changelog.txt

0.9.5 
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- Fixed A-CY1-25 and A-CY1-25XL stack nodes being swapped
- Adjusted attach nodes for A-CY1-5 ,A-CY1-25 and A-CY1-25XL
- Disabled the ability to surface attach the Nova
- Increased Clarke heat generation to 16MW from 13 MW
- Reduced mass of Casaba from 22 to 15 t
- Increased thrust of Casaba from 310 to 420 kN
- Reduced power usage of Impulse to 150 kW
- Considerably reduced the heat generation of extended Fresnel lengths

0.9.4
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- Updated SystemHeat to 0.1.5
- Updated SpaceDust to 0.1.5
- Updated Waterfall to 0.2.6
- Added A-834M 'Frisbee' Antimatter Engine: beam core engine, tons of Isp, pretty good thrust, gigawatts of heat.
- Added A-CY1-5 Antimatter Storage Container: 5m antimatter storage tank
- Added A-CY1-25XL Antimatter Storage Container: 2.5m long antimatter storage
- Added A-CY1-25 Antimatter Storage Container: 2.5m antimattery storage
- Added PK-50 'Nova' Antimatter Facility: huge, unwieldy reactor for generating antimatter 
- Fixed ModulePulseEngine's handling of secondary engine modes such that the secondary mode's effects won't get stuck
- ModuleAntimatterTank now supports some indicator lights when on/off/leaking
- Changed Hammertong second mode name from Low Density to Deuterium Rich
- Balance adjustments
 - Reduced Clarke thrust from 50 to 20 kN
 - Moved Fresnel from Exotic Fusion Reactions to Advanced Fusion Reactions
 - Moved Hammertong from Advanced Fusion Reactions to Exotic Fusion Reactions 
 - Moved Verne from Experimental Nuclear Propulsion to Exotic Nuclear Propulsion
 - Rebalanced Antimatter tankage mass and cost ratios

0.9.3
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- Udpated SystemHeat to 0.1.4
- Udpated Waterfall to 0.2.4
- Clarke FFRE can no longer pull fuel from Uranium containers elsewhere on the ship
- Fixed fusion reactor thermal properties (outlet temperatures to 1600K, made thermal output consistent)
- Fixed fusion reactors showing the wrong icon in the thermal overlay
- Fixed fusion reactors not generating heat in the VAB simulator
- Fixed NSWR meshes again

0.9.2
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- Udpated SystemHeat to 0.1.3
- Udpated SpaceDust to 0.1.4
- Added engine nicknames to part tags
- Added ability to specify a sound curve to ModulePulseEngine and set it up for Casaba, Verne, Hammertong, Impulse; should resolve most sound issues
- Fixed stock heat production of Fresnel engine being enabled in Reaction Products mode
- Fixed beam glow directionality on Clarke FFRE
- Fixed typo in Action group localization for Chargeable Engines
- Fixed CTT patches for a few parts using the old pre-0.9 part names
- Fixed ModuleChargeableEngine still consuming power once the charge process is completed
- Fixed Asimov FFRE not generating power in both modes
- Fixed Asimov FFRE not generating heat in both modes
- Increased ResToLeave for NSWR engine module, should prevent hovering/flickering problems
- Reduced scaling of heat when adding additional segments to the Fresnel

0.9.1
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- Updated SpaceDust to 0.1.3
- Updated Waterfall to 0.2.3
- Udpated SystemHeat to 0.1.1
- Fixed localization issues:
 - Lithium tank manufacturer names
 - Fissionables tank descriptions
 - Impulse mode names
- Added Russian localization (Egor Kosyakov)
- Fixed NSWR missing meshes on Shrouded variants
- Fixed Casaba pulse animation not firing
- Fixed Hammertong heat properties being inconsistent between modes
- Fixed some other issues with the Hammertong that caused it more or less not to work

