HavelockVetinari

Great mod, it makes my vessels look fantastic, however I have noticed that when I loaded the Stocklike Station Parts Expansion Redux parts mod that this mod turned the windows of the hydroponics module silver, so you can't see the plants. So I was wondering if there is a way to add an exception to the config file so that it doesn't make those parts shiny? Thanks in advance. V.

I can confirm that it doesn't work on KPS 1.0.5 or at least it didn't for me. I tried it on a clean KSP install and the only mods I added were E.V.E, Kopernicus and Module Manager. KSP did load but was very slow and when I went to the tacking station and tried to view the planets KSP froze and I had to use task manager to quit. It's a shame as I really would like to try this, I really love the idea of Procedural planets.

I tried it on 1.0.5 and I can confirm that it doesn't work, or at least it didn't work for me. Used a new installation of KSP and added E.V.E., followed by Kopernicus and Module Manager. No other mods were used and while KSP loads OK as soon as you go to the tracking station and try to view the new planets the whole thing freezes. I tried forcing OpenGL but this did not help. It's a shame because i really would like to try this one. I love the idea of procedural planets. They look amazing too.

Installed a new version of KSP with the KSPRC Rennaisance Compilation and started the career mode from scratch again and my first impression is Wow, it looks so much nicer. even though my Laptop has a lot of power I had to ditch a lot of my mods so I am basically running the stock game with a lot of graphical enhancements, plus mechjeb, chatterer, hot rockets, cool rockets, mapsat and Dmagic Orbital science. Getting large payloads into orbit is going to take a bit more effort without KW rocketry which if I'm honest is a bit of a cheat. Just managed to get my first ship into polar orbit and the view of the Aurora is really stunning. Absolutely love the new suits and textures of ..... well everything. But I'm looking forward to the 64 bit v 0.24 so I can start loading some more of the more memory hungry parts packs. The link to the mods are here. If you decide to install it make sure you follow Proot's instructions to the letter and have all the dependencies in place before installing his mod or it won't work. I don't think I will be playing with regular KSP again. Even though it looks really nice it's not even close to this. http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/76972-0-23-5-KSPRC-Renaissance-Compilation-artworks-remake-V-0-1-514-HOTFIX-19-4-14 A view of my first Aurora from Orbit. <a href="http://imgur.com/Y3UPG6s"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/Y3UPG6s.png" title="Hosted by imgur.com"/></a>

After successes on the Mun and Minmus decided to try for Duna with a lander and (manned.... er Kerbaled" Rover. MK4 Duna lander was renamed Valkyrie MK4. Realised that to send such a large Lander / Rover to Duna and back I would need a decent sized Launch vehicle. Lander can just about make Kerbin orbit by itself. I realised that I'd also need to refuel before making the trip or the boys would not be coming home. Testing the lander. <a href="http://imgur.com/Gk5PVTy"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/Gk5PVTy.png" title="Hosted by imgur.com"/></a> <a href="http://imgur.com/OFah1j0"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/OFah1j0.png" title="Hosted by imgur.com"/></a> After a few tweaks, waited for correct planetary alignment and sent Valkyrie 4 to rendezvous with my tanker. Refuelling in Low Kerbin Orbit <a href="http://imgur.com/fE8nz6e"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/fE8nz6e.png" title="Hosted by imgur.com"/></a> Off to Duna, Kerbin and the Mun disappearing fast. realised that my craft is lacking in Solar panels, only the lander has panels and if they get knocked off I may be in trouble. Oh well too late now. <a href="http://imgur.com/seI10Di"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/seI10Di.png" title="Hosted by imgur.com"/></a> Approaching Duna <a href="http://imgur.com/e2FyaAZ"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/e2FyaAZ.png" title="Hosted by imgur.com"/></a> Aerobraking at 14000m not much pyrotechnics as this atmosphere is very thin <a href="http://imgur.com/5fRakTQ"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/5fRakTQ.png" title="Hosted by imgur.com"/></a> Bob's IVA view of the Duna surface <a href="http://imgur.com/jDepsHb"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/jDepsHb.png" title="Hosted by imgur.com"/></a> On approach Ike rising under Kerbol. <a href="http://imgur.com/WmYnCAP"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/WmYnCAP.png" title="Hosted by imgur.com"/></a> Final approach hopefully we'll make it over the lip of the Canyon Wall. <a href="http://imgur.com/fiKTxC0"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/fiKTxC0.png" title="Hosted by imgur.com"/></a> Landed! We made it lads, Rover deployed, Flag planted, Bill playing in the Sand. <a href="http://imgur.com/71NlkYb"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/71NlkYb.png" title="Hosted by imgur.com"/></a> <a href="http://imgur.com/WKT3WAm"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/WKT3WAm.png" title="Hosted by imgur.com"/></a>. Now all I have to do is get them home.....

