GamerGaius

Is anyone else getting a problem when using this with RSS where clouds disappear when you look at the horizon?

Well, I am stumped by a repeating graphical error I've been getting using this with Visual Enhancement. When I look straight down at Kerbin from orbit, I can see clouds, but then, when I look at the horizon, the clouds just disappear, like they are not being rendered, as if I was looking away from the planet. I'm not sure if I should post this here, or on Visual Enhancement, but, again, I am stumped as to why I've been getting this error, and I just wonder if anyone else here has been experiencing it...

Hey, good to see you again.

I am good at placing satellites into exact orbits, and constructing Space Stations and Communication Constellations. I am not so good at building long distance probes and extraplanetary landings.

Okay, I worked a bit on a similar design, and instead of going stable at 30K, I stay pointing at around 30-33 degrees all the way up, with engines on full for as long as possible. At 40K I swap to Rocket Engines, and I start to pray to any god that will hear me, and I manage about 7000 m/s in the atmosphere, which would be good enough... if there wasn't an atmosphere that just eats up all my velocity as soon as I shut off the engine.

Please, PLEASE release a craft file of that. I NEED it.

The SLS-II Shuttle Derived Super Heavy Launch Vehicle: The Soyuz R-7 Derived Medium Launch Vehicle:

Yeah, the configs are very, very different, and it looks like pretty much everything has to be redone... Oh a posititive note, what I saw in last version of VE looked pretty spectacular...

I present to you, the Soyuz-TMA atop it's rocket, ready for it's launch to glorious MIR Station in the name of the Revolution. Powered by 4 KW Rocketry Griffon G8D's and a single Griffon XX at launch, the Soyuz has a TWR of 1.45. In this photo, Comrade Bob Kerman prepares for the launch by singing the People's Anthem. The Soyuz Rocket is propelled by only the finest RP-1 rocket fuel, unlike those Americans and their cryogenic hydrogen. The same hydrogen that continually yearns to escape from their tanks, like the loyalty from their hearts. Picture of the Soyuz Spacecraft without it's protective fairing and Launch Escape System. The foolish worker who forgot to add the fairing will be sent to a reeducation camp. Picture of the Soyuz from a 300Km orbit taken by Comrade Political Officer Jebediah Kerman. Payload to LKO: 25 tons. Stages: 2 Boosters: 4 Griffon G8D's with RP-1 Kerosene fuel: DeltaV- 1948 m/s Stage-01: 1 Griffon XX with RP-1 Kerosene fuel: DeltaV- 3094 m/s Stage-02: 1 Wildcat XR with RP-1 Kerosene fuel: DeltaV-6993 m/s Soyuz-TMA: 12 Linear RCS points with Monopropellant: DeltaV-1500 m/s Launch Profile: Turn 10 degrees at launch, and slowly turn until you are pointed at 45 degrees by 30Km. By 70Km the rocket should be pointed at 30 degrees, and by 200Km should be oriented at 0 degrees (if the ship has not yet reached orbit). Never let go of the throttle, while Kerosene may be a cheaper fuel for the communist on a budget, it does not have a high TWR, and every second counts. MODS: KW Rocketry, Real fuels "Stockalike", HGR for the Soyuz Module, Near Future Propulsion for the Solar Panels, Stretchy Tanks, Deadly Reentry, Kerbal Joint Reinforcement, Mechjeb, FASA, and Remotetech 2. Craft File: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2UfSbILNRzeQzE0ZXluTGRlMFE/edit?usp=sharing

Well, I only got the clouds and planet textures, but I got only about 50 megabtyes more RAM usage, if that. It's nothing when compared to b9 aerospace or KW rocketry.

From what I've seen, you guys are in for a treat. I have to hand it to Proot, he knows his stuff.

I would offer to test, but I am running Real Solar System, and I have a feeling that might make all the testing invalid for vanilla...

Oh boy, now I can do dry tests of my various rocket series in RSS. No longer do I have to build expensive payloads to test my rockets, now I can launch a brick with an antenna on it to test the rocket's tonnage to orbit. I mean, math is all fine and good, but it's nice to know the practical max tonnage instead of just the theoretical max tonnage, and then see your expensive and important payload plummet back to Kerbin in flames.

