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    Trajectory not showing with multiple SOI transitions with a maneuver, regardless of patched conic number (Trajectory inside Eve's SOI not displayed while inside Kerbin's SOI even with maxed patched conics)

    in Map & Tracking

    Posted · Edited by DibzNr

    Reported Version: v0.2.1 (latest) | Mods: none | Can replicate without mods? Yes 
    OS: Windows 10 | CPU: Intel i7 | GPU: RTX 1080 | RAM: 16gb

     

    Launching to Eve on T+015y, 028d leads to passing through the Mun's SOI.

    Plan the trajectory and I cannot see the trajectory within Eve's SOI.

    The "Entering Eve SOI" marker shows in Kerbol SOI, but Eve SOI shows literally nothing.

    I have changed patched conic number to each value, no change.

     

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    BugExample.zip

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    What did you do in KSP2 today?

    in KSP2 Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Waifu Art Thou Romeo

    Just left the bubble around the solar system. Things get kinda weird out here. Like, my ship stopped following me the second I hit the edge. Onward and outward at 10% the speed of light!

    So are all the other solar systems gonna be inside or outside of this bubble?

    Kerbal Space Program 2 - Pre-Release Notes

    in KSP2 Dev Updates

    Posted · Edited by Waifu Art Thou Romeo

    On 2/24/2023 at 11:35 AM, Waifu Art Thou Romeo said:

    Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today.

    UPDATE: ✨no✨

     

    The sun doesn't have a surface, but you can do some wicked slingshot maneuvers since you can go all the way to the core. Shame we can't do interstellar yet. An 80km orbit alone is like 100k m/s

     

    UPDATE 2: Tim C. Kerman is currently traveling away from the kerbolar system at 2,000 km/s

    Praise and things we like

    in KSP2 Discussion

    Posted

    17 hours ago, SoulCandy said:

     The adaptive music continues to surprise me. From planets, to when you're about to execute a maneuver, there's a huge attention to detail there that I can't help but heap praise on the team behind it

    When I was done for the day, I just dive-bombed the jet I was flying and the suspenseful pizzicato leading up to the crash made me full-on belly laugh

    Bugs you have found

    in KSP2 Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Waifu Art Thou Romeo

    EDIT: Actually, it seems to only be in-flight, and only if the decoupler and engine are the same stage

    Large engines are not decoupling using large decouplers.
    If I use a medium or smaller decoupler, it works.
    If the large decouplers are separating fuel tanks, it works.
    If I try to connect a large engine to a large decoupler, it refuses to separate.

    KSP 2 Ideas that don't merit their own thread.

    in Prelaunch KSP2 Suggestions & Development Discussion

    Posted

    Does anyone know to what extent non-active vessels will be accessible? For example, I'm building a base in KSP1 right now using Planetary Base Systems and Kerbalism. And I'm able to design something that can maintain power in darkness for weeks, but only by switching over to fuel cells, which can only run for a couple weeks before eating all of the oxygen. So I need some way of automatically switching them off when the solar panels are sufficient, but in KSP1, there doesn't seem to be any way to do that, even using KOS or something since the inactive vessels are SO VERY INACTIVE. I'd be more than happy to use or build mods to do this, but that's going to require mods to be able to do it, y'know?

    I even get vessels being whatever level of inactive by default, but it'd be nice if mods could declare what aspects of a vessel they need to remain active so that we could build these more intricate systems.

    Kerbal Space Program 2 Release into Early Access Feb 24th

    in 2022

    Posted

    Thrilled we finally have a release date. Even early access means the mods I love can get started faster. 2 major things for modding that I've run into:

     

    Please give us better public documentation of part configs. Wheels in particular are an absolute mess to try and work with in KSP1, with certain arcane code snippets in them that only 1 person 5 years ago knew what they meant.

     

    *If possible*, can .mu files be as self-contained as possible? A lot of old part mods have been lost to the fact that all that remains of them are the .mu files, which are *heinous* to try and maintain. I get if this isn't feasible, however.

