Release 0.5.2

Changes

• Updated Sterling Engines:
  • Revised the formulas and heat curves in the System Heat patches.
• Updated Sterling Tankage:
  • Applied missing/needed values for gas tank types. Aligned with expectations of Procedural Parts gas tank. re: #33
• Updated Sterling Thermals:
  • Improved DRE config for super heavy shield. #34
  • Changed Triangle board radiators to show angles in their variant titles.
• Updated Sterling ThermalsPower:
  • Changed Pebble Bed Reactors to dump excess on ThermalPower.
• Updated Sterling Utilities:
  • Added EnrU capacity and NFE modules to Fissile Foundries.
• Updated Sterling UtilitiesConstruction:
  • Added missing buff to crash tolerance of pads and runways: 15 --> 150 m/s.
  • Added Omniconverter recipes for Thermal Ironwork (EL MetalOre refining) and Thermal Remelter (EL ScrapMetal recycling).
  • Changed byproduct resources in Omniconverter recipes to gas form.
  • Gave non-default internal names to spawner pads (for the in-flight EL window).
• Updated Sterling World Power:
  • Added heatsink (System Heat volume) upgrade to Gulf Stream TCS.
  • Slowed fan spin animation in Gulf Stream TCS.
  • Made Gulf Stream TCS into resource converters that produce negative heat for System Heat. System Heat Radiator module does not respect resource deprived status, allowing for air-breathing in vacuum.

Fixes

• Updated Sterling Electrics:
  • Fixed Real Battery patch. It now needs to provide the System Heat module for itself. (Confirmed with Real Battery v2.2, not v2.3)
• Updated Sterling Engines:
  • Fixed antimatter and fusion engines no longer receiving System Heat modules. Erroneously needed RR Nuclear Family to not be installed.
• Updated Sterling Thermals:
  • Added Tweakscale for rollout radiators.
  • Added legacy heat animation to boards and roll-out radiators for non-System Heat players.
  • Added radiator boards to Simple Repaint blacklist.
  • Fixed Triangle board radiator offering 96 MW where it should offer 9.6 MW.

Release 0.5.1.5

v 0.5.2 pre

Changes

• Updated Sterling Engines:
  • Revised the formulas and heat curves in the System Heat patches.
• Updated Sterling Thermals:
  • Triangle board radiators show angles in their variant titles.
• Updated Sterling ThermalsPower:
  • Changed Pebble Bed Reactors to dump excess on ThermalPower.
• Updated Sterling World Power:
  • Added heatsink (System Heat volume) upgrade to Gulf Stream TCS.
  • Slowed fan spin animation in Gulf Stream TCS.
  • Made Gulf Stream TCS into resource converters that produce negative heat for System Heat. System Heat Radiator module does not respect resource deprived status, allowing for air-breathing in vacuum.

Fixes

• Updated Sterling Engines:
  • Fixed antimatter and fusion engines no longer receiving System Heat modules. Erroneously needed RR Nuclear Family to not be installed.
• Updated Sterling Thermals:
  • Added Tweakscale for rollout radiators.
  • Added legacy heat animation to boards and roll-out radiators for non-System Heat players.
  • Added radiator boards to Simple Repaint blacklist.
  • Fixed triangle board option providing 10x the power it should.

Release 0.5.1.1

v 0.5.2 pre

Changes

• Updated Sterling Engines:
  • Revised the formulas and heat curves in the System Heat patches.
• Updated Sterling Thermals:
  • Triangle board radiators show angles in their variant titles.
• Updated Sterling ThermalsPower:
  • Changed Pebble Bed Reactors to dump excess on ThermalPower.
• Updated Sterling World Power:
  • Added heatsink (System Heat volume) upgrade to Gulf Stream TCS.
  • Slowed fan spin animation in Gulf Stream TCS.
  • Made Gulf Stream TCS into resource converters that produce negative heat for System Heat. System Heat Radiator module does not respect resource deprived status, allowing for air-breathing in vacuum.

Fixes

• Updated Sterling Engines:
  • Fixed antimatter and fusion engines no longer receiving System Heat modules. Erroneously needed RR Nuclear Family to not be installed.
• Updated Sterling Thermals:
  • Added Tweakscale for rollout radiators.
  • Added legacy heat animation to boards and roll-out radiators for non-System Heat players.
  • Added radiator boards to Simple Repaint blacklist.
  • Fixed triangle board option providing 10x the power it should.

