Cinematics, cinamas and career progression

[softweir]

As an alternative to grinding science for points, I was thinking that it would be entertaining to make films for popularity.

The idea requires a new camera part that pops-up a display similar to the Romfarer docking camera view - small and low resolution - and streams the video to HD. At the same time, some code would analyse the vehicle's situation and objects rendered in the camera view to pick out certain events: thus when in orbit, if Kerbol switches from obscured by Kerbin to visible in the camera, then that would be flagged as "orbital Kerbol-rise over Kerbin".

Then, at the end of the flight, a cinematic would be run of an audience of Kerbals in a cinema watching that moment of sunrise, and their enthusiasm would be factored into the player's progression, adding more cash to his budget.

A few such possible moment:

First view from 10K altitude

... from 50K altitude

... from orbit

... view of Mun from <100K away

Kerbol-rise from orbit

Kerbol-rise from Mun

... from Minmus

etcetera

[boomerdog2000]

I feel like this might work near the beginning of the space program when space is still strange and mysterious to the public but that the effect might wear off after that. Similar to the public's reaction during the Apollo program compared to now.