0.9.0
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- KSP 1.10.1+
- Updated ModuleManager to 4.1.4
- Updated B9PartSwitch to 2.17.0
- Updated CryoTanks to 1.5.3
- Updated CRP to 1.4.1
- Updated DyanmicBatteryStorage to 2.1.10
- REMOVED ALL OLD PARTS!
- Rewrote plugin components completely. Some highlights
 - Better UI and UX overall
 - Plugin stability and robustness is improved
 - Antimatter system is simplified; pay Science to load onto your ship at launch
 - Integration with SystemHeat to drive thermal gameplay
 - Integration with SpaceDust to drive atmospheric ISRU
 - Integration with Waterfall to drive all engine effects
- New engines
 - JP-10 'Impulse' Magneto-Inertial Fusion Engine: entry level fusion engine with great impulse but poor thrust. Uses D-D or H-He3 fusion
 - JR-15 'Jet' Spherical Tokamak Fusion Engine: workhorse fusion engine that can inject more propellant for more thrust. Built in power generation.
 - JR-20A 'Ouroboros' Torroidal Tokamak Fusion Engine: high tech fusion engine optimized for high thrust operations.
 - JR-45 'Fresnel' Mirror Cell Fusion Engine: hugh tech fusion engine, optimized for vacuum operations. increase length for more capabilities. Built in power generation.
 - K-80 'Hammertong' Inertial Confinement Fusion Engine: Very large high Isp laser fusion engine.
 - X-2 'Heinlein' Nuclear Salt Water Rocket Engine:
 - X-6 'Clarke' Fission Fragment Rocket Engine: Unrefuelable engine with awesome Isp and piddly thrust. Generates good power.
 - X-7 'Asimov' Afterburning Fission Fragment Rocket Engine: Super low thrust fission fragment engine with refuelability and the ability to use LH2 as an add-in for more thrust
 - X-20 'Verne' X-20 'Verne' Pulsed Fission Engine: Z-pinch fission pulse engine, lower impulse, higher thrust
 - A-134NG 'Casaba' Antimatter Catalyzed Fission Engine: antimatter + fission pellets + ablator = kaboom
- New power generators
 - FX-2 Fusion Reactor: 2.5m fusion reactor, can run on D-D or D-He3 fusion
 - FX-3 Fusion Reactor: 3.75m fusion reactor, can run on D-D or D-He3 fusion
- New fuel tanks
 - ST-412 Fusion Fuel Tank: small 2.5m fusion fuel tank storing Deuterium, Helium3 or both
 - ST-824 Fusion Fuel Tank: medium 2.5m fusion fuel tank storing Deuterium, Helium3 or both
 - ST-4L3 Fusion Fuel Tank: small 3.75m fusion fuel tank storing Deuterium, Helium3 or both
 - ST-4L3R Fusion Fuel Tank: medium 3.75m fusion fuel tank storing Deuterium, Helium3 or both
 - NTS-001 Fissonables Tank: big 2.5m fission fuel tank storing Nuclear Salt Water or Fission Particles
 - NTS-002 Fissonables Tank: medium 2.5m fission fuel tank storing Nuclear Salt Water or Fission Particles
 - NTS-003 Fissonables Tank: small 2.5m fission fuel tank storing Nuclear Salt Water or Fission Particles
 - NTR-001 Radial Fissonables Tank: big radial fission fuel tank storing Nuclear Salt Water or Fission Particles
 - NTR-002 Radial Fissonables Tank: medium radial fission fuel tank storing Nuclear Salt Water or Fission Particles
 - NTR-003 Radial Fissonables Tank: small radial fission fuel tank storing Nuclear Salt Water or Fission Particles
 - LFT-A40 Lithium Tank: big 2.5m lithium tank
 - LFT-A20 Lithium Tank: medium 2.5m lithium tank
 - LFT-A10 Lithium Tank: small 2.5m lithium tank
 - LFR-08 Lithium Tank: medium radial lithium tank
 - LFR-01 Lithium Tank: small radial lithium tank
 - PW x4 Nuclear Pellet Storage Container: 5m fission pellet storage
 - A-R7 Antiproton Storage Ring: 7.5m antiproton storage
- New ISRU equipment
 - CRANE Gamma Ray Spectrometer: scanner for detecting antimatter
 - CHROMA Imaging Spectrometer: scanner for detecting light elements in atmospheres and exospheres
 - PK-1 'Vulcan' Nuclear Smelter: ISRU tool for generating fission particles, nuclear salt water
 - PK-ATMO 'Hoover' Atmospheric Ramscoop: Atmospheric scoop for scooping resources
 - PK-EXO 'Bussard' Particle Scoop: particle scoop for scooping exospheric resources

