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[alway]

It's great; now every time I launch I can see debris off in the distance, 20 or 30 km away, menacing as I go up.

[andrea]

have you managed to hit some of that debris? I want to know what happens!

[Derekristow]

Challenge: Cause a head-on collision, and record for science.

[alway]

have you managed to hit some of that debris? I want to know what happens!

Easier said than done; it's like hitting a bullet with another bullet... Except bullets travel slower. But if I accumulate enough I figure I will eventually.

[Sordid]

it's like hitting a bullet with another bullet...

...whilst wearing a blindfold, riding a horse?

[sluissa]

it's like hitting a bullet with another bullet...

...whilst wearing a blindfold, riding a horse?

But in this case, quite literally, it is space that's moving, instead of the spacecraft.

[Aqizzar]

So, version 0.15 worked for me until I guess it was patched a week ago.  Now it has decided to one-up my rockets and crash on hitting the "Go To Launch" button.  As in, when I try to leave the designer and begin simulation.

Phooey.

[Fikes]

have you managed to hit some of that debris? I want to know what happens!

I landed a space plane just off the runway.

Then my next space plane when out of control and slammed into the old one. Lots of explosions.

[alway]

have you managed to hit some of that debris? I want to know what happens!

I landed a space plane just off the runway.

Then my next space plane when out of control and slammed into the old one. Lots of explosions.

Ya know, if it does that so consistently that it hits the previous ones, you may have a design issue there.

Oh, and here's a view from a craft in the same orbit as the debris field:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The grey diamonds are pieces of debris. :3

This is after 5 Nefarious Missions; though unfortunately, 1 of them had an orbit too low, and so most of its payload is in a quickly decaying orbit which now sweeps as low as 60 km above the surface.
I'm sort of getting a proper appreciation for all the times they talk about space-junk. Especially considering the Earth doesn't look so different:

Spoiler: earth's debris field (click to show/hide)

See, if they just put HUDs on the ISS views showing the location and movement of space debris, I think people would get a better idea of it.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Try to use fallback part shaders, and perhaps force 2.0 shaders for terrain if you're having issues.
Also, some rocket designs just lag. Excessively complex ones with lots of struts especially. Has to do more with physics than graphics.

In other news, my SSTO spaceplane, Albatruss MkIV-KS, has managed to complete its first full mission, delivering a fuel pod to Kerbosynchronous orbit (or an approximation thereof), and actually returning in one piece afterward.


(pictured: Albatruss MkIV-X10, final prototype for Albatruss MkIV-KS. click to expand.)

Mission log follows:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Skipping the whole egress/orbital insertion thing, because it's boring and I forgot to take screenshots for this mission. >_> It went normally, burn to KSO completed with just under four full tanks left.

Payload released at something resembling KSO (I really should look into MechJeb)



Burn home complete:


Bit of a curiosity:

(not entirely close, but very nearby, in astronomical terms)

Returning to atmosphere:


Leaving atmosphere...

(gundamn reentry miscalculations)

Returning to atmosphere again:


Hopefully staying in the atmosphere this time:

(if reentry heat were simulated, I'd be one big fireball right now)

Burning off rocket fuel for easier landing:


Final moments before touchdown:


Braking chutes out:


And we have landing!


Too bad the KSC is on the other side of the planet. ^_^'

Next time I tried shooting for a Mun orbital delivery. It... didn't go so well.


(click to expand)
Even though I actually left the pod in Mun orbit, a fudged up return trajectory nearly left me hurtling out of Kerbin's SOI. I barely managed to make a burn for home. Landing is still pending on that mission.

[Sirus]

I finally scraped together $15! KSP, you WILL be mine

[MarcAFK]

Try to use fallback part shaders, and perhaps force 2.0 shaders for terrain if you're having issues.
Also, some rocket designs just lag. Excessively complex ones with lots of struts especially. Has to do more with physics than graphics.

... Thank you for pointing this out, i'll try to avoid putting 2,000 struts on all my rockets from now on.

[Rakonas]

How do you get those trajectory maps? Is it only in the non-demo version?

[Rose]

Indeed. those were added after the last free version.

[Sirus]

Am I the only one having some serious issues with staging in the newest version?

For example, I have a Munar lander (or at least, it's supposed to be one. Haven't gotten that far yet). It's a central, single-fuel-tank-rocket with 4 of the tiny LF engines arranged in a ring on decouplers. I usually stack this on top of my main orbital stages. Problem is, the game wants to put my primary engines and everything else in the same stage as the tiny LF engines, which older versions never seemed to do. Thus, when taking off all of my engines, aside from the one directly beneath the command pod, ignite at once and I lose a lot of fuel that I needed to save. To put it simply, what should be a seven-or-more stage rocket turns into a three-stage one.