[1.0.2] NovaPunch 2.09. - May 6th - 1.0 Compatibility Update

[Bloodbunny]

A lot of the tanks are bugged.. if you try to use them you will find that you can't select them at all. No matter, make 5m tanks yourself with Partgen to whatever size you need.

[Castun]

I ended up just deleting those NP parts that had the corrupt looking textures. Much of NP has been replaced by KW in my game anyway.

[Tiberion]

That is why it still says 0.19.1 and not 0.20 guys. Well aware of those issues. please re-read the last few pages.

[SBaL]

Any news on the update? Any sort of ETA, or is it still too early to make any predictions?

[astropapi1]

Any news on the update? Any sort of ETA, or is it still too early to make any predictions?

Soonâ„¢

(10char)

[ouion]

Tiberion,can we have more prode parts and solar panels?

[MonkeyLunch]

I am still missing this mod

The pics look great.

[Tiberion]

Well due to item #3 in this post: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/35225-Some-lesser-known-bits-of-info-for-addon-developers

I have had to double-back and re-export what I have done so far. Unfortunitely, TGAs are 2x to 5x larger than PNGs, so the download size is going to suffer because of this.

Slowly getting there; no ETA yet.

And no ouion, no new parts; need to get all the old stuff updated first.

[Chestburster]

Can we convert the .tga back to .png without breaking the parts when it's released?

[Tiberion]

Nope, the texture filename/path is encoded into the .Mu file when I export it from Unity - I would have to re-export it again to use PNG.

So its either bigger download, or 15 minute load times. :/

[Chestburster]

That's bad for me :-/ using .tga textures let my RAM-usage skyrocket. For example a mod with about 20 megs of .tga gives me 450 megs of load (but using .png doesn't seem to increase loading times here as described)

[frizzank]

I thought I read that in the new part format you could reuse textures on multiple parts. If this is possible maybe we could get some useful volunteer to go through and re point the parts to common textures?

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/34013-0-20-PartTools-GameDatabase-and-new-features

[Tiberion]

There aren't really that many copied and scaled parts left, mostly the fairings at this point, and a few SAS/ASAS models. (Wel I'm not sure if your RCS and decouplers are sharing or not, haven't looked close enough)

They'd basically have to share the same UVMap.

Chestburster; I don't know the technical details too well, but I think Unity should be decompressing both PNG and TGA and arriving at roughly the same memory usage. I'll do some testing to see here when I get a chance.

[Lurven]

Isn't the B9 pack using .png textures? Don't have any problems loading it...

[gensiskiller96]

when will this come out i really want to play this and i don't know in its current state if it will work

[simmy2109]

just want to say that I absolutely love your parts and can't wait to have these parts updated again. it's truly my favorite parts pack, right there with KW Rocketry. Keep up the good work!

[cxg2827]

when will this come out i really want to play this and i don't know in its current state if it will work

look at the first post of the thread

[MonkeyLunch]

I am sure looking forward to this mod sitting in my gamedata folder. I find myself missing something from it, every time I play. Thank you for all your efforts Tiberion, many a kerb0naut will speak of your greatness.

[SBaL]

Sounds good. Oh, and thanks a lot for the update. The occasional progress reports are highly appreciated.

This is, and have been for a long time, a must have in KSP imho, so thank you for all your efforts guys.

[Tiberion]

Thanks guys

I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel here, I mostly need to sort out some engines to go with the new tanks (placeholder engines using the old models, the new engines will be rolled out in future version as time permits) Most of the other pieces are converted and loading now properly now. Then we'll see how buggy things are.

[frizzank]

There aren't really that many copied and scaled parts left, mostly the fairings at this point, and a few SAS/ASAS models. (Wel I'm not sure if your RCS and decouplers are sharing or not, haven't looked close enough)

They'd basically have to share the same UVMap.

Chestburster; I don't know the technical details too well, but I think Unity should be decompressing both PNG and TGA and arriving at roughly the same memory usage. I'll do some testing to see here when I get a chance.

Unfortunately I had to scrap the shared textures, so the same shaped models looked different in the editor preview window. Also with the downsized textures your only looking at saving a few hundred K combining textures, so not really worth the effort.

[Insignus]

Alas, if only some enterprising young software engineer could write a blueprint translation program, we could download everything off NASA and presto chango, we'd have every nick-nack and bulkhead from the legacy programs to sift through and include.

That would make it easier to train people. Personally, when people come at me and are all "HOW TO PLAY KSP!" I point them at the Mercury and Gemini wikis and say "TRY TO BUILD THAT"

[simmy2109]

I can't even describe how much I miss these parts. Haha. Eager to bug test / stay up way later than I should when you get this finished!

[Motokid600]

How will this fare when .21 comes out? Is this mod going to be updated for .20 then get broken again when .21 hits? Sorry if that sounds ignorant, but if so please enlighten me.

[Kerbal01]

It depends, if mods changed from .20 to .21 then it will Be borked and won't work, if nothing really changes then It would work.