Should The Community make a Planet Mod Pack?

[ForumUser]

Seeing as many more people are adding planets to the Kerbol Solar System, I want people to vote if community members can put their own planets into a modpack. I'm thinking of "Community Planet/Star Pack" or "The Community's Solar System"

[Gaarst]

Already exists, but is bound to already-existing planet packs:

 

[NSEP]

Yes! That would be awesome!

[Galileo]

I would have to say no UNLESS all planets were made using the same technique. Otherwise you would have ultra real looking mods like this (see below) sprinkled in with stock alike planets and they wouldn't look right together. 

 

[Superfluous J]

There are far too many disparate opinions about what should be in the game for a true community planet pack to work. Several members could get together into a team, sure, but not the entire community.

So I voted "No."

[ZooNamedGames]

I vote no but only because I want the world's created to be unique even on the smallest detail. I don't want just a new rock; I want a new rock that has caves, ravines (REAL ravines, not canyons that we have now), volcanoes, etc. Planets that are truly unique and are well deserving of addition. I want to enjoy just WALKING on your planet, much less flying or landing. A walk on Earth's Moon would be an amazing experience through it's rich and unique lunarography. Most planets miss this aspect, including the stock bunch.

[Galileo]

8 minutes ago, ZooNamedGames said:

I vote no but only because I want the world's created to be unique even on the smallest detail. I don't want just a new rock; I want a new rock that has caves, ravines (REAL ravines, not canyons that we have now), volcanoes, etc. Planets that are truly unique and are well deserving of addition. I want to enjoy just WALKING on your planet, much less flying or landing. A walk on Earth's Moon would be an amazing experience through it's rich and unique lunarography. Most planets miss this aspect, including the stock bunch.

I have added everything you want in my planet pack

I think I had more fun making this and walking around than anything else.  I hope to have a test release out in the next few days

Edited October 1, 2016 by Galileo

[ZooNamedGames]

34 minutes ago, Galileo said:

I have added everything you want in my planet pack

I think I had more fun making this and walking around than anything else.  I hope to have a test release out in the next few days

Caves? If you got that- I'm sold until the end of time or you drop development, whichever comes first (I hope the former).

[Thomas P.]

5 minutes ago, ZooNamedGames said:

Caves? If you got that- I'm sold until the end of time or you drop development, whichever comes first (I hope the former).

Caves are not possible with KSPs terrain system.

[Red Iron Crown]

Moved to Add-On Discussions.

[Galileo]

13 minutes ago, ZooNamedGames said:

Caves? If you got that- I'm sold until the end of time or you drop development, whichever comes first (I hope the former).

No caves but how about some deep holes?  lol

[ZooNamedGames]

33 minutes ago, Thomas P. said:

Caves are not possible with KSPs terrain system.

Just about everything we have now was at some point, impossible. We CAN make it happen.

[Thomas P.]

8 minutes ago, ZooNamedGames said:

Just about everything we have now was at some point, impossible. We CAN make it happen.

Then, have fun with completely rewriting the PQS.

Trust me if I say that it is not possible. I am working with the PQS for almost two years now, and I know how moddable it is. And it is slow, unefficient and not very moddable, so even if you had the skills to implement something like caves or voxel terrain, it would be time consuming and very very hard.

[ZooNamedGames]

1 hour ago, Thomas P. said:

Then, have fun with completely rewriting the PQS.

Trust me if I say that it is not possible. I am working with the PQS for almost two years now, and I know how moddable it is. And it is slow, unefficient and not very moddable, so even if you had the skills to implement something like caves or voxel terrain, it would be time consuming and very very hard.

I give it two major updates. You forget, Squad changes the code as well. Not to mention they mentioned doing a terrain overhaul so would it not be conceivable for them to also maybe open a bit of backdoor modding options?

Point is- anything is possible.

Edited October 1, 2016 by ZooNamedGames

[Van Disaster]

Yes it's possible, if you don't mind writing a completely new planet rendering/interaction system. It's rather hard to do caves when the planet is defined by a heightmap...

On topic, not unless everything was made by the same group, or there are rigorous style reviews.

[ForumUser]

Thanks for the feedback! Also, I may make it so it has some restrictions (like either it will be realism themed or stock themed)