Career mode, why is the map view always defaulted to the other side of Kerbin?

[SignalCorps]

This is only a minor problem, but an annoying one. I am just starting in career mode, and I go to launch something, and the first time I hit map view, I am looking at the far side of Kerbin, and I have to scroll the view around to properly see my ship and apoapsis and the like. And it does this with every new launch. Is there a reason for this? It is by no means game breaking, but it does cost me an extra couple of seconds (which can be very precious sometimes) to swing the camera around.

[Ferdoni]

Do you only have the problem with night launches? Or also with daytime?

[FancyMouse]

I didn't even realize until seeing this post, that I have formed a habit that once get to Map view, I'm holding right click and dragging towards right for an arbitrary distance before I consciously do anything.

[Alshain]

I always wondered that too. You would think for new launches it could center on KSC.

[Ferdoni]

I think the map view always focusses on the sunny side of kerbol, because the problem does not always occur.

[KerbMav]

Similar question. Why do EVAs start with looking the kerbal in the eyes/at the other side of the pod instead of from behind the kerbal or at least its side?

[Superfluous J]

And why does one out of every 100 launches or so start the camera about 100km away from the ship?

[Ferdoni]

And why does one out of every 100 launches or so start the camera about 100km away from the ship?

Just hit 'M' twice and you're back to normal view. Saves a lot of time zooming in.

[Laie]

I think it has something to do with default camera positions.

When going EVA, the camera tries to show you the face of the Kerbal... which means that in almost all cases, you see the opposite side of the vessel. Is there a mod for that? I guess that solving one would solve the other, too.

[Superfluous J]

Just hit 'M' twice and you're back to normal view. Saves a lot of time zooming in.

But you miss out on the cool "Hit T, Z, Space, and zoom in on your launch" dramatics.

[Starwhip]

And why does one out of every 100 launches or so start the camera about 100km away from the ship?

If you were in map mode when you changed from flight state to any non-flight state, this happens.

[Superfluous J]

If you were in map mode when you changed from flight state to any non-flight state, this happens.

Really? So it happens on the launchpad when I'm in map mode in orbit, go to the space center, and launch a new craft? That makes sense I suppose. I don't tend to land or take off while in map mode.

[SignalCorps]

If you were in map mode when you changed from flight state to any non-flight state, this happens.

So to make sure I understand that, if I had a craft in motion, went to the map, and then went to the space center that happens? How do I unhappen it? Any time I go to launch a new craft, with no other flights in progress, I am looking at the ass-end of Kerbin. When I was playing in sandbox mode, it always defaulted to the side of the planet I was on.

[cybersol]

I also find this behavior darned annoying. I have recently been installing tiny little mods to fix things like this, but I have not seen one for this yet.

[Starwhip]

Really? So it happens on the launchpad when I'm in map mode in orbit, go to the space center, and launch a new craft? That makes sense I suppose. I don't tend to land or take off while in map mode.

So to make sure I understand that, if I had a craft in motion, went to the map, and then went to the space center that happens? How do I unhappen it?

Yes. Note that it's not when you go to the Space Center if you've switched to map view, it occurs only (I'm fairly sure, some experimentation is needed) when you switch to the Space Center from map view. When you are zoomed out like that, hitting "m" twice will fix the camera.

As for the orientation of the camera I am not sure, I don't think it's been happening to me. Do you have any mods installed?