[WIP] [Kopernicus] Planet Pack X [0.01 Released]

Whirligig Girl · May 10, 2016

Planet Pack X is a side project that I'm working on, and a very unimaginatively named project at that. It's not going to change the stock system like so many other mods of mine do, but instead it adds on to the stock Kerbol system, (though it is meant to be played with Revamped Stock Kerbol System, this is not required)

DOWNLOAD Planet Pack X v0.01 for KSP 1.1.2 and Kopernicus v1.0.5 at GitHub

Planets:

Yekcha

Yekcha is a highly volcanic moon in a low orbit around Kerbol.

Odo:

Odo is basically Arizona: Planet Edition.

Damogroth:

A frozen version of an ocean moon like Laythe.

Not available yet.

D1:

A [REDACTED] orbiting [REDACTED]. It seems to have [REDACTED], which makes it quite strange, in a [REDACTED] sort of way.

Not available yet.

I have some more ideas about what I can do with this, but nothing here is set in stone:

Yekcha: A volcanic world in a low Kerbol orbit. It heavily resembles Io physically, but its orbit suggests it is an analogue of the hypothetical planet "Vulcan." While currently it has no atmosphere, it will have one eventually. Yekcha is also partially inspired by the TRAPPIST 1 system, and the idea that the planets orbiting the red dwarf star may be more reminiscent of "fat Ios" instead of planets.
Odo: A planet that is mostly deserted, but with a few isolated rivers and lakes. Although not representable in Kerbal Space Program's terrain engine, the planet does canonically have quite a lot of underground pockets of water. It is also low density, and is almost uniformly composed of silicates with little to no ices or metals other than those bound to the rocks themselves.
Damogroth: A planet in a distant orbit. It has frozen water oceans and a relatively thick oxygenated atmosphere, implying that there was life on the planet not too long ago. But wait a minute, this thing is in a really distant orbit. How could life have ever formed? (It's name may or may not be a portmanteau of Damogran and Hoth.
D1: While it has never been observed directly, small wobbles in Damogroth's position could only be explained with the presence of a small moon in a low orbit. Either that, or it's a telescope fault, but hey, the public likes moons!
Spoiler

This really is a spoiler. Don't look if you don't want the mysterious object spoiled!

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D1 is actually an artificial satellite. Spherical in construction, but only ~40m in radius. It will somewhat resemble a miniature Death Star, and depending on where I go with this I might even give it a square bit on the heightmap and colormap which resembles the stockalike lander-can/hitchhiker-storage-container hatch. The satellite may only be ~40m in radius, but it has artificially-generated paragravity which allows it to attract objects towards its surface at the same surface gravity as Damogroth itself.
Optional config to replace Laythe with Yekcha and move Laythe somewhere else, perhaps as a Kerbin trojan?
Absolutely no new gas giants and moon systems around them. Planet packs need not orbit a central hub planet. I'm really trying to break away from the cliche Gas Giant and Lots Of Moons that seems to be so prevalent in Kopernicus mods.
- And to be honest, I can totally understand the reasoning for gas giant systems, and think that they can totally be a reasonable way of populating a system with interesting planets. And after all, if you have put a gas giant somewhere because you need the gas giant to complete the system, then you had better add moons unless you want the planet to be boring.
A sort of Callisto analogue that may or may not be orbiting Jool: Because of how much Callisto seems to resemble a sphere map of a space skybox, I want to make use of this map of the Interstellar Wormhole.
Planned (but not implemented) Mod Support:
- Uncharted Lands: Planet orbits will be moved and descriptions changed to match the tone of the system.
- Outer Planets Mod: Damogroth will be moved out past Neidon instead of out past Jool.
- Alternis Kerbol Rekerjiggered: See Uncharted Lands.
- Revamped Stock Kerbol System: The mod is designed to be played with RevSS. If installed, Eve will be moved inward to make more room for Odo. The Joolian moon Gobe will be moved to orbit Odo as well.
- Galactic Neighborhood: This will be in the same system that the Kerbulus mod will exist in. Odo will be in a binary orbit with Kerbulus, making it resemble a sort of a Kerbal Remus. (I only just now found out that in Star Trek canon, Romulus and Remus are not actually in a binary orbit, but darn it I'm gonna put them in a Binary Orbit anyway.)
- Stock-Alike Solar System: Everything except for Yekcha will be disabled/removed. Will replace the LavaLaythe Io with Yekcha. In fact, that's actually why I initially created Volkin (now called Yekcha). Sigma88 has said that he likes to implement planets in places where they're not designed to look like their counterpart, so I don't think we can expect that to be a default feature of the mod.
- Real Solar System: Not sure why you'd want this in Real Solar System, but nevertheless, I will include compatibility for RSS. A 10x scale resize and a repositioned orbit for all of the planets.

