[1.4.5] Smart Actuators v1.1.1 (8/1/18)

[TheRagingIrishman]

A revival of part of the Stock Bug Fix Plus mod by @Claw, original thread here: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/87737-ksp-v113-stock-bug-fix-modules-release-v113b1-10-jul-16

Overview:

Doesn't it bother you when you're chilling up in space, relaxing in your amazing SSTO but whenever you go to rotate your ship, all the control surfaces start moving around and it wrecks the serenity of the moment? Well it was annoying me so I went and got this mod working. It prevents control surfaces from moving if in the vacuum of space.

What it does?

It checks to see if your ship is experiencing any atmospheric pressure and if it is 0 or close to 0, it will lock control surfaces. The threshold it cuts off at is dynamic (for reference, the line is around 65km on Kerbin and 40km on Duna).

Thanks to the following:

• @Claw for doing all the hard work
• @Diazo for their helpful guide to setting up an IDE to work with KSP
• @linuxgurugamer for inspiring me to stop procrastinating 

To-Do:

• Get airbrakes to not move when retracted and not in atmo
• Add a button to the part menu to allow you to toggle off the blocker (on that part)
• Get engine gimbals to lock when the engine is off

Changelog:

• 1.1.1
  • update to 1.4.5
  • fix a bug related to gimbal
• 1.1
  • add in ability to block gimbal movement when no fuel flow
• 1.0.2
  • update to 1.3
  • catch a game-crashing nullref
• 1.0.1.1
  • fixed SmartActuation.version
• 1.0.1
  • added Airbrakes and other parts that use ModuleAeroSurface rather than ModuleControlSurface
  • enabled deployment while in orbit
  • added button to turn off the blocker (per part)
  • added SmartActuation.version
  • added changelog.txt

Download: https://github.com/theRagingIrishman/SmartActuation/releases

Source Code: https://github.com/theRagingIrishman/SmartActuation

Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

CC BY-NC-SA

HOW TO INSTALL :

1. Extract "SmartActuation" into your "Kerbal Space Program\GameData" file
2. Enjoy

Edited August 2, 2018 by TheRagingIrishman

[linuxgurugamer]

Ckan?

Congrats

Edited May 2, 2017 by linuxgurugamer

[TheRagingIrishman]

1 minute ago, linuxgurugamer said:

Ckan?

Congrats

Thanks. I'm all good with it being on CKAN (but it's no big rush).

[linuxgurugamer]

I'll get it up there this evening

[smotheredrun]

41 minutes ago, linuxgurugamer said:

I'll get it up there this evening

No procrastination there!

So, is this only for "control surfaces" or will it work on "elevon", "control_srf" or "aileron", etc? Just asking because I've some ideas....

[Nansuchao]

Can I make a little suggestion? I noticed that in 1.2.2 if I retract a landing gear or a landing leg from the right click menu, it activate the action group retracting all of them. This is terrible in some situation, where you want to just move the mass of your ship on one side.

would it be an easy task?

Edited May 2, 2017 by Nansuchao

[TheRagingIrishman]

1 hour ago, smotheredrun said:

So, is this only for "control surfaces" or will it work on "elevon", "control_srf" or "aileron", etc? Just asking because I've some ideas....

Right now it only works on ModuleControlSurface which is all stock control parts other than the airbrake because the airbrake uses ModuleAeroSurface. Adding in the ability to affect ModuleAeroSurface is next on my todo list and I think I'll be able to get it done tonight. To check if a part uses ModuleControlSurface or ModuleAeroSurface right click on it in the menu in the VAB or in the SPH and if it says something similar to  then it uses ModuleControlSurface and if it looks like  then it uses ModuleAeroSurface.

1 hour ago, Nansuchao said:

Can I make a little suggestion? I noticed that in 1.2.2 if I retract a landing gear or a landing leg from the right click menu, it activate the action group retracting all of them. This is terrible in some situation, where you want to just move the mass of your ship on one side.

would it be an easy task?

I'm not sure how hard this would be or what exactly it would take but I'll look into it.

Edited May 3, 2017 by TheRagingIrishman

[Iamsodarncool]

Any possibility you could throw it on spacedock so I can get emails about updates?

[smotheredrun]

9 minutes ago, TheRagingIrishman said:

Right now it only works on ModuleControlSurface which is all stock control parts other than the airbrake because the airbrake uses ModuleAeroSurface. Adding in the ability to affect ModuleAeroSurface is next on my todo list and I think I'll be able to get it done tonight. To check if a part uses ModuleControlSurface or ModuleAeroSurface right click on it in the menu in the VAB or in the SPH and if it says something similar to  then it uses ModuleControlSurface and if it looks like  then it uses ModuleAeroSurface.

 

So this has nothing to do with an individual line within the ModuleControlSurface like this one:

              %transformName = obj_ctrlSrf

it just deals with the ModuleControlSurface as a whole?

