Difference between revisions of "1.0"

Revision as of 23:26, 28 April 2015

Version 1.0 was released on April 27^th , 2015. The update is known as "We Have Liftoff!", referencing the fact that 1.0 is the official release.

New

Editor

• New Engineer's Report Toolbar App, provides warnings and advice during construction, notifying players of possible design issues with their ships.
• Added 'Cross-Section Profile' Filter to Parts List.
• Added Thumbnail images for Craft files in both Launch Dialog and Craft Browser screens.
• Added 'Merge' button to Load dialog, allowing ships to be loaded without replacing the current one.
• Added confirmation dialogs when overwriting a save, launching or leaving editor without saving.

Aerodynamics

• Complete overhaul of the flight model.
• Lift is now correctly calculated and applied for all lift-generating parts.
• Drag is now pre-calculated automatically based on part geometry, and applied based on part orientation in flight.
• Both lift and drag are dependant on density and the speed of sound; both properly calculated from temperature and pressure.
• Stack-mounted parts can occlude each other for drag calculations.
• Lift-Induced drag now properly simulated.
• Stalls are now properly simulated.
• A new body-lift system meaning parts can induce lift even if they are not designed to do so.

Heat Simulation

• Completely revised part heating model, energy flux is considered, not merely temperature.
• All game temperatures changed from 'Kervin' to proper Kelvin.
• Radiative, conductive, and convective heating and cooling are simulated.
• Parts can have individual radiative, conductive, and convective properties.
• All parts now emit a blackbody radiation glow if they get hot enough.
• Conduction between attached parts is more accurately modelled.
• Parts can occlude other parts from being exposed to sunlight, celestial body albedo/radiation and supersonic flow.
• Reentry/hypersonic flight heating is now simulated.
• Added difficulty Setting to scale aerodynamic heating.
• Atmospheric temperature, and thus density, takes latitude and sun position into account.
• Celestial bodies accurately emit thermal radiation making nearby craft warmer.
• Service modules, fairings and cargo bays can be used to protect parts inside from heat.
• Heat shields provide (finite) ablation-based protection for parts behind them.

Parts

• New procedural Fairings added, in 3 sizes.
• New Heat Shields added, in 3 sizes.
• Service Bay parts added in 1.25m and 2.5m sizes.
• Several new Landing Gear parts added, in many sizes.
• Many New large airliner and shuttle style wing sections added.
• Large wing sections have internal fuel tanks.
• All old spaceplane parts overhauled with a more up-to-date style.
• Old Avionics Nose Cone overhauled and repurposed as a standalone, non-autonomous SAS module.
• New atmosphere scanner part added.
• New Inline Xenon Tank part added.
• New RT-5 'Flea' Solid Rocket Booster added.
• New Fuel Cell parts added (small and large), convert LiquidFuel and Oxidizer into Electricity when turned on.
• New models for Circular and Ram air intake parts.
• New models for Engine Nacelle parts.
• Several new nose cones and tail sections.
• New Airbrake part.
• New module for Airbrake parts, responds to Brakes input and can also be used as pitch/yaw actuator.

Internal Spaces

• Added new IVA space for the Mk1 Inline cockpit.
• Added new IVA space for the Science Lab.
• Added new IVA space for Mk3 Shuttle Cockpit.
• Added new IVA space for Mk3 Passenger Cabin.
• Added new IVA space for Mk2 Passenger Cabin.

Resources

• Added Ore resource, which can be mined across the Solar System.
• New drill part added.
• Ore container tanks added.
• ISRU Ore processor unit added, converts Ore into Liquid Fuel, Oxidizer or MonoProp.
• Three new Ore scanner parts added.
• Added new MapView overlays displaying Ore density for all Celestial Bodies.
• Support for moddability of resources added (including atmospheric and oceanic).
• New Difficulty Setting to scale resource abundance (both stock and modded).
• Asteroids can also be mined for Ore.
• Engineer Kerbals are able to 'overdrive' drilling equipment for increased yield (and less safety).

