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Fireworks on Laythe.

Why does performance degrade so much then in anth's tests? The vessels in his tests were made of one probe core and a bunch of truss segments to reduce strain on the resource system. The only resources present are the EC for one command pod per vessel(10 pods total in his biggest test), and they weren't changing. Is there some thermal calculation being done despite thermals not being implemented yet? I would struggle to understand there being separate orbital calculations per part rather than per vessel. What is being calculated, then, if not the physics? I also find it curious that the way KSP2 frame time scales per anth's tests for parts on different vessels looks very similar to the way they scaled in KSP1 with one x-thousand part vessel rendered in in the scene, per stratzenblitz's benchmarks (and that was with engines running and fuel drain, vs static truss segment vessels in Anth's tests).

T_T I guess I'm one of the three people that really liked that mechanic then, particularly with trimodal/bimodal nukes. Coming back to the game after that was patched out, I tried to recreate that functionality but haven't been able to figure it out.

Hey, my main career save is on exactly the same KSP version with JNSQ and Parallax too! o/ So I found there's a pretty easy gameplay fix for flares, just open map view and they'll display properly when you switch back. You do have to do this each time you load a new scene though.

I've loved this mod for years, but recentlyish realized that I was not seeing planetary flares anymore... they would only appear at the far right or left edges of my screen, as seen in this vid with Duna: https://i.imgur.com/xOggZ1s.mp4 I spent a few hours tinkering, tried messing around with all the settings to no avail, but incidentally discovered that disabling Dynamic Skybox Dimming makes it so the flares don't ever appear. It seems that something in Parallax does this; as I've been able to replicate with only DOE and parallax installed, while it was working normally with all my other usual graphics mods installed. It occasionally works normally even with parallax installed, but I haven't been able to find a pattern to this, and changing the scene makes it broken again.

I made a little MM patch to add BV controllers to every command module, but then had the problem that my Bon Voyage control panel was full of irrelevant craft, as all the modules start out active. I eventually found with a small addition I can make it so the pods initialize with the BV controller inactive: @PART[*]:HAS[@MODULE[ModuleCommand]]:AFTER[BonVoyage] { //gets rid of existing BV modules so you don't end up with doubles !MODULE[BonVoyageModule]{} //adds BV controller to every part MODULE { name = BonVoyageModule } //makes it so it starts out inactive @MODULE[BonVoyageModule] { shutdown = True } } I already had many craft with their modules active, but was able to fix that without too much trouble with multiline find and replace in notepad ++, changing all the shutdown = False in the BonVoyageModules to shutdown = true. Just posting this here in case anyone else runs into the same issues.

Any idea if it's possible to disable the stock alarm clock feature? It's inferior to KAC and its buttons often get in the way when I'm trying to make nodes. Also, would it be possible to disable this maneuver thing which I believe was introduced with the maneuver tool. They always pop up over the Pitch/Yaw/Roll indicators, which I never want covered up

I've noticed that I don't seem to be getting mach effects (besides sonic booms) in this release. Like, if I take off with the camera locked in front of the craft and accelerate past mach 1, in the previous version, the sound would weaken and disappear almost entirely at mach 1. Now it seems unchanged. Same for crossing into and out of the sonic cone when flying at supersonic speeds, I'll hear the boom, but there seems to be no change in sound otherwise, whereas it previously would be the transition either between engine sounds and silence.

Did it ever play nicely with water? I don't think there's been development on it for years, people just take it as is.

Anyone have a good control scheme for a custom Starship-like reentry with airbrakes? Ideally, I'd use normal procedural wing flaps as airbrakes, but I don't know how to get them to respond that way to control input or SAS, rather than as normal control surfaces, even if I have the control point facing the right way. And breaking ground robotics work badly with FAR.

Thanks so much! I'm pretty sure this update fixed a weird, fatal bug that caused consistent crashes and had halted my heavily modded career game.

