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31 minutes ago, Commander Jebidiah said:
Pretty sure in life I can see where the water is and there is a shadow of an aircraft coming in for a sea landing, unlike in the above picture.
Also pretty sure there should be waves.
Well, there is no water from Scatterer in your screenshot. What you see is the ocean ground texture, but no water at all, therefore no waves, no shadows, no reflections, ...
Try reinstall Scatterer or reload the game (I had this once and a reload fixed it)
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39 minutes ago, Hyomoto said:
edit- I noticed some of your textures might not be powers of 2, maybe EVE doesn't like that? detailCumulus.dds is 1500^2
Oh, really? Interesting that they aren't. Patterns and textures should always be a resolution of a power of two in both directions to enable the gpu/cpu to do fast calculations on them.
The used patterns must be resized internally to calculate the different distances. In a dds file the lower resolutions (always by a power of two) are also included to save the valuable time of this calculation process (Mip Mapping). However, if the resolutions are something like 1500 x 1500 this is not working correctly and in case the dds are not using such mipmaps combined with such an unusual resolution it can cause slowdowns. Don't know if it can be that extreme, but I could imagine there is a noticeable impact.
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7 hours ago, Galileo said:
Duststorms i recieved from @Tekener where he got it, i dont know.
atmo is seriously a transparent 32x16 rectangle. You got me. if you didn't notice my irresponsibly large Atmosphere.dds right next to im sorry. It may even just be a white square i dont think i have ever used it
Yeah, when I provided my files to you and the public I mentioned that I got the old duststorms on Duna from @Astronomer working again, keeping the correct rotation aspect even over a long period of time. The cloud graphics is "his", the configs are redone and newly calculated by me.
Similar goes to the atmo layers he introduced earlyer on when there was no scatterer, which I also mentioned. The atmo file is from his pack, the configs as for duna redone to better match usage with scatterer. Using a plain small graphics instead of a pattern for a nearly unvisible cloud layer would be his idea, and if I would have wanted to steal it I could have redone that graphics in a different resolution
@Astronomer: It's great to see you back and I am sure nobody ever wanted to "steal" your work, we all tried hard to keep the things you invented alive - like the duststorms or the atmo layers.
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3 minutes ago, Galileo said:
While I believe this could work I don't know that a set number of days or any time-based event would be the correct way to implement a change in the texture because in the chance that you were orbiting kerbin you would likely see the transition. Now if the transition could be gradual that would be fine but I think a set distance away from kerbin should trigger the transition. That way we wouldn't notice when the textures switched.
Yeah, that's why I was thinking about the gradually fading by using different cloud setups. Changing them depending on time is more realistic then just "fly away".
I would try it with this approach to take the possible transition notice into account:
Cloud layer definitions would switch after a certain ingame time passed and only when the scene is entered, meaning the cloud definitions chnage when switching screens and players will not see the transition, e.g. going to the KSC and back to the ship, or maybe even when switching to the map and back. When players don't see the transition and the cloud layers are kind of fading into the next one the illusion would be nearly perfect.Would you like this better?
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On 24.9.2016 at 1:54 PM, SpannerMonkey(smce) said:
Hi all just checked the original license and aside from some formalities, i can let you have it under the original license, I've just noticed a wonky node or two, so let me get them sorted,finish the cargo pod and I'll post when it's done, needs an IVA too really....
And how are things going?
Do you think you can provide a working Eagle with the 1.2 release next week?
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Of course switching the cloud patterns with a batch file when starting KSP is pretty simple, but there are still many players out there who have no clue of such a thing. I agree with Galileo that a good solution would be switching the cloud layer file from inside the game automatically, maybe switching them after 5 days of game time or something like that.
The perfect solution would be to switch the usage of the cloud definitions rather than the cloud pattern files after a free to be defined number of game days. Then we could set up different cloud layers and even mixing several cloud patters, like this:
Cloud setting 1: Cloud pattern 1 100%
Cloud setting 2: Cloud pattern 1 66%, Cloud pattern 2 33%
Cloud setting 3: Cloud pattern 1 33%, Cloud pattern 2 66%
Cloud setting 4: Cloud pattern 2 100%
Cloud setting 5: Cloud pattern 2 66%, Cloud pattern 3 33%
...Then there wouldn't even be a hard "cut" changing one pattern to another, but they fade over and with a hand full cloud pattern files we could create a large amount of cloud formations.
