kurgut

March 25

6 hours ago, JonnyOThan said:

Great idea! Hey @kurgut have you attempted anything like this in your variants?

No I didn't but that's a good idea indeed ! will include in next PCR retro release.

March 14

Thank you very much !!

And grats to others !

(Oh, spotted little typo hehe) :

9 hours ago, adsii1970 said:

month for January

Cheers : )

March 11

On 3/2/2024 at 3:35 PM, OrbitalManeuvers said:

For me, existing craft built before this mod was installed require both enabling staging, and disabling the now-staged RCS thrusters by hand. But for new craft, for me, the RCS thrusters attach disabled in the first place, with staging enabled.

and @kspkat, see below

Thank you OrbitalManeuvers, yeah I forgot to mention behavior on already existing crafts (I'll double check ingame, then update the first post), but as you mentionned, for a new craft, newly attached RCS should be disabled and their staging icon visible, which is the intended behavior.
Cheers

March 6

So I'm still in the rabbit hole of understanding MAS, and making a more immersive IVA experience, added ambient sounds, camera switches, a lot of custom props, still needs a bit (a lot lol) of work ^^

At least I'll be able to transfer this knowledge to other IVA projects !

(sound volume is low, turn it up to hear the ambient sounds )

Cheers

March 3

Today, I tested my new PC with KSP, it's my first time having a fixed setup, been on laptop for years as I needed it for work... Having finally 60 frames in some heavy installs feels soo nice
So to celebrate I flew around in RSS-Reborn, doing some Apollo shenanigans :

(forgot to enable DOE here, but anyway the stars look nice and all )

I also had a minor launch tower accident, nobody was harmed, the crew was so confident they didn't even trigger the escape system, with the launch pad blowing up below them... true kerbals

Spoiler

https://youtube.com/shorts/-9AhSkw-IDM?si=3Sbwc3X0e5JW3q5u

Cheers !

March 2

7 hours ago, Publius Kerman said:

This is the coolest mod ever and is really helping learn [...] after the seat up and down update the maneuver panels buttons seem to have disappeared on my end.

Thanks a lot ! Happy you enjoy it. You're missing MirageDev props dependency for the maneuver planner, it's not throwing errors because it's KSP's behavior when props are missing, it just doesn't load them and doesn't complain : )
Cheers

February 29

Today (and the past days : P), I spent time trying to get more familiar with MAS and ooh, I can't describe how cool it is, much more features than RPM, and also simplier to manage modding wise.

I also added "glass" panels to most of the ASET props, to give them a more realistic look, and some depth to them. (now I can't stand any non-glassified props haha)

For those who know how those props look without the glass textures, you'll see the difference

(Don't look at mess, the IVA is WIP ^^)

I made as well some fuse switch style props (those are actually inspired after the ones in the real mercury capsule), to control some cockpit (sub)systems ! Well it's just 2 pieces of beveled cubes and some simple textures, but heh, at my scale, still a proud little blender moment haha

Oh, and Kerbal comfort in spaceships is always a first concern for the KSC and their kerbonauts (read the labels )

Cheers !

February 28

Hi, I'm trying to make the MAS_ASET_DSKY be dependent on a fuse, however I'm having some troubles getting it to work with the various texture shift variables, which make MAS freak out in KSP (probably because of the interacting with the lua script), but I saw on the wiki that the MASmonitor could have a variable, is that implemented ? So I guess I could use that to switch the whole module ON and OFF with another prop, which would be very convenient in this case (and others too )

Thank you !

EDIT : figured out this isn't implemented yet indeed, though I was able to go around that by using color shifts with variables on the different screen objects. More hassle, but it worked

February 28

If like me, you're tired of having 999+ images of RPM monitors screens in your KSP screenshot folder, this fixes it :

@PROP[*]:HAS[@MODULE[RasterPropMonitor]]:FINAL
{
	@MODULE[RasterPropMonitor]
	{
		%doScreenshots = false
	}
}

February 26

29 minutes ago, CashnipLeaf said:

I am looking to rename this mod at some point. "CPWE" was always meant to be a working title and it also just doesn't roll off the tongue well. If you have any name suggestions for this thing, I'd like to hear them.