Release 0.5.1

Additions

• Updated Sterling Electrics:
  • Added flat height variants to batteries.
• Updated Sterling Thermals:
  • Added Graphene boards.

Changes

• Updated Sterling Kerbalism:
  • Added RTG module to SubCritial Multiplier.
  • Added RTG module (as BVG) to Betavoltaics. Half-life value set as 200 years but Kerbalism counts that under "perpetual."
• Updated Sterling ThermalsPower:
  • Slightly reduced shutdown temperature of Pebble Bed Reactors.

Fixes

• Updated Sterling Kerbalism:
  • Added CRP detection to fuel cell patch. This and Addresses invalid resource problems in case of installs of Simplex Kerbalism.
  • Fixes to refinery mode 1. This mode is supposed to used switched SystemHeatConverterKerbalism modules.
  • Fixed Molten Metal Foundries now receiving recipe modules.
• Updated Sterling Tankage:
  • Removed obsolete patch which affected added cost and mass in height selectors.
• Updated Sterling World Power:
  • Changed Gulf Stream radiators and the windmills to use IntakeAir by default and detect CRP to use IntakeAtm.
  • Hopefully fixed heat emissive controller on Gulf Stream radiators.

Release 0.5.0

Note

Cumulative update containing beta releases 0.4.11 to 0.4.14 and what would have been 0.4.15.

Additions

• Added Kerbal Health compatibility.
• Added Sterling Kerbalism: Collection of Kerbalism specific things previously released with Rational Resources.
• Updated Sterling Electrics:
  • Added 0.625m Betavoltaics and Real Battery configs for them.
• Updated Sterling Core:
  • Added Alternate Resource Panel icons for nuclear resources.
• Updated Sterling Tankage:
  • Added Tritium configs for hazard tankage.
• Updated Sterling Thermals:
  • Added wrapper heatshields for stock Mk2 and Mk3 adapters.
  • Added preheaters.
  • Added roll-out array radiators.
• Updated Sterling ThermalsPower:
  • Added Tritium configs for molten salt reactors.
• Updated Sterling UtilitiesConstruction:
  • Added inline construction pads to complement the printeries.
• Updated Sterling World Power:
  • Added solar panel type 2 and windmill type 2.
  • Added tune-able wide radiator based on solar panel type 2.

Changes

• Updated All:
  • Added missing tags to the great majority of parts.
• Updated Sterling Core:
  • All associated part upgrade and localization changes.
  • Adjusted unit costs of Fissile Fuel and Fissile Pebbles.
• Updated Sterling Engines:
  • Added/Fixed missing defaults for nuclear engines' propellants when Rational Resources Nuclear Family not installed.
  • Added tail toggle for "Tiny" CCGC.
  • Removed Nuclear Family implementation.
• Updated Sterling Electrics:
  • Updated CTT locations of fission reactors.
  • Added fuel cell B9 option colors.
  • Added Real Battery compatibility. (Parts become 20x massive when this installed.)
  • Updated costs and tech tree placement according to (and without) Real Battery.
  • Resurfaced batteries, fuel cells and nukes (SCM, KRUSTY).
• Updated Sterling Kerbalism:
  • Added mode select and System Heat involved modules mode for refineries and printeries.
  • Added System Heat involved modules mode for metal fuel cells. Module switching is WIP and weird right now but still playable.
  • Gathered all Kerbalism configs here.
  • Removed Minerals Splitter and ExoticMinerals Splitter recipe. Put those in Rational Resources Kerbalism.
• Updated Sterling Tankage:
  • Added MaterialKits and SpecializedParts.
  • Added options for Beryllium and LqdFluorine. Both are very hazardous so check the black tanks for them.
  • Added System Heat Boiloff compatibility. Instead of asking for ElectricCharge, cryotanks ask for their own loop.
• Updated Sterling Thermals:
  • Made inline heatsinks ThermalPower non-empty by default.
  • Made inline heatsinks lower mass and have 1/25 original ThermalPower capacity.
  • Made inline heatsinks upgrade-able, adding more mass, loop volume and ThermalPower capacity.
  • Rebalanced wrapper radiators. (Still botched, after another inspection.) Cryo radiators are lower mass and capacity. Metal radiators are higher mass and capacity. Graphene radiators mostly gain but somewhat also lose.
  • Retxtured wrapper graphene radiators.
  • ThermalPower gauge on heatsinks now animates if System Heat installed.
  • Updated CTT locations of heat sinks.
  • Updated title convention on wrapper radiators.
• Updated Sterling ThermalsPower:
  • Added nicknames to MSRs and PBRs.
  • Resurfaced all fission reactors.
  • Increased Fissile Pebbles consumption rate. (It was too efficient.)
  • Minor adjustment (number rounding) to ThermalPower outputs of MSRs and PBRs.
  • Updated CTT locations of fission reactors.
• Updated Sterling Utilities:
  • Resurfaced circular refineries.
• Updated Sterling UtilitiesConstruction:
  • Added heat emissive to the field parts.
  • Added missing ElectricCharge in 25m pad and Construction Field.
  • Blacklisted ElectricCharge from Omnistorage in case of Real Battery installs.
  • Enabled Omnistorage for 25m pad.
  • Resurfaced circular printeries and the field parts.
• Updated World Power:
  • Added toggle for Underground meshes.
  • Resurfaced.
  • Updated windmills to be deployable always-on converters when Planetside Exploration Tech not installed.

