Nhawks17 Posted October 24, 2016 Author Share Posted October 24, 2016 6 minutes ago, DerpyFirework said: Just found this in the SmokeScreen thread: It may just get solved by the next SmokeScreen update. And just as an extra thought, could this layer issue be related to the other odd behaviours that people have reported? I'm no expert at any of this but that sounds reasonable. Ohh nice... And probably... given that the effects are likely similar in the way they work I would guess so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lajoswinkler Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 On 10/22/2016 at 3:37 PM, Kinzerfest said: Is there a way to remove the vacuum spreading effect? I don't like it and it causes a lot of lag when I have a lot of multi-nozzle engines (Like the RAPIER) If you're experiencing lag, just edit the configuration file and set the maximum particles to 300. That solves it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Kerman Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 8 hours ago, lajoswinkler said: If you're experiencing lag, just edit the configuration file and set the maximum particles to 300. That solves it for me. Don't tell people to set performance-affecting properties to a value you use. It's all about personal taste and the abilities of their computer. The better way to say this is for @Kinzerfest to start with the default and gradually decrease the number of max particles until they find a performance that suits them best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lajoswinkler Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 3 hours ago, Drew Kerman said: Don't tell people to set performance-affecting properties to a value you use. It's all about personal taste and the abilities of their computer. The better way to say this is for @Kinzerfest to start with the default and gradually decrease the number of max particles until they find a performance that suits them best 300 is a common value often used by many people. It seems the performance vs. maximum active particles isn't linear, and value of 300 cuts it off at a convenient spot. Of course, he can experiment with the value - nowhere did I imply he should not. I think it's obvious anyone would tweak it. I use a value of 350. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinzerfest Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Setting the maximum values to around 300 works for rockets, but it causes a lot of problems when I make SSTO's. Making an SSTO with a moderate amount of RAPIERS (6 or more) cause the effects to flicker, and the effects don't make a smoke trail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nhawks17 Posted October 26, 2016 Author Share Posted October 26, 2016 1 hour ago, Kinzerfest said: Setting the maximum values to around 300 works for rockets, but it causes a lot of problems when I make SSTO's. Making an SSTO with a moderate amount of RAPIERS (6 or more) cause the effects to flicker, and the effects don't make a smoke trail. Yeah, it's because the value is so low and there are so many engines that it has to divide that maximum between all the active engines. Not really much you can do other than to raise the max again and just deal with the performance hit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
million_lights Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 (edited) @Nhawks17 I have a serious bug to report. It was really inconsistent to reproduce and difficult to track down. It took me 4 hours to make absolutely sure its your mod (sadly). So: When I load my Career-save (not always though) the craft you load in (in this case on minmus) jumps UP by ~10meters and its orientation changes (usually rotates around by 5-45 degrees). Which is catastrophic when its a heavy and big base D: The quicksave allows for a very consistent recreation (!) - load persistent - switch to SKYCRANE on minmus - if the bug isnt triggered hold F9 to load the quicksave 100% reproducable for me that way Here is all I can provide: - A gif to show it - KSP.log -output_log.txt -persistent.sfs -quicksave.sfs Spoiler ksp.log output_log.txt persistent.sfs (name of the career is "X") quicksave.sfs gif with the bug in action Must be a problem inside the smoke screen DLL right? I hope you can fix this asap because this makes it impossible for me to use your (awesome) mod :/ Thank you for all your hard work , I appreciate it! o7 -Mil Edited October 26, 2016 by million_lights Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nhawks17 Posted October 26, 2016 Author Share Posted October 26, 2016 4 hours ago, million_lights said: @Nhawks17 I have a serious bug to report. It was really inconsistent to reproduce and difficult to track down. It took me 4 hours to make absolutely sure its your mod (sadly). So: When I load my Career-save (not always though) the craft you load in (in this case on minmus) jumps UP by ~10meters and its orientation changes (usually rotates around by 5-45 degrees). Which is catastrophic when its a heavy and big base D: The quicksave allows for a very consistent recreation (!) - load persistent - switch to SKYCRANE on minmus - if the bug isnt triggered hold F9 to load the quicksave 100% reproducable for me that way Here is all I can provide: - A gif to show it - KSP.log -output_log.txt -persistent.sfs -quicksave.sfs Reveal hidden contents ksp.log output_log.txt persistent.sfs (name of the career is "X") quicksave.sfs gif with the bug in action Must be a problem inside the smoke screen DLL right? I hope you can fix this asap because this makes it impossible for me to use your (awesome) mod :/ Thank you for all your hard work , I appreciate it! o7 -Mil I can't look at the logs or anything right now but are you testing this with just realplume installed? Considering you're the only person who's reporting it it seems like a rare thing if it is. I'll look into it when I can but please make sure to test with ONLY realplume and it's dependencies installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclebedhead Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 I've also seen a weird bug where a ship jumps up and flips over on reload, but haven't really tested that. What i have tested is the bug where you can't click on parts like the command pod, and can't eva due to blocked hatch. It is definitely realplume/smokescreen. I've narrowed it down to this mod group; it only happens when this is installed. Uninstalled for now, will try again perhaps in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nhawks17 Posted October 26, 2016 Author Share Posted October 26, 2016 39 minutes ago, unclebedhead said: I've also seen a weird bug where a ship jumps up and flips over on reload, but haven't really tested that. What i have tested is the bug where you can't click on parts like the command pod, and can't eva due to blocked hatch. It is definitely realplume/smokescreen. I've narrowed it down to this mod group; it only happens when this is installed. Uninstalled for now, will try again perhaps in the future. Yeah I know about that one. Can't do anything about that one unfortunately. Waiting on an