Kerbals

• Female Kerbals added, with new randomly-generated female names.
• Valentina Kerman (Pilot) added to initial Crew Roster.
• Kerbals are now able to clamber onto ledges within reach, because their jobs weren't dangerous enough already.
• Kerbals can now climb out of ladders onto ledges.
• Tourist Kerbals added. They have zero skills, are unable to control vessels, and are required to keep their heads inside the vessel at all times.
• Kerbals now cost increasingly larger amounts of Funds to hire in Career Games.

R&D

• R&D Tech Tree completely revised. Several new nodes added; many, many parts reassigned for a better progression.
• Kerbal Scientists are now able to restore inoperable experiment modules.
• The Science Lab has been retooled to run long-term research on experiment data, providing much higher amounts of science over time.

Graphics

• New Smoke effects added to Launchpads.
• New Surface Effects added whenever rocket engines fire near terrain.
• New Water Effect added whenever rocket engine fire near water.
• Revised all part shaders for improved rendering of lighting effects and shadows.
• Main Flight UI can now be made transparent.

Career

• Added new Tourism contracts and tourist Kerbals.
• Added ISRU resource extraction contracts.
• Added Grand Tour contracts.
• Replaced Rescue contracts with Recovery contracts, which can ask the player to recover a part, a Kerbal, or both, and can spawn on the surface of planets, with "props" nearby.
• Added two 'immediate' Strategies to convert existing Reputation and Science into Funds.
• World First contract line now extends all the way out to Eeloo, and is dependent on player progression.
• Record contracts are now always active, and will complete in order even over the course of a single mission.

Tutorials

• All tutorials revised and rewritten to explain most game features.
• Expanded Flight Basics Tutorial to cover the essentials of launching into orbit.
• Added new Return from Mun tutorial.
• Added new Science and R&D Tutorial.
• Added new Docking tutorial.

Flight

• 'Warp To' action added to orbit context menu. Allows warping to a specific spot along your trajectory.
• 'Warp to next morning' button added to KSC toolbar.
• Asteroids can now be found orbiting near Dres.
• Engine thrust now varies according to Isp and throttle setting, instead of the other way around.

Controls

• Completely revised Input Mapping system.
• Flight input bindings is now much more straightforward and more flexible as well.
• Duplicate control bindings for Docking/Staging modes now replaced by a much more robust system based on secondary key bindings.
• Joystick Axes are now consistently enumerated and persist across sessions.
• Up to 10 joysticks with 20 axes each now supported.
• Added secondary channels for Axis Bindings.

Cameras

• New 'Chase' Camera mode added, old mode now called 'Locked'.
• Added Camera wobble/vibration effects during flight (engine vibration, explosions, ground roll, G-force, and many more).
• TrackIR support added to all game views (toggleable independently in game settings). (FreeTrack also reported to work).
• Added FOV control to main flight camera. (Hold ModKey and zoom).

Bug Fixes and Tweaks

Editor

• Fixed several issues with editor attachments, attachment node orientation and symmetry.
• Shift+Clicking a 'frozen' part in the editor will detach it from its parent.
• Fixed several bugs with cloned parts and persistence.
• The editor no longer requires a full scene reload to load new craft files.

UI

• The KnowledgeBase panel for Vessels now shows 'Max Accel' and 'Estimated burn time to 0m/s' (as shown on navball) fields.
• Several part context menu actions now properly apply to symmetry counterparts automatically.
• Added new custom cursors.

Simulation

• Fixed 'infiniglide' bug.
• Switching SOIs no longer causes the next orbit to change at high time warp rates.
• Added a warp speed limit when approaching an SOI transition.
• Kerbal EVAs should no longer fly off when disembarking in space.
• SAS now disengages autopilot modes automatically (and falls back to stability assist) in cases where the target vectors would change very rapidly.
• Parachute deployment should no longer cause vessel disassembly at high physics warp rates.
• Deployed parachute sway now actually has an effect on the vessel.

