John F. Kerman

Successfully funded! Woohoo! Thanks to anyone that backed it @The Jedi Master: Yeah, that's my excuse too

Bump. 11 hours left and just over £500 to go.

Eh? Not sure I fully grok your point. I've backed it thanks. As far as I'm aware it's being proposed by a team from the University of Surrey, UK.

Hey all, Apologies if this isn't the right place to post this, but I thought a forum full of space geeks might be interested in this. Plus, I'd really like to see this succeed (after all, a potato salad can make 50k, is there no justice in the world?) In a nutshell, they're sending cameras 30km up & then turning the journey into an Oculus Rift experience (and other platforms, for those of us not fortunate enough to own a Rift yet) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1592839372/virtual-ride-to-space-vr2space They have 3 days left and are currently about £2000 short of their goal. Cheers!

Well, if someone does, I have a couple of feature requests: The 10kb limit on the craft harddrive is too low for what I want to do - after browsing the github sources it seems this is a hardcoded value & should be simple enough to change.. but: is it an arbitrary limit or is there a reason for this? If it's arbitrary, it'd be nice to have this as a setting in the part files (you could keep the 10k limit for the 'stock' computer & have additional parts with more space). I'd make this change myself if I knew anything about the part file formats... Support for commandline arguments would be useful as well (simple DOS batch script style %1, %2 etc would be fine). For example, "run hover <altitude>." to run a script that makes a craft hover at <altitude>. I can work around this by using ag1/ag2 to increment / decrement a variable but it's just more code space that could be used for more important things. Oh, and here's a work in progress script that might help people out. (this one is over the 10k limit, but you can delete the animation stuff to run it). Disclaimer: Most of the actual hovering stuff isn't working yet, and I can't remember if this version has the correct mass / acceleration calculations or not print " =============================================== " at (0,0). print "| Hover Testbed v0.1 |" at (0,1). print " =============================================== " at (0,2). print "| |" at (0,3). print "| Speed : |" at (0,4). print "| Altitude : |" at (0,5). print "| VertSpeed : |" at (0,6). print "| Direction : |" at (0,7). print "| ProG : |" at (0,8). print "| RetroG : |" at (0,9). print "| Mass : |" at (0,10). print "| Thrust : |" at (0,11). print "| Throttle : |" at (0,12). print "| TWR : |" at (0,13). print "| |" at (0,14). print "| |" at (0,15). print "| Mode: |" at (0,16). print "| Target Height: |" at (0,17). print "| |" at (0,18). print "| Hovering over |" at (0,19). print " =============================================== " at (0,20). print "= +==+ +==========+ =" at (0,21). print "= | | | | =" at (0,22). print "= +==+ | | =" at (0,23). print "= | (: | =" at (0,24). print "= +==========+ =" at (0,25). print "= =" at (0,26). print "= 1 - Increase Target Height =" at (0,27). print "= 2 - Decrease Target Height =" at (0,28). print "= 3 - Change Mode =" at (0,29). print "= 4 - Animation test =" at (0,30). print "= 5 - End Testbed =" at (0,31). print "= ==================== ====================== =" at (0,32). print "= ActionPress: . = = =" at (0,33). print "= = =" at (0,34). print " =============================================== " at (0,35). print body at (16,19). set targetheight to 0. print targetheight + "m " at (16,17). set done to false. set actionPressed to 0. set keypressed to false. set frameupdate to 0. set framerate to 2. set animframe to 0. set mode to 0. lock surfaceVec to velocity:surface. lock speedx to (surfaceVec:x * surfaceVec:x). lock speedy to (surfaceVec:y * surfaceVec:y). lock speedz to (surfaceVec:z * surfaceVec:z). set speed to sqrt(speedx + speedy + speedz). lock height to altitude. lock vertSpeed to verticalspeed. lock craftDir to steering. set tbThrottle to 0. lock throttle to tbThrottle. set animate to false. set speedLastFrame to speed. set heightLastFrame to height. set ascending to false. set timeLastFrame to 0. set acceleration to 0. until done { set deltaTime to time - timeLastFrame. set speed to sqrt(speedx + speedy + speedz). set deltaHeight to height - heightLastFrame. if deltaHeight < 0 { set speed to 0 - speed. }. set deltaSpeed to speed - speedLastFrame. set speedLastFrame to speed. if deltaTime > 0 { set acceleration to deltaSpeed / deltaTime. }. print speed + " " at (13,4). print height + " " at(13,5). print vertSpeed + " " at (13,6). print craftDir + " " at(13,7). print prograde + " " at(13,8). print retrograde + " " at(13,9). print mass + " " at (13,10). print maxthrust + " " at (13,11). print tbThrottle + " " at (13,12). print maxthrust / (mass * 1000) + " " at (13,13). print time + " " at (13,14). print acceleration + " " at (13,14). if (mode = 0) { print "Basic " at (7,16). if targetheight > height { set tbThrottle to 1. }. if targetheight < height { set tbThrottle to 0. }. }. if (mode = 1) { print "Not implemented " at (7,16). }. if (mode = 2) { print "Not implemented " at (7,16). }. set speedLastFrame to speed. set heightLastFrame to height. if animate { if animframe = 0 { print "| Animation test === === === |" at (0,16). print "| = = = = = = = = = =|" at (0,17). print "|= = = = = = = = = = =|" at (0,18). print "| == == == === === |" at (0,19). }. if animframe = 1 { print "| Animation test= == === === |" at (0,16). print "|= = = = = = = = = = |" at (0,17). print "| = = = = = = = = = = = |" at (0,18). print "| == == == === === =|" at (0,19). }. if animframe = 2 { print "|=Animation test== = === === |" at (0,16). print "| = = = = = = = = = = |" at (0,17). print "| = = = = = = = = = = |" at (0,18). print "| == == == === === ==|" at (0,19). }. if animframe = 3 { print "|=Animation test == === === |" at (0,16). print "| = = = = = = = = = = |" at (0,17). print "| = = = = = = = = = = |" at (0,18). print "| == == = === === ===|" at (0,19). }. if animframe = 4 { print "| Animation test == === === |" at (0,16). print "|= = = = = = = = = = =|" at (0,17). print "| = = = = = = = = = =|" at (0,18). print "| == == === === === |" at (0,19). }. if animframe = 5 { print "| Animation test == === === =|" at (0,16). print "| = = = = = = = = = = = |" at (0,17). print "|= = = = = = = = = = |" at (0,18). print "| == == == === === |" at (0,19). }. if animframe = 6 { print "| Animation test == === === ==|" at (0,16). print "| = = = = = = = = = = |" at (0,17). print "| = = = = = = = = = = |" at (0,18). print "|= == == = === === |" at (0,19). }. if animframe = 7 { print "| Animation test = === === ===|" at (0,16). print "| = = = = = = = = = = |" at (0,17). print "| = = = = = = = = = = |" at (0,18). print "|== == == === === |" at (0,19). }. if animframe = 8 { print "| Animation test === === === |" at (0,16). print "| = = = = = = = = = =|" at (0,17). print "|= = = = = = = = = = =|" at (0,18). print "| == == == === === |" at (0,19). set animframe to 0. }. }. print " " at (15,33). if ag1 { print "1" at (15,33). set actionPressed to 1. set ag1 to false. set keypressed to true. }. if ag2 { print "2" at (15,33). set actionPressed to 2. set ag2 to false. set keypressed to true. }. if ag3 { print "3" at (15,33). set actionPressed to 3. set ag3 to false. set keypressed to true. }. if ag4 { print "4" at (15,33). set actionPressed to 4. set ag4 to false. set keypressed to true. }. if ag5 { print "5" at (15,33). set actionPressed to 5. set ag5 to false. set keypressed to true. }. if keypressed { if actionPressed = 5 { set done to true. }. if (actionPressed = 1) { set targetheight to targetheight + 50. if targetheight > 1000 { set targetheight to 1000. }. print targetheight + "m " at (16,17). }. if (actionPressed = 2) { set targetheight to targetheight - 50. if targetheight < 0 { set targetheight to 0. }. print targetheight + "m " at (16,17). }. if (actionPressed = 3) { set mode to mode + 1. if mode = 3 { set mode to 0. }. }. if (actionPressed = 4) { if animate { print "| Mode: |" at (0,16). print "| Target Height: |" at (0,17). print "| |" at (0,18). print "| Hovering over |" at (0,19). }. toggle animate. }. set actionpressed to 0. set keypressed to false. }. if frameupdate = framerate { set frameupdate to 0. set animframe to animframe + 1. }. set frameupdate to frameupdate + 1. set timeLastFrame to time. }.

