There should be a procedural heat shield to cover spaceplanes during reentry
#Procedural Plane Heat Shield
feral vigil
lucid rain
that would be extremely complex to implement, not even KSP1 with its 15-year history of mods has ever had anything like that ever made
you'd essentially have to create something equivalent to a whole custom texture painting editor, and completely rewrite the entire aerodynamics and heating systems from scratch
feral vigil
Yeah ok
vapid sonnet
it would at least be nice to have radial-attached shields that conform to each fuselage size (and maybe a few circular ones), there's some like this in KSP1's Sterling Systems
for wings, you could potentially make a procedural wing that comes with a built-in ablative heatshield
lucid rain
I don't think that a radially attached heat shield would even do anything at all
I guess it would depend on the exact drag cubes
but also, that would still mean like at least 20-30 parts to properly make sense
vapid sonnet
yeah that's entirely fair
since you'd need to not only make a part for mk2, mk3, and each circular size
but also ones for cockpits and adapters
lucid rain
yep
interesting mod idea, but definitely not something we have the capacity for
(and generally a bit out of scope)
graceful shell
interesting mod idea, but definitely not something we have the capacity for
I have an idea: is it possible to directly 'spray' a heat shield onto the underside of a spacecraft? It seems doable in the game? You would only need to modify the textures and properties. Then calculate the added mass based on the spacecraft's projected area.