First person Kerbal

[goldfang35]

I've been playing a bit of space engineers and i've accualy been thinking about KSP alot. as of now you can only be in 3rd person and the controls are a bit messed up to those who are FPS players. Personaly fps would make my life much easier since i do play quite a lot of FPS games. However this could bring so much new stuff to the game like tilting your kerbal and even jetpack upgrades. For example as of now the jetpacks are very un manoeuvrable, maybe if you follow the tech tree you get better jetpacks that are either stronger or more 'manoeuvrable'. i personaly think this could open alot to the EVA aspect of the game. thanks for reading

[Alistone]

Posting here to build on what goldfang is saying.

Regarding "limits" it occurred to me that IVA missions are extremely difficult yet promising.

I would suggest adding in the future a "hard-mode" that limits flight control to 1st person IVA view. Similarly; adding a 1st person EVA option would be awesome as well. Having posted this I am now curious if pressing V while in EVA may actually already include a 1st person view...

To goldfang: try pressing "c" to get a first person in cockpit view (press "c" again to exit). That shows instrument panels if you're looking for a 1st person challenge.

[Daid]

You cannot change the camera to first person, but, I once forced the game into IVA view with a mod all the time. This made the camera turn into a first person view in EVA, however, it made the kerbal uncontrollable, and you always looked up or something. I'm pretty sure this camera view could be fixed in some way.

[lajoswinkler]

Funny, I was just thinking about the same thing lately.

It might be useful in later updates. For now it would just be an eye candy if you want to make interesting movies for Youtube. It would be a cool option nonetheless.

[SuperWeegee4000]

Pretty sure this is on one of the two "Don't Suggest" lists.

EDIT: It is; it's on the already suggested list. Please do research before suggesting things.

[ThirdHorseman]

There was a mod I think that gave the Kerbals glasses, and when they put on those glasses you could switch look through them and it was like a first person view. Not sure if the mod is still active though...

[Nuke]

i want this feature more after seeing gravity.

[vexx32]

This shouldn't really be too complex... I recall Harv saying at some point that first-person EVA would be like assigning an IVA view to Kerbals themselves, since they're treated much like vessels anyway. It'd be cool to see

[Motokid600]

An iva for the command seat would be nice.

[Nuke]

with a cool and useful hud built into the helmet of course.