KitHack Model Club News

• Decouplers, Pistons and Rotary Tables now shows the not-connected warning pip if not connected to power
  
• Rotary Table Motor mode now works (tries to maintain a target rotation speed)
  
• Fixed issues with placement and updating of nodes for semi-flexible parts in the Flex physics simulation
  
• The Sym Lock option in Rotary Tables and Pistons now works.
  
• Decouplers will no longer cause parts outside their own subtree to become disconnected after detaching.
  

• Fixed an issue that caused newly-attached parts to be positioned incorrectly when using the Mechanisms tool.
  
• Fixed a VERY old bug where symmetry clones of ctrl surfaces with manually configured inputs wouldn't mirror the roll/yaw axes correctly.
  
• Revised the entire logic for Input Configuration Options on Control Surfaces, Motors, and Robotics parts
  
• All inputs can now toggle mirroring over symmetry - Roll/Yaw do this by default.
  
• Fixed custom engine input configurations reverting to default sometimes.
  

• Fixed Tooltips visibly jittering sometimes.
  
• Fixed radial sliders in morphing part context menus triggering an undo state to be recorded on just opening the menu.
  
• Fixed several UI elements being whited out and hard to read
  
• Fixed the placement of the Motor Power LED on electric motor context menus.
  
• The [Reset (Auto)] button in part menus with configurable inputs is now consistently placed just below the inputs themselves.
  

• Rotary tables now hold position in servo mode a lot harder.
  
• Lowered the coupling constants for external forces on flex physics. All physics constraints should be more rigid now.
  

• Automatic Resource Network generation now tries to maintain isolation of subtrees under decouplers.
  
• The vehicle editor now generates a recovery autosave in case it is shut down unexpectedly in multiplayer.
  

• Fixed prop heights in car controls tutorial
  
• Car controls tutorial now only allows the Mudmog
  
• Removed some AI drivers from Car Controls, to not hit performance as much when they spawn.
  
• Car controls tutorial text now suggests going into the stock crafts tab after opening the craft selection panel.
  
• Aircraft controls tutorial no longer allows scoring beyond the max by hitting invisible waypoints.
  
• Aircraft controls tutorial now lets player go back to workshop whenever without interrupting flow or forcing any particular changes.
  
• Rearranged pages of aircraft controls tutorial so CoM tutorial is required before flying. Fixed arrow pointing to offset tool.
  
• Aircraft controls tutorial uses Aero battery now.
  
• Aircraft controls now suggests cycling attach points and tells player to pick up their airplane before throwing.
  
• Aircraft Controls tutorial now instructs player to connect propellers via the drive node.
  
• Aircraft Controls tutorial now suggests using a different motor, so it's easier to gain altitude.
  

• Recreated Extinctor to remove deprecated parts and make it more structurally stable.
  

• Fixed tire LOD being offset from others on clubhouse tent prop.
  

• Implemented Locked external camera mode, because I was peer-pressured into doing it by the test team.
  

• Fixed an old bug with resource net discovery that caused (rare) cases where parts would not be able to find resources after decoupling or losing parts.
  

• Vehicles now locally send out an event to notify of imminent despawning just be fore the network client removes them.
  
• Fixes game freeze states in cases where the RPC pre-despawn message for some reason fails to arrive in time.
  
• Fixes errors from Vehicle Inspect mode if that was active during vehicle remote de-spawn.
  
• Added sanity checking around several sources of errors from null parts/vehicle instances, most frequently due to unexpected multiplayer object removals.
  
• Craft loading error messages shouldn't appear duplicated anymore.
  

One of the joys of the original Kerbal Space Program wasn't just building your spaceship, it was putting it through its paces. You could plan for ages before blasting off only to find a critical flaw in your thinking meant the whole thing would blow up - quite literally - in your face. In Kithack Model Club things are considerably less explosive, but the attitude of slapping stuff together and giving it a try is very much intact.

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