The New Resource drill

[John FX]

[ddenis]

Awesome! Wish all part were updated to such level.

[Thomas988]

Wooooooah! Amazing!

[KasperVld]

I'll add the high res picture for the resources map here as well

[NovaSilisko]

Ahhh that's a MASSIVE improvement over the old blurry pixel one. I like it.

[Guest]

Not bad, and I agree, much better than the pixels.

[RainDreamer]

Kind of confuse me at first, that new map. I couldn't figure out if orange has the higher concentration, or green is. Or are those two different resources?

[Guest]

Kind of confuse me at first, that new map. I couldn't figure out if orange has the higher concentration, or green is. Or are those two different resources?

I highly doubt we'll get more than one resource in stock; it's purely so you can refuel.

[Renegrade]

I dunno, the CRT-mode stuff doesn't look quite as nice to me as the dots. It's not terrible or anything but.. why are people preferring it?

Awesome! Wish all part were updated to such level.

That's a bit of a problem we're developing. The new Porkjet-y parts match the style of the stock bits (more or less), but are a LOT nicer looking >.<

[dryer_lint]

Drill looks awesome. Not so sure about the resource map, though - it's a bit confusing to me. Or am I just stupid?

[Rithsom]

The resource map isn't bad, but it does block Kerbin a little too much in my opinion. There's got to be a way to make the resources visible without completely blocking the planet.

[RoverDude]

The overlay has a few color choices as Max noted - the one you see is a heat map style and is probably the most vibrant of the stock ones

The lines help in a few ways. First - intentionally reminiscent of TV scanlines for that retro look. Also - they don't obscure the ground, and are an extra bit to help out folks who can't distinguish colors as clearly.

[Whirligig Girl]

I'' be honest, I'd rather the entire Map View Screen was CRT-Screen for the cinematic effect, maybe even changing with the advancement of the tracking station.

[Greenfire32]

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While I'm glad you can change the colors, I really really really hope that you can also tone down the scan lines. That pattern is screwing with my eyes so hard. A different color scheme would certainly help, but the amount of optical dazzle generated from the lines is way too much.

I can't look at it.

[RoverDude]

Side note - there are dials and such to help you customize the visual - i.e. if your world is covered in lines, you can narrow it down to high-concentration zones. It's actually pretty nice in-game, I miss it in my regular 0.90 save :/

@Greenfire - see above

And worst case, I expect we'll continue to see mods that offer alternate visualizations

[LordFerret]

repost:

While I'm glad you can change the colors, I really really really hope that you can also tone down the scan lines. That pattern is screwing with my eyes so hard. A different color scheme would certainly help, but the amount of optical dazzle generated from the lines is way too much.

http://richardfarrar.com/downloads/cctv-lines.png

I can't look at it.

Ouch... thank you for the brain hemorrhage upon scrolling that.

[Renegrade]

And worst case, I expect we'll continue to see mods that offer alternate visualizations

Well, I hope we can get a mod for the ol' dot one. Not sure if that would help with Greenfire32's issue, but I really liked the look of that one. Dots are retro too, y'know.

[RoverDude]

But dots are not good for people who suffer from Trypophobia

[Skorpychan]

Are they just folding Kethane into KSP properly with this? Because that drill looks awfully like the smaller Kethane drills.

[RoverDude]

No, not Kethane And that model is a brand new one from PorkJet, who does some lovely work.

[keeper]

I love that drill, very nice.

I too am confused what that map means however im sure it will soon become clear, and i couldn't care less about the scan line thing or the hexes, i guess it makes it look more gradual.

[Wjolcz]

I love the drill and the map.

Ive seen in some DevNote or something that textures for some stock parts (not only the resource ones) are being redone, too. Is that true?

[Red Iron Crown]

It's radial mount by the look of it, I'd have preferred axial for greater flexibility and easier balancing.

[Scoundrel]

I like the drill. My only complaint is that it's a telescoping thing rather than a pipe-fed set-up so placement is an issue.

As for the resource map, I would prefer some sort of variable transparency that we can set rather than a bright scanline.

Nitpicking aside, I like the direction this is going in.

[RoverDude]

It's radial mount by the look of it, I'd have preferred axial for greater flexibility and easier balancing.

Oh... I already thought of how to counterbalance it