[Episode 14: Not Worth The Wait | It's Hardly Rocket Science | Kerbal Comics]

(from a song i don't remember the name of)

It's Tom Lehrer.

[Continuing Tosh's abandoned plugins]

Ah, huh, who's there?

Well, I do read my mail... but not too often

Thanks guys for taking care of my projects! There's a reason for me to get back a bit later to see what do they grow into

And I confirm: all my models (except for Gemini) are also under BY-SA license; anyone's free to distribute or modify them. And as for Gemini (which is basically BY-ND) -- Tiberion has my explicit permission to modify it and/or create derivative works.

[HSTW 1.75m Gemini]

Project abandoned.

Sorry, author's no longer there .

Special permission to develop and distribute this addon is granted to Tiberion.

Topic closed.

[[PLUGIN, PART 0.16] AutoStrut]

These work well on the new pontoons. One issue is they get in the way of Kerbals and rovers trying to exit from underneath the craft having been decoupled/disembarked.

Those struts don't have collision mesh, so they don't interfere with parts attached at the bottom.

[[PLUGIN, PART 0.16] AutoStrut]

If we add this code to another mod we've downloaded, will it work?

No. Part's model must be changed too.

[Cart Modelling Guidelines v1.34 + Inter-Plugin Communication]

Doesn't the Mun rover use animations for its wheel deployment?

No. It just moves the wheels from one position to another, changing objects' coordinates in plugin's code.

[Cart Modelling Guidelines v1.34 + Inter-Plugin Communication]

Hi I'm new on the forums and I have a cool concept of a wheel bay that would be a part of the rocket. It would be better than landing gear because you can steer it. I finished the model and the animations but I have no idea on how to implement it using unity.

Hi Sava! welcome to the forum

Cool model; it would be nice to see it in KSP .

Sadly I've no idea on how to work with animations, so my plugin doesn't support such a closing bay. So I can't help you .

[Soyuz Debris]

Soyuz debris ain't of much problem, as far as I know... Kerosene/LOX are not very dangerous substances. Proton debris with its extremely toxic UDMH/NTO pair is way worse

And -- no, nothing is recovered. First stages are not even equipped with parachutes.

[Challenge - Deorbit a nuclear satellite]

Huh; good challenge indeed.

As I don't currently have an orbiting nuke, I decided to bring home an old synchronous commsat hovering right above the KSC. Work's currently in progress (and will take a while)... but I can already share a couple of ideas:

Good thing is that turbojets have right enough time to get some air and stop the fall. No matter the craft passed 70 Km mark going at 3000 m/s straight down.

...and bad thing is that kerosenes are as inert as hell. Pilot must think at least 5 seconds ahead when adjusting their thrust.

The tank in the middle is not attached to anything (I dropped it there before launching the test vehicle). Payload's held in place firmly...

...given that the vehicle don't spin.. And good luck to whomever will try to get these ideas working.

Now good luck to me building a carrier that can get this vessel synchronous

[HSTW 1.75m Gemini]

Yep. I've strong wish to update this mod -- but currently no time for doing that. It's Laser addon that's next on my to-do list, not this one .

Probably after 0.17 release, with (hopefully) docking and (hopefully) cockpit views, I'll get a bit of motivation))

[Other 'build it yourself' games]

Talking abount engineering games, I'd add Bridge Construction Set (aka Pontifex II) -- see http://www.chroniclogic.com/

Not exactly a "sandbox': you get a task of building a bridge withstanding a specific load, with limited budget. Suspension bridges and drawbridges included. Some of missions are pretty difficult...

It's paid, but it's worth it.

[Normal maps don't work when NOT converting textures in part tools]

Leaving textures unconverted is pretty essential for editable skins so I hope there is a fix. I tried inverting colors channels and adding alpha channel to the normal map but no luck..

As far as I understand, KSP just cannot tell the texture is to be used as "normal map" if it's not converted, and interprets it as a "simple texture".

Try to change "texture type" to "texture" in Unity Editor import settings; you'll get similar result

So... fiddling with texture itself won't help

[Normal maps don't work when NOT converting textures in part tools]

I'm too not quite happy with conversion PartTools applies .

