UmbralRaptop changed the topic of #principia to: READ THE FAQ: http://goo.gl/gMZF9H; The current version is 🐇. We currently target 1.5.1, 1.6.1, and 1.7.x. <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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RurouniDonut. — Wooh
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RurouniDonut. — Getting better at eyeballing Moon launches from the cape
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Damien. — polar?
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RurouniDonut. — Nope
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RurouniDonut. — Standard East-West
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RurouniDonut. — I can do polar just fine
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RurouniDonut. — But my rocket didnt have enough deltav for a polar launch, so I just guessed where my AN/DN to the Moon would face when I launched and just figured out the best launch window in sims
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Damien. — nice
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RurouniDonut. — Yeah, I probably could have optimized even more, transfer is 4 days instead of 3 but thats fine
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lpg. — any rule of thumb to go by, or pure eyeball?
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lpg. — I _think_ I have a method that works, but I haven't had occasion to actually put it to the test
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egg. — Okay the camera following the reference frame is fun
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Acer_Saccharum. — ECEF just got a lot more exciting then
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egg. — it's a bit unsettling to have the stars spinning around at high timewarp but it's probably less annoying than following the trajectories
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Acer_Saccharum. — I assume you only make the camera follow the rotation of the frame, and not its position or velocity, right?
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egg. — yeah, only the rotation
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Acer_Saccharum. — and that takes care of the *tilted ecliptic* in SCI I presume
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egg. — well, SCI will be oriented on the equator of the sun which is not ideal
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egg. — but ECSA will use the ecliptic
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Acer_Saccharum. — of course I forgot the sun's axial tilt
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Acer_Saccharum. — I'd like to preemptively thank you for adding that feature, it'll totally resolve the annoyingly *tilted* ecliptic
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Acer_Saccharum. — I'll admit that has bugged me for quite a long time
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egg. — well, it will still be tilted by default (since the default tracking station frame is ECI)
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egg. — but yeah, it's silly to have it tilted when you're looking at interplanetary work
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egg. — or even going to the Moon
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Acer_Saccharum. — exactly, north up is great for flights around the earth, but to other bodies it's a real pain
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egg. — The orientation of the Herschel frames may lead to amusing confusion obviously
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Acer_Saccharum. — VCI is going to be a real confuser alright
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egg. — oh yeah
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egg. — right, I forgot that one
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egg. — yeah
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egg. — toss up between that one and UCI I think
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Acer_Saccharum. — well UCI will be more immediately obvious
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Acer_Saccharum. — the various Triton centered frames will also be funky
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Acer_Saccharum. — VCI is going to be a real confuser alright
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Acer_Saccharum. — 🙃 (edited)
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egg. — actually I think VCI is fine
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egg. — the IAU uses planet conventions for it, so the orientation is given by North rather than positive rotation
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egg. — might make sense to roll the camera over the course of a fraction of a second to make the change of horizontal understadable, instead of insta-tilting it on frame change
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Acer_Saccharum. — that might have dizzying consequences
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Acer_Saccharum. — but you do raise a good point
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RurouniDonut. — @lpg I just eyeball it in sims, its easier to eyeball polar launches though'
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egg. — how is it 4:38 already
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egg. — okay I definitely need to make sure that the camera goes through less than half a turn if it does this roll thing
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egg. — because if it goes through 354 degrees it looks very silly
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egg. — hm I broke my KSP install somehow? KSP no longer starts
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egg. — perhaps this is a sign that I should sleep
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Acer_Saccharum. — not a bad idea being that it's nearly 6am wherever you are
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Acer_Saccharum. — yes is nearly always the answer to "should I be going to sleep now?"
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egg. — huh, my Kerbalism was breaking KSP somehow
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egg. — very mysterious
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lpg. — @RurouniDonut polar I can eyeball no problem; due-east so far I've been mistaken every time I thought I'd figured it out (next time will be different)
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RurouniDonut. — Why will next time be diff?