So I've searched for famous wind names and name of wind gods, here are a few proposals to get started, it's kinda rough, but heh :
HELM : High-altitude Environmental Lateral Modifications (meh, the high altitude part isn't right but anyway)
AURA (Titan goddess of the breeze) : Atmospheric Unique and Reliable Airflows ("Unique" might need a better alternative, idk "unleashed", other, Reliable could be "Rational", since your mod brings a new clear and consistent framework to the wind modding,...), my favorite solution so far.
ZEPHIR sounds cool as well but I didn't find anything that made sense (yet) haha

Cheers

February 24

I've been working on this lately...

It's inspired by Interstellar obviously, but not only... some Star Wars (Tantive corvette), Star Citizen (Port Olisar tribute), KSP 2 trailer wink (Jupiter station), 2001, ...

In 2070, an expedition from Earth is sent to explore the inside of a Black Hole, accessible through a wormhole near Saturn...

Best watched with headphones

Cheers : )

February 24

Today, I've finished the cinematic video I've been working since a little while !

It's inspired by Interstellar obviously, but not only... some Star Wars (Tantive corvette), Star Citizen (Port Olisar tribute), KSP 2 trailer wink (Jupiter station), 2001, ...

Happy watching (best watched with headphones ) !

I've also continued my IVA only career, finished building the Minmus probe lander, and starting to think about a crewed lander, using the MK2 pod (tho I'd like to make it land facing the horizon, so trying different solutions as to how attach the landing legs, and landing engines in a pleasing fashion...).

15 hours ago, Kimera Industries said:

How did yours avoid this?

I don't know, since I didn't actually fly this part, but I get that they'd require finessing, the Ranger for instance has absurdly strong reaction wheels, and its RCS aren't balanced properly for translation, the Internal (while being gorgeous) has some gaps leading to the vacuum of space... "Bill, would you please put some bands of office tape on those holes ? thx !", said Jeb

Cheers !

February 24

~~Astrophysicist's debts, due~~
NVM, I was blind enough to not see this thread had more than one page [facepalm]

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Busey, Gary, alias "the

February 23

Beautiful !

Can't wait to see the future of this game, and the community grow around it

Also I missed that reddit post, that made me chuckle

February 23

Today, I built and tested an orbiter and lander (not showned here, will be attached on top) for the first Minmus exploration bits of my IVA career, it has been long since I used Tantares parts, and I forgot how pleasant they are in probes designs !

I also almost finished the editing on my upcoming cinematic video, which should hopefully release tomorrow, If premiere pro decides to be nice with me...

I cannot resist to share you a sneak peek (spoiler warning) :

Spoiler

Cheers

February 18

9 hours ago, WolfieKSP said:

Hey Kurgut, I've got a problem, I'm using a non-stock techtree (CSI to be specific), and the external seat is very early game but the iva one is very late game, is there anything me or you can do to move them together?

Hi, for now you can go in the config of the part and change the line "techrequired" to "start", but I'll include a patch for it in the next release : )

Cheers

February 10

Grats to all !
I'd recommend watching minerbat's Minecraft Space Program recent video as well hehe (NVM it's in the honorable mentions already^^)
Cheers

February 9

Really interesting, have been dreaming of a good and coherent wind mod for a while, will def test this, thanks and good luck with development !

February 9

Congrats on a release ! [tada emoji intensifies]

Having explored this quite a bit the past few days, have to say : really awesome work, the (insane) beautiful skybox, the beauty of the rings, the textures, attention to details, added celestials, everything is... < 3

RSS sure has a bright future ahead!

February 7

Today, I launched with classified means, the Port Kolisar statioport in Earth orbit :

More:

Spoiler

The KFS-01 exploration ship, docked to one of the "city-hub" of the station :

Yes it's pretty big haha

Views from the different centrifuges's windows :

Engine section :

City hub one :

KFS preparing to leave for its destination : [classified]

Aaand burning towards [classified] !

Cheers !

February 5

@Krazy1 https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/27292-what-did-you-do-in-ksp1-today/?do=findComment&comment=4363332
"Sure did... guess I was the diversion you needed? " : I see no Kraken attack here but only a happy spaceship, wagging its tail !

Today, Cooper Kerman visited his favorite "library space-store"...

The interiors of the KFS exploration ship have been upgraded from zero control panel or buttons, to a futuristic fully featured cockpit (new MAS IVA ) !

