The Worldbuilding Show with Gregrox

[Whirligig Girl]

World Building with Gregrox
A Kopernicus Livestream

What?

I will be doing a livestream wherein I design and build a planet for Kopernicus plugin. The resulting body will probably be put into the upcoming planet pack The Holy System of the Vernians. The stream covers how I make planets in stockalike style.

When?

The first stream happened on August 27th, 2016, at 3:00-7:00 Eastern Daylight Savings Time.

Who?

Me, GregroxMun. Creator of several Kopernicus mod projects. My current main projects are Revamped Stock Solar System and The Holy System of the Vernians.

So far it looks like in addition to me and whoever else wants to watch, we could have Kopernicus developer Thomas in the chat for some of the time, as well as GalacticNeighbor (Sigma88). This is not a guarantee, of course. They are real people with real schedules of their own, so this is subject to change.

Where?

My twitch channel at http://www.twitch.tv/gregroxmun. If you want a little preview of what my streams are like, here is the "pilot" episode of the show. (P1 and P2)

Why?

Several Reasons:

• I used to love streaming myself playing Kerbal Space Program. But when I started modding the game, my love for playing the game diminished. I still play sometimes, but I mod a lot more of the time. And I do miss streaming, and I'm sure some of my viewers miss me as well.
• Some people have asked me how I make planets the way I do, or how I make gas giant textures.
• I asked on Twitter if people would watch a livestream of building a planet, and no one voted no.

How?

I intend to show more or less the full process of making a Kopernicus Planet, and the steps involved. I will cover the following:

• Tools that I use to make planets.
• Creation of Kopernicus config files and usage of Module Manager as it applies to Kopernicus.
• General Worldbuilding tips and formulas/equations.
• Heightmap texture creation.
• Exporting of maps using KittopiaTech.
• Customizing of exported textures.
• Usage and customization of PQSMods and other Kopernicus features.
• Practical use of all of these in creating a planet.
• Debugging planets.

Note that I will not cover all of this at the same detail. The assumption is that you already know or can figure out how to do some basic stuff with Kopernicus. I won't stop and explain everything perfectly. This isn't scripted after all, and I'm probably going to make a few mistakes along the way. I don't always get everything right the first time, and I'm sure other modders don't either. Also note that I do sometimes do things a little differently than other Kopernicus modders or the way other tutorials teach things.

Other?

• I am not a professional streamer. That said, I have a decent internet and a fairly good setup. There will be some lag or stuttering in all likelihood, but I will endeavor to cut it down as much as possible. Don't come in with KSPTV expectations, you will be disappointed.
• If after about an hour no one is watching, I will consider ending much earlier. It's easier to do planet building when you're not streaming, so if there's no one watching, there's no benefit to continuing.
• I am trying to maximize viewership, which is why I'm writing an announcement post in the first place. I usually don't announce my streams in advance.
• The first episode was a success, so I will probably do more in the future.

I've been GregroxMun, and I'll see y'all later.

Edited August 27, 2016 by GregroxMun
First Stream has finished.

[Sigma88]

[Redacted]

[Whirligig Girl]

Time and subject have been chosen.

TIME:

3:00PM-6:00PM EDT. It might run shorter or longer than that, but that's the time I have allocated. GMT is 7-10 PM.

SUBJECT:

According to the Poll, a Jupiter-like gas giant texture is what won. But it gets a little more interesting than that, because I had a dream last night. It's one of the weird deja vu dreams where you could have sworn the stuff in the dream was real, or at least you've dreamed about it before. The contents of the dream were just a spacecraft flying through the moon system of a Jupiter-like gas giant, except it was supposed to be in Alternis Kerbol. In the dream, the planet's moons were more like the real Jupiter's in color scheme, but they weren't straight-up analogues. Of course, Alternis Kerbol never had anything like that. It wasn't AK, but my dreaming mind said it was.

So my current plan is to make the texture for the gas giant which I am calling "Vojol", put it in game on its own, and then set it aside for later. I intend to build upon it in the future, perhaps as part of a future stream. The bulk of today's stream will be designing and building Nartes, an arid desert planet with lakes and seas.

[njmksr]

Will we be able to watch it afterwards?

[Whirligig Girl]

Just now, njmksr said:

Will we be able to watch it afterwards?

Yes, it will immediately be available to watch on my channel for a month until Twitch takes it down, but I will be highlighting the whole stream as well as individual parts so that they will remain indefinitely.

[ProtoJeb21]

On 8/23/2016 at 7:51 PM, GregroxMun said:

 

Wait, I missed the creation of a terrestrial planet? Dangit! Also, will there be more planet-making streams like this?

[Whirligig Girl]

After a successful stream, I have decided I want to do more. Stay tuned for next Saturday, perhaps.

The power went out about 2/3 the way through, so it's cut into two streams. Full stream part one, and full stream part two.

Here's just the part about making the texture.

Here's the texture finished:

 

We also made a rocky/icy moon of the gas giant.