[QUOTE=Winstonn;34766180]shit's gunna get 34'd[/QUOTE]
[I]dock your rocket in me, Jeb![/I]
[QUOTE=Nutt007;34765798]That's Harpo. The names from left to right: Franklin, Trillian, Harpo
That's what the forums came up with anyways.[/QUOTE]
Oh. I don't go on the forums. v:v:v
Got the accessories exported and working. (mostly all xemit's work)
Solar panels, Separate Panel mounts, radiator panel. and Extended Boom RCS modules. That extended RCS module really makes it give it some torque lol.
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1417259/kerbal/Kosmos%20Accessories.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Overv;34765308]Okay, the rating script is pretty much finished.
[img]http://puu.sh/htcG[/img]
[t]http://puu.sh/htay[/t]
[url=http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/126175]Install[/url]
It doesn't show the icon for all posts yet, because it simply hasn't mined enough data yet. That will fix itself in the coming days and weeks. Let me know if you have any problems. Ratings are collected with a built in delay of 24 hours, so if you get an agree now, it will show up in your list tomorrow around the same time.[/QUOTE]
Sorry for the off topic, but Overv's rating script is now available!
[editline]19th February 2012[/editline]
Now go rate him Winner!
[QUOTE=MC3craze;34772135]Sorry for the off topic, but Overv's rating script is now available!
[editline]19th February 2012[/editline]
Now go rate him Winner![/QUOTE]
I wish they could get the flags back, or at least add an option to show it on your posts.
Bitch at garry if you really want em.
[QUOTE=MC3craze;34773109]Bitch at garry if you really want em.[/QUOTE]
Lol, good luck with that.
[QUOTE=LarparNar;34773207]Lol, good luck with that.[/QUOTE]
That's easy, just make a crap thread in the gmod beta section while he is reading the threads there, then wait until your ban expires.
-snippitydippitydo-
I just modeled, textured and exported a part using Blender for the first time. All in all, it looks and behaves exactly how I wanted it to, but it's very angular despite a relatively high polygon count. I need to learn what setting smooths that out without changing the polygons.
It's not for the MKK, that project is still on long-term hold. I'm actually modeling for a rocket family that Kosmos will release after the space station parts pack, and cardboard is already on board to produce the engine sometime in the future.
Pardon for the possibly very nooby question, but how can I change the position of my Apoapsis and Periapsis? I am trying to create an orbit that will allow me to transfer to the Mun, however, I did it wrong and even if I get my orbit to be long enough to intersect with the Mun's orbit the apoapsis is still far above where the Mun would be.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;34776856]Pardon for the possibly very nooby question, but how can I change the position of my Apoapsis and Periapsis? I am trying to create an orbit that will allow me to transfer to the Mun, however, I did it wrong and even if I get my orbit to be long enough to intersect with the Mun's orbit the apoapsis is still far above where the Mun would be.[/QUOTE]
To increase the apoapsis, you need to burn prograde while you're at the periapsis, and to increase the periapsis, you need to burn prograde while your at the apoapsis.
Retrograde burns reverses the process obviously.
Keep in mind that you don't [I]need[/I] to be at either point to burn, if you burn prograde anywhere, the periapsis will eventually get pretty close to your location anyways.
[QUOTE=LarparNar;34776953]To increase the apoapsis, you need to burn prograde while you're at the periapsis, and to increase the periapsis, you need to burn prograde while your at the apoapsis.
Retrograde burns reverses the process obviously.
Keep in mind that you don't [I]need[/I] to be at either point to burn, if you burn prograde anywhere, the periapsis will eventually get pretty close to your location anyways.[/QUOTE]
I don't want to "raise" the apoapsis as far as altitude is concerned. The orbit is wide enough for me.
Here, I'll try and draw out what I want to do.
[img]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b136/Yawmwen/KSP.png[/img]
I want my orbit to go from "A" to "B"
[editline]19th February 2012[/editline]
Basically, I want my orbit to rotate, not get longer or shorter.
