HotRockets! Particle FX Replacement + Tutorial

[deepfield]

Open up hotrockets folder and zip or delete the CFG for NovePunch the new FX Novepunch used the hotrockets isn't wrote right to disable them so the both run like that 1 all the time and then 1 when you start the engine.

Ended up doing that. Was just wondering if maybe there was a fix.

[Mecripp]

If you know how to edit the CFG files you can look at the NASA CFG in hotrockets and then look at NP CFG in hotrockets there was just a couple of engines that did that and edit them you will see the diffrant layout.

EDIT- Know it was both mother engines and thinking there was a 1 or 2 more that did that.

[Woopert]

Can someone list all the currently known problems for the mod? I'd love to get back to using it but I'm wondering if there's anything to be wary of. Cheers.

[rifter]

There is nothing really wrong except for a bunch of cosmetic problems; the default configs don't always have the intended effect, as they haven't been updated in awhile. You can find an updated kw rocketry config somewhere in this thread No game corruption issues that I have run into, otherwise. Some people have complained of increased lag, though I currently find it tolerable, but I am not launching rockets with many engines running simultaneously at the moment.

[abxt]

Can someone list all the currently known problems for the mod? I'd love to get back to using it but I'm wondering if there's anything to be wary of. Cheers.

Well I experienced a strange problem with intolerable lag involving a particular craft, see my comment on the previous page. I had to uninstall HotRockets and I miss it very much.

[BrutalRIP]

is there any chance of a interstella cfg

[MaLuS]

is there any chance of adding a cfg for this? http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/31286-0-22-Ion-Hybrid-Electric-Pack-30-08-13-Soon-FKSP!!!-See-Development-Monitor?highlight=hybrid some lovely engines in that pack.

also when i tried this last i had an issue on KSPx64 0.24.2 where the FX was constant as in still there before the engine was fired and after the engine was turned off on some stock SRB and some LFO engines from KW, i'll install it and test it again. If the problem is still there i'll post the names of the engines effected.

[Mecripp]

is there any chance of adding a cfg for this? http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/31286-0-22-Ion-Hybrid-Electric-Pack-30-08-13-Soon-FKSP!!!-See-Development-Monitor?highlight=hybrid some lovely engines in that pack.

also when i tried this last i had an issue on KSPx64 0.24.2 where the FX was constant as in still there before the engine was fired and after the engine was turned off on some stock SRB and some LFO engines from KW, i'll install it and test it again. If the problem is still there i'll post the names of the engines effected.

That happens when a mod use the new FX on there engine's and hotrockets is wrote for the old engine fx, in short some just need a little rewrite.

[Gryphorim]

Any chance someone could knock together a quick expanding exhaust .cfg for KW and RLA. I've been trying myself but with no luck.

I've also been trying to adapt FPSlacker's expansion FX to the RAPIER engine, to no avail.

Edited August 28, 2014 by Gryphorim

[Wanderfound]

Any progress on sorting out the "Hot Rockets trashes action groups" bug?

It's causing serious issues on an assortment of challenge threads.

[bs1110101]

Would the lack of this .CFG be why my rockets are permanently showing effects prelaunch, during operation after running out of fuel and after seperation? yet otherwise operate normally?

I had the same problem, it's tweakable everything, or at least it was for me.

[falken]

Is there a way to force the effects to stay all the way to 0% thrust? I want to have a KW SRB thrust curve down to near enough zero thrust prior to SRB separation, but the effects cut off around 5% from zero thrust. Which, in the case of a 2315 thrust SRB such as the small inline thor SRB, is 115 thrust... which is too much "go" for an SRB about to be let loose. I need to get that down to 40 thrust or less, but the only way is seemingly to cut the peak thrust number down in the cfg file. Can anyone help?

[Wanderfound]

Major weirdness:

I've got a vertical-lift SSTO (http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/90747-Kerbodyne-SSTO-Division-Omnibus-Thread?p=1374206&viewfull=1#post1374206) that I designed a few weeks ago. At the time I designed it, I had Hot Rockets installed (and FAR, so Ferram's engine nerf is in play). It launched just fine on air-breathers alone.

Yesterday, I got sick of constant computer crashes, so I completely scrubbed KSP from my computer and reinstalled from scratch. Initially, I had FAR reinstalled, but not Hot Rockets. When I tried to take the SSTO for a spin, I found that it was no longer able to get off the ground without turning the oxidiser on.

But when I reinstalled Hot Rockets, the SSTO went back to easy air-breathing liftoffs like it had been before.

