Procedural Fuel Tanks / Parts

[Steve06]

Since the main focus of the game is building rockets, the parts used to build them should allow players to shape their rockets the way they want.

Right now the biggest limitation is tank radius. The available tanks only come in a few preset sizes, and many times the radius is not the size needed for the rocket a player wants to build. This makes it difficult to recreate real rockets or design rockets with specific proportions.

Because of this, I often have to stack multiple tanks to get close to the size I want. When this happens, the designs on the tanks don’t line up well, and the rocket can start to look strange because the patterns repeat between stacked tanks.

I also feel like some players may want simpler tank designs, like a plain silver tank or a basic tank without paint patterns, so they can create their own clean looking rocket designs.

A solution would be adding procedural fuel tanks where players can adjust the tank radius, tank height, and paint color or a plain "no design" option.

This would allow players to match the exact proportions they want without needing to stack multiple parts.

 

[Kraken]

All the parts are procedural. If you activate the "Scale Gizmo" option in the builder, you can edit the tank radius and height to your liking- and I believe that you can do the same with all the available parts. There are also some (mostly) silver tanks and white tanks.

Painting would be nice, though. Even though decorative properties would realistically be pretty low on the priorities for KSA, I'm sure it'll be added at some point.

 

[Kiwi Shark]

The sub-part system that the parts in the game are going to work with is designed to address this without making everything procedural. The components of parts will be adjustable to allow for more creativity in design. Certain parts like wings are planned on being made as procedural but not necessarily things like fuel tanks.

All the parts are procedural. If you activate the "Scale Gizmo" option in the builder, you can edit the tank radius and height to your liking- and you can do the same ( I believe ) with all the available parts.

Painting would be nice, though. Decorative properties would realistically be pretty low on the priorities for KSA, but I'm sure it'll be added at some point.

As I understand it this is just a feature of the debug editor and not intended to be how the editor/parts will work in the actual game down the road.

Painting is planned as well.