The Grand History of KSP [WIP

[HansonKerman]

Hello, and this is my thread showing the version history of KSP and its major updates and features!! It's not that detailed so...

 

I'm going to be working on it over the days, updates coming weekly!

 

A Small Dream: The Never Released Releases (non releases? Just "versions"? Whatever.)

 

v: 0.0

Just a little proof-of-conept compile.

Rocket goes up.

Joints fall off.

Pretty much it.

Run in Unity.

v: 0.1:

Simplest information panel ever is added!!

All the parts are barely recognizable, even from the 0.7 version.

SRBs have different plumes.

You can see your reflection in the water (see second image)

You can go boom boom.

Game is 2d. You can only yaw, no pitch or roll.

"VAB" is added. The VAB is part of the flight scene.

You can look in 3d in the VAB, but building is limited to a 2d plane (of course)

There are barely any parts.

No orbit: but there is a void! Like in Minecraft, except no explosions, just falling forever!

Here's a pic of 0.1 terrain.

(Author's comment: At least the KSP early versions are clearly numbered! Just try finding your way around the early Minecraft versions.)

v 0.2: 

"Staging"!!

You can pan 3d, but only fly 2d still

You could use those stage tabs (-1 = Launch stage, 0 likely = the SRB, so that's likely redundant, and 1 likely = decoupler) to move the stages, but the sequence is not changed. So you could only activate one item at a time, likely.

Big launch button, for all your launching needs.

A "moon". You can't go there yet though, it's just plastered onto the skybox.

Gravity that  works for a sphere.

Floating point calculation errors! Woo! (find out more on the wiki)

Kerbin is a big sphere, 20km big.

Can't see how much fuel is in a tank.

"Orbit".

Big black square that has a line that calculates your orbital trajectory. Barely useful. Turns red when it goes under the surface.

 

v 0.3:

A big black screen is added. It makes jokes and has a countdown.

Sounds are added.

A... thing on the right.

Temp gauge is there, but it doesn't tell you if you're about to explode. Same with the fuel gauge.

Screens are useless, Kerbals don't exist. Oddly enough the game is still called Kerbal Space Program.

No RCS or anything else we have now. (except maybe a few silly placeholders)

No more moon plastered onto the sky.

Another... thing. I think it's an instructions manual, pretty sure that's what HarvestR wanted to convey.

Transcript:

Kerbal Space Program 

Flight Manual

 

1. Press [ space ] to LAUNCH! 

2. Use [A] & [D] to control your flight | [W] & control throttle --> Watch your TEMPERATURE!

3. Separate stages with [ space ] --> Try not to EXPLODE!

Bottom right: I'm ready! Go! button

 

STILL a fake planet.

 

Author's note: I'm skipping 0.4 because it was mostly boring terrain fixes.

 

Early KSP releases (0.7.3 - 0.17)

 

v 0.7.3: 

THE FIRST RELEASE!!!!!!! WOO!!!!!!

A few new parts are added, including struts, fins (decorative), and SAS modules (just torque.)

The sun is decorative.

Kerbin implemented.

Render distance is 1500,000m, and then Kerbin disappears.

 

 

Edited May 25, 2019 by HansonKerman
Added 0.7.3

[The Aziz]

Welp, here's what exactly HarvesteR said about it (and where all of it appeared for the first time) https://kerbalspace.tumblr.com/page/12