Is there some known interaction between Hot Rockets and FAR? My first suspicion was that HR was somehow reversing the the FAR nerf, but the kN thrust values look the same with or without HR.

Any clues? Is it at all plausible for HR to be doing this? And if so, which version of the spacecraft is the "correct" one?

[Beale]

Still can't get custom FX working

When "writing" only a model is written and no texture, putting the texture in manually doesn't help.

My Unity setup.

Write setup

Effect Setup

EFFECTS
{
  running_mono
  {
   AUDIO
    {
	channel = Ship
	clip = sound_jet_deep
	volume = 0.0 0.0
	volume = 1.0 1.0
	pitch = 0.0 0.2
	pitch = 1.0 1.0
	loop = true
    }
    MODEL_MULTI_PARTICLE
    {
      name = ParticleGasFX
      modelName = Tantares/FX/Tantares_Mono_A
      transformName = thrustTransform
      emission = 0.0 0.0
      emission = 0.05 0.0
      emission = 0.075 0.25
      emission = 1.0 1.25
      speed = 0.0 0.5
      speed = 1.0 1.2
    }
  }
   engage
    {
     AUDIO
      {
       channel = Ship
       clip = sound_vent_medium
       volume = 1.0
       pitch = 1.0
       loop = false
      }
    }
   disengage
    {
     AUDIO
      {
       channel = Ship
       clip = sound_vent_medium
       volume = 1.0
       pitch = 1.0
       loop = false
      }
    }
   flameout
    {
     AUDIO
      {
       channel = Ship
       clip = sound_vent_large
       volume = 1.0
       pitch = 1.0
       loop = false
      }
     }
}

But in game, nope.

[hoojiwana]

Someone else had this issue before, can you post a pic of your material set up for the particle itself?

[Beale]

Someone else had this issue before, can you post a pic of your material set up for the particle itself?

Sure

I went with KSP/Additive as the guide suggest, but maybe I've missed something

Material

Texture

Tried with a transparent PNG and TGA with alpha.

Edited September 4, 2014 by Beale

[hoojiwana]

What filetype are you using to import the texture into Unity? I'm using 3 channel PNG with transparency, and it doesn't have the "Alpha is Transparency" option on the import options. I'm also still using Unity 4.0.1f2 so that may be why that option isn't there for me.

You could also try using a non-transparent texture instead, the KSP/Particles/Additive shader makes the black areas transparent.

[Beale]

What filetype are you using to import the texture into Unity? I'm using 3 channel PNG with transparency, and it doesn't have the "Alpha is Transparency" option on the import options. I'm also still using Unity 4.0.1f2 so that may be why that option isn't there for me.

You could also try using a non-transparent texture instead, the KSP/Particles/Additive shader makes the black areas transparent.

Hmm, trying both the transparency / non-transparent PNGs to no luck

Still does't write the texture / if I put the texture in manually it does not function.

EDIT I'm a huge idiot, using 0.22 Part Tools, which I think might be the problem

WORKED!

Thanks for the help! (In the end it was something quite silly)

Edited September 4, 2014 by Beale

[Kitspace]

What do I actually need to make the effects look good with the engines rescaled for the Real Solar System?

[Guest]

Hey, B9 has a nifty plume expansion effect, I presume using Smokescreen. Any chance of this finding a way into HotRockets? I'd love to see this effect, it looks really awesome.

[sarbian]

Kitspace : in each effect you can set a fixedScale value (default to 1) to rescale the effect. It's not fully tested but it should work.

[Taverius]

Kitspace : in each effect you can set a fixedScale value (default to 1) to rescale the effect. It's not fully tested but it should work.

We use it all over the place for B9 to rescale HotRockets effects, works fine.

[Guest]

Just to let you know, the latest NP doesn't really work with HotRockets. Neither does KW (it's using Squad effects). Squad effects are nice, but if HR could do the same thing as B9 does, with expanding plumes, I'd use it for everything.

[MisterFister]

Awesome mod! Quick question, is there a known issue with NovaPunch? My engine exhaust effect works fine on launch and scales correctly with throttle, but when it cuts out the HR effect disappears and is replaced by a vectorless and thrustless stock exhaust. Same thing happened with the stock SRB available at the start of career. Would a screengrab help?

[Mecripp]

Just to let you know, the latest NP doesn't really work with HotRockets. Neither does KW (it's using Squad effects). Squad effects are nice, but if HR could do the same thing as B9 does, with expanding plumes, I'd use it for everything.

Look back in the post alittle ways you will found a KW and stock and NASAmission parts with expanding plumes, Now maybe not KW but the Stock and new parts yes.