Cheers

February 2

Hi @Angelo Kerman !
I've been working on a MAS remake of the S4 IVA in flying saucers, when finished, would you want this integrated ? As you've already a MAS IVA for this mod : )

Some quick pics :

Spoiler

Also added NFprops decoration in the meeting rooms downstairs : )

Also, I'm having an issue with nice galaxy display, for some reason it appears like if it had a wrong shader set up, I have no visual mods, just a test install, did you encounter this before ?

Cheers and thank you

EDIT : That's an intersting one, this rendering issue was caused by... FreeIVA ? Since I added its modules to the part/internal, I tried removing them just in case, and the issue is gone, the galaxy is displaying normally...
EDIT next : it's because it uses KSP/Alpha/Translucent, and thus freeIVA thinks it's a window : )
EDIT 3 : I solved this by adding a depthmask over the windows and referencing in the FreeIVA internal module, so that FreeIVA stops looking for object using alpha shaders. : )
However, I noticed the galaxy animation stopped after a while, is it possible to make it looping instead of being one play ? thx

January 30

On 1/30/2024 at 4:43 PM, JcoolTheShipbuilder said:

I then proceeded to make an enormous nuclear saltwater engine called the "Crucible"

We love it ! The name and the looks !

Today, I tested for the first time KSP Capture Tools mod, which allows to record videos from "inside KSP", is that the recording of each new frame can be synchronised with whenever KSP actually has a new frame to display. The result is a "lag" free recording. And yes this is a divine work. The end of me manually editing freezes in clips for hours
I has also a lot a neat features on top of that.
This is an example, I had like 15 fps ingame with this huge station which has 500+ parts, the result is smooth as it can get. Funny thing, we are so used to have the game run slower than the actual time (add it the typical intermittent frame freezes), that the footage appears to be sped up, whereas it's absolutly not !
( Oh Hi @MythicalHeFF, I'm the one who commented on your video about KSP capture tools, here's an actual example ! )

I then proceeded to make a very un-useful part : a Kalendar. Featuring switchable years from 2070 to 2100. Calendar texture courtesy of google agenda haha

Moving pictures :
https://streamable.com/vhq0pa

And finally, I started making a MAS IVA for the Endurance Ranger part.
Also notice how Tars has become "Scott" haha. Not my shenaniganry, but the internal's author one

Cheers !

January 30

Hi @Kion, just sharing this here in case someone find it useful, I needed a smoke effect but in space for a cinematic video, so I created a waterfall config for your part :

Feel free to use/edit it :

Spoiler

MODULE
{
	name = ModuleWaterfallFX
	moduleID = ventFX
	version = FixedRampRates
	EFFECT
	{
		name = part40
		parentName = thrustTransform
		MODEL
		{
			path = Waterfall/FX/fx-stack-2
			positionOffset = 0,0,6
			rotationOffset = -90,0,0
			scaleOffset = 10,40,10
			MATERIAL
			{
				transform = Waterfall/FX/fx-stack-2(Clone)
				shader = Waterfall/Procedural Particles (Additive)
				randomizeSeed = False
				FLOAT
				{
					floatName = _Exponent
					value = 1.01011109
				}
				FLOAT
				{
					floatName = _Expand
					value = 2.75527358
				}
				FLOAT
				{
					floatName = _Resolution
					value = 5
				}
				FLOAT
				{
					floatName = _DetailScale
					value = 2.5
				}
				FLOAT
				{
					floatName = _DetailBrightness
					value = 0.51516664
				}
				FLOAT
				{
					floatName = _Brightness
					value = 0.449999988
				}
				FLOAT
				{
					floatName = _FadeIn
					value = 0.156721979
				}
				FLOAT
				{
					floatName = _FadeOut
					value = 0.0454999283
				}
				FLOAT
				{
					floatName = _Stretch
					value = 0
				}
				FLOAT
				{
					floatName = _Scale
					value = 1
				}
				FLOAT
				{
					floatName = _Turbulence
					value = 5
				}
				FLOAT
				{
					floatName = _Speed
					value = 0.5
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

Cheers

January 30

Hi, I just discovered this and it's really impressive work ! I love it, is this project still active ?
Cheers

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