Pkmniako

Terea Inner System Sorry, but I'm not responsible of SigmaLoadingScreens development/issues

This is going to be incredibly sweet

Making a new Niko map

Render of C4-1 (I'll try to simulate how Nienna looks here ingame because it's amazing)

500 compressed. It does have OnDemand enabled. It still takes a bit to load (1 minute?). Next version will have even more ondemand loading. Sorry for the inconvinience. Yes. This only adds planets and wont interfere with GPP's planets.

Tell what KSP version you are using, EVE and scatterer versions and send a log file (KSP.log or output_log.txt)

Maybe, maybe not. They already require quite a lot of electricity to run which pretty much implies you must have a nuclear reactor to run them. Due to the stealing of ideas that has occured recently in the planet modding scene i think It's better to hold information like extended roadmaps for the moment. The only information that I want to be public is Laser Highways (Laser Sails), Science Descriptions and a new Star

Limitation of KSP if you are not using scatterer. The stars have a minimun size limit in the sky, wherever you are. You will have to wait for the completion of Interstellar Consirtum mod for that. The distance of Cercani is based on this standard. Pequar should have duststorms (Though not very visible) and in the highlands of Disole you might be able to get some, Only things left for the release of OWR beta are the completion of the Laser Sail Modules (Including a big Laser Sail) and a pair of asteroids. Also @The-Doctor, it would be better if you condensed all these comments into one or two, they can get quite overwhelming and a bit boring to answer

The plugin part of IC is almost finished. Home switching works incredibly well and the Spheres of Influence work as expected. We have tested this with a non-home-switching pack and worked. Now its time to do the same with home-switching packs and overall test more edge cases where there could be problems. (again props to Thomas for coding the plugin) Also, the orbital propieties on the spread sheet were off for everything with a x < 0. This has been updated.

Works with custom planets, but better to wait for Kopernicus plugin state

This is going to be quite amazing for us planet modders! We are going to give this thing a lot of use.

A patch I've made for a hypotetical Laser Sail mission to Cercani Regarding OWR Beta, Half of the checklist is done. Last thing I did was lower load time once again. Now airless planet maps will not load at startup and be instead loaded on demand. Things left are the Laser UI, Contracts for Cercani and asteroidial moons C4-1 and C4-2

Indeed, 0.5 (beta hopefuly) will come when I finish with all configuration and laser sail stuff

Making resource configurations for Angel's Classic Resources and Community Resource Pack

Some advancments with the plugin part of things: @Thomas P. had the idea of introducing a new ID for planets called UBIs (Universal Body Identificators). This already allows for a feature where crafts will stay in the correct planets if you decide to change home system. It will hopefully also be implemented in other mods like scatterer, EVE, DOE... for full mod compatibility And in other news, Home System change is also progressing. We have discovered that changing the Template of the world Kerbin (Always the Home system) will copy the Template planet to it, pretty much changing the home world completly. Kerbin after having Duna being set as the Template, 2018, colorized

New Layout for the Nienna System. As you can see, next version will have two small asteroids. For the time being they are a carbon copy of C2-1 while they remain placeholder. On other news I'm also prepared to write all science descriptions to tell the stories of each body, hopefuly. I'm also open for translators for when the time comes.

A small background of the Cercani system in the midtime

As this is a planet pack, you will have to download the correct version of Kopernicus for extra planets to work

Terea Ab This is a render and it uses Space Engine clouds. I'll do some custom fancy clouds later.

Working on the surface for a new body Im glad you are enjoying it Maybe, maybe not... who knows. Only time will tell

Yeah, I've been following Sigma's mods evolution on github for a time. Also, thank you, but I think it would be better to say good luck to everyone as this is for the community.

Should be done already. Only thing to make sure is that the static orbit must be set before Sigma Dimensions multiplies the semimajor axis of every orbit

