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@romsti romsti released this 25 Oct 10:20
v2.1.0
7292b0b

KRPC.Bridge 2.1.0 and TowerCatch 1.1.0

This release still needs kRPC 0.7.0 (it does not load on kRPC 0.6.x). Two things change since 2.0.0:

  • MechJeb leaves the bridge. The conn.mech_jeb service and its plugin KRPC.Bridge.MechJeb.dll
    are removed. If you still use them, stay on KRPC.Bridge 2.0.0.
  • The booster catch tower is entirely in TowerCatch. The tower's plugin, KRPC.Bridge.Tower.dll
    (the services conn.tower and conn.tower_site, unchanged), moves from GameData/KRPC.Bridge into
    GameData/TowerCatch/Plugins. KRPC.Bridge now holds nothing of the tower; if you do not fly a tower you
    install nothing more than the bridge, and TowerCatch is the tower's parts, its craft and its services in
    one optional download. The plugin declares a dependency on the bridge's Core, so KSP loads it after it.

The release has two downloads, as before:

File What it is
KRPC.Bridge-2.1.0.zip The mod. Required.
TowerCatch-1.1.0.zip The whole booster catch tower: ModuleManager patch, craft and plugin. Optional. Needs KRPC.Bridge 2.1.0 or later.

Upgrading from 2.0.0 (read this if you update by hand)

Delete your old GameData/KRPC.Bridge folder before you unzip the new one. If you prefer to update in
place, you must at least delete these four files from GameData/KRPC.Bridge/Plugins:

  • KRPC.Bridge.Tower.dll and KRPC.Bridge.Tower.xml
  • KRPC.Bridge.MechJeb.dll and KRPC.Bridge.MechJeb.xml

Why: the tower's plugin now lives in GameData/TowerCatch/Plugins. If the 2.0.0 copy stays in
GameData/KRPC.Bridge/Plugins, two assemblies declare the kRPC service Tower and TowerSite; kRPC refuses
the duplicate, and that takes the whole kRPC server down, not only the tower. (MechJeb's plugin is
harmless left in place, but nothing uses it any more.)

If you use a tower, install TowerCatch-1.1.0.zip too, the same way (GameData/TowerCatch/), and delete
GameData/TowerCatch of 1.0.0 first if you have it. Never keep a second copy of TowerCatch.cfg: two copies
make every tower part twice. If an older bridge left GameData/KRPC.Bridge/Patches and
GameData/KRPC.Bridge/Crafts, delete those two folders as well. The TG.* part names did not change: a tower
already in a save loads as before.

CKAN does all of this for you: TowerCatch 1.1.0 depends on KRPC-Bridge 2.1.0, and KRPC-Bridge 2.1.0
conflicts with TowerCatch 1.0.0 (whose plugin it no longer carries).

Requirements

  • Kerbal Space Program 1.12.x (checked on 1.12.5)
  • kRPC 0.7.0, and its Python client: pip install "krpc>=0.7,<0.8"
  • Optional, each one only for its own service: FMRS Continued, Trajectories, OfCourseIStillLoveYou with
    HullCamera VDS Continued. A mod you do not have makes its service report available = False.
  • For TowerCatch only: ModuleManager, Modular Launch Pads, HullCamera VDS Continued, and the two paid
    expansions Breaking Ground and Making History (CKAN can detect them, not install them).

Installation

  1. Unzip KRPC.Bridge-2.1.0.zip into your KSP folder, so that GameData/KRPC.Bridge/ appears in GameData/
    (after deleting the old folder, see above). Keep each .xml next to its .dll: kRPC reads it to build
    the Python docstrings.

  2. Optional: unzip TowerCatch-1.1.0.zip the same way (GameData/TowerCatch/).

  3. Start KSP, start the kRPC server, and check:

    import krpc
conn = krpc.connect()
print(conn.bridge.ping())    # "pong"
print(hasattr(conn, "tower"), hasattr(conn, "tower_site"))   # True True with TowerCatch, False False without

CKAN

The two records (distribution/KRPC.Bridge.netkan, distribution/TowerCatch.netkan) pick their own zip of
this shared release by name and take their own version from it (KRPC-Bridge 2.1.0, TowerCatch 1.1.0), ask
for kRPC v0.7.0 as CKAN numbers it, and TowerCatch declares the Making History and Breaking Ground
expansions (MakingHistory-DLC, BreakingGround-DLC).

See CHANGELOG.md for the detail.

Files

File Size sha256
KRPC.Bridge-2.1.0.zip 458 295 bytes bc57018c4d3c500a41a57feb1a29ec2770bd6d1e75b4a3db0d9a1f183d4a2f10
TowerCatch-1.1.0.zip 92 335 bytes da73b9a9b982ad0955b0920fd4f6cae4886a574c90d4d9904553b4c22ead1083

Both zips were built from commit 7292b0bd93a7129f7263450fbbbc9bc19b12ea0d; the manifest.json inside each
gives the sha256 of every file it ships.

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