[0.23] Beastly Science - Scoop-O-Matic and more! (JAN0214)

[Umlüx]

nice! i love those parts.

the only thing.. i know you did it for balance purposes.. but i think the cam should be reuseable. its a simple cam, you don't have to clean it after use. or is it a one-shot polaroid?

[Proot]

nice! i love those parts.

the only thing.. i know you did it for balance purposes.. but i think the cam should be reuseable. its a simple cam, you don't have to clean it after use. or is it a one-shot polaroid?

+1

Personally hate the 0.23 non reusable features... I would have preferred lower scores at the science researchs. Longer (in time and efforts) travels are funnier than just more travels.

Edited January 3, 2014 by Proot

[RenatsMC]

O looks nice

[ZodiusInfuser]

Hey everyone, I've updated the first post. I've added the Kerbal Kam, and also the Scoop-O-Matic Jr.

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I've kept it to just Crew Reports, to still give manned missions an edge. The crew report can only be generated once before you have to clean the part. It also gives less science per transmission.

These parts are great!

Not sure if you're aware though, but Sethnizzle over in the Dev forum has also released a camera science part similar to yours: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/64336-Probodobodyne-MastCamâ„¢-Remote-Crew-Reports

[BeastofChicken]

Oh very cool, he's doing a nice job. Hmm.. I'd rather not spend time working on something someone else has been working on. Then again, mine looks quite a bit different...

[BeastofChicken]

Yeah.. what with his mod, and the L-Tech-Scientific stuff... I don't think I need to spend much time on my camera. I'll keep it in there for now, but I'm going to focus on improving the Scoop-O-Matic for now.

[Umlüx]

i like your cam, but thanks for the heads up.

[Arrowmaster]

I was going to use ModuleManager to tweak some of the part settings but I noticed the part names contain spaces. This means it can't be tweaked with ModuleManager. Could you consider renaming the part names to not include spaces. This ofcourse would break any existing ships using the parts though.

[CaptRobau]

Any progress on the announced changes/tweaks?

[deadshot462]

Very cool. This should have been stock for a while.

[User Unrelated]

I was looking VERY hard for a probe surface sampling arm for the past few days. You may want to include more keywords in the title to make this easier to find (trust me, I searched EVERYTHING)

I just happen to see this while browsing the add-on page (and am VERY happy I found it!)

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[StainX]

I need to try that out! Probes always were kinda useless, science lab and goo canister are far too big to put them on a probe, no crew report, no surface sample, etc...

This gets even worse if you have some life support mod that makes it almost impossible to visit jool moons

So i hope this will help to bring some balance in career mode

[CaptRobau]

Don't want to come across as crass for self-promoting, but my mod Science Revisited deals, among other things, with probes being useless for science. Maybe it'll help for you.

[Helix935]

bada bump for good faith in these amazing parts

[BeastofChicken]

Hey everyone, sorry for the lack updates on this lately, work has been kind of insane. I do want to keep expanding this, but it's going to be a bit before I get any more parts added.

Again, I appreciate all the feedback I've gotten

[acc]

would be cool to be able to retract the parts after using, like the action groups for goo and material bay. and another big problem is: the parts are only one time useable, so it makes never sense to use it for rover, because i can land directly on the spot i want to collect a surface sample. there is no reason for driving from biome to biome, to collect more samples, because the parts can't.

here a short list, what i think, need to be changed:

- remove one-time-limitation

- add retract function

Edited January 25, 2014 by acc

[Cilph]

Good to see you've released your project Beastofchicken! My only complaint is the non-stock coloring on the scoop, but I will definitely be using these in the future.

Some feature suggestions:

- Have the scoop be reusable, but make a one-time version that can't be transmitted and has to be recovered. Neat for probes.

- Inverse Kinematics on the scoop if that isn't already implemented.

- As mentioned, better stock-like texturing, and keep it a neutral gray.

Edited February 3, 2014 by Cilph

[Tenneko Kazeno]

If I'm remembering right, when I used this with the stock Science Lab part, it could clean the scoop so it could be reused. If I'm wrong and it currently does not do this, would you be able to add this function to the mod?

[JeffreyCor]

I removed the one use limit from the junior version since rovers generally do multiple tests as well as the "Kam." This mod could be named "required science parts for probes and rovers"

[Darth Lazarus]

testing it right now ... finaly probescience !

[SkipSpikowski]

Can you make a little surface sampler kit for the rover that will allow you to reset the scoop? I like it, but it is a little annoying that the scoop jr can only be used once.

[positivewun]

I can't get it to work at all. not one part seems to work. It acts like I've done the science on them and I just installed it. Never used any of these parts.

[positivewun]

wait ... if I have already done a surface sample of an area on an EVA does that count and therefore the scoop won't work in that area??

[LostElement]

This is wonderous! And chance of a texture reduction?

[edmundlyy]

Thank you! It helps me to get science much easier.