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Trajectory display needs to be improved.


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Seriously, I think some changed on trajectory display could be really helpfull.

Sometimes, it is a real pain to click on a trajectory to warp or add manoeuver nodes, since it does not want you to click on certain points of the trajectory rendered on the map when the trajectory is too brutal.

Also, it would be cool to NOT rendering trajectories when it implies going through an object ( Kerbol/Planet/Natural Satellites ) : This is kind of frustrating to get back from your business and perfectly done Münar landing, click timewarp until reentry and ... discover you clicked the wrong part of the drawn trajectory and that the game just timewarped at x10000 times acceleration to crash into the planet.

Trajectories are here to predict where the ship will be, not where it should be if it could magically pass through planets and planetoids.

Just make it so the trajectory no longer render when periapsis is equal or below 0, and why not, add an " impact " point at the end of it, just like you get escape trajectories which just stops and get " escape from X " when you leave the sphere of influence of an object.

Otherwise, it can get a real mess, especially when you have a lot of nodes and manoeuvers to do and don't have time to deal with such nonsense information.

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Yeah, maneuver nodes are sometimes impossible to create since it won't let you click on it. Them being rendered through planets is ok but what could be improved is adding an atmospheric prediction like this mod does (tracking station upgrade 4?).

Also this should be in suggestions I guess.

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I agree the orbit can be finicky to click and an 'impact marker' like in the Trajectories mod would be super useful. Personally, I prefer the orbit being drawn through objects. It gives you a sense of how much speed you will have and how much you may need to change your orbit to avoid an impact. The periapsis marker already disappears when there will be an impact, anyway, that's what I look for.

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