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  1. I'm just reporting a incompatibility for anyone else also stumbling on this issue. This isn't not a real bug report because i just rebooted my KSP1 playthrough after a long time and i'm not sure CC mod is up to date with KSP version. Alongside this mod, i installed also Allista's Configurable Containers v2.6.2.1 and main UI panel won't open. I found in log file a line with "Failed to add Resource [long integer number] to Simulation PartSet etc etc" It appears some resource is being removed while other parts/modules are trying to use it, and KSP isn't too happy about it.
  2. It appears that ReflectionProbe.cullingMask is what i need to alter to get ships/parts and kerbals to be included in reflections/cubemap. so.,.. its solved.
  3. I didn't want to pollute the forum with yet another thread so i'm posting here instead. Does anyone know how to setup RelfectionProbe to reflect dynamic objects in flight scene, not just statics (like buildings and terrain) ? Ref: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-ReflectionProbe.html Please @xEvilReeperx if you have time ...
  4. If managed by mod, any bugs can be compensated for. So, completely separate tech trees can be a thing in KSP. Like geology, general phyiscs, structural engineering, fluid dynamics, biology, psychology, nanotech etc ... I'm hinting at the idea replacing current science system to prevent investing science in one branch to be used in another, keeping unrelated fields of study separate. One more thing : how are science points being kept separate by type, from generating by the science part to the last step when utilized in tech tree ?
  5. So, this mod can separate science points into types that can be later expended on specific nodes in tech tree... Could tech tree nodes be separated completely from main tech tree, in their own root nodes ? Yes, it would make them unresearchable from default research root, but with some additional code those could be unlocked and allow further research as expected.
  6. In my case for Science Relay, i had similar problem, but was able to kind of solve it. When i deployed a small science station around Mun i tried to send science data from a nearby satellite and it didn't work. So i turned on debug output and found that my station had 0 capacity to receive science (it has MPL lab module) and all science was sent back to original sources (the science parts that generated it). So i built a second module, launched it on SPH tarmac and tried to send science there and it worked. For unknown reason, my first station simply bugged out. I send an engineer to weld the science box part and it works now. Strange indeed. I did poke around in source, recompiled it with referencing KSP 1.11 assemblies and added some debug prints. Turns out finishTransfer() function in ScienceRelay.cs receives the vessel loaded argument as false, then it loops through all available science containers and ultimately fails, causing the "No valid science container for science" to show in debug log window. I can try to reproduce the bug, but this may be some edge case.
  7. Hoping to reignite the discussion (even by going slightly OT again) , i've looked at Modular Flight Integrator which is written as VesselModule that manages part aerodynamics and heating model. Link: I assume it is designed only for crafts moving in air medium (ie low Reynolds number), but i'm not entirely sure if it can do other things, like modeling part behaviour in liquid medium (ie high Reynolds number). If MFI can't be used to model part motion in liquids, is it possible to write a separate VesselModule plugin that can override stock fluid mechanics in KSP and perform its own calculations ? In the above linked old post discussing the "Analysis of the buoyancy of parts and how to improve things" it has in OP mention of If this still holds true (and i assume this wasn't addressed by Squad since their first release), a separate plugin to tackle this would be welcome.
  8. Thanks for the link, but beyond adding own modules to add ballast management and defining buoyancy for its own parts, it really does not address the issue en masse. There is still no clearly defined method to derive required parameters from part itself. The forum post i linked to does discuss about this, alas without definitive solution. Hence my post here. I'm hoping not to have hijacked (too much) of this thread to discuss this.
  9. How is buoyancy affected by this ? Is it even considered as a sideffect of calculations ? I'm not mentioning it in objective headspace since i have waited long for someone to solve this problem. There was an effort to fix it, but it required adding extra module/field in part cfg and manually tweak the value of each part. You can see this method got nowhere. I did try for several times to build a combination of quadcopter and a bathysphere that was winched up and down on a KAS cable. It worked to some depth (below cable limit) until the kraken, after which cable physics stopped working. The bathysphere had a small module {} added to a cockpit part to artifically add/remove mass. It looked as if when buoyancy forces were excessively different among parts on bathysphere, hell broke loose (only a modified cockpit had its mass changed, rest of part were untouched).
  10. To add my two cents, the visual damage can be done with code adapted from conformal decals mod . This way all impact can accumulate on surface and fit more or less nicely with surface. Oh and also this can add challenge to solar powered rovers on celestial bodies with dusty atmosphere (Opportunity rover survival challenge). As for impacts in interplanetary space, it can be expected to take craft cross-section area into probability calculation, but not all impact vectors point in direction of travel. There can always be impact from any direction and i don't know of any analysis / scientific paper describing distribution of matter in our solar system that can be used as starting point to make those calculations. I can only tell that the angle difference between impact vector and direction of travel does decrease as craft travels through space if its speed is approaching the average speed of particles defined for that particular volume of space. For example, in case of planetary rings, you can be fairly sure that particles travel in single plane and in same direction as it parent body rotation (i did say "fairly sure" since i'm not an astronomer). If you travel through them above their average speed, they will strike the craft "on the front".
  11. Uh-oh ! I completely forgot about "beam propulsion" - it is direction-dependant ! You could imagine it as trying to raise orbit using only ion engine. You need to fire the engine at the single point in orbit to get what is needed. This one will be tricky. Imagine using sail-like propulsion to drive TOWARD source of beam, that is contradiction.
  12. To add to above : also, if there is something wrong with code, all data will be in one place. It will be hard to match saved game state against custom data in separate file. Be aware of this. I had run into similar problem of saving state of my part and i analyzed the save and found the bug.
  13. I agree with @linuxgurugamer, this plugin can be a PartModule that saves the list of all connected transmitters or receivers (with respect to its receive/transmit type). One transmitter can have list of multiple receivers and a one receiver can only have one transmitter (unless some kind of list for fallback transmitters is added to compensate for loss of power due to lost line of sight, power failure or other disabling conditions). All save/load happens on OnLoad and OnSave which write into Persistent.sfs file that holds all save game config data.
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