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2 minutes ago, ebigunso said:
OMG that looks much better than what we have now!!!
The next step would be to have different cloud patterns for land and sea, maybe even more different climatic regions.
Don't get fooled, it is and will always stay the same cloud pattern. However it is not simply rotating but is getting disorted by the noise filter. But in the end the clouds will not change in any way and will always have the same pattern over and over. There is no way to have different patterns over land or sea for example.
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58 minutes ago, SpannerMonkey(smce) said:
yes that is what I'm saying, and the proof as otherwise they could be old shots, the monolith is as you know new
Then, would you share the Eagle with the community or at least with us fans, please?
I feel a bit sorry for @TheRagingIrishman that he already spent his time on something that already exits.
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Wait, are you saying you have a working Space 1999 Eagle for the current and even upcoming 1.2 version of KSP?
And yes, I guess one must have grewn up with this and Star Trek TOS to love this thing
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Amazing, I can't wait to get the Eagle back in the sky - yeah!
Keep up the great work!
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1 hour ago, TheRagingIrishman said:
Does anybody have a copy of Wayland's Eagle (there's no download link on his page) because I want to use it as additional reference?
No guarantee that this is working or the right one, but that's what I was able to find when searching the net before asking here to get it converted:
http://tekener.com/KSP/Space_1999_Eagle_1.2.rarI hope that you can make this Eagle fly.
Give him wings, mate!
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I would prefer @Galileo and @Poodmund collaborate on this to prevent having two different Outer Planet Mods. I wouldn't want to decide which outer planet mod to take, because Galileo's temp planet looks super cool, but still I would like to keep the other OPM ones as well. And I'm sure the community wouldn't want to split up as well.
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5 minutes ago, Shadriss said:
WRT the new city stuffs - the night sky portion I like, but I'm not as sure about the day-time cities. I get what you are trying for, but what I am not sure of is what happens when you get down to ground level... IE, do those textures fade out, are they constant on the surface, or what? Actually, in either case, it would be somewhat odd to have the textures without the actual geometry (which I understand is pretty much a no-go anyhow), and if it faded out you'd be wondering where the city went. Then again, that exists right now with the current version, so I guess it wouldn't make much difference anyhow. *shrug*
Cities will stay flat on the surface, it's just a texture. But one should never ever land on a city, this is not good
See cities as areas with a "do not enter" sign 
Or have you ever heard of NASA landing Apollo in New York or the Space Shuttle in Miami?
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4 hours ago, BgDestroy said:
If numbers on maps is ok. How i make transfer ? Example to Duna with 470 dV ?
Contrary to you behaving like Mr know-it-all and blaming people, I had the manner to ask Kowgan politely directly to explain the map because I had a similar issue. I wouldn't explain it to you if you would have come and insult my work because of lack of knowledge/dumbness. So I can only support Kowgan in not telling you. That one can't know all is normal, but then one would ask politly - or did you go to your teachers and tell them: "Guys, your material is bad, this is all wrong and you don't know what you do. Now tell me what is 1 + 1?"
But since you haven't insulted me:
Nowhere on the map it is indicated that the dV is measured from a circular Kerbol orbit! It is measured from an elliptical orbit around Kerbin (!!!) with a periapsis of 80 km and an apoapsis at the edge of the sphere of influence (SOI, about 84,000 km for Kerbin) - which you would see when being capable of reading the map and understand symbols. Going to another planet is based in this elliptical orbit when you add another dV amount being at the periapsis, when the ship is the fastest due to Kerbins gravity. Having the elliptical orbit already "pointing" in the direction you want to go (e.g. Duna) adding another 130 dv already brings your apoapsis into Duna's Kerbol orbit. When the timing it correct you will intercept Duna there without having to waste the fuel on a circulare Kerbol orbit. Adding another 510 dv (250 + 360) brings you into a circular Duna orbit without aerobreaking. When using aerobreaking the 360 can be skipped.So the velocitiy change you need from a circular 80 km Kerbin orbit to get into an elliptical Duna orbit for aerobreaking is about 1.350 km/s dV. Getting into a circular Kerbol orbit first and then to Duna needs about the double amount.
The values are correct when you know how to read them. To get the right point of time and the right angle of acceleration for another planet when in Kerbin's orbit you need to use a transfer window planning tool like NASA is using it for all their missions, they don't fly by "best guess" or "let's first orbit the Sun and see where we want to go to then". Get the mod "Transfer Window Planner" (CKAN or here) to learn how fuel efficient interplanetary travel is working.
