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Chatterer Extended This add-on for the formidable "Chatterer" mod by Athlonic will add more than 600 new kerbalized chatter-files for your hearing pleasure. Obviously requires "Chatterer" to work. "Chatterer" is one of my top favourite mods as it adds to the ambience in spades. I simply cannot play KSP without this mod. This is my way of saying thank you to @Athlonic for maintaining that mod and supporting it continously. This little mod extension currently adds 625 new kerbalized chatter-files to "Chatterer". Features: - Apollo 10 (120 clips) - Apollo 12 (45 clips) - Apollo 13 (45 clips) - Apollo 17 (70 clips) - STS-51d (100 clips) including female chatter - STS-61c (98 clips) including female chatter - STS-63 (39 clips) including female chatter - Expedition 18 (28 clips) female set only - Expedition 51 (80 clips) including female chatter The audio files used for creating the soundclips stem from the NASA Audio Archive. The STS61c, STS-63, Expedition 18 and Expedition 51 thankfully feature female transmissions so Valentina's soundclips from the original "Chatterer" get some much needed support. Installation instructions: - original "Chatterer" has to be installed - unzip the contents of "Chatterer_Extended.zip" - place the "Gamedata"-folder in your KSP-directory (this adds several new folders in the "Chatterer/Sounds/Chatter" folder) - open "Chatterer" in game - in the "Chatterer" settings tab enable "Show advanced options" - open the "Chatter" tab, click on "Chatter Sets" and type "apollo10", then press "Load", repeat this step with the following chatter sets: "apollo12", "apollo13", "apollo17", "sts51d", "sts61c", "sts63", "expedition18" and "expedition51" - enjoy more babble Dependencies: - you need "Chatterer" obviously Version history: v0.6.2 - corrected version checker file for KSP 1.4.2 v0.6.1 - corrected version checker file for KSP 1.3 v0.6 - added Apollo 12 Chatterer files (45 clips) - added Apollo 17 Chatterer files (70 clips) v0.5 - added STS-51d Chatterer files (100 clips) v0.4 - added Expedition 51 Chatterer files (80 clips) v0.3 - replaced faulty "capcom_23.ogg" (Apollo 10) - added more Apollo 10-chatter (now 120 clips) - added STS-61c Chatterer files (98 clips) v0.2.1 - added version checker file v0.2 - added ISS Expedition 18 Chatterer files (28 clips) and Apollo 13 Chatterer files (45 clips) v0.1 - Apollo 10 Chatterer files (66 clips), STS-63 Chatterer files (39 clips) ********************** This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Download: Spacedock

Chatterer is one of my favourite mods as I totally love the atmospheric touch it adds to the game. Yesterday I started to experiment with the free NASA files and created two additional chatter-sets for this outstanding mod: Apollo 10 and STS-63 (with female chatter!). In total there are more than one hundred new chatter files. Of course, I'd love to share my work with you but first I wanted to ask for permission to make it available. I'd like to call it "Chatterer Extended" but maybe this will upset @Athlonic ... It would be nice to let me know if that's okay. Another thing: I'm absolutely no modder and I really don't know what actions I have to undertake to make this extension available for the public. I assume I could upload it to Spacedock... Is that correct? Do I have to register to upload the file? And what about a creative commons licence? Do I need such a thing? Any help is greatly appreciated! Edit: OK, just read that for arts work, I should use the creative commons license if I want to be credited for my work. I think that sounds ok... Another edit: OK, I just released this. You can find it here. @Athlonic: Please tell me if anything offends you!

Landed on Ike for the first time. Jebediah was the chosen one. I found a very strange stone. It was floating mid-air. I then reentered low orbit to rendezvous with my orbiter. After that I had no more use for my trusty lander. As I had transferred all of the fuel and there was no probe on the lander, Bill had the perfect solution for this problem. BOOOM! This was my first ever using the explosives from KIS/KAS. I had no idea that the detonation would be that big. I was happy when I checked the orbiter and found out it didn't take any damage!

Doing my first Duna/Ike mission in my current career. Small lander (for Ike), an orbiter module and a pack of relays (2 x RA-100 for polar relays and 3 x RA-2 for low equatorial Duna orbit). The "classic" team is on this one: Jeb, Bill and Bob. Here are some screenies:

Great mod! I loved the predecessor and am looking forward to play around with this! One question: Is there a way to make city lights working for this mod? If so, how do I accomplish this?

Me! Me! Me! Me! Give it to me already! Take your time. This will be epic!

