Hullo, it's EclipticIndustries here! Welcome to the Runway Project Season 6 modpack. This modpack is meant to be used in the context of RWP S6, but feel free to check it out regardless if you're looking for a somewhat tailored aircraft-focused BDArmory experience, with a stock KSP balance.

We've chosen to distribute this modpack as a stand-alone zip file rather than a CKAN archive mostly for simplicity, but also to allow us to be selective in which parts are in included, and to easily integrate customized config. If you're interested in using this modpack as a player, just download RWP_Modpack.zip, and copy the GameData folder within it into your KSP install.

If you want to build on the modpack, or use it as a developer, you'll instead need to clone this git repository (along with all its submodules!) with git checkout --recurse-submodules [email protected]/runway-project/rwp-s6-modpack. In order to rebuild the mod, first install Node.js, then run npm install from the root of the repo to pull down some dependencies. You can then issue a rebuild command by running npm run build.

The build script will create a new dist/RWP_Modpack directory, along with a versioned zip file containing all the mods.

All the custom content is stored in src/parts, and will be automatically copied over by the build script.

So, while working on this modpack, I uncovered some cursed knowledge about how KSP's bumped specular shader handles normal maps. Internally, it seems to expect normal maps to be encoded using DTX5nm compression, where the contents of the normal map's red channel is instead stored in the alpha channel. Using a standard normal map generated by essentially any tool which exists (X in the red channel, Y in the green channel) will result in broken lighting.

Optimally, any normal maps you author would just be encoded as .DDS files with DTX5nm compression, but modern tools (e.g. the Photoshop DDS plugin) seem to output DirectX 10 DDS files, which KSP can't use.

Instead, I've solved this in this modpack by storing the normal maps as 16-bit PNGs, with the red channel manually copied into the alpha. This seems to work, although it's a bit inelegant.

This modpack makes use of content from these mods, under their respective licenses:

AirplanePlus is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

B9 Procedural Wings is distributed under the MIT License. Note that this modpack is using a modified version of this library, made by SuicidalInsanity.

B9PartSwitch is distributed under the LGPL v3.0 License

BDArmory is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license.

BDArmory-Extended by SuicidalInsanity is distributed under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal license.

Camera Tools is distributed under the GPLv3 license.

CommunityResourcePack is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

DockRotate is distributed under the MIT License.

Firespitter is by Andreas Aakvik Gogstad (Snjo).

HarmonyKSP is distributed under the MIT License.

Interstellar Fuel Switch is distributed under the Creative Commons NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (CC-NC-SA). Please find source code and more details at https://github.com/sswelm/KSPInterstellar/tree/master/FuelSwitch.

MK2X and MK3X by SuicidalInsanity are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Moderately Plane Related is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license.

ModuleManager is distributed under a Creative Commons sharealike license.

Physics Range extender is distributed under the Unlicense.

Shabby is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

SimpleRepaint is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

SmartParts is distributed under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 License.