[Collection][0.15-0.16] PowerTech v0.2.6

[GabrielG.A.B.Fonseca]

I\'m having some trouble with the PowerSat... In the loading screen, it stops loading. It keeps thinking about the PowerSat part... (I had indeed installed the plugin, I\'m sure)

I never had this problem with ZIP files... Maybe my computer can\'t unpack RAR?

[eran100]

i had the same problem, when it get stuck press alt+f2 and see what part cant load and delete it

[Alchemist]

I\'m having some trouble with the PowerSat... In the loading screen, it stops loading. It keeps thinking about the PowerSat part... (I had indeed installed the plugin, I\'m sure)

I never had this problem with ZIP files... Maybe my computer can\'t unpack RAR?

There might be a problem if you have a folder that doesn\'t contain part.cfg in the parts folder. Panel input uses a separate parser, and it seems that I didn\'t think about this possibility.

[Cepheus]

I said I\'m sorry! I\'m trying to learn but I allready killed 300 kerbans.

I\'m sure that plenty of us here have death counts in the thousands. This\'s something that you\'ll just have to learn.

[SpaceBlunt]

I\'m having some trouble with the PowerSat... In the loading screen, it stops loading. It keeps thinking about the PowerSat part... (I had indeed installed the plugin, I\'m sure)

I never had this problem with ZIP files... Maybe my computer can\'t unpack RAR?

Download 7-zip it does every type fast. Just unpack to downloads or whereevr you want and copy over as you do.

Whenever the loading bar gets stuck for me I just re copy the files over

[CAPFlyer]

Downloaded and made sure parts.cfg was where it was supposed to be, but it is still locking up at the PowerSat. Using 14.3 (will update to 14.4 later today).

[Cepheus]

I like your rotating panels, but would it be too much for them to 'unroll' (see video) instead of just fold out? I can completely understand folding radiators, but folding solar panels bother me a bit.

http://youtu.be/GKfIsEIC5IE

[CAPFlyer]

Okay, here\'s the output from my output_log.txt -

IsolatedStorageException: Could not find file 'E:\Program Files (x86)\KSP\Parts\ExternalTankSkins\part.cfg'.

at System.IO.FileStream..ctor (System.String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, Boolean anonymous, FileOptions options) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

at System.IO.FileStream..ctor (System.String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

at System.IO.File.OpenRead (System.String path) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

at System.IO.StreamReader..ctor (System.String path, System.Text.Encoding encoding, Boolean detectEncodingFromByteOrderMarks, Int32 bufferSize) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

at System.IO.StreamReader..ctor (System.String path) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

at System.IO.File.OpenText (System.String path) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

at PowerSat.onPartLoad () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

at Part.OnLoad () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

at PartLoader.ParsePartCfg () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

at PartLoader.doProcessPart (UnityEngine.GameObject[] mdls, Boolean partLabMode) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

at PartLoader.startPartAssembly (UnityEngine.GameObject[] mdls) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

at PartSerializer+<loadBinaryMesh>c__IteratorA.MoveNext () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

Edit: Found that there was a folder by the name referenced in the Parts folder and deleted it. The addon now works. Looking at the log, your module is queuing a search of the PARTS folder to make sure all of them have a parts.cfg file. This is not normal behavior of the load, so something in your source is calling it when it\'s being loaded. I think that needs to be removed as you\'re modifying the base behavior of the game and that can cause very, very bad problems down the road.

[Corax]

I like your rotating panels, but would it be too much for them to 'unroll' (see video) instead of just fold out? I can completely understand folding radiators, but folding solar panels bother me a bit.

http://youtu.be/GKfIsEIC5IE

Seems there is more than just one way to deploy solar panels

[Alchemist]

New version of the plugin released. It should fix that parser issue.

[Alchemist]

Seems there is more than just one way to deploy solar panels

So, ISS American panels are rather soft and strenched on separate support construction.

When I think about solar panels, I usually imagine something harder. Like these

[madmat]

What happened to the panels in that bottom satellite picture? They look Very Kerbal.

[Alchemist]

That\'s not a satellite! That\'s MIR! After an unsuccessful docking with Progress.

[Nibb31]

The whole Spektr module had to be sealed off after the accident, which involved cutting the cables by hand to close the hatch while the station was decompressing. Must\'ve been quite a hairy moment for the crew...

Apollo 13 was a near miss, but the entire history of Mir also has a lot of very very close calls that could have killed the crew.

[Kreuzung]

The funny thing is that these panels where the only thing of Spektr that was reused after the accident

[Guest]

Yup, that\'s the Spektr, after Progress crashed into it. The entire module is totaled, except for the panels, which provided most of MIR\'s power supply.

[exegesis]

I\'m having a similar problem to those above. I\'m on the latest version of KSP, and I\'m using the 1.1 plugin. It gets stuck on loading, the readout is as follows:

Cfg Parsing...

AddComponent requested: PowerSat

PowerSat found.

PowerSat

/Users/<redacted>/Desktop/KSP_OSK/KSP.app/Contents

DirectoryNotFoundException: Directory

\'/Users/<redacted>/Desktop/KSP_osx/KSP.app/Contents\.../Parts\' not found.

Any help would be awesome!

[The_Duck]

For those interested, my satellite relay networks plugin will now automatically detect the PowerSat as a communications satellite. Thanks Alchemist for showing me how to implement this!

[exegesis]

Does anyone know how to make this work? Is the thing just incompatible with the filestructure on a mac? Or am I just an idiot? It keeps stopping on the loading screen.

[Alchemist]

DirectoryNotFoundException: Directory

\'/Users/<redacted>/Desktop/KSP_osx/KSP.app/Contents\.../Parts\' not found.

Very strange...

On windows this code gives KSPfolder/KSP_Data\../Parts that equals to KSPfolder/Parts

Where is Parts directory on mac? I can try to add the alternative way.

[exegesis]

The mac parts folder is inside the KSP_osx folder.

[Alchemist]

So, it needs to go 2 levels up, not 1.

Check this version.

/Edit: attachment removed. The mac compatibility included in PowerTech.dll v0.2

[exegesis]

Wow, man, thanks a ton for doing this for me!

(the sad thing is, it still doesn\'t work, now reading \'/Users/<redacted>/Desktop/KSP_osx/KSP.app/Contents\..\../Parts\'. Has it moved down one instead of up two? I also tried making a parts folder with the powersat in the folders it appears to be consulting, no luck there.)

[Alchemist]

OK, rewrote this place in a smarter way. Try this version

/Edit: attachment removed. The mac compatibility included in PowerTech.dll v0.2

[exegesis]

This works! Thank you again, I love this plugin.