[Plugin] RasterPropMonitor v0.4 -- a prop monitor for capsule internals

[Mihara]

Have you figured out how to handle multiple docking ports?

There's basically no way to do this that I see, without making special docking ports. A docking port is a docking port is a docking port, I don't see any way to tell one docking port from another before they actually exist, i.e. during screen configuration -- they are different after, but you can't tell which IDs they get during editing. And you can't rely on something like "Control from here" either because when you're IVA, the pod is always the point you control the ship from, it switches the moment you go IVA.

You could easily make a model that is just an empty transform with a unique name on it (And maybe a texture with a number so you can see it ingame) and weld it to the stock (or non-stock) docking port, though.

[Mihara]

I just noticed I messed up the directory structure in the archive, it stayed like that for a day.

Why isn't anybody telling me these things?

[Snjo]

. Once I get persistent variable storage to work for InternalModules, (which requires FAR more code than I would call sensible) it graduates to a standalone product in this form and moves to the Showcase forum section.

Have you tried storing values in a PartModule on the exterior part of thew cockpit?

Just a simple holder class with a few persistent kspfields in it

[Mihara]

Have you tried storing values in a PartModule on the exterior part of thew cockpit?

Just a simple holder class with a few persistent kspfields in it

Check github, that's exactly what I ended up doing. I still don't like it a lot, but it works.

[Mihara]

Mini-bump. 0.4 is released and I think it's ready for Showcase.

The highlight of 0.4 is the ability of the display to remember it's current active page. I've also merged a number of other minor modules created for ALCOR, like switches that are capable of running animations and turning lights in internals on and off.

[sirkut]

I just noticed I messed up the directory structure in the archive, it stayed like that for a day.

Why isn't anybody telling me these things?

Tested it this morning and noticed it don't work. Came to this thread and viola you fixed it! Awesome sauce once again.

[Mihara]

Tested it this morning and noticed it don't work. Came to this thread and viola you fixed it! Awesome sauce once again.

Oh, that reminds me, you in particular will want to know that detail.

For the selected-page-persistence to work, you need to add MODULE {name = JSIInternalPersistence} to the pod that the internal lives in.

[sirkut]

Super thanks! I'm definitely goin to use this in the IVA for the dynasoar I'm working on.

[Javster]

Will try ASAP. Looks awesome.

[Guest]

Super thanks! I'm definitely goin to use this in the IVA for the dynasoar I'm working on.

Isn't Dynasoar a '60s project? The displays should be monochrome and rather blurry, if present at all. I suppose they did have something to that effect back then, but it surely wasn't very advanced.

[Mihara]

Isn't Dynasoar a '60s project? The displays should be monochrome and rather blurry, if present at all. I suppose they did have something to that effect back then, but it surely wasn't very advanced.

Well, while the mass acceptance of glass cockpit in commercial aviation dates back to 1979, NASA work that resulted in it dates back earlier, and the earliest suggestion of using television cameras for bomb targeting dates back to German work in WWII. The earliest you can make such a device that is any use and light enough on an aircraft is when you have integrated circuit CPUs, which is 1971.

How long do you think it would take to get Dynasoar to fly?

[Guest]

Well, it started back in the 50s and got cancelled in 1963, just after spacecraft construction started. By '66 it was meant to fly it's first mission. By '68 it's last one (going by the original plan). So a few years early.

[Mihara]

Consider it an upgraded version, then. Shuttle did get upgraded.

[Guest]

OK, but I still want an old-style cockpit variant with analog gauges and lots and lots of switches.

[Javster]

I have tried it. It is amazing. Should be stock.

[Atheu]

any update for this?

[Mecripp]

any update for this?

It was on first page it's been moved http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/57603