Ah. That's your orbital inclination.
If, when you lift off, you fly straight east or west, you'll end up having the same inclination as the moon.
To change it, burn exactly 90 degrees to the left or right of your prograde direction.
The direction is going to change so you'll have to constantly adjust it, and probably fix your orbit up when you have the correct inclination.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_inclination[/url]
[QUOTE=LarparNar;34777337]Ah. That's your orbital inclination.
If, when you lift off, you fly straight east or west, you'll end up having the same inclination as the moon.
To change it, burn exactly 90 degrees to the left or right of your prograde direction.
The direction is going to change so you'll have to constantly adjust it, and probably fix your orbit up when you have the correct inclination.
[URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_inclination[/URL][/QUOTE]
Sweet, thanks! Now I'm right on track for the Mun.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;34777432]Sweet, thanks! Now I'm right on track for the Mun.[/QUOTE]
Also, keep in mind that having a rocket with ASAS and a thrust-vectored engine helps greatly with this. Also, you can open your flight controls while viewing the map by pressing the small arrow at the bottom of the screen, letting you see your orbital adjustments in real time.
[editline]19th February 2012[/editline]
Found the correct shader setting:
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/43321825/screenshot9%20%283%29.png[/img]
I finally made it to the Mun. Sadly I think I put my rocket too close to the landing legs so when I landed my rocket blew up. No one died, but now they suffer a fate worse than death, stranded on the Mun.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;34778991]I finally made it to the Mun. Sadly I think I put my rocket too close to the landing legs so when I landed my rocket blew up. No one died, but now they suffer a fate worse than death, stranded on the Mun.[/QUOTE]
Did it just break off? Because that can happen even without hitting the surface.
[QUOTE=MC3craze;34779052]Did it just break off? Because that can happen even without hitting the surface.[/QUOTE]
It exploded. Maybe it broke off, then exploded. Either way I believe it was landing error on my part. I was moving sideways a lot faster than I anticipated. I'm going to try again, this time hopefully I can land the damn thing.
[B]The Story of KSP — KSP 0.4[/B]
[quote]Continuing with the story now, KSP 0.4 was when we first decided to tackle the big problem of terrain, in a planet-sized scale.
I had been playing for a while with creating procedural things here, but they were pretty simple back then. I built this very simple asteroid generator here, mainly to prove to myself I could do it:
[img]http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzlj4ml8kx1qk0cbw.png[/img]
I later built a noise-based terrain demo, but it would only create a flat world:
[img]http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyxjuzXCEB1qk0cbw.png[/img]
The terrain system you see above did things using mesh tiles that would follow the player around, ‘leapfrogging’ over each other so that as you moved, the terrain farthest away from you would be moved forward, and you could go on infinitely with this system. But while cool, these square tiles would only work in a flat world, so we needed to think of something else.
We needed something that would work for a round planet, and that’s when things started to get a little problematic.
If you look around the internets for procedural terrain systems, you’ll find thousands and thousands of half-finished attempts, and about 99% of those are meant for games where the world can be flat. There are very, very few projects out there that have actually tackled the problem of generating planets, and the ones that did were very much over my head at that time.
I was starting to feel I had bitten off more than I could chew with this one. But the game couldn’t go on without a terrain system, so I scrounged up the most of my brain I could, and came up with something that, well, it did kinda look like terrain at least, and it was round.
It even had an atmosphere to it. This was done with ‘atmospheric scattering’ shaders, which were made accessible to the world by a guy called Sean O’Neil, who wrote an article about that on a developer publication called GPU Gems. Because of that, there were several atmo-scat shaders out there to use. They’re very fiddly to work with, but after a few days of tweaking, we ended up with this:
[img]http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzljxuIbx31qk0cbw.png[/img]
This terrain system worked in a more or less similar way to the flat tile-based terrain. It used a noise system called LibNoise, which is a library you can download, and for which I found a Unity-friendly version, to give you a plug-and-play style noise generating toolset. It can do very amazing things, if you don’t need to worry about performance.
