 'HullCamera' [WRN 04:22:42.326] Could not create PartResource of type 'Resolution [ERR 04:22:42.327] Cannot find a Module of typename 'HullCamera' [WRN 04:22:42.327] Could not create PartResource of type 'Resolution [LOG 04:22:42.332] PartLoader: Compiling Part 'HullCameraVDS/Parts/hc_launchcam/part/hc_launchcam' [WRN 04:22:42.335] PartLoader Warning: Variable impactTolerance not found in Part [ERR 04:22:42.336] Cannot find a Module of typename 'HullCamera' [WRN 04:22:42.336] Could not create PartResource of type 'Resolution [LOG 04:22:42.371] PartLoader: Compiling Part 'HullCameraVDS/Parts/hc_navcam/part/hc_navcam' [WRN 04:22:42.385] PartLoader Warning: Variable impactTolerance not found in Part [ERR 04:22:42.387] Cannot find a Module of typename 'HullCamera' [WRN 04:22:42.387] Could not create PartResource of type 'Resolution [LOG 04:22:42.393] PartLoader: Compiling Part 'HullCameraVDS/Parts/hc_scicam/part/hc_scicam' [WRN 04:22:42.397] PartLoader Warning: Variable impactTolerance not found in Part [ERR 04:22:42.398] Cannot find a Module of typename 'HullCamera' [WRN 04:22:42.398] Could not create PartResource of type 'Resolution [LOG 04:22:42.403] PartLoader: Compiling Part 'HullCameraVDS/Parts/hullcam_hubbazoot/part/mumech_hullcam' [WRN 04:22:42.408] PartLoader Warning: Variable impactTolerance not found in Strut [ERR 04:22:42.410] Cannot find a Module of typename 'HullCamera' [WRN 04:22:42.410] Could not create PartResource of type 'Resolution [LOG 04:22:42.413] PartLoader: Compiling Part 'HullCameraVDS/Parts/MSIKerbPro/part/kerbpro' [WRN 04:22:42.421] PartLoader Warning: Variable impactTolerance not found in Part [ERR 04:22:42.422] Cannot find a Module of typename 'HullCamera' [WRN 04:22:42.422] Could not create PartResource of type 'Resolution [LOG 04:22:42.439] PartLoader: Compiling Part 'HullCameraVDS/Parts/Telescope/part/Telescope' [WRN 04:22:42.442] PartLoader Warning: Variable impactTolerance not found in Strut [ERR 04:22:42.443] Cannot find a Module of typename 'HullCamera' [WRN 04:22:42.443] Could not create PartResource of type 'Resolution [ERR 04:22:42.443] Cannot find a Module of typename 'BOSS' [LOG 04:22:42.447] PartLoader: Compiling Part 'HullCameraVDS/Parts/TelescopeLarge/part/Pictozoom 2000' [WRN 04:22:42.465] PartLoader Warning: Variable Ki not found in CommandPod [ERR 04:22:42.468] Cannot find a Module of typename 'BOSS' [ERR 04:22:42.468] Cannot find a Module of typename 'HullCamera' [WRN 04:22:42.468] Could not create PartResource of type 'Resolution

Oops. I honestly thought G-force breakage was a stock thing. Well, I'll head over to the DREC thread then...

oh wait, I had a hunch after I noticed the AEIS strut and the heatshield were both at the top of the file. I suspected a missing brace and yea - every entry starting at the B9 RCS is missing the closing brace for the @PART definition

I only found one entry in the KSP.log: [LOG 04:04:07.564] [ModuleManager] Applying node KAS/A_Mechanic_Is_Jeb/@PART[1.25_Heatshield] to DeadlyReentry/Parts/deadlyReentry_1.25Heatshield/part/1.25_Heatshield however I'm looking to grab an AIES solar panel that is loaded into the game: [LOG 04:04:30.150] Load(Texture): AIES_Aerospace/Electrical/AIESsolarpanelES1/model000 [LOG 04:05:42.473] Load(Model): AIES_Aerospace/Electrical/AIESsolarpanelES1/model [LOG 04:05:49.682] Config(PART) AIES_Aerospace/Electrical/AIESsolarpanelES1/part/solarpaneles1 [LOG 04:05:49.777] PartLoader: Compiling Part 'AIES_Aerospace/Electrical/AIESsolarpanelES1/part/solarpaneles1' it's in your parts file: @PART[solarpaneles1] { MODULE { name = KASModuleGrab evaPartPos = (0.0, 0.0, -0.15) evaPartDir = (0,0,-1) storable = True storedSize = 10 attachOnPart = True attachOnEva = False attachOnStatic = False } and Science Revisited seems to find it ok (albeit through a different means): [LOG 04:04:07.709] [ModuleManager] Applying node Robau/ScienceRevisited_SolarPanels/@PART [*]:HAS[@MODULE[ModuleDeployableSolarPanel]] to AIES_Aerospace/Electrical/AIESsolarpanelES1/part/solarpaneles1 So what's up with that? I have several more parts that should be config'd through A Mechanic Is Jeb loaded as well, and yet for some reason only the heatshield gets treated

