OrbitRenderer not showing

[Eriksonn]

So i am trying to create an orbit with nothing attached to it, and i followed this thread 

 but i cant get it to work. Here is the code i have:

Object = new GameObject();
Orbit = new Orbit(0, 0, 12000000 * 0.6, 0, 0, 0, 0, FlightGlobals.GetHomeBody());

OrbitDriver = Object.AddComponent<OrbitDriver>();
OrbitRenderer = Object.AddComponent<OrbitRenderer>();
OrbitDriver.orbit = Orbit;
OrbitDriver.orbit.Init();

Vector3d p = OrbitDriver.orbit.getRelativePositionAtUT(Planetarium.GetUniversalTime());
Vector3d v = OrbitDriver.orbit.getOrbitalVelocityAtUT(Planetarium.GetUniversalTime());
OrbitDriver.orbit.h = Vector3d.Cross(p, v);

OrbitDriver.orbitColor = Color.red;
OrbitDriver.updateMode = OrbitDriver.UpdateMode.TRACK_Phys;
OrbitRenderer.driver = OrbitDriver;
OrbitRenderer.SetColor(Color.red);
OrbitDriver.Renderer = OrbitRenderer;

OrbitRenderer.upperCamVsSmaRatio = 999999;
OrbitRenderer.lowerCamVsSmaRatio = 0.0001f;
OrbitDriver.upperCamVsSmaRatio = 999999;
OrbitDriver.lowerCamVsSmaRatio = 0.0001f;

OrbitRenderer.celestialBody = Orbit.referenceBody;
OrbitRenderer.drawIcons = OrbitRenderer.DrawIcons.ALL;
OrbitRenderer.drawMode = OrbitRenderer.DrawMode.REDRAW_AND_RECALCULATE;

OrbitRenderer.enabled = true;
OrbitDriver.drawOrbit = true;

I have a feeling that i am really close to getting it to work, and that there is some silly mistake that breaks everything.

[HebaruSan]

Any luck yet? I can get an orbit to display, but only in "simple" mode (i.e., single orbit, not multiple patches). And that orbit isn't at all what I expect, the periapsis looks like it's dropped down to 0 despite the whole Orbit object being a direct clone of Kerbin's. Screenshot of the corrupted orbit in simple mode:

Relevant portion of log (patched mode), with some statements added to annotate the coroutine:

[LOG 17:47:11.971] Waiting for end of frame
[EXC 17:47:12.213] NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
        OrbitRendererBase.CreateScaledSpaceNodes () (at <8ed6226a17824027b61a78aa9c35f6f0>:0)
        OrbitRendererBase.Start () (at <8ed6226a17824027b61a78aa9c35f6f0>:0)
        OrbitRenderer.Start () (at <8ed6226a17824027b61a78aa9c35f6f0>:0)
[EXC 17:47:12.424] NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
        OrbitRendererBase.LateUpdate () (at <8ed6226a17824027b61a78aa9c35f6f0>:0)
[LOG 17:47:12.430] Nulling vessels...
[LOG 17:47:12.430] Vessels nulled.
[EXC 17:47:12.681] NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
        OrbitRendererBase.LateUpdate () (at <8ed6226a17824027b61a78aa9c35f6f0>:0)
[EXC 17:47:12.912] NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
        OrbitRendererBase.LateUpdate () (at <8ed6226a17824027b61a78aa9c35f6f0>:0)
(and then many more of these)

In case it helps anyone else, the example code and links in the forum are out of date; the latest is here:

• https://github.com/DBooots/ESLDBeacons/blob/master/Source/HailerGUI.cs

[HebaruSan]

Interesting updates. First, this fixed those exceptions and eliminated the extreme stuttering they were presumably causing, so patched mode now works and is butter smooth:

			orbitRenderer.driver = driver;

The orbit still starts out corrupted, but if I re-run the whole process verbatim, it suddenly amends itself to the copy of Kerbin's orbit that I asked for. So there's some kind of mystery state that's set properly the second time but not the first; time to randomly rearrange assignments till it works...

[HebaruSan]

Next bizarre quirk... none of the below lines do one single solitary thing. The orbit is gold colored despite setting every available property to red and passing red to every available color setting method.

			driver.orbitColor = Color.red;
			orbitRenderer.SetColor(Color.red);
			orbitRenderer.nodeColor = Color.red;
			orbitRenderer.orbitColor = Color.red;
				patchRenderer.patchColor = Color.red;
				patchRenderer.nodeColor = Color.red;
				patchRenderer.SetColor(Color.red);

 

Edited January 10, 2021 by HebaruSan

[HebaruSan]

On 1/9/2021 at 7:13 PM, HebaruSan said:

The orbit still starts out corrupted, but if I re-run the whole process verbatim, it suddenly amends itself to the copy of Kerbin's orbit that I asked for. So there's some kind of mystery state that's set properly the second time but not the first; time to randomly rearrange assignments till it works...

Again for those to come after us: I had to set driver.orbit in the coroutine, after the other objects initialize themselves. Quite surprising; usually you want to properly initialize an object before passing it to other objects to use, but apparently in this case you're supposed to wait till after the end. I guess these objects only get data by reacting to events rather than grabbing it from each other proactively, and presumably they set that up in their Start methods.