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Maybe a stupid question, but why don't you use the private message function instead of flooding the thread?
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1 hour ago, Matchlight said:
Where did i go wrong?
(*Duna Duststorm Config*)
Well, I don't know what exactly is not woring for you and haven't looked at it in detail, but I can tell you that you must not touch/change the speed or the height of the cloud layers from my values as Berlin used them.
I calculated the speed of the layers in relation of their hight and the size of the planet (Duna) they are on to make sure the different cloud layers don't "go off" by time, as they would be with your changed values in the 3 & 4 layer.
Start by using Berlin's could.cfg and texture files moved to BoulderCo if you want to have it there. If this is working slowly alter the values you might want to have and see if one of them suddenly breaks the clouds. But as said: do not alter the height and speed values as otherwise you will have blured cloud layers after some years of game time.
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3 minutes ago, Matchlight said:
if you don't mind me asking, what software do you use to create texture's. When i say this i mean a wide variety of things, like skyboxes, planet textures, suit textures and cloud textures.
I guess Berlin is using the same as me and the others: Photoshop - expensive but since I use it for work as well the best choice.
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9 hours ago, Berlin said:
ok so after I made one skybox I started to dislike the nebula look :/ correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you would be able to see that irl? I dunno but I assume not. SO I made one with a bunch of stars and it looks pretty darn good. my new favorite.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h8liwugvjijkyvc/Galileo's Stars SkyBox.zip?dl=0
I can't help, it looks unnatural empty and artifical
What was wrong with mine you liked the most so far but never published? (http://tekener.com/KSP/SkyBox.7z)
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8 hours ago, Matchlight said:
Although so far i am having only 1 issue... And thats that the Duna sandstorms are not showing up, if you give me permission i can try and implement your storms into AVP and i can attempt to optimize the memory usage of the storms to 'up' the framerate during a storm
Just to be correct, I brought back the Duna duststorms and offered them Berlin to use in SVE
So sure, feel free to use them, as they are based on Astronomers but working without diffusing over time now.
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3 minutes ago, Waseemq1235 said:
I'd like to know what to change in the cloud config, thanks.
clouds.cfg
Object "Kerbin-clouds1"
Change
_MainTex { value = BoulderCo/Atmosphere/Textures/fair type = CubeMap }to
_MainTex { value = BoulderCo/Textures/cube type = AlphaCubeMap alphaMask = ALPHAMAP_A } -
20 minutes ago, tjt said:
Pepe and Corgas landed today right outside the sprawling metropolis of Minmus City today. Off to the left you can see the Kerman Central Park
This is an old known issue of EVE with no fix yet vailable, same as the double drawn cities in Kerbin.
Imagine, Pepe and Corga are the first bold Kerbals to dare landing on Minmus, just to figure out tourists are already there before
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12 hours ago, GrimwaldGaming said:
Thanks for the great mod! Just a quick question. Since the split doesn't come with a skybox anymore, which mod is that now a part of? sorry if this has been addressed elsewhere. Im just getting around to re-installing a fresh setup, and I love the skybox!
You can try mine, Berlin wanted to integrate it but then decidd to remove it completly:
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7 hours ago, Berlin said:
OK so I tried my best to combine the most popular choices.. this is what I came up with.. hope you like it because I'm not gonna put myself through the process of creating that many textures again lol
I like it!
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1 minute ago, HereComesTheBoom said:
Ah now I see, I don't have the programs to open the config files to see what they actually do. I assumed based on Rbray's video from his testing of cloud shadows that the shadows are projected from the cloud and color the ground a darker shade relative to the shape of the cloud itself. If that were true then the glow from the aurora's could have worked. Then again, Berlin has already said that he has the aurora's glowing from below, on the surface and during low level flights. If I may ask Berlin, how did you get the aurora's to glow?
You can open the config with any texteditor, notepad, even word, as they are pure text files
And Berlin surly did not got the aurora/shadow/clouds to "glow", "shine" or "emit light" as this is impossible. All that can be done might be to try having a green shadow on the ground texture of Kerbin, but that would be darker than the actual aurora texture and disappear at night, while what really makes an aurora is that it would be visible and glowing especially at night - but this can't be done.
See cities as areas with a "do not enter" sign 
[KSP 1.6.1] Stock Visual Enhancements [v1.4.1] [20 March 2019]
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