0.3.1
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- Updated B9PartSwitch to 2.4.5
- Removed MiniAVC from distribution
- Updated CryoTanks to 1.0.3
- Increased thrust of NSWR to 960 from 520 kN, decreased Isp to from 5650 to 3650
- New engine effects for NSWR and FFRE
- Separated thermal and engine throttle effects for NSWR and FFRE
- Updated textures for NSWR, NSW tanks and FFRE
- Fixed fusion reactor fuel mode not being saved between scenes
- Fixed an issue with fusion reactor fuel consumption

0.3.0
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- KSP 1.5.0
- Updated B9PartSwitch to 2.4.4
- Updated MM version to 3.1.0
- Updated CRP to 1.0.0
- Updated CryoTanks to 1.0.2
- Updated MiniAVC to 1.2.0.6
- Fixed CTT node of nuclear smelter
- Cleaned up display modalities for most new modules (clearer text, better information)
- Significant improvements to ModuleFusionReactor (screen messages for important events, UI bit hiding, stability, VAB formatting)
- Significant improvements to ModuleChargeableEngine (screen messages for events, UI hiding, passive power generation, VAB formatting)
- Multiple fixes to ModuleMultiLengthEngine for stability
- Fixed ModuleEngineHeatDisplay display output being 0.5x what it should have been
- Tuned all engine thermal behaviours to reduce likelihood of explosions
- Renamed/renumbered engines for better VAB sorting
- Fixed several collider/model issues with the mirror cell and beam core antimatter engines
- Greatly improved engine FX for the mirror cell and beam core antimatter engines
- Removed custom resource distributions from package
- Rebalanced harvesting rates for new CRP atmo/exo resource distribution paradigm
- Balance updates to further differentiate engines
-- FFRE now generates lots of power while in operation (still requires charge-up time)
-- Thermal fusion engines power use model reworked
--- Charge-up still required, but once activated, can generate constant power by slow but inefficient usage of fusion fuel (~50% of "real" reactor). While active, power output can be modified and engine has instant response.
--- Tokamak generates 500 kW, mirror cell generates 250 kW
-- Z-Pinch engines now no longer need external power when running (still require charge-up)
-- Inertial fusion engines got a 150% Isp boost

0.2.4
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- KSP 1.3.1
- Dependency updates
- Fixed angled thrust issue on FFRE
- Fixed gimbal pistons on MetallicH2 engine
- Changed fusion reactor module name to fix conflict with DSEV
- Made ModuleMultiRatioEngine configurable with MinMixingRatio and MaxMixingRatio fields. Note that the RatioScale must map correctly to changed values.
- Added some indications of fuel tank ratios to some engines

0.2.3
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- Fixed a bug where a field for the fusion reactor was visible in the VAB when it shouldn't be
- Fixed some fusion reactor localization bugs
- Fixed an issue where fusion reactors would shut down on startup when using D-He3 mode
- Added new functionality to Metallic H2 engine, can vary mixing ratio. Higher ratio = lower heat and performance, lower ratio = higher heat and performance

