KSA's Part & Art Development Thread

Thought it would be a good idea to start a thread containing all the in-progress progression and WIP content I post to Discord. As the forums are a little more grounded and persistent compared to an endless scrolling list of short-form content; it might make for a better place to discuss ideas and the development of the game's parts, art style, scope etc as it happens. When things are resolved enough I'll post em as their own threads as usual :)

I'll kick things off with the first look of our initial docking port part - an androgynous system designed to be both passive and active inspired by the APAS75 port created collaboratively by the Soviet Union and the USA. This was to help facilitate docking between a Soyuz and an Apollo CSM, and represented one of the first instances of a universal design that the Cold-warring nations worked together on. It sits a bit ahead on the timeline of the OG Apollo docking parts (as they were probe and drogue systems) but is probably more appropriate for straightforward craft-to-craft attachment this early in dev. We might branch backwards to more complicated passive\active systems as time goes on.

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The embiggening continues! The more trusses the merrier. It'll be really interesting to see what can be done with these meshes later on. As is, these shapes kind of remind of the floating carriers in Death Stranding.

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Part variants are the first thing I think about hah. It's nice to have options :)


Finally got something together that works - first iteration of a folding, sun tracking solar panel. The design is based off the Soyuz-7K \ 7K-TM panels, nicely rectangular in the same aspect ratio of the existing panel; each an instance of itself so hopefully players can just expand the length as they see fit. The panels themselves are their own meshes and can be "unbolted" and replaced with something higher-tech later on down the tech tree,

The trusses (and hinges) are separate subparts and will live in the "structural" meshatlas, so ideally will be generic enough to use in a variety of other ways.

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About four meters long, one meter wide :)

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HOLY MOLY!!! having a bare truss like that will open up many creative avenues. Keep up the great work!