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. — using principia for my school project right now 😎
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Kurgut. — BEPI on the way!
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Kurgut. — planned until 2nd venus flyby for now..
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Kurgut. — also I launch from Kourou to a 200km orbit, and there wasn't the 4 ap/pe markers your were talking about @egg , or does it need to be completely equatorial to appear?
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Kurgut. — also I launched from Kourou to a 200km orbit, and there wasn't the 4 ap/pe markers your were talking about @egg , or does it need to be completely equatorial to appear? (edited)
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egg. — 3 juin 12h 01min 57s Nouvelle Lune.
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Kurgut. — ok, let's ask again in 15 min then
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Damien. — 😄
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Damien. — that's the new rule now
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Damien. — every release has a flagship feature
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Damien. — next release is to be either editing maneuvers in a chain without redoing the chain, or native MJ maneuver execution
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Kurgut. — + principia fancy orbital data infos
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Damien. — or that
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Damien. — yeah to be fair that's #1
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Kurgut. — and some big flashing egg popping up on the screen to warn you when your GEO sat is drifting
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Damien. — it's painful for me at the moment on a 4k telly. It's hard to read the principia apside marker numbers but obviously the KER/MJ numbers are wrong
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Damien. — so changing an orbit gives me eye strain
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Kurgut. — reduce the distance between your eyes and the screen ?
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Damien. — I usually do
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Damien. — but that means getting up
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Kurgut. — oof
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Damien. — ikr
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Kurgut. — tough
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Damien. — I wish KSP dpi scaling wasn't a bag of broken spaghetti
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egg. — @Damien the Principia UI now scales, so there's that
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egg. — @Damien @Kurgut if every release has a flagship feature, what's the Fatou flagship
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Damien. — yeah but it scales at a different rate to other mods
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Damien. — so my principia window is bigger than everything else
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egg. — O_o
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Kurgut. — haha
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Kurgut. — that's good
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egg. — ☊ and ☋ with respect to the equator?
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egg. — 1.7.0?
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egg. — the pile of bugfixes? that's hardly a flagship
<kmath>
<eggleroy> 🌑 Fatou, the new release of Principia, is out; 1.7.0, ☊ and ☋ with respect to the equator, fixed some bugs introduc… https://t.co/o8eAAhL8ge
<egg>
hi kmath
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Kurgut. — happy new moon
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Avery. — Will principia make a difference practically if I'm just playing normally?
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Damien. — in LEO, no
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Damien. — beyond that there's a bit more to learn but still fine
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Damien. — the main difference is the moon's inclination changes relative to KSC
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Damien. — and you can view trajectories in different reference frames
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Damien. — which can be both confusing and really useful
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Avery. — Mk
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Damien. — my advice would be to try it out in stock first
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Avery. — Does it make the game noticeably laggier?
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Damien. — yes and no. if you make the projected trajectory really long and precise, yes, if it's short, no
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Damien. — you have tune it to your needs
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Damien. — you have to tune it to your needs (edited)
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Avery. — Ok
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Damien. — generally you'd have it short and precise for an orbital rendezvous, and long and imprecise for an interplanetary transfer
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Damien. — cm error vs m/km error
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Damien. — the two settings are steps and tolerance
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Damien. — steps high is most distance and most lag
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Damien. — tolerance low is max accuracy
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Damien. — and therefore most lag
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Damien. — install it on a stock install, play around with it until you can do interplanetary, moon landing etc and then come back to RSSRO
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Damien. — you'll learn it a lot faster
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egg. — @Damien well, lag is only dependent on tolerance
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egg. — sorry
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egg. — @Damien lag is only dependent on *steps*
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Damien. — steps high is most distance (edited)
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egg. — ~@Damien well, lag is only dependent on tolerance~ (edited)
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Damien. — make your mind up 😄
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egg. — @Damien ~well, lag is only dependent on tolerance~ (edited)
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Damien. — I thought tolerance affected it too
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egg. — @Damien ~~well, lag is only dependent on tolerance~~ (edited)
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egg. — no
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egg. — tolerance means the steps will be smaller
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Damien. — good to know
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egg. — but the amount of work done is the number of steps
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Damien. — riiight, so that's why tolerance reduces the trajectory length
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Damien. — I did wonder
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Kurgut. — ^
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egg. — so basically you can tune the step count to however much you and your machine can stand
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egg. — and then fiddle with the tolerance
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egg. — but that's not always ideal, because there are times when you might be OK with the game being a bit laggier to get moar trajectory (or moar precision)
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Damien. — so don't just minmax both and then try and plan maneuvers at 0.6fps
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egg. — in that case, you can increase the stepsize
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egg. — @Damien well, depends what you want :-p
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Damien. — mm level precision on a 10 year plan pls
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Kurgut. — *at 0.6fps* now it's soo much better since fatou
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Damien. — ok 0.7 then
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Kurgut. — I planned BEPI at 16000 steps +, for a 1000 days+ long traj
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Kurgut. — and was good
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Kurgut. — lol
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Damien. — ```plan has timed out at 30 seconds```
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Damien. — the thing is though, when we see that message we still try and increase the plan length, just in case it's lying
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egg. — hah
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egg. — We might improve the error messages in Fermat, we'll see
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Damien. — tbh the warning is ok, but it doesn't explain why
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Damien. — be it impact trajectory or just whatever reason it times out
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Sir Mortimer. — Fermat. The name rings a bell.
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Damien. — once you get the hang of things, if you use SMURFF on RSS you can also do the stuff that's RSS specific, like sunsynchronous orbits etc
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Avery. — I'll try that later
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Damien. — yeah, just get used to the basics for now
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Avery. — I even managed to get near the KSC unintentionally lol