simplemunrockets Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 Honestly, I think the hardest part of making a planet is texture modeling, which I guess could be done with a procedural terrain generator, and balancing the SOI size, so that it's not too hard or too easy to hit. That's pretty much everything, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
szpw Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 I remember HarvesteR stating in his post that 0.17 was about lots of small features, but planets....Those are certainly not small features! Great job KSP Devs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koen Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 ...Just assign them (allow them to be assigned) negative drag coefficients and it will work just fine. It will give you a similar result with less complexity.It's not that easy. I think it wouldnt take long before people found a way to put enough nosecones to make whole ship's drag coefficient negative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willitstimothy Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 It's not that easy. I think it wouldnt take long before people found a way to put enough nosecones to make whole ship's drag coefficient negative.No, what it would do is make it so that with enough nosecone parts one could make a ship "fly" indefinitely without any engines in an atmosphere. However, in terms of the effect that a real nose cone would have, the effect of using a negative drag coefficient would be to reduce the drag of the ship as a whole, thereby creating the intended effect without having to rely on the complexities of actually simulating all the possible drag models of every part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navy4422 Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 While the planets will be great and really expand the game the part I'm looking forward to is this "Center of mass, thrust, lift and drag visual cues on the construction scenes" now my space-planes won't blow up (well not as often) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigga Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Applying a negative value to nosecones works for now so long as you aren't into exploiting your mods. It's certainly not something that should be put in officially though as it's very hacky.A proper* drag model for tubes would be fairly easy to implement in such a way that nosecones would work. I guess it's not really a priority though. Non-tubes becomes a lot trickier.*Of course it depends on quite what you define as "proper". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baleur Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 A moon within a larger moon's SOI... sounds interesting.It's like... Moonception. *sunglasses*Why do people keep making those "verb within a verb, verbception" jokes?Get a dictionary.http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/inceptionOrigin: 1375–1425; late Middle English incepcion < Latin inceptiÃ…Ân- (stem of inceptiÃ…Â ), equivalent to incept ( us ) begun ( see incept) + -iÃ…Ân- -ionSynonyms 1. origin, outset, source, root, conception. in·cep·tion   [in-sep-shuhn] Show IPA noun 1. beginning; start; commencement. 2. British . a. the act of graduating or earning a university degree, usually a master's or doctor's degree, especially at Cambridge University. b. the graduation ceremony; commencement. 3. (in science fiction) the act of instilling an idea into someone's mind by entering his or her dreams. See, number 3 is from the movie and does not actually have anything whatsoever to do with what the word actually means.Sigh.Ontopic-swing: If i launch a Märs lander from Kerbin, that is an inception of the Märs project. If i put a kerbal within a kerbal, that's not inception, that's conception. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AeroPelican Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Kind of off-topic, but yeah it is a pun on the Inception movie. On-topic: IVA’s look pretty awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aceassasin Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 (edited) Just a question in the future will planets have modding support meaning we could have a planet folder like parts where we could download other peoples planets that they custom made and install them. I believe this could lead to infinite possibilitiesAlso that moon of the Green planet is probably Egar from Novas Guide to the Kerbol system it is the 2nd largest moon of Meander (Green Planet) that consist of half ice wastelands and desert with large ice caps Edited August 10, 2012 by aceassasin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaSilisko Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/album.php?albumid=5&attachmentid=31031http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/album.php?albumid=5&attachmentid=31030 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cykyrios Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 I was just going to ask whether the blue moon was in fact a planet, then I saw the second picture... Hooray for 4 moons around the planet!It looks like the 3 inner moons have a 0° inclination, and the 4th one has an inclination at least that of Minmus, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimwing Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Wish I could see them, gotta get my post count up first I guess! Is there a chance someone could please repost them so that they are viewable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polar Bear Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Looks awesome nova! So, could you post a pic of it's orbit in the kerbol system or is that not going to happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadlineone Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Why i have no Access?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanoog Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Yeah for updates.Nova, what about that gas giant?Will the texture remain constant or will the giant have observable changes in the atmosphere?Giving the sense that there is atmospheric changes an currents at work.That moon also looks cool, a little like Minimus in colour but seems to be much bigger an with some nice moutain ranges.Please give us more pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legal2k Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Pic of orbit would be nice..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redstar Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 gahh need to post more so i can see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handelin Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 How come I'm not allowed to see the links Nova posted? Do I need a secret handshake or something? =pThis is the error I´m getting when trying to access http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/album.php?albumid=5&attachmentid=31031"handelin, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation."Anyway, looking forward to the new planets =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickenbacker Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 My guess is that the gas giant will have stationary 'cloud' textures until they can get an atmosphere model with clouds in place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fitosm Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 How come I'm not allowed to see the links Nova posted? Do I need a secret handshake or something? =pThis is the error I´m getting when trying to access http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/album.php?albumid=5&attachmentid=31031"handelin, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation."Anyway, looking forward to the new planets =)Yeah, I am having the same trouble. I was writing a post about this at the forum forum when I saw your post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Bean Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 (edited) For the people who 'do not have permission' to view the links Nova posted, you all have one thing in common: a low amount of posts. It looks like you might need more to access them. Whether that's only 5 or perhaps 10 posts I don't know (if someone could shed some light on this I would appreciate it) (Edit: Thanks Ghery88! You need the rank "Bottle Rocketeer" which is 5 posts), but please don't create any pointless posts just so you can view them. Edited August 10, 2012 by The-Bean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghery88 Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 To everybody, who can't see Nova's awesome pics:It seems that you need to get to 'Bottle Rocketeer' level to see them. Simply make more posts along the forum rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leon Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/album.php?albumid=5&attachmentid=31031http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/album.php?albumid=5&attachmentid=31030I'll just try to get my post count up now. I guess that's what I get for lurking for months and not posting at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReverendRender Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 (edited) Ug, I don't post for a reason, I don't want to ........ Edited August 10, 2012 by sjwt to remove chance of flame war.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bekiekutmoar Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 New celestial objects revealed so far:-Red planet with 1 moon (total 2)-Purple planet (total 1)-Green planet with 4 moons (total 5)That will bring the total amount of celestial objects after succesfull implementation in 0.17 to 12 (sun included) ... ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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