Interpreting scansat map

[NASAengineer]

Hey everyone. So I recently got into the field of mods and one of the first ones i downloaded was Karbonite, as I wanted a way to refill larger ships far from Earth. Someone suggested that I also download scansat, so I could scan planets and find where the resources are. So I have done that, and fully scanned both Kerbin and the Mun, but I have a problem. The map just shows altitudes at different points. I know that the resources are tied to the biome, but I don't know what biome to target, nor do I know what the biomes are on the Mun.

Another thing I don't understand is the Anomalies. What are they?

Thanks to anyone who responds to this!

RJ

[Robotengineer]

I'm not sure bout the first one, you might need to have a special scanner. The Anomalies are easter eggs in stock, and if you have Kerbal Konstructs, those models will show up.

[Kerba Fett]

You need a Karbonite scanner on your satellite and you need to be running the latest dev version for it to show Karbonite on your scans at map.

In the upper right corner of the big map you find a menu to choose your resource type and when you hover mouse pointer over the map it will show the Karbonite concentration in the lower left corner where it shows biome and altitude.

[NASAengineer]

You need a Karbonite scanner on your satellite and you need to be running the latest dev version for it to show Karbonite on your scans at map.

In the upper right corner of the big map you find a menu to choose your resource type and when you hover mouse pointer over the map it will show the Karbonite concentration in the lower left corner where it shows biome and altitude.

I do have a karbonite scanner on my probe. It tells me the instantaneous measure of karbonite in orbit, above a certain area, but it doesn't feed to to the scansat map.

[DeMatt]

Let's see now...

1. Which version of ScanSat are you using? 8.1 or the development 9.0rc4?
   
2. You are looking at the big map, yes? The small map doesn't get the fancy overlays.
   
3. You want to turn on the Resources overlay. In 8.1 it's the button to the right of "Grid", in 9.0 it's the bottom-most toggle.
   

[Streetwind]

I was confused by this as well. Here's why:

The button for the resource overlay is hidden by default. You need to go into the SCANsat settings (via the small map, for example) and then turn on the resource overlay. You also need to select which resource the overlay shows.

Then, after you have set that, the resource button will appear in the big map mode as one of the possible choices. Click it to toggle it on, and watch as the map updates with your Karbonite deposits. (You will never see them in the small map, it works only in the big one.)

[DMagic]

SCANsat resource scanning tutorials can be found here, and soon on the main GitHub repo.

Edited January 23, 2015 by DMagic

[NASAengineer]

I think I have the current version of both karbonite and SCANsat. This is going to sound bad, but do you know how I can check? I honestly have no idea what I'm doing.

[DeMatt]

I think I have the current version of both karbonite and SCANsat. This is going to sound bad, but do you know how I can check? I honestly have no idea what I'm doing.

...Most modmakers, SCANsat among them, like to put the version number into the name of the archive you download.

[spaceman_spff]

I think I have the current version of both karbonite and SCANsat. This is going to sound bad, but do you know how I can check? I honestly have no idea what I'm doing.

Hey NASAengineer, I had the same issue and it's because I wasn't running the Dev version of Scansat, you can get it here. You actually have to go out of your way to get that version, resource mapping for Karbonite doesn't work in the stable release yet.