Rainbow Cats what ???

[Gavin786]

At first I thought it could be malware, I just did a scan with Kasperski, and tried to run other games and see if it happens there but it seems ok for now.

 

 

Is this an easter egg or is a mod creator taking the fk ?

Anyone else get this ?

Gavin786

[Dafni]

It's an Easter Egg kinda thing from Module Manager. Pops up a few times per year, april fools etc. Dont know why it did today though.

[Gavin786]

Just now, Dafni said:

It's an Easter Egg kinda thing from Module Manager. Pops up a few times per year, april fools etc. Dont know why it did today though.

Much thanks.

[Rocket In My Pocket]

I love these threads.

[Eskell]

This is actually from Kopernicus as a warning (alongside the other messages seen in the screenshot) about incompatible version.

[4x4cheesecake]

1 hour ago, Dafni said:

It's an Easter Egg kinda thing from Module Manager. Pops up a few times per year, april fools etc. Dont know why it did today though.

It's there because the installed version of Kopernicus is not compatible with the running KSP version. The Nyan Cats + the warning in the upper left corner + the warning in the popup window are supposed to catch the attention of the player. Worked fine this time  

[Val]

I think this is the correct answer, when it is not April 1st.

On 4/11/2019 at 5:40 AM, Ruedii said:

The feature is from module manager, it is to indicate that you have a KSP version that is not yet whitelisted for module manager, and may have issues.

[Gavin786]

There seem to be 2 opinions on the reply, that its Kopernicus or that its Module Manager.  Thing is I had the warning from Kopernicus a lot already and the cats never appeared before.  Nor have they ever appeared before.

I just got rid of Kopernicus and the cats are gone.  Looks like that was causing the problem.  Its strange as it just started happening and I had Kopernicus before come up with the compatibility warning yet no cats.

[Dafni]

1 hour ago, 4x4cheesecake said:

It's there because the installed version of Kopernicus is not compatible with the running KSP version. The Nyan Cats + the warning in the upper left corner + the warning in the popup window are supposed to catch the attention of the player. Worked fine this time  

 

There you go, plus what @Val said. It is a part of the Module Manager code.

 

[Gavin786]

4 minutes ago, Dafni said:

 

There you go, plus what @Val said. It is a part of the Module Manager code.

 

OK got it, so it is both Module Manager AND Kopernicus.  Module Manager sees Kopernicus as incompatible and does the cats.  Explains why it stopped when Kopernicus was removed.  Why did the cats start appearing?  I have had incompatible modules before but no cats.

[Dafni]

5 minutes ago, Gavin786 said:

OK got it, so it is both Module Manager AND Kopernicus.  Module Manager sees Kopernicus as incompatible and does the cats.  Explains why it stopped when Kopernicus was removed.  Why did the cats start appearing?  I have had incompatible modules before but no cats.

I cant say. I only ever got the cats on april fools day and was told it is a Module Manager feature. Then later I heard Module Manager pops the cats at you if you run it on an incompatible version of KSP too. That it would detect incompatible versions of mods such as Kopernicus is news to me too. But it sounds perfectly reasonable to me now.

Maybe it only reacts to version locked mods such as Kopernicus? I dont know. Sorry.

[4x4cheesecake]

Ok, let's go on full details here:

ModuleManager will show the cats on april fools day (1st of april), the (japanese?) cats day (22th of february) and also, if you launch the game with a specifig startup parameter (-nyan-nyan or -ncats):

The code in ModuleManager looks like this and it's pretty well readable, even if you don't know anything about coding:

bool foolsDay = (DateTime.Now.Month == 4 && DateTime.Now.Day == 1);
bool catDay = (DateTime.Now.Month == 2 && DateTime.Now.Day == 22);
       nyan = foolsDay || Environment.GetCommandLineArgs().Contains("-nyan-nyan");

As far as I know (and I don't see any other hints for it in the code), ModuleManager itself does NOT show cats for any other reason, just on these two days.

