Show orientation of pods in editor

[rynak]

Okay, so you code the game in a way so that the entire world revolves around the navball, and thus orientation cannot be changed inflight.

Fine.

Can we at least in the editor know that our probe stacks are mounted upside down, instead of only finding out hours into a mission?

[maltesh]

Each probe brain has a label on its "back" side. And the letters are oriented so that "Up" for the letters is "Up" for the probe.

No, this isn't actually explained anywhere in the game; the only reason I know this was because it was mentioned in one of the streams Squad did in the 0.18-era.

[RainDreamer]

Any suggestion on how to do that?

I am thinking that all control modules in editor has two arrows pointing telling which way it is facing and which is "up", but that would be obnoxious when you make a craft with a lot of control modules.

[rynak]

Any suggestion on how to do that?

I am thinking that all control modules in editor has two arrows pointing telling which way it is facing and which is "up", but that would be obnoxious when you make a craft with a lot of control modules.

Only show the overlay while placing a pod. This way, clutter won't be a problem - you can even go as far as marking N, S, W, E.

[Red Iron Crown]

That's not a bad idea at all. I've been burned by having a probe core upside down quite a few times.

[Ikaneko]

Yes please. Also, gimme a 'set as north orientation' option so my stock apollo replicas don't screw up.

It would help with awkward payloads as well.

[Anthlon]

Same problem faced, when constructed a rover with core on it, then put it on a tank (two total, each one side), then after drop i had to switch to front-facing docking port for actual heading and true horizont reading data on navball. just Show some like arrows when moving core/pod, to see where it is facing, if you cannot override (90/45deg steps afterwards in flight)

[KerBlam]

Not a bad idea at all, I have also borked missions due to this. (also putting clampo sr's on backwards :\ )