Fixes

• Updated Sterling Electrics:
  • Added missing skinMaxTemp keys to parts and B9 upgrades. Wrapper solar panels had edge cases of (skin) heat tolerance dipping back to 1200K.
• Updated Sterling Engines:
  • Fixed Antimatter propellant ratio in 10m BCAM.
  • Fixed basic CRP config to not run when Classic Stock Resources (CSR) installed.
  • Added parallel CSR config.
• Updated Sterling Kerbalism:
  • Fixed missing detections for System Heat radiators.
  • Fixed big config error with solar panel fixer. Not sure if it helps anything, though.
• Updated Sterling Tankage:
  • Make Ore option always appear.
  • Fixed CRP detection fatal issue.
  • Fixed typo in FFT antimatter containment cost logic.
• Updated Sterling Thermals:
  • Partial fix to super heavy shield losing heat tolerance when Ablator empty (for Deadly Reentry).
• Updated Sterling ThermalsPower:
  • Stopped fission reactors from eating national budgets.
• Updated Sterling Utilities:
  • Fixed EL module injection patch to only affect Molten Metal Foundry.
• Updated Sterling UtilitiesConstruction:
  • Fixed missing { which may have crippled the spawners with Sandcastle.
  • Updated WBI Sandcastle module names per Sandcastle 1.3.0 release.
• Updated World Power:
  • Fixed Solar PV panel whole part material changed when selecting concentrator variant.
  • Fixed solar furnace config pointing to solar PV type 2's model, and other issues therein.

Release 0.4.14

Additions

• Updated Sterling Electrics:
  • Added Betavoltaics Real Battery configs.
• Updated Sterling UtilitiesConstruction:
  • Added inline construction pads to complement the printeries.
• Updated Sterling Thermals:
  • Added roll-out array radiators.
• Updated Sterling ThermalsPower:
  • Added Tritium configs for molten salt reactors and hazard tankage.

Changes

• Updated Sterling Kerbalism:
  • Added mode select and System Heat involved modules mode for refineries and printeries.
  • Added System Heat involved modules mode for metal fuel cells. Module switching is WIP and weird right now but still playable.
• Updated Sterling Thermals:
  • Retxtured wrapper graphene radiators.
  • Updated title convention on wrapper radiators.
• Updated Sterling Utilities:
  • Resurfaced circular refineries.
• Updated Sterling UtilitiesConstruction:
  • Added heat emissive and spawn heading decal to the field parts.
  • Resurfaced circular printeries and the field parts.

Fixes

• Updated Sterling Kerbalism:
  • Fixed missing detections for System Heat radiators.
  • Fixed big config error with solar panel fixer. Not sure if it helps anything, though.
• Updated Sterling Thermals:
  • Partial fix to super heavy shield losing heat tolerance when Ablator empty (for Deadly Reentry).

Sterling Systems 0.4.13

Additions

• Updated Sterling Thermals:
  • Added preheaters.
  • Made heatsinks ThermalPower non-empty by default.