After my two Rovers scouted the possible landing zones for my manned Munar mission I finally sent my first Kerbals to the Mun this weekend. Here is what I did: First I tested the Surface Experiment Pack nearby KSC. Bill and Gity experiencing no problems whatsoever. Then it's off to the Mun. Valentina (Pilot), Alayna (Engineer) and Gity (Scientist) are the chosen Kerbals. Valentina will stay in Mun Orbit in the M.C.V. (Munar Command Vessel) while Alayna and Gity will touch down with the Munar Lander. Valentina: "I can see the surface! And what a sunflare! Is that stock?" Munar Lander approaching it's landing zone in the Mun Midland Craters. I love the immersion those IVA views give you! That's how things look from Alayna's perspective after touchdown. The landing zone was wisely chosen (mix of breathtaking vistas and scientific reasoning) on a slope inside one of the biggest Midland Craters. Then something strange happened to my save. My framerate dropped to unplayable rates and I could only do my Mun EVAs playing without the adorable KSPRC-mod (had to switch to my classic SVE/Scatterer combo). That's the reason why the ground textures and hills don't have the same quality in the following pics. Here's a view from Munar Lander to Alayna and Gity setting up and sciencing the hell out of the Surface Experiment Pack! One of my Rovers (Munar Explorer 1) was only 4.4 km away. So Alayna was given the permission to pay a visit. Given she's an engineer she professionally dusted off the Rover's solar panels. While here she took a surface sample as well as luckily the Rover was located in another biome. Meanwhile Gity did the last scientific experiments in the name of Kerbal Greatness! Well, you can't stay on the Mun forever so after Alayna returned from her maintenance and service trip to Munar Explorer 1 it was back to Mun orbit where Valentina waited in the MCV. Goodbye Mun Explorer 1 and Surface Experiment Pack 1. It was a giant leap for Kerbalkind. By the way I mysteriously got rid of my FPS-problems with KSPRC so I returned to surface texture happiness. The Munar Command Vessel with Valentina awaiting the Munar Lander in Orbit. Almost... Done! After Alayna and gity had transferred all Science experiments and themselves into the Munar Commad Vessel the Munar Lander was decoupled and sent to the Mun's surface to create another crater and of course test the seismographic Science apparatus of the Surface Experiment Pack. Then the voyage back began. Here's the M.C.V. in approach to Kerbin. Burning retrograde! Entering the atmosphere. Great mission! I did lots of Science points and all three Kerbals safely returned to Kerbin. Hope you enjoyed the trip!

I love the new "puffy" clouds! Coming back from a "Mun Science Orbit" trip.

Landed two rovers on the Mun (Mun Explorer 1 and Mun Explorer 2). I did a lot of DMagic-Science and sent the results back to Kerbin to get the parts I need for my manned Mun mission in the tech tree. Positioned the rovers so they could easily navigate to three biomes each resulting in roughly 250 Science points for each rover. I am happy!

Thanks for having me! Yep, the textures are over the top!

I was fascinated by the custom Biomes pap1723 did of Earth and Moon so I decided to test the same for Mars. These are the 20 Biomes found in my MarsBiomes.png: Olympus Mons Valles Marineris Elysium Mons Alba Mons Tharsis Montes Tempe Terra Major Craters Arean Canyons Amazonis Planitia North Ice Cap South Ice Cap Argyre Planitia Hellas Planitia Utopia Planitia Terra Cimmeria Terra Sirenum Terra Sabaea Highlands Midlands Lowlands I do not know if they work ingame (Science etc.) as I am no modder and I am unsure whether there is a maximum number of biomes a celestial body might have so maybe this was all in vain... Nevertheless the biomes show up when I use SCANSAT so there's hope! maybe someone of you can clarify this? In fact it was hard enough for me to find out how the colors are generated but in the end I succeeded. Feel free to download the ZIP-file with the "MarsBiomes.png" and "Mars.cfg" in it. They already are in the correct directories so all you have to do is copy the contents of the "GameData" folder in yours. And of course they might be integrated in this sensational mod! Thank you for your hard work and your responsive attitude! Keep it up! Download ZIP-file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By11lzwkefXfNUZKRXhpb1VsLVk/view?usp=sharing

OK, thanks. I'll have a look.

In fact the biomes now seem to work properly. I haven't done any science tests but a quick HyperEdit to the Moon with a "SCANSAT" Multispectral Scanner gives the following overlay/map:

I have a question regarding the transition from space to to the planets' surfaces. What happens to the textures during the transition? Is there a way to (still) make that transition more fluid? Is there maybe even a tutorial how that can be influenced? I'd like to help improving that as I find it's quite immersion-breaking when the planet's texture looks fantastic from far out and when landed the surface looks great as well (with storms etc.) but the way from 100.000 m downwards looks ugly. Can someone point me in the right direction?

OK. Thanks for clearing that up!

Great update! There seems to be a problem with the city lights though as I can't see them. In the cityLights.cfg it reads "body = Kerbin". Shouldn't it be "body = Earth". Another question: Whenever I zoom out to further than 100.000 m the textures of the planets look fantastic (Picture 1 and 3, Moon and Mars) but if I come closer than 100.000 m it looks all blurry (Pictures 2 and 4). Is this a normal transition problem or are my Nvidia-settings not optimized? Sorry to bother. This isn't meant as criticism, just asking.

I believe the Moon.cfg and Earth.cfg in the SSRSS/RSSKopernicus/Earth folder are still those without the new biomes... Or did I miss something?

Looking forward to SCANSAT those! I'll pay the new biomes a visit as soon as possible.

I simply have to share my experience from yesterday evening with someone... So I'll post it here as I think without your mod my voyage would have been only half so breathtaking. I sent a SCANSAT-satellite to the Mun and when I arrived Kerbin moved in front of the Sun so there was my first Solar eclipse witnessed from another celestial body. WOW! I can't put in words how cool KSP looks with all the Visual Enhancements and Scatterer. A big "Thank You" to all you modders! Here's my album. Enjoy!

Thanks a lot! I have another game running so I do not know if I come to this in the near future but I'd like to see your biome maps integrated into this fantastic mod because once I'm done with my current career I'll definitely check out the SSRSS and having more complex biomes is a great feature for any planetary mod, so keep up "bioming"!

Hmmm, I am willing to help but I can't seem to get it to work. The Moon.cfg makes my Earth become Kerbin again??? I have even tested to just change the Biome part in the SSRSS-Moon.cfg but whenever I start KSP with your Moon.cfg all planetary changes are lost and I'm back to Kerbin, Mun, Minmus etc.???

Thanks! That was lightning fast! Now I can "science the excrements" out of this "new moon"!

Great work! Where is that config file you're talking about? I'd love to integrate these biomes into SSRSS. Is it hard to do it myself?

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