DunaColonist

Update : 0.8.0 Officially compatible with KPS2 version 0.2.1 (ie For Science!). So no more warning from SpaceDock, CKAN, or the mod loader the game.

Love this mod. It is part of my 'must' list. I am sure you already have plenty of work but it would be great to have additional com stations on Kerbin. Even with the colonies update, it would be useful because adding colonies to Kerbin won't be possible easily / early in game. I use a kestionnay sat as the closest relay to increase access to KSC. But it is hard to really keep the sat on track after long warps due to interplanitary travels. Having the com range of the KSC evolves with com technologies would be great too. It would make sense, it would avoid that tiny sat outperforms KSC and it would let players focus on a smaller number of critical relays.

Simply can't live without it. Simple mod but litteraly a must. I need to check in game but => would it make sense to have EC usage ? => are there dead lamps in the outside of the various command pods ?

Hi @Fizzlebop Smith, Well... Life... Short term : I will update soon(tm) the mod to the current version of the game. Longer term : I need first to analyse what is valuable with regard to current state of the game, future state of the game and scopes of other mods.

Update : 0.7.0 Compatible KPS2 version 0.1.4.0 (ie patch 4).

Update : 0.6.0 Fix weird transparency / ordering of spatial shapes. And cleanup visual design of HUD. HUD may partially disappear if too small when the craft is too far away from camera.

@DfA-DoM Thanks for the feedback ! Great! This KSP1 mod is a target that I would like to reach with the version 2. It is nice to have identified an user. I will welcome your feedback on the implementation once I start working on it. Ok. I will keep that in mind. I will likely add user configuration once the design is more stable. Great proposal. Nothing more to say. I should be able to add a hotkey to enable/disable display. And maybe more hotkeys for various actions later. Regarding enabling / disabling the hud display : Is there a specific key that would make sense for you ? And that would not be in conflict with other uses ? Do you know any KSP2 mod having hotkeys ? Do they provide a user configuration for the key ?

Ah and the current weird transparency is not a feature based on the colors but more like a bug / limitations of the drawing library provided by KSP2. Currently, the last line/cone that is drawn is on top of the previous ones even if does not make sense from a 3D point of view... So it's far from something the end user can configure. I will need to look into in order to understand the exact limitations and what would be the best tradeoff.

@DfA-DoM If you had those parameters/sliders what would you change and how ? I agree that the current display has to be improved. But the way I see it, it is a bit more complex than only fine tuning size and transparency. Instead of asking each user to fix the design on their own, I would rather improve the experience out of the box. That being said, all feedback are useful. Understanding what you would change and why, would help the next design.

Done. (But to be fair, it is mostly due to the work of CKAN folks.) https://github.com/KSP-CKAN/KSP2-CKAN-meta/tree/main/HeadUpDisplay I haven't tried to install it with CKAN but if anyone has any issue using CKAN, please post them. And I will see what I can do about them.

Update: 0.5.0 First version of craft attitude control ! Define horizontal and vertical angles and move your hands out of the keyboard. Great help for launch of rocket and their gravity turn. I will update image in order to show the gui... but later.

@DfA-DoM I will look into it! I haven't used CKAN for KSP2 yet. But it is yet another page / file to update...

Update : 0.4.0 The mod is compatible with patch 2. Prototype : display veritical and horizontal angles within the configuration popup. Upgrade space warp : need >= 1.1.1

Update : 0.3.1 => 0.3.2 Improvement: Fix bug of orbit path not being displayed. Transform the workaround into a fix. Thanks to @munix No need to enable / disabled the mod manually.

Short answer Juno did a good design job. Long answer The main idea In order to increase focus during a dynamic activity, a common pattern is to to display the critical information where the gaze/action is. And that's the basic concept for a Head Up Display (HUD). HMD is similar in that aspect. It is far from being specific to Juno. Does KSP2 has already a real HUD ? It could be argued that what is available in vanilla KSP2 is not really a HUD but a set of instruments. Indeed, if you want to look at the them, you need to forget your vessel for a brief lapse of time. One example could be checking the navball and then crashing into an object that was not visible with the navball but only in direct view while looking at the vessel. So the main goal of this mod is this : don't move your eyes around, keep watching your vessel / target. The critical information will be provided to you. What Juno did well They have a minimalist design with no superfluous information virtual navball with 2 circles 1 horizontal white circle 1 vertical white circle direction indicators green prograde indicator white current heading indicator blue target indicator horizontal and vertical graduation scales visible on hover Only the critical information is displayed. If something is displayed, that's because it's useful else it is not shown. So I have tried different variations with more lines, more colors but it often ends up being too complex to read and confusing. What are the main differences ? The main difference right now is the definition of the vessel heading : for Juno, the virtual navball allows to define the craft attitude. The mod does not allow it currently. But that's probably a feature that I will add soon (ie one day). The second difference is the design. The graduation scales is currently always displayed. But they add maybe too much noise. And as a consequence, they should probably be removed or displayed only on hover (see Juno minimalist design). Having different colors for the 2 circles of the navball may be confusing and not bring enough information. I am not quite sure for this point. And so on about design.