Spawnable Launchpad Orientation Off by 5 Degrees

[klesh]

This is still a problem in 1.4.2

https://bugs.kerbalspaceprogram.com/issues/18300

 

Hi,

 

It would appear that the spawnable launchpad included in Making History's mission builder is misaligned about it's Z-axis rotation.  If you spawn a launchpad with the z-axis rotation set to 0 or 360 (the end extremes of the slider), you would expect your launchpad to be oriented to the cardinal directions.  The visual feedback from the editor supports this presumption:

 

 

The problem becomes when you launch that mission, you find out that the newly-spawned launchpad is not aligned to the cardinal directions (use the crawlerway edge as a 90 to measure against):

 

 

This results in the mission builder having to go in and manually spin the launchpad without a way to see its actual orientation in the world from within the builder.

 

So I played around with it a bit and came to the conclusion that the orientation in question is off by 5 degrees.  This should be fixed. 

 

 

 

 

Here you can see the spawnable launchpad with it's z-rotation offset by 5.  Note how obviously crooked it looks in the mission builder:

 

This results in what my MkI Eyeball sees as proper orientation to the cardinal directions when you actually get into the world:

 

 

 

 

Edited March 31, 2018 by klesh

[klesh]

Anyone perhaps able to confirm this on their game?

[klesh]

Guess not.  Good effort, guys!

[fourfa]

Just not many people using the mission builder at this point... I know I’m not

[Hurzelgnurk]

10 hours ago, klesh said:

Guess not.  Good effort, guys!

I took a heart to your request (don't ask from whom)  and I say its off by ~4.2°

[klesh]

Well I posted this to the bugtracker and the latest KSP Weekly included it as a fix that is in fact coming.   Cheers.

[JPLRepo]

It has been fixed in KSP 1.4.3 / Making History 1.2. Make sure you update Making History to 1.2.