@ Frank-G. That is a very cool ship. Not the prettiest thing I've ever seen but very sci-fi in a gritty & realistic, Arthur C Clarke / Ridley Scott way. I like it a lot. What Mod are you using for the giant heat Shield? I've just managed a landing on Duna so my next challenge will be something a bit further afield. Are you using deadly re-entry?

Today I did my first successful aero braking manoeuvre around Duna and went on to land without a hitch. Well not strictly true I landed hard, the lander bounced and tipped over. Lesson learned and F9 had me back in orbit about to start my descent burn. Changed my landing site to a more interesting location and the second attempt went without a problem. Bill and Bob are now merrily careening around the red dunes of Duna in their ANT rover. Good thing I had 3 solar panels on the thing because I lost 2 when it flipped coming down a slope too fast.

Hi Indy Welcome to the wonderful world of KSP. yes it's a life changing experience when you get into it. Keep practising docking it's great when you can do it without a hitch. I've just about mastered it now but still hit F5 before I attempt to dock and sometimes have to load my quicksave to recover. Look forward to seeing some pictures.

Ahhh that would explain why it doesn't work, I haven't tried in Sandbox. If I want it sooner I'll have to modify the parts.ini file to bring it down a few tech levels. I sort of feel that it is something that would be achievable by less advanced Kerbals. Thanks for the reply.

Tried to Install the Docking strut yesterday but for the life of me I can't get it to work. What am I doing wrong? I thought maybe I needed to purchase it in R&D but I can't find it? Am I too low in the tech tree? I ended up using normal struts but I have brought a trunk full of KMS strut connectors with me in case I need to stop a wobbly vessel.

aceassasin. I know exactly where you are coming from, I had it exactly the same problem, though a few decades ahead of you so the slang and "cool" clothes have changed. No idea what Snapbacks are. I went to 9 different schools because my parents moved around a lot, always having to make new friends and never really fitting in. I was teased and bullied frequently because I was never one of the in crowd. My last High school was in a small no name town in Scotland and The day I left High school I walked out the front gate, gave the finger to the building and let out a whoop of delight. I have met some of the so called cool kids that made my life hell at school and most of them are pretty pathetic now. They have crappy jobs if they have jobs at all, have mundane tedious lives and have never been farther away from home than Ibiza on Holiday. Ignore them and remember that you only have a few years left and then you'll probably never see them again. Study hard, get the grades you need to get to collage and then the world is any damn mollusc that you want. Make sure you travel when you are young, because later it's hard and don't settle down until you are ready. These people that are making your life miserable now are the real losers. You should pity them because I guarantee they have no imagination. What do you want to do when you leave school if you don't mind my asking?

aceassasin, it's very probably you are a lot more mature than other 16 year after all you're playing KSP which requires you to think. But I'm afraid hatred of High school is just perfectly normal behaviour for most of us. I hated mine. But don't give up, think of it as a way to do what you really want to do and keep studying as long as you can. The alternative is a crappy job that you hate even more than High school. the trick is to get paid to do what you are passionate about. Unfortunately I only managed to do that for a short time, still I can't complain too much I have a job that gives me half the year off. :-)

Thanks I put 6 legs on it because in testing it only had 4 and it kept tipping over. Even landing on a slope on the Mun I managed to keep it upright.

Hi Agent30632, 10 and playing KSP, wow respect. Mind you most 10 year old kids I know are better at programming the TV than their parents. My Son is 10 and top of his class in Maths but he couldn't get his head around KSP. I might have to try him again. Keep playing KSP and keep studying and one day you could be director at Nasa.

Danke philly-idle. Now my ships should be stable in flight.

