PFD-C Coriolis reports wrong size when deflated

[chris9871]

The size reported when deflated for Coriolis is 3.1m (correct) x 11.8m (probably incorrect) x 5.8m (probably correct). Rotating it 45degrees results in 3.1m x 8.9m x 8.8m.

[ChrisAdderley]

Sorry it took me so long to get to this, does this happen with the other centrifuges? I know KSP doesn't do bounds calculations very well so there might not be much I can do about this.

[chris9871]

No, only this one. I verified that all the other ones report values pretty close to expected.

[ChrisAdderley]

Issue still under investigation - not sure what's wrong.

[ChrisAdderley]

Think I got this :)

[chris9871]

Cool beans! I have, of course, long since launched my station, but I'll give it a try when it comes out!

[ChrisAdderley]

Fixed in 1.0.6

[chris9871]

Hmm, I just tried it in 1.0.6 and I notice two things in game. 1) it still seems to report the wonky 11.8m, and 2) it looks like there's flickering graphics issues as if two images were overlaid.

I wanted to make sure that I had the right version installed so I checked the GameData/StationPartsExpansionRedux and found that the version file says 1.0.5 even though ckan says 1.0.6 (so this could just be a ckan issue).

[ChrisAdderley]

I found a small issue but did a deeper investigation. The real size of the part as calculated by the games does change now, but the Engineer's Report doesn't update unless you pick up and move the part (or the whole vessel or similar). This seems to occur with stock deploying parts like solar panels as well so I don't know if there's much I can do with it.

[chris9871]

I noticed that as well and was taking that into account - move the object after shrinking it, then check the dimensions.

[ChrisAdderley]

Oh, didn't notice that, looks like a completely different issue somehow then. Reading fail. Re-opened, have no idea what's wrong.

[chris9871]

Ironically, the only reason I noticed it was when I tried to stick it into a Hangar (another mod).

[ChrisAdderley]

Yeah I'm going to have to investigate how the game generates these. They appear to be related to drag cubes, but the cubes themselves are fine (after 1.0.6 at least) so I'm a little stumped.

[chris9871]

I'm not 100% certain that I was using the right version - see above. If it's a stumper, don't worry about it, the workaround are easy enough :)

[ChrisAdderley]

Nah I repro'ed your problem in the dev branch so it must be for sure a problem.
My actual candidate for causing the problem is the deformable mesh of the tube. KSP doesn't calculate the bounds of these correctly some of the time so it might be running into that.

I'll timebox maybe an hour more of time to investigation in the next day or two, but that's all I can commit to.