UmbralRaptop changed the topic of #principia to: READ THE FAQ: http://goo.gl/gMZF9H; The current version is Fano. We currently target 1.3.1, 1.4.x, 1.5.1, and 1.6.1. <scott_manley> anyone that doubts the wisdom of retrograde bop needs to get the hell out | https://xkcd.com/323/ | <egg> calculating the influence of lamont on Pluto is a bit silly…
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hooya. — when did terra launch again?
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hooya. — on what rokot
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hooya. — @RurouniDonut it's because KS3P isn't for DX11
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hooya. — if you do run on dx11
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hooya. — there is a ks3p dx11 compatible version that someone released though
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hooya. — that has eye adaptation configs
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RurouniDonut. — I had to disable Eye Adaptation last night to get it working
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RurouniDonut. — Yeah
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hooya. — ill give it to you\
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hooya. — uno momento
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RurouniDonut. — Ty 😃
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hooya. — whiteguardian is also making v6 of KS3P
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hooya. — compatible for dx11
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RurouniDonut. — Oh shoot nice
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hooya. — but right now is only the sourcecode
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RurouniDonut. — Would non dx11 KS3P configs work with the DX11 version?
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hooya. — there are no "non dx11 ks3p configs"
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hooya. — because all configs are built for dx9
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hooya. — but you can use them all for dx11
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RurouniDonut. — Gotcha
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RurouniDonut. — Ty
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RurouniDonut. — Time to find a null ref 😃
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egg. — @hooya Terra launched in 1999 iirc
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egg. — @Sir Mortimer thinking about it, not only should we not worry about it to implement the constraints themselves, but maps are a really terrible way to look at how your satellite covers the earth when the phasing is long
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egg. — your map quickly starts looking like a fine-mesh strainer
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Standecco. — I wonder why I'm not getting all these problems with KS3P and 1.6 or dx11
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egg. — @Sir Mortimer also I guess there is a very good visualization of "observing under sun glint" in the game already, namely, sun glint
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Sir Mortimer. — @egg suppose someone was to draw up a few mocks for the principia UI, would that be something you'd be interested in or is the UI just something you don't want to invest any effort into?
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hooya. — i think the UI is as basic as is
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hooya. — however, adding potentially something that acts like a node and is controlled like a node would be probably good
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hooya. — maybe make more tutorials as well
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Sir Mortimer. — UI, not functionality. I have a rather small screen, so I tend to pay attention to effective UI designs
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hooya. — i'm talking like that integrated into the UI
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hooya. — not on actual orbit itself
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hooya. — something like precise node
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[Principia] pleroy opened pull request #2178: Run the callback the first time the frame changes after construction - https://git.io/fjRkS
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[Principia] pleroy commented on issue #2176: Plotting frame inconsistent between C++ and C# - https://git.io/fjRk9
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[Principia] eggrobin labeled pull request #2178: Run the callback the first time the frame changes after construction - https://git.io/fjRkS
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egg. — @Sir Mortimer we have worked on compactifying the UI a bit in the last couple of versions
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egg. — We need to come up with something nice for the frame selection
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Kurgut. — I saw quite a few proposal on GH for this one, I think it was quite a time ago. Is that still on ?
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egg. — Yeah formicant had something, after iteration the mocks were starting to look nice but then formicant vanished
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Kurgut. — ah...
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egg. — @Sir Mortimer mocks might help (but we probably will have Opinions on them :-p)
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[Principia] pleroy opened pull request #2179: Make sure that the FlightPlan operations return an error for an anomalous flight plan - https://git.io/fjRkh
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egg. — @Sir Mortimer would definitely help (but we probably will have Opinions on them :-p)
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egg. — @Sir Mortimer mocks would definitely help (but we probably will have Opinions on them :-p)
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egg. — @Sir Mortimer icons too, if the design involves buttons with icons or something
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egg. — @Sir Mortimer we'd be much more interested in mocks than in code; it's probably sanest if we implement things ourselves (since things get Interesting with the interactions with the C++ layer)
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[Principia] pleroy pushed 2 commits to master [+0/-0/±2] https://git.io/fjRII
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[Principia] pleroy 5751838 - Run the call the first time the frame changes after construction.
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[Principia] pleroy 70cfb93 - Merge pull request #2178 from pleroy/2176b Run the callback the first time the frame changes after construction
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[Principia] pleroy closed pull request #2178: Run the callback the first time the frame changes after construction - https://git.io/fjRkS
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[Principia] pleroy closed issue #2176: Plotting frame inconsistent between C++ and C# - https://git.io/fjBAO
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[Principia] eggrobin labeled pull request #2179: Make sure that the FlightPlan operations return an error for an anomalous flight plan - https://git.io/fjRkh
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Sir Mortimer. — @egg no worries, i won't even bother cloning the repo. I don't want to be the one who has to figure how to build this on MacOS 😉
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egg. — haha
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egg. — @lamont contributed a lot to that
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egg. — yeah, I'm familiar with the concept of mocks
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egg. — do you really want it flat-shaded to that extent though :-p
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egg. — Principia: the tax form experience
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Sir Mortimer. — i heated a story once about an Indian subcontractor that got some mocks for a simple UI design. they were working on it for weeks on end, and then delivered a software that looked *EXACTLY* like the mock.
