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Are you sure you have all the VC++ runtime libraries, all the way up to 2015?

What did you edit beside upscaling it to a ridiculous amount?

Let me put this in a few words: I'm terribly occupied with school, my social life is almost nonexistent, and my talents are put to waste. Really, people think I am a walking encyclopedia, but how have I really put that knowledge to good use? Over and over I excuse myself that "oh, I can't find people who are just as talented as me in computers." It sounds stupid when I say this here, but this is what I say in front of people when they ask what I do in my spare time. I hate the situation I'm in. My friends are in band and model UN, play DnD, and some even have jobs. I don't ever hear them complain that they have so many things to do in their daily life. How does that compare to me? My daily schedule is as barren as a desert: school from 8 to 4, homework from 5 to 7, free time 7 to 8, dinner with family 8 to 9, there that's my day. Last year, I shared my frustrations with a friend of mine who was having a similar problem: somewhat bored at school, no time for coding projects. By the end of the year he had decided to just leave and enroll in a virtual school. I have no problem with his decision: he wants to pursue his endeavors but wants total control over his life. But there's no way to compromise that while keeping a strong tie with the community by going to a real school and interacting with real people, so I did not fully agree with it. For an inestimable amount of time have I looked for somebody - anybody - my age that knows as much as I do, but to no avail. For so long have I tried to compensate by resorting to an online life and talking to people older than I am, only to gain a little bit of inspiration and nothing more. When I make a great leap in whatever project, my friends respond to my excitements with meager interest, not really knowing half of what I had just said. So when I founded (or rather co-founded, since my friend submitted the paperwork first) the school's very own programming club, unsurprisingly enough the club garnered relatively little interest. Most members were friends of friends, not really knowing much about programming but rather hoping they could just ride along and throw ideas whenever necessary. And much to my chagrin, I did not find the coder of my dreams. This doesn't mean that my life is a total wreck: I gained a special reputation for helping teachers with their computers in times of need, from fifth grade, and I am still asked for favors to this day. I could apply for a job at a small tech consultancy/support business and earn $$, but I don't want to live off exorbitant pricing and give people the impression that I charge for all of my services even outside of a professional environment. I just want to stop wasting my time, find people like me, start a project, and help thousands. But how? Already this thread is sounding like a rant, and I do not want to give up before college admissions roll around because those really do count, and without making a significant contribution to society I am nothing. Where can I find help?

Kerbin sure does look happy. Also post approval still seems to be in effect

Hmm, I wonder how it came out to JPEG in the end if it was really a calculator.

