[1.8.1] JNSQ [0.9.0] [03 Feb 2020]

[Galileo 7,861]

 


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JNSQ

Of the French phrase "Je Ne Sais Quoi," meaning "Something (such as an appealing quality) that cannot be adequately described or expressed," JNSQ seeks to be a finely crafted and freshly challenging planet pack. "Galileo's Planet Pack (GPP)" as many have come to know, has broken many conventions and raised the bar very high for high-quality, challenging, career-friendly, and long-term thrilling planet packs. But now it is regarded as only a stepping stone next to this. Everything that Team Galileo has done for and learned from GPP, has been or is being put into practice here.

Unlike GPP, JNSQ does not remove the stock planets but rather, does reimagine and reinvent them, destroying what you think you know about some of them, and answering the KSP community's cry for a true stock planet visual overhaul and the cry for the planets to be larger. JNSQ also fills out the local planetary system, providing several all new worlds to discover, with a total body count of 31, the amount in GPP.

Logic

Many KSP modders have considered that while the stock parts (namely, engines) are overpowered for stock scale, they are tuned just right for 2.5x scale. With this in mind, JNSQ is built in natively "1/4 real-life scale" (about 2.7x stock scale) which is modestly larger than 2.5x. Because of this change in scale, the length of the Kerbin day is now 12 hours.

Notes

• Sigma Dimensions and Rescale! are not required for JNSQ to function, and are discouraged from use alongside JNSQ.
• When starting new saves under JNSQ, we advise that you enter Difficulty Settings and raise the DSN modifier to 4x. JNSQ applies a patch to increase antenna range by 4x, so leave the range modifier at 1 (changing it triggers a bug that may prevent science transmission).
• The Making History LV-TX87 and LV-T91 engines have had their thrust, mass and cost increased 25% and 20% respectively. This change was deemed necessary to assure they can lift a Mk2 command pod and service module to low orbit at JNSQ's larger scale.
• JNSQ retains the stockalike Kerbin-Mun-Minmus system to conform to game elements outside or our control, such as the built-in contract system. Be advised, however, this configuration is unstable. For users of the mod Principia, the orbit of Minmus is moved inside that of Mun to provide orbital stability.
• JNSQ raises the SCANsat scan altitudes by 3x in order to allow reasonable scan speeds at 2.7x scale, and viable scan work at all but the smallest bodies.
• JNSQ provides at least 14 facilities powered by Kerbal Konstructs and requires Omega's Stockalike Stuctures. Most of these facilities have gameplay features within them for making use of spare kerbals, launching and refueling ships, farming funds or science, expanding DSN coverage, recovering for funds in career. Most of these facilities are hidden by default and must be found.
  • 9 of these are airports.
  • 2 of these directly replace the MH launch sites (Woomera2 for Woomerang, and Darude for Dessert).
  • 2 of these are mountain-top observatories with science farming and full DSN capabilities.

Disclaimer / Barrier to Entry

⚠️ The target audience for JNSQ is the same as, if not narrower, than that of GPP. This mod is made not for the player-base at large, but for seasoned players: who greatly respect rocketry, realism and physics; who do not hold much regard for maintaining "stockalike" and "stock scale;" who are willing and able to mod their way to a great or greater game and who are able to troubleshoot a damaged install for themselves and help us to help them.

JNSQ introduces and bundles a new utility mod that depends on the Community Resource Pack and makes Ore even more scarce and challenging than GPP does. This mod is appropriately called Rational Resources, whose purpose is to purge the random resource configurations generated by CRP, grant increased compatibility between planet packs and mods that use certain resources, and encourage the use of mods that use advanced resources.

Compatibility for mods that expect the stock planets with default topology, biomes, order or radii is not to be expected and will not be provided by us.

JNSQ is not recommended for use with other planet packs. Questions regarding other planet pack compatibility will be ignored.

Provided Compatibility

• Distant Object Enhancement
• Environmental Visual Enhancements
• Kerbal Health
• Kerbal Konstructs: We roll our own extra launch sites
• Kerbalism
• Kopernicus Expansion: Footprints
• MechJeb
• Planetshine
• Rational Resources
• ResearchBodies
• Scatterer (very specifically 0.05x or newer, for KSP 1.6.1 or newer)
• Skybox via Sigma Replacements, DiRT, TextureReplacer
• Strategia
• Waypoint Manager

Requirements

• Kopernicus (latest version for your specific version of KSP, or latest backport release for older KSP versions)
• ModuleManager 4 or newer
• Minimum Hardware: 3 GHz quad-core CPU, 16GB of system RAM and 2GB of video memory

Recommended Mods

Parts

• Eve Optimized Engines. An engine pack tailored for Eve ascent vehicles.
• JX2 Antenna, late-game antennae made to reduce the need to spam RA-15 and RA-100 and preclude the need to install Custom Barn Kit.

