What is this texture?

[CaptainKipard]

This thing is everywhere. Everyone copies it, sometimes remaking it to look nicer; even I do.

• What is it
  
• What's the cross in the middle
  
• What's the thick line
  
• What are the ovals
  
• What is the triangle
  

[Voidryder]

1) It's gray.

2) It's where the giant Phillips screwdriver goes.

3) It's the coin slot

4) They're elongated circles

5) It's a warning sticker sans any warning.

Hope that helped.

[NathanKell]

It seems to be a hatch. I would guess the cross is supposed to look raised, i.e. so it can be twisted (the wheel/handle/whatever on a hatch), no idea about the slot.

[passinglurker]

I'm guessing the triangle means "this way is up."

[pizzaoverhead]

It seems to be a hatch. I would guess the cross is supposed to look raised, i.e. so it can be twisted (the wheel/handle/whatever on a hatch), no idea about the slot.

I've always seen it as this too: A hatch with submarine-style doorwheel (cross) for detaching it and a handle (line) for lifting it out of the way inside the craft. No idea what the ovals are, likely greeble. The yellow triangle appears to be a warning sign which is too small for text.

It's existed since before the game had detailed textures, and seems to have become a skeuomorph for "attachment point that crew could possibly transfer though but is definitely not a docking port, please attach one".

Soyuz:

ISS:

Edited January 13, 2015 by pizzaoverhead

[CaptainKipard]

1) It's gray.

2) It's where the giant Phillips screwdriver goes.

3) It's the coin slot

4) They're elongated circles

5) It's a warning sticker sans any warning.

Hope that helped.

Bless you

I've always seen it as this too: A hatch with submarine-style doorwheel (cross) for detaching it

As lame as that texture is, don't you think they would still try to connect the cross to the circle if it really was a doorwheel?

[NecroBones]

Yeah, I've always seen the cross as more of an alignment guide, with the slot being a small window.

[Beale]

It's a nice generic circle texture.

Textures have lots of generic circles that need filling.

[Whirligig Girl]

The big horizontal line is actually where a handhold goes, if you look inside the Hitchhiker Storage Container.

I never really thought about it. I mean, I knew it was a hatch, probably a crew transfer path, but I never really thought about what it was based on. I've grown too attached to it. I don't want it to go.

[pizzaoverhead]

As lame as that texture is, don't you think they would still try to connect the cross to the circle if it really was a doorwheel?

The curved-corner segment shape they'd need for that isn't one of the basic autoshapes drawing programs have which the image appears to be composed of.

Alternatively, a larger one of these:

[cicatrix]

The cross and ovals along with a yellow triangle are the ancient mystic symbols that are deeply connected with Kerbal culture so they add these anywhere just for luck.

[pizzaoverhead]

As lame as that texture is, don't you think they would still try to connect the cross to the circle if it really was a doorwheel?

The curved-corner segment shape they'd need for that isn't one of the basic autoshapes drawing programs have which the image appears to be composed of.

Alternatively, a larger one of these:

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The big horizontal line is actually where a handhold goes, if you look inside the Hitchhiker Storage Container.

That's one element confirmed:

The same seems to be true for similar symbols on the outside:

Whatever the actual mechanism is, the circle and plus appear to be the means of unlatching the door. The warning triangle orientation also serves as a reference for any hinge direction the door might have.

Edited January 14, 2015 by pizzaoverhead

[RaendyLeBeau]

On 13.1.2015 at 5:24 AM, Voidryder said:

3) It's the coin slot

  funny -  ok i study at moment some "Airlock- hatch" option for another project -  but this comment i like it very much... I would very much like to have - I believe I make such an "insert coin" slot at my house door

 

 i think the this airlock-hatch form the japanese KIBO ISS module is not bad for a KSP mod. - it looks very nice.

( frankly - i never like the stock hatches - its a to procedural pragmatic design style)

 

Edited January 19, 2017 by RaendyLeBeau