Orbital Survey Plus

Orbital Survey Plus 2.3.6 for Kerbal Space Program Released

Tue, 27 Mar 2018 05:22:46

Wed, 11 Oct 2017 07:36:39

Made compatible with KSP 1.3.1
Fixed a bug with celestial body display names in screen messages (still English only unfortunately)
Biome overlay toolbar button is now only visible when a planet is focused
SciBonus parameter for the OSP scanner module has been lowered to 10 (from 20) to match the stock scanner, meaning by default you will now reap the same amount of science for 100% scanning a planet as you would with the stock system instead of twice as much (this is individually tweakable for your game by altering the module manager patch)

Sat, 03 Jun 2017 01:19:47

Sat, 03 Jun 2017 01:18:31

Fixed an issue that often caused significant slowdown when the resource overlay was open on partially scanned planets

Thu, 09 Mar 2017 07:42:16

Adjustments have been made to make OSP compatible with alternate solar system mods, including Real Solar System
Scan grid size and minimum/maximum scan altitudes will adjust based on largest and smallest scannable planet
Scaling is based on stock parameters, so users with stock KSP solar system will not be affected
Added some caching behavior to optimize performance
Optimized coverage percentage calculation
Made changes to try to reduce a "zipper effect" on straight vertical and horizontal scan lines
Made requested change to science transmission code for clarity to other mods
Fixed several small UI bugs

Mon, 21 Nov 2016 10:05:01

New save compression that should reduce clutter in the persistence file a bit
Improved efficiency of the overlay shrouding system which was hogging a lot of resources when an overlay was up
Scan percentage calculation tweaked to be more accurate (it was neglecting projection scaling before)
Various UI tweaks
Various other attempted performance improvements

Mon, 14 Nov 2016 00:56:41

Scan area is now scaled to project correctly onto a globe, eliminating distortion at high latitudes (exact poles still see some weird stuff)
Found and fixed a bug causing constant re-processing of the resource overlay shroud and bogging down the game
Fixed an error in maximum scan altitude calculation
Retroactive scanning added: an attempt will be made to fill in gaps caused by scanning at high time warp
Optimizations made to compensate for the increased processing necessary for retroactive scanning
Overlay auto-refresh implemented: active overlays will now refresh for new scan data when the processing requirement is reasonable

Fri, 04 Nov 2016 02:48:17

Fri, 06 May 2016 03:59:50

Scanning small bodies (Minmus and Gilly) now produces data for transmission properly
Fixed a few other edge-case problems with data acquisition
"Surface Scanned" percentage should now update when changing SOI
Fixed an infuriating misspelling of "received"

Mon, 02 May 2016 07:30:33

Science! Survey data accumulates as the surface of a planet is scanned and can be transmitted!
Default science reward for complete survey data is increased from stock (since OSP makes you work harder for it) (tweakable in module config)
Furthermore, overlay maps only update when scan data is transmitted (toggleable in settings)
When 95% of the surface has been scanned, the survey will auto-complete to 100% (tweakable in settings)
Default electric drain while scanning raised a bit (tweakable in module config)
Fixed NullPointerException spam when using the M700 part in the editor
Shrunk scenario persistence data a bit (planets that are fully scanned are saved differently)

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:32:41

M700 now shows altitude parameters and percent surface scanned for the current main body
IndexOutOfBounds exception spam around north pole has been dealt with
Scan area "squishing" mitigation around polar regions improved
Shrunk saved scan data in persistence file (still rather heinous but better), old saves should be ok
"Time Between Scans" applies to active vessels also (it's not scanning every tick anymore)
Added "enable background scan" setting
Quick check to make sure everything works fine in 1.1.1

Wed, 27 Apr 2016 01:07:30

Vessels scanning in the background should no longer ignore altitude parameters
"Perform Orbital Survey" button should no longer appear when extended surveyor is enabled
M700 overlay buttons should always be available now
Added "Start Survey" button so the M700 isn't always active when deployed

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:59:11

Overhaul! Resource scanning is now progressive and real-time instead of all-at-once. Overlays will be shrouded for areas that have not been scanned.
Lots of fundamental changes, new part module, and new options.

Sun, 24 Apr 2016 04:28:17