Utilities

• Antenna Helper adequately and easily shows the power and ranges of combined antenna in VAB, flight and the Tracking Station.
• Better SRBs: Although a small engine pack, it is primarily a utility. This mod adds very much needed behavior and appropriate rebalances to SRBs in stock and in a handful of popular large parts packs.
• CommNet Antennas Info expands the panel info for antennae in the VAB.
• Kerbal Alarm Clock now works with Kronometer; lets you easily mark the times for maneuvers and encounters in many flights.
• SCANsat: A tiny mod that adds a few parts but is critical to an exploration or ISRU game. Highly recommended for discovering anomalies including most of JNSQ's KK facilities and identifying atypical resource placements by Rational Resources.
• Sigma Replacements: A suite of tiny Sigma mods for changing things such as the main menu scene, kerbal suits, and the skybox.

Licensing

• JNSQ is licensed by Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
• Rational Resources, bundled, is licensed MIT.

 

0.9.0 Change log

 KSP 1.8.1

• Added Localization for biomes, body descriptions and loading screen tips:
  • German - Danke @woeller
  • Italian - Grazie @Sigma88
  • Spanish - Gracias @Adstri
• Added (Moved in) Karborundum engine tweak from Rational Resources.
• Updated "No ghosts" sunflare feature to work in scatterer mode.
• Updated antenna patch to handle NF Exploration's antenna module (not the reflector module).
• Updated KK bases:
  • Added AirBase (airplane) Boneyard, 30km south west of KSC.
  • Added C. McAuliffe space center.
  • Added Welcome Island Harbor.
  • Adjusted hangar mass limits, raised hangar prices, buffed standalone util building's storage volume.
  • Adjusted C. Yeager space center to not have a box mountain range around it anymore.
  • Adjusted Darude base concerning static positions and a contract waypoint marker. Any landed craft here may be offset or destroyed.
  • Adjusted tile colors to match terrain texture updates.
  • All bases now aligned to the cardinal directions. North runway actually points north. This is due to a KK fix only available for KSP 1.8 and later.
  • Fixed CRP patch structure. It's now contained in a single file. It applies to all fuel depot statics. It will provide WBI Classic stock resources if the WBI ClassicStock pseudo-mod is detected.
  • Made observatory centers discoverable (as anomalies) via SCANsat.
• Updated asteroids: Now they are only 3.3x dense as stock where they were 33x which was far too much.
• Updated planet terrain textures to use KSP new terrain shaders.
• Updated Jool and Lindor:
  • Added some more wow factor.
  • Adjusted/Fixed HazardousBody. Jool-diving remains an exercise in extreme steam bathing.
  • Lindor's rings now have a detail texture to simulate granular debris fields.
• Updated Kerbin: expanded arid biomes region southward around and over Darude base.
• Updated Moho: new biome map + Rational Resources config.
• Updated Nara: new surface + new biome map.
• Updated Minmus: new surface + no pixelation.
• Update Huygen: Scatterer atmosphere adjustments.
• Updated Rational Resources bundle to 1.1.0. Full changelog here.

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Edited February 4 by Galileo

[OhioBob 3,260]

Mentioned in this thread's OP and included in the download is this other brand new mod. It is the full evolution of the resource placement engineering project that went into GPP. Rational Resources is part of the core of the JNSQ experience and is easy for other planet mods to employ. Be forewarned, the presence of Ore is reduced even further than in GPP, and creation of certain advanced ISRU chains is encouraged. They are mentioned in the Rational Resources OP.

Included in JNSQ is an all-new and exclusive "Sunflare of Maar." Its name is "Esther." It runs in either Scatterer mode or Unity mode (such as Galileo's Flare Replacer mod). To choose which one runs, change the setting in GameData\JNSQ\JNSQ_Configs\SunflareMode.cfg

In Unity mode, you have the further option to disable the sunflare ghosts by creating a folder JNSQNoGhosts beside JNSQ.

Included in the download, in the JNSQ folder is a ΔV map designed in an all-new "Protractor" style. Concept and numbers by OhioBob, artwork by @JadeOfMaar.

 

Edited June 12, 2019 by OhioBob

[Poodmund 2,944]

Congrats on the public release guys. Its been a joy to see you all toil away on this for the longest time.  

Edited May 30, 2019 by Poodmund

[Rocketology 473]

BOOM! Oh yeah! This is epic!

[4x4cheesecake 1,758]

Perfect timing to set up a new career with the new DLC and now also with some fancy new planets (at least as soon as Kopernicus got an update^^)

 

[Xurkitree 842]

Jesus this looks good.

