Surface scan tracking

[thegreatgonz]

Is there any way to determine which biomes I've unlocked with the Surface Scanning Module?

[Snark]

Not that I've found, other than landing something there with the surface scanning module and seeing whether the "scan" button is present. I mainly solve this by keeping a little note where I jot down the places I've scanned.

Sure would be nice if the orbital information display would give some sort of visual indication of scanned-versus-not.

[thegreatgonz]

Heck, I'd settle for a mod that tracked this.

[Laie]

Give Scansat a try.

[Snark]

Give Scansat a try.

Yeah, that's a great mod... but it doesn't integrate with the map view, has its own 2D map instead.

I really wish it had an overlay in map view like Kethane used to have... that was just gorgeous, performed great, was really easy and intuitive to use. I miss that UI.

[beabop]

Well you can grab latitude and longitude from Scansat and use Waypoint Manager to create a marker visible in flight and in the map.

Or Kerbal Engineer tells you what biome you're over.

[X] Science lets you sort and search your list of which experiment you've done in which biomes.

[thegreatgonz]

I have ScanSat and [x] Science; how do I get them to tell me which biomes I've unlocked?

[Laie]

Scansat doesn't tell you directly. However, if you render the map with resources on, the difference is quite obvious: as long as you haven't used the surface scanner, the entire biome is rendered in one hue (it's average density). After the surface thing, you see varying densities within the biome.

I guess the Lollipop Scanner can be used in a similar fashion. Fly low enough to use it and if the terrain below you is all the same shade of pink, you haven't done a surface scan yet. (Update) Even better: mouse over the small scanner gui: if the given density is doesn't change at all, you still have to do a surface scan.

Edited June 20, 2015 by Laie

[Juicy]

That's why I give flags sensible names, and put "Jeb Wuz Her e" in the description instead of the title.