Disparia Books

I have ultra-levels of excitement, as does Jeb...and Pancake. But just because we're talking amazing things...

Climbing alien peaks and stopping for snacks at the top? #Jeb'sDoneThat

Enjoy what is perhaps the most beautiful set of screenshots I've ever seen come out of Kerbal, all thanks to our mate @The White Guardian

Enjoy some of the scenic wonder that is Evolution from the first official beta test livestream...

@The White Guardian I'm going to share the video on my facebook pages and mention Disparia, if that's okay. Lovely video!

Thanks again @The White Guardian for the great planet and moon system, yesterday was a blast. For those interested in the system in action be sure to check out our past streams/videos, you won't be disappointed. As for upcoming missions, here are a few ideas: Use the SSTO to ferry pods to each moon (to save DeltaV for the small crafts) and drop one on every single moon, science it, flag it, then return it to the SSTO and land back at the base on Cerillion. Rover Road Trip!!! Jeb, get the pudding cups, it's going to be a long drive. Large craft to Disparia to land, explore, take off, land, explore, take off....and so on, covering the entire surface (mostly). Small SSTO to Cerillion to fly around the planet and land at easter eggs (same idea as 3, but on Cerillion and flying instead of using a lander...because air). Construct craft on Cerillion to make life easier??? Looking at extraplanetary launchpads (or equivalent). Suggestions, ideas, thoughts?

About 30-45 minutes at the most. I'm just wrapping up some work first

@The White Guardian I think I did a thing... Tune in tomorrow to see what happens when Kerbals think they can make X-wings that go to Cerillion.

Just downloaded it, can't wait!!!!!

So am I safe to download the current update or should I wait until the next one comes out?

That brings up a question-remember the other day you showed the list of ways to go into config files to make sure scatterer/eve/sve all work, which included copying the code into a variety of places and saving it? Then you also said that through CKAN there was an update. If I do the update (the previous one from the other day and the one you are potentially doing now), will that mess up anything? I'm just hoping because I changed things outside of CKAN that, when I update in CKAN, there won't be any conflicts and crashes. Do you know how that will work?

@The White Guardian Yeah, the time zone thing can be a bit of a nuisance...but not much we can do about that I think I will do a special Kerbal stream today instead of my usual Building FreePort series in Cities Skylines. I watched the Atlas V rocket launch this morning and I have everything ready to explore, so I'm feeling that Kerbal itch...

I've got big plans for everything! My 3 rovers and 2 full bases are on the planet so now it's time to explore! I'm thinking about doing a special stream tomorrow and visiting Disparia. I'm designing a pod-launching Explorer that holds four planetary landers to visit four moons from orbit around cerillion, all of which can be refuled. I'm also looking into getting a SSTO there too. Between the rovers, landers, and SSTO I should be able to find the easter eggs. The hunt is on!

Happy Easter all! @The White Guardian And the only REAL way to send a HAB to another planet...

I just applied all the tests and updates you gave me and it all works flawlessly! My GPU did spike to 77C, but I was running it at 2560x1440. Down to 1080P the temps are in the low 70s, so I assume for a video card that's okay Otherwise, RAM and CPU usage are stable and acceptable!

I'm going to open up Kerbal in a couple of hours after my ride and will give you the results then. But let me clarify two points before doing so: 1. I am using Steam, so go the steam method you mentioned? 2. Should I install EVE/Scatterer/etc before changing the code? Like I said, I don't have any on now and it runs fine, but I can easily re-add them. Let me know so I can prepare. Thanks friend, glad I can be of help to you! PS-message me about the book and the description, I want to get both to you ASAP!

@The White Guardian As you know I go through CKAN for my mods. There are 3 key visual mods that are all interlinked, EVE, Scatterer, and Stock Visual Enhancements. When you click on any one of those it then brings up a 'mod dependency' list for configuration files, which then basically installs the lot of said 3 mods in totality. No matter which order I go in and which options I use for config (for example, you can use scatterer for the solar effects or stock visual enhancements for solar effects as config files), installing any of them make the game lag. I have all of them completely removed right now and...well, got a rover on Cerillion and a probe to land on Disparia. If you want me to try individual mod tinkering I can (such as JUST scatterer without EVE etc), but safe to say when the group is installed my computer explodes, but without the three it behaves just fine. Hope that helps, let me know what I can do! Edit: Just wanted to clarify that the problems I have are with lag but caused by RAM usage on my PC. With mods on when I approach the system it uses all 16gigs of memory and then begins to stutter. As I approach the system the usage creeps up until it's unstable, but it's not like that (with the mods installed) as long as I'm not looking at the system. Without mods the memory usage is stable and low.

I had to delete EVE/Scatterer/Hi-res textures to get everything to work without lag, so I obviously don't have clouds. That being said, everything looked normal when I got my probe there. The screenshot I took from my above link was on the moon Disparia, and everything there seemed fine as well. But there were not any rings in mine, either. I've noticed that, regardless of Cerillion, sometimes the clouds over Kerbin in the menu appear black when selecting a file or messing with options, but in game they are fine. I don't know if they are related or not though. Also, I had to post a link because I don't know how to insert images yet

Well, this happened: First landing on Disparia

I just downloaded the update through CKAN and will check to see if it improved performance. I will let everyone know what I find in a minute. --- EDIT: Okay, so I tested it again (I have a craft in orbit around the planet on another save for testing purposes) and the RAM creep killed my PC again. I tried different combinations of EVE/Scatterer/Stock Visual Enhancements and using any killed it. It's only stable now with absolutely all of those removed. Not sure if that helps or anything. It won't be too much of a hassle to just uninstall those while doing the missions, but I do miss my pretty version of the planet! Let me know if you want me to do any more testing.

If you knew how many times I've said that when writing or creating something...well. I've learned that any time you can say I'm an idiot you learn something, so joking aside it's actually fun to learn that way And that's great to hear about the fix...I don't wanna lose my EVE! Also, let me know what you need as far as the moon summary (links to others/rules/guidelines) and I will get on that for you ASAP. I'm glad to help with it!

Well, I figured out why my game keeps lagging and crashing when I get near Cerillion now... Turns out when I get near it my RAM utilization maxes out, all 16gigs of my 3000 mhz. Anyone know how to fix the problem? I know I have a lot of mods installed and I heard that causes a lot of the issues, so anyone know how to fix it short of deleting everything? I do have a lot, but I can't think of which ones I can delete right off. Any help would be appreciated!

@The White Guardian The update was listed on CKAN and I installed it successfully. I went to the tracking station in my game and looked to find the moons around the planet. However, when I tried zooming in the game started running really choppy, and then everything froze up. I restarted my computer, launched KSP, opened a craft on the runway...and now I have clouds??? I did see the planets and I am in the game, and somehow it fixed my cloud problems. Anything you want me to do, look at, or try? Looks good so far though! Edit: The game plays just fine under all circumstances but gets laggy when looking at Cerillion in the tracking station. But all moons were accounted for.

Just downloaded the update through CKAN, going to load the game and check things out.

I will check ckan when I get home and let you know if my PC explodes.