KSC change: Add more spotlights to launch pad

[Kelderek]

Night launches can be really dark - especially if your rocket doesn't have its own lights installed. There is only a single small light on the water tower at the KSC launch pad (tier 3 version) that is aimed at your rocket and that seems to be very lacking to my way of thinking. I would love to see a bunch more powerful lights that are available when a vehicle is on the pad ready for launch at night. Obviously this could be scaled up with the upgrade tiers.

Some inspiration:

[Master Tao]

That would be a nice touch for polishing the game.

One trick you can try is attaching lights to launch clamps. The clamps provide electric charge, so they stay on even after launch.

[Kelderek]

I learn something new every day, thanks for the tip about the clamps!

I still want to have some really big permanent spotlights on the ground at the launch pad pointed up at my rockets at night. I poured enough funds into upgrading my launch pad that I think they should be added so I can see what I am doing no matter what time of day it is.

[NecroBones]

I see an enormous number of screenshots that people share, trying to show off their rockets on the launchpad, where the image is really hard to see clearly because they took a night screenshot.

While we have a small, dim spotlight on the water tower, I'd like to suggest adding spotlights that come on at night automatically, aimed at the pad, with some aimed high enough to handle very tall rockets. As a real world example, I'm thinking of how NASA lit up the Saturn V on the pad:

And of course the shuttle:

[Master Tao]

Merginatized.

[NecroBones]

Merginatized.

Awesome, didn't see the other thread.

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That would be a nice touch for polishing the game.

One trick you can try is attaching lights to launch clamps. The clamps provide electric charge, so they stay on even after launch.

I thought about adding lights to the clamps I made for SpaceY. The problem with that is that the clamp heads rotate all sorts of different directions depending on what they're attached to, and also that means the lights have to be at very narrow angles, as if they were on the rocket itself. And that latter part is still a problem with the stock clamps too.

It's better than nothing, but I think some large spotlights, parked some distance off the pad, would be very welcome.

[SmashBrown]

We need moar lights un stock.Moar greebles I tell you!!

[Starwhip]

Maybe like the Runway at night?

And even that could use some love: those lights are damn ugly... if useful

[NecroBones]

There's now a mod that does this, but I don't want the idea to get lost. I would love to see a stock feature for this. Something I love about the mod is that it adds the lightning rod towers as support structure.

[NecroBones]

Do we know if any KSC changes are going into KSP 1.1? Except maybe the barn? This is till on my wishlist.

[pandaman]

This is one of those 'obvious things missing that nobody sees' situations .

A (presumably) simple change/addition that will make a nice visual impact.