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KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM FAR MODSMore information on Grand Theft Space, including installation instructions, can be found via the mod's website or its GTA5 Mods page. If we actually figure that out then the possibilities are endless. "If people do expand it, if we figure out a way to increase the render distance too-that's the only thing that's holding us back right now-there's no reason people won't be playing Grand Theft Space several years from now. I ask Northrop if he thinks players will still be playing Grand Theft Space in years to come, should it take off as planned. There's only eight of us."īut crafting something with lasting appeal like Kerbal Space Program, like Garry's Mod, like Multi Theft Auto is well within their sights. KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM FAR HOW TOIt's like, we're trying our best, we don't really know how to do all of this stuff. It's really difficult to do and people post blanket statements like: why didn't you do this or that. "We can't do that in GTA so we have to consider different workarounds in order to get it working. "People want to ask us for the seamless transitions but it's not possible for us to edit a mesh at runtime, just like Kerbal Space does (when you enter a planet it actually unwraps the sphere so that it's not loading the entire planet at the same time)," Kjellman says. Kjellman loves the enthusiasm the mod's community brings to the project, however is equally keen to highlight the limitations of working within such a small, hobbyist team. One particular feature that is repeatedly requested is seamless transitioning when entering and exiting planets. "It's sort of like that right now but it's too buggy and we need to just add more stuff so that they don't lose interest too quickly." ![]() KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM FAR MODLike GTA 5, you can play it forever, you can mod on top of it-we want a base game that you can just literally spend your entire time in GTA in space and just do whatever you want," says Northrop. Terrain variation is top of this list, so as to add character to foreign planets. In the immediate future, the team plans to add and alter a number of models, paying particular attention to planet surfaces. At this stage, the possibilities far outweigh what Grand Theft Space is capable of, but it's nevertheless hard not to feel inspired by Northrop and his colleague's eagerness. Vehicle developer Lukas Sack, aka Skyline, suggests the introduction of a mod shop would allow players to customise their own spaceships, which would in turn encourage the GTS team to produce more models. Mod packs themed after certain franchises like Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, that'd be really cool." I'd also like to see Jupiter or Saturn's many moons too. Or even nearby star systems like alpha centauri, it'd be cool to add in that. If you tune into science news, you constantly hear things about scientists finding Earth 2.0-if that could then pop up in the mod that'd be great. "I'd also like to see people working on things that overlap the game with reality. "Since it's an add-on, the survival could be implemented to the regular game too," he says. ![]() Mod packs in line with famous franchises is something else Kjellman pines for. Nicholas Kjellman, the mod's map and web developer, agrees that a survival script would be a welcomed addition to Grand Theft Space, but that he's also keen to see real life discoveries applied to the mod, similar to how EVE Online blends reality with its fiction. He'd also like to see a survival script implemented that would force players to track their hunger levels, food supplies and fuel management while on out on expeditions. ![]() Northrop suggests he'd eventually like to see other players adding more galaxies, or the ability to leave the current arena to further flung solar systems. KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM FAR UPDATEAt some point that will be possible and we'll update the mod when that's possible." I'm guessing that's the reason why no one has attempted it so far, that they've wanted to do it conventionally. Eventually that's pretty much what happened. "I thought: Maybe I can actually expand on this. What I did was went into 3DS Max and I created a big sphere, inverted it and attached it to the player. So, people might have been like: Oh, I can't change the skybox or, oh, I can't remove the map so there's no way to make space. "Most people try to do it conventionally, without making a bug into a feature. "I was asking myself that," admits Northrop. KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM FAR PCSo why hasn't anyone tried this before? Grand Theft Auto 5 is one of the most modded PC games around and while a multitude of both realistic and sci-fi-inspired space mods already exist, no one has successfully recreated the final frontier with such wide-reaching scope. ![]()
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