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    What Happened to Minmus!?

    in KSP2 Discussion

    Posted

    I think it could do with a slight extra green tint, but honestly, I like it way better in KSP2 than in KSP1. The ideal, for me, would be the terrain and detail of KSP2, with... about 20 % of the greenness from KSP1.

    It just doesn't make sense to have a bright green moon so close to the Sun. The change is a creative choice that I fully support.

    AD ASTRA: A Reimagining of Stock and The Outer Planets Mod - "It's Cloudin' Time"

    in KSP1 Mod Development

    Posted · Edited by wasmic

    16 hours ago, G'th said:

    Threw out the old color map and started over.  Not entirely certain if I love this or hate it. 

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    I think the red in the canyons here looks rather unnatural. It feels too saturated. Too purely red. It feels more like a dark crimson than a red ochre. I liked the previous version more, actually - the red oxide colour, with some spots and streaks of yellow and black oxide.

    It's really impressive how many different hues iron oxide is capable of taking on. Red, black, yellow, brown... even some surprisingly vivid oranges if you apply hydrated iron oxides onto a white base. Most artist's paint ranges have a lot of different iron oxide pigments available. Transparent and opaque, in various colours. They're usually very nice to work with, too.

    I think that something that's mostly like this one: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/224860633525518347/1040710915177324574/screenshot3.png, but with some streaks of yellow ochre and dark areas reminiscent of this one: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/224860633525518347/1040826873954963537/screenshot10.png would be just perfect.

    But damn, you're a machine. So many immensely pretty images. Jool is stunning. Pol will take some time to get used to, but I like it a lot too. I'm sure that whatever you do, it'll turn out lovely.

    AD ASTRA: A Reimagining of Stock and The Outer Planets Mod - "It's Cloudin' Time"

    in KSP1 Mod Development

    Posted · Edited by wasmic

    Wow, this looks absolutely stunning - and what a massive amount of work you've gotten done in such a short time! Really impressive.

    I have a bit of critique too. The red bands on Sarnus are kinda bluish in tone, which - to my eyes - clashes with the warm, orange ochre-ish tone. I think they would be much easier on the eyes if you increased the lightness slightly and reduced the saturation a bit on both the red and yellow bands. That way you can also bring the yellow bands a bit further towards the first yellow again, rather than using the orange-salmon colour.

    As for Eve and Duna, they both look absolutely amazing - much more realistic than the stock ones. However, I think they lose a bit of their "identity", so to say. I think Duna in particular would do well with having its hue adjusted slightly towards the red, making it closer to the stock planet in hue while keeping the more realistic lower saturation of the version you've made here. This would make it more reminiscent of its stock version, rather than just being Mars-coloured. Maybe also adjust Eve's clouds/atmosphere ever so slightly towards purple and away from blue; the current version looks more like a blue-grey planet with a purple and green tint, rather than a purple planet.

    Ovok looks amazing, but I think Mun, Dres and Tylo must be the most beautiful among all the worlds you've made so far. Dres just got actually interesting!

    [1.12.x] Kopernicus Stable branch (Last Updated February 12th, 2024)

    in KSP1 Mod Releases

    Posted

    So, I've been trying to write a config file to rescale my Kerbin, and so far, this code works great: 

    @Kopernicus:AFTER[KOPERNICUS]
{
  @Body[Kerbin]
  {
    @Properties
    {
      radius = 960000
    }
  }
}

    ...except that the ocean then becomes invisible. It's still there and my vessels can land in it/crash into it, but it just isn't visible. I tried asking in the Discord group for help, but didn't get any replies except a link to KittopiaTech, with which I managed to rescale the "radius" of Kerbin, but not the actual planet model, so the 'surface' ended up at an altitude of -360 km. It doesn't help that there are no guides for KT that I could find - I tried both Google and Youtube and didn't find anything that could be used as a guide. So I gave up on using KT and just went back to making my config file manually.

