Procedural Greebles - Would it work?

[Nightside]

So, I've been daydreaming of a mod to create stick-on greebles. It would work more or less like the sticker mods out there, but the models would also have normal maps. These parts would be physicsless and non-functional, just cool looking little details such as tank raceways and other little pipes and bumps. Ideally these would be able to be attached to parts of various sizes and shapes.

Can anyone with more knowledge say whether or not this idea is actually possible in KSP? 

[Tyko]

Cool idea.

You can make parts physicsless, that's easy. I'm not sure if you can set something to zero mass, but if not, you could go with .001. 

One possible issue would be an increase to number of parts and slowing game performance. Another way you could do greebles that wouldn't be quite as flexible, but would solve the parts problem - you could build a compound part that references the Squad base model (this is allowed AFAIK) and adds your greeble models into the same part using offset values. If you want an example of a compound part, take a look at how the part's built in my MSP-3000 mod

Edited December 12, 2018 by Tyko