Flux Kapacitor: A Back to the Future mod v0.96

[MYCRAFTisbest]

VERSION: 0.96 BETA

Now for KSP 1.0.5!

(Changes include feedback in MPH, better GUI and MORE! (Please see change log in README for more details)

RECOMMEND YOU MANUALLY REMOVE THE OLD FILE FROM GAMEDATA

 

A Back to the Future Mod that adds a Flux Capacitor kerbalized. What does it do? Well it travels you BACK IN TIME! No Really, it loads any quicksave you desire in a spectacular and fun fasion. Set the speed required for the Time Circuits to fire (39m/s default [88mph]). As of now the effects are missing. They should return next update.

INCLUDES:

1 MYCRAFT Inc. Flux Kapacitor

1 MYCRAFT Inc. Mr.Kusion

1 DeLorean Time Machine (made from stock parts excluding the Mod parts) [Available in Sandbox or whatever save you put the file in])

Future Plans:

 

• More Parts (DeLorean Frame [May be on hold indefinately unless model is provided or I have a LOT of free time])

• Sound Effects, Graphical Effects, EXPLOSIONS!

   

   

  KNOWN BUGS: None ATM, but I'm sure they are plentyful.

  OVERSIGHTS: -If the save that is supposed to be loaded doesn't exist it will not properly inform you. (CASE SENSITIVE) -Destination will reset every time the vessel is loaded. If already moving fast enough when activated, the game will instantly start the time travel routine and give you no time to input anything

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  DOWNLOAD:

  This plugin follows the guidelines of the MIT Licence. There now that the boring legal stuff is out of the way, chose a link.

  Curse: http://kerbal.curseforge.com/ksp-mods/233544-flux-kapacitor

  Have fun and enjoy!

  

  

  

Edited June 3, 2021 by Snark
Link to defunct website removed by moderator

[Red Iron Crown]

Welcome aboard!

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[Gaalidas]

ahh, the memories. I still remmeber Doc. K'brown walking into the hangar with a huge bruise on his forehead complaining about faulty toilet seats and time travel. Good times. Then he walked out of the same room again, without walking into it first, complaining about the temporal flux of "meeting yourself" and that was weird too... and then he suddenly appeared on the runway during a launch in what looked like a wooden fruit cart with a spinning bowl on top and springs wiggling in the wind... without wind...

...what was I talking about again?

[HoloYolo]

Do we need to go 88 miles an hour for this to work?

[MYCRAFTisbest]

Do we need to go 88 miles an hour for this to work?

As much as I would love to add a requirement of moving at 39.34m/s to make it function I have not implemented nor looked into a way to do this, yet. I'll be looking into it though as it might need a non-stock module for that feature to exist.

EDIT: If you want it to, yes

Edited August 13, 2015 by MYCRAFTisbest

[Whirligig Girl]

How about making it change the Universal Time? HyperEdit has some code that can change the universal time, it'd be cool to have a flux capacitor to do it. And making it require a surface-speed of either 88 mph or 88 m/s (to make it Kerbalized and way faster) to work.

[Gaalidas]

To stay true to the original, we basically need to figure out what 88mph is when you apply the same scaling constant that is used to scale everything else (basically the difference between the human and kerbal rough sizes). Or... simply stick to the straight conversion of 88mph to 39.34m/s (if that's actually the straight conversion). as far as rovers are concerned, that's pretty insane considering my average roving speed is around 18-25m/s on average. I could only reach a rough 40m/s if I used KF repulsors.

For this to work like the original, you'll need to be able to specify an exact date/time to travel to, even if you're only changing the universal time value, going both forwards and (if possible) backwards. Changing the world and/or events and vessels to match is another story... and another toilet seat accident.

[tg626]

Specify an sfs file. Go 88mph boom load savefile. Don't know why you'd want to, but....

[ZooNamedGames]

How about making it change the Universal Time? HyperEdit has some code that can change the universal time, it'd be cool to have a flux capacitor to do it. And making it require a surface-speed of either 88 mph or 88 m/s (to make it Kerbalized and way faster) to work.

Only issue, would the whole game jump forward, or would it just vanish until the said date? Maybe make a feature for both? Also, the Delorean jumps forward in time which is no biggy, but since it maintains the same location in space which is another problem, Kerbin will have moved in its solar orbit by the time it comes out of (for the lack of another name) Temporal Gap. So we'd have to make sure the mod understands it maintains the same location on Kerbin, no matter where Kerbin moves.

lastly, I say we reduce the speed of 88mph, to 60% of that value and make it ~25m/s. The idea is to be traveling at very high speeds, and due to that the highest speed a rover can reach (in the stock game) is to be going downhill and or with rockets, so we reduce the number to 60% of its value and voila, we have 25m/s, a high speed in KSP, and a decent point of departure for this mod.

(please PM me how to add spoilers, I'd like to spoiler that upper portion as to prevent ocular traumatization for those who don't want to see that bit)

As per my ideas of the mod, I absolutely LOVE it!!!! This is by far, one of my favorite mods (and I use a LARGE number). I will keep checking on this mod to see its development and I'd also LOVE to help develop it (Granted all I can do is offer ideas and suggestions since I don't know how to mod). But please mod maker, keep working on this! I'd love to see this work completely within KSP as its a fantastic idea which has been waiting a long time to be taken up.

[Gaalidas]

Actually, the spacial problem is not an issue because the time distortion follows the gravity well that it is attached to. Gravity wells distort time as well, so there would probably be some connection between them. If we treat this like a temporal wormhole, so to speak, then that puncture through space-time would create a sort of anchor between the two time-space coordinates.