 

Edited June 4, 2019 by Xurkitree

[tygoo7 1,210]

Congrats on the release guys!!

[Zorg 3,152]

Congratulations to all the members of Team Galileo. I've only visited a few bodies but all I can say is that the mod is well named.... truly breathtaking stuff!! And a high quality native 1/4 scale system is something the community desperately needed. Thank you guys so much.

Spoiler

Our little Mun, its all grown up now (by 2.7x ). Cant wait to check out the added bodies.

 

[JadeOfMaar 7,713]

@Zorg Much respect to you, my dude. Your screenshots are prime stuff. The dV map is finished and included, and will help you to get around that much easier.

[Sigma88 2,189]

good job guys!

[Svm420 300]

The final push I needed to start yet another career. Awesome

[Angel-125 12,437]

This looks good!

[Cruesoe 83]

This looks fantastic.  Congratulations and thank you for what must of been a lot of work!

Thank you!

[NipperySlipples 18]

Can you all please stop putting out incredible looking planet packs before I'm halfway done exploring the last one. It makes decisions for new save games really really hard.

In all seriousness though, I took a quick look at this well waiting for the DLC. From what i can see it looks Quality with a capital Q. 1/4 scale is great. Planets look top notch visually. the pack works with a ton of other mods out of the box. I've already spotted some really cool looking places I want to explore and the arrangement of bodies really looks like its going to add some interesting challenges as you get further out to. I'm excited to play this. 

Thanks for all the work you guys are doing. I wouldn't expect less from the galileo team and you delivered.

 

[Barzon 826]

It really is quite sad that a small group of volunteers can outperform professional programmers/whatever the word is for people who make planets and/or parts.

[Smorfty 13]

FYI: Kopernicus refuses to work in 1.7.1 at the moment and this planet pack won't load unless you downgrade 

Also: The exe installer triggers a virus warning in Windows 10 Defender.

[Iso-Polaris 35]

Will this mod works with those science experiment features in breaking groud?

Like surface crytals etc..

[Galileo 7,861]

4 minutes ago, Iso-Polaris said:

Will this mod works with those science experiment features in breaking groud?

Like surface crytals etc..

Eventually. Not at the moment.

13 minutes ago, Smorfty said:

FYI: Kopernicus refuses to work in 1.7.1 at the moment and this planet pack won't load unless you downgrade 

Also: The exe installer triggers a virus warning in Windows 10 Defender.

Kopernicus is version locked and isn’t updated for 1.7.1. 

As for the virus warning,  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

the source is available for you to go through if you don’t trust it

 

[JadeOfMaar 7,713]

15 minutes ago, Smorfty said:

FYI: Kopernicus refuses to work in 1.7.1 at the moment and this planet pack won't load unless you downgrade 

Also: The exe installer triggers a virus warning in Windows 10 Defender.

Galileo works very closely with the Kopernicus dev so he knows.

Why are you using Windows Defender? Lol. It's only supposed to be enough while you're getting a better antivirus and there are plenty of those for $0.

[floridaman 9]

Purchase new DLC, mess around for 4 hours, sees a new planet pack from Galileo, goes back to 1.7

[Lucius 37]

Hey first off,

Support for Kerbal Health, Strategia, and a few others on that list are absolutely above and beyond. Some of my absolutely core mods, and good to see them held highly enough to be supported on launch.

Second, i presume this doesnt suffer from the "making history" problem GPP did, due to being based back on kerbin?

Third, cannot WAIT to be able to use this with breaking ground! Not to push whatsoever but is that an early priority or a long term goal, to add support for surface anomalies from BG?

 

Thank you so much for all your work Galileo

[Galileo 7,861]

5 minutes ago, Lucius said:

Hey first off,

Support for Kerbal Health, Strategia, and a few others on that list are absolutely above and beyond. Some of my absolutely core mods, and good to see them held highly enough to be supported on launch.

Second, i presume this doesnt suffer from the "making history" problem GPP did, due to being based back on kerbin?

Third, cannot WAIT to be able to use this with breaking ground! Not to push whatsoever but is that an early priority or a long term goal, to add support for surface anomalies from BG?

 

Thank you so much for all your work Galileo

As soon as Kopernicus is updated, Breaking Ground will be supported.

[theJesuit 1,066]

Looks amazing! Congratulations on the release. 

Peace.

[linuxgurugamer 16,267]

I'm very sad! Now I won't be able to go back and finish GPPI have a whole new set of planets to explore and looks a very very interesting

[Galileo 7,861]

12 minutes ago, linuxgurugamer said:

I'm very sad! Now I won't be able to go back and finish GPPI have a whole new set of planets to explore and looks a very very interesting

Well, Make a separately install!