Suggestions

[EmberSkyMedia]

Amazing mod, I really like how my planes and rockets now get hit my lightning.

Some Hopefully Helpful Suggestions:

1. Have the effect last a tad longer, I know its lightning, but its also a blink and you miss it. Maybe have it fork down a few frames (2-3) so you see it coming.
2. Have some strikes near a rocket/plane to indicate when its at risk of getting hit vs. lightning off in the distance.
3. Part that explodes, really needs to cause a problem (if a tank is hit, currently all its parents/childern parts stay the same spot... rather than the rocket fall apart).
4. Forking the lightning rather than a single bolt?
5. Smokescreen integration (if you are launching and there is a plume behind you... the lightning should follow it). In fact if you launch in a thundershowers with SRBs... you pretty much are a connected lightning rod and should get hit.
6. Lighting "Risk" alarm or indicator? (Maybe Blizzy Toolbar icon indicator) so you know that if you do launch when its high, your rocket is going to get hit.

[Aebestach]

Thanks!!!

1. It could be extended a bit longer.
2. In v1.2.0, there shouldn't be distant lightning strikes hitting anything. If you have volumetric clouds installed, distant lightning would be coming from the volumetric clouds, not from Thunderbolt.
3. With "Damage" enabled in the difficulty settings, getting struck should destroy parts. There is a bug where parts may become hidden (turn transparent, though they still technically exist), but this should only happen in debug mode.
4. It actually does fork, but you can only see it clearly from a distance, and it's somewhat random—each fork looks different every time.
5. I won't consider distinguishing SRBs from other engines, as that would actually be quite complex to detect.
6. Honestly, I don't think this feature would be very useful. With volumetric clouds, everything has to be within vessel loading range, and issuing warnings while in that loaded state doesn't really accomplish much. The way volumetric clouds handles things already involves some randomness, so it's genuinely difficult to predict.