NoMrBond

Hey Team, I was wondering what sort of updates we might see regarding KSP2 or from Star Theory about progress We have KSP Loading keeping us in the loop on 1.8 progress with the Unity update to 2019.2, the texture revamps for planetary bodies, new SRB's (with gimballing even!) so I was hoping we would see something similar in regards to their ongoing development Would be great to get a brief VLOG or something from the folks at Bellevue, if they've got stuff they're allowed to share at least!

Err, yes, I know, which is why I said I wasn't worried.

Gets locked behind an exclusive storefront No mods Not worried considering these things have been noped to death.

I was kind of hoping we'd have 'root' tanks with nodes coming off them like the fairing baseplates have Then wherever the player snap onto it, the tank automagically becomes that long rather then needing to pick out the correct D/L from a massively overpopulated list (+ being able to manually adjust L segments via PAW) This way we'd just have a diameters (D) on the list

Yeah we didn't have version confirmation at the time but as of the recent developer interviews at Pax West Star Theory was building on Unity 2019.2 Assuming they don't version-freeze and stay current until much closer to release then DXR could well be available (I'm hoping they include the FleX as well as the DXR if they end up using DX12)

Are we getting the ability to assign engines to different control schema? i.e. right-click > you respond to RCS controls now etc?

Since KSP2 (and even KSP1.8 actually) will be based on the latest Unity version(s), do they (Star Theory and/or Squad respectively) plan to include FleX support for GPGPU acceleration?

Righto;

Will there be a playable demo of KSP2?

Content creators dinner following the Star Theory presentation (via Scott Manley's phone);

All credit goes to Matt who's out there and filling us in Please thank him on twitter if you can

Star Theory just had a pre-show KSP2 event thingy; There's a series of tweets from https://twitter.com/badnewsbaron with info To crib; All credit to Matt^ Thank them on Twitter

Since they're already showed what looks to be a Direct Fusion Drive An extension of that is to have your engine breed He-3 [Breeder Fusion Engine] No idea whether it'd just be easier to mine though

It says spring, so sometime between Thursday the 19th of March to Saturday the 20th of June

Going to go out on a limb and say there are also cryo-propellants, based on the water vapour clouds visibly falling from the tanks here I mean, the vapour cloud by itself is also cool neat, plus you can see a water deluge sound suppression system too, and even gas burnoff sparkers as well at various points.

Quite a bit of familiar material and also in Dutch, but has a few actual in-game scenes I haven't seen in other videos;

I hope they do change the Kerbol system a little bit, keep the same general layout but move/resize things enough that the system would actually be stable (maybe uhh... chuck in an extra gas giant between Jool and Eeloo though /cough) I mean, if they baked in the ability to set system/body scaling as an option so people could crank that up for added difficulty that would also be great

Hopefully they're using at least Unity 2018.3 for the undated mono, and even more hopefully (but less likely since it only came out in April) Unity 2019.1 which has the improved incremental GC

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There's another developer interview with beanscom as well

Hopefully the UI is modular customisable widgets Pull them out or pop them up from some widget draw, make them the size you want, where you want them, clip them together or snap them to the screen border for perfect alignments Include a couple of default layouts for people that don't want to mess with that, but then players that want to dig into it can make it whatever they like.

If they're using a later version of the Unity engine (2018.3 or better) then they'll get the advantage of PhysX 3.4 which should be a decent upgrade In one of the dev interviews at Gamescom it sounds like part of the KSP2 push has been restructuring and refactoring the entire codebase The breaking of compatibility affords them the ability to really dig deep and fix/change what's needed without worrying about what it might do to peoples saves or other concerns

Not presently, Unity announced they would be supporting ray-tracing earlier this year but thus far I haven't even even spotted it on their roadmap There was some activity pointing towards this being under Vulkan's scriptable pipeline support, but even that was pretty tenuous so we really don't know My hope is for at least Unity 2018.3 so we see PhysX 3.4, .NET/Roslyn upgrade, prefabs/nesting and the terrain system. 2019.1 would be good for the incremental GC too. As long as they're stepping up from DX9

Still on Unity Presumably 2018.3 or newer though

They'd need to have KSP2 running on DX12 to use the DXR extension Which would be good in its own right