Hi Wallygator, Wow now that was some serious computer power. I see it wasn't something you could take home with you. LOL from the pictures in Wikipedia it looks about the size of 4 vending machines and then there were the terminals to actually connect to it. I assume you had a green screen? i do remember having access to a mainframe at the university which we used to run our power hungry programs that the desktop PC's couldn't handle. First and only online game I ever played was on that mainframe a MUD or "Multi User Dungeon" for all you kids out there, which was a text based RPG great granddad of World of Warcraft. I had many many hours on that when I should have been studying.

I'm 43 and I've been playing video games since before 64% of the people in this poll were born. Still feel like that 13 year old kid with my first computer which was a Commodor 16. That thing had 16 kbytes of memory, a tape drive and unlike the ZX spectrum it could handle 128 colours. Games were £1.99 which was 2 weeks pocket money, though I once saved up for 8 weeks to afford "Bombjack" which quite frankly was rubbish. You folks complain about long loading times for KSP, try waiting 25 minutes for a game to load from tape only to have it crash because of a glitch. Then you'd have to rewind and do it all again. Yes it wasn't very good but I learned to program on that thing and at the time it was the best thing ever. Even before that I had a space invaders machine that played, you guessed it space invaders and nothing else. That would be about 1980. this was really the beginning of the home computer time. There are games on phones now that we couldn't even have dreamed about playing in an Arcade.

As requested here are some of my recent endeavours with V0.23 Landing on the Mun; http://imgur.com/a/w2pPc#2, http://imgur.com/a/w2pPc#0, http://imgur.com/a/w2pPc#1, http://imgur.com/a/w2pPc#21 Landing on Minmus; http://imgur.com/a/w2pPc#18 Duna Lander and Bobcat MkV-Ant rover. (Not managed to land yet) http://imgur.com/a/w2pPc#8, http://imgur.com/a/w2pPc#9 Duna lander retuning to Kerbin after orbital test; http://imgur.com/a/w2pPc#13 A new mini Rover, with Infernal robotics parts for camera boom and legs mounted to rotation motors so that it can right itself. It can run upside down too if you rotate the legs but obviously upside down the solar panels don't get power. It is underpowered and I need to add a few more solar panels; http://imgur.com/a/w2pPc#6

Hey Supernovy I have a question for you about rover design. I took your advice and decided to make a very small rover it was basically and octo a frame a couple of batteries, a solar panel, a few small science sensors and 4 of the smallest stock wheels. I did what you did and mounted them at an angle to get more stability but I found that even going down the launch ramp when the thing hit the bottom it flipped over almost every time. Now I understand if I go fast it will flip if it hits a bump but this is a violent flip and it does it on almost every bump even when going slow. This does not bode well for any missions I use the thing on. Is this normal with those wheels of is my rover just a bit too unstable? I have given it a low centre of gravity and as wide a wheel base as possible. Oh I did use some infernal robotics motorised hinges so I could fold the legs when attached to my ship as well as a camera but the rest is stock. I will try and upload a picture of it tomorrow. Thanks for any advice. If I can't get it to work then I will probably go with the ANT.

Hi red, yes it's built to be as light as possible with exotic materials but I also read a while back when I first head about about a VW XL1 that VW have also built the non Hybrid Diesel Jetta TDI Blue motion which does 85mpg and it has been banned in the US because it apparently doesn't meet US crash test standards. But as the article says the Fed refused to crash test it. Why would that be? I have read a lot about the technology used in the XL1 engine and while it's sophisticated it's not particularly revolutionary, It's all about injecting small amounts of water into the cylinder which turns to dry steam and increases compression radically this giving you far bigger bang for your buck. Many have surmised that putting a version of the XL1 engine in a regular car would give 100 + mpg. I for one am waiting for the price of a Tesla to come down and I'll buy one. Battery technology is improving all the time and the internal combustion engine will go the way of the steam locomotive.

xcorps it's not some fantasy crackpot invention by some dude from California in his garage. It's down to clever German engineering and physics. It works it drives, it's a production car built by Volkswagen. Do you think that one of the biggest car companies on the planet would stake it's reputation on something that was a fraud? You can buy one but it's £100,000 or $170,000. They are not making many though. http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2014-volkswagen-xl1-first-drive-review http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/volkswagen/xl1/84767/volkswagen-xl1-video-review

Dust storms are not as common as all that especially around the coastal areas. I lived for years in a semi desert area in central Tanzania and we had some pretty big storms with lots of dust and the solar panels we used ran fine with out a hitch. I've also working in Mauritania and that's in the Sahara, everything was covered in dust, constantly and there were solar panels all over the place there. Yes the electronics will have to be protected from the dust but it's easy enough to do and the panels will have to be well anchored and protected but that just requires a bit of engineering. Yes panels will get damaged and need repairing but there are many people there who need a job. It might well be expensive but fixing a devastated planet will be a lot more expensive.

