Adding craft in orbit to main menu screen

[Fonz]

Copy pasting this suggestion from the ksp subreddit:

I think it'd be pretty dope if at the loading screen with the tree kerbals floating if you could specify a craft to put there along with it. It could be a ULTRA-MEGA-SUPER-DUPER-SPACE-STATION or just anything. I think it'd be super cool. It'd add a touch of "hey, kerbal is cool". What if you could select multiple craft files to slowly go by. If they were animated to do some things like for example: If it had antenna, toggle them. If it had RCS thrusters, occasionaly fire them. I think it'd add a touch of personality to the game.

 

What do you guys think?

[RatchetinSpace]

This sounds cool but it goes against the whole idea of a loading screen. The loading screen is to allow time for the game to load all the parts and plugins installed in the Game Data folder. If you want your craft to appear and be animated on the loading screen, you'd have to load all the parts and animations first, at which point the game is already loaded and you can start playing.

So yeah, can't really see this being practical.

[Alshain]

First of all it's a menu screen, not a loading screen.

Second the idea is cool but I'm betting it would take a lot of dev time to get it working right and it's just not worth it.

[Corona688]

The menu screen is already stripped-down as is to make it load faster...  Those kerbals aren't really in orbit, and the kerbin behind them isn't even the same Kerbin model used in-game.

[Fonz]

Hello Coronna 688,

I know, they wouldn't be bobbing up and down if they were

I'm just saying that adding a player's model behind them in orbit such as a space station they have built would be a nice (fairly easily implementable) addition that would really make the game personal to the player.

[Corona688]

As a layered screenshot, perhaps, something they don't have to enable physics to show.

Edited September 30, 2016 by Corona688

[Fonz]

Are they enabling physics to show the bobbing kerbals? I don't think so...