Visual indicator of parachute "safety"

[Bishop149]

Since 1.0.4 we've had to become much more careful about when to deploy our parachutes.

Handily squad put a readout in the parachute sub menu telling you if its safe to deploy or not. . . problem is its buried in that submenu

I'd like a mod to take that readout and make it far more visible. The way I currently do it is is to right click a parachute and keep that menu open throughout the whole decent which is messy and and a PIA.

Surely it shouldn't be too difficult to take the readout from whatever variable is giving safe, risky, unsafe and convert it into a traffic light signal for each chute.

I guess ideally I'd display it next to the relevant chute in the staging set up down the left hand side but I'm guessing that would be tricky.

Alternatively just a window containing a readout on the "safe status" of each stage containing parachutes.

[meyerweb]

I love this idea. I wish I could help make it happen!

[Sharpy]

Personally I believe the best location for the indicator shouldn't be some lights on the parachute, but the staging icon. Give it some green dot or change the chute color to dim green or something like that.

[Scientist]

id like this to be in RPM as i play IVA only

[moogoob]

I second the green light beside the staging icon idea. Having them red when flying at dangerous speeds in atmo would be useful too.

[Cairol]

+1 for a colored indicator in the staging list

[Kagame]

This is a good idea.

[seanmcdougall]

Thanks for the idea - check out my new mod, Chute Safety Indicator!

It changes the background color of each parachute's staging icon to let you know whether or not it's safe to deploy (green=safe, yellow=risky, red=unsafe).

[Bishop149]

Will install ASAP, excellent work sir have some rep!