[1.8.1-1] [PLEASE FORK ME] Kopernicus & KittopiaTech

[Thomas P.]

Heya

I released Kopernicus 1.2.2-3. It contains blackracks ring shaders, and two smaller fixes. One for the calculation of solar flux when using multiple stars (it was completely messed off, now it is probably still inaccurate but a bit more realistic ), and one for the custom Kopernicus clock

If you are subscribed to the repository, you probably got a flood of emails in the last hour. That was me toying with jenkins, to automate releases. Now I only have to press a button, enter a version and a changelog, and jenkins does the rest for me.

[drtedastro]

Thanks for the update and all of the great work.

Cheers.

[Sigma88]

God bless lazyness

[Raphaello]

Thanks for the update. It still says 1.2.2-2 in OP though.

 

On 26.05.2016 at 7:52 PM, Thomas P. said:

New in 1.2.2-2

• Ring shaders by @blackrack
• Smaller fixes for solar flux and the custom kopernicus clock

 

[seanth]

I'm helping @daniel l. with To Boldly Go, and I have been trying to figure out how to tone down the brightness of new stars seen from the surface of Kerbin. What property should I be adjusting to make new stars dimmer as seen from Kerbin? sunlightIntensity?

[Thomas P.]

Just now, seanth said:

I'm helping @daniel l. with To Boldly Go, and I have been trying to figure out how to tone down the brightness of new stars seen from the surface of Kerbin. What property should I be adjusting to make new stars dimmer as seen from Kerbin? sunlightIntensity?

Intensity and brightness Curve. While intensity is controlling the actual amount of light a planet receives, brightness Curve controls the looks (so how bright does the sunflare look).

[seanth]

1 minute ago, Thomas P. said:

Intensity and brightness Curve. While intensity is controlling the actual amount of light a planet receives, brightness Curve controls the looks (so how bright does the sunflare look).

Thx. Brightness curves are something I haven't looked at, so the github wiki is just a stub for that. Time to look closer I guess.

[smotheredrun]

Thanks!!!!@Thomas P.

[evileye.x]

Hello everyone!

Is there's an easy way to ONLY enable ground scatter colisiion on every planet in complete stock solar system?

Sorry if my question is dumb, I just have no idea...

[Galileo]

6 minutes ago, evileye.x said:

Hello everyone!

Is there's an easy way to ONLY enable ground scatter colisiion on every planet in complete stock solar system?

Sorry if my question is dumb, I just have no idea...

you would have to write all new configs that only change the collision... or just use SVT 

if you are trying to avoid SVT due to performance issues, just know its the colliders that cause 90% of the performance drop so ONLY enabling collisions would have about the same performance as SVT

Edited February 2, 2017 by Galileo

[evileye.x]

12 minutes ago, Galileo said:

or just use SVT 

I would love to use SVt and I did, because it's beatiful...

But I have huge perfomance drop if any scatter gets in camera (5-8 FPS with SVT - even with 10% scatter in settings)

Without SVT - 45-50 FPS with 100% scatter.

Can enabled collision itself be such perfomance hog?

[Galileo]

5 minutes ago, evileye.x said:

I would love to use SVt and I did, because it's beatiful...

But I have huge perfomance drop if any scatter gets in camera (5-8 FPS with SVT - even with 10% scatter in settings)

Without SVT - 45-50 FPS with 100% scatter.

Can enabled collision itself be such perfomance hog?

I can assure you its not the textures in SVT that is causing your performance drop. It is definitely the colliders, and yes they cause some performance drop but not 40 frames.. There is something else going on with your game or system

Edited February 2, 2017 by Galileo

[evileye.x]

1 minute ago, Galileo said:

I can assure you its not the textures in SVT that is causing your performance drop. It is definitely the colliders, and yes they cause some performance drop but not 40 frames.. There is something else going on with your game or system

I guess I can disable collisions in SVT and try? Also, Im using KerbinSide as well, can it cause some weird interaction?

[Galileo]

Just now, evileye.x said:

I guess I can disable collisions in SVT and try? Also, Im using KerbinSide as well, can it cause some weird interaction?

yeah try that, and no it shouldnt

[seanth]

2 hours ago, Thomas P. said:

Intensity and brightness Curve. While intensity is controlling the actual amount of light a planet receives, brightness Curve controls the looks (so how bright does the sunflare look).

Are there specs somewhere that explain the brightnessCurve? I can find lots of examples, but no breakdown of what the key values are

[Galileo]

@blackrack or @Thomas P. is it safe to say that ring shaders only work on gas giants? I cant get the ring shaders to work with anything other than gas giants. When I try with any other body the rings disappear.

Edited February 2, 2017 by Galileo

[blackrack]

1 hour ago, Galileo said:

@blackrack or @Thomas P. is it safe to say that ring shaders only work on gas giants? I cant get the ring shaders to work with anything other than gas giants. When I try with any other body the rings disappear.

What would set the gas giants apart? They should work anywhere.

[Sigma88]

2 minutes ago, blackrack said:

What would set the gas giants apart? They should work anywhere.

gas giants usually don't have a PQS surface

that's the only thing I can think of

[Leandro Basi]

thank you! My game is now running fine. For some unknown reason earlier versions caused low FPS and CTDs on my computer apparently due to memory leaks. I've tested this new version and it's working perfectly!

[Galileo]

33 minutes ago, Sigma88 said:

gas giants usually don't have a PQS surface

that's the only thing I can think of

Yeah that was my assumption as well. It's a head scratcher.

i have become pretty frustrated with the dependencies of GPP. Seems as though when one thing works, something has to break. It's not anyone's fault, I just don't like having the control I want. 

[blackrack]

1 minute ago, Galileo said:

Yeah that was my assumption as well. It's a head scratcher.

i have become pretty frustrated with the dependencies of GPP. Seems as though when one thing works, something has to break. It's not anyone's fault, I just don't like having the control I want. 

Can I see a log or some screenshots? Don't have any idea why the rings wouldn't be there. PQS isn't a factor at all for rings.

[Galileo]

13 minutes ago, blackrack said:

Can I see a log or some screenshots? Don't have any idea why the rings wouldn't be there. PQS isn't a factor at all for rings.

I'll message you so we aren't flooding this thread or Scatterer's. I am pretty busy at the moment but give me a little bit and I'll try to organize my issues into something easy to understand.

Edited February 2, 2017 by Galileo

[The White Guardian]

I don't know why, but no matter what I do I see no ring shaders.

Could it be that I have to add something to the ring configurations?

[Galileo]

8 minutes ago, The White Guardian said:

I don't know why, but no matter what I do I see no ring shaders.

Could it be that I have to add something to the ring configurations?

yeah you need to add some stuff

 

[The White Guardian]

13 hours ago, Galileo said:

yeah you need to add some stuff

 

Tried, and the result is... 'interesting'

Code

		Rings
		{
			Ring
			{
				texture = Evolution/Kopernicus/SharedTextureDirectory/Ring2
				color = 1,1,1,1
				unlit = false
				useNewShader = true
				penumbraMultiplier = 10.0
				lockRotation = true
				innerRadius = 1500
				outerRadius = 3000
				angle = 4
			}
		}

What's most surprising to me is that the ring is colored despite the color value, meaning that the texture is applied. Is a change to the texture necessary as well? Because right now the texture is 1x1024 pixels.