Yeah, that was it, thanks. I would have posted here earlier but I've been distracted writing kOS programs

Hi, I thought I'd try out this mod for the first time tonight. Everything seems to be installed correctly but when I type any command into the terminal nothing happens - e.g. print "hello world" (or PRINT "hello world"), or edit "file". The only output I get is by typing "." which gives me a syntax error. What am I doing wrong? edit: I get the same thing on 2 different craft: One that uses the RemoteTech2 & procedural fairings plugins, and another that is just kOS plus a stock booster & cockpit in case the other plugins were interfering with kOS.

If it's a missing file causing the crash, you could try downloading 0.16 and updating to 0.17 via the updater program.. might keep the old 0.16 files that way (that said, doing this deleted all my old screenshots )

Here's some http://www.flickr.com/photos/osovagabundo/5109059988/ probably past its sell by date by now though.

Where do I get DEMV 2 from? Last time I saw only Mk 1 was downloadable.

Interesting.. would I need to rip stuff off and start again for that or would I be able to use 2x symmetry on the existing parts?

This one is mostly stock, and doesn't use novapunch either: http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/showthread.php/23530-Tips-to-improve-this-craft I imagine mechjeb won't have *too* much trouble flying it. It can get me most of the way to Jool, so should be able to get to Duna with fuel to spare.

Nice model, I like that you included the frayed material around the holes. Is there an IVA view? That would be awesome.

Thanks for the replies so far, I will try these out. I thought one ASAS module on the upper stage was enough for the whole craft though? Yes, I'm using 4 non-gimbaling LFEs (plus the upper boosters) from about 10,000m until I'm nearly in orbit. I have a single gimbaling LFE in the centre which is fired a bit later on. I'm not entirely sure where to fit a second to be honest as the others are using symmetry. The fuel tank between the DEMV & the lander used to be a structural fuselage but then I saw that LF tanks are a bit lighter when empty.

I'm trying to land on Jool's moons with this - the "best" design I've made so far (i.e. probably still terrible), but it's a real handful to fly. (I don't use mechjeb) It's possible to get a decent orbit with practice, but the spin in the upper atmosphere is pretty annoying. Explosions aren't uncommon either. I'm trying to improve the launch handling, and I'm not sure the nuclear / landing stage is all that efficient. I think this only needs the DEMV addon, but I may have stuck some probodobodyne / remote tech / fixed camera / aviation light stuff on there as well. MkIV is the original version for reference. Thanks for reading / trying it out