HotRockets! Particle FX Replacement + Tutorial

[cardgame]

Installed this, SRB effects seem the same, however the flames lag behind the nozzle by at least 5 meters. :|

[Nazari1382]

Installed this, SRB effects seem the same, however the flames lag behind the nozzle by at least 5 meters. :|

can you post a screenshot of this?

[Mecripp]

EDIT: Ninja'd by Nazari with a working cfg.

MeCripp: Uh, no, no you can't. That's not even in module manager syntax (<> ????), and if it were (@MODULE[ModuleEngines] { @name = ModuleEnginesFX } it wouldn't do what you want. What you want, as I said in the original quoted post, is to update the DeadlyReentry patch file to notice the engines whose modules have been changed, not to change modules itself.

Got it thanks

Edited February 1, 2014 by Mecripp2

[Surefoot]

Looking very good, i'll follow this... Support for popular engine packs is just adding to the CFG right ?

[vardicd]

OK. Try this file in place of your current Deadly Reentry cfg file in the DRE folder. (Extract this folder to GameData)

http://www./download/bssj1zzpbo5izv8/DeadlyReentry_HotRocketsCFG.zip

Just got home from work and gave it a go. This fixed it up nicely, thanks so much!

[lyndonguitar]

anyone has a good working cfg to make it compatible with KW Rocketry and any other mods too? (like KSP interstellar, B9 Aerospace, etc)? please share

Different angle:

http://i.imgur.com/migw2w8.gif

Oh my god that is so awesome

Edited February 1, 2014 by lyndonguitar

[cardgame]

I've solved the engine overheating mystery... for some reason, this mod doubles your engines while keeping the part count at 1, so you effectively have two engines for the price of one for everything it touches. For Mainsails, of course, this means instant death. For spaceplanes + FAR, it means instant Mach 1 speed which often kills the plane.

If you want to keep the mod, it can be solved by simply limiting thrust to 50 for every single engine every single time you make a new vehicle. I'm a bit disinclined to such busywork myself, so I have removed the mod for now

[Mecripp]

I've solved the engine overheating mystery... for some reason, this mod doubles your engines while keeping the part count at 1, so you effectively have two engines for the price of one for everything it touches. For Mainsails, of course, this means instant death. For spaceplanes + FAR, it means instant Mach 1 speed which often kills the plane.

If you want to keep the mod, it can be solved by simply limiting thrust to 50 for every single engine every single time you make a new vehicle. I'm a bit disinclined to such busywork myself, so I have removed the mod for now

Turn 1 off before you takeoff ?

EDIT and if you added it to a engine it's your fault not the mod you put things in the wrong place as, I have done many time putting thing's in the wrong place but hay live and learn.

Edited February 1, 2014 by Mecripp2

[Nazari1382]

this mod doubles your engines while keeping the part count at 1

Not at all.

http://i.imgur.com/QGpjSCF.png

[Surefoot]

That mod makes my Eve lifter look good:

Need Novapunch and KW effects now (the middle engine on boosters is the NP aerospike, should have a similar exhaust as stock ones i guess ?)

[cardgame]

I haven't done anything but install HR to GameData.

[NoMrBond]

I haven't done anything but install HR to GameData.

You haven't ended up with ..\GameData\GameData\MP_Nazari (and two copies of ModuleManager_1_5_6.dll, one in \GameData\ and one in \GameData\GameData\) have you?

[Naten]

Can you PLEASE tell me how to make your own FX and get these things to work in the game, PLEEEEEEEEASE? And if it's plugin-powered, may I please use yours for my own mod's engines, Naten Innovations!? I want these so badly with my engines! :D

They're pure beauty... they're just... wow!

[Naten]

YOU! you're here too?!

yes

i'm everywhere. .-.

[cardgame]

You haven't ended up with ..\GameData\GameData\MP_Nazari (and two copies of ModuleManager_1_5_6.dll, one in \GameData\ and one in \GameData\GameData\) have you?

No, Mr. Bond.

[wasmic]

No, Mr. Bond.

[HerrGeneral]

I don't know if this is possible, but one thing I've always wanted is for the exhaust to expand as atmospheric pressure drops. For example, see this video:

At first the exhaust plume is very "tight", but as the rocket gains altitude the atmospheric pressure drops and the exhaust plume widens by a significant degree- by the time they drop stage 1 the exhaust is huge. Is it possible to implement this in KSP?

[NoMrBond]

This has already been requested, although I'm not sure if anyone actually started working on the plugin which would dynamically scale the exhaust effects to atmospheric pressure

[Edit] It would be awesome, if I had any C# programming skills at all I would give it a try

Edited February 3, 2014 by NoMrBond

[aeTIos]

The expanding exhaust is actually coming

[Captain Sierra]

The expanding exhaust is actually coming

Along with better smoke trails, ground dust effects, and launch smoke, at least if we are going off of what's already been shown as worked on in the thread.

[Captain Sierra]

I don't know if this is possible, but one thing I've always wanted is for the exhaust to expand as atmospheric pressure drops. For example, see this video:

At first the exhaust plume is very "tight", but as the rocket gains altitude the atmospheric pressure drops and the exhaust plume widens by a significant degree- by the time they drop stage 1 the exhaust is huge. Is it possible to implement this in KSP?

Wow, it's unbelievable how much my typicall ascent profile follows the Saturn V.

[stubbles]

I take it you still can't have multiple FX per-engine with this? Say you had an engine cluster with several small engines and one large engine - is there a way to have the smaller engines use a different FX on them?

[NoMrBond]

I take it you still can't have multiple FX per-engine with this? Say you had an engine cluster with several small engines and one large engine - is there a way to have the smaller engines use a different FX on them?

I imagine you could give them a different transform name in Unity, then specify a different exhaust effect for that transform in the part.cfg

So you have thrustTransform for your main one, where the thrust (and main effects) are tied to, and lesserTransform (for example) which only has exhaust effects directed to it.

[Mecripp]

I have the FTMN engine and run there fx and this fx and there's CoolRockets! Cryo and Launch Particle FX.

Edited February 3, 2014 by Mecripp2

[Nazari1382]

I imagine you could give them a different transform name in Unity, then specify a different exhaust effect for that transform in the part.cfg

So you have thrustTransform for your main one, where the thrust (and main effects) are tied to, and lesserTransform (for example) which only has exhaust effects directed to it.

Not atm. That's the problem I stated in the OP. Some plugin creators are fixing the issue though. @stubbles: you should be able to duplicate one type just by having extra thrustTransforms. (so multiple unique ones, not yet) edit again: the problem comes up when you try to use a different type of effect, like smoke, and when you revert flight it will break ksp.

Edited February 3, 2014 by Nazari1382