CobaltWolf

Any chance you could possibly update @frizzank's guide if you find any issues? I keep wanting to make a couple but they're kind of intimidating.

1) Totally going to request that, but it's low priority since it's not actually breaking anything at the moment. 2) Hrmm, I'll try and figure out what I did then.

By scratch you mean you downloaded a clean install of the game and made sure that worked, right?

You're putting them in *your KSP folder*/Gamedata? Post some screenshots of your folders (the main one, the gamedata folder, perhaps one of the mod folder that isn't working)

Was trying to get myself organized. They're things that I want to prioritize. IRL stuff has been a little crazy lately so I'm trying to not get bogged down. I need to focus a bit more and make better use of the time I sit down to work. EDIT: To explain / vent a little more, I work six days a week now in addition to other commitments. While some days (Mondays, Fridays) I can sneak in work while I wait for videos to render, Tuesdays thru Thursdays all I can do is post here. What happens is I spend the day all wound up and wanting to work on things, and then by the time I get home I'm usually exhausted and don't get as much done as I'd like. Which then leads me to be thinking about things more the next day, which makes me more burnt out by the time I get home, etc. It's just aggravating having to spend the most productive part of my days unable to work on what I really want to work on.

I will make sure to take some tonight. There hasn't been much significant progress, I've been noodling around in Maya and generally making more work for myself. I actually might take some extra nights off without the stream to get major work done. There are some screenshots here and here. Also, I totally want to add thrust curves to SRBs... EDIT: I have some stuff going on tonight. Depending on what time I get everything done, I might not stream. I'll try and keep y'all posted.

Nothing has really changed.

>>Using Comic Sans. The new order sounds interesting though. You reduced the number of planets didn't you? More moons, less planets.

@eelooORbust ... why didn't you post this on the Extraplanetary Launchpads thread?

There is a 1.875m docking port for joining the modules. For crew, a basic Leo will have to dock on an Belle-type port and EVA over inside.

I actually got confused looking for it, since the imgur albums gave a javascript error and didn't load. It wasn't until I clicked on them to view them on imgur that I saw it was the mod I was thinking of.

You're looking for AutoPruner, which was made for exactly that purpose.

You're thinking of @RoverDude's Freight Transportation Technologies.

Two questions: 1) is it possible to make a tool able to node attach, but not surface attach? From my understanding it is impossible. The SEP screwdriver is meant to node attach but not surface attach, leaving that to the wrench. Otherwise it makes the electric screwdriver useless. 2) how do you control the default orientation of a dropped part? The cardboard box in SEP defaults to getting set down upside down.

^ There will be a 1.875m probe core, though I think it would be kind of cool if the 'canon' plan was to launch all the segments with a Leo on top like the real MOL. So a launch consists of Leo+MOS segment which has a docking port on each end, possibly in an interstage type fairing. The Leo provides guidance and control during the docking, and then undocks when it's time to leave, making the docking node open for further expansion. You'd have to have additional Belle-type docking ports in one of the segments in order to have a larger crew up there... @TimothyC I liked the talk we had on one of the recent streams. For those of you who weren't there, I asked why so many of the US vehicle proposals such as Big Gemini or the updated LEO Apollo models were meant to carry so many crew up to orbit. Many proposals had 6 crew aboard, and some have even more. Essentially the answer he gave was that the engineers still hadn't processed the innovations that would come out of the microchip, with how much computers would be able to automate and make intelligent decisions. Personally, I found that fascinating and I wonder how I could integrate that line of thinking into the mod. EDIT: Also, for those that have been following MOS development, are there any bits and pieces that you really want that I've missed? In case anyone has similar questions as @Foxxonius Augustus. I'd like to make sure I don't miss any important bits.

I waited to reply just to make @VenomousRequiem wrong. Bet it will be @Sgt.Shutesie

Quick update - I likely won't be streaming tonight. I'm not feeling particularly well. I might still get some work done but no promises.

Awesome! I'd actually really appreciate that - that way if it doesn't work for me I'll know it's something on my end. Gotchu fam.

@Beale already has one of the BLACKARROW engines named after me I think. It'd be weird to have more than one part.

If I got upset every time someone did that I'd have had to stop modding a long time ago If you ever have questions I can probably answer them faster than you having to open stuff up in emacs.

Generally speaking, the fuel tanks are on separate texture sheets! You can safely delete the textures + cfgs for them to save ram. The only thing to be warned of is that those sheets usually also have structural parts and decouplers in them. If you're going straight PP and just want the engines and other unique parts, that won't be a problem.

I don't work from Blender - will it work from FBX? In any case, thanks! That's a smart solution. I can even edit the names of the ModuleAnimateGeneric buttons to show the same as a solar panel's IIRC. That's also good considering there is an antenna on the part as well. Thanks for the example for the RCS! @cxg2827 @Shadowmage thanks for the help! I made those parts on stream and wasn't particularly interested in troubleshooting at the time, but now that I want to start getting DKAP finished I need to clean everything up and get it working. That is normal, thought perhaps not intentional. The textures are not particularly high res, as RAM usage was (and still is) a priority for me. This leads me to cram a bit more into a texture sheet than might be, ah, wise. I would say that things have been getting a bit better, but one of the parts you highlighted was added in the most recent release, so I really can't defend that haha. The Diamant solids came out fairly low res somehow. On the other hand, the Vulture engine along with the other Atlas engines are planned for a major refresh in the near future, as they are some of the worse offenders. I actually REALLY appreciate this sort of feedback since it's something that's totally in my wheelhouse (ie art and textures) and something that I hopefully could fix with a bit of elbow grease. If there are other parts that stick out like that I would appreciate an imgur gallery of the more egregious examples. Also, if you like probes, science, and antennas, you should check out @akron's CA Probes Plus! My probe parts list has been trimmed significantly and many planned probe parts were passed on to him so I can focus on other parts.

@OTmikhail, @Nookos likes your space pods

@hraban is working on one for Contares.

I know that guy...