    [1.12.x] Anatid Robotics / MuMech - MechJeb - Autopilot - [2.14.3] [4th March 2023]

    in KSP1 Mod Releases

    Posted

    Could someone explain to me what "launch to target LAN" does? I kind of get it, but I'm lost on whose-LAN-relative-to-what.

     

    Like, if I set the moon as my target, and I click "launch to target LAN" 0°, then my orbit's LAN around Earth will be ~0° relative to what? Is it the moon itself? Is it the moon's LAN relative to Earth?

     

    I'm trying to find a good way to launch to L4 from Svobodny, so I need to get a grasp on this, but I'm really baffled. Unless of course, I'm just using the wrong tool anyway. But it seems like it's the right one, because I want my LAN to point in a specific direction on the moon's orbit (~5 days ahead of my target), but then how do I target a specific place on the moon's orbit?

    [WIP][1.8.1, 1.9.1, 1.10.1, 1.11.0–2, 1.12.2–5] Principia—version ‎Καραθεοδωρή, released 2024-04-08—n-Body and Extended Body Gravitation

    in KSP1 Mod Development

    Posted · Edited by Waifu Art Thou Romeo
    Found some of my own answer

    These are probably silly noob questions, but I promise I searched for the answers.

    Are there Lagrange points in the Kerbin-Mun system? Everything I could find talked about RSS, but nothing about Kerbin-Mun points. I don't even know if the mass ratio is sufficient between them. Okay, I found that there at least USED to be Kerbin-Mun Lagrange points, so I'll assume they're still around.

    What reference frame do I use and what direction do I fire my thrusters when I get to them to achieve orbit. I brute forced it a couple times in RSS, but I wanna understand in a more principled way. Obviously there isn't an L4-inertial reference frame I can select, so I thought I should use Kerbin-inertial so I could point along the direction of the Mun's orbit, but after an hour of tweaking knobs, I haven't even seen evidence that the L4 exists.

    Is there a tutorial somewhere that I missed in my searching?

    Okay, I think I get it now. So the process for the L4/L5 points is to start in Kerbin-inertial and get your apoapsis to about where you think the Lagrange point is. Then, still in Kerbin-inertial, make a maneuver node to circularize your orbit. If your guess was good, you should have something that looks like an erratic circle. Switching to the Mun-Kerbin-Orbit reveals a kidney bean shape.

    If your guess wasn't good, keep moving both maneuvers around in time until you succeed.

    This works, but is it the Right way?

    EDIT: Okay, I think I'm finally internalizing this. So what's cool about L4/L5 isn't that you're orbiting the Lagrange point, it's that orbiting the Lagrange point can make patched conics be an Actually Pretty Good Approximation. No station keeping, no worrying about Jupiter, just vibes. Is that about right?

     

    Somewhere to put any knowledge learned about using the .mu plugin.

    in KSP1 Modelling and Texturing Discussion

    Posted

    8 hours ago, ColdJ said:

    The config file and the drag cubes can be adjusted to compensate. COP can be moved. Look at the stock Squad command pods for examples. They are adjusted so that the bottom of the pod stays facing down when falling to the ground. I don't know how to calculate drag cubes directly but you can either look in the "PartDatabase.cfg" file (found in the main Kerbal Space Program folder) for the drag cube of a part that is shaped as you want, and then copy and paste it's drag cube into your part config, or create a shape in the 3d model program that is what you need, give it a simple config and let it get loaded up, then go and find it's drag cube in the PartDatabase.cfg file and copy it into your models config. Also you can add the module for lift, e.g

        MODULE
        {
            name = ModuleLiftingSurface
            useInternalDragModel = False
            deflectionLiftCoeff = 0.6
            dragAtMaxAoA = 0.1
            dragAtMinAoA = 0.03
        }

    So that your part has wing like properties.

    Using these methods I have comfortably flying Star Wars models that would act like flying bricks without them.

    Remember that the properties you want don't have to match the external look of your model.

    Good Luck.

    Sorry, I wasn't clear. It flies fine in stock (heavily using the tricks you described). It's the real design I'm not convinced about, and FAR (and especially Realism Overhaul) seems to agree with me.