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lpg. — because I say so
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RurouniDonut. — Eyy
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RurouniDonut. — That's the attitude
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bofh453. — rofl
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egg. — Okay got camera roll working
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egg. — @Sir Mortimer somehow Kerbalism makes my game crash silently before it even shows the loading screen
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Damien. — @egg make one that makes the camera in the map locked to the orientation of the craft
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egg. — (it used to work, not sure what happened)
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Damien. — So if spin stabilised it's just rolling at 120rpm
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egg. — @Damien that will only be possible once we do rotation
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Damien. — High priority comedy feature
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Sir Mortimer. — that is weird. you broke it 😦
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egg. — yeah
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egg. — it only starts if I remove the Kerbalism folder, if I put it back it goes back to brokenness
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egg. — tried replacing all the stock files to see if they got corrupted, that's not it
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Sir Mortimer. — no hint in the log, i presume?
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egg. — @Sir Mortimer it stops in the middle of kerbalism stuff, saying nothing
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egg. — let me retry it and give you the log end
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Sir Mortimer. — what configuration are you using?
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egg. — > *Über dieser Fuge, wo der Name B A C H im Contrasubject angebracht worden, ist der Verfasser gestorben.*
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conclusion: egg's KSP instance is poisoned
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Sir Mortimer. — @egg you do have a GameData/KerbalismConfig folder, right?
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egg. — yeah
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egg. — @Sir Mortimer does Lib.Log flush though
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egg. — maybe it doesn't actually crash there
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egg. — but the log isn't flushed?
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Sir Mortimer. — no it doesn't
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egg. — ah
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egg. — so it's probably not the word "poisoning" causing it to crash then
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egg. — @Sir Mortimer unfortunately I can't see any crash folder with a dump, are they no longer a thing?
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Sir Mortimer. — 🤷♂️
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egg. — KSP works in mysterious ways
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Sir Mortimer. — what Kerbalism does next is injecting stuff into ModuleManager
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Sir Mortimer. — did you perhaps replace MM with something really old?
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egg. — nah, there was no difference from one start of KSP to the next except Alt+F4 and replacing Principia
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egg. — this is so weird
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egg. — (note: removing the Principia C# DLL does not help)
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egg. — it feels like some data file got corrupted somewhere
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egg. — but I'm unsure how something would get corrupted that is processed so early that I don't even get to the loading screen
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Sir Mortimer. — file corruption seems likely. did you try replacing the kerbalism mod content with the downloaded version?
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egg. — Kerbalism and its config, yes
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egg. — not contracts now that I think of it
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egg. — will do that now
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egg. — still broken
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Sir Mortimer. — whats happening there is that kerbalism looks into your configs, pokes for certain conditions in that config and then determines which of the features need to be enabled. F.i. it will turn on FeaturePoisoning if you have anything in your config that is called "poisoning". It then adds a string to a list that is later fetched by ModuleManager when that loads
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Sky!. — thanks, although I think neither of us know what we would be doing so it might be best for us to wait then...
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Sky!. — hey, how hard would it be to add persistent thrust for low twr vehicles, and also the harder question is, how hard would it be to add a relativistic equation to crafts so that it gets harder to accelerate a craft the closer you get to the speed of light? I am really wanting to do a realistic interstellar journey but without the first one it will be super hard even compared to the ambitious project, an
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Butcher. — What sort of mad engines are you planning to use to get relativistic speeds?
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Acer_Saccharum. — Let me just say, fixing Mercury's orbit is not something you should expect to happen soon
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egg. — > how hard would it be to add persistent thrust for low twr vehicles
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egg. — very (it's conceivable, but don't expect that on a timescale shorter than a year)
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egg. — > how hard would it be to add a relativistic equation to crafts so that it gets harder to accelerate a craft the closer you get to the speed of light
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RurouniDonut. — @lpg Did you mess at inclination at all for East-West launches to the Moon? Going into 45 degree inclination helped this launch
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lpg. — yeah the closer to polar it is, the easier it gets to guesstimate
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RurouniDonut. — Yeah
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RurouniDonut. — I guess thats why Apollo had a roll program and launch azimuth too
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lpg. — I don't think there were too many guesstimates involved in that
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RurouniDonut. — Well obviously
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RurouniDonut. — But I see why they had the roll program, it got them closer to their trajectory with an East-West launch instead of a full polar launch