[1.2.1] Outer Planets Mod (2.1) - Active development has moved, see first post for new thread

KillAshley · May 21, 2015

@life on Europa

They are gas giants

amarius1 · May 21, 2015

I'm now studying your configs to find out how to generate the stock resources.

TaintedLion · May 22, 2015

Does anyone have the optimum SCANSat altitudes for this mod?

v8Dave · May 23, 2015

I've done a bit of maths on the in game info for Sarnus moons and get geosynchronous orbits outside the SOI for each.

Should the rotational periods listed actually be the orbital periods - I haven't done the maths yet.

Dachannien · May 23, 2015

Does anyone know of any problems caused by removing OPM? Specifically, I have been playing a saved game that was created after I installed OPM, but after piling on the mods, I'm hitting the memory limit, so I need to chuck some stuff. I'll be sad to lose it, but OPM seems like it's probably a good amount of memory, and I'm nowhere near being able to visit those planets yet anyway. But I don't want to render my saved game unplayable by removing it. Any thoughts? Thanks!

CaptRobau · May 23, 2015

All moons in the Sarnus and Urlum system are tidally locked. That means that one rotation equals one revolution around their planet. Most real moons are tidally locked too (except really small ones or very strange ones). Anyway, all moons in stock KSP have their geosynchronous orbits outside the SOIs. It's simply a result of their small mass compared to that of their planet, resulting in SOIs that are too small to attain geosynchronous orbits. So it's normal that it's the case for OPM's moons too.

AlexTheNotSoGreat · May 24, 2015

a: Yes, I have gotten contracts for heading out to these planets, which I wasn't sure of either.

b: No, Urlum isn't rotated 90 degrees (you can't do that in the game) but you can reverse rotation altogether

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9.75/10! Just improve Hale's SOI, currently to small to capture. Otherwise, it's the single best mod for KSP I've seen!! :sticktongue:

v8Dave · May 24, 2015

I can see Minmus and Gilly being strange !

I think I've got the software running to do the ScanSat orbits as per the Ideal Orbits thread

Watch this space....

CaptRobau · May 24, 2015

Hale's SOI could use a boost, although it's annoying since it's so close to Sarnus it needs a disproportionate gravity to offset that of Sarnus'. That's why it already has four times the gravity of Gilly, which is four times more massive. And that gets the SOI up to just a 1 km outside the actual terrain. I'll see what I can do.

What I'm currently working on:

-Tweaking the atmospheres even more. Felger and KillAshley have helped me greatly with getting the atmospheric curves set up as smooth as stock has.

-Redid the cache files. Ovok won't look like an egg anymore, but at least you'll have the actual terrain to go by. Until Ovok can look like it should, it's better if it's playable, for which you need map mode lining up with the terrain

v8Dave · May 24, 2015

OK, I'm running the old version of the ideal orbits software for just the low res radar at the moment.

For Tekto I've not found an ideal orbit yet....


Planet:     Tekto
Radius:     280 km
Sync.Orbit: 12652.22 km
SOI:        8637.00 km
Day Length: 185h  0m 0s

Altitude Range: 100.5 km - 500.0 km
Maximum Altitude reached due to maximum ISA MapSat range of 500 km

No sweet spots found! Try increasing the threshold.


 Number of Zones: 0
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Tekto, Sidelap 0.5 - 2:
                          Altitude    Inclination Time to Scan    Swath   Resolution
Zone  Res  Sidelap     Ideal     Range   (deg)   Ideal     diff   Width  (deg)   (km)
========================================================================================================

I'm getting the planet info written for the script, then I'll get the latest version with most of the current scanners running and compile some graphs and tables.

It might take a while.

v8Dave · May 24, 2015

OK, This would not be possible without the work of technogeeky, cxg2827 and Psawhn

See these threads,

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/27999-ISA-Mapsat-Ideal-and-Non-Ideal-Altitudes

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/75854-0-24-x-Ideal-SCANsat-Altitudes-v1-0-Aug-16

Planet: Sarnus

Radius: 5300 km

Sync.Orbit: 8863.95 km

SOI: 2740501.00 km

Day Length: 10h 16m 0s

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Sarnus [RADAR]

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Sarnus [Multi]

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Sarnus [sAR]

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Sarnus [ORS]

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Sarnus [EPL] Scan altitudes are inside atmosphere.

