IVA improvements

[innovine]

Add switches and buttons for all action groups. Add switches to toggle external light (groups) on and off. Abort handles, alarms and warning indicator panels. Lots of analog gauges and number readouts, more plumbing and valves (think WWII submarine interiors Furry dice hanging/floating from a rearview mirror. Cockpit noises. Add backlit control panel labelling. Add a 'range to target' indicator. Better lighting and texturing all round, toggle internal cockpit lights on/off. Would be really impressive to turn out all cockpit lights and have backlit controls, and then experience a sunrise where sunlight pours in the window and illuminates and cast shadows around the cockpit.

Although KSP makes me feel like a space engineer, I almost never feel like an astronaut.

[Beeman]

I swear I saw this suggestion a couple days ago. Or something very, very similar.

We're going to have improved IVA at some point...like freely floating about inside of our vehicles and transferring between parts seamlessly through hatches and things. We're just not there yet. It might be a very low priority especially right now 'cause they're focusing really heavily on career mode stuffs.

As for sounds and things...I'd like it if they implemented a customizable system just like chatterer into the game. That would be awesome. They could record their own radio chatter in backwards spanish and it would be awesome. Or just use real-life radio chatter and things like that as chatterer does 'cause that sounds great on its own. Either way, being able to customize the frequency of those things would be very important, I think 'cause some people just don't want to hear too much when they're playing a game. Others like the immersion Chatterer brings.

When it comes to control panels and internal lights and things...I"m not entirely sure what they've got planned for that. I mean, we've already got a lot of buttons and things to play with, though I admit that it'd be nice to see action groups somewhere in command pod IVAs, among other things. Who knows what the future holds

[innovine]

I swear I saw this suggestion a couple days ago. Or something very, very similar.

Yes, but it was in the 'Things in KSP that make me sad'. Not feeling like an astronaut piloting my own ship makes me sad, but I think the suggestions should be posted in a more suitable place, where they can be discussed and perhaps improved upon.

Either way, being able to customize the frequency of those things would be very important, I think 'cause some people just don't want to hear too much when they're playing a game

It would be awesome to have some kind of comms panel on the IVA, where you could turn some knobs to adjust the VOX levels and 'frequency', ie, how often there is chatter, etc. Or a radio master on-off switch. The more switches and buttons to mess with, the better IMHO! I always loved the cockpits in Orbiter and SSM, but KSP won me over with it's construction...