    7 hours ago, Stone Blue said:

    This whole thing could be avoided, if actual *source* files (.blend/.obj/.fbx) were originally available for all these old mods we are trying to update/fix.
    Thats why its a good idea to do repos (ala Github or similar), and host these files, or even the Unity project(s)...
    Not many modders have, or even to this day, do that, unfortunately :(

    FYI @Waifu Art Thou Romeo @darthgently

    Yeah, no question this is an extremely hacky way to update these mods. Thank you for the explanation. I think that might be another nail in the coffin of the one I've been working on. In reparenting all the parts in the models, I don't see a way around constant exports/imports to make sure everything ends up in the right places

    Somewhere to put any knowledge learned about using the .mu plugin.

    in KSP1 Modelling and Texturing Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Waifu Art Thou Romeo

    On 3/11/2022 at 9:45 PM, ColdJ said:

    @Waifu Art Thou Romeo

    Hi. How is your 3d modeling going?

    I now know how to create animations from scratch and I have successfully created a retractable wheel for an R2D2 clone by observing how a Squad retractable landing gear was set out in Blender. I am still using the export, then re-import before changing anything method for dealing with anything dragged in from other models. Have you read the info from Stone Blue that the plugin multiplies the vertices on every import?

    I have to select all the actual model parts, go into edit mode and use "Merge by distance" to clear all the extras it adds.

    So THAT'S where all those extra kilobytes were coming from! Noted, thank you.

     

    And no, I never found a more effective way than that. I've been taking a long break, but I think I figured out the workflow. Wheels are just so goofy in this game that it's been hard to get myself working on it.

     

    Not to mention that I'm no longer convinced the ship I'm interested in even CAN fly, regardless of how good of a computer they put on it. The CoP is just SO FAR ahead of the CoM. I don't think the Skylon design will ever work without hacks.

    Blender issue with re-parenting in .mu files

    in KSP1 Modelling and Texturing Discussion

    Posted

    5 hours ago, ColdJ said:

    @Waifu Art Thou Romeo

    I get around them when I can and learn to live with it when I can't.

    ...

    I have no idea how to create animations from scratch, so if you do, I would love some info.

    Yeah, that's the way I've been handling this as well. It is incredibly frustrating when it comes to orienting nodes, but the rest is somewhat tolerable.

    And me either, sorry. I've just been using the animations provided by whoever originally created the models I'm working on.

    Blender issue with re-parenting in .mu files

    in KSP1 Modelling and Texturing Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Waifu Art Thou Romeo

    I deserve very little credit. Kipard built this, and several other people have maintained it. I'm just reparenting the components and writing some configs

    And probably these were built with the Unity method

    On closer inspection, it looks like I cannot use the Unity method anyway, since I only have the .mu files and not the original models.

    EDIT: Just in case anyone passes by and wants to solve my animation problem: I have found the source but not the explanation. If I have the light module in the config, retraction absolutely will not work. I have no idea why.

    Blender issue with re-parenting in .mu files

    in KSP1 Modelling and Texturing Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Waifu Art Thou Romeo

    Would you expect the animations to not function at all or just be weird? The issue I'm running into is that I can trigger any animation I want it if I set it to the spotlight animation in the config, but I can't trigger it from the deployment section (I'm working on retractable wheels)

     

    And fwiw I'm probably just going to switch to Kerbal Foundries anyway since it's so much better documented than stock, in which case I don't think I need to mess with the models anymore. But I will likely switch to Unity for doing this from here out, cause this was way more frustrating and hacky than it needed to be

     

    Lastly, to be clear, I have gotten around the issues from the top post, it was just a horrible headache to do, due to Blender not correctly showing the positions of re-parented parts

    Blender issue with re-parenting in .mu files

    in KSP1 Modelling and Texturing Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Waifu Art Thou Romeo

    Yes. Still running into problems, but I can at least successfully edit parts other people have made and load those parts into KSP doing this. I have not attempted making anything from scratch, though it looks like you can.

    But for all I know, this could be why I'm having so much trouble getting the animations to work, though I don't think so.

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