[WIP] Green Skull Inc. Development Thread

[Green Skull]

WELCOME TO THE GREEN SKULL Inc DEVELOPMENT THREAD

Total Kerbal Space Programme Customisation

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CURRENT SUIT TEXTURES PLANNED

New types of real suit - modern and past era for all you real life re-creationists. With 39.47% of the vote. Thank you to everyone who voted!

Implementation:

So the plan here is to introduce new types of suits and helmets in the STYLE OF THE ORIGINALS. I will try to re-create as well as I can but you must realise that certain things cannot be changed like the shape of the Kerbal. Head shape. Suit shape. Helmet shape. We are currently stuck with this until a way to change is found.

I STATE THIS HERE AND NOW!!! THESE NEW SUITS WILL NOT BE EXACT REPLICAS AS THIS IS CURRENTLY IMPOSSIBLE. I WILL NOT BE DRAWN INTO LONG, STUPID AND POINTLESS DEBATES ON THIS. THIS DEBATE ENDS HERE AND NOW!!! DON'T LIKE THIS MAKE YOUR OWN.

The plan is to roll them out in groups as they are done. As usual I will post updates and progress for each suit as development happens. Current planned suits are listed below. Each new suit variation will come with appropriate patch variations. Proot's original suit that my current main texture is based on already resembles a U.S. Apollo 11 A7L. I will re-work this but not for a while.

Russian

SK-1 - Vostok

Berkut - Voskhod 2

Krechet-94 - Soviet Moon landing

Strizh - Buran

Sokol-K - Soyuz IVA

Sokol-KV2 - Soyuz IVA

Orlan - EVA - Will also be making a Jetpack in this style!!!

U.S.

Navy Mark IV - Mercury programme.

Gemini G4C - Gemini IVA and EVA suit.

Apollo A7L - Apollo IVA and EVA.

Apollo A7LB - Apollo 15-17 and Skylab IVA and EVA.

Advanced Crew Escape Suit - Space Shuttle crews later IVA suit A few important patches only.

Z2 style suit based on the winning design.

Extravehicular Mobility Unit - Space Shuttle and International Space Station - Will also be making a Jetpack in this style!!!

Future Suit Texture packs planned and current status:

Film packs - Star Trek, Kerbricorn One, 2001 a kerbal odyssey, BSG reboot (Kerbal Star Galactica?), Last Starfighter, Sunshire.

Star Trek - Have heads need to make suits.

Holidays pack. Santa Kerman anyone?

Kerbal ranking system - give your kerbals ranks or jobs i.e. Commander, Pilot, Mission Specialist by using specific colour suits, helmets etc - colours most likely based on the star trek colour / rank system. - Waiting for possible intrgration with Final Frontier.

Kerbalpean Space Agency (European).

Kerbalese Space Agency (Chinese).

Krussian Space Agency (Russian) - Integrating nationalities into new suit releases.

Minions... - Struggling to make goggles work in reality on Kerbals

More visor reflections - Need ideas - Fan skybox contributions???

Signature pack - Famous modders, celebrities and special one off's.

Space Pirates!

Superhero's Pack - Only rough ideas and very early Joker head so far.

Release of current Spacesuit packs here

Part and Other Game Textures

I'm moving into doing more custom textures for parts, skyboxes - whatever really! So far Space Kraken has contributed the first skybox and I've now figured out how to make my own so I'll be knocking a few of these out along with corresponding visor reflections!!! Plus I've got some Procedural Parts tank textures out with another couple of designs on the board waiting for the final inspiration touches. I want to be able to offer most textures in high and low res versions.

For released non suit texture packs look here: Green Skull Inc texture packs

Earn yourself a limited edition suit or see your idea made a reality!

I am open to suggestions - Your idea could be a reality like the mission patches from hieywiey and CERVERUS or Kerbalgeddon from ndiver... And now the superhero's by frizzank, space pirates from Airogue Minions by Hodo and Iridium visors from stoland.

Contribute your time and effort to improving or promoting this mod earns you an exclusive "Stealth suit" and a place in the main Green Skull Inc. picture of fame and epicness! Alpha and Beta testers get special "Tester" edition suits.

Got you own mod and want / need / would like your own custom suits??? Please contact!

CURRENT PROJECT(S)

Skyboxes and matching visor reflections.

Work on new suits will start soon.

STATUS

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Special thanks go to CERVERUS, likke_A_boss, Sippyfrog, Space Kraken and Airouge for the pre Alpha testing and advice!

Proot has very kindly agreed to let me release modified & original versions of his textures which he must rightfully take credit for.

Shaw has very kindly agreed to let me release texture replacer bundled with new textures.

Frizzank has very kindly agreed to let me use FASA logo's.

Helldiver has very kindly agreed to let me use the KSO creation pack to make suits for the KSO.

I'm not a poor student looking for beer money, I'm self employed and paying my way in the world. There are a couple of pieces of equipment I could use but can't afford. They would help make my mods even better! Donate here.

Edited April 27, 2014 by Green Skull

[hieywiey]

I like that a lot! I think a good Soviet name would be Zelenonaut (it is a portmanteau of green and cosmonaut) now all we need for a full Gemini 4 recreation is a Gemini-era EVA tether and a door-opening animation for the FASA Gemini. Here's a picture of the Gemini tether ( I can't embed it because I'm on my iPhone): http://www.astronautix.com/graphics/0/10074016.jpg

Edited March 4, 2014 by hieywiey

[Green Skull]

This would be the tether... Something along the lines of a KAS winch...