0.2.2
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- Added FX-2 Fusion Reactor
-- 2.5m fusion reactor, 4-8 MW power output
- Added FX-3 Fusion Reactor
-- 3.75m fusion reactor, 10-20 MW power output
- Added Asimov Fission Fragment Rocket
-- Very low TWR rocket with integrated fuel, very high specific impulse, low heat generation, no EC consumption past charging
- Increased thrust of Z-pinch fusion engine to 375 from 160
- Reduced constant power usage of both Z-Pinch engines by 50%, now 50/65 kW from 100/125 kW
- Reduced constant power usage of tokamak fusion engine from 125 to 75 kW
- Reduced mass of magnetic ICF to 20 from 25 t, reduced heat generation by 2/3
- Reduced mass of Casaba to 11.5 from 15.82, decreased Ablator to 4250
- Tweaked propellant ratios of Casaba so that the consumption of all the Ablator requires exactly 1/2 an antimatter storage ring and 1 small full fission pellet tanks
- Increased Isp of Microstar to 90950 from 60950, increased thrust to 150 kN from 60 kN
- Tweaked propellant ratios of Microstar so that 1 full short 3.75m fusion fuel tank takes very close to 1 full antimatter ring to consume
- Reduced Antimatter consumption of the Dirac by 75% in Medium Density mode
- Increased thrust of Dirac in Medium Density mode to 190 from 122, increased Isp to 75,250 from 55,000 s
- Increased thrust of Dirac in High Density mode to 870 from 720
- Tweaked Ablator use of ablative ICF so that the engine burns through exactly 1 full small pellet tank with its ablator supply
- Reduced dry mass of ablative ICF to 20 from 30 t, increased Ablator amount to 32000 from 15000
- Increased power usage of mirror cell fusion engine by 85 kW per segment
- Decreased specific impulse of NSWR to 5650 from 6730
- Increased cost of NuclearSaltWater to 8 funds/unit from 4 funds/unit
- Decreased mass ratio of NuclearSaltWater tanks to 3 from 5
- Adjusted science costs of all fuel tanks
- Adjusted part and science costs of all resourcing parts
- First stab at costs for engine parts
- Increased the number of FusionPellets in the toggleable tanks by 5x
- Fixed a bug with the ModuleResourceProfiler's range setting
- Fixed a localization issue with the VAB ModuleResourceProfiler's info box
- Fixed a few textures that were still tgas
- Fixed small nuclear target tank mass and cost when using fusion pellets
- Fixed missing CTT nodes for some engines

0.2.1
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- Updated CryoTanks to 0.4.7
- Added a popup that appears the first time a save has an active Antimatter Factory that tells you how to use it
- Clarified some tooltips and part descriptions to indicate that antimatter must be loaded on the pad
- Fixed mirror-cell fusion engine choking on startup
- Worked around stock KSP bug regarding atmospheric harvesters
- Fixed an issue that caused a harmless exception during game loading

0.2.0
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- KSP 1.3
- Updated bundled MM to 2.8.1
- Updated bundled CRP to 0.7.1
- Updated bundled B9PartSwitch to 1.9.0
- CryoTanks is now bundled
- KSP 1.3 localization support for all parts and plugin components
- Added DynamicBatteryStorage component to distribution for timewarp EC management
- The PulsePropulsion plugin was merged with the main FarFutureTechnologies plugin for easier maintenance
- Lots of improvements to UI components
- Antimatter handling was improved:
-- Antimatter is now visible and tweakable in the VAB
-- Antimatter tanks now have "virtual" contents in the VAB, which are not carried to the pad, for compatibility with KER/MJ DV displays
-- Antimatter loader interface now reloads the antimatter count periodically
-- Added infinite mode to antimatter factory which sets factory capacity to the maximum (activate with CTRL+SHIFT+A)
- Improved ModuleEngineHeatDisplay's performance and utility
- Improved PulseEngineAnimator to be more flexible, support "initiation" animations and heat animations
- ModuleAntimatterTank's timewarp compensation was removed (Handled in DBS)
- Fixed antimatter tank only drawing power from itself and not the entire vessel
- New ModuleChargeableEngine component
-- Engine must be charged by a flow of EC for some time before being activated at a customizable draw rate
-- Engines using this method typically don't require as much EC during operation
- New ModuleMultiLengthEngine component
-- Engine reaction chamber length can be varied in the VAB
-- Higher reaction chamber length gives better performance
- New ModuleProfilingScanner component
-- Replaces stock atmosphere scanner module
-- ModuleProfilingScanner scans detect concentrations at the sensor but also direct a scanning beam in the direction of instrument pointing
-- Running a scan opens a window showing the measured concentrations out into space at a player-defined distance
- Z-Pinch engines received nicknames
- Various changes to nomenclature of engines for better VAB sorting
- Most engines fuel gauges were modified - EC no longer draws, and the two most "important" fuels are drawn
- Reexported all engine plumes with correct layers and tags
- Mass ratio of He3/D tanks was normalized to 6 (same as all cryogenic fuels in my other mods)
- Rebalanced energy usage of all engines, typically now scales with thrust power (magnetic nozzle field strength)
- Rebalanced heat production of all engines to typically lower values
- Increased emissivity and max temp of most engines
- Fixed small nuclear target tank containing 4000 pellets (reduced to 1800)
- All fusion fuel tanks now require cryogenic cooling
- Nuclear smelter now has an Ablator Refurbishment mode that can transform large quantities of ore into Ablator in-place
- Increased visual pulse rate of Z-pinch engines by 25-33%
- Casaba, MicroStar, Pleiades, Polaris engines now use the new ModuleChargeableEngine component
- Cochrane engine completely rebalanced
-- Uses new ModuleMultiLengthEngine implementation
-- Engine reaction chamber length can be varied from 5m to 30m
-- Higher reaction chamber length gives better thrust (linear scaling) and better efficiency (geometric scaling) at the cost of higher mass, energy usage (linear scaling)
- Added JR-35B 'Jet' Tokamak Fusion Engine
-- Chargeable engine
-- Simple entry level thermal fusion engine using D/He3 and LH2
- Added J-18 'Fresnel' Mirror Cell Fusion Engine
-- Chargeable engine
-- High efficiency thermal fusion engine using D/He3 and LH2
-- Engine reaction chamber length can be varied in the VAB between 6m and 30m
-- Higher reaction chamber length gives better thrust (linear scaling) and better efficiency (geometric scaling) at the cost of higher mass and thrust (linear scaling)
- Added K-29 'Hammertong' Inertial Confinement Fusion Engine
-- Chargeable engine
-- Magnetic nozzle, very high specific impulse, lower thrust
- Added K-49 'Stardust' Inertial Confinement Fusion Engine
-- Chargeable engine
-- ablative nozzle, high specific impulse, medium thrust
- Added 'Implausability' Metallic Hydrogen Engine
-- High TWR, high impulse chemical engine
- Added ST-4L3R Fusion Fuel Tank (3.75m)
- Added ST-824 Fusion Fuel Tank (2.5m)
- Added MH-4 Metallic Hydrogen Tank (2.5m)
- Added MH-8 Metallic Hydrogen Tank (3.75m)
- Reexported all normal maps for correct-ness