Now, the situation of it disappearing until the time that is specified is a valid way of doing it, especially if the activation is done from a remote console, or a swap of crafts is performed while the requisite speed it being attained. If, however, you activate it in person you would likely have to put everything on rails temporarily (including your craft at the exact time the requisite speed is attained) and then have the simulation warp ahead the specified time, taking into consideration where all the orbiting objects will be when the time has passed. Upon reaching that time, the craft should then resume it's previous planetary-relative direction at the speed it entered the space-time warp at, roughly 88mph.

We could then grab the source for the upcoming DustFX feature of the as-of-yet unreleased 1.9 update of Kerbal Foundries and modify it to output a flame-trail to be emitted post-warp. The challenge will be how to handle the external travel of the time machine... that is, how to spit out the craft at that velocity and vector when you are not currently in physics range of that spot.

Edited August 4, 2015 by Gaalidas

[ZooNamedGames]

Actually, the spacial problem is not an issue because the time distortion follows the gravity well that it is attached to.

In reality, but this is KSP. Completely different rules.

[Gaalidas]

Specify an sfs file. Go 88mph boom load savefile. Don't know why you'd want to, but....

Hey, if we can then it should totally be done. It worked out well for the people who brought the dinosaurs back, right? Sure, most of them died as dino-food but, when you think about it, what else could they have expected to happen in the end? So, in reality, it was a complete success.

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In reality, but this is KSP. Completely different rules.

Granted... but rules are meant to be broken. Besides, we don't really know if that really works since we have yet to be able to produce temporal distortions in the real world.

[ZooNamedGames]

Hey, if we can then it should totally be done. It worked out well for the people who brought the dinosaurs back, right? Sure, most of them died as dino-food but, when you think about it, what else could they have expected to happen in the end? So, in reality, it was a complete success.

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Granted... but rules are meant to be broken. Besides, we don't really know if that really works since we have yet to be able to produce temporal distortions in the real world.

Yes, but break KSP's rules and the game NaNs you. You can't break KSP's rules. Moreover it's not an issue of the unknown, it's an issue of mechanics, something we can manage, operate, rationalize and fathom

[bileniv]

this should replace the "F9" key. you have to build a car with the part attached to revert to the last quick save.

[MYCRAFTisbest]

this should replace the "F9" key. you have to build a car with the part attached to revert to the last quick save.

That's actually what I have been trying to figure out. In fact, I just did. Took a bit of messing with the code but it does load the save "quicksave" now. I just need to refine and debug it before updating. Of course the ship doesn't travel back unless it was what you had in the loaded save. Wouldn't even begin to know where to start on that one for anyone considering it. You need someone with more modding experience than me, although I think I accidentally loaded everything from the save in a failed attempt effectively moving the past to the present.

[MYCRAFTisbest]

Mod Updated to 0.91: Now loads last quicksave at activation. ("Activate Engine" for effect "Activate Kapacitor" for time travel) [These will be grouped together at some stage] Enjoy and please leave any and all suggestions and feedback.

[ZooNamedGames]

So it seems the idea of shifting the whole universe forwards or backwards is out?

[CosmoBro]

Nice mod Mycraftisbest! see you on Ozzy's chat

[MYCRAFTisbest]

Nice mod Mycraftisbest! see you on Ozzy's chat

See you? How Can I see you in chat. Do you see me?! Did you hack my webcam!!! SECURITY!

[MYCRAFTisbest]

So it seems the idea of shifting the whole universe forwards or backwards is out?

Not necessarily. It does seem like it might be possible. Like I said I accidentally brought the past to the present while debugging the code. What that actually means is I loaded the quicksave on top of the current one. I have no idea when it took effect (perhaps when returning to the Space Center) but it did merge the saves. The issue being that the crafts from the current save did not get removed. If that can be figured out in real time as well it could be done.

For now, however, I will say it is unlikely. I do plan to add a GUI menu if possible to modify the time circuits (chose any save, not restricted to the main "quicksave"). I also plan to add scenarios to the download which will be saves disguised as locations in the movie, however this will likely be a while before it is an included feature.

I think next will be some simpler things like making a Mr. Fusion and moving the 1.21 Gigawatts to that as well as actually make the Gigawatts needed for the revert, not just the effect. I also want to bind the effect to the same action as the travel and add a flame effect for the wheels and/or create a slightly modified wheel (although I don't really know how to do animations proper at the time).

[MYCRAFTisbest]

VERSION 0.95 HAS BEEN RELEASED

NEW FEATURES:

Time Circuit Mechanic (chose desired save file to load)

Minimum Speed Required to Time Jump (configurable to any speed between 0 and 120m/s)

Added Mr.Kusion part (required to generate the 1.21 GigaWatts for the Time Jump to activate[ships launched in 0.91 might not apply])

RECOMMEND YOU MANUALLY REMOVE THE OLD FILE FROM GAMEDATA

[MYCRAFTisbest]

VERSION 0.96 HAS BEEN RELEASED

 

CHANGELOG(0.96)

-Fixed bugs minor bugs with KSP 1.0.5 compatibility

-Flux Kapacitor Time Circuit GUI now is only visible when the Time Circuit is enabled

-Can No Longer Stage Flux Kapacitor in staging

-Time Circuit GUI now displays in MPH both the target speed and your current speed

-Minimalistic Feedback added to GUI, if time travel doesn't work check that you have a full Mr.Kusion, are maintaining the set speed long enough, and have the destination correct (CASE SENSITIVE)

-Updated Descriptions

-Updated Tolerances

-Removed effects, sound and visual (these will likely be re-added soon but the way I was doing was very unprofessional and I opted to pull it (If you want it in the new version just use the old config file from last build)

-Fixed bug where failure to time travel caused travel not to work (NOTE: If you are experiencing the opposite problem where failure to time travel makes it impossible to stop the device please let me know)

-Minor Changes to Improve Quality (Bug fixes, more helpful debug log, ect.)