SCANsat Version 14.9

Version 14.9 - 2016-3-6

• Add new zoom map buttons to small map, big map and toolbar
• Improved zoom map functionality
  • When zoom map is first opened it targets the active vessel
  • Added re-sync to vessel button in the top-right corner
• Added slope cutoff slider to color management window
  • Adjusts the cutoff between the two color pairs
  • Lower cutoff to make slope map better in the zoom map
• Color Management window button removed from small map and big map in flight scene
  • Added Color Management window button to the top of the settings menu
• Added GeoEnergy resource support for PathFinder
• When a new planet is detected SCANsat tries to determine its highest elevation point
  • Used for planets that don't have a terrain config defined in the SCANcolors.cfg file; ie Kopernicus planets
  • Max elevation point used to set the max height used for SCANsat maps
  • Max elevation sometimes returns values too high; adjust values in the color management window
• Some changes in how data is loaded from the save file; no end-user effect
• Fixed error that prevented SCANsat contracts from generating before the player left the Kerbin system

SCANsat Version 14.8

Version 14.8 - 2016-2-10

• Fix RPM and Kopernicus incompatibility
• Add new CRP resources and configs

SCANsat Version 14.7

Version 14.7 - 2016-1-16

• Fix Contract config error

SCANsat Version 14.6

Version 14.6 - 2016-1-15

• Fix Kopernicus compatibility (Thanks ThomasKerman)
• Allow mouse-over info and overlay tooltips to fall back to low resolution resource data in some cases
• Add a warning when stock resource scanning is disabled without having Module Manager installed
• Fixed some issues affecting scanner power usage and scanning altitude indicators
• Allow for included contracts to be disabled through the ScanSatOfficial Contract Type (Thanks DBT85)
• Fix a bug that was preventing loading of the color config file when additional planets are installed
• Add MetalOre as a SCANsat resource and MetalOre scanner modules to EPL scanner parts

SCANsat Version 14.5

Version 14.5 - 2015-12-22

• Misc and Bug Fixes
  • Fix some .csv export related issues
  • Allow for disabling the stock resource scan threshold
  • Fix ocean depth indicator
  • Fix multi spectral sensor normal map
  • Fix some potential issues when using multiple different sensors of the same type
  • Add new survey waypoints as they are generated
  • Fix for repeat contracts *Requires Contract Configurator 1.9.1

SCANsat Version 14.4

Version 14.4 - 2015-11-14

• New export functions
  • Option to sse a true grey-scale color scheme
  • Option to export a .csv file with coordinates and terrain height for each pixel
  • Option to manually specify the big map width
• Stock resource scan threshold
  • Active when stock resource scanning is disabled
  • Set a SCANsat resource scanning threshold level above which the stock resource scan will apply for each celestial body
• Misc and Bug Fixes
  • Fix science data return on transmission failure
  • Zoom maps use variable terrain height ranges based on the local min and max terrain height
  • Add an ocean depth indicator to the instruments window
  • Add a distance-to-landing-target indicator on instruments window when within 15km
  • Fix drawing the terrain height behind the biome map
  • Fix some errors in ground track drawing

SCANsat version 14.3

Version 14.3 - 2015-11-10

• Update for KSP 1.0.5
• In-Game Help Function
  • Help section for Settings window, Resource Settings window, and Color Selection window
  • Activate help mode with the question mark button in the top right
• Localization project
  • All help function strings are included in a config file
  • Local translations can be added to this file to replace the English text
• Misc and Bug Fixes
  • Fix bug while switching vessels from the small map vessel list
  • Fix planetary overlay tooltips while in the tracking station
  • Fix a potential loading error
  • Fix bug generating terrain height maps on planets with PQS errors; prevents endless NRE spam
  • Fix some problems with the background terrain height map generator
  • Power usage works correctly up to 10000X time warp, instead of 1000X
  • Remove debug log messages during planetary overlay map generation
  • Change the default anomaly marker and close box icons to standard text

SCANsat Version 14.2

Version 14.2 - 2015-8-29

Performance and RAM usage improvements

• Storage modules for each planet use less RAM
• Planetary overlays use less RAM
• Biome overlay texture size can be changed independently of resource size
• Planetary overlays generated on a different thread when possible
  • This reduces or prevents the slight freeze or hiccup when generating a new overlay

Raster Prop Monitor

• Additional functions added to RPM panels
• The standard MFDs use the four buttons on the left for resource and anomaly/waypoint overlays
• ALCOR pods also have additional functions where possible
• Increased map rendering performance by reducing map texture size
  • Map texture size and resource overlay quality can be adjusted in the RPM configs
• Prevent the non full-screen panels from drawing maps underneath opaque sections of the display (ie the left hand ALCOR panel)
• A Module Manager patch is required for full ALCOR MFD functionality

Parts

• Slight reduction in size of SAR and MultiSpectral scanners
• Proper use of MODEL node scaling; fixes KIS inventory size problems (thanks Kerbas_ad_astra)
• Slightly increased scanning width and altitude parameters for M700 (clamshell) resource scanner

Contracts

• Contract Configurator Contracts included
  • Based on a slightly modified version of severedsolo's SCANsatLite pack
• SCAN agency and manufacturers group added

