purpleivan

I am now getting somewhere at last @wasml as I now have the parachute deploying and animating correctly, with a couple of minor caveats. Everything is fine, except that at the point when switching between the animated states (semi deploying and fully deploying) and the unanimated states (semi and fully deployed) the entire canopy is instantly rotated around its vertical axis by 180 degrees. I wouldn't have noticed except that I'd put a big black square on one side of its texture, to allow me to compare orientation of the object in Max and Unity. At the same time as the 180 degree rotation occurs, there's also a small clitch in orientation between the end of animated and beginning of unanimated states. I might try exporting without animation compression to see if that's the issue, although I doubt it. BTW... my solution, after many attempts at changing the rotation within the object of the vertices and of the object itself, seems to be no different than where I started. So I'm guessing that there was something else that I was screwing up. One thing I did notice is that my working version has a different orientation in the animation player in Unity than your example. Whereas your example chute sticks out to the side, mine is orientated verticaly upward. But both work in-game... wierd. But at least it.s progress One more thing, the slow speed of the fully deploy animation is due to a setting in the CFG (deploymentSpeed) which is set to 0.12 whereas the one for semi deploy is 0.5

You could give this mod a try... it's what I use for setting up my transfers.

Thanks for the info @wasml I'll take a look at my chute later. I did think that the 90 degree rotation shown in Unity looked wrong, even if the part looked right. I'll also take a look at your templat parts. I'm using Max rather than Blender.

I started work on a set of parts for Purpleivan's Land O' Junk, a purveyor of fine recycled parts with a more junkyard appearance than the stock ones... opening sometime soon. So far it's just a couple of fuel tanks, a parachute (but not quite worked out how to get the animation working right yet) that I've made so far. I've also made a start (not shown) on the ROK-T45 engine (equivelent to the Swivel). If Jeb's Junkyard's hightech parts are a little out of your price range, Purpleivan's Land O' Junk has what your space program needs, at low, low prices (no guarantees, no refunds). Also useful as props for screenshots etc.

@wasml I made the changes you suggested to the animation setup of the parachute in Unity, but I'm experiencing some issues with the animation and parachute behaviour in-game. Issue 1. When the parachute part is staged it deploys upward, unaffected by the upward movement of the vehicle, into the semideployed state. At the end of the animation, it pops to being dragged behind the vehicle. Issue 2. Once it has fallen to the altitude for the fullydeployed state, the correct animation for this plays, but slowly, probably about 1/3 of original animation speed. Issue 3. Even though the CFG file for the new part is a duplicate of a stock one, with only the entries for Name and Title changed (i.e. nothing that affects it's functionality), the parachute appears to have no drag and the vehicle crashes into the ground. Here's a video of what happens when staged. Here's the setup of the animation of the part in Unity. The entry in the field Animation is set to Non (Animation Clip) which seems a little wrong, but changing it via the small circle selector next to it, to one of the alternatives (semiDeployedSmall) gives the same problematic behaviour in-game. Any advice you have on this would be well appreciated.

Ignore the question below... the problem is fixed now. I noticed that although my fuel tank appeared in the VAB list, the stock one on which it is based did not. So I thought that there was probably another identifier, other than the Title in the CFG file. It turns out that identifier is of course the Name of the part (doh!) and as I was working with a copy of the FL-T400 cfg file and hadn't changed the name, then my part just overwrote the stock one. Once I gave both my tank and parachute parts new names in their CFG's, both appeared in the VAB. Today's lesson kids is read the docs, in this case the Part Modelling Guidelines which says " Just make sure that the name field in the cfgs are unique ". ---------------------------------------------- So far I've successfully added a fuel tank part to the game via Unity. However I'm having an issue with parachutes. The problem isn't with getting something I've made into the game (my exported part from Unity didn't appear in the VAB), but even a name changed duplicate of one of the stock parachutes fails to show up in the VAB. To create the duplicate I copied the parachuteMk1 folder from GameData\Squad\Parts\Utility to my own parts folder in GameData. I then renamed the copied parachuteMk1.cfg file to parachuteMkx.cfg and changed the Title of the part in that CFG to Parachute Mk X. On loading the game no new parachute part appeared in the Utilities part tab. To check my process, I carried out the same changes on a copy of a stock fuel tank and that appeared in the VAB. So does anyone have any knowledge of getting parachutes into the game that might be relevant? Just to be clear, this isn't at this stage about the process of getting a parachute through Unity, just trying to find out if there's anything special about them, regarding gettting even stock duplicates to appear. BTW.. here's my first rather simple creation. My plan is to make a set of parts that a more literally junkyard style than the stock ones, which can also serve as props for anyone wanting to put bits of junk in their screenshots etc.

