How to edit a planet?

[cosmo-goblin]

Hi guys

[B]Request[/B]

I would like to edit a moon/planet to be entirely flat. Does anybody know how to do this?

[B]Reason[/B]

I'm a physics teacher, and want to show students how to use Newton's laws, eg F = m x a.

To do this, I want to show them various spaceships of different masses and propulsion forces. I hacked a load of ships into orbit around Ike (quite big, fairly low mass, no atmosphere, pretty nearby planet), and crashed them into the planet.

Trouble is, I put them into orbit at 10km, but they hit the surface at the altitude of whatever mountain they're passing over, sometimes as high as 7km. This makes all the calculations useless!

I want a nice smooth planet, with the whole surface at 0km high. I'm happy to use a mod, or mod it myself, if I can figure out how.

My first lesson is intended for Thursday 19 November 2015, so advice before then would be greatly appreciated!

[kerbiloid]

You would use Kopernicus mod to create a planet.
[url]http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/114649-1-0-5-Kopernicus-Beta-%280-5%29-November-17[/url]

Try KopernicusExamples as a starting point
[url]https://github.com/Kopernicus/KopernicusExamples[/url]

Here was a problem looking similar to yours
[url]http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/137234-WIP-Toy-Solar-System-0-01?p=2254673&viewfull=1#post2254673[/url]

This post looks like its solution
[url]http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/137234-WIP-Toy-Solar-System-0-01?p=2256907&viewfull=1#post2256907[/url]
(Search "deformity" value in your planet cfg file)

[cosmo-goblin]

Thanks! This looks like exactly what I need - unfortunately I haven't been able to figure out how to even start using it... Since I'm on time pressure here, I've come up with an alternate solution - I hacked my ships to an orbit 13 km above a 3 km high expanse on the Mun, as well as hacking Mun's gravity to negligible. That way it's an easy 10,000 m above the actual surface, and the ships more or less stay where I put them (since orbital velocity is so slow). This has the added advantage that they'll stay in sunlight for the whole lesson!