Edited June 17, 2016 by GregroxMun

Sigma88 · May 10, 2016

[REDACTED]

Edited May 10, 2016 by Sigma88

drtedastro · May 11, 2016

Looking good.

Nice dusty, windy cloudy place, perhaps????

Cheers.

Whirligig Girl · May 27, 2016

Here is Odo.

Odo is a planet inspired by people misusing Duna Space Program and Scatterer. I liked the look of a blue atmosphere on a deserted world. And so, here it is. Odo.

Edited May 27, 2016 by GregroxMun

Astrofox · May 27, 2016

How do you make such amazing maps?!

Sigma88 · May 27, 2016

56 minutes ago, GregroxMun said:

Here is Odor.

Odor is a planet inspired by people misusing Duna Space Program and Scatterer. I liked the look of a blue atmosphere on a deserted world. And so, here it is. Odor.

pretty cool planet

drtedastro · May 28, 2016

I live in Tucson, AZ...

Need this ...

Cheers, looks great just like all of your work.

Interplanet Janet · June 9, 2016

Will it be possible to release Volkin as a standalone body?

Edited June 10, 2016 by Interplanet Janet

EGB9000 · June 11, 2016

In the same video Scott Manley uses Eve space program with Scatterer, could you do a planet like that?

Edited June 11, 2016 by EGB9000
typo

Whirligig Girl · June 17, 2016

https://github.com/GregroxMun/PlanetPackX/releases/tag/0.01 0.01 released, with Odo and Yekcha (formerly known as Volkin)

_Augustus_ · June 17, 2016

If you could make Yechka replace Laythe, I would give cookies.

Whirligig Girl · June 17, 2016

2 hours ago, _Augustus_ said:

If you could make Yechka replace Laythe, I would give cookies.

@Kopernicus:NEEDS[!RevampedStockSystem]:AFTER[PlanetPackX]
{
	@Body[Laythe]
	{
		@Orbit
		{
			referenceBody = Sun
			inclination = 0.2
			eccentricity = 0
			semiMajorAxis = 13599840256
			longitudeOfAscendingNode = 0
			argumentOfPeriapsis = 0
			meanAnomalyAtEpoch = 4.18719766
			meanAnoma
		}
	}
	@Body[Yekcha]
	{
		@Orbit
		{
			@referenceBody = Jool
			@semiMajorAxis = 27184000
		}
	}
}
@Kopernicus:NEEDS[RevampedStockSystem]:AFTER[PlanetPackX]
{
	@Body[Laythe]
	{
		@Orbit
		{
			referenceBody = Sun
			inclination = 0.2
			eccentricity = 0
			semiMajorAxis = 13599840256
			longitudeOfAscendingNode = 0
			argumentOfPeriapsis = 0
			meanAnomalyAtEpoch = 4.18719766
			meanAnoma
		}
	}
	@Body[Yekcha]
	{
		@Orbit
		{
			@referenceBody = Jool
			@semiMajorAxis = 59038000
		}
	}
}

I don't want your cookies.

