Kerbal Space Program

Seanoog · 19 Sep 2012 at 23:57

Vidar said:
I'd like to say me.... but I'm still struggling to get a stable orbit! lol

Flying with the keyboard controls seems hard to me....

lol, its no easy thing, getting to those other planets; Trust me.

I had to use Dev hacks (Still Present in .17 Release), to achieve orbits of other planets/moons.

As for piloting:
Well for aircraft, I use a combination of Joystick (With Throttle + Mouse + TrackBall)
An for Rockets, we Keyboard works wonders with Tractball.

Overlag · 20 Sep 2012 at 00:08

as always, patcher doesnt work, and i need to use the full download

Seanoog · 20 Sep 2012 at 00:14

Took about 5 attempts on the patcher, worked for me.
Althought it was a windows version, mac version is still difficult.

Overlag · 20 Sep 2012 at 00:21

for 0.16 i had to wait almost a week before it was downloadable, looks like this is going to be the same

Vidar · 20 Sep 2012 at 01:08

Seanoog said:
lol, its no easy thing, getting to those other planets; Trust me.
I had to use Dev hacks (Still Present in .17 Release), to achieve orbits of other planets/moons.

As for piloting:
Well for aircraft, I use a combination of Joystick (With Throttle + Mouse + TrackBall)
An for Rockets, we Keyboard works wonders with Tractball.

Dev hacks?

Glaucus · 20 Sep 2012 at 02:07

Brilliant.

Seanoog · 20 Sep 2012 at 11:30

Yes Dev Hacks.
It would be impossible to test for bugs effectively, if half the team was struggling to get to the other planets/moons with poor rocket designs.
Be warned they make to game too easy, so use sparingly.

CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + D

Options are:
Infinite Fuel
Infinite RCS
Infinite EVA
Plus other pirks

Glaucus:
What context, thread did you find that clip in?
Still funny, an very typical kerbal approach to a problem!

Glaucus · 20 Sep 2012 at 15:16

Just warped past my 12km Duna encounter like an idiot.

Glaucus · 20 Sep 2012 at 15:43

I just cant get another encounter. I need a protractor I can hold to the screen, or even better some one needs to make a mod.

also anyone know how to change the number of patched conics or what ever its called.

Seanoog · 20 Sep 2012 at 16:20

Glaucus said:
I just cant get another encounter. I need a protractor I can hold to the screen, or even better some one needs to make a mod.

also anyone know how to change the number of patched conics or what ever its called.

Lol, managed that a few times in testing.
Warping right past my encounter point, then waiting another 20-30 Real minutes until I encounter again.

Patch Conics: is the name.
An sadly I dont know the .cfg commands that need editting to change rendering scheme or the number of orbits the system looks ahead.
I know editting them both beyond default puts considerable strain on cpu.
But its needed, so the sim searchs 2 orbits (Default), I'll probibly set mine to search 5-7 orbits in advance.

Ill search tonight, an see what google finds.

Glaucus · 20 Sep 2012 at 16:27

how do you load?
did a quick save for the first time ever.

LOAM · 20 Sep 2012 at 16:28

is this still free ? Its hard to get any info as the site takes 20 mins to load

Glaucus · 20 Sep 2012 at 16:37

LOAM said:
is this still free ? Its hard to get any info as the site takes 20 mins to load

only a demo, which is a very old demo. still should give you a good idea what the games about.
the sites getting hammered as a new version just came out..

landed, used far to much fuel to land though, getting home might be undoable.
On the north pole as well

Not that I have any idea what angle I need between the planets. anyone know where the maths is?

those are discarded parachutes.

rip Jeb

made it to orbit, hardly any fuel left, so tried landing again for a future rescue, but ran out.

Overlag · 20 Sep 2012 at 16:54

i landed on the purple planet earlier, but i cheated to get there. My craft had no fuel left so i used to the cheat... Now doing it properly to duna.

Just gotta work out how to do it, scott manley said 50degrees we should burn at but when is that? lol

Seanoog · 20 Sep 2012 at 17:14

Does MecJeb have the orbital information for the new planets?

@ Loam.
The Demo is version 13.3 still worth a try to blow up some rockets an visit the Mun, if you can.
The Paid game is version 17.0 for $18 at the KSP Store exclusively.
In the paid updates, we have had significant improvements:

New Planet/Sky Rendering engine.
Persistance (Save multiple missions)
Rockets + Airplane Parts.
Space Plane Hanger + Runway.
Centre of Lift/Trust/Weight guides.
1Meter + 3Meter parts (Rockets) 100+ parts
Compatability with 90% of all mods
EVA (External Vechile Activities)
IVA (Internal views)
New Planets/Moons (Jool/Jupiter + Murs/Mars + Eve/Venus)
New sun, with animater solar rays.

Hundreds more small things + Paid game is in active development at 2 Month cycles.

Overlag · 20 Sep 2012 at 17:43

just found this:

http://ksp.olex.biz/

nice!

Glaucus · 20 Sep 2012 at 18:42

Fantastic

Now we just need to find or someone to make an inhale protractor mod.

PermaBanned · 20 Sep 2012 at 19:51

Glaucus said:
Fantastic

Now we just need to find or someone to make an inhale protractor mod.

Why would you deny yourself?

PinkFloyd · 20 Sep 2012 at 20:04

Give up with trying to get this. I've downloaded it twice, both times corrupt.
Website is barely working

Seanoog · 20 Sep 2012 at 20:21

PermaBanned said:
Why would you deny yourself?

My head hurts! :confused:

PinkFloyd said:
Give up with trying to get this. I've downloaded it twice, both times corrupt.
Website is barely working

Try & Try again, I got it on my secound attempt.
I downloaded the updater (Significant improvement over previous builds "Was tested extensively by Test Group"), then when launching it, it found no appropriate files, so it downloaded the entire game from fresh!

Ohh, I was messing with the CFG settings, if any one needs to edit them to mess with there Patch conic settings.
1. Open Kerbal Folder.
2. Select "Setting.cfg"
3. Open in Notepad.
4. Look for the following settings 15-20 lines down.
CONIC_PATCH_DRAW_MODE = 3 (1 Default)
CONIC_PATCH_LIMIT = 5 (2 Default)
5. Edit to how you see fit.