On the other hand, Kopernicus uses this "feature" of ModuleManager to indicate an incompatibility issue. Since Kopernicus requires ModuleManger anyway, it can use the same method from ModuleManager:

if (IsCompatible())
                return;
            Type moduleManager = Parser.ModTypes.FirstOrDefault(t => t.Name == "ModuleManager" && t.Namespace == "ModuleManager");
            if (moduleManager == null)
                return; // no cat :(
            FieldInfo nyan = moduleManager.GetField("nyan", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
            FieldInfo ncats = moduleManager.GetField("nCats", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
            UnityEngine.Object mm = FindObjectOfType(moduleManager);
            nyan.SetValue(mm, true);
            ncats.SetValue(mm, true);

This read from top to bottom: If kopernicus is compatible, you're good to go and everything after the second line of code will not be executed but if it is not compatible and ModuleManager is installed, set the variables "nyan" and "ncats" to "true" (this will cause the cats to appear).

Also, like I said before, you will get this screen message:

"Kopernicus will not work on this version of KSP!
Please don't try to open your savegames!"

which is visible in your screenshot + the window which says that kopernicus is not compatible.

So, I'm feeling very confident to say: Your version of KSP and kopernicus are not compatible. Wild guess: you run a modded game via steam and the latest autoupdate of KSP (1.7.2) broke kopernicus.

[Snark]

Moving to Add-on Discussions.

[FleshJeb]

6 hours ago, Rocket In My Pocket said:

I love these threads.

Whereas I dislike them so much, I’d pay Squad $15 for a Module Manager DLC without the crap.

[Gargamel]

8 hours ago, FleshJeb said:

Whereas I dislike them so much, I’d pay Squad $15 for a Module Manager DLC without the crap.

*opens can of worms* Well there ya go Sarbian, a patreon tier for you. 

[Superfluous J]

3 minutes ago, Gargamel said:

*opens can of worms* Well there ya go Sarbian, a patreon tier for you. 

Then people will complain Sarbian went all pay to win.

[FleshJeb]

17 minutes ago, 5thHorseman said:

Then people will complain Sarbian went all pay to win.

It wouldn't reduce my opinion of his character.

[Gavin786]

14 hours ago, 4x4cheesecake said:

Ok, let's go on full details here:

ModuleManager will show the cats on april fools day (1st of april), the (japanese?) cats day (22th of february) and also, if you launch the game with a specifig startup parameter (-nyan-nyan or -ncats):

The code in ModuleManager looks like this and it's pretty well readable, even if you don't know anything about coding:

bool foolsDay = (DateTime.Now.Month == 4 && DateTime.Now.Day == 1);
bool catDay = (DateTime.Now.Month == 2 && DateTime.Now.Day == 22);
       nyan = foolsDay || Environment.GetCommandLineArgs().Contains("-nyan-nyan");

As far as I know (and I don't see any other hints for it in the code), ModuleManager itself does NOT show cats for any other reason, just on these two days.

On the other hand, Kopernicus uses this "feature" of ModuleManager to indicate an incompatibility issue. Since Kopernicus requires ModuleManger anyway, it can use the same method from ModuleManager:

if (IsCompatible())
                return;
            Type moduleManager = Parser.ModTypes.FirstOrDefault(t => t.Name == "ModuleManager" && t.Namespace == "ModuleManager");
            if (moduleManager == null)
                return; // no cat :(
            FieldInfo nyan = moduleManager.GetField("nyan", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
            FieldInfo ncats = moduleManager.GetField("nCats", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
            UnityEngine.Object mm = FindObjectOfType(moduleManager);
            nyan.SetValue(mm, true);
            ncats.SetValue(mm, true);

This read from top to bottom: If kopernicus is compatible, you're good to go and everything after the second line of code will not be executed but if it is not compatible and ModuleManager is installed, set the variables "nyan" and "ncats" to "true" (this will cause the cats to appear).

Also, like I said before, you will get this screen message:

"Kopernicus will not work on this version of KSP!
Please don't try to open your savegames!"

which is visible in your screenshot + the window which says that kopernicus is not compatible.

So, I'm feeling very confident to say: Your version of KSP and kopernicus are not compatible. Wild guess: you run a modded game via steam and the latest autoupdate of KSP (1.7.2) broke kopernicus.

Thanks man, you spent a lot of time on that reply.

[Dafni]

16 hours ago, 4x4cheesecake said:

snip

Thank you for the insight. I appreciate your time. Now it is clear.