update from SmokeScreen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smunisto Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 I am wondering - both RealPlume and SmokeScreen are included in the install and required for RPS to work. Okay. But when I open the SmokeScreen settings, no matter to what value I set the Maximum particles - it shows "active particles" 0, even though I check it in the middle of an engine firing. The smoketrails for all of my engines past 100 m/s seem to go to those annoying spaced out smoke puffs. I remember, almost ages ago HotRockets looked like that by default, but when I switched to RPS, I was astonished by the density and quality of the smoke effect. Now, it seems like I have reverted back to HotRockets I will reinstall the latest version of RPS tonight, I have a doubt that I may have screwed something up, because I got smokescreen separately currently and may have deleted something that I was not supposed to. But until then, any advice, based on my vague description of the "issue" I am having? Mind you, maybe that is the normal behaviour of the mod and just my memories of 1.1 are getting all fuzzy and wrong already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Baron Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 15 hours ago, million_lights said: @Nhawks17 I have a serious bug to report. It was really inconsistent to reproduce and difficult to track down. It took me 4 hours to make absolutely sure its your mod (sadly). So: When I load my Career-save (not always though) the craft you load in (in this case on minmus) jumps UP by ~10meters and its orientation changes (usually rotates around by 5-45 degrees). Which is catastrophic when its a heavy and big base D: *snip* I have reported this one in the SmokeScreen thread. I too narrowed it down to RealPlume/SmokeScreen and sent a save file to @sarbian. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
million_lights Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 @Nhawks17 I can confirm its in stock ksp with only your real plume stock mod ( including dependencys) The weird thing is that it sometimes doesnt happen by switching to the craft but always happens with the provided F5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vimagar Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 The bug reported in the comments above has been happening to me too. Any grounded ship or base will jump up about 10 meters every time it is loaded from the tracking station or simply F9'ed. I'm really curious as to what in the code is causing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmbersArc Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 On 27.10.2016 at 1:19 AM, Nhawks17 said: Yeah I know about that one. Can't do anything about that one unfortunately. Waiting on an update from SmokeScreen. You might want to put a warnig somewhere until there's a patch from sarbian. It's quite a serious bug that makes it extremely risk to load any landed vessel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nhawks17 Posted November 7, 2016 Author Share Posted November 7, 2016 Sorry I've been away for awhile. Life has been pretty busy and will be for a little bit longer. We're likely going to have to wait for an update from SmokeScreen until these issues can get resolved so I'll make sure to put a warning in the OP regarding the ship bug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tg626 Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 Halp! My fire is on fire! (seriously, anyone else getting this? You have to zoom in, zoom out and it looks normal. Tracks with atmospheric heating effects) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoFatalis Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 8 minutes ago, tg626 said: Halp! My fire is on fire! (seriously, anyone else getting this? You have to zoom in, zoom out and it looks normal. Tracks with atmospheric heating effects) I get this all the time.. although it doesn't really bother me because it looks kinda cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEpicSquared Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 24 minutes ago, tg626 said: Halp! My fire is on fire! (seriously, anyone else getting this? You have to zoom in, zoom out and it looks normal. Tracks with atmospheric heating effects) Fire-ception Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundering Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 14 hours ago, tg626 said: Halp! My fire is on fire! (seriously, anyone else getting this? You have to zoom in, zoom out and it looks normal. Tracks with atmospheric heating effects) Yes, I'm getting this too, when the reentry effect and the engine are both active. Maybe it has to do something with Reentry Particle Effect and RealPlume installed at the same time, but just guessing . At least I'm not the only one getting this behavior . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoMrBond Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 4 minutes ago, Sundering said: Yes, I'm getting this too, when the reentry effect and the engine are both active. Maybe it has to do something with Reentry Particle Effect and RealPlume installed at the same time, but just guessing . At least I'm not the only one getting this behavior . From memory Sarbian thought the particles were probably appearing (generating?) in the wrong layer (can't remember the specifics, if you search back in the thread, or maybe in the Smokescreen thread it shouldn't be hard to find) Smokescreen may gain the ability to force them into the correct layer in a later version (when Sarbian's time allows). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundering Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 7 minutes ago, NoMrBond said: From memory Sarbian thought the particles were probably appearing (generating?) in the wrong layer (can't remember the specifics, if you search back in the thread, or maybe in the Smokescreen thread it shouldn't be hard to find) Smokescreen may gain the ability to force them into the correct layer in a later version (when Sarbian's time allows). Ah ok, at least the devs are aware of this. @sarbian and @Nhawks17 thanks for the amazing work, hoping to see the future updates . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tg626 Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 Yes, gooid to know it's a "Known" known and not an unknown known... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brainpop14 Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 Is this compatible with 1.2.1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawaiiSpaceProgram Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 (edited) I can't find the thread topic that covered this issue I'm having so I guess I'll post here. The BA-4 "Flicker" engine has the plume coming out of it when not active and al so while not thrusting and active. It appears on the launch pad even when I have no fuel on the craft. Edited November 13, 2016 by HawaiiSpaceProgram fixed image tags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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