Funny, I'm having a different issue when Kopernicus spawns an asteroid. It closes my FAR UI window, with no fps impact afaik. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with IVA for me. My log does this when it happens: [LOG 06:48:32.579] [Kopernicus] New object found near Kerbin: Ast. FBA-905! [LOG 06:48:32.591] [FAR v0.16.1.1]: FARVesselAero on Ast. FBA-905 (unloaded) reporting startup [LOG 06:48:32.607] [PR] Generating data for Ast. FBA-905

So I have a very weird one, pretty much just hoping someone's run into the same and knows what it is because it's so nonspecific. At seemingly random, but specific "fatal" ingame times, KSP will freeze and just stop responding, with the cursor turning into the windows progress circle like this. It doesn't seem to correlate with any system stress, can happen when I have plenty of CPU, GPU, and, RAM to spare, and I haven't found any pattern in the game logs (but they don't seem to capture the cause of the crash). I've tried leaving the game open for an hour and coming back with no changes; after it happens I can only end the process. But it happens at a certain ingame time consistently, which I've noticed because I left kerbal alarm clock open and noticed the same time left to an alarm at the moment of freeze. Once this happens, it will reliably happen again at the same time (or the frame after it if timewarping) once I restart the save. It doesn't matter which vessel I'm on, or if I'm in the KSC or tracking station. If I restart the game, enter the save, and time warp straight to the fatal time, I will crash right away. Or I can do other things in the save for hours no problem until I hit the fatal time. I can eventually get past the fatal time by using time warp, but this seems to fail 95% of the time. I've had it happen in the middle of a spaceplane reentry and was eventually able to physical timewarp past it. Once I'm past it, I'm usually fine for days of gameplay before it happens again. Anyone seen anything like this? 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After playing around with this a bit, I have to say incredible job to all of you! As someone recently trying to get the ideal setup playing at various scales (2.5x, 3.2x, 6.4x, 10.625x) most of my KSP time, I'd say you've gotten the balance just perfect for a great experience with stock parts. There are some subtleties I've noticed that make it better than any of those rescales. I had thought 2.5x was ideal until I played 3.2x, which was better (but also starting to get dreary timewise) but this scale manages to take the best of both worlds, as while worlds are smaller than 3.2x, the flatter atmosphere height (at 85km, it's less deep than 2.5 or 3.2x) makes for harsher reentries, so your mk1 pod NEEDS a heat shield to survive, which was not the case in either of the above. I'm now struggling to figure out how to reenter a craft holding 3 kerbals in early career without exploding. It's also a perfect scale/shape for more realistic rockets with stock parts; my assessment generally involves building some test endgame rocket and spaceplane SSTOs and seeing what's possible. A Twin Boar stack can barely SSTO an mk1-3 command pod, and surviving reentry is out of the question. While a mammoth based rocket might have the margins to SSTO a single mk1-3 command pod and return, surviving reentry would probably still be a problem. On the spaceplane side, a stock refueling SSTA (minus Eve, of course, maybe Moho, and dunno about the new Tylo or other new worlds/changes) is much harder but still possible, so my spaceplane love will still be satisfied :D. I love the trend toward realism graphically; it's especially refreshing not to have to deal with the scatterer artifacts with rescaled worlds, or clouds poking through terrain in rescales. The graphics quality is an obvious upgrade, but the more realistic look with flatter land just looks gorgeous (and that crazy new sunflare), and allows for lower orbits as well, which feels more realistic/majestic too. I haven't explored more than a bit of Mun and Minmus, but love what I've seen. Overall, extremely well done. Compatibility with all the major mods out of the box is a nice bonus. This is of a quality like the NF mods and Restock. It's so nice to be able to start a career without having to spend a week tweaking and making things compatible/balanced, or with the confidence that major things won't break halfway in, and explore a largely new system while at it. My only question/suggestion for now is why does Kerbin have no rivers? I think they would go along with the realistic design direction while also being very interesting to fly in/around.

That sounds awesome! Rescue contracts were somewhat doable in 2.5x but instafail half the time in 3.2x I can't quite figure how to do what you did. Mind breaking it down for dummies?