    So my question is just: how do I make my oceans visible again after rescaling a body? I've played around with a few of the ocean settings, but none of them seem to do the trick for me.

    Kerbin Shuttle Orbiter System [1.9.1] Development by EHI

    in KSP1 Mod Development

    Posted

    On 7/15/2021 at 5:28 PM, panarchist said:

    Vehicles and shuttles - the station parts are almost completely unbroken. Just don't use the MM patches I contributed for life support - they're very old and before I really understood how to write a Module Manager patch.

    The most broken part is the weights / CoG if I remember right. @Eskandare can speak to that a lot better than I - the model files need tweaking to resolve longstanding balance issues. KSOS was released WAY back in something like 0.23 or 0.24 of KSP, and multiple changes to file format and flight mechanics over the years has made the shuttles nearly uncontrollable in large parts of the flight envelope. Eskandare worked with the original mod creators to obtain source files and permission to modify and redistribute, and has done a lot of work in the background towards a re-release. Ground vehicles were, IIRC, completely broken. 

    Ah, that sounds about right. I used to be reasonably good at the whole ModuleManager shenanigans, but I took a long break from about 1.0 until... well, a few months ago, so by now it really just gives me a headache to think about it. The functionality also seems to have become more advanced since last I looked, with all those resource switcher mods. Still, I should probably spend a few hours familiarising myself with it, as the payoff seems to be pretty great.

    I take it that it's mostly the wheels that are broken for the ground vehicles? IIRC the wheel mechanics were changed a couple of times along the way.

    Kerbin Shuttle Orbiter System [1.9.1] Development by EHI

    in KSP1 Mod Development

    Posted

    Which parts of this mod are the broken ones? I've been away from KSP for quite a while and kinda lost track of what changed when.

    I know the wheels system changed at some point, so the wheels parts need to be redone. There was also a change to how animations worked, but I think that might have been before the initial release of KSOS? I remember that that was what finally broke BobCat's HOME mods. I still have those lying around on a backup somewhere...

    But what about the station parts from this mod? Are they also broken, or is it mostly the vehicles and the shuttles themselves that are non-functional?

    [1.12.x] Cryogenic Engines: Liquid Hydrogen and Methane Rockets! (Jan 22, 2022)

    in KSP1 Mod Releases

    Posted

    On 1/29/2021 at 12:23 AM, Saul Retav said:

    I have an issue where boil off is happening despite plenty of EC, probably only in timewarp. I've noticed two different ships now where cooling is enabled and they have plenty of EC and solar panels, but after timewarping several days, lots of fuel boil off happens. :(

    Do you have enough energy capacity for when you're traveling through the shadow side of a planet?

    [1.12.3] Restock - Revamping KSP's art (Feb 25)

    in KSP1 Mod Releases

    Posted

    Just now, PocketBrotector said:

    Everything in RS+ that is disabled by MH is basically duplicative of the MH parts. If you use RS+ with MH, it will make your MH parts look better, which may make you like those parts more. Try it and see.

    Ah, okay, so it does replace the MH parts. The wording in the OP made me think that nothing at all would happen if MH is installed. Thank you!

    [1.12.3] Restock - Revamping KSP's art (Feb 25)

    in KSP1 Mod Releases

    Posted

    I want to install Restock+, but I see that a lot of the parts are disabled for those who own the Making History expansion. I do own that expansion, but don't particularly like the parts from it.

    So, is there any way to either disable Making History (I have not been able to find a method by searching around), or to enable those Restock+ parts despite Making History being installed?

    [1.8.x] reDIRECT | Stockalike Orion, SLS, & Shuttle-Derived Launchers | (Fixes!) | v0.10.1

    in KSP1 Mod Releases

    Posted

    ...what docking port is used for the Orion? I've been looking through my parts list in-game and was unable to find anything resembling the screenshots on the first page, and I also couldn't find any docking port in the mod's files.

    On top of that, the Ares I seems to have an extremely high TWR if built as suggested. But then again, I believe the real one did have a pretty obscene TWR too.

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