Brotoro, see for yourself. http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/04/50-mpg-cars-not-allowed-in-usa-2933366.html I've seen this story a number of times from some reputable sources and whether it's completely true or not about the whole "vehicles that are more efficient than 50+ mpg banned in the US" is true or not the fact remains the VW XL1 was banned in the US for "Safety" reasons. Europe have higher crash test regulations than the US so that seems a little dubious. Oh I was inaccurate about one thing the XL1 doesn't do 300 mpg only 261 mpg. I for one would love to have a car capable of doing 261 mpg or even 100 mpg especially as we pay per litre what you folks in the US pay per gallon.

Thanks guys, yes KSP has taken over. I would like to upload some shots but I'm away from home working and only have internet on my work computer. My laptop doesn't have internet access but I suppose I could transfer some of the shots with a memory stick. My Duna Lander is large, has a lot of science modules that are recoverable and enough fuel and power to almost make it into Kerbin Orbit. I went for a wide setup with 4 tanks around a central fat one and 8 landing legs to give it lots of stability. It handles well and as I said above has the Ant rover strapped to the bottom. I have launched it and landed it successfully on Kerbin, did a simulated mission in the desert, re launched and landed the small "top" capsule in the mountains for more science. The only problem is building a launch vehicle powerful enough to get it into orbit with enough fuel to get to Duna with a bit to spare to get back in case of problems.

I don't know if this has been mentioned before but the Sahara Solar Breeder Project, google it or click the link http://www.ssb-foundation.com/ has the potential to provide half the worlds energy needs by building masses of solar panels / solar furnaces in places where there is lots of the resources needed for solar power. Sand to make the PhotoVoltaic PV panels and sun. Sahara, Mohave, Gobi Australian deserts are all planned. Once the project is started research facilities would be built and some of the power would go to run seawater desalination plants and this water would be used for irrigation and reforestation of the deserts. As it grows more solar fields, manufacturing facilities, more desalination plants would be built and more fields planted. So essentially the initial project would "breed" more. Obviously this would bring many thousands of jobs in manufacture, farming, building the infrastructure and improve the economies and well being of the countries involved. This is not some pie in the sky what if plan it's a serious proposition started by the Universities of Tokyo and Algiers. This was suppose to start a few years ago but the Arab spring happened and things got a bit tense but it looks like it's starting to progress again. It's all based on current technology, they're not waiting for some future tech like nuclear fusion "which always seems to be 30 years away" the tech for the Cryogenic transmission system (to reduce power loss for long distance transmission) is already in existence it's just expensive, but with use and mas production the price will come down. I have worked for the oil and gas industry for over 20 years and I can see this is a damn good idea. Humankind has to move away from fossil fuels and potentially lethal alternatives like Nuclear in it's current form. I realise we can't all stop using fossil fuels or nuclear at the moment that's just not feasible but we can certainly start moving towards a sustainable future. I also don't think that solar alone is the answer, wind, wave, tidal, hydrothermal, Hydroelectric and safer forms of nuclear power such as Thorium based power plants all have their place. In the mean time we need to improve the efficiency of existing engine technology, work on battery technology and start moving away from huge gas guzzling, cars, trucks, ships and planes. VW already have a production car that can do 300 mpg, but it's banned from being marketed or even demonstrated in the US because then jo public in the USA might realise that the car / oil companies are lying to them and it is possible to get more than the supposed limit "50mpg" out of an internal combustion engine. It's not going to stop your redneck petrol head who wants a 600 HP fire breathing monster but the average person who is concerned about rising gas prices and putting food on the table will take note. The sun provides all the energy we will ever need, free!, We need to start using it.