Wanted: Informative Colored Kerbal Spacesuit Uniforms

[Jasonden]

I've been flying around with lots of Kerbals these days in order to let the experienced ones drive and the noobs gain experience. The problem that I've run into is that I can't exactly remember who is who, and when I get someone out on EVA to fix the wheels, I have to cycle through each Kerbal until I find my experienced Engineer. It is also annoying when I need that quick EVA report and accidently EVA my pilot, thereby killing SAS.

I note that NASA had this same problem: Neil and Buzz had identical uniforms, but starting with Apollo 12 the Commander always had that red stripe around the arm of their space suit so that Houston could tell who was who on the video.

I would really like to have some similar mechanism for our Kerbals. I was thinking that part of the uniform could be a color that corresponds to their expertise. I'm partial to blue for scientists, yellow for engineers, and red for pilots like the scheme in Star Trek: The Next Generation but the precise scheme is less important than them having one at all. If the top half of their uniform is colored, say, then there could be white stripes on the arm corresponding to the number of stars that they have. Or all-white uniforms with colored stripes on the arms for everybody with the number of stripes corresponding to number of stars (noobies might not yet merit different uniforms, say). But something to help me tell everyone apart in-game would be really helpful. Any ideas on how to do that or does anyone want to take up the torch?

[bdito]

I like it. That would be quite helpful.

[Helix935]

using texture replacer, you can have new suits in place which can be different colors if you want although if you don't want to make your own suits, use the texture packs near the middle of the First Post to your liking as i have already experimented with them

[Jasonden]

using texture replacer, you can have new suits in place which can be different colors if you want

Would there be a mechanism to assign the suits based on Kerbal attributes then, automatically?

[GluttonyReaper]

Would there be a mechanism to assign the suits based on Kerbal attributes then, automatically?

Yep, you can set it up through the in-game GUI - there is an option to set suits based on experience, which does just that. I would recommend these suits: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/60961-0-90-TextureReplacer-2-1-2-(20-12-2014)/page114?p=1325066#post1325066

[fede18lp]

could we have better suits while the carrer goes?

[NBZ]

I recommend klesh's color coded stock suits.

Is it possible to have 18 different suits automatically assigned based on both experience and role?

Yes, in TR 2.2 beta suits can have level-specific body and helmet textures.