winnermah Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 (edited) Will planets be remodelled as well in the future? And if yes, will clouds be added to Kerbin, Eve, Duna and Laythe? Edited March 25, 2019 by winnermah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blowfish Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 25 minutes ago, winnermah said: Will planets be remodelled as well in the future? And if yes, will clouds be added to Kerbin, Eve, Duna and Laythe? Nope, Restock's focus is on parts. Modifying planets requires a ton of complicated plugin code and there are already mods out there that do this quite well (both the plugin code side and the visuals side). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrandProtectorDark Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 50 minutes ago, blowfish said: Modifying planets requires a ton of complicated plugin code Quite the opposite, Once you got Kopernicus Installed, modifying planets only requires a few small MM patches and maybe a new texture file.(I personally would say it's Easier to make planets than parts, as you don't need Modeling software for Planets or actual programming knowledge for plugins). But that as you said, isn't the point of Restock. Fancy Part Reskins, that is what the Restock team have have made (and did very good). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeltaDizzy Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, GrandProtectorDark said: Quite the opposite, Once you got Kopernicus Installed, modifying planets only requires a few small MM patches and maybe a new texture file.(I personally would say it's Easier to make planets than parts, as you don't need Modeling software for Planets or actual programming knowledge for plugins). Thats exactly what Kopernicus is. A complicated plugin that presents an easy way to modify them while keeping all the heavy lifting hidden out of sight. Edited March 25, 2019 by DeltaDizzy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whirligig Girl Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 3 hours ago, winnermah said: Will planets be remodelled as well in the future? And if yes, will clouds be added to Kerbin, Eve, Duna and Laythe? https://github.com/GregroxMun/Stock-Planets-Rekerjiggered Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blowfish Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, GrandProtectorDark said: Quite the opposite, Once you got Kopernicus Installed, modifying planets only requires a few small MM patches and maybe a new texture file.(I personally would say it's Easier to make planets than parts, as you don't need Modeling software for Planets or actual programming knowledge for plugins). But that as you said, isn't the point of Restock. Fancy Part Reskins, that is what the Restock team have have made (and did very good). I guess I also should have clarified that adding more dependencies to Restock is basically out of the question. Of course Kopernicus was one of the mods I was referring to in my last statement. And Kopernicus doesn't get you clouds. Edited March 25, 2019 by blowfish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EchoLima Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 14 hours ago, GregroxMun said: https://github.com/GregroxMun/Stock-Planets-Rekerjiggered Nice work! Are you planning on making a forum post for this (if there isn't one already)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whirligig Girl Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 1 hour ago, EchoLima said: Nice work! Are you planning on making a forum post for this (if there isn't one already)? not yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrandProtectorDark Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 18 hours ago, blowfish said: I guess I also should have clarified that adding more dependencies to Restock is basically out of the question. Of course Kopernicus was one of the mods I was referring to in my last statement. And Kopernicus doesn't get you clouds. The way your comment was worded, Implied to me, that making the planets themself, requires you to write complicated code. Not that you need complicated code to write the plugin that allows planets. 20 hours ago, DeltaDizzy said: Thats exactly what Kopernicus is. A complicated plugin that presents an easy way to modify them while keeping all the heavy lifting hidden out of sight. I see it in the way Kopernicus/ContractConfigurator/EVE/Modulemanager, those installed alone, don't do much if anything at all, as do Planet/Contract/cloud/patch mods alone. But the plugins are already existent and functional. So you wouldn't need to code anything new to make something So I think it is a bit redundant to add "coding the planet plugin" to the list of things required for modifying a planet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blowfish Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 3 hours ago, GrandProtectorDark said: The way your comment was worded, Implied to me, that making the planets themself, requires you to write complicated code. Not that you need complicated code to write the plugin that allows planets. On 3/25/2019 at 12:49 PM, blowfish said: there are already mods out there that do this quite well (both the plugin code side and the visuals side) I haven't dived too deep into Kopernicus's code, but my understanding is that it needs to muck around with KSP's internals in several areas to support modifying existing planets. Of course, Kopernicus supports a wide array of solar system modifying functions, so maybe the part to just replace terrain textures isn't too complicated. But either way, out of scope for Restock and probably not code that should be duplicated within the world of KSP mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V8jester Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 (edited) I held off on Restock at first. Because I imagined it to be a very “heavy” mod. Too many big changes and I thought I wouldn’t like it... I was very wrong! Super clean redesigns of parts with some amazing textures behind them. I haven’t seen everything just yet. But I am super impressed so far! Fantastic work guys! Edited March 27, 2019 by V8jester Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 (edited) 23 hours ago, blowfish said: I haven't dived too deep into Kopernicus's code, but my understanding is that it needs to muck around with KSP's internals in several areas to support modifying existing planets. Of course, Kopernicus supports a wide array of solar system modifying functions, so maybe the part to just replace terrain textures isn't too complicated. But either way, out of scope for Restock and probably not code that should be duplicated within the world of KSP mods. I think it could be good to link some good visual mods in the release thread, though. A list of HD overhauls made to similar quality standard and covering different areas of the game would be helpful. Edited March 27, 2019 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nertea Posted March 29, 2019 Author Share Posted March 29, 2019 (edited) As the mod has been released, I think it would be good for this thread to be closed, to reduce noise and ensure items are all in one place. Edited March 29, 2019 by Nertea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starhawk Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 This thread has been locked at the request of the OP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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