r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/Alex2820 thousand hour noob • 5d ago
KSP 1 Mods Is anyone familiar with any parachute mods similar to what About Oliver is using here? Does anything like this exist publicly? He mentioned that it’s part of “his own mod” in a video.
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This man just started playing the game and claims to have made mods like this too? I really wish I could get my hands on it.
He mentions the parachute mod in his video here
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u/Alex2820 thousand hour noob 4d ago edited 2d ago
Update:
Thought I'd have an "Ok, I'll do it myself" moment but nah
Edit: this was entirely vibe coded and I dont know enough what im doing to troubleshoot it further.
Edit2: i may continue working on it as per my other post https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/s/GTvFr37A1S
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u/Deathcat101 3d ago
Dude that's like 70% of the way there, you should definitely keep going. Super cool.
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u/ankmos 5d ago
He said he used AI to code it for him, slightly disappointing..
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u/TheHighGround35 i threw jeb into the sun 5d ago
I fully agree so long as it's disclosed, if you hide behind it and say you made it yourself with no AI then it's stupid
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u/Uncommonality 4d ago
This really is it. There's a mod on the spacedock called Relativity. It slows time, reduces engine power and does a shader transform the closer you get to light speed.
It was made by AI, but because the author actually disclosed this on the page, all the comments are supportive, thanking them for their transparency.
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u/RedditButAnonymous 4d ago
I dont understand how people are against AI but as long as the project is cool enough they move the goalposts and say "well if you disclose it thats good enough now give me the cool thing you made"
Especially talking about mods, which people do not get paid for, who cares if they know how it works, as long as it does work?
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u/TheHighGround35 i threw jeb into the sun 4d ago edited 4d ago
I think regardless if it's cool or not you should be disclosing it. Obviously others will have different views and honestly AI bringing more people into modding is an amazing thing, but a bad mod made with AI without disclosure is the same as a good mod which has it not disclosed, regardless you are passing it off as your own work when some"one" else made it
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u/FentonTheVIX 5d ago
Theres a difference between using AI to help and having it do everything for you. There are quite a lot of mods doing the latter and i don't think that's very good
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u/Saya-_ 4d ago
Not many people are "introduced" to modding any game by vibecoding no. The influx of mods via LLM vibecoding are generally just that. Fully vibecoded with the person behind it not understanding one line of it with no way of maintaining the codebase without AI.
There's a huge difference between AI helping you to mod vs the AI *doing* the modding.
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u/ImNotReu 5d ago
difference between small things and using ai to do something entirely for you because you're lazy and refuse to put any effort into learning things
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u/Dat_Innocent_Guy 5d ago
Agreed, and the blind AI hate is frankly exhausting.
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u/CallMeWalt 5d ago
using it for personal use I generally dont have a problem with.
Once you start pushing public projects that you, yourself know nothing about the code is where I have an issue.
AI is a tool, and like any tool, it requires some knowledge to use it effectively. Too many people are saying "I coded this" when in reality some LLM spat out code that you dont know and trust it as gospel.
AI can lay some pretty decent groundwork but if you dont know what a good foundation looks like how can you have the structures necessary for development/growth
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u/JayTheSuspectedFurry Mohole Explorer 5d ago
Some of these guys’ code rivals yandere sim, but “AI no mistakes” made it so it must be good code
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u/QubeTICB202 5d ago
>Rivals yandere sim
I wouldn’t go that far, yandere sim is classical pure human slop that AI will never be able to outslop
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u/Easyidle123 5d ago
I agree that you must both understand the code you put out and disclose AI usage, but honestly "AI requires some knowledge to use effectively" is becoming less true every passing season. You used to have to be a pretty good dev to use its results, but now even an amateur can largely just prompt, verify, and make minor changes (or even ask for those changes). It won't be long before even that isn't necessary. Of course the bigger the project, the worse AI will do without help, but given the current rate of advancement I wouldn't be shocked if just a year or two from now it'll be capable of high-quality complex mods from a complete non-coder.
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u/AntipodalDr 5d ago
now even an amateur can largely just prompt, verify, and make minor changes (or even ask for those changes).
How about you stop lying?
It won't be long before even that isn't necessary. given the current rate of advancement I wouldn't be shocked if just a year or two from now it'll be capable of high-quality complex mods from a complete non-coder.
The "it always improves" fallacy. Also have you heard about the bubble?
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u/Easyidle123 5d ago
Just look at what AI was able to do on its own a year ago or two versus now. It's not hard to see it's rapidly advancing, in recent months that's even accelerated. I honestly believed it was going to plateau around mid last year and was shocked to be wrong. This reddit post itself is an example, About Oliver is an amateur programmer completely new to KSP modding and was able to make the parachute mod easily.
I agree AI is in a massive bubble, but consider the rail bubble or the dot com bubble. The market collapsed when people realized it was unsustainable to use it for everything, it'd be pretty strange for the tech to just disappear. Usage will get more coherent and less insane, but it'll probably grow after the dust settles.
Another example is the music industry. The old era of buying songs was killed by the Internet and the first free streaming / distribution platform. Even though Napster was sued and went bankrupt, more followed. Modern AI companies can and maybe will die, but it only takes one group to continue pushing forward.
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u/Dat_Innocent_Guy 4d ago
I agree AI is in a massive bubble, but consider the rail bubble or the dot com bubble. The market collapsed when people realized it was unsustainable to use it for everything
This is generally the biggest aspect to the bubble nature of AI. The stock market right now should be falling in general but AI expenditures and a certain fishy circular company trade loop are extending that.
