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SafeBrakes 1.1.6

Save your airbrakes on reentry.

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FEATURES

You can activate the brakes by pressing the modifier key and brakes simultaneously (alt+b by default on Windows).
When activated, the anti lock system (ABS) temporarily deactivates the brakes to avoid drifting and crashing onto the runway during landing.
The anti-overheat system (SAB) deactivates the brakes to prevent the airbrakes from overheating and reactivates them when they are cooled down.

INSTALLATION
Download the mod from Spacedock, GitHub or CKAN

CHANGELOG

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SafeBrakes Changelog

1.1.6
- fixed blurry app button
1.1.5
- poll results: toggle the brakes with modkey + brakes [63%]
- updated InstallCheck and ModuleManager
- various bug fixes and improvements
1.1.4
- community suggestions: renamed "ABS rate" to "ABS interval", added ABS action group
- added installation checking
- bug fixes
1.1.3
- recompiled for KSP 1.8.x
- added GUI
1.1.2
- Fixed version file syntax.
1.1.1
- Added settings file.
1.1.0
- The antilock system now only works when landing or splashed down.
- Added an anti-overheat system to the airbrakes: it deactivates the brakes to avoid overheating and reactivates them when they are cooled.
- moved the MiniAVC.dll so that it can work.
1.0.0
- Initial release

 

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Mod licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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On 11/2/2019 at 11:40 AM, DfA-DoM said:

Please, follow @JadeOfMaar suggestion and include an equivalent of DoubleTapBrakes into your mod.

 

Currently you can lock the brakes with alt+b. But I'm not against the idea of switching from alt+b to double tap if people are interested.

37 minutes ago, FellipeC said:

What the ABS Rate slider do?

The ABS rate slider allows you to change the time between two cycles of the anti-lock system (one cycle = one deactivation and reactivation of the brakes). It goes from 0.1s to 1s, quicker rate means safer landing but longer distance to stop, lower rate means shorter distance but can cause you craft to drift on the runway.

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1 minute ago, Astronants said:

Currently you can lock the brakes with alt+b. But I'm not against the idea of switching from alt+b to double tap if people are interested.

The ABS rate slider allows you to change the time between two cycles of the anti-lock system (one cycle = one deactivation and reactivation of the brakes). It goes from 0.1s to 1s, quicker rate means safer landing but longer distance to stop, lower rate means shorter distance but can cause you craft to drift on the runway.

Thanks. I thought the exactly opposite, bigger numbers, brake quicker. Now it makes sense!

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1 hour ago, Astronants said:

Currently you can lock the brakes with alt+b. But I'm not against the idea of switching from alt+b to double tap if people are interested.

The ABS rate slider allows you to change the time between two cycles of the anti-lock system (one cycle = one deactivation and reactivation of the brakes). It goes from 0.1s to 1s, quicker rate means safer landing but longer distance to stop, lower rate means shorter distance but can cause you craft to drift on the runway.

I recommend changing “ABS rate” to “ABS interval” as it should be a bit more intuitive in its meaning. 

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3 hours ago, linuxgurugamer said:

No need, just install both

1 mod for 1 line of code: isn't it a bit... overkill?

3 hours ago, Astronants said:

Currently you can lock the brakes with alt+b. But I'm not against the idea of switching from alt+b to double tap if people are interested.

That would be really nice.

I'm not against having several mod acting together (currently playing with approx 50 active mods), but I think that the wheel brakes handling don't deserve many mods, possibly conflicting each other.

 

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On 11/3/2019 at 5:51 PM, DfA-DoM said:

That would be really nice.

I'm not against having several mod acting together (currently playing with approx 50 active mods), but I think that the wheel brakes handling don't deserve many mods, possibly conflicting each other.

I opened an issue on Github including a link to a poll in which you guys can vote for how you want to toggle the brakes: https://github.com/Astronants/SafeBrakes/issues/2

I'll also include a link to the poll in the next update. If it doesn't get enough votes btw I'll leave things as they are.

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In addition to picking a method of toggling brakes on/off (rather than tap & hold or click the icon as in vanilla), would it be doable to include an option to enable/disable the ABS feature as well? For those moments when you just *want* to lock the brakes, and don't want to click on a pod and find the correct switch in time. :)

Or, if it's exposable to an action group to toggle ABS on/off, that would work too.

I'm voting mod-key, since double tapping can be finicky with response time, though I do use and love 'double tap brakes' as well.

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Crossposting one of my posts from another thread:

I'm far from an expert in reading logs, but I'm seeing a lot of these in the log when I was looking at said rover:

[ERR 17:36:00.062] Module SafeBrakes threw during OnUpdate: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
  at SafeBrakes.SafeBrakes.OnUpdate () [0x001b4] in <e8f4061f37b542f9b11eea8271dcef40>:0 
  at Part.ModulesOnUpdate () [0x0004a] in <9d71e4043e394d78a6cf9193ad011698>:0 

 

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On 12/1/2019 at 12:50 AM, MaxwellsDemon said:

Crossposting one of my posts from another thread:

I'm far from an expert in reading logs, but I'm seeing a lot of these in the log when I was looking at said rover:

[ERR 17:36:00.062] Module SafeBrakes threw during OnUpdate: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
  at SafeBrakes.SafeBrakes.OnUpdate () [0x001b4] in <e8f4061f37b542f9b11eea8271dcef40>:0 
  at Part.ModulesOnUpdate () [0x0004a] in <9d71e4043e394d78a6cf9193ad011698>:0 

 

Hi, thanks for reporting the issue, I'll take a look at it and make an update asap. I'll also take a look at your original thread, some context could help me a lot in recreating and fixing it.

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Is there a way to just default this to on, instead of activating manually? Also, it would be awesome to have the brakes automatically activate on touchdown

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17 hours ago, dlrk said:

Is there a way to just default this to on, instead of activating manually? Also, it would be awesome to have the brakes automatically activate on touchdown

I wouldn't hold your breath on that one (not the author obviously, but I do have some insight on this).

It's incredibly difficult to accurately detect a touchdown. If a plane bounces even slightly while taking off then the situation will quickly change from Flying, to Landed, and back to Flying. A touchdown mod would almost certainly be looking for a vessel going from Flying to Landed. There are ways around that of course, but it's not an easy thing to account for all the variables.

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