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Sir Mortimer. — i heared a story once about an Indian subcontractor that got some mocks for a simple UI design. they were working on it for weeks on end, and then delivered a software that looked *EXACTLY* like the mock. (edited)
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Sir Mortimer. — down to the pixel.
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egg. — :D
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egg. — I think the first priority for UI improvements should be the reference frame selector
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egg. — it's very wall-of-text right now
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Sir Mortimer. — that's the current status quo. I'd begin with moving the KSP Features, Logging settings and possibly the prediction settings (don't know how often people change that) into the game preferences.
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egg. — the others we have compactified a bit, they're definitely not well-designed (or designed really), but less in-your-face
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Kurgut. — prediction settings I change it all the time
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egg. — predictions settings I fiddle with all the time
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Kurgut. — voilà ^
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Sir Mortimer. — ok, i surrender
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egg. — history length is weird, because it should really be two settings, one deeply hidden and another one as accessible as the prediction (how much to remember, how much to show)
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Kurgut. — aren't you working(-ish) on this?
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egg. — i opened an issue
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egg. — doesn't mean I'm doing anything :-p
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Kurgut. — k
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Kurgut. — yeah, that was the (-ish) part :p
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egg. — at the moment I'm working on deprecating 1.3.1 .. 1.4.5
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Sir Mortimer. — oooh that's easy, and VERY rewarding 😃
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[Principia] pleroy closed pull request #2179: Make sure that the FlightPlan operations return an error for an anomalous flight plan - https://git.io/fjRkh
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[Principia] pleroy pushed 3 commits to master [+0/-0/±6] https://git.io/fjRLV
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[Principia] pleroy a369a4e - Change ComputeSegments to consistently return the status of the first anomalous integration.
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[Principia] pleroy 68a5327 - A unit test doesn't hurt.
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[Principia] pleroy 0033beb - Merge pull request #2179 from pleroy/RemoveLast Make sure that the FlightPlan operations return an error for an anomalous flight plan
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Kobymaru. — is there any way to show equatorial AN/DN markers in Principia?
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Damien. — Scroll up
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Damien. — Egg posted a pic of the first implementation of it
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Standecco. — @egg any reason why you haven't implemented the UI that formicant designed?
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Kobymaru: yes, the way to do that is to move the moon along its orbit until it is new
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Standecco. — I get you don't have the code, but that rough design looked very very good to me
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Kobymaru. — I'm looking at a map of the world and trying to align my orbit with the equator marker lol
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Kobymaru. — indonesia and sudan are helpful for that
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[Principia] MorePortal opened issue #2181: Crash as fuel ends - https://git.io/fjRtP
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Sir Mortimer. — i like it how principia unapologetically uses manœvre instead of maneuver 😃
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Obviously we need to swap an American or two in place of 🥚 and PHL
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Sir Mortimer. — UmbraiRaptop you could randomly use Manöver sometimes, just for balance
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Sir Mortimer. — UmbralRaptop you could randomly use Manöver sometimes, just for balance (edited)
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Sir Mortimer. — I wonder, does the irc bot propagate edits?
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egg. — Yes
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Kurgut. — I hope
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Kurgut. — ah, ouf
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egg. — As meow (edit)
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Sir Mortimer. — Lol
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Kurgut. — because my first tries often means the opposite of what I think
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Kurgut. — ^
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Sir Mortimer. — Cool that s/search/replace works in discord
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egg. — /me a voté
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Sir Mortimer. — #metoo
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egg. — Does /me not work on mobile
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Sir Mortimer. — Does it on desktop/web?
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egg. — Kind of
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egg. — Just produces italics
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Sir Mortimer. — Italics /test
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Sir Mortimer. — Hm.
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Sir Mortimer. — *italics*
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Sir Mortimer. — **bold?**
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Sir Mortimer. — ~~i never said that~~
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Sir Mortimer. — Cool
* UmbralRaptop
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egg. — @Standecco well, we would have kept iterating on the design, but formicant was the designer and vanished; we're not really good at UX design, building up on this (especially since the UI has evolved since then) is tricky
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egg. — hopefully @Sir Mortimer can revive this effort
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egg. — meanwhile I can feed @Sir Mortimer some satellite orbit geometry
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Sir Mortimer. — Professional icon designs 😉
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Standecco. — that's adobe illustrator for sure
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egg. — @Sir Mortimer barycentric is really a mess to make an icon for, because it's a fundamentally broken frame by design
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[Principia] pleroy commented on issue #2181: Crash as fuel ends - https://git.io/fjRYI
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egg. — the rotating-pulsating frame would be useful (and there you could show Lagrange stuff as the icon), but the non-pulsating one is largely pointless
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Damien. — Make every icon an 🥚
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Kobymaru. — So which tool do you guys use to find transfer windows?
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Kurgut. — transfer windows planner
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Kobymaru. — Most tools get pretty confused by how Principia applies axial tilt
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Kurgut. — that's in game
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Kobymaru. — is that only for timing or also for the Delta-V amount?
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Kurgut. — dates/deltaV yes
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Kurgut. — also RSS flybyfinder
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RurouniDonut. — Where do you get that RSSflybyfinder?
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Sir Mortimer. — I just did a kerbin-mun-minmus mission with principia. amazing what you can do with very little ∆v if only you have enough time
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Sir Mortimer. — biggest problem was a perturbing minmus orbit I couldn't fix because of a broken solar panel.
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Sir Mortimer. — had to wait 1/3rd of a year until the next panel started to see the sun 😃