OtherBarry
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8 years ago A lot of effort, but could we rebuild the entire ship on launch if proc part is the root? Finicky workaround, but the only solution I can think of.
On Tuesday, 17 November 2015, Starwaster notifications@github.com wrote:
Drag cubes are not properly being updated properly for Procedural Parts that are the root of their vessel.
Repro steps: (this requires some debugging means of finding drag cube area or radiative area. I put such debugging info into Real Fuels) Make a craft that has a Procedural Part as its root. (either by using a PP part as the first part or by re-rooting. Either works.) The PP part should be sized large enough to make it obvious that surface area as seen by the DragCubeSystem isn't being resized. For default sized PP fuel tank, weighted area is ~4. For a tank resized to 6.6m x 14m it should be ~358 m2. (KSP drag cubes area could go higher, as high as 400m2)
If you want it, I can provide a copy of the RF plugin that has this kind of debugging info.
Workarounds that I've tried are forcing drag cube re-render. Even doing this when going off-rails (which effectively means being able to force re-render at will) hasn't helped so it might be there's no real solution to this problem other than players not making PP parts root. At the very least, if no solution can be found then it should be made a Known Issue, and possibly a pop up warning displayed to players that try to make PP parts root.
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ItMustBeACamel
NathanKell
Drag cubes are not properly being updated properly for Procedural Parts that are the root of their vessel.
Repro steps: (this requires some debugging means of finding drag cube area or radiative area. I put such debugging info into Real Fuels) Make a craft that has a Procedural Part as its root. (either by using a PP part as the first part or by re-rooting. Either works.) The PP part should be sized large enough to make it obvious that surface area as seen by the DragCubeSystem isn't being resized. For default sized PP fuel tank, weighted area is ~4. For a tank resized to 6.6m x 14m it should be ~358 m2. (KSP drag cubes area could go higher, as high as 400m2)
If you want it, I can provide a copy of the RF plugin that has this kind of debugging info.
Workarounds that I've tried are forcing drag cube re-render. Even doing this when going off-rails (which effectively means being able to force re-render at will) hasn't helped so it might be there's no real solution to this problem other than players not making PP parts root. At the very least, if no solution can be found then it should be made a Known Issue, and possibly a pop up warning displayed to players that try to make PP parts root.