EVA Kerbals at Space Station

[gunmetal]

After making a neat space station, I wanted to leave it floating in space as a screen saver in the background, however, everything just seemed so static (and boring). Is there any way we can have a toggle for the space station that puts the Kerbals inside on 'autopilot' in terms of their activities? For example, you might see one leave his pod to go for an EVA, to conduct an imaginary repair some solar panels and then return to his pod. Or otherwise conduct some imaginary 'science'? There could be certain 'hot spots' on our parts that Kerbals travel randomly between to give the illusion that the space station is a hive of activity/movement. Sort of like the milling around that we see in the VAB.

Thoughts?

[Helix935]

there is a mod called EVA followers which allows you to program the movements of multiple EVAs but i doubt it is what your looking for....

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/36425-20-2-EVA-Followers-0-12-%28Open-to-a-Good-Home%29?highlight=followers

you could however use them for bases but probably not space stations yet

[Skylid]

After making a neat space station, I wanted to leave it floating in space as a screen saver in the background, however, everything just seemed so static (and boring). Is there any way we can have a toggle for the space station that puts the Kerbals inside on 'autopilot' in terms of their activities? For example, you might see one leave his pod to go for an EVA, to conduct an imaginary repair some solar panels and then return to his pod. Or otherwise conduct some imaginary 'science'? There could be certain 'hot spots' on our parts that Kerbals travel randomly between to give the illusion that the space station is a hive of activity/movement. Sort of like the milling around that we see in the VAB.

Thoughts?

Just a question...

is your name related to gundams?

[Beeman]

Gunmetal is a shade of grey

But gundams are awesome, just throwin' that out there >.>

As for the suggestion at hand, I'd be down for that. I've seen it suggested at least once that it'd be nice to use craft we've made as main menu backgrounds...this would breathe a little life into them were that the case. This might even be something they'd considered at some point...I mean, they'd planned on having us train kerbals to do certain tasks on their own, more or less. So maybe this is something that'll just happen naturally

[Skylid]

oh, didnt now that tht was a type of grey(fail) but yes, hopefully this would a nivce implentation from the squad team...

[gunmetal]

oh, didnt now that tht was a type of grey(fail) but yes, hopefully this would a nivce implentation from the squad team...

haha yes, all it is is a colour, but the gundam series is pretty neat.

yeah, I saw the EVA followers mod but I'm looking for something automated/random rather than having them all follow me, if that makes sense =) I'm sure some of the code would be similar though, I mean that mod basically proves that the game can control multiple kerbals at the same time right?

[ixolate industries]

So what you are also saying is that instead of the usual three kerbals in orbit or the crashed lander the main screen would alternate between your various ships with added kerblals wandering about.

[Beeman]

I think the original post was talking about having kerbals just wandering about on their own so when you took a screenshot, it'd be more lively. But it's been suggested by other people that you should see your own creations in the background on the main menu, yes.

[MarkusA380]

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