[TheRagingIrishman]

3 minutes ago, smotheredrun said:

So this has nothing to do with an individual line within the ModuleControlSurface like this one:

              %transformName = obj_ctrlSrf

it just deals with the ModuleControlSurface as a whole?

Yup. And I just got it to work with ModuleAeroSurface as well. Now to add a toggle!

[N3N]

Hey TheRagingIrishman,

Good work!

 

 

On 3.5.2017 at 0:27 AM, linuxgurugamer said:

I'll get it up there this evening

@linuxgurugamer

It's still not visible on my CKAN, is this a bug?

[linuxgurugamer]

I'll check in a few minutes

[N3N]

1 minute ago, linuxgurugamer said:

I'll check in a few minutes

OK,

Thank you!

[linuxgurugamer]

Sorry, I forgot to do this, working on it now.

It would help if you added a .version file.  Not absolutely necessary, but help both AVC and CKAN to know when new versions are available

[linuxgurugamer]

It's been done for a few hours how.

[TheRagingIrishman]

New release 1.0.1 is up. Pinging @linuxgurugamer (I added a .version file, does CKAN need to know about this?)

Changelog:
-added Airbrakes and other parts that use ModuleAeroSurface rather than ModuleControlSurface
-enabled deployment while in orbit
-added button to turn off the blocker (per part)
-added SmartActuation.version
-added changelog.txt)

Edited May 6, 2017 by TheRagingIrishman

[linuxgurugamer]

Yes, I'll get to it tomorrow night

[linuxgurugamer]

I checked  the .version file for syntax errors before making any changes:

Your .version file has syntax errors:

• Extra comma following the "Allow Release
• MIssing comma after brace closing the GITHUB section
• Missing brace at the end.

I use a website: https://jsonformatter.org/

to validate JSON when I write it by hand.  

For these, I use the site:   http://ksp-avc.cybutek.net/

to store current data and generate the file for me.

The following is fixed:

{
  "NAME":"SmartActuation",
  "URL":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/theRagingIrishman/SmartActuation/master/SmartActuation.version",
  "DOWNLOAD":"https://github.com/theRagingIrishman/SmartActuation/releases/latest",
  "GITHUB":
  {
    "USERNAME":"theRagingIrishman",
    "REPOSITORY":"SmartActuation",
    "ALLOW_PRE_RELEASE":false
  },
  "VERSION":
  {
    "MAJOR":1,
    "MINOR":0,
    "PATCH":1,
    "BUILD":0
  },
  "KSP_VERSION":
  {
    "MAJOR":1,
    "MINOR":2,
    "PATCH":2
  }
}

 

Edited May 6, 2017 by linuxgurugamer

[TheRagingIrishman]

42 minutes ago, linuxgurugamer said:

I checked  the .version file for syntax errors before making any changes:

Your .version file has syntax errors:

• Extra comma following the "Allow Release
• MIssing comma after brace closing the GITHUB section
• Missing brace at the end.

I use a website: https://jsonformatter.org/

to validate JSON when I write it by hand.  

For these, I use the site:   http://ksp-avc.cybutek.net/

to store current data and generate the file for me.

The following is fixed:

{
  "NAME":"SmartActuation",
  "URL":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/theRagingIrishman/SmartActuation/master/SmartActuation.version",
  "DOWNLOAD":"https://github.com/theRagingIrishman/SmartActuation/releases/latest",
  "GITHUB":
  {
    "USERNAME":"theRagingIrishman",
    "REPOSITORY":"SmartActuation",
    "ALLOW_PRE_RELEASE":false
  },
  "VERSION":
  {
    "MAJOR":1,
    "MINOR":0,
    "PATCH":1,
    "BUILD":0
  },
  "KSP_VERSION":
  {
    "MAJOR":1,
    "MINOR":2,
    "PATCH":2
  }
}

 

Fixed in 1.0.1.1 thanks.

[linuxgurugamer]

And now, the first folder in the file is "Desktop"

You can fix by just repackaging and uploading again to Github, don't forget to delete the bad one first

 

Edited May 6, 2017 by linuxgurugamer

[TheRagingIrishman]

3 hours ago, linuxgurugamer said:

And now, the first folder in the file is "Desktop"

You can fix by just repackaging and uploading again to Github, don't forget to delete the bad one first

Sorry about that, was rushing to fix the .version before a test I just finished. Fixed now.

[linuxgurugamer]

Ok, updated.  Just remember to keep the .version updated with the correct version

[Iamsodarncool]

This crashes the game upon launching a vessel w/ a control surface in 1.3. Are there plans for an update?

[TheRagingIrishman]

3 hours ago, Iamsodarncool said:

This crashes the game upon launching a vessel w/ a control surface in 1.3. Are there plans for an update?

That's not good, let me see what I can do.

[TheRagingIrishman]

update to 1.3, links and changelog in the OP (@Iamsodarncool)