Designing your own parts

[Aggregat@13681]

Hello!

As we know rocketry is all about design. Currently we have parts that are previously done by developers/modders. But I thought that it would be fun to have some kind of simplified editor to make own designs for rocket, rover, satellite, space station (and many other) parts which would need some base materials: different metals, electronics, propellants etc.

Of course, it would be a lot of work, but I believe that it's doable. Just depends of how much detail is used in the editor system.

Feel free to share your thoughts

Aggregat@13681 aka Kaarel

Edited September 5, 2014 by Aggregat@13681

[peadar1987]

Making models etc. would be pretty complicated, but maybe if you could repurpose the stock models, resize them, and then tweak the stats (mass, ISPs for vacuum and atmosphere, thrust, resource production/utilisation etc.), that would be cool. The amount of "points" you could distribute between those categories could be determined by how far up the science tree you are.

[EnderSpace]

That would be awesome , I also suggest that if you want to craft a piece you will spend about 10k-100k

that would be soo challenging

[Red Iron Crown]

Can you give some examples of parts you'd like to be able to make? I'm not sure if you're suggesting something similar to Procedural Parts, or just a bigger part catalog, or variants of the existing parts.

[Aggregat@13681]

I don't know how I missed that procedural parts topic (I used search). I knew somebody must have thought something similar.

Part of it would be indeed procedural parts, but addition to that would be different (new) designs. If there were different base materials, then it could affect physics too. Everything from structural pieces to whole boosters. But no new part classes, that's the "job" for modders, probably.

Maybe it's too much for one game and I'm thinking too much about designing. Perhaps I shouldn't waste time on these kind of things and apply for an aerospace engineer

// Shuttle designing would be also nice to have.

Edited September 5, 2014 by Aggregat@13681