Does the "Toggle Display" feature on experiments ever benefit you?

[Wizard Kerbal]

     Sometimes, I have questions about KSP's planets? enviorment? IDK. For example, is the dark side of Mun colder? Does Laythe have a thicker atmosphere than kerbin? I need my parachutes to deploy at a certain altitude. What's the pressure readout there? How cold is the bottom of Kerbin's ocean compared to the surface?
     Sending missions there and turning on the "Toggle Display" helps me answer these. Is it just me?
    

Edited June 27, 2021 by Wizard Kerbal

[modus]

TIL there is something like 'toggle display' 

[Davi SDF]

I mean, if i really want to measure KSP's celestial bodies properties, then yeah!

But i never do that... and outside of it, i dont really know if they are usefull

[cubinator]

No, it doesn't help me, because it's off by default and I always want it to be on.

[Bej Kerman]

There is literally no reason I could think of for toggle display to be a thing.

[UmbralRaptor]

Sometimes useful, but all too often the information is only "nice to have", somewhat annoying to access (ah, another panel to keep open), and there's the extra power drain to worry about...

[Cavscout74]

Pretty much what @UmbralRaptor said - nice to have the info sometimes.   Mostly just to satisfy curiosity.  Actual benefits?    I guess if you wanted to figure out an exact altitude on a specific planet or moon to deploy your parachutes, then the pressure readout could be useful. 

Edit:  Actually, I did think of a use - if you are using a planet pack, depending on how well documented it is, you may very well not have any data on atmospheric pressure so it could be useful there, same with temp & gravity.

Edited June 28, 2021 by Cavscout74

[The Aziz]

Once I learned that service bays are great insulators. I had a thermometer inside one, the last time the bay was opened in space. Then I closed it but kept the thermo readout active. Temp barely changed even when I landed on Eve, until I opened the bay doors.

[Rocket Witch]

On 6/27/2021 at 11:00 PM, Bej Kerman said:

There is literally no reason I could think of for toggle display to be a thing.

When the readout is not being displayed, it doesn't have to be stored in memory and updated by the CPU for each frame. Technically there's some benefit, but it's extremely minor, assuming both that it's even worth the overhead of displaying the extra GUI elements, and that the game actually stops keeping track of these readouts when they're not being displayed.

 

For a while I've thought it would be great if the experiments could store a history of their readings and generate a graph, and if this could be connected with latitude and altitude readouts from KER. Actually being able to map the planetary climates would be really cool, as I don't think anyone has ever done that.

Edited June 29, 2021 by Rocket Witch

[Bej Kerman]

9 hours ago, Rocket Witch said:

Technically there's some benefit

Ok

9 hours ago, Rocket Witch said:

but it's extremely minor

Let's hope one of 1.12's bug fix updates fixes this silly feature. Toggle display only makes things cumbersome.

[Admiral Fluffy]

No, but it’s a cool feature in my opinion 

[Vanamonde]

Sometimes I like to know what the temperature is, especially for solar probes, and I make low-acceleration interplanetary ships for which the grav instrument gives much more accurate readings than the analog indicator by the navball. 

[cubinator]

On 6/28/2021 at 9:04 PM, Rocket Witch said:

For a while I've thought it would be great if the experiments could store a history of their readings and generate a graph, and if this could be connected with latitude and altitude readouts from KER. Actually being able to map the planetary climates would be really cool, as I don't think anyone has ever done that.

I agree, maybe we could even have experiments where instead of taking a single reading you have to fly all the way through the atmosphere taking continuous readings.

[MechBFP]

If the game had a way to graph the data and save it, then it would be very useful. You could for example land a probe into Eve and see how the kPa for atmospheric pressure changes based on altitude and plan your descent/ascent vehicle accordingly.

However just displaying it is essentially useless in most cases but is nice to have it you are just curious what those values are in certain situations.