I haz idea...flight status announcer?

[MAFman]

I have an idea...when I launch something, I find myself imitating the guy in mission control who is always telling you that everything is nominal...OH CRAP WE LOST ENGINE 9...lol...

Anyway, I want to make a mod that adds this status-announcer-thing as a feature. It would detect the status of your flight, such as your angle of attack (how close to on target you are), the status of your engines (blowing something up is obviously out of mission parameters), detects and announces max Q, detects and announces MECO, etc.

*looks on Wikipedia* Oh yeah, I found the role I want to implement: Public Affairs Officer ("the Voice of Mission Control").

How do I do this? Would this kind of plugin be similar to Chatterer?

[problemecium]

Dude, this sounds brilliant! Brilliant but ambitious. I confess I have no idea whatsoever how to make it happen, but best of luck with it. ;)

[ensou04]

neat idea, And yes it might be similar but slightly more simple than chatterer.

But you do have to write a plugin for this.

I think its possible because we could track anything about the vessel's status on code.

[MAFman]

[quote name='ensou04']neat idea, And yes it might be similar but slightly more simple than chatterer.

But you do have to write a plugin for this.

I think its possible because we could track anything about the vessel's status on code.[/QUOTE]
Do you think you would be able to help me? I am a total n00b with plugins; I barely know how Hello World works lol....

[ensou04]

sure i could help you out, but do you atleast have the very basics of C#?

[MAFman]

[quote name='ensou04']sure i could help you out, but do you atleast have the very basics of C#?[/QUOTE]

Yep! I understand how to read most programs, even though I suck at writing them lolz. I can find holes in logic too.

[ensou04]

Awesome! but first, i assume you have never made a plugin for KSP before, to keep you up to speed, I really suggest watching this short but awesome tutorial by nifty255!
[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqrOVKEj2i0[/URL]

then when you get the gist of it, share your progress here with the flight Status mod, i'll be checking this thread often to help you out

[MAFman]

[quote name='ensou04']Awesome! but first, i assume you have never made a plugin for KSP before, to keep you up to speed, I really suggest watching this short but awesome tutorial by nifty255!
[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqrOVKEj2i0[/URL]

then when you get the gist of it, share your progress here with the flight Status mod, i'll be checking this thread often to help you out[/QUOTE]

AWESOME!! Thanks!