Procedural fairings -> procedural wings?

[cpast]

It seems the procedural fairings coming in 1.0 will work rather differently from the Procedural Fairings mod; instead of slapping a part on and having it automagically form the fairing, you actually have control over the design of the fairing. After reading that, I'm wondering if it could be adapted to wings - pure automagically shaped wings lose flexibility, but if we could *build* wings without using 50,000 parts, that'd be awesome.

[Kelderek]

I think I heard something about getting some larger wings intended for Mk3 aircraft coming in 1.0. Not only that, but I think they will be "wet" wings that contain fuel too. Presumably these would be much larger and should help with part counts.

[federicoaa]

Still, the idea seems good. You create a wing by adding panels like Harvester said it'll be with for fairings, this way you only have one part for the wing instead of many.

[mattinoz]

Have to wait and see how fairings work but yes I was reading Harvesters description and thinking it sounded like it could work for custom wings as well.

[Wahgineer]

There are two issues with this:

1) one big wing vs. smaller wings put together: sounds good until a wayward SRB takes off your wing tip (multi part wing may be able to lose a few pieces and keep the craft stable, one big wing instantly vanishes, along with all hopes of stable flight)

2) Squad said no procedural parts, fairings being the only exception (for conveniences sake). That is because it would remove the lego like construction of ksp, which is all part of the challenge: do what you can with what you got.

[regex]

I certainly hope we get procedural wings, the current wing system is literally terrible. Constructing what should be a single, uniform shape from many little pieces and then figuring out how to strut it together is not only tedious, but really hard on the processor. Anything to reduce parts count in a sane and reasonable manner is laudable.

[smart013]

I certainly hope we get procedural wings, the current wing system is literally terrible. Constructing what should be a single, uniform shape from many little pieces and then figuring out how to strut it together is not only tedious, but really hard on the processor. Anything to reduce parts count in a sane and reasonable manner is laudable.

Same here. Would be great to have in stock.

[Robotengineer]

I too would like procedural wings. Preferably like bac9's with a GUI and slider system for input, rather than the original procedural dynamics mod input which was bad because it was imprecise, IMO of course.

[AbacusWizard]

I don't remember where I saw it, but I think I recall a statement from the devs saying that they intend to introduce larger wing parts that will "make Mk 3 aircraft design as easy as Mk 1 aircraft design."

[ddenis]

After I've started to use B9's procedural wings I've stopped hoping for them from SQUAD, because they really do what I need and I doubt that that SQUAD could've done better.

Edited February 25, 2015 by ddenis

[Master Tao]

One piece I'd like to see for procedural parts that hasn't appeared in any mods: editor gizmos, perhaps one movement gizmo for each corner of a wing segment.

[Superfluous J]

One piece I'd like to see for procedural parts that hasn't appeared in any mods: editor gizmos, perhaps one movement gizmo for each corner of a wing segment.

YES. I was thinking about this just today. I'd love the Procedural Parts mod to have resize gizmos instead of the sliders in the right-click menu

[regex]

Seconding the gizmos, if we get wings or tanks, that would be awesome.