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@DMagic1 DMagic1 released this 08 Jul 18:00
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v18.0
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Updated for KSP 1.3

Complete UI overhaul:

  • All aspects of the SCANsat UI have been replaced with the new Unity UI
    - This results in a significant reduction in performance impact and garbage creation, particularly when several SCANsat windows are open at the same time
    - UI scaling is integrated with stock UI scaling (master scale) – separate scaling for SCANsat only is also available
    - All text is rendered with TextMesh Pro, resulting in clearer text, particularly at small and large scales, and better compatibility with other languages
    - New option is available to switch between KSP and the old, Unity style UI styling
  • New stock toolbar menu
    - In the flight scene, the stock toolbar button will now spawn a small menu with buttons for all of the SCANsat windows
    - Enable or disable this option in the settings window
  • New settings window
    - Features multiple pages for different groups of settings

Zoom map overhaul:

  • It now uses an orthographic map projection to eliminate distortion near the map center
    - This is similar to the polar map projection, but can be centered anywhere
  • Further separated from the big map
    - Menu to set the resource selection (if more than one is installed)
    - Menu to set the map type (altimetry, biome, slope)
    - Toggles for all of the map overlays
  • Three different map size options
    - Full map with top and bottom control bars
    - Medium map with only top control bar
    - Compact map with no control bar
  • Option to reset the map to the current vessel position
  • Option to lock the map to the current vessel position
    - Will re-center the map on the vessel position whenever it is refreshed, zoomed, etc…
  • Buttons to move the map center in all four directions
  • Fixes problems with the “Require Narrow Band Scanner” resource scanning requirement
    - Should function correctly with both stock scanning and SCANsat-style resource scanning

Localization:

  • Localization support for most aspects of SCANsat
    - Part descriptions, science results, part right-click menu fields, tooltips, settings window help tooltips, and some of the UI text
    - Planet names, biome names, and resources names are all localized
    - Some aspects of the UI, particularly the settings window, are not localized
    - The KSPedia entry is not localized
  • Spanish by Delthiago98
  • Chinese by Summerfirefly
  • Russian by Ser and RarogCmex
  • German by h0yer

New Features:

  • Stock waypoint system integration
    - Big map and zoom map can be used to set stock waypoints
    - Click the waypoint button in the lower-right corner of the map to activate waypoint mode
    * Select a point on the map and left-click there to assign the waypoint location
    * Edit the waypoint name using the text input field
    * Click set to generate the waypoint
    - Optional MechJeb integration
    * MechJeb integration toggled through the settings window
    * Click the MJ button instead of set to use the waypoint as a MechJeb landing site
    * Requires MechJeb installed, and a functional and upgraded MechJeb core on the current vessel
  • Options for map generation speed
    - A slider in the settings window allows for three map speed options
    * 1 – One row of all map types will be drawn per frame
    * 2 – Two rows of all map types will be drawn per frame
    * 3 – Two to four rows of the maps will be drawn per frame, depending on the map type
  • Color Management Window updates
    - Integrated into the new settings window
    - Text input fields are available for most values with a slider
    - More biome options for the biome colors used and the white borders
    - New HSV color picker for all of the color management tabs
    * Uses a standard, saturation vs brightness (value) square color picker, with a hue slider to the right
    * Displays the current selection in RGB, HSV, and Hex color values
    * Allows for manual input of RGB values, using either 0-1, or 0-255 values
  • Updated KSPedia entry
    - Reflects all changes made for version 18
    - Several new pages with information about the different map windows
  • Miscellaneous new features
    - Scanning width now properly accounts for latitude, resulting in scans of even width at all latitudes
    - New settings file; generated in the GameData/SCANsat/PluginData folder after first running KSP
    * Contains most of the options found in the settings window
    - Settings windows options for resetting specific sets of scanning data for an individual celestial body, or all bodies
    - Biome map legend
    * Displays all of the biome colors as sections on the map legend
    * The zoom map legend shows only the biomes present in the map window
    - Map legend tooltips
    * Displays altitude or biome name when the mouse is over the map legend
    - Day/night map terminator overlay for all maps
    * Toggled with the sun and moon icon
    - New part module specifically for handling science experiments
    * Module: SCANexperiment
    - Celestial body list on the big map is ordered by distance to the sun
    * The current body is displayed at the top of the list
    * Moons are grouped together with their parent
    - New anomaly icon, a question mark with an open circle at the bottom
    * The open circle denotes the anomaly position

Bug Fixes:

  • Fix some floating point errors that cause the big map to break at certain map sizes
  • Fix shader bugs preventing the BTDT anomaly readout in the Instruments window from working
  • Fix a science point exploit when collecting the same scan data from two different vessels
  • Fix a potential error with RPM maps with resource overlays
  • Fix errors in Module Manager patches for resource scanners used by other mods
  • Changes from version 17.9
    - More KSPedia pages
    - Fix an error with setting the UI scale of the zoom map
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