[hieywiey]

http://www.astronautix.com/graphics/0/10074016.jpg

This would be the tether... Something along the lines of a KAS winch...

Yeah but it wouldn't look as...clean if it were just a KAS winch slapped to the side than if it were internally carried by the Gemini and matches your awesome suit, but it could still be a modified KAS winch that is carried inside the Gemini and also would function as an optional life support line. And also the Gemini suit shouldn't have the mobility unit attached. But could you use the reflection plugin for the visor because THAT would be awesome.

Edited March 4, 2014 by hieywiey

[Green Skull]

A small flatish surface mounted tether should be possible with a white texture on the life support line - currently KAS winches can be docked or undocked enabling life support so this is possible. Spawning without an EVA pack is possible. Changing the helmet visor texture is possible too but making it mirror finished and a true reflection may take some doing.

[CERVERUS]

Nice project Green Skull....my Cosmonauts wait their NEW suits from you!!!

[hieywiey]

Korlan would be a good name for the Soviet orbital suit, but Kretchet already has a K at the beginning so it would be fine as-is. And life support compatibility would be nice along with a built in Snacksâ„¢ dispenser (Suggested by Jeb) for those extra-long EVA's.

[Green Skull]

What started as a simple texture replacement is fast turning into a challenge I'm really looking into the reflective visors as I really like the idea. I use TAC life support on my personal install which comes with "snacks" etc built in. However I all ready have rough designs in blender for different life support tanks and re-cycle units and one is all ready labled snacks. One thing at a time though lol.

[hieywiey]

What started as a simple texture replacement is fast turning into a challenge I'm really looking into the reflective visors as I really like the idea. I use TAC life support on my personal install which comes with "snacks" etc built in. However I all ready have rough designs in blender for different life support tanks and re-cycle units and one is all ready labled snacks. One thing at a time though lol.

I know, but I'm working on a Voskhod 2-like inflatable-disposable-airlock. But I have to make it in a old version of Cinema4D; so it's a bit of a challenge as I have the base version that doesn't have liquids, hair etc. But I wish my MakerBot still worked so I could print these suits and use them as X-Mas ornaments.

Edited March 4, 2014 by hieywiey

[The Destroyer]

Interesting, but Jeb/bill/bob has the wrong suit color/"shade".

[Green Skull]

I used this pic as inspiration for the three main kerbals

The game uses a specular or shiny material in the kerbals body giving the suits that shiny look

[Proot]

So you don't like my orange EVA/IVA or what?

Just kidding, cool mods!. I'm very glad you like my textures, specially still freaking out of proud when I see people using my kerbals heads, I love them!. Btw, I like the white koviet version, you should try to made it a bit more brownish-creme version to reach more similarities.

[Green Skull]

I plan to change the colour of the koviets and thanks again for the textures / inspiration!

P.S. I love your idea of making bob look like Chris Hadfield

Edited March 4, 2014 by Green Skull
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[Proot]

I plan to change the colour of the koviets and thanks again for the textures / inspiration!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RHG0gljPsDc/TVXZITevBTI/AAAAAAAACNk/GtBM77PZ304/s1600/cosmonaut.jpg

P.S. I love your idea of making bob look like Chris Hadfield

You're welcome!. Customize kerbals is fun!

And about the light brow suit, that's exactly what I'm saying.

[Green Skull]

My new desktop background

I couldn't resist a quick colour change Need to finish tidying up but definately better.

Also Kosmonaut Jebediah...

Edited March 5, 2014 by Green Skull
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[DragonShadow]

Sweet, this looks awesome! Can't wait for the release, or your planned additions.

The Kerbonauts and Kosmokerbs of my space race thank you.

[Alskari]

These look great. How hard would it be to make a no-helmet variety?

[Green Skull]

These look great. How hard would it be to make a no-helmet variety?

Texture replacer comes with the ability to spawn kerbals in the atmosphere without a helmet, so very easy!

[hieywiey]

Could the suits have the mission patch be the chosen flag for the specific mission like in FASA? Also Apollo/Skylab style gloves would be nice.

[Green Skull]

I will research the colours / style of the gloves a bit but I cannot change the shape as this is dictated by the original model mesh or shape which isn't being changed. Expect the textures to improve over time as modifying a single suit texture to change colour etc is a many hour job.

The mission patches had crossed my mind but the limiting factor is the size they can be scaled down to. The size of the patch on an arm say is only say 80 x 80 pixels - and that's huge! so resolution is a problem here. I already had to make my own USA flag as a scaled down png image looked horrible.

Not impossible tho...

[Green Skull]

Latest and easily best Kosmonaut suit

[CERVERUS]

Wow...give to our Cosmonauts this suit!!!

Awesome!!!

[Green Skull]

Could the suits have the mission patch be the chosen flag for the specific mission like in FASA? Also Apollo/Skylab style gloves would be nice.

Apollo 11 patches added!

List me what missions YOU would like to see as a bonus for this excellent idea! Sadly each texture can either be applied to all kerbals, or custom kerbals i.e. bill is koviet, jeb is kerbal states, bob has apollo 11 patches etc. Swapping means restarting the game but you could make custom kerbals call them neil, buzz and michael and assign them the apollo 11 patches...

Edited March 6, 2014 by Green Skull

[Green Skull]

Wow...give to our Cosmonauts this suit!!!

Awesome!!!

Thank you! Do you have any mission patch requests? Soviet or American?

[CERVERUS]

I suggest this page...the choice is yours,and to all another people read and follow this thread!

Thank you!

http://www.seasky.org/space-exploration/mission-patches-soyuz-early.html