at T+48s I lose a solar panel due to excessive G-forces. I didn't even really realize it it was so quick. But when I checked a bit later (shown in the video) I saw the status message. Thing is, by that time my G-force had become even greater, yet I didn't lose any more solar panels (except for the fact that I was ascending too flat and slamming through the atmosphere fast enough for DREC to overheat and eventually explode them all. Oops I should have left the fairing on longer...). So I'm guessing it wasn't acceleration that damaged the panels but the fact that I was maneuvering in my gravity turn at the time? Or what? I've already launched this same satellite (communication satellite) using the same launch vehicle, and I didn't lose any solar panels due to G-force although I mostly went straight up to stay over the KSC for maximum comm contact length. For the second satellite I was able to use the first to bounce signal and fly over the horizon on a flatter trajectory - too flat it would seem

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When this window is open, and you click a craft with Resource Details installed, the craft resource window gets screwed up until Time Control window is closed. Dunno whose fault it is, posting it here and there

Time Control does something screwy to the resources window when it is opened in the Tracking station. Dunno whose fault it is. Posting here and over there.

Win7 x64 FTW I guess...

yea I guess it is. I enabled texture compression and it loaded okay. Then I disabled compression and removed HD clouds for some more overhead and it still loaded okay (at around 3.2GB). I've played the game and watched the memory creep up towards 4GB (I have a leak somewhere I've been too busy to trace) and not crash until the VAS showed over 4GB so I wasn't expecting it to crash with less than 4GB (without compression the game loads up around 3.5GB). Maybe there's some kind of allocation spike at load or something. Could there be a setting for how much to compress? I'd like to compress as little as possible to load the game. Unless it's felt that the differences wouldn't be noticeable. I currently run with everything maxxed out as I have a tweaked low-memory GameData folder to use while flying missions.

It's installed via Steam but I have a Steam folder on a non-system drive (D:/)

any kind of meetups, formal or informal, are great to do at GDC. Even if only a handful of people show up. I would skip a session to be there (can watch it later anyways ). If it's out in public and the day is nice might as well be the Yerba Buena Gardens at Moscone.

Won't always work. There aren't a lot of people who will change the number of posts per page in their settings (like me), but those that do won't see it at the top.

wait, no - something is definitely making FF eat my save file and it's not from the game crashing. Here is my file: 556218.759999999 L+ Jebediah Kerman 556348.339999998 L1:Kerbin Jebediah Kerman 556858.179999998 M+ Jebediah Kerman 927016.878466794 L+ Bill Kerman 927208.638466794 L:Kerbin Bill Kerman 927440.518466795 M+ Bill Kerman 1328415.51526428 L+ Bob Kerman 1328795.91526429 W Bob Kerman 1328854.53526429 M+ Bob Kerman 4018129.40025657 L+ Jebediah Kerman 4018335.1802566 S1 Jebediah Kerman 4018468.54025662 O1:Kerbin Jebediah Kerman 4019204.96025677 E1:Kerbin Jebediah Kerman 4026109.17999999 M+ Jebediah Kerman 4201729.14374447 X+1 Inter Sidera~"Among the Stars" - A commemorative ribbon for fallen kerbonauts 4201729.14374447 X1 Jebediah Kerman 6170000.50081137 L+ Bill Kerman 6170549.80081188 O:Kerbin Bill Kerman 6170896.2408122 E:Kerbin Bill Kerman 6177510.83027261 M+ Bill Kerman Here are the steps to recreate: Run game Open save Check FF in Space Center and see it has no records Exit to menu Re-name backup file that isn't 0 bytes. Delete the rest Re-open the save Check FF in Space Center and see it now has records Exit to menu Exit to game from menu Delete backup files Run game Open save Check FF in Space Center and see it has no records. Again

yea, it's under where I keep my Toolbar for me

excellent, thanks

Here they are, thanks. Actually, since switching back to the default skybox I've found it looks pretty nice as the Distant Objects mod dims the brightness a lot

I used Paint.NET and resized the images to 2048 and saved - but when I try to use them the game crashes as it attempts to load into the main screen. This isn't a memory issue - I monitor my RAM/VAS usage and it was only around 3.1GB when loading into the main menu

ok the game is nuking the FF save file when the game crashes. So that's my fault. There's a memory leak somewhere and I'm too lazy to track it down so I just keep an eye on the VAS usage, quicksave when it gets too high and let the game crash after a while. In regards to the saves, check out this: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/71883-Plugin-Persistent-file-backup-generator His mod auto-saves only when you load the game save file. Don't know if it's the same thing tho for your mod

much obliged. I will give this a go next time I need to re-enter. Setting up a comm network right now before launching another kerbed orbital mission