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    for real, whenever i just check in forums half of the posts are just "ZOMG CHECK OUT OUR NEWEST RIDEEE SHAREE SEERVIICE WITH THE 2837283737% SAFEST ROCKETS ON PLANNET EARTHE CAPABLE OF LIFTING 2 KAJILLION TONS TO LOWER EARTHED OREBET, BUKE YUR SATLET AND RID WIT US WE WILL GIVE FREE SPONESORSHIPPES ON OUR DICORD TWITR TITOK YUTUB AND ALL OUR 7 BAZILLION SOSAL MEDA ACONTS!!!!!"
    like, the legit iSpace and the actually decent quality of the other ones are fine, but there's just way too much of the low-quality ones and it's really spammy and boring

    +9 2.2 years ago
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    i think that for the damage turn off thing, there should be a button in tinker panel that updates the currently existing craft in the designer to be indestructible, meaning that this can be toggled on a per-craft basis so we can have both unrealistic and normal crafts together without constantly having to switch a thing in the settings

    +7 1.9 years ago
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    only 3 days left until us mobile peeps get it :D
    edit, march 18th, 21:25 UTC: might be delayed due to either not being ready or time zones
    edit 2, march 19th 15:22 UTC: not yet here, probably delayed for a rather important bug or idk
    edit 3, march 20th, 14:03 UTC: update is confirmed delayed, new release date unknown, this comment is now outdated.
    edit 4: i'm so dumb, actual update releases "somewhere in late March to early April"

    +6 2.0 years ago
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    the default one on Miros/Iapetus uses some complicated expression thingy, but i might have an idea on how to do a simple ridge without that (it will just be a straight ridge, no wonky patterns or anything)


    (make sure you have basic mode (mountain icon) disabled and the element links (square with an arrow coming out of its bottom side) enabled


    you will need the following elements, in order from top to bottom:
    - get position
    - remap curve
    - generate height
    - update height


    for the "get position", keep the values at 0,0,0 but move the "Y" slider from none to 0
    the curve remap is the hardest, so i'll tell you the exact details of what to enter for a very simple one (you will need to create 3 more "dots" from the default 2)
    - first dot: time -1, value 0
    - second dot: time between -0.5 and -0.1, value 0
    - third dot: time at 0, value 1
    - fourth dot: time between 0.1 and 0.5, value 0
    - fifth dot: time 1, value 0
    it should look something like this: —^—
    make sure the remap recieves the blue arrow from the "get position", and then make sure the blue arrow of the curve remap also is in the right place
    for the generate height, feed the blue arrow of the curve remap into the input port, assign a height of like 5000 or whatever for the max and keep it at 0 for the min
    finally, have the blue arrow from the generate height line up with the input port of the update height


    do note that it isn't the most efficient solution (the generate height could be skipped entirely, for example, but i left it in for simplicity) and that it may not work if you already have existing terrain (i don't know if update height only affects the areas that are actually modified and leaves the rest as it is, or if it overwrites the whole terrain entirely)

    +5 8 months ago
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    congrats on the first full launch! (pretty accurate, considering, you know, rocket game) y'all have done an amazing job on JNO/SR2, looking forward to more :)

    +5 1.2 years ago
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    well, whatever the case may be, i'm looking forward to career mode and the other new stuff. it's still SR2 as it was, just with a completely new appearance, but still very similar inside. and hey, i'm sure devs won't mind too much it still being called SR2 by many users
    also, yeah, what happened with the poll? didn't the original name get the highest score in the end, even if all of the people trying to unfairly imbalance were excluded and the whole thing got filtered and de-biased?

    +5 1.2 years ago
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    solution: drive to the end of the runway with a ground vehicle, line it up, save the launch spot, and boom you have the launch location

    +5 1.6 years ago
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    you could use rotators and attach the fin on those, it's probably not the most efficient way but it's the easiest to make

    +5 1.9 years ago
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    to make cracks, use noise type Cellular, there will be two settings next to it
    the first one can be "Euclidean", "Manhattan", "Natural", and "Euclidean No Overlap" — out of those, the first three are all suitable, but Natural is probably going to be the best
    for the second option, use "Distance 2 Sub", the rest work differently, though some may give similar results
    for the noise itself, a frequency of 5 to 100 (or even beyond) usually work best, and adjust strength as needed
    you may also need domain warps or a remap curve to make them look better, but those are more advanced things and for basic cracks they aren't really needed

    +4 2 months ago
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    i avoided yet another ping spam yet again, geez
    i'm getting tired of "being nice for a change", gonna have to change back to full antisocial (from current 80% antisocial) if i get ping-spammed more and more

    +4 3 months ago
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    we hit 200 upvotes les go

    +4 7 months ago
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    yeah, imagine a combination of the new name and the old one, best of both worlds lol

    +4 1.2 years ago
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    @CloakPin bro just described 90% of new users
    real

    +3 3 months ago
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    @CloakPin AYO
    mods you gotta do something

