[0.90] LetThereBeLight! v1.3 - Warp to next sunrise [2015.04.06][RSS compatible]

[Comma_dose]

Adds a button to the toolbar that when pressed, will time warp to the next sunrise

Please break this mod and report any new found issues, bugs, and the like to GitHub, or alternatively on this thread.

Known issues

Download: KerbalStuff / GitHub

Source: GitHub

Licenced under MIT licence

Installation:

1. Download
   
2. Extract
   
3. Put contents of GameData to your [KSP root]/GameData
   

• Whack-a-Bug. You can help by reporting any issues
  

v1.3

• Warping to sunrise now available while on other planetary bodies!
  
• Squashed a critical issue with the toolbar button.
  

v1.2

• Added RSS compatibility
  
• Re-squashed an issue where time warp will not stop after pressing the button after a scene change
  

v1.1

• Maths updated to use vectors
  
• Sunrise now position dependent
  
• Squashed an issue where time warp will not stop after pressing the button after a scene change
  

v1.0

• (Initial version)
  

This mod is something whipped quickly together after user /u/MaturinTheTurtle asked on the KSP subreddit if someone could write a mod that adds a "Time warp to sunrise" button to space center.

Edited August 29, 2015 by Comma_dose
Link update

[NathanKell]

Awesome!

But please, please don't hardcode that stuff. Get it from the celestial bodies and orbital parameters. If it's hardcoded, it'll fail if anything gets modified (either in an update, or by RSS or Kopernicus or anything else).

[Comma_dose]

Not to mention the code looks ugly as hell, too.

I'll try to work the solar day calculation (among other things) into the next update.

[CaptRobau]

Great idea! I love it when some modder manages to add a little tweak that we've always needed.

[NathanKell]

Awesome! Let me know if you need a hand figuring out the CB/orbit stuff.

[Comma_dose]

Awesome! Let me know if you need a hand figuring out the CB/orbit stuff.

I'll take you up on that offer right here and now, then.

I need a way to figure out the surface normal of the KSC in stock, or the selected launch site in RSS. The ideal way would be without any static geographical coordinates and with a minimal use of configs, most preferably none at all.

This normal should simplify the code down to a check of the cross product between the normal and the CB=>Kerbol vector.

[NathanKell]

Find PQSCity of name "KSC"*, get its repositionRadial (Vector3). That is the normal from the planet's center out of the space center. When RSS changes launch location, it changes KSC's location, so that should always be valid.

You then need to pass that through Kerbin's transform to, err, transform that vector into worldspace, IIRC.

*you can dig through the KSCSwitcher.cs source in the RSS repo for how, you can either do Findall(), slow, or get it as a component of the pqs (which is pointed to by a member of the Kerbin CelestialBody, which you can get with index [1] of FlightGlobals.bodies)

Edited February 18, 2015 by NathanKell

[Comma_dose]

Find PQSCity of name "KSC"*, get its repositionRadial (Vector3). That is the normal from the planet's center out of the space center. When RSS changes launch location, it changes KSC's location, so that should always be valid.

You then need to pass that through Kerbin's transform to, err, transform that vector into worldspace, IIRC.

*you can dig through the KSCSwitcher.cs source in the RSS repo for how, you can either do Findall(), slow, or get it as a component of the pqs (which is pointed to by a member of the Kerbin CelestialBody, which you can get with index [1] of FlightGlobals.bodies)

You are a modsaver! I think I'll be able to work with this.

[Sampa]

impressed with this mod! I know the whole no pics no clicks rule, but I think this case is pretty much self-explanatory and can get away with it! This is going into my default Kerbin game!

[Comma_dose]

LetThereBeLight! v1.1 is up

Changelog:

• Squashed an issue where pressing the button after a scene change made time warp unstoppable and button unusable.
  
• Calculations now use vectors instead of solar days.
  
• KSC's position on Kerbin's surface is now taken into account
  

Edited February 19, 2015 by Comma_dose

[Comma_dose]

LetThereBeLight! v1.2 is up

Changelog:

• Added RSS compatibility
  
• Re-squashed the issue where time warp would not stop after pressing the button after a scene change
  

[Sampa]

Nice! Wil download as soon as I am able (not on my KSP computer atm)

[Comma_dose]

LetThereBeLight! v1.3 is up

Changelog:

• You can now warp to sunrise on any planetary body!
  
• Squashed a critical, and potentially game crashing issue with how the toolbar was managed.
  

[Sampa]

Will there be support for the idea of being able to warp to night? (Mostly if we are recreating stuff exactly in RSS)

[Comma_dose]

Will there be support for the idea of being able to warp to night? (Mostly if we are recreating stuff exactly in RSS)

No promises, but I'll look into it sometime.

Technically that shouldn't be an issue. I just suck at making a working UI.

[NathanKell]

Awesome!