SCANsat Version 18.3

• Complete Portuguese translations

• Updates to localization files

  • Parts, manufacturer/flag and contract localization

• Calculate scanning coverage based on approximation of actual spherical surface area instead of simple rectangular area

  • Affects contract completion and science data collection

• Fix bugs related to some resources for the big map

• Fix bugs in Overdrive compatibility

• Fix long resource and planet names in drop down menus

SCANsat Version 18.2

• Overhaul of all SCANsat contracts

  • Contracts now differ based on difficulty
  • Easy contracts only generate for home system bodies and ask for one scan
  • Medium and High difficulty contracts generate for non-home system bodies and ask for a group of scans
  • Contracts have several dependencies
    - Unlocking the required parts
    - Not having already finished all of the required scans for the target
    - Target bodies are selected based on your progression

• Improvements made to slope maps

  • Slope maps now account for map scale or zoom factor
  • Significantly improved usefulness for the zoom map

• Fix some potential bugs when survey contract waypoints are updated

• Fix bug in background scanning toggles in the settings window

• Some minor UI performance tweaks

• Add a KSPedia button to the top of the settings window

  • It will try to open the SCANsat page, but this only works if KSPedia has already been opened at least once

SCANsat Version 18.1

• Update for KSP 1.3.1

• Terrain color palettes defined in new config file

  • Custom color palettes can be added by editing the file or using MM patches

• Fix bug with big map celestial body list

• Fix bug with narrow band scanner requirement when more than one resource is in use

• Slight change in how anomaly information is reported by the BTDT

• Remove unneeded ASET RPM panel Module Manager patches

• Fix SCANsat agency title

SCANsat Version 18.0

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

SCANsat Development Version 17.9

• Fix a bug causing text corruption when using the planetary overlay maps
• Use non-localized biomes when the localized biome name is empty
• Update KSPedia entries
• More Russian translations - Thanks @RarogCmex

SCANsat Development Version 17.8

• Fix a bug that would allow multiple SCANsat windows to open and not be able to close

• Added more Chinese translations - @Summerfirefly

• Added a few more localization strings for UI text

• Removed some log spam when using Kopernicus planets

SCANsat Development Version 17.7

• Fix a bug in the resource scanners

• Fix a bug that was preventing some warning popups from closing

• Point the AVC .version file at the correct remote URL

• Added Spanish translations - Thanks @Deltathiago98

• Added partial Chinese translations - Thanks @Summerfirefly

• Added German translations - Thanks @h0yer

SCANsat Development Version 17.6

Updated for KSP 1.3

Localization support

• Added more localization support
  - Part descriptions
  - Science results
  - Part Action Window text

• All tooltips and warning popups now localized using stock system
  - Russian translations by @SerTheGreat

• Native localization support for celestial body, resource, and biome names

Other changes and bug fixes

• Use TextMesh Pro for all text input fields
• Align anomaly icon so that the open circle on the question mark is over the anomaly
• Tweaks to the day/night terminator
• Fix background scanning toggles
• Fix mod resource scanning MM patches
• All celestial body lists are now ordered by distance from the sun; moons are grouped together with their parent
• Science experiments are now handled by a separate part module
  • Module: SCANexperiment
  • It has one field to define the experiment type: experimentType
  • Allows for better handling of combined scanner parts
• Fix for a science exploit when collecting duplicate data on different vessels

SCANsat Development Version 17.5

• Implement day/night map terminator overlays for all maps
  - Toggled with a new icon showing a sun and moon
  - Shows the sun coverage at the time of map reset
• Implement map fill cheat options
  - Allow for selecting specific data types to fill in
  - Data types apply to map reset as well
  - Must set "CheatMapFill = True" in the settings file
• Fix some UI draw order problems with the NavBall
• Fix a potential error that would prevent the big map from closing
• Fix various UI update and synchronization problems
• Various minor UI updates

SCANsat Development Version 17.4

Known bugs:

Minor:

• Some UI sychronization errors
• Changes in some settings will require toggling a window off and on again before taking effect

Not a bug:

• Existing settings will mostly be reset (scanning data is maintained)
• Reverting to SCANsat v16.x or earlier will result in loss of scanning data

Change Log:

• Implement MechJeb landing guidance integration

  • Set MechJeb landing target using the waypoint selection function
  • Limited ability to load landing targets

• Implement biome map legend

• Implement map legend tooltips

  • Shows terrain altitude or biome info for current mouse position over legend

• Add more map generation speed controls

  • Three levels available
  • Effect differs depending on map type

• Fix error with zoom map legend

• Fix bugs related to planetary overlay maps

• Fix bug when refreshing zoom map and locked to the current vessel

• Various minor fixes