Thanks for the suggestion... I'll check what you've suggested tomorrow.

Kennel Kraker

I found out that the version of Unity (the latest) that I was using, is not compatible with PartTools. I installed the required Unity version and the issue I had with the Set button is now solved... i.e. I have one now.

Thanks for the info. When you say "File URL label" is this the "File Path" text field... can't see one for File URL? I can't see a Set button in the PartTools tab. Here's what I see after adding PartTools to my root GameObject using the Add Component button. BTW... do you know anything about animation import into Unity. I'm trying to get the rigid body animation of my parachute (a few scale animation keys) imported, but so far without success. Unity import picks up on the FBX file as containing an animation , but the animation doesn't seem to play in Unity (hitting the scene play button or scrubbing the slider in the animation tab for the animated object).

This post contains the original question, now answered, however I came across a new issues that I describe in the 7th post. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm having my first crack at making parts for KSP as well as using Unity (far from my first games assets though... that's the day job, but currently using UE4) and I'm having an issue with the installation of PartTools. I'm following the guide on making KSP parts here and at Step 5 "Setting up Unity" is where I've hit my snag. I downloaded the latest version of the PartTools package from this thread and imported it into Unity. I can see installed folders and files under Assets in the Project tab, but according to the guide I'm following, I should also see a PartTools window with "a button called "Set Data Dir". Unfortunately I'm not seeing that window. Is this something that is now out of date in the guide I'm working from? If it is, how should I set GameData as my Unity Data Directory? In case it helps, here's a screenshot of my install of the Unity editor. There is an error in the log about duplicate DLL's for one that comes with Visual Studio. I'm guessing that's not related to this issue,

Time to post some times. Abu Kerbi 1:13.44 Gaarst 1:01.12 Hunkaroring 1:28.52 I'm not particularly happy with the first two (especially Gaarst) but my vehicle is not best suited to anything tight and twisty. Hunkaroring time is ok though.

I started to do some laps time on the Hunkaroring track (managed to get one pretty decent time) but something I noticed is that if you Abort Race, the penalty time for any missed gates on that and any previous runs doesn't get cleared. The only way to reset properly seems to be to load the race, rather than just abort and try again.

The craziest things that have happened to me have both been on the runway island. The first time I sent a vehicle there, it roved around for a few minutes before suddenly appearing (minus a few parts) a couple of thousand km above Kerbin and heading away at high speed. Before. After. The seconds event occured when I was sending a large lander there, with the intention of putting it down on the control tower roof, as part of a challenge entry. This is the one I landed later for the challenge entry. The first attempt had the lander come down about 100m from the tower, so I decided to take the pilot out and go for a wonder around. But then once the pliot was walking away from the vehicle, it started to very slowly float up into the air, leaving him behind. It was probably moving at about 1m/s and was the creepiest thing to see. That place should have a big concrete dome over it. Either that or a band of young kerbals in a colourful minivan needs to take a trip there to solve the mystery.

It started with a racing rover, an electric racing rover. Then I thought what about adding a jet engine for some extra power, how bad could it be? That rover escaped from its pilot after a crash and proceded to go all kinds of crazy careening around the KSC. With that experience in hand I thought, what happens when you let 12 rovers with bigger jets engines loose in the KSC... lets watch!

