CobaltWolf

The rule of thumb that myself and many other part modders use is to UV unwrap with a texel density of 200px/m - that is to say, for every meter of surface, there will be 200 pixels.

Generally speaking, the most widely used free modelign software is Blender, and most people use some Photoshop equivalent - GIMP, Paint.net, Krita, etc - to make their textures. All the part modders I know hand make their textures, though there are a lot of little procedural effects we use like baking ambient occlusion and using Photoshop layer effects to add gradients etc.

Will you make the Shuttle? We don't have a good stockalike one.

I personally think it's cool but I don't even play the game anymore (just mod) so if you're trying to get out then more power to you.

Indeed, a 2x to 3.2x rescale is probably best. I don't remember which ones are still around/updated. Personally I play with 2.5x rescaled SSRSS but I'll be damned if I can remember how I got that working... LIke T-10a said, doing so means that your rockets will need pretty correct mass fractions to be able to do missions. That incidentally means that most mods balanced against the stock parts (Tantares, for instance) will also be balanced properly. I have not heard otherwise, make sure that the dependencies are updated if need be! That's awesome! Love it!

I doubt it, as they are not stock but part of a DLC.

oof @blacsky33 that is so awesome. One of my great regrets of the Mercury and Gemini parts in BDB, because they were adopted from other stockalike mods, aren't as accurate / detailed as they could be. Those parts are awesome!

I really don't play, so I don't have much skin in the game, but just wanted to toss you a quick 'thanks' for keeping so many mods going. And, this is a possibly irrelevant question (as I am not a programmer), but if you know people you'd trust would you ever consider handing some of the mods off to keep your workload manageable? Though, I suppose that this sort of thing is only an issue when the game updates?

Thanks! I chose it since I hoped it would brighten people's day whenever I posted. I took the better part of a week off from dev work to let the DLC dust settle (also was busy playing Stellaris...). I need to do some prototyping on the engine mount to verify the method we wanted to use (one part that switches the number of nodes) works the way we hope/need. I'd like to revamp the Titan engines (and the Saturn ones, for that matter) as part of the LDC work, since then I could have nicer/more accurate models and also make them compatible with single mounting options from the get-go, which hopefully would feed into the LDC parts looking nicer..? I already started to remodel them during some down time at the office, here's the Titan-1 engines without the signature shroud. However, doing so would be a pretty significant time investment.

Indeed, I don't believe KSP supports non-elliptical orbits, and a trojan would require something more like a very rounded triangle?

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Hot damn this is nice.

@DMagic I made you a logo for this thread

you're mom kerb

I believe the other author @Jso maintains custom SMURFF configs to ensure balance is maintained across rescales.

Yeah I'm kind of annoyed actually because I'm not sure how they've managed to shift? Because I usually start a new texture sheet by sampling the colors of the old one. But they definitely have. In any case, I've wanted to do a small pass on the Saturn parts anyways to make sure they're up to BDB's current standards, considering they're kind of the poster child of the mod IMO. Yeah I'm excited for this launcher, it can be easy to forget though that it's theoretically smaller than the Saturn 1C so you might not be able to do as much. But, it's neat so I'll let it slide. Off hand, the parts that I'd still like to make for this: 3.125m nose cone, similar to the placeholder one in the first development pictures I posted of the stage. 3.125m stack decoupler (not sure you'd ever need it? But, whatever) Maybe an improved 3.125m fairing base? (would deprecate the current one which is rescaled) 2.5m-in-length upper stage fuel tank (current parts are 10m, 7.5m, and 5m length) First stage engine mount - not sure how I'll do this. Looking into the possibilities of doing it with B9 switching similar to NFLV, to get 1x to 5x engines available. Once the E-1 is added that will allow some pretty good scaling for mounting across our range of engines. I'd like to do an interstage for connecting Centaur, that could also be used for Saturn C1. However, I hesitate to do a 'normal' 3.125m > 1.875m adapter, since that would preclude putting the upper tank on the S-IV stage. Maybe a new 2.5m > 1.875m adapter that is more appropriate? Anyone have thoughts?

(Image credit @Omega482, screenshots by Matt Lowne and @DiscoSlelge)

Honestly don't blame you at this point. If that is indeed what you decide to do, best of luck in all your future endeavors @Shadowmage. Cheers!

That's fantastic as far as most people's first engines go. UVs on engines are always a chore, don't worry too much.

Screenshots from tonight's stream. Most of the LDC Titan main core is in game, and is mostly done barring some tweaking and details to the textures. I need to do an audit of the paint tones for the whites and blacks across BDB, I'm worried they're not consistent. Currently for LDC we have the 3 fuel tanks, the upper stage engine mount, and the interstage that fits between them. Attach method is the same as the Saturn ones - indeed, I'm wondering if someone can get me some screenshots of this new stage on top of a Saturn 1? You can use the S-IV interstage. In other news, the OGO-inspired core and solar panel should be in game as well. I, ah, forgot to make sure that the solar panel actually generates power... so, fair warning? The Skylab/Spacelab screenshots were just taken for some eye candy, shoutout to @RocketPCGaming for raiding the stream! Y'all caught me a bit on the wrong foot as I was trying to clean things up and upload them so I could go to bed. I'll try to put on more of a show next time!

Of course! Sorry I was in a bit of a rush so I just posted the link, but that's a good walkthrough basic engine modeling, texturing, and setup. It's for Wings3D but the ideas/process carry over.

Pls forward that list to me I'd be interested in stealing them I think the VA LES should be done while you're on Proton, just to get it taken care of.

Oh my goodness, I forgot to post these after Sunday's stream. Progress on the engine mount for the LDC Titan. Please note that the J-2 is a placeholder, but of course it will be possible to mount one and use our fuel switching to make this a cryogenic upper stage. Also, I based some of the detailing on this painting. However, I need feedback. What should the paint scheme be for the mount? You can see in the pictures below I have it in two ways - with the cutouts bare metal, and the whole thing painted black. Any preferences on which? Or something completely different? Let me know what y'all think, I'm happy with what I have so far for this part but I'm unsure where to take it from here. I think more greebling will be added. Please bear in mind this is meant to interact with / fit with the Saturn parts.

Idk just wanted to contribute to the spam. Felt this deserved its own thread. Carry on.

what extent have you tested this? Have you placed other docking module cfgs in that first spot?