I can sympathize there. I have been grappling with how to apply Coolrockets to Stretchy Tanks. It is not an easy task... KSP is not all that good at using particles.

I launched 24 GPS satellites in 6 launches, tomorrow I will perform orbital maneuvers to spread them out equally around Kerbin. I also launched 3 LHX class Spy Satellites in a Polar Orbit, and when one of them failed, Kerbal Intelligence Agency liaison and special agent Kirrim Kerman had to perform a solo orbital rendezvous and EVA service on the telescope.

Today I launched 4 Geosychronous satellites into 60 degree orbits to cover the high latitudes of Kerbin. I also launched a resupply vehicle to rendezvous with KerbLab-1, and I changed my Duna flyby probe's trajectory by 2 degrees to get a week earlier rendezvous. Today was mostly logistics, but I almost prefer logistics to the BIG missions. With Deadly Reentry, FAR, and Real Solar System, entry into an atmosphere, and landing on a planet turns into about 20 minutes of terror.

Beautiful, entrancing, and making cool things in space.

Ugh, Debris. My main save is beginning to approach Kessler Syndrome levels of debris in Low Kerbin Orbit... Pics of the two landing zones for my first landing on Real Solar System sized Mun incoming...

Yeah, I'd think Jool would be the most viable. Though I could see Dres having a small accretion disk because of it's location in the asteroid belt. I couldn't see Eeloo with rings though, too small and too far away. A Dres belt would probably be thin, and dark. It actually would more resemble a cloud than belt, as most of the debris would be from collisions instead of gravity capture. A Jool ring would be VERY bright, because of the obviously large amounts of water in the Jool System(eg Laythe and Vall). I would imagine it would be bright white, possibly tinged dark-greenish by the same compounds coloring Jool's atmosphere. Keep in mind, Saturn has a lot of planets, Titan(Laythe's RL analogue) included. Some bright, striking rings would be perfect for Jool. I could see Eve with rings, possibly because it had a large moon inside the Roche Limit, or was struck recently by a large planetoid, much like ancient Earth. Of course, by recently, I mean a few hundred million years ago... I wouldn't give any moons rings though. A ring around a moon would be inherently unstable. It might last a few millenia, but I couldn't see long term rings around any moon. The amount of tidal forces moons recieve means that any orbit over a moon is unstable, and will eventually end with either crashing into the moon, escaping the system entirely, or crashing into the parent planet. And yeah, I was asking about extra RAM added by this mod, since I run Real Solar System and a bunch of part mods, and I was hoping I could run this, but even if I can't, I would love to see this released. This looks very, very pretty, and I look forward to it. PS: I might have been wrong about Eeloo. It could possibly have a small ring system consisting of low albedo particles. source: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0608036 PSS: If you need any help or nerd math, please don't hesitate to ask. I'll do my best as an aerospace/computer science double major...

Jool with some bright rings would be stunning. Take your time man, but, quick question, how much RAM do you expect this to use, by chance?

SLS Block II in the house! 1500 tons of very, VERY angry space ship. This puppy can manage 100 metric tons to an orbit of 430Km. She is the workhorse of my program. She relies on 2 utterly massive solid boosters to get her off of the launchpad. Interesting side note, when building this, the construction of my Space Shuttle did actually inform the craft, so it really can be considered a Shuttle Derived Launch Vehicle.

Could you perchance upload it here so I can play with it too? This sounds sort of similar to problems I remember reading about...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kmpj53gw66ahho0/DeadlyReentry_TiberDyne_Shuttle.cfg This is the link. Put it in your Deadly Reentry or TiberDyne folder. It isn't perfect, but it should give you a good start. I use 2.1, but it SHOULD work with more modern incarnations... If someone could independently verify this works, I would appreciate it.

Hey Tiberion, I actually just finished a rough CFG for Tiberdyne and Deadly Reentry. I basically took how he treated B9, and converted that method to the shuttle. Essentially, as long as you enter in with the heat shield in front, you will have no problems. If you want me to send you the file for you to mess with, just tell me.

I did a quick module manager cfg for Tiberdyne that treats the heat shielded parts of the ship like Deadly Reentry treats B9. If you enter in the correct way you will not burn up. There is no ablative shielding, just an active shield.