But, it seems that in order to leave textures unconverted, one should re-write PartTools a bit (as the sources are included)... I just did not succeed in doing that (and, uh, I wonder does EULA allow it? ).

[I'm just courions]

ROFL))

First movie is hardcore indeed. And the second one just WINS TEH KSP!

Seriously, is seems that this guy was born orbiting Kerbin. How else could he fly without control and instrumentation?

[[0.20] RemoteTech: Relay Network – V 0.5.0.1]

Cart.dll v1.34 is released. Verified to be compatible with RemoteTech v0.34.

Awww, driving with 4 seconds delay is hard

[Questions on Buoyancy and Angular Drag]

Topic's still drowning to oblivion?

Meh. Bump

[Cart Modelling Guidelines v1.34 + Inter-Plugin Communication]

EDIT: yes, got it "working" again, only problem that still haunts me is that The crafts cannot be rotated. Did this ever happened to you?

Dunno. I gotta see your model to answer that :/

[[PLUGIN 0.16] ShaderReplacer]

Yes, you may bundle this plugin DLL into your package (along with its sources, of course), as well as include the code into your assembly. Just reference an author

[Cart Modelling Guidelines v1.34 + Inter-Plugin Communication]

EDIT: never mind, Appeared to be some rotation problem, fixed and now they only launch 1 mile high when starting flight..

Are wheel anchors well above node_collider's lowest plane?

If they're not, then wheels are spawned being partially in the ground, causing the craft to jump.

[Hatch problem]

Dang. Some of these sites just don't show their evil faces when accessed from Russia. As I click the link I see an image of a pod only, no adult content at all...

[[PLUGIN 0.16] ShaderReplacer]

Assigns any shader (see Unity documentation) to any part of your model. Allows to make an object semi-transparent, or apply Cutout/Bumped Specular shader, or whatever you like.

Usage:

       MODULE
       {
          name = shaderReplacer
          obj = <fully-qualified object name (or an empty string for root object)>
          shader = <fully-qualified shader name (see Unity documentation)>
       }

For example,

       MODULE
       {
          name = shaderReplacer
          obj = Body/Arm/Finger
          shader = Transparent/Cutout/Bumped Specular
       }

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Do whatever you wish with the code (view, distribute, modify in any possible way...),

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[Cart Modelling Guidelines v1.34 + Inter-Plugin Communication]

Your mod is probably only way to create transparent surfaces at the moment right? I defined my canopy models as cart to get around that transparency issue.

AFAIK, yes.

Probably I'll make a simple module allowing to change a shader for any model... it's just one line of code

UPD. [thread=18063]Done.[/thread]

[Knock Minmus out of orbit! Challenge...]

Oh no, not this again no knocking Minmus anywhere

Eh wait... it's just a fuel/engine delivery challenge, yep? Well, okay then

[[PLUGIN 0.15.1+] RangeAdjust for Control Surfaces and Gimbals]

Basically, this plugin is a more selective, more thorough version of hitting [CAPSLOCK], which decreases all control by 90%.

I personally hate that so-called "precision" (correct: "delayed") control mode. It does nothing but supplies a plane with extremely bad PIO ("pilot-induced oscillation"). Player presses <S> button; pitch does not change, just a slider moves. Player releases the button; plane instantly pitches up and (surprise!) overshoots. Player then presses <W> -- and overshoots once again

So... I just can't use <Caps Lock> when flying planes.

[[PLUGIN 0.15.1+] RangeAdjust for Control Surfaces and Gimbals]

I mean, "Restrict this symmetry to [P|R|Y] only"

Ah, no again . I just do not process input axes here, only the surface deflection (i.e. don't give a dang for what does this surface control).

Hmm... I think this should have an entrance into KSP-vanilla. We do have ALT+WASD (German Keyboardscheme), but this would be much quicker.

This ain't trimmers . Trimmers (<Alt+WASDQE>) offset controls neutral position, while this addon decreases range (BTW affecting trimmers too). Generally, I use rangeAdjust in addition to trimmers when I need precise control.

And -- no, this not likely gonna be included into the game. Someone already suggested limiting controls range, but devs were not interested.