Unable to fine-tune orbital period on v1.1.8.2

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Unable to fine-tune orbital period on v1.1.8.2

zmpeg opened this issue 4 years ago · 3 comments

I noticed in the last release, kerbal engineer is not showing seconds for orbital period. From the release notes, this seems intentional. I just wanted to highlight that for orbital period, it is important to have even the thousands of a second. This helps get comnets properly in sync. 1h 3m or 1h 4m is not very helpful as an orbit like that could drift badly in just a few orbits. Please reconsider this change? If not feel free to close this issue.

v1.1.8.1:

v1.1.8.2:

Also! Thank you for your awesome work keeping this mod updated!

jrbudda · Answer 1 · 2021-01-03T23:17:05.000Z

Thanks I had a feeling someone would quickly come up with a reason to have more accuracy in one or more of the readouts. I will look into providing more digits in this readout and let me know of any others. I like the change for the majority of readouts due to less text but dont want to take it away where needed. I could also do an option to just show seconds .

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On Sun, Jan 3, 2021, 6:04 PM Matt Zandstra ***@***.***> wrote: I noticed in the last release, kerbal engineer is not showing seconds for orbital period. From the release notes, this seems intentional. I just wanted to highlight that for orbital period, it is important to have even the thousands of a second. This helps get comnets properly in sync. 1h 3m or 1h 4m is not very helpful as an orbit like that could drift badly in just a few orbits. Please reconsider this change? If not feel free to close this issue. v1.1.8.1: [image: image] <https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/455699/103490985-e4b2d080-4ddc-11eb-9696-926a0b9fd369.png> v1.1.8.2: [image: image] <https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/455699/103491013-2cd1f300-4ddd-11eb-8686-ab4eadf100f1.png> — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#70>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAOWQQ4ZP7MO5PVLPBUFOH3SYDZWTANCNFSM4VSH2TDQ> .

jrbudda · Answer 2 · 2021-01-06T05:51:06.000Z

I fixed 3 readouts in 1.1.8.3 just now. I'll close this but let me know if there are any other readouts that need the same treatment.

LouisB3 · Answer 3 · 2021-01-10T22:38:37.000Z

I fixed 3 readouts in 1.1.8.3 just now. I'll close this but let me know if there are any other readouts that need the same treatment.

@jrbudda It would be good to have "Time to Atmosphere" as a precise readout. I use this to set up KAC alarms when returning from lunar orbit, so that I can return to the vessel a few minutes before reentry.

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