Parts

• LV-N "Nerv" Engine now runs solely on Liquid Fuel and has no gimbal.
• OSCAR-B tank can now be surface attached.
• Air-breathing engines now drain fuel evenly from all tanks in a vessel.
• Fixed radial decouplers not applying ejection forces correctly.
• Parachutes no longer cause massive G spikes when opening.
• Control Surfaces can now be deployed as flaps, controllable via context menus and Action Groups.
• Stats of Antennas revised for a proper progression with the more advanced models.
• Added nicknames to all engine parts.
• Revised and balanced part costs.
• Balanced fuel amounts for Mk2 and Mk3 tanks.
• Balanced engines (Isp/thrust/mass) in line with the new aerodynamics.
• Added fuel gauge to LV-1 "Ant" engine.
• Materials Bay now faces away from the part it's radially attached to.
• RoveMate rover body is now a probe body as well.
• The unshrouded solar panels are now non-retractable.
• Balanced probes electric charge usage, mass and crash tolerance.
• Lowered crash tolerance of the Structural Pylon to 70 from 999!
• All parts given 'bulkhead profile' tags in cfg files. Profile tags inferred automatically for parts missing this field.
• Cargo bays now properly detect enclosed parts, and can be grouped to make larger bays.
• Experiment Modules, Solar Panels, Antennas and such will not deploy while stowed inside a fairing or cargo bay.
• RCS thrusters will not function if stowed inside a closed cargo area (or fairing).
• Lifting surfaces will not generate lift if stowed inside a closed cargo area (or fairing).

Audio

• Much improved flight ambience sounds for Kerbin and other bodies with atmospheres.
• Added new sound effect when pulling high G forces.
• Eliminated audible gaps on several looping clips.

Effects

• Improved sound/particle effects for all Air-Breathing engines.
• Splashdown effects no longer spawn underwater.

General

• All part textures converted to DDS format, load times are now 3x faster.
• Fixed a serious persistence bug which prevented Scenario/Training saves from updating scenario modules properly.
• Fixed persistence bugs which caused state data from Upgradeable Facilities to carry over to other saves.
• Fixed an issue which caused Kerbals to not be generated randomly enough, which led to slowdowns with larger Crew Rosters.
• Fixed issues with the terrain during scene switching making scene load times faster.
• Fixed terrain scatter generation which was causing memory leaks.
• 'Elon Kerman' added to name pool.
• Crew name generator can now output 10,000+ female names.
• Fixed an issue with markers in the KSC scene potentially causing the game to lock up.
• Restructured GameData folder, integrated the NASA folder into the Squad one.
• Valentina Kerman added to Main Menu's Space scene.

Gameplay

• All contracts other than World Firsts or Records are halted until the player reaches space.
• Prevent "stacking" of various contract types.
• Resource parts added into satellite, station, and outpost contracts.
• Prose of contracts involving Kerbals re-evaluated with gender appropriate text.
• All contracts in career given balanced income for all three currencies.
• Science and reputation no longer scale with the celestial body of a contract, and are handed out more conservatively in general.
• All strategies in career given equivalent exchange rates.
• Aggressive Negotiations strategy given a discount on building repair/upgrade.
• Recovery Transponder strategy now lowers maximum recovery rate, while raising minimum recovery rate.
• Facility upgrade costs re-evaluated, lowered by about a quarter overall.
• Kerbals now properly receive experience for suborbital flights.
• Part Test contracts now request much saner flight parameters.
• Survey contracts choose much saner locations to survey.
• Sensor Experiment Modules are now able to perform experiments in all situations.

Debugging/Modding

• The R&D Tech tree is now defined in a cfg-file.
• The cfg file for the Tech Tree is defined separately for each save.
• GameVariables methods are now all virtual and can be overwritten by mods.
• Added a new set of debug tools to tweak Physics parameters.
• Added a new set of debug tools to tweak R&D tech tree nodes and part assignments.