existing concepts/designs

[trekkie_]

There's a surprising number of mods made from existing official designs, more than you might realize. Sometimes I'll google image something like "concept space craft" to inspire modeling, and often I come across images of stuff that is already in KSP and copied almost exactly down to every contour and color...they don't even add their own twist to it.....many from mods you might not even realize are replica's of designs that exist elsewhere. There's quite a few mods I've come across that I thought were original designs, then later find out they were exact replica's of something else.

Of course, there's some great mods out there copy or not, and it is fine to be inspired by something and nice to have some pre-existing designs to play with, but I would take a guess that well over 90% of mods, are these copies I speak of. There's actually very little out there that hasn't been ported into KSP, and very little that is actually original in any sense.

I guess what I'm getting at, is to remind people to not get caught up in copying stuff into KSP, but rather putting yourself into KSP.

take my trek style nacelle mod for a loose example. simplistic, based on a pre-existing concept, but not an exact copy of anything you'll see anywhere else.

http://imageshack.us/a/img802/180/warp7.png

Edited November 19, 2013 by trekkie_