I am interested in tracking the progress of this, not to see how horribly it will fail, but just to see how it's doing as the years pass. But if not enough effort gets placed into this, you're going to get frustrated and start on other, more interesting projects. This is what happens to me all the time: something happens, I'm not able to work on a project for a few days (homework, etc.), and soon I don't want to work on it anymore. It's like a chemical reaction: time + knowledge --effort--> code. Watch out for any limiting reactants, and be sure to have plenty of that wonderful catalyst called motivation. People tend to place others in one of two categories: the "ideas" people who are really just consumers and will always be consumers with a vivid imagination; and the real producers, the "geniuses," the "legends" who really were destined for glory from the very beginning and deserve millions for their excellent work. Humble yourself, but do not act like either one of these two categories in order to avoid trouble. Coding is hard if you don't have a plan in mind - and on paper. I don't know what the best way to plan a coding project is. There are really a bunch of random bits of ideas floating around in my head that just pop in and out of my conscious realm so I can't really recall all of them once I find a place to write them all down on. And when I do, how do I organize those ideas? Your circumstances are common: college student, no time for big projects. Many developers disrespect their own human bodies by going to bed at 4am or so to "create" time out of their busy lives. You also don't know how much free time you're going to have in the future - who knows, your professor might either extend that paper to next week (a few hours of free time for any weekday of your choice) or slap on an extra requirement (work your butt off till 11pm). One solution is to make your roadmap highly flexible and cut out: for example, you can assign your first month (November) to research and commit. Your task is simple but a bit tedious: find out everything you need to know to begin the design process. In my opinion, only small projects can get away without a design process because there is usually only one developer who either has everything in his head or has bits of it written down (like me). But this is a large project, and design is just as important as implementation. Find out the best language to write this simulator in: C# or C++? If you choose C#, will you add on native libraries through P/Invoke? Make a diagram of Wikipedia articles on aerodynamics you must read about. (I may be sounding angry or impatient to you at this point, but I am not at all. Just trying to help here.) OpenGL or Direct3D? Will you use CMake? What version of Visual Studio? Tabs or spaces? Git or Mercurial? What will this project really cover? What physics engine will you be using? Will you add GPU acceleration? CUDA, OpenCL, or both? What's the best programming pattern/paradigm(s) to utilize for this project? All of these questions you must answer by December, with a final judgment on whether or not you will really carry on with the project. Okay, so it's 11:30pm on November 30th and you said yes, after writing 4 pages for your essay and 4 more pages for this abysmal phase 0 and you are wondering to yourself why did you say yes why did I agree to working on this stupid project now I have to carry it out to the end or I will look like a laughingstock and get banned from every job 5ever. Nah don't worry about it, there's still phase 1 for December and January. As said before, phase 1 is your design. You make diagrams and cool stuff. Basically object-oriented programming, but in picture form, down to the structs and specific algorithms. Be sure to include some UI design onto it, but not too much so as to overwhelm you. (I've never done design before, maybe that's why I never finish my projects. Oh well, maybe you'll figure out how to do it in phase 0. After all, it is something to research on ) Again, don't overwhelm yourself with tiny details. Create a rudimentary model, and then chisel it out like a statue. By the end of the phase, however, there should be no uncertainties remaining in the design. Phase 2 is to find people and refine your design so it sells. People won't want to help you if all you have is "making flight simulator, dunno how to do this. please help" as a design, so make it presentable, coherent, and clear so that when the time comes, you can turn your design into code with only minor issues. That'll be February for you, when everybody's chillin' and the snow is piling up and all your classes keep getting canceled. And if you don't find people, don't feel offended; just move on, and remember, don't advertise stuff like this on Reddit. Phase 3 is to start coding. It's time to carve out a bigger version of the statue you made in phase 1, with the assistance and motivation of the people you found in phase 2. This would take you the rest of 2016, but always remember keep your code in sizeable, workable chunks so that every part does not just so happen to depend on each other. Divide phase 3 into subphases if you'd like, and remember to make weekly meetings with your team to manage responsibilities and make sure everyone's on track (or figure out why they're not). Space out your deadlines to let you and your team catch up on school, take a breath, and then dive back into the project. Do not burn out. This will set you back for an indefinite period of time (weeks to months). Always find something new to do if you cannot figure something out after a long while. You have a team for a reason: rotate/swap out your team's tasks if needed. After an arduous summer and yet another lovely autumn, you should have a proof of concept ready to show off. This does not mean everything is done. This means that the 3D engine works and you can do some physics simulations on it. If not, your project needs a reevaluation. This is where all the shoulds, the uncertainties come in: nobody knows how hard you've worked on the project by the end of phase 3, and how much extra time you will need. Now, I will not go past phase 3, because it would be ridiculous for me to talk about something I've never experienced myself before. If you ever reach that stage, we'll be sure to talk, and naturally you'll turn out to be a much much better coder than I am. Until then, however, good luck! EDIT: I see you've decided to go with Unity. Unity is a really nice 3D engine for small games like platformers, but watch out for the pitfalls and roadblocks for the more complex games like yours; otherwise, you will end up with the same limitations as those of KSP.

Don't forget the RAM. KSP is serious business. People buy $3000 rigs to play this game at better-than-decent quality.

I thought that Majiir offered datacenter-sized hosting space for whoever won the Majiir Challenge. So what happened since then?

stooooppp they're too good How do you add so much detail to the ground? Is this some advanced Photoshop sorcery?

