SpannerMonkey(smce)
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Hey, just poppin in to wish you all the best in your latest modding adventure, and while I'm at it confirm that you have my full support and blessing in rereleasing a modified version of missiles and launchers. And didn't we have an r74 in stryker?? Anyho tata for now SM -
could I possibly be allowed to download some of your mods for bda? I don't really care about what version they are for I just love these mods and would like to be able to use them again.
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Config file clarification
SpannerMonkey(smce) replied to amankd's topic in General Mod Development Help and Support
Hi, the drag cube, is the games representation of the crafts/parts dimensions, the game uses this info to calculate drag. Drag cubes for standard style and simple animated parts are calculated at every game start up, and written to the part database, once a DC has been written to the PartDatabase.cfg, this is the info that the game will always use. Rather than repeating whats lurking elsewhere, have some links The first is the post that started my interest in tweaking DC's and the other two explain how to set it all up for parts that may, by default generate a procedural cube(BAD) or no cube at all. -
Emissive Animation crashes KSP
SpannerMonkey(smce) replied to NermNermNerm's topic in Modelling and Texturing Discussion
It reads a lot more painfully than it feels to do the first time is a bit sketchy but once that's over and you've seen how it works, it's all rinse and repeat. -
Emissive tutorial
SpannerMonkey(smce) replied to CardBoardBoxProcessor's topic in Modelling and Texturing Discussion
Dear mods, for the sake of all the new mod makers out there, please unpin this horribly outdated and misleading post. Anyone following the advice in this tutorial and applying it to the current (or any version from 1.3.1) KSP will find they have created a part that will not load It would be nice too if you could pin the linked post instead -
Emissive Animation crashes KSP
SpannerMonkey(smce) replied to NermNermNerm's topic in Modelling and Texturing Discussion
Hi, it's been a couple of unity versions since you could last animate emissives that way, you now need to use the color animation editor, check this thread https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/135428-color-animation-editor/&tab=comments#comment-2483731 -
I love a bit of wheel porn, especially when it's because you can, nice one buddy
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Hi not enough information there or in the screenshots, have you tried right clicking on the radar PAW and selecting activate? Have you tried activating the radar using the BDA window, selecting modules and the radar/s you'd like switched on? Do you have a weapon manager fitted ? Are you running the correct version of BDA for the version of KSP you are using? If the answer to any of those questions is yes, a zipped copy of your ksp.log will be required to aid further diagnosis
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Hi the AN/APG-63V2 Radome is the nosecone styled forward facing radar and can be found, along with all the other BDA parts, in the BDA category
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TweakScale error
SpannerMonkey(smce) replied to zeant93's question in Technical Support (PC, modded installs)
Hi there can be a couple of causes for this issue in your case it seems to be mainly multiple tweakscale values on the same part, this is caused be having multiple tweakscale modules being applied by different patches. The fix for this is fairly easy to carry out, but extremely time consuming, and should not be the responsibility of the end user( that's you) Rather it is the responsibility of the mod maker/maintainer to ensure that the patching is correct. Visit the tweakscale thread for more information and contact the mod makers concerned, regarding the problematic patching of their parts. I very much doubt you are the only player having this issue with those mods. Note that as the fix for this issue involves sorting out and then repatching the parts, problems can occur with saved or in flight craft -
Hi all in the various SM mods there are an assortment of hydraulic/robotic parts, all are currently broken, and as you may know, have been for a good while now.
So a fix has presented itself in the form of the latest KSP dlc release, in that it has basic robotics as stock(ish) , this in all likelihood means that with a bit of research , I can probably convert the broken bits to use the stock system. Obviously this will make the parts only available to anyone with the appropriate dlc, while not the perfect solution it does mean that the parts will probably remain fixed for as long as KSP exists, and rather than breaking every update, then waiting on a mod update that may never come, players should ( within the realms of KSP probabilities) to be able to transition complex craft between versions.
While i've tried several other robotic plugins to power them , nothing has worked as well with the parts, as the original Infernal robotics, despite reworking the parts many times, there's always an issue somewhere.Opinions welcome
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Hi something that may answer some of your questions (and give you a whole lot more ) The KSPedia pages are compiled bundles created in unity, aside from the patching methods described above, there is no way (I'm aware of ) to change the contents of a compiled bundle.
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Hi all, answers to a few questions I've received.
Am I back? Tricky question, although having just viewed and edited around 960 cfg's and patches, all without flying into a ksp induced rage, is likely a very good sign. Mainly addressing tweakscale, MM and general cfg issues, further work is still required to prevent issues going forward.Will SM mods be back soon? (and all the associated questions, no links etc.) Its looking promising for some of the mods to return for 1.8.x, I doubt 1.8 is going to last long enough for me to get where I want to be, and knowing you lot, eager to make the jump I don't see any point in rushing out maintenance releases for 1.7.3
As it stands today what happens for KSP 2 depends entirely on what KSP 2 will require in the way of changes.
There are many things that it's easy to do, and many things that are neither easy or particularly fun to do, on the way to updating a mod, and should the changes require far too much of the latter and not enough of the former ( for example the idea of retexturing several hundred parts for pbr is nasty just thinking about it)I feel that they'll stay as KSP 1 mods.
That's not to say that there wouldn't be KSP 2 mods from SMI, because if the rumors are true our stuff could finally get some proper use
Cheers 0/
but I would say if the robotic parts in your mods can be modified using KSP expansion robotics, then go for it!
