Tech Patches for reDIRECT, Hephaistos, and Bluedog DB.

[CessnaSkyhawk]

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[hemeac]

I'll take a look at this in a couple days, just behind on some other work that needs to take priority, but thanks for sending over

[CessnaSkyhawk]

Alright - works great for me actually, as I can hopefully finish up the Kerbalism patches by then anyways

[hemeac]

In general, they look good, but I am guessing you have copied and pasted some bits from the files that you are developing? The files that you've sent in the pull request don't have have the cfg extensions so won't be detected by MM.

Can you also remove the patch in the BDB cfg that adds the part name to the description? While useful for debugging, that's out of scope for the mod. In general, also want to avoid any :FINAL passes that are in distributed mods, best practice is only for personal patches.

[CessnaSkyhawk]

Alright - both should be fixed in a minute. The .cfg issue was due to me still figuring out PRs, and the part name patch was just me being dumb and forgetting to delete it when I was done editing 😅

[CessnaSkyhawk]

Alright - should be all done now. Last thing left is trying my hand at Kerbalism experiments. I've got the part adding pre-configured KTT/Kerbalism experiments to BDB science stuff done, but the couple custom experiments I'm trying (Keyhole spy sats and Nimbus weather sats) are presenting some difficulty. I'll commit what I've got so far (the preconfig stuff), and then see how those other experiments work out.

[Sadaell]

@CessnaSkyhawk, I'm also slowly adding Kerbalism/BDB experiments. If you want I can send you some of my patches including weather, sigint and few long term telescopes experiments, but it might take some time since right now they are completely mess.
Also maybe you should use wildcards instead of adding experiments to certain parts because some other mods like Coatl utilize BDB's SciDefs instead of their own if BDB is installed.

[CessnaSkyhawk]

@Sadaell I actually just about wrapped my patch up aside from a few minor tweaks and science value balancing things, but if you want to compare notes at some point it probably wouldn't hurt.

[CessnaSkyhawk]

In general all the science experiments should hopefully be supported now in my PR, but there's still one or two more things I might want to do - specifically, I want to try and retrofit the stock Kerbalism SigInt scan into an experiment for the "Meadow" mapping cam and the Thresher sigint scanner to try and differentiate them from the Keyhole stuff.

I'm also a little concerned about the balance of certain experiments - especially CORONA for sigint and the three extraplanetary (KARS/WAMUU/ESIDISI) weather ones, but I'm likely just gonna test that by doing a playthrough myself and seeing whats what.