Maps and other windows

• Big map and KSC map
  • Resource overlays now use the same quality settings as the planetary overlays
  • Resource mouse-over info now follows the same narrow-band scanner restrictions as planetary overlay tooltips
  • Slope added to mouse-over info for terrain scanned with high-resolution terrain scanner
• Small map
  • Biome maps available on the small map
    • The vessel info readout will display the current biome (if scanned) for each vessel
  • The altitude readout for each vessel is now dependent on scanning coverage
• Instruments UI
  • New rules for the altitude and slope readout
    • Below 1000m full height-above-terrain and slope info is given regardless of scanning coverage
    • Above 1000m altitude the readout is based on low or high resolution terrain scanning; slope is only given for high resolution scans
• Color Management Window
  • Planet selection boxes available for terrain and resource color configs
  • Fix possible bugs created by adding and deleting mod planets

Misc and bug fixes

• Resource overlay colors properly use the assigned abundance ranges
• Added a resource overlay control window toolbar button
• Update the active vessel in the instruments window
• Various minor performance improvements
• Various minor UI tweaks

SCANsat v14.1

Version 14.1 - 2015-7-15

• Across the board performance improvement for map rendering
• Fixed a bug causing performance drop for greyscale maps
• Fixed a bug preventing landed resource scanners from working

SCANsat v14.0

Version 14.0 - 2014-7-5

• Updated for KSP 1.0.4
• Updated for MechJeb 2.5.2

Resource Scanning System Overhaul

• Replaces or augments most aspects of the stock surface resource scanning system
  • New option available to disable stock scanning
    • Disables the orbital survey
    • Replaces the resource concentration readout from scanners with SCANsat modules
    • Replaces the resource map found on Narrow-Band scanners with a modified SCANsat zoom map
    • Right-click menu resource concentration readout dependent on SCANsat scanning coverage
    • Stock resource scanning data can be erased for each planet (does not affect resource biome scanning data)
  • Stock resource parts adapted for SCANsat resource scanning
    • Module Manager required for SCANsat resource scanning
    • M700 (clamshell) scanner used for low-resolution resource scanning; covers all resources
      • A one-time patch on updating will deactivate all resource scanners to prevent existing M700 scanners from being used as they were in version 12
    • Narrow-band scanners used for high-resolution, individual resource scanning
  • Planetary map overlay
    • New window to control resource, terrain, and biome map overlays
    • Biome overlays limited to stock color scheme for now
    • Tooltips for overlays when the mouse cursor is over the planet
    • Overlay window buttons added to the big map and small map windows; also added to the Toolbar menu
    • Select between all available resources, terrain maps, and biome maps
  • Resource settings window
    • New window to control resource options and planetary overlay quality
    • Biome lock, instant scan, and narrow-band scanner options are the same as in previous versions
    • The instant scan option is automatically disabled when Disable Stock Resources is activated
    • Both SCANsat and stock resource scanning data for the current planet can be reset
    • Interpolation and map overlay size can be configured
    • Biome maps use twice the map height as resource maps (512_256 for resources; 1024_512 for biomes by default)
    • Coverage Transparency option shows scanned areas in grey if there are no resources present; useful for determining what areas have already been scanned
  • SCAN High Definition Camera
    • New part module to replace the stock hi def camera, found on the narrow-band scanner
    • Opens a modified SCANsat zoom window
    • Only active when stock resource scanning is disabled

Other Updates

• SCANsat big map
  • Resource overlay now matches the planetary overlay more closely
  • Interpolation is used to generate the resource map overlay; this greatly speeds up big map rendering speed
  • Zoom map uses more accurate interpolation method for resource overlays
  • Biome maps can be generated without the white border
• Add ground track display for scanning vessels while in map mode
  • Scanning width is displayed for the widest FOV
  • Width is only accurate at the equator
• Terrain height map databases generated in the background
  • Maps generated once per game session for each planet
  • These maps are used to generate the small map and the terrain planetary overlay
  • Performance impact during map generation is negligible
  • Greatly speeds up small map rendering and terrain overlays
  • An accelerated map generation method is used if the small map is open or a terrain overlay is selected from a planet which doesn't have its terrain map already created
• A resource selection drop down has been added to the zoom map
  • Can be used to change the seleceted resource or disable the overlay
• Instrument window resource readout
  • Resource abundance at the current location is displayed on the instruments window
  • When more than one resource is present buttons along the side allow for switching the resource readout
  • Narrow-band scanner restrictions apply if that option is selected in the resource settings window

Bug Fixes and Misc Features

• Waypoint location correct when waypoint coordinates are stored with nonsense values (ie. -120 S...)
• Active vessel properly updates for the big map orbit display
• Prevent pole scanning overlap at the north pole
• Fixed slope calculation over water
• Fix bug when applying terrain color config to non-clamped color scheme
• Fix bug with orbit overlays in zoom map
• Fix bug allowing scanners to continue scanning without power
• Fix another bug with scanning near the poles
• Fix a bug causing duplicate grid lines to be drawn on the space center map
• Highlight active selection in drop down menus
• Stop animations when they reach their endpoints - may prevent FAR from getting stuck recalculating the vessel surface
• Various UI tweaks and updates
• Updates from Version 13.4
  • Fix ground tracks being displayed on the wrong planet
  • Fix bug in overlay control window while a planet's terrain map is being generated