The Mun (Pocket Edition)

[Thunderous Echo]

This is a set of 1 / 200,000 scale models of every celestial body in the Kerbol system, save for Kerbol itself. The Mun is no larger than an FL-800 fuel tank. They are all treated by the game as parts, so they can be Klawed, docked to, pushed around, flung into space, carried in cargo holds, and stood on. They provide no science, and you cannot plant flags on them.

Download (KerbalStuff): https://kerbalstuff.com/mod/1171/The%20Mun%20%28Pocket%20Edition%29

Download (CurseForge): http://kerbal.curseforge.com/ksp-mods/236317-the-mun-pocket-edition

License: Public Domain

Edited October 1, 2015 by Thunderous Echo

[Gaalidas]

That is awesome. Now make us portable versions of all the planets so we can make Kerbol system models to put up at the KSC.

[rabidninjawombat]

That is awesome. Now make us portable versions of all the planets so we can make Kerbol system models to put up at the KSC.

I second this idea I can totally see a solar sysem model next to my runway!

[wasml]

I saw this and the first thing that popped into my mind was a Kerbal Konstructs visitor center with the Kerbin system on display.

Edit: You might want to list your license in the OP - moderators are sticklers about that.

Edited September 23, 2015 by wasml

[Drew Kerman]

That is awesome. Now make us portable versions of all the planets so we can make Kerbol system models to put up at the KSC.

ha! Thirded

[Li0n]

That is awesome. Now make us portable versions of all the planets so we can make Kerbol system models to put up at the KSC.

Fourth'd

Now that I saw your mod I need to build something like this with Infernal Robotics :

[xxhansonmaxx]

Nice, I'll land a mun on the mun

[hab136]

Very cool, now I can re-enact this:

[Thunderous Echo]

That is awesome. Now make us portable versions of all the planets so we can make Kerbol system models to put up at the KSC.

If you want a different planet instead of the Mun, find a Mercator (Equirectangular spherical) projection of its surface, make sure it's a .tga, and replace munMap.tga with it.

[Mitchz95]

Any way to make this compatible with Texture Replacer? I.e. the texture I have for the Mun also applies to this part?

[antgeth]

this is so dumb it's genius. insta-download.

i'm assuming it's a perfect sphere, and not actually mun-shaped? that would be a nice a touch...

[LitaAlto]

Out of curiosity, why TGA? Why not DDS?

Beyond that--it's a must-have for those late-night Munball games.

[Thunderous Echo]

Out of curiosity, why TGA? Why not DDS?

No reason, just the way I ended up doing it.

Any way to make this compatible with Texture Replacer? I.e. the texture I have for the Mun also applies to this part?

You can manually replace the part's munMap.tga with the TextureReplacer's image for the Mun.

[Gryphon]

The sign of a successful mod: inspires mad schemes.

[ZooNamedGames]

Please put this on KerbalStuff and or CKAN!

[Yukon0009]

Good to see you back with such a cool mod!

[Thunderous Echo]

Please put this on KerbalStuff and or CKAN!

It is on KerbalStuff and (supposedly) CKAN. I checked a box somewhere.

Good to see you back with such a cool mod!

Thanks!

Wow, this is already a hot thread? Cool!

[TheCardinal]

I agree with the four users at the first page. It would really be awesome to be able to create a miny Kerbol system. Even when it's only for determining nice landingsites.

[Thunderous Echo]

i'm assuming it's a perfect sphere, and not actually mun-shaped? that would be a nice a touch...

Hm... It's just a sphere, but I guess Minmus, Gilly, etc wouldn't look right...

Now I'm interested. Let me look into this.

[Gaalidas]

It's only a representation really. Extra planets (or indeed a scaled set of all the planets/moons to set up somewhere in the KSC) is simply to provide a neat visual and a form of sculptured artwork. I'd simply set it up as a series of "Kerbal Konstructs" statics and find a pleasing spot to stick it. If a scaled Kerbol could be created with light emitters and whatnot, it would look awesome at night too.

The next stage would be to find a way to import the entire construct into a single model with an animation that would slowly simulate the movement of the planets/moons in their orbits. But that's way out in the future.

[Guest]

Imagine this with tweakscale.

[Nhawks17]

It doesn't have to be tga does it? Having it any other format should work unless the mod specifically looks for a tga file. I'd go with DDS just to go with the status quo and save people some RAM

[Thunderous Echo]

It doesn't have to be tga does it? Having it any other format should work unless the mod specifically looks for a tga file. I'd go with DDS just to go with the status quo and save people some RAM

I'll see if I can get KSP Part Tools to do that.

Meanwhile, Gilly is coming along nicely...

Edited September 25, 2015 by Thunderous Echo

[Thunderous Echo]

Feedback time!

Is this level of quality sufficient?

-Minmus heightmap isn't quite accurate, but it is recognizable.

-Gilly uses its "close" colormap, not its "far" colormap

-Kerbin (and any other atmspheric bodies) has (or will have) no atmosphere

-Close-to-spherical bodies (Mun, Tylo, and Kerbin are shown here) will be shaped and lit like spheres, ignoring their negligible geometries.

-Minimal poly count on all

-Water is properly specular (reflects the sun), but does not look quite right without Kerbin's atmosphere

-Slightly noticeable iffy poles (not shown)

Also, would you like these bodies the same size (shown here), to scale, or with moons half the size of planets?

Also, does anyone have a clever idea for the in-VAB-part infos?

Edited September 26, 2015 by Thunderous Echo

[Drew Kerman]

I'd just let tweakscale handle different sizes. Otherwise looks great