Night Launch Timelapse

[Drew Kerman]

I remembered the timelapse launch photos NASA would post up on their twitter and thought that would be cool to recreate in KSP. So I did. Wasn't that hard, just a bit tedious on the copy/paste to assembled everything into one image from about 30 or so. I used KerbCam and Paint.NET. Pressing the F1 key every second or so while steering the rocket with the interface hidden. I could have also used Chronolapse to have it take screencaps at set intervals but didn't think about it until afterwards. Slight post-edit in Paint.NET to yellow the entire rocket trail. I'm sure someone who's actually good at image editing could do better. Maybe someone already has Anyways, enjoy!

I went back and did some motion blur, which is what you normally see in these kinds of photos. Leaving the original up tho in case anyone wants to try anything themselves.

Edited April 1, 2014 by Gaiiden

[Thomas988]

That is really cool!

[Drew Kerman]

Why thank you. I was wondering whether this has been done before or not. I'll do another one sometime from a different angle - if anyone has any tips/suggestions I would appreciate it.