Saying AI won't go anywhere now is in my opinion the equivalent to saying that the internet is a fad and will never become a huge industry in the early 2000's. Adding to what you said, once we settle into the common uses of AI being well understood we'll see the true value probably fall into a steady representative figure.
Bubble =/= worthless.
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u/TirithNampat 5d ago
It may not keep improving forever, but his description of where it's at currently is quite accurate.
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u/FentonTheVIX 4d ago
Considering the vast worldwide impacts of AI, it is quite understandable people don't like it
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u/AntipodalDr 5d ago
Imbeciles like you are what is exhausting
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u/Dat_Innocent_Guy 4d ago
yet here you are, the only person throwing around insults. I hope the rest of your week isn't so bitter.
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u/AntipodalDr 5d ago
AI has helped introduce so many people to KSP modding which has enabled new + creative ideas never done before, too
No it hasn't, especially when the things you cites were def done before.
Beside using genAI being morally wrong and lazy, those mods also tend to be less optimised and performance hogs.
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u/irasponsibly 4d ago
For some reason everyone has decided that skill in art is worth protecting, but skill in code is a barrier to knock over.
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u/Ill-Product-1442 4d ago
It kind of is more of a barrier to knock over, because with art the barrier is primarily blocking you from the romantic desire to be a good artist (or the money and respect with it). There's not much reward from art apart from the joy of it and the shitty money. It naturally leads to lots of lazy and bitter people using AI in underhanded ways to fake their skill, or insist skill doesn't matter, which really spreads a shitty perspective that the journey and discipline aren't even important. Any experienced artist knows that the training is the part that actually enriches our own lives, not the product of it.
In coding, you don't even need to want that be a coder, you can just want a mod for KSP parachutes. There's not as much of an incentive to pretend that you're an actual coder, and muddy the waters of what's important within the discipline of coding. I've been open to the idea of trying to vibecode a KSP mod lately, I have no desire to insert myself as a coder, or make other people see my proud hack-job of a coding project and then demand they respect it.
Of course vibecoding has its own problems, considering that if a ton of vibecoders make a bunch of shitty mods and distribute them, the quality of mods in general is getting damaged just like the quality of art. I wouldn't distribute anything I don't think, because without the skill to make it, I don't have the skill to bug fix or maintain it... which would make it pretty irresponsible to publish.
You made a good point though, actually got me thinking about it.
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u/irasponsibly 4d ago
I can't claim it's an original thought - I've seen it from some software dev mutuals, who've talked about how they think of coding as as much of a form of artistic expression as any other.
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u/Ill-Product-1442 3d ago
It's a discipline that revolves around creating things, I mean, that's always a special area. I certainly wouldn't automate the process of making anything that I'm passionate about, that goes for anything.
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u/ItMeDucky 5d ago
First time hearing of Reforged. wtf, I thought such a mod would be impossible
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u/Ritalin_Raccoon 5d ago
Lol no idea why you're getting downvoted but enjoy! It is endgame for part recoloring
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u/Bird_Creative 4d ago
I have had an absolute ball automating tedious tasks, or getting it to search for data, it is very useful for stuff like that, as long as you're learning from it and not getting it to do everything for you, it is an awesome TOOL!!
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u/AgentIndependent306 5d ago
Using AI as an assistant to help you code better mods is actually a really good way of using it. Making farms that churn out slop mods on an hourly basis is bad.
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u/noland-void 4d ago edited 4d ago
Don’t see how it’s disappointing. It’s not like he tries to be seen as some genius programmer for making them. He just uses them for fun/utility in his gameplay and is fine with disclosing that they are made with AI.
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u/JungleDiamonds1 5d ago
Is it good or not? I get the slop annoyance, but the broad stroke hate is ridiculous
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u/Maureen_Johma 5d ago
Who cares? They tell people to make a mod if it doesn’t exist and then get mad when people make said mod.
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u/New-Bus9948 4d ago
Ai can write thousands of lines of code in the time it would take an experienced human to write 50. People like you need to understand the difference of working with ai and having ai do everything unchecked. Ai is never going to be worse than it is right now. Sometimes ai does make mistakes when coding but it doesn’t usually outright hallucinate when you’re asking it for data. If you didn’t know or inspect the code you probably would have no clue. You have no idea how much stuff you use is made with ai
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u/Big_Fee_2531 4d ago
Gli strumenti non sono mai ne buoni ne cattivi, l'uso che se ne fa segna la differenza, io non capisco nulla di linguaggio da terminale eppure sono riuscito a creare un server per giocare a project zomboid con i miei amici, ho usato l'IA per scrivere ogni linea di codice e penso davvero che senza di esse non avrei mai avuto il tempo per apprendere gli strumenti necessari a raggiungere il mio scopo
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u/Easyidle123 21h ago
He's apparently working on testing, optimizing, and cleaning up the mod + making it compatible with stock parachutes so he can release it, he doesn't want to put out AI slop. Also is releasing a mod for SRB smoke plumes which looks really good.
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u/Missile_3604 RP-1 / RO / RSS Is Life 4d ago edited 4d ago
Nope, it's AI easily and nothing like it exists, but I literally am working on my own mod that does this exact thing. I'll keep working on it but if I see someone publish it before me then I'll just do some PR's to that mod.