Welcome to the dev page of "Interstellar Consortium", a collection of ideas and agreements regarding the position of stars in KSP Modding This has the goal of making star planet packs compatible with each other with a simple patch (or no patch at all) at all time without any major problems what-so-ever. Interstellar Consortium (Github) - Explanation of the Plugin Link to the decided stars positions spread sheet Stellar Viewer Github & Stellar Viewer The Original Problem KSP wasn't designed to host star mods at all and it has multiple problems: Just until recently, if you wanted static stars (Not moving stars a.k.a. non colliding stars) you had to create a new central body. This causes a lot of problems with compatiblity and float point errors. Planet packs that had their stars orbiting Kerbol/Sun, could have their SOIs (Sphere of Influences) collide and cause some problems if you wanted to go interstellar Light of Kerbol/Sun is infinite, so it lights up every planet in the whole game regardless of distance Most of the problems can be fixed now, like the infinite light problem. And this is where Interstellar Consortium comes into play Interstellar Consortium Interstellar Consortium will be a series of small patches or decisions between modders to fix these problems and provide a stable interstellar experience by not having a central body put neither have stars moving. For this, there will be a map describing the position and SOIs of almost every star in KSP modding and a new unit of measure for interstellar distances. In the technical part, the stars will still be orbiting Kerbol/Sun and won't require important patches, but will be static to avoid collisions by changing the orbital period of these. The Unit and the Map The new unit for interstellar travel was decided upon looking at an optimal distance at which KSP will still hold up without major glitches. The unit will be called/shortened ki (Kerbal Interstellar or something like that) and will equal 1e+13m which is close to 0.1% of real distances compared to real life and 1% of what it should be in KSP scale This was decided for gameplay balancing (Interstellar travel takes time and making these distances longer could be damaging), some realism (Still far enough to feel as a far away target where to go in the future) and glitch-avoiding (Greater distances can cause float point errors and make returning to the home world bad) The map itself is very simple: A central point to consider it the "center of the galaxy" and Kerbol/Sun but with some requirements for the stars so to make everything compatible: The minimun distance recommended between two stars should shall be 2 ki - A bit short of what Proxima's distance would be with this unit. The max SOI radius should be 1.2 ki - With this, no SOIs will collide and will avoid some major glitches and gameplay flaws The recommended SOI for Main Secuence Stars should be 0.8 ki - This part is entirely albitrary and it's just a recommendation. From a star, the closest stellar companion has to be further than its SOI No star should go farther than 15 ki from the central point in the plane of the "galaxy" and no farther than 4 ki in the normal axis Kerbol/Sun will be at coordinates (10,0,0), being X and Y in the plane of the "galaxy" and Z being up and down - Leads to a feeling of lonliness on the outside and a feeling of crowdness towards the inside Star Clusters (Looking at you Dawn from TWB) can have their own stars as close from themselves as the author wants, but has to ensure no star of those are closer than the minimun distance with a external star Multiple Star Systems count as a single star system The current map has enough space to host 80 to 100 stars which is already a lot and should last for a long time before require of another galaxy or widening of the current one Claming of spaces Of course if we dont decide on the places the stars are, this whole consortium wouldnt make any sense. For that, I've created a small sheet on google with a top-down and side views of the whole map/galaxy (At the moment it doesnt provide the oribit output which will be the actual "orbits" of the stars for the packs, but I'm doing the math) To claim a part of the map just comment with the coordinates (X,Y, Z) you would like your star to be and make sure to follow the rules previously mentioned. And if you want to claim more than 2 systems, please don't claim all to be very close to Kerbin/Sun, that would be very sad for all of us and could damage some planet mods. (Higher class stars like F, A, B... could be nice to have a bit more space out to preserve a bit of realism regadring stellar class proportions) Also, I'm not the only one that would judge the claims. This has to be a consortium after all, a decision made by all of us. To put your star in the correct place, just put its period at a very high number (9e+50 is a good number) and put as the orbital parameters the ones calculated in the spreadsheet (Todo) System Modify Mods A lot of planet mods center around changing the stock system to a brand new one. These changed systems could also serve as a different start point in the map, moving the rest of the stars accordingly to make the effect succesful. This would mean that, for example, you could start in the GPP system but the map wouldnt change. Kerbol/Sun would still be in the same spot and his neightbor stars would still be the same This would require the IC mod part to bundle the Stock System cloning data and have the System Modify mods to move every star to the correct locations. (This could be eased with a proper orbit calculator or a custom plugin to ease things) Who are you to say these things As a disclaimer, I have done a star system of my own and have talked with different planet modders about this and we came to the comclusion that this would be a very good fix to all compatibility issues and at the same time be fun to explore (It's Kerbal Space Program after all, it's meant for rockets and spaceflight) For the moment, I'm the only contributor to the spread sheet and mod aspect (To be done), but I have talked, again, with people about this and they might come on-board to help with the organization of this map. Participant Planet Packs The Worlds Beyond Alternis Kerbol Rekerjiggered Seven Worlds of SLIPPIST-1 Whirligig World Rocheworld Event Horizon Galileo Planet Pack Gameslinx Planet Overhaul Before / After Kerbin Other Worlds Reboot Hope you liked the idea, the read, and the english mistakes I probably have done - Niako

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A future kopernicus version will have custom icons for each body in the mapview. Each planet will have its custom icon and asteroids (Like C3-1 and C2-1) will share one In other news: I'm starting to do the second star system Center symbol corresponds to Cercani and leftmost icon corresponds to Terea, the new system in question I'm also trying to get the UI to work (what a surprise) but proves difficult.