Changes

• Updated Sterling Core:
  • Increased unit cost of Fissile Pebbles.
• Updated Sterling Engines:
  • Added/Fixed missing defaults for nuclear engines' propellants when Rational Resources Nuclear Family not installed.
• Updated Sterling Electrics:
  • Added Real Battery compatibility. (Parts become 20x massive when this installed.)
  • Updated costs and tech tree placement according to (and without) Real Battery.
  • Resurfaced batteries, fuel cells and nukes (SCM, KRUSTY).
• Updated Sterling Kerbalism:
  • Gathered all Kerbalism configs here.
  • Removed Minerals Splitter and ExoticMinerals Splitter recipe. Put those in Rational Resources Kerbalism.
• Updated Sterling Tankage:
  • Added MaterialKits and SpecializedParts.
• Updated Sterling ThermalsPower:
  • Resurfaced fission reactors.
  • Increased Fissile Pebbles consumption rate. (It was too efficient.)
• Updated Sterling Thermals:
  • ThermalPower gauge on heatsinks now animates if System Heat installed.

Sterling Systems 0.4.12

Additions

• Added Kerbal Health compatibility.
• Updated Sterling Electrics:
  • Added 0.625m Betavoltaics.
• Updated Sterling Core:
  • Added Alternate Resource Panel icons for nuclear resources.

Changes

• Updated Sterling Electrics:
  • Added fuel cell B9 opion colors.
• Updated Sterling Tankage:
  • Added options for Beryllium and LqdFluorine. Both are very hazardous so check the black tanks for them.
  • Added System Heat Boiloff compatibility. Instead of asking for ElectricCharge, cryotanks ask for their own loop.
• Updated Sterling Thermals:
  • Rebalanced wrapper radiators. Cryo radiators are lower mass and capacity. Metal radiators are higher mass and capacity. Graphene radiators mostly gain but somewhat also lose.
• Updated World Power:
  • Resurfaced.

Fixes

• Updated World Power:
  • Fixed solar furnace config pointing to solar PV type 2's model, and other issues therein.

Sterling Systems 0.4.11

Additions

• Added Sterling Kerbalism: Collection of Kerbalism specific things previously released with Rational Resources.
• Updated Sterling Thermals:
  • Added wrapper heatshields for stock Mk2 and Mk3 adapters.
• Updated Sterling World Power:
  • Added solar panel type 2 and windmill type 2.
  • Added tune-able wide radiator based on solar panel type 2.
  • Added Resurfaced for these. (Actually this isn't working. Will figure out later.)
  • Updated windmills to be deployable always-on converters when Planetside Exploration Tech not installed.

Changes

• Updated Sterling Agency:
  • All associated part upgrade and localization changes.
• Updated Sterling Electrics, Thermals, Thermals Power:
  • Updated CTT locations of fission reactors and heat sinks.
• Updated Sterling Engines:
  • ⚠️ Removed Nuclear Family implementation. Seeking to test the waters with Ignition.
• Updated Sterling Thermals:
  • Made inline heatsinks upgrade-able, adding more mass, loop volume and ThermalPower capacity.
  • Made inline heatsinks lower mass and have 1/25 original ThermalPower capacity.
• Updated World Power:
  • Added toggle for Underground meshes.

Fixes

• Updated Sterling Electric:
  • Added missing skinMaxTemp keys to parts and B9 upgrades. Wrapper solar panels had edge cases of (skin) heat tolerance dipping back to 1200K.
• Updated Sterling Engines:
  • Fixed Antimatter propellant ratio in 10m BCAM.
  • Fixed basic CRP config to not run when Classic Stock Resources (CSR) installed.
  • Added parallel CSR config.
• Updated Sterling Tankage:
  • Make Ore option always appear.
  • Fixed CRP detection fatal issue.
• Updated Sterling Utilities:
  • Fixed EL module injection patch to only affect Molten Metal Foundry.
• Updated Sterling UtilitiesConstruction:
  • Updated WBI Sandcastle module names per Sandcastle 1.3.0 release.
• Updated World Power:
  • Fixed Solar PV panel whole part material changed when selecting concentrator variant.

Interim hotfixes

• Electric PV heat fix.zip provides configs for adding the missing skinMaxTemp key to wrapper PV parts and their B9 upgrades. Should fix the issue of [skin] heat tolerance dipping back to default (because that was un-declared). Spotted by DeadJohn on the forum.