Unity update for KSP 1.8.x
v1.2 Unity Update
This update is mostly to make kOS compatible with KSP 1.8.x, which
started using a newer version of Unity, and a newer version of .Net,
which have some consequent changes in the code and build process.
BREAKING CHANGES
None that are known about, other than the usual reminder that
KSM files need a recompile after every version update of kOS.
NEW FEATURES
- Now forces both the toolbar window and the telnet welcome menu
to list the kOS CPUs in a consistent unchanging sort order.
Previously, it was pretty much random what order you would
see kOS CPU's listed in the menu, which made it hard for
JonnyOThan's Twitch-Plays-KSP chatbot to know which CPU it
was attaching to when it sent commands to kOS. This has been
changed to a predictable sort order as follows: (1) Sort by
which vessel the CPU is on, starting from the active vessel,
and then for other vessels, sorting by distance from the active
vessel, closest first. (2) When the same vessel has more than
one CPU, break that tie by number of "hops" from the root part,
such that CPU's attached closer to the root come first. This
is by "number of parts to walk through to reach root" rather
than by actual physical distance, since using physical distance
might have led to inconsistent sort order given that some ship
parts can hinge and extend, changing that distance.
pull request - New suffixes
Dockingport:PARTNERandDockingport:HASPARTER
will tell you which docking port this docking port is docked with.
issue
pull request - HEADING() Now allows optional 3rd argument, "roll".
issue
pull request - Let user-made GUIs toggle IMGUI's wordwrap flag with a
new suffix:Style:WORDWRAP. This should let you fix
that annoying problem where a GUI Label would insist on
wrapping even when it could have fit by making the window
wide enough. Setting wordwrap to false will force the
GUI layout engine to keep the label's area wide enough
to not wrap the text.
issue
pull request - Add BODYEXISTS test
issue
pull request - Allow FLOOR() and CEILING() to specify a decimal place other
than the one's place, like ROUND() can do.
issue
pull request - Add a constructor,
CREATEORBIT()that will make a new
Orbitobject for any hypothetical orbit given Keplerian
parameters, without it coming from a vessel or a body that
already exists.
issue
pull request - Added new suffix to waypoint:
:ISSELECTED, which will
tell you if the waypoint is the one the user has selected
for their navball.
issue
pull request
BUG FIXES
- Bound variables like SHIP, UP, VELOCITY, etc stopped existing
in the KSP 1.8.x update. This was because kOS makes use of
reflection techniques to store information about C# Attributes
that help it find the bound variables in its code, and .Net 4.x
changed the meaning of Attribute.Equals() in such a way that it
broke what kOS was doing to store this reflection information.
A Dictionary that kOS was using to track bound variables by Attributes
started having key clashes because of that change to what it means
for an Attribute to be Equal to another Attribute.
((No link to a github issue because this was part of the general
KSP 1.8 update PR and didn't have an issue.)) - Prevent waypoints with bogus body names.
pull request - Fix a problem that made the GUI terminal sometimes get stuck
refusing to repaint when resized to a size too small to
hold all the text it previously had showing.
issue
pull request - Several minor doc typos
pull request
pull request - The startup message about default font and "if you want the old look" was
quite obsolete by now and needed to be removed.
issue
pull request - Changed the technique used to load DDS icons used in the
kOS GUI terminal and the kOS toolbars, to bypass KSP's
strange API and go directly to Unity. This may or may
not help people who had the purple square icon problem.
((No issue - SlimJimDodger contributed PR out of the blue.))
pull request