That worked... thanks for that. I now have a bunch of crazy out of control jet rovers, travelling more than a couple of hundred metres from the launch vehicle... which is exactly what I wanted

I tried increasing the range values that seemed low enough (assuming units used is metres) but that doesn't have any effect... the engines still cut out at about 200m. Here's the relevant part of the Physics.cfg with my alterations. VesselRanges { prelaunch { load = 2250 unload = 2500 pack = 3500 unpack = 2000 } landed { load = 2250 unload = 2500 pack = 3500 unpack = 2000 } splashed { load = 2250 unload = 2500 pack = 3500 unpack = 2000 } flying { load = 2250 unload = 22500 pack = 25000 unpack = 2000 } orbit { load = 2250 unload = 2500 pack = 3500 unpack = 2000 } subOrbital { load = 2250 unload = 15000 pack = 10000 unpack = 2000 } escaping { load = 2250 unload = 2500 pack = 3500 unpack = 2000 } } These vehicles aren't traditional missiles, they're jet powered rovers. I'll give the Physics Range Extender mod a try. Thanks

I'll take a look at that setting but I thought the physics bubble was 2km, but I'm seen the thrust of jets cut out at about 150-200m. Thanks for the info.

I've been trying to set up a situation in which I have multiple uncontrolled vehicles, powered by jet engine, continue uncontrolled after having their engines started, set to full thrust and then detached (bascally like firing a missile) from a controlled mother vehicle. The problem is that the game cuts the thrust of these based on what seems to be the distance from the currently controlled vehicle. My question... is it possible to either disable this, or increase the distance at which the cutting of power occurs.

As a bit of fun I thought I'd try taking my 6 wheeled racing rover and sticking a couple of jets on it for a little extra grunt. I mean what could possibly go wrong. It's a fine vehicle on a flat track with with (very) wide turns, but is unpredicatable when it takes air from a small jump, like that over the runway. Its pilot discovered this behaviour when it dumped him out on landing the other side of the runway, then made a break for it... upside down of course. Oi... come back here. Uh oh... headed towards the VAB. Well, it's headed somewhere. That doesn't look good. That'll buff out. Not the same event (had to set this one up) but here's some video of Destructo the adorable runaway rover.

Here's a trip around Triop's K-1 track in my all stock 6 wheeler in 54:68s. Not my absolute fastest time, I did one earlier a few tenths quicker but don't have video of it.

It's Windoshine, but it's only available for versions up to 1.3.1. I have a seperate install with that version for my LOST on Laythe pics.

Here's some idea of what I might pick. For general in-flight use. Brian Eno - Apollo Atmospheres For rovering around in the dark on a distant moon. J.G Thirlwell - Pretty much anything from Dinoflagellate Blooms, The Mesopelagic Waters or The Radiolarian Ooze Jerry Goldsmith - The Skeleton (Alien) Ennio Morricone - Solitude (The Thing) For launches. J. G Thirlwell - Ventronik (The Venture Bros Volume Two) J. G Thirlwell - Ready for Takeoff (The Venture Bros Volume Two) J. G Thirlwell - Ham and Cheese Hero (The Venture Bros Volume Two) James Horner - Combat drop (Aliens) Jerry Goldsmith - Main Title (Capricorn One) Dramatic landings/re-entries J. G Thirlwell - Chickenhawk (The Venture Bros Volume Two) J. G Thirlwell - Bolly (The Venture Bros) Floating around on EVA. J. G Thirlwell - Damion (The Venture Bros) Jerry Goldsmith - The Craft (Alien) John Murphy - The Last Message (Sunshine)

Doing a tutorial for something like that would be quite difficult Combing the contents of two images successfully has a lot of details to it, some very minor but which contribute to the overall look of the finished image. Also the work needed varies from one image to the next. It's not something I've thought of doing and probably wouldn't want to have a crack at. I've got a lot going on at work at the moment too, so that would be an issue too. Sorry for the bad news.