Dres and The Mun

[SmallFatFetus]

Hello everyone

So today I was planning my mission to Dres and I realized that it looks an awful lot like the moon (the real one). Then I realized that with some resizing and minor retexturing Dres could be a much prettier Mun. What do you think?

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Edited February 19, 2015 by SmallFatFetus
Fixing Imgur

[MoparGamer]

Hello everyone

So today I was planning my mission to Dres and I realized that it looks an awful lot like the moon (the real one). Then I realized that with some resizing and minor retexturing Dres could be a much prettier Mun. What do you think?

http://imgur.com/a/dRS5y#2

SmallFatFetus

P.S. Can someone tell me how to embed the Imgur thing? Thanks!

For an imgur album, Use [imgur ]dRS5y[/imgur] (Without the space in the first Imgur brackets)

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Edited February 19, 2015 by MoparGamer

[Thomassino]

It is possible via Hyperedit but a better way I think is to use Texture Replacer, find some good Mun texture and leave Dres alone ...

[Scotius]

Dear SQUAD...so, what about that art pass you've promised us for other bodies than Kerbin and Mun?

[Spartwo]

Duna before .21

Duna after .21

Eve had a similar run over in .21, as did Moho.

It would be nice for the other bodies to be given the same run over as the aesthetic of the new doesn't match up as much as it could with the old.

[Commander Jebidiah]

I preferred the old duna

[Spartwo]

I preferred the old duna

It was a lot more friendly surface wise.

EDIT: I didn't put that well. It was a b**** once you got out of the valleys.

Edited February 19, 2015 by Spartwo

[Tex]

I do agree that some of the textures could use a bit of polishing, but at the same time, I don't think it matters too much. Planets from orbit are almost always beautiful :3

[RogueMason]

I preferred the old duna

As do I. It was far more interesting than what we have now.

[SmallFatFetus]

Ive always thought the Mun's surface was too dark when you landed on it. Heres a KSP lander compared to Apollo 16.

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[tater]

Ive always thought the Mun's surface was too dark when you landed on it. Heres a KSP lander compared to Apollo 16.

Very true. Look at the shadow there, as well, the sun is quite low. At the same sun angle in KSP on the Mun you's want the light s on, probably.

[Moon Goddess]

Ive always thought the Mun's surface was too dark when you landed on it. Heres a KSP lander compared to Apollo 16.

I'm running Planetshine and Astonomer's Pack, it practically glows.

[Guest]

Then I realized that with some resizing and minor retexturing Dres could be a much prettier Mun. What do you think?

Go get RSS and try it out. You can export the textures from Dres, touch them up, and then use them for the Mun.

RSS does so much more than make your game "OMG ITS SO REALISTIC I PLAY A GAME".

[FishInferno]

Ive always thought the Mun's surface was too dark when you landed on it. Heres a KSP lander compared to Apollo 16.

http://imgur.com/a/bDens

But the Mun isn't supposed to be the Moon, it's supposed to be the Mun.

[lajoswinkler]

But the Mun isn't supposed to be the Moon, it's supposed to be the Mun.

It is supposed to be Mun, not the Mun.

Mun is not the Moon. It's Mun, and there's more to this than just grammar rules.

[Norpo]

It is supposed to be Mun, not the Mun.

The in-game description says "The Mun". The descriptions for other planets don't say "The Duna" or "The Jool", so i'm going to guess "The Mun" is correct. I think one of the in-game tutorials is called "Travelling to the Mun" as well.

[source]

EDIT: in any case, slightly off-topic, Yeah, Dres does seem a bit more like the moon than the mun..

[lajoswinkler]

The in-game description says "The Mun". The descriptions for other planets don't say "The Duna" or "The Jool", so i'm going to guess "The Mun" is correct. I think one of the in-game tutorials is called "Travelling to the Mun" as well.

[source]

EDIT: in any case, slightly off-topic, Yeah, Dres does seem a bit more like the moon than the mun..

I don't know about in-game, but that's wiki, written by volunteers such as me.

"The Moon" is a weird English rule and obviously does not apply to green creatures who speak gibberish, but people don't think about it so they often use it. That probably happens in certain places in the actual game, too.

[Guest]

I don't know about in-game, but that's wiki, written by volunteers such as me.

So basically you're saying that the volunteers who wrote the wiki just decided to mangle the "in-game description" on the wiki page for their own purposes, perhaps to further their own bias regarding whether it's "Mun" or "The Mun"?

I mean, yeah, it probably is a weird English usage, but there's nothing wrong with "Mun" vs. "The Mun". I prefer "The Mun", probably because I speak U.S. English.

[SorryDave]

The Mun is a Kerbin moon as is Minmus

[lajoswinkler]

So basically you're saying that the volunteers who wrote the wiki just decided to mangle the "in-game description" on the wiki page for their own purposes, perhaps to further their own bias regarding whether it's "Mun" or "The Mun"?

I mean, yeah, it probably is a weird English usage, but there's nothing wrong with "Mun" vs. "The Mun". I prefer "The Mun", probably because I speak U.S. English.

No. I'm pretty sure they did it unintentionally.

[Guest]

No. I'm pretty sure they did it unintentionally.

The volunteers? I don't think so. The devs? Who cares. It's "The Mun" to some and "Mun" to others. Canonically, in-game, it's "The Mun", in the same way that "Kerbol" is actually "The Sun".

[Stargate525]

Guys, it's called 'the Moon' to distinguish it from 'A' moon in general parlance.

If it's 'the Mun' in KSP, we have to accept that Jool then has five muns.

[lajoswinkler]

Jool has five natural satellites, and Earth has one called the Moon or Ûуýð or MÃ¥nen or Mjesec or la Luna or Σελήνη or MÄ›síc.

Mun is Mun. It's not the Moon. Just Mun.

[eddiew]

Ive always thought the Mun's surface was too dark when you landed on it. Heres a KSP lander compared to Apollo 16.

It seems to depend where you are. Some of the craters are really dark at the bottom... this one gave me problems until I turned on the landing lights, cos it was hard to see the shadow vs the terrain from a few hundred metres up.

(And let's be fair; there's every chance that the NASA photo has been enhanced to make it look brighter and easier to see detail )

[Sidereus]

The Moon's albedo is really low...like black asphalt low. The only reason it appears as bright as it does is because of the contrast between it and deep space, and the fact that the lunar regolith acts as a slight retroreflector. It could be that the devs were attempting to mimic this, but the engine doesn't quite pull it off either due to it's inability to do retroreflections or because Kerbol doesn't put out quite as much light as Sol.

Edited February 20, 2015 by Sidereus