    +3 4 months ago
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    cries in mobile
    but hey, at least this suggestion is fulfilled now

    +3 8 months ago
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    @Ylias very well then
    i wasn't able to upload unlisteds today and tomorrow is a homework-doing day for me, so the next batch will likely only come next friday

    +3 9 months ago
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    aye, i had it sorta similar over on SimplePlanes, but with a different account compared to this one, made it when i was 11 and had no idea you had to be 13, so when i sorta revealed my age i just got banned but wasn't even that mad and just waited it out until my 13th birthday as well

    +3 10 months ago
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    for JNO you could also add
    - a lot more customizability (since everything is paintable to any color
    - XML editing of craft, planet, etc files lets you do virtually anything (if you know what you're doing)

    also, you can actually view SOIs in map view now (its a switch on the bottom of the map view's panel) so you should remove that pro in KSP2, but ye

    +3 one year ago
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    it's been moved to the flight menu, click the boxy icon on the right side in flight, scroll to the bottom where "options" are, the sliders will be there

    +3 one year ago
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    lol the SR2 logo on the site doing the "i don't feel so good" fadeaway is actually pretty funny tho

    +3 1.2 years ago
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    i saw a leak/smeakpeek video about this update, and there was a menu panel that had celestial bodies in semi-3d and check marks if you've landed on it, orbited it, etc. - once the full update goes live, will this panel also be available in sandbox mode? it would be cool to see regardless of how hard or easy it is to reach them

    +3 1.3 years ago
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    if anyone can't see the images, i tried to sum it up in words here:
    Basic: rapidly goes up to full power, then immediately goes a bit down then a bit up to almost full power, then goes down, goes flat for a while, and drops a bit at the end
    Ramp Up: goes from like 40% to 100% gradually
    Steady: always at 100% power
    Ramp Down: goes from 100% to like 40% gradually
    Impulse: goes full power for a really short while then goes to a very small amount of power for the remaining time

    +3 1.4 years ago
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    if you enjoyed SP and want a "modern version" of it, along with additional space content, then yeah do buy it, it's worth it imo
    the flight physics are a little sloppy compared to SP but you can make a snappy craft if you know how, and both have built-in XML editing , but SR2 has far better parts (a lot of which are highly customizable) plus some of the annoyances can be minimized or eliminated completely (e.g. auto fuselage resizing)

    +3 1.6 years ago
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    hmm... those weird rifts are most likely caused by an "expression" modifier, until you get good stay away from those things, they are scary

    +3 1.7 years ago
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    not everyone has a pc to run modded SR2, plus a decent percentage of players (including me) come from SP which had weapons built into it from the start
    @AeroplaneBuilder

    +3 1.7 years ago
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    o7 lets all salute bois

    +3 1.7 years ago
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    i say keep it, the game's been around for many years and the majority of the playerbase certainly won't welcome such a massive change
    and while yes, people have made some incredible stuff, the game is just as usable for simple stuff as it is for those things, since nobody is mandated to building in only a certain building style/complexity.
    staying in the path of your roots sometimes is just the best answer (cringy metaphor but ya'll get the point)

    +3 1.7 years ago
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    if you hover over them with mouse (PC) or just keep your finger above it for some time (mobile) it will show what each one does, but i'll try to explain as best as i can

    proportional: the main rotating power, this dictates how much force should be used when rotating towards a direction (e.g. prograde, retrograde, etc.), most crafts will have this around 5 to 50
    integral: an additional "booster force", this just adds more force if needed (although in a different way than proportional), many crafts have it at 0 but you generally don't need much of it
    derivative: the counter-force to proportional, this is used to prevent overshooting when turning, however too much of it will make the craft go crazy, so generally have it around 0 to 25

    also note that for planes the autopilot is present seperately for pitch and roll while for rockets it is combined into one

    +3 1.8 years ago
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    i don't think tinker panel is getting removed, just that multiple parts are getting things that were previously only accesible by tinker panel (e.g. size editing)
    and also it's still there on the GIF with the part scale stuff
    @simpleaerospace

    +3 2.1 years ago
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    please stop my 0.1 brain cells can't handle this
    @YaMomzBox420

    +3 2.1 years ago
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    just asking, would it be possible to add the ability to change the skybox in planet studio's system editor, without doing all sorts of fancy code stuff?

