Can we take the Kerbal Workers with us?

[Martian Emigrant]

Hi.

Not really serious but....

You know those little Kerbal workers in the VAB? I call them "Wrenches".

I imagine a can of wrenches that you can attach to a Ship. You land on the Mun they immediately appear on the surface doing their thing in soiled yellow Spacesuits. Carrying their tools and clipboards.

Walking though each other and objects, gesticulating in their normal manners, doing nothing much.

 

I imagine them having a helmet vaguely shaped like a hard-hat. Or wearing their hard-hat inside the helmet.

 

It would liven up those desolated moons.

 

ME

Edited January 26, 2019 by Martian Emigrant

[Lapis]

I would actually like to see this if not in stock it would be nice in a mod

[Greenfire32]

this would be great for offworld bases. Probably won't happen anytime soon (if at all) in stock, but perhaps in a mod?

[Martian Emigrant]

3 hours ago, lapis said:

I would actually like to see this if not in stock it would be nice in a mod

 

3 hours ago, Greenfire32 said:

this would be great for offworld bases. Probably won't happen anytime soon (if at all) in stock, but perhaps in a mod?

Hi.

 

Yes, absolutely. I have no idea how though. Way above my skills.

 

ME

Edited January 20, 2019 by Martian Emigrant

[The Aziz]

The question is, can we make animated models - as in, moving across the surface? I cannot think of a single mod that would do that. Or maybe we could just take the crew from the vab, depends on how they're coded into the game.

But, if we were able to do this: place a physical marker wherever you want (like in one of the construction mods), and the crew will appear there, and begin to wander around. You take down the marker, they disappear.

[Martian Emigrant]

4 hours ago, The Aziz said:

The question is, can we make animated models - as in, moving across the surface? I cannot think of a single mod that would do that. Or maybe we could just take the crew from the vab, depends on how they're coded into the game.

But, if we were able to do this: place a physical marker wherever you want (like in one of the construction mods), and the crew will appear there, and begin to wander around. You take down the marker, they disappear.

Hello.

Yes.

Again I have no idea how the little wrenches are coded. Are they just 2D animations or actual models? IDK.

I for one would love to see them wandering around a landing site on Laythe.

Once there was a mod where idle Kerbals would follow the leader and do what they do.

So I am sure it is technically possible to program generic space suited kerbals walking around in semi-random patterns (Kinda like Idle Jeb scatching is behind) (Without any collision testing so they can phase through things).

 

Fun to think about anyway.

 

ME

[ZooNamedGames]

8 hours ago, The Aziz said:

The question is, can we make animated models - as in, moving across the surface? I cannot think of a single mod that would do that. Or maybe we could just take the crew from the vab, depends on how they're coded into the game.

But, if we were able to do this: place a physical marker wherever you want (like in one of the construction mods), and the crew will appear there, and begin to wander around. You take down the marker, they disappear.

Kerbal Animation or something like that used to be a thing. It’s how the custom animations for the Human Space Program video was made if my thoughts are correct.