0.1.1
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- KSP 1.2.2
- Added AVC support
- Updated bundled MM to 2.7.5
- Updated bundled CRP to 0.6.6
- Updated bundled B9PartSwitch to 1.7.1
- Added a new ModuleEngineHeatDisplay component to all FFT engines to show engine heat outputs in VAB tooltips and as a right click option in flight
- Reworked entirety of FFT antimatter handling plugin
-- Antimatter is now loaded in the flight scene, provided the selected vessel is at the KSC
-- Loading interface allows loading and unloading of antimatter tanks back into the KSC reserve
- Completed a number of tweaks and improvements to part names and descriptions
- Added better part search tags for many parts
- FusionPellets and FissionPellets have replaced FusionTargets and FissionTargets for compatibility with DSEV
- NuclearSaltWater has replaced NukeSaltWater for clarity
- Normalized all fusion tech parts to use either D-D or D-He3 fusion
- Removed tritium storage from fusion fuel tanks
- Normalized all nuclear fuel tanks (NuclearSaltWater, FusionPellets, FissionPellets) to have mass ratio of 4.0
- Normalized all cryogenic fuel tanks (LqdHe3, LqdDeuterium) to have mass ratio of 5.0
- Antimatter containers now have enough builtin EC storage for 10s of power loss
- NuclearSaltWater tanks have been respecced to be tougher and more thermally resistant instead of having cryogenic values]
- Converted a number of completed textures to dds
- Reworked fusion fuel tank models to look better and obey isotank design language
- Added textures to the inline antimatter tank
- Added KV-1 'Vulcan' Nuclear Smelter: processes EnrichedUranium -> FissionPellets, LqdDeuterium+LqHe3 -> FusionPellets, EnrichedUranium+Water -> NuclearSaltWater
- Added CX-A Particle Scoop: extracts LqdHydrogen, Antimatter from exoplanetary locations
- Added 'Hoover' Atmospheric Ramscoop: extracts LqdHydrogen, LqdDeuterium, LqdHe3 from atmospheres
- Added ZAP Gamma Spectrometer: detects exoplanetary Antimatter
- Added ALICE Imaging Spectrometer: Detects LqdHydrogen (atmo and exo), LqdHe3, LqdDeuterium

0.1.0
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- Initial development release