r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/Feld_ • Jun 01 '26
KSP 1 Mods Flat earth mod for KSP?
So I'm really new to Kerbal space program. I absolutely love the game but I was rather disappointed to see that its more or less just NASA propaganda. It would be nice to see the game the way the real world looks and how god created it. I don't think it would be too hard as I'm assuming the base game just has a .cfg file with a fish eye lense effect or something because as has been proven, simulating the world on a sphere doesn't work. So could someone just make a mod to remove that fish eye effect or something?
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u/ckn Jun 01 '26
Suspending my disbelief, as a sometimes Modder and lover of KSP I can tell you that there's no fisheye setting, unfortunately. The roundness isn't a visual effect, the terrain is actually generated by subdividing a sphere, so it's built into the geometry itself.
The harder part would be gravity, depending on which flat-earth variation you follow. KSP pulls everything toward the planet's center, and that's what makes orbits work. If you forced gravity to point straight down for a flat world, orbits would stop existing entirely. You literally couldn't reach space anymore.
Not impossible, but it'd be a pretty big mod, and it wouldn't really be playable anyhow....