Kerbal Tectonics

[FuzzyLlama]

Just an idle thought. I was flying over Kerbin and saw a textured, yet pretty much featureless, bathymetry exposed by shadows in my early morning takeoff. I would love it so much if Kerbin and other planets could be retextured with solid geological concepts in mind! Hmm...

[Naten]

Hmmmmmm, yes. Like mountains not splattered all over wherever the heck SQUAD feels like "moar mountains."

[henryrasia]

I think this applies to every map ever, books, movies, games... When you learn tectonics you can't help but seeing the mistakes. However I'd imagine that'd be a huge challenge, and it'd change Kerbin as we know it...

[Thomas988]

I think this applies to every map ever, books, movies, games... When you learn tectonics you can't help but seeing the mistakes. However I'd imagine that'd be a huge challenge, and it'd change Kerbin as we know it...

I couldn't agree with that any more. A realistic-looking Kerbin would be awesome, but that would be so difficult.

[cantab]

Being so small, Kerbin lost its internal heat ages ago, so has no plate tectonics. /fridgelogic

[stupid_chris]

Being so small, Kerbin lost its internal heat ages ago, so has no plate tectonics. /fridgelogic

Given internal heat of planets is mostly maintained by radioactive decay, the size doesn't matter.

[Accelerando]

I couldn't agree with that any more. A realistic-looking Kerbin would be awesome, but that would be so difficult.

It wouldn't be that difficult. There's a rudimentary plate tectonics-based map generator by Laurence Mann on Sourceforge, and a thread on Gamedev.net.

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Edited March 8, 2014 by Accelerando