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Majiir / Kethane

Resource mining and processing plugin for Kerbal Space Program.
http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/23979-Kethane
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Ram scoops for atmospheric planets #3

Open Majiir opened 12 years ago

nhnifong commented 12 years ago

I'd like to leave a suggestion.

It would be nice if the scoops could be closed, so that they would stop taking in Kethane, and reduce their drag down to negligible value.

nhnifong commented 12 years ago

I'll be submitting several designs for scoop in the next few days, to be included I guess by vote, among the participants in this project, with balance and aesthetics in mind.

One radially mounted semi-rectangular scoop, with less than 1 sq. m of scoop area. One or more annular (ring shaped) scoops made for 2m-2m 2m-1m or 1m-1m stacks.

I'd like to suggest that you make a place in this repo for the model originals, and compiled game model directories. So, that we could collaborate properly and help others learn how to make models for KSP, and so that Keptin can help out in a structured way, if he uses Blender like me.

It looks like the existing kethane models used a specular bump shader. can you confirm this? do you know what any of the exact colors were or do you have the original texture files?

Majiir commented 12 years ago

I'll be submitting several designs for scoop in the next few days

Do submit them. A forum PM to me is the best way to get my attention. Obviously, you own your own models, but I'd prefer to not have full-fledged parts in the wild that are "Kethane-ish" without actually being in the pack. That is, of course, ultimately up to you.

I like to do iterative feedback cycles for new parts, so keep that in mind.

I'd like to suggest that you make a place in this repo for the model originals, and compiled game model directories.

I'm still waiting on model/texture originals for the stock parts.

nhnifong commented 12 years ago

Thanks to some excellent help from the community, I've been able to make a new type of scoop based on the plane in this image. plane And thanks to Kreuzung's plugin, it can be retracted with a context menu :) work in progress (although the labels are backwards right now, and this texture is a test, I think its a huge success and I wanted to show you how it's going.

Although it may look like it, that's actually a moon shape and does not clip through the tank,

nhnifong commented 12 years ago

Also, I think this sound would fit nicely http://www.freesound.org/people/Jedimichael/sounds/83887/

Majiir commented 12 years ago

Just putting a note here to remind myself that this feature should have something like a ScoopEnhancer module. (Will explain this more when it becomes more relevant.)