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  2. Xyphos
    well then, I guess my 'simple' logger mod just got more complex; I'll try to get it to work in the tracking station but if I can't, I'll just re-write it for flight and hyperedit some probes in orbit just to scan from there. thanks for your input, I'll keep you posted on what becomes of it.
  3. VoidSquid
    CKAN still showing 0.9.6 as latest version. I've downloaded the mod directly, no problem here. But others might rely on what CKAN displays.
  4. mcwaffles2003
    I assume not only could you turn use to 0 but also all resource values of significance
  5. mcwaffles2003
    This is why I bring this up, if the stars end up as stationary points will that limit the capabilities of the modder when trying to make dynamic star systems? This Well this thread isn't for us to build up expectations, that'd be dumb as we have no evidence of that which is being discussed... but the intention of this thread is to discuss speculation openly with educated guesses and narrowing reasonable possibilities. I'm hoping people from Star Theory come across this thread and others in this forum to fish out ideas and consensus from a lively and thought provoking community. As far as the modeling and texturing, I don't believe the people working on that will be drawn away as I dont believe they are coders anyway, and the base platform to the functioning universe itself is something that has to be done right before release or else we might have a new axial tilt type limitation. Let the modding chaos begin That's some tasty 14th century religious dogma there. ALL HAIL THE CRYSTAL SPHERES!!
  6. VoidSquid started following [WIP] [1.4.1] Roster Manager - 0.2.5.1 KSP 1.4.1 Compatibility Edition - 17 Mar 2018
  7. VoidSquid
    Hey there @Papa_Joe, any chance the Roster Manager might be updated for 1.8.x ?
  8. pmborg
    @FreeThinker The old models that are just theoretic models never flown are these ones: K:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Kerbal Space Program\saves\InterStar\Ships\VAB>dir /B *M.craft 191M.craft 251M.craft 263M.craft 272M.craft 30M.craft Daedalus_and_Bussard-v3_3-105M.craft Daedalus_and_Bussard-v3_3-124M.craft Daedalus_and_Bussard-v3_4-172M.craft Daedalus_and_Bussard-v3_5-170M.craft Daedalus_and_Bussard-v3_6-143M.craft Daedalus_and_Bussard-v3_7-145M.craft Daedalus_and_Bussard-v4-153M.craft Daedalus_and_Bussard-v4-163M.craft Daedalus_and_Bussard-v4-164M.craft Daedalus_and_Bussard-v4-165M.craft InterStellarShuttle-v5-1-117M.craft InterStellarShuttle-v5-117M.craft InterStellarShuttle-v5-2-117M.craft If you think that is useful I can make a zip with them. Only this ship can get 0.906c Max speed AlphaCentauri in 9 years. TRAPPIST1 in 36 years. NOTE: Earth Years
  9. AHHans
    My big asteroid tug uses five Klaws at the end of large pistons to attach to asteroids. That allows me to adjust the length of the pistons to orient my craft to point exactly at the center of mass of the asteroid, and then lock the pistons for a solid connection. Sometimes one of the Klaws touches the asteroid at too steep an angle to get hold, but the even with only four Klaws connected the connection is usually good enough to get a solid grip and push around even the heaviest asteroids. [Grrr... Google doesn't like me removing their cookie from my browser each session, so they decided to liquid me off. So right now it's too much hassle to log into my (an) imgur account to show you a picture.]
  10. Laie
    I'd like to add: "you don't have to". Recently I put great effort into securing the vessel to the asteroid by means of KAS struts: The results were not convincing. Autostrutting just a single part of the tug to the asteroid worked much better, was little effort, and required no special contraptions.
  11. blowfish
    So a few things: 1) Engines are expensive. If you’re packing more engine than you really need you’re wasting money 2) Higher TWR engines aren’t going to be more expensive for the same thrust. Hard to justify in an upper stage where additional TWR doesn’t really gain you anything. 3) For launchers optimized for GTO (like Atlas V) you can really get away with long burn times. The burn will be split in two anyway (one to insert into a parking orbit and one to get to GTO) so upper stage burn times that would be awful for pure LEO are just fine for GTO. And computer guidance systems don’t get bored the way human KSP players do
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  13. AHHans
    Well, I also think about how stuff would work in real life. So e.g. when designing folding wings I set it up so that when the wings are unfolded the hinges are at their maximum and get pushed into the "end stop" by the forces during flight. Also: don't use physics warp with spinning rotors (e.g. propellers). But in general: "move when no load is there, be locked when load is there" worked fairly well for me.
  14. FreeThinker
    Yes but there are weird side effect while @pmborg might explain to you
  15. avalancha
    Just a quick hint, you could update the big black text in the OP here in the thread, it still advertises 1.6 and 1.7 compatibility only
  16. Aperture Science
    The Spacescifi Experience
  17. Craze
    It does a good docking, but not very economical. In manual I spend three times less fuel RCS. He does not understand that the ship is already in front of dockport and if the distance is small, it will first go to a safe distance and then again start decreasing. If the dock is on the other side of the ship, the flyby is not performed on the optimal trajectory. I use Smart ASS for dock alignment. Everything else handles.
  18. DarkNounours
    I am quite new to the game of making KSP config files. I found a file with %type and %defaultScale already provided with the Tweakscale mod: SSPXR_Tweakscale.cfg @PART[sspx-adjusting-base-25-1,sspx-adjusting-base-cradle-25-1]:NEEDS[TweakScale] { %MODULE[TweakScale] { %name = TweakScale %type = SSPXR_stack25 %defaultScale = 2.5 } } Do you mean my blocks should look like this ? With my specific definitions of scaling types ? To be honest I made the file like stock config files and most of the files provided with the Tweakscale mod are not using these variables. Well I think I have applied exactly the same configurations than the stock parts. I tested the file in 1.8.1 only at the moment. EDIT : I have just played with tanks in my VAB and have not seen what you are talking about. Do you have a partname so that I can check ?
