colour customization of parts.

[Almond]

I think it would be great if you could change the colour of some parts to make your rocket look better.

This could be implemented by creating another tab like the action groups etc. and then being able to select a part and change its colour. Each part would be split into several surfaces: eg the FL-T800 aka. the longest of the standard diameter tanks, could have 5 different surfaces the writing, borders, the background and the now black rectangles on the bottom section each of these could be cloloured differently. For example you start a rocket with the standard one person capsule and because the Kerbal might work better knowing he will survive you add the small parachute on top.

You realize you dont' like the colour of the white chute and so change its colour to fit the command capsule.

[Synapse]

It would be nice to have colour schemes, rather than selecting each colour tediously.

If anyone remembers homeworld, you could choose your colour scheme (main colour and stripe colour) from a chart. That would be nice to have custom coloured rockets.

[Paul Kingtiger]

I'd love for say fuel tanks to have skin options, so you can do polished bare metal, white and black, all white, orange and Russian green. There is a mod that kind of does this, allowing you to create custom fuel tanks.

[Beeman]

I've seen this suggested before and still fully support the idea.

My take on it is that we should be able to customize parts and even space suits kinda like the army painter in Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War. Or like the mech painter in MWO, for a more recent example. Where you have like a primary color which changes the bigger parts like the white bits on the FL-T800 fuel tank. Then a secondary color that you can change independently, maybe representing the black bars on the FL-T800. THEN maybe have a trim color for the lip at the top and bottom of the fuel tank. Maybe having a secondary trim color for parts with like a color stripe or band or something like that. If you could manually chose your colors via like a color wheel, that would be amazing(I like very specific shades of some colors >_> ).

Maybe for the space suits, you can have like a general setting for all kerbonauts or maybe save suit themes per rank or something(red hemlet=vet kerbonaut, for example ). But the primary color would be like the suit color, secondary could maybe be the helmet color with a tertiary or trim setting for the stripes. Maybe have the ability to set the colors for their flight suit(that orange thing they wear when launching) and casualwear(the blue or red polo shirts, they wear in the real ISS ).

That would be phenomental and if you didn't care to customize those things, they can be set to the default setting(white suit/helmet for EVA, red stripe for bill, jeb and bob's helmet, orange flight suits for all, blue/red polo shirts for casualwear and all the defaulty colors for rocket parts). Might be a pain in the ass to setup, though. I mean, I don't know anything about it, but wouldn't they have to code every part with a specific kind of texture THEN setup the color wheel and add UI elements for all that ****?

Maybe this would be something they could think about at the very end of their development cycle, right before the game launches. Or as a post-release update or something.

Either way, I'd absolutely love to customize all my colors to look how I want them to...and I know a lot of other people would too