I'll work my way through the rest of OPM.

And if someone can tell me why the image album is not loading.....FIXED :- thanks to Svm420

Edited May 24, 2015 by v8Dave
White space adjustment

Svm420 · May 24, 2015

ftfy!

v8Dave · May 25, 2015

Following on from my previous posts, here are the scansat ideal orbits for the some of the Sarnus system satelites.

I'm stuck with Hale and Ovok as their data sets are currently over the 100k limit for a post.

The graphs and some of the data are presented here, I'll try refining the scan parameters to reduce the data set size.

Planet: Hale

Radius: 6 km

Sync.Orbit: 40.26 km

SOI: 16000.00 km

Day Length: 6h 32m 0s

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Hale [RADAR]

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Hale [sAR]

Planet: Ovok

Radius: 26 km

Sync.Orbit: 127.69 km

SOI: 64.00 km

Day Length: 8h 10m 0s

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Ovok [RADAR]

Planet: Eeloo

Radius: 210 km

Sync.Orbit: 1638.75 km

SOI: 1159.00 km

Day Length: 16h 5m 0s

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Eeloo [RADAR]

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Eeloo [Multi]

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Eeloo [sAR]

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Eeloo [ORS]

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Eeloo [EPL]

Planet: Slate

Radius: 540 km

Sync.Orbit: 12637.08 km

SOI: 10421.00 km

Day Length: 53h 32m 0s

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Slate [RADAR]

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Slate [Multi]

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Slate [sAR]

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Slate [ORS]

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Slate [EPL]

Planet: Tekto

Radius: 280 km

Sync.Orbit: 12652.22 km

SOI: 8637.00 km

Day Length: 185h 0m 0s

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Tekto [RADAR]

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Tekto [Multi]

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Tekto [sAR]

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Tekto [ORS]

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Tekto [EPL]

tmccreight651 · May 25, 2015

just a quick suggestion, im not being bossy but in my opinion nedion needs some moons, like maybe a Triton analogue with a retrograde orbit and a Nereid analogue with a highly inclined elliptical orbit

CaptRobau · May 25, 2015

Don't worry those are in development. Neidon was going to have moons since forever. Only now are we getting around to it, because we finished up Sarnus and Urlum's moons.

-M-TheDoctor · May 26, 2015

Hey OPM Devs. this look spectacular, but I'm having trouble getting it to load up. This should go into the plug-in folder correct? Because when I put it there, the add on didn't work. Or maybe I'm doing something wrong? :confused:

Eleven · May 26, 2015

Captain Planet · May 26, 2015

July and the New Horizons Pluto arrival can't come soon enough! I've been holding off playing this until all the bodies are added. One question: Are you guys balancing the various atmospheres for stock aero, or with the intent for people to use FAR?

KillAshley · May 26, 2015

i swear every time someone mentions the new horizons probe i think i should've chosen a better name for my pack! The atmospheres are being balanced for stock aero, but should have no problem with FAR. There will be more updates to atmospheres to fully finish them off but they will replicate stock atmospheres perfectly, so people using stock aero or FAR shouldn't have issues. (just note i haven't finished testing my pressure curves with FAR yet, so there could be unknown issues)

Sigma88 · May 26, 2015

I thought you choose that name on purpose :confused:

KillAshley · May 26, 2015

haha no, just bad timing......completely forgot about the mission! perhaps that's why I thought it sounded good :sticktongue:

-M-TheDoctor · May 26, 2015

Ok. See, I modded my SimCity 4 and those mods where supposed to go into the plug-in folder. I'll shuffle stuff around and see if it works, thanks.

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XB-70A · May 26, 2015

This may sound stupid, but after a long time I finally registered today to thank the team responsible for this fantastic mod. Really what an awesome work!

linuxgurugamer · May 26, 2015

Saying thank you is never stupid.

CaptRobau · May 27, 2015

Thanks a lot!

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