Release notes v0.9.0

Rocket Science Sep 29, 2020

Features:

reduced build size by 2 GB by applying compression for planet heightmaps;
[Assembly shop] symmetry tools are available during rocket construction;
[Assembly shop] you can duplicate part or part group using hotkey;
[Assembly shop] added toggle to show rocket center of mass;
[Assembly shop] undo and redo now supports rocket part rotations;
[Assembly shop] spacecraft will keep rotation that was set for it (after exiting an edit mode and during the flight);
angular drag is now calculated and applied to rockets flying in the atmosphere;
payload fairing and cargo modules start to actually protect the parts placed into them from the atmospheric drag;
spacecrafts support any command pod rotation relative to the rocket and will appropriately orient navball, markers and direct controls;
added icons for ships, probes and debris in the Control Center and for the Solar system map;
total playtime is recorded into save slot (not counting loading time).

increased radius of Payload Fairing;
reduced energy capcity for probe core “Sputnik-2” from 42 to 36;
decreased diameter of “FT-800 Fuel Tank” from, 1.2m to 0.7m and adjusted its paramters;
changed shape of Adapter 1.2-H and renamed to Adapter 0.35-0.6-H;
added porthole to “Vys” Command Module;
decreased length of “Adapter 0.35-0.55”;
changed shape of “Basic adapter” and added 3 more connection variants for it.

[Assembly shop] hold Shift and click or drag rocket part to duplicate part and all connected to it parts;
[Assembly shop] Press Ctrl+S to save the rocket;
[Assembly shop] Press X to cycle through symmetry count;
[Assembly shop] Press Shift+X to cycle through symmetry count backwards;

changed the way rocket bounds is calculated, as a result fixed floating rockets over launchpad before launch;
solar panels don’t produce energy, while Sun is occluded by planet;
solar panels energy production depends on angle between panel and Sun;
added status, occlusion and production values into solar panel control window;
improved parts attachment positioning for all the parts with only one attachment during rocket assembly;
[Assembly shop] rocket parts keep pivot during rotation;
[Assembly shop] added undo and redo buttons on UI;
[Assembly shop] added sorting by update time for rockets in the Assembly Shop (last updated goes first);
[Assembly shop] changed spacecraft orientation, so the command pod porthole is turned up;
mission time for spacecraft is now calculated since liftoff;
[Control Center] added sorting by mission time for spacecrafts (newest spacecrafts go first);
improved performance of drag calculations (5-10x speedup);
decoupler no longer disappears after use;
decoupler is applying force to original rocket too during activation;
reduced memory consumption, when there are a lot of rockets in the Math simulation;
probe cores constantly consume electric charge, they will not recieve any control commands without it;
rockets without command pod or probe core (for example, debris) could not receive any commands or open part windows.

reaction wheels not working if the spacecraft was decoupled from other spacecraft;
rocket sometimes fall through Earth surface after collision on high speed;
a lot of issues, when using “Undo” and “Redo” in the Assembly shop;
exception thrown, if the rocket on the launchpad was removed through Control Center, and the next one was launched;
some elliptic orbits flicker, when time lapse is enabled;
rocket constantly move between Physics and Math world, if it landed and one of the rocket parts was destroyed at the same time;
spacecraft icon sometimes is not shown on the map;
rockets from previous save appear in the new save, if save slot was not cleared before starting new game;
sometimes game freezes, when trying to launch spacecraft with a lot of parts.