    +3 2.6 years ago
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    • there will be two mobile versions, the "full" version and the "lite" version with restricted features (similar setup to many mobile games in the early to mid 2010s)
    • the full, paid-download version is identical to the single mobile version before the "split" — players who already had the "old" mobile version automatically get the paid version (the old mobile version has already been renamed to the paid version, though it's called "complete edition" or something like that)
    • the lite version is a free download but has restricted features, similar to a demo version
    • however, on the free version you can pay IAP's to unlock various content from the full game, there are four of these: one for more career stuff like more launch spots and missions, one for allowing customization of procedural parts like rockets and jets, one for more sandbox mode stuff like tinker panel and in-flight cheats, and one more that removes in-game advertising (iirc you will get ads while launching, downloading, and uploading crafts) and maybe does a few other things
    • purchasing all 4 IAP packs on the free version will result in it matching the paid version — however, getting the paid version is slightly less expensive than buying all 4 IAP's together on the free version
    • the free and paid versions have their own files, meaning data does not transfer over on its own, though you can upload and download crafts and whatnot
    • both game versions will recieve updates that come to the game (as of writing, version 1.3 is in development), and for the free version the developers will probably balance out which of the features added in these new versions are IAP-only and which can be available to use freely
    • the PC version will remain paid-only afaik

    +2 one month ago
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    @SeeyaTheFurry yup
    but man there's still a long way to go before i get the lore to be as hard as i want it to be... i gotta redesign like 5 or 6 different alien species so that they no longer look like humanoid animal+animal hybrids, gotta eliminate 2 fictional fuels (Valagama and Cypernis — JRX stays because haha funny 50k kelvin liquid that can be used as rocket propellant and weapon ammo) and then try to signal to the readers that, no, there is no sound in space, and no, we are not turning like in an atmosphere, we are in orbits and we gotta do funky rotations if we wanna get anywhere (or just go so fast that the gravity isn't enough to make you orbit the celestial body and instead you can ASTRO DORIFTO through space)

    +2 one month ago
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    GOD DAMN, THAT VOLUMETRIC CLOUD STORM DOE-

    +2 one month ago
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    well, the questions about the "complete"/"full" (or whatever it was, can't remember) version of the mobile game have finally been answered
    i'm curious about the details of the different pricing bundles (their costs and what they give) but i assume one could check it out in-game

    +2 2 months ago
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    ngl, i feel like i was partially responsible for this :(
    i used an unusual way of linking an image in one of my posts and i think that was what broke the site the first time since it coincided with the initial downtime
    when the site came back like 3 days later i checked on it and it was still there but i didn't do anything else, a few hours after that site broke again for like a day, then i realized that i might be the cause, so the next time the site worked i went to that post of mine and got rid of the image and replaced it with a link
    so yeah sorry guys, i was stupid :c

    +2 2 months ago
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    @ZeusSpaceAgency basically, lite versions are just simple versions with the most basic stuff and the rest is locked, usually free so that players can test the basics of the game before deciding if they wanna buy the full paid game or not
    for JNO i'd assume the lite version would just have a few basic parts (one capsule, a fuel tank, an engine or two, parachute, maybe some fins too, alongside reduced part customizability maybe?) and only Droo as the planet

    +2 2 months ago
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    we are so back

    +2 2 months ago
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    i might make some of my own tbh
    at the moment though, my ipad isn't connected to the internet due to an oversight (should be fixed today, for now i'm just typing this on my phone), which is also why i couldn't post the last 3 better templates yesterday like i planned

    +2 3 months ago
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    yeah the assymmetrical poles (usually caused by billow or multiridge noise, FBM makes them normally) are really annoying even tho they could look really cool, especially the flowy veiny one (it is possible to only make those ones appear, but that likely needs 2 seperate noises, lots of filtering where the noise should and shouldn't appear, etc)
    aside from that, i think it'd be cool if you made a guide to craters, they share some similarities with the remap curve (that being their shape, allowing for higher or lower ridges, a flatter or sloped bottom, and even central peaks, which end up looking either absolutely spectacular or a turd, there's no in-between)

    +2 3 months ago
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    nah fam
    i need that RSS scale, ingame 1/5th scale is cool but i'm too used to real scale already

    +2 3 months ago
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    @ChaseWilsons yes
    it's on hold for hecks sake
    i'm b u s y

    +2 3 months ago
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    "me irl" isn't relatable enough to describe this

    though for me it's not really the reason why i'm not posting, right now i'm just playing Terraria lmao

    +2 4 months ago
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    AMA

    @Seeya aight, cheers

    +2 4 months ago
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    if you ever get to releasing your NH lore, would you be okay with me making a comparison it of it and my Hypernova? (not a "which is better" kind of thing, but a comparison of things like the future scifi tech used, time span it takes place in, and so on)

    +2 4 months ago
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    @Seeya i'm sure i have it, gimme a second

    +2 5 months ago
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    @chillymations i guess
    just keep the iconic bits
    i know you've posted some revamped versions of some planets so i kinda want something like those

    +2 6 months ago
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    can you return to your very first system (Kolven) too? that thing was hella nostalgic

    +2 6 months ago
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    The Return Of The King


    when are you going to publish these lol

    +2 7 months ago
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    @TheMakerOfThings haha i can relate to the lore part, i have loads of my own lore for Hypernova as well (Zenith-tier & similar crafts, the entirety of Zenith Galaxy, and extra content) and i'm struggling to compact it to get it into a readable form for me to upload it on a random storytelling website while i upload all of the assets to here

    +2 8 months ago