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  1. 1. Does KSP need a new icon for planes?


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Farex

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Greetings everyone! I'm sure no one knows me, because I'm never here^^

Either way, with all the new parts (which are really awesome, I personally LOVE the MK3-Parts, just pure awesomeness) I think that it's time for a new icon. Because a plane is no station, base, flag, eva-kerbal, rocketpod, landerpod, rover, debris, asteroid or even a probe.

The last hurdle for every ksp-player is a SSTO (Rocket-SSTOs are easy, I'm talking about spaceplanes). And at least for me it's not right that there is no icon for spacePLANES.

What do you think about this? Please let me know. I'm curious by nature.

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Farex

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Ah thank you, I didn't think this would classify as a suggestion.

Edit: @Red Iron Crown: but there is already a surface base icon, isn't there? I'm sure there is :/

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I could be wrong, I thought there wasn't.

There is... it kinda looks like a rectangle with a bubble on one end and some landing legs. When I see it, I think of those old 1950s/1960s serial sci-fi bases and ships... :wink:

I think there should be a few more icons, such as aircraft, star ships; having a generic icon of a capsule, like we have now, is good to indicate manned launch vehicles. However, a ship that's assembled in orbit needs to have a separate icon, in my opinion.

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I'd like to see several icons added. We have a "probe" icon, but there should be a separate "satellite" icon too. As a RT user, let me tell you there is nothing quite as annoying as trying to find your exploration probe in a list of satellites. That is going to be a lot more important in 1.1.

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Greetings everyone! I'm sure no one knows me, because I'm never here^^

Either way, with all the new parts (which are really awesome, I personally LOVE the MK3-Parts, just pure awesomeness) I think that it's time for a new icon. Because a plane is no station, base, flag, eva-kerbal, rocketpod, landerpod, rover, debris, asteroid or even a probe.

The last hurdle for every ksp-player is a SSTO (Rocket-SSTOs are easy, I'm talking about spaceplanes). And at least for me it's not right that there is no icon for spacePLANES.

What do you think about this? Please let me know. I'm curious by nature.

Waait...

There is no icon for planes? I gotta check this in my game.

Debris...

...probes...

...rovers...

....landers..

..ships...

...stations.....

...bases...

....kerbals outside beiing dangerously on their own...

...flags..

.......bodies....

...unknown objects (aliens)....

Hé you are right, there isn't a plane icon. That is kinda weird, considering that there exists a space PLANE hanger.

Now I think of it, there is also no icon for rockets/missiles.

What other icons are missing then....

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changing debree to debris
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adsii1970

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Sure, why not... But to be honest I think we could use a few more icons/categories... Atleast a new icon for probes and one for com satellites as well :)

You could actually use ONE icon for these providing that SQUAD would make it to where you could assign colors to the craft icon. A yellow probe icon could be used for one classification, a blue probe used for a second category. Even if SQUAD simply used the basic prime colors (blue, red, yellow) in addition to white and black, there's four basic sub categories.

In fact, this color scheme could be used in every single category to create user defined sub categories. Maybe accomplish this with a mod? :wink:

For planes and interplanetary vessels. I wouldn't mind if the default icon for ships got changed to something resembling Apollo's service module, instead of a single capsule.

why not have a plane icon that resembles... a plane? Just use an icon that resembles the one on maps - from the top silhouette:

plane-512_zpsipctchau.png

Waait...

There is no icon for planes? I gotta check this in my game.

Debris...

...probes...

...rovers...

....landers..

..ships...

...stations.....

...bases...

....kerbals outside beiing dangerously on their own...

...flags..

.......bodies....

...unknown objects (aliens)....

Hé you are right, there isn't a plane icon. That is kinda weird, considering that there exists a space PLANE hanger.

Now I think of it, there is also no icon for rockets/missiles.

What other icons are missing then....

Please note, I did change "debree" to the correct spelling. Sorry, I do teach at a college...

No need for one for rockets, as most rockets already must be classified as a capsule, lander, or probe. And all a missile is..to be honest, is a rocket with a ka-boom maker added to its top. A missile's lifespan is just too short to worry about an icon for it in the tracking station or orbital map...

What also comes to my mind is the sort-order in the tracking station. Wouldn't it be glorious to arrange alphabetically?

Yes, I agree there.

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Spaceplanes icon - is badly needed. Had thought about it a day or two ago too.

What also comes to my mind is the sort-order in the tracking station. Wouldn't it be glorious to arrange alphabetically?

That and also a query/search textfield for filtering by typed name.

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Yes please.

Also what about possibility to determine icon in VAB/SPH? I like to make unmanned functionality (for testing and for emergencies), but remarking stations to be stations, not probes (or rovers, I suppose I have a ship once with rover icon) is kinda bothersome.

why not have a plane icon that resembles... a plane? Just use an icon that resembles the one on maps - from the top silhouette:

http://i1377.photobucket.com/albums/ah79/alansimmons1/plane-512_zpsipctchau.pngI believe Veeltch talks not about planes there but about default manned spacecraft.

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We should just be able to use all the tech tree icons, similar to a custom category in the VAB, the icon selection on rename craft would become the same window as in custom categories.

So the filter-by-type menu in map mode and tracking station should be dynamic?

I imagine turning it into complete mess by setting every spacecraft it's own icon.

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I'd like to see several icons added. We have a "probe" icon, but there should be a separate "satellite" icon too. As a RT user, let me tell you there is nothing quite as annoying as trying to find your exploration probe in a list of satellites. That is going to be a lot more important in 1.1.

This. So much this. We need this. SQUAD. Please. I don't need Unity 5. Just this.

The contract satellites. Seriously, they need to go. Also, we need some kind of search/collapsable groups/sort by bodyin tracking center.

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Farex

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It seems this is really an issue for some people. And reading the latest devnotes, after the integration remotetech there will be a lot more satellites around in any careersave. Yes, maybe a new sat-icon, too.

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