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Well, you should be glad you live in the US. It's a big place, and there are many who are poor who can't immigrate and get a job because they can't afford the necessary education in their place of origin. I don't think you want to move to another country just because you do not have a good job. Many people only think of the jobs within their city or state. I'll challenge you to something, if you don't mind driving a lot: save up some money, take your things, and go on an adventure. Have a plan, a particular industry that you want to visit in a certain state, and have a look at cities that you cross in your journey for a job. What education do you have? Just a high school degree? A vast majority of people in the US are in the same situation as you. But everybody has a talent, and it's up to you to discover what it is. For example, my talent is in technology. Even if I was a high school dropout and nobody in my city wanted to hire me as a programmer, I could (in theory) start making and selling software in my trailer. Find something people want and a way to meet that demand.

What country do you currently live in?

And the only thing stopping the mod community is the dozens of hacks modders have to do to get around the KSP API's and Unity's vast limitations. What if modders want to make the game as realistic as possible? Lagrange points? No can do. Multiple solar systems with different planets? Nope. Orbital decay? Nope. While I'm at it, why does it take 5 minutes to get KSP to load and 15 seconds every time I'm switching between scenes? No game I've ever played has had such ridiculous loading times, even with the texture compressor. Probably because KSP is officially tested with the highest-end rigs, the TITAN X, 512 GB SSD, 32 GB RAM, OC'd Skylake/Haswell, just to clear up any claim that KSP is laggy. Memory management is also garbage. Not to mention that many mods are unoptimized because of said hacks. In the future I would like to see a space sandbox game that is NOT made in Unity. No, you can't make/mod everything in KSP. That is what I mean when I say a CAD.

Except... that you forgot to turn on anti-aliasing.

Even then, it can be very difficult to add small details in the interiors without a plugin that allows WASD/fine movement, and there's no way to customize the shape of the fuselage without downloading a 50-part pack or doing some sick part clipping tricks. While KSP may have a pretty powerful VAB/SPH, it still ain't a CAD, guys.

Wouldn't a linear accelerator, if spanned at anything longer than a few dozen km, be under the influence of the Coriolis effect? When I think of a coilgun, I think of something handheld, or a cannon of sorts, so the projectile would ideally be just a few grams. What if the minor radius of the toroidal barrel is large enough to have the projectile be kept exactly in the middle by the magnets surrounding the barrel?

Why can't we make the projectile go faster and faster in a toroidal or helix-shaped barrel and then release the projectile once it is going Very Fast? I wish I could show a picture but I don't have any program that would do a decent job of illustrating my concept. I was thinking if a helical coilgun fit my description, but not quite sure.

What kind of upgrade would it be? I think this is just standard procedure to work on an image of the servers before applying it.

If Squad is already pushing the limits of Unity without even bothering to implement an n-body simulation or a way to alter the terrain of celestial bodies, then Unity sounds like a pretty limited engine to me. I thought KSP would be the be-all and end-all of space simulation, ranging from recreations of historical missions to colonization and FTL travel. I guess I was wrong.

You should call your projects folder StarWIP.

I didn't know the KSP network was hosted by Multiplay. Let's just hope it stays that way..

Nope. If DMP finds a missing part in another player's vessel, the vessel will be ignored/not loaded.

When you sleep, what do you feel? What do you think? Is it easy to be aware that you are dreaming? It's admittedly very difficult to describe "nothing" with "something".

The problem with assuming things based on the news is that we cannot determine if this was an edge case where something really stupid happened, or this is happening all the time in the US but never hear about it. Anyway, there are two possible topics that the news covers on this event: (1) the prejudicial implications of Ahmed's detainment, and (2) the support that Ahmed gained for his clock. Now don't get me wrong, kids don't build clocks commonly. But there are thousands of kids like him who don't get attention or encouragement for what they do or want to do, because the press decides who gets the publicity and who does not, and it is only natural for politicians and celebrities to play the publicity game and respond to the news.

If we could answer this question right here right now 100% correct, the study of cosmology would not exist. In fact a big portion of science wouldn't exist.