In the flat world, converting this numerical noise into a terrain was pretty simple. We’d get a noise value from LibNoise for any given position in the world, and we’d push vertices upwards by that amount.
For the planet thought, things aren’t that simple. For starters, ‘up’ is a very relative term when dealing with round things, so we can’t move vertices ‘up’ anymore. We have to ‘push’ them away from the center. Ok, not too much worse, but if you have a square set of tiles, how do you get those to wrap around a sphere? Ever tried giftwrapping a football? It’s more or less the same issue.
My ‘solution’ (for lack of a better term) was to not use tiles at all, but a single, huge disk, that I had created in 3Ds Max. It was tessellated in several steps, so the center of the disk had a much higher polygon density than the edges:
[img]http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzljxd5n8y1qk0cbw.png[/img]
The idea behind this scheme was that the disk would follow the player around, and it would get larger if you went higher, and lower if you went closer to the ground. Because the disk was always just below you, the ‘tiers’ of mesh detail would work as a crude LOD system.
It worked, to some extent, but there was a big problem. That disk mesh there had about 19,000 vertices on it, and by itself, unity was pretty ok with keeping them updated on every frame. The problem was that you needed to be able to collide with the terrain, and making that whole thing collision-enabled was simply impossible. Unity goes pretty fast until you need to use collision meshes on things that are changing shape, and that’s exactly what we had here.
The solution for it was to let the terrain do it’s thing, and maintain a much smaller collision ‘area’ just under the player. It was invisible anyway, and small enough to run with good frames.
Then there was another issue. Because the terrain was a disk, it’s vertices could potentially end up anywhere in the world, and that meant something very weird could (and did) happen. If on one frame a vertex was sitting on the top of a mountain, on the next one, it might be half-way down it’s slope, and there’d be no other vertex on the top. That means that as you went along, the terrain shimmered and wobbled because the noise ‘field’ was much more detailed than the mesh.
The fix for that was to have the whole terrain only move if you went past a certain distance from it’s center. By reducing the frequency of terrain updates, it was less apparent that the terrain was wobbling the way it was.
So at the end of that update cycle, this is what we ended up with:
[img]http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzlkdj1R8B1qk0cbw.png[/img]
We used two disks here actually. One for the terrain, and another for the water. The textures were being handled by a shader I scrounged up from the internets and modified until it kinda worked. On this shot, you can actually see where the terrain disk ‘ends’ and the far-away planet begins.
The far-away planet was another solution that had to be added. Because the terrain disk was ‘finite’, eventually it needed to be replaced by a less complicated visual representation of a planet. That was done by having a simple textured sphere placed ‘under’ the disk-terrain, and have it drawn to the screen before the terrain was. That, coupled with a terrain shader that could fade away as it went farther from the camera, made for the first version of a planetary terrain that actually met the basic requirements.
We were to find out later, that this system didn’t actually meet all the requirements. But that’s another story for later. For now, we were content with what we had, and started to think about actually bringing the characters into the game.
Cheers
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[url]http://kerbalspace.tumblr.com/post/17827181033/the-story-of-ksp-ksp-0-4[/url]
Is it possible to make particle effects?
messing with the Mir station accessories.
looking for a unified weight system.... any thoughts?
[IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1417259/kerbal/temps/screenshot136.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1417259/kerbal/temps/screenshot138.png[/IMG]
Now we need a mars
[QUOTE=JohnFisher89;34793983]Now we need a mars[/QUOTE]
Or -- as Harvester said before -- a whole SOLAR SYSTEM instead of a single planet per update :v:
I want more goddamn instruments.
Maybe an MFD?
[QUOTE=MC3craze;34795633]I want more goddamn instruments.
Maybe an MFD?[/QUOTE]
I want a piano. :downs:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/q8IyT.png[/img]
I was in class and bored as the prof turned off the internet for us. luckily I brought my KSP.
[IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1417259/kerbal/Station 1.png[/IMG]
give me those damn parts already D:
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