_Augustus_ · June 17, 2016

14 minutes ago, GregroxMun said:


@Kopernicus:NEEDS[!RevampedStockSystem]:AFTER[PlanetPackX]
{
	@Body[Laythe]
	{
		@Orbit
		{
			referenceBody = Sun
			inclination = 0.2
			eccentricity = 0
			semiMajorAxis = 13599840256
			longitudeOfAscendingNode = 0
			argumentOfPeriapsis = 0
			meanAnomalyAtEpoch = 4.18719766
			meanAnoma
		}
	}
	@Body[Yekcha]
	{
		@Orbit
		{
			@referenceBody = Jool
			@semiMajorAxis = 27184000
		}
	}
}
@Kopernicus:NEEDS[RevampedStockSystem]:AFTER[PlanetPackX]
{
	@Body[Laythe]
	{
		@Orbit
		{
			referenceBody = Sun
			inclination = 0.2
			eccentricity = 0
			semiMajorAxis = 13599840256
			longitudeOfAscendingNode = 0
			argumentOfPeriapsis = 0
			meanAnomalyAtEpoch = 4.18719766
			meanAnoma
		}
	}
	@Body[Yekcha]
	{
		@Orbit
		{
			@referenceBody = Jool
			@semiMajorAxis = 59038000
		}
	}
}

I don't want your cookies.

Where exactly does that insert Laythe?

Whirligig Girl · June 17, 2016

Just now, _Augustus_ said:

Where exactly does that insert Laythe?

It's a Kerbin trojan.

_Augustus_ · June 17, 2016

16 minutes ago, GregroxMun said:

It's a Kerbin trojan.

Hmm.

Whatever, I'll make a config that just deletes Laythe at the end of the Kopernicus process.

Also, if you put Odo in a Theia-like eccentric orbit with a period and mean anomaly identical to Kerbin's but an eccentricity of 0.1, it would be an interesting Theia analog. It wouldn't actually be at any weird gravitational point, but it would be fairly close to Kerbin.

Let's do an Io Volcano Observer mission to Yecthka....

Edited June 17, 2016 by _Augustus_

Whirligig Girl · June 17, 2016

7 minutes ago, _Augustus_ said:

Also, if you put Odo in a Theia-like eccentric orbit with a period and mean anomaly identical to Kerbin's but an eccentricity of 0.1, it would be an interesting Theia analog. It wouldn't actually be at any weird gravitational point, but it would be fairly close to Kerbin.

Theia was a Proto-Earth Trojan before it gained enough mass to destabilize its orbit and collide into Proto-Earth to form the Earth-Moon system. That would be a period of Earth's, but with a mean anomaly at Epoch of -60 degrees.

_Augustus_ · June 17, 2016

12 minutes ago, GregroxMun said:

Theia was a Proto-Earth Trojan before it gained enough mass to destabilize its orbit and collide into Proto-Earth to form the Earth-Moon system. That would be a period of Earth's, but with a mean anomaly at Epoch of -60 degrees.

Well, assuming it didn't in the Kerbal universe...

Also, Theia did go to the L2 point shortly before it's demise.

Interplanet Janet · July 9, 2016

If OPM and PPX are installed, what will happen to Gobe? Will it be Sarnus' or Odo's moon?

Whirligig Girl · July 11, 2016

On 7/8/2016 at 11:37 PM, Interplanet Janet said:

If OPM and PPX are installed, what will happen to Gobe? Will it be Sarnus' or Odo's moon?

Currently Gobe is still Jool's moon if PPX, OPM, and RevSSS are installed.

Interplanet Janet · July 11, 2016

Just now, GregroxMun said:

Currently Gobe is still Jool's moon if PPX, OPM, and RevSSS are installed.

I mean, after the moon-moving update.

Whirligig Girl · July 11, 2016

1 minute ago, Interplanet Janet said:

I mean, after the moon-moving update.

Gobe will orbit Odo if PPX and RevSSS are installed, no matter the presence of OPM. If the advanced compatibility patch coming soon for OPM/RevSSS is active, Gobe will still be a moon of Odo.

Interplanet Janet · July 11, 2016

Just now, GregroxMun said:

Gobe will orbit Odo if PPX and RevSSS are installed, no matter the presence of OPM. If the advanced compatibility patch coming soon for OPM/RevSSS is active, Gobe will still be a moon of Odo.

Okay. Got it. :wink:

Alaygrounds · May 25, 2018

@GregroxMun Sorry for extensive messaging, but I would really like to continue development of this mod.

Whirligig Girl · May 25, 2018

You may not.

[WIP] [Kopernicus] Planet Pack X [0.01 Released]

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