veryinky Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 With the proliferation of "test part flying at Kerbin" contracts that require interesting combinations of speed and altitude, I decided that I wanted to guarantee that a DP-10 would never lose signal. So my first ring of communication satellites became eight Communotron 16s orbiting 175km above the equator. With that spacing, a DP-10 will connect from surface to at least 350 km anywhere along the equator. Maybe overkill, but it saves hassle and power requirements on everything else in LKO.I did something similar, 10 satellites at 147km/36m orbital period and within 450-500km of each other, they're just Com-16 and solar panels. The problem is that this constellation along with the 3 satellites at 776km/90m orbital period and 2350km from each other (com-16+4 dishes), along with the various scan-sats and constellations around other moons is already pushing me into yellow timewarp when just looking at it.In the future I simply won't bother with in-atmosphere testing, canceling those missions instead of taking them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidfu Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 mecki there no decent way to have a good polar coverage but u can make it less by the muns sats and minmus sats.right now ive found that having a minimalist approach is best. more sats u use more ram u use even thou hard to tell it can spike and also less sats mean less chance of mod bugging out lol. besides since kerbin is in a naer perfect orbit around kerbol no one said u cant have a few polar kerbol sats lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veryinky Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 3 equidistant equator sats and 3 equidistant polar sats at an altitude of 600-850 would give coverage everywhere on Kerbin for Com-16 probes, but not for DP-10 using atmospheric probes. As far as I can tell, the minimum number of satellites needed to be able to contact DP-10's anywhere on kerbin is 16 satellites, in 2 rings of 8 com-16s at a +/-30 degree inclination difference from the equator. But when, why would someone absolutely need to have short range radio contact with the north/south pole at all times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FennexFox Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Sorry but I couldn`t find any note so I`m asking: Is this .24 compatible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Kerman Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 it's not been officially updated for 0.24.x but it is reported as working. Hell, I'm still using the last 0.23.5 release in 0.24.2 and that's been working just fine so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkstar80 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 It seems to be working for a lot of people. For me, however, it causes random crashes that don't happen at all when i remove it. So far all the mods i like to use are working save for remote tech, B9, and KAS. And all 3 of those are being reported by some to be working fine for them....perhaps it's the mix of mods I'm using, I dunno. Waiting on official releases for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acc Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 (edited) got a null reference exception, related to RT2: '>output_log.txt (win64)ArgumentNullException: Argument cannot be null.Parameter name: source at System.Linq.Check.SourceAndPredicate (System.Object source, System.Object predicate) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at System.Linq.Enumerable.Where[uIPartActionWindow] (IEnumerable`1 source, System.Func`2 predicate) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at RemoteTech.UIPartActionMenuPatcher.Wrap (.Vessel parent, System.Action`2 pass) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at RemoteTech.ModuleSPU.HookPartMenus () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at RemoteTech.ModuleSPU.FixedUpdate () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 (Filename: Line: -1)And if I remember right, the log flooding with "Look rotation viewing vector is zero" should be also related to RT2. It did not crash at first, but was really lagy. Edited August 3, 2014 by acc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FennexFox Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 it's not been officially updated for 0.24.x but it is reported as working. Hell, I'm still using the last 0.23.5 release in 0.24.2 and that's been working just fine so farReally? I found my RT2 works weirdly. Antennas are not deployed (it works though) and a antenna has three identical toggling buttons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkstar80 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 The tripling of the antenna may be due to too many versions of mod manager. Make sure you delete all but the latest version from your game data folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FennexFox Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Really thanks.I'm gonna check that as soon as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mecki Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 There still is an incompatibility note on startup, stating that RemoteTech is made for 23.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creat Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Really thanks.I'm gonna check that as soon as possible.Yes, multiple entries of RT2 options in the context menu are basically always just multiple modulemanager dlls. Just search your GameData, you should only ever have exactly one (preferably the newest, 2.2.0 I think). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocer Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 I have a problem. The GUI is pink and doesn't show anythingDoes anyone have a solution.I am running the 64 bit version of ksp in version 0.24.2.559with these mods:Docking port alignment indicatorKerbal engineer reduxEnhanced NavballKASkerbal joint reinforcementKSP alternate resourcepanelmodule manager 2.2.0RCS build aidremote tech 2 (which is the problem I think)TAC life support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naten Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 I have a problem. The GUI is pink and doesn't show anythinghttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6eXweXZaeY8ajJaWjV2R3FnWFE/edit?usp=sharingDoes anyone have a solution.I am running the 64 bit version of ksp in version 0.24.2.559with these mods:Docking port alignment indicatorKerbal engineer reduxEnhanced NavballKASkerbal joint reinforcementKSP alternate resourcepanelmodule manager 2.2.0RCS build aidremote tech 2 (which is the problem I think)TAC life supportAre you sure it's not KAS, Kerbal Joint Reinforcement or alternate resource panel? I'd assume ARP is the most related to GUI, and I think KAS is broken for .24.2. Also, KJR is pretty redundant now we have the rigidbody update thingy. Well, good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocer Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 (edited) Are you sure it's not KAS, Kerbal Joint Reinforcement or alternate resource panel? I'd assume ARP is the most related to GUI, and I think KAS is broken for .24.2. Also, KJR is pretty redundant now we have the rigidbody update thingy. Well, good luck. First of all thank you for replying, second I deleted KAS, the Alternative panel and KJR but unfortunately it didnt work. anybody anymore ideas. Edited August 3, 2014 by ocer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterFister Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 KAS isn't broken for 24.2 necessarily, but it has been semi-confirmed to throw silent errors for x64. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivvik Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 I was having the crashes too, until I nixed this mod.Kinda stinks I was 4 satellites into a communications network too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidfu Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 most of us can say WE NEED MORE INFO THAN THAT Rivvik. there probaly is a 99% chance of either a mod conflict, installed wrong or u using the wrong version. ive played 10 hours with this version and had no problems with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JewelShisen Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Any plans to bring back the AeroProbe or the MegaTruss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Probus Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Sorry if someone has already answered this, I looked back through recent posts and couldn't find anything. Is there a version RT2 that works in 24.2 and 64 bit mode? Working on a new tech tree and want to integrate the parts in my antenna branch. If not, I will work the tree in 23.5 in the mean time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivvik Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 most of us can say WE NEED MORE INFO THAN THAT Rivvik. there probaly is a 99% chance of either a mod conflict, installed wrong or u using the wrong version. ive played 10 hours with this version and had no problems with itI'm re-installing to sift through, but thats an issue too, it seems almost random. When I made that post, my game worked once I nixed Remotech, then an hour later it crapped out again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarmenia Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 how do you guys deal with signal delay when trying to land a probe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erendrake Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 how do you guys deal with signal delay when trying to land a probe?I use kOS to automate it. I hear others turn off the delay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 how do you guys deal with signal delay when trying to land a probe?MechJeb. MechJeb & smart parts are essential to RT2 in my book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarmenia Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 MechJeb. MechJeb & smart parts are essential to RT2 in my book.Isn't MechJeb subjected to signal delay as well? Has this changed since I last looked? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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