The KSP GPWS Dev Thread

[SolarLiner]

Don't know if I can post a whole new thread for that ... Sorry if I cannot !

Anyway, here goes everything about development of the GPWS for KSP. Thoughts, questions, tips and tricks ... Help on development is appreciated, especially if I have problems, like the first one:

I need to find a way to make a nice curve for the G-tolerance (ie: how many number of G before the alarm kicks in). I want it to be human-like: Max 30G for 1/4 sec, Max 10G for 1 min, Max 5G for 5 Minutes, Max 3G for 10 Minutes. Any G above 1 after 10 minutes of acceleration turns the alarm on.

Can anyone help me? Maths are my "downside" on coding ...

Thanks in advance to anyone that will (in)directly participate to the project !

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[kujuman]

If what you want is an easy way to interpolate between those points, I'd suggest a FloatCurve variable. It is what engines use for Isp and can be specified in part.cfg files.

FloatCurves are a list of points, time and value, but they are really just independent variable and dependent variable. Use FloatCurve.Evaluate(time) to get the dependent variable.

I would probably set it up so that G level is "time" and the max duration at that G level is "value"; so that maxDurationAtThisGLevel = FloatCurve.Evaluate(gLevel)

Extra info you probably don't need:

FloatCurves are a kerbal specific class which is based upon the Unity AnimationCurve, which in turn solves for points along the curve as a bezier curve.

[SolarLiner]

FloatCurves are a kerbal specific class which is based upon the Unity AnimationCurve, which in turn solves for points along the curve as a bezier curve.

Perfect ! No need to blow my mind searching for working algorhythms ! Thanks to you

[SolarLiner]

Alright, now I'm facing the Huge Problem of the Mod : GUI ! And I have absolutely no idea on how to implement a good one. It will be mostly for switching buttons, triggering alarms, stopping dem annoying imminent crash alarms if you crash very often ! And add a volume slider, because for now every alarm sound volume is binded to the Voice Volume in the Sounds settings, and I want to let you have more control on how loud to play the sounds. So yeah, as "always", if anyone can help me, would be awesome !

[SolarLiner]

For some reason, on the Debug Thingy^TM show "[GPWS]Bingo Fuel stuff !", but not the "Fuel calculated" ...

Debug.Log("[GPWS]Bingo Fuel stuff !");
float pLiquidAmount = (float)(LiquidFuel.amount / LiquidFuel.maxAmount);
float pOxiAmount = 1.0f;
if (Oxidizer.maxAmount > 0) pOxiAmount = (float)(Oxidizer.amount / Oxidizer.maxAmount);
Debug.Log("[GPWS]Fuel calculated");

And everything after is not done too ... like something unexcepted made the whole Update() stop right there. I thought at first it was a division by 0 (Oh Shi-) but no, because of the if statement.

Weird ...

[SolarLiner]

Alright, it seems that each time I try to read Resources values in my code, the function stops working ... so I cannot check fuel and see if the ship is close to dry or not ... Strange ...