Wing Panels as Fashionable Plates / Turn off Wing lift.

[Haze-Zero]

Everyone seems to use wings as structural panels for various purposes; Sometimes to get a shape we want out of an aircraft, sometimes simply to cover more surface area for flat surfaces we want to use in space.

With KSP aero being a problem and seemingly no correction being made any time soon, this means that sometimes, for the aircraft we want to make, it means we are using ugly structural panels, or clip-hiding in wings to correct for oddly tilted wings that we are using 'for fashion'.

Structural panels are ugly, very very very ugly. They have their place, but the reason why I am asking for this mod, is because wing surfaces come in various shapes giving us more freedom of design. More importantly, they are white and match well with the white color scheme KSP already has. To make the ugly grey structural panels usable in this method, you would have make angular panels, and such. Why make more content and more parts, when we already have these parts serving as wings?

I would like to request a mod that allows us to be able to turn off wing lift in the VAB/SPH, making the aero treat the wing as it would a structural plate. I also considered asking for this mod to somehow change the texture of the wing to indicate that it serves as a panel and not a wing, but I do not want to mess with the aesthetic and I think it would be ok to leave the texture as is.

TL:DR - Toggle wing lift so we can use them as non-ugly structural panels because of KSP's broken aero.

Edited October 18, 2015 by Haze-Zero

[Red Iron Crown]

This request for a mod has been moved to General Add-on Affairs.

[hab136]

I don't know of anything that can toggle lift. If it's just a line in the .cfg file, a Module Manager config could change it, but I don't have a copy of KSP handy to check right now.

If you want more correct aerodynamics, there's always FAR. AFAIK it will look at the actual shape exposed to the air, so a tilted wing with just part of it exposed won't do crazy things.

There's also Procedural Dynamics Procedural Wings and B9 Procedural Wings for custom wings.