  19. Craze
    That's not it. They separate the spent stages. And after putting into orbit, when the perapsis formed, the engine turns off. Here is this stage like would bounce automatically. It's not.
  20. VoidSquid
    @CardboardGuy Yes it does. In fact, all the pure part mods I'm using are working fine with 1.8.1. @linuxgurugamer Hey there, just seen that you updated the mod, thanks for maintaining it, as you know, I love small parts. Any changes apart for "updated for 1.8.1"? Couldn't find a change log.
  21. KSK
    I don't even understand what you're talking about here: Apart from anything else, these two statements are contradictory. If you need to escape from something then that implies that you either need to outrun it or maneuver to avoid it. In either case that requires acceleration in one direction or another, which you've just told me that your emergency momentum shift drive can't do. You clearly have a vision of how you want this to work. I'm not getting it and/or you're not explaining it very well. Arguing in epicycles (where me pointing out the flaws in one system is countered by you layering another flawed system on top) is also getting a bit tedious. I'm done here. Nice talking to you.
  22. darwinpatrick
    Let's talk Toutatis! So I'm back with my latest mission report from a solar system that I had just finished exploring... get back in the rocket, Jeb! One slight issue with having just finished a large Taranis mission is the amount of crap left over that's still in varyingly elliptical orbits between Taranis and Nodens. Except there's a planet there now... I would definitely have used Toutatis to help with Taranis, so let's just say we have some really crappy astronomers, okay? We just discovered a new planet! This is what we're using to get there. There's enough delta-v for a few trips to Toutatis but this is what happens when all your boosters are rated for Sirona. Anyway, getting there was a breeze. We brought a little probe to go run an ore scan- but for some reason it was already scanned? Probably a bug on my end but I'll look into the configs anyway when I get the chance. You can see in the pictures how it works. The lander separates from the tug and heads down before decoupling both the chutes and the science module which stays as a science surface probe and relay. Pretty standard Apollo style. This system worked surprisingly well but I overestimated the atmosphere by a lot. 0.01 atm? That's an IRL Martian atmosphere on a planet proportionally like 50% bigger than Mars. Let's just say it was a hairy landing. (It was exactly like having no atmosphere, except the cloud of exhaust that the engine makes in an atmosphere obscured everything as I was trying to gently bring it down) So as a first interplanetary desination? I'm impressed. I was drawn by the ease of access but completely blindsided by the sheer difficulty involved in actually getting to the surface safely. Doing this at a lower tech level would be a fun time for sure. Also, the tidal lock is surprisingly cool. In terms of solar power, the sunlit side would be really nice for mining operations or science bases that require 24/7 electricity. The upside of the thin atmosphere? Getting back to orbit is no hassle. We made it back to the tug, transferred the crew, science, and snacks and returned home with thousands of m/s to spare. I like Toutatis. It's a nice blend of Venus's accessibility and Mars's drawbacks, with some other unique twists thrown in. Definitely don't treat this place like Duna when it comes to mission planning!
  23. Hotel26
    Niagara Falls: So called, because the first time I saw it was at high altitude and some optical illusion made it look like a KSP waterfall, which was an exciting phenomenon at the time, although every one now knows water is flat. (Which bears the heavy implication also that there are no winds on Kerbin, borne out by the fact that no Kerbalese Pilots Operating Handbook mentions anything about cross-wind landings.) I'll add a couple more shots so you can identify when you have arrived, but suffice it to say that: it's a part of the longest water feature on Kerbin you can see it's at a fork in the feature there's a convenient little landing strip shown (in case anybody is thinking about opening up a tourist resort at this very picturesque rafting/submarining site.
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  25. Clamp-o-Tron
    Hello! I’m aware that the OP is no longer maintaining the thread, I’m just asking the community of users a question: Is it possible to have galactic neighbourhood and another (unsupported) star system (like the old Interstellar Adventure Revived) coexist in the same save?
  26. oniontrain
    Can I request a matching green paintjob for the R7 parts? Since the Russian launchers and spacecraft are all confusingly named after each other, I'm referring to the Soyuz rocket itself based off the ICBM colors
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  28. magnemoe
    Pretty sure that turning "require life support" off will simply hide the values and set kerbals resource use to zero. Life support involves everything from bases to kerbals on eva but setting use to zero solves any issues here. You might some minor issues like weight of build in life support resources in an capsule still being included but hidden and this could be removed or reduced if playing with life support on.
  29. bcqJC

    [1.7] Hangar

    bcqJC replied to allista's topic in Add-on Releases

    @allista, thank you for looking into it. I opened issue #214 in Hangar's github page. I attached a ZIP file to the issue containing the SFS files you requested. I install mods manually. So when I tried to use CKAN, it won't include my installed mods when generating an export file. Here is the screenshot of the Gateway PAWS...
  30. AngrybobH
    There is a checkbox for deploy fairings, uncheck it (same for solar panels and antennae if you don't want them all to deploy). You also need to move the fairing staging to somewhere MJ won't stage through it to get to the next needed engine. I usually put the fairings I want to do manually with the parachutes.
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