EVA's Auto Rotate To Camera

[Moesly_Armlis]

Watching DasValdez's stream and saw on different occasions that he had trouble returning to the command pod because the camera or the kerbal was incorrectly oriented to the hatch.

To solve this the "right click and hold" can be used to re-orient the kerbal while using the jet pack.

However if the thrust is used the kerbal will spring back to the original orientation.

Solve this issue by de-activating this button.

EVA's can become tricky with this setting but I quickly got the feel of it. Just use space bar to orient the kerbal to the camera.

Edited July 14, 2015 by MoeslyArmlis

[troyfawkes]

Thanks for the tip man, +rep!

[klgraham1013]

This is useful to me.

[monstah]

There used to be a first-person EVA mod which made great use of this setting.

[Moesly_Armlis]

I use VDS Hull CAM it has first person view camera.

[keeper]

Yes you are a legend. THANKS

[garwel]

I noticed that before, I think, the last update, the kerbals would auto-rotate turning their back to you, and now they turn their feet, facing down. So now, W is down, S is up, Shift and Ctrl is away and towards the camera. I've no idea why it was done but it will take time to get used to.

[Phil deCube]

Sweet! I knew you could do it in the config file, and I've been meaning to *get around to it*, but, you know...

This is great!

[mikegarrison]

I noticed that before, I think, the last update, the kerbals would auto-rotate turning their back to you, and now they turn their feet, facing down. So now, W is down, S is up, Shift and Ctrl is away and towards the camera. I've no idea why it was done but it will take time to get used to.

I think it is a bug. They only do this some of the time.

[Kobymaru]

I wonder why this is even turned on by default. Squid pls

[BurnPrograde]

I wish the locked camera view would apply to Kerbal EVA as well. It would really give you that dizzy feeling of weightlessness in space

[Geschosskopf]

There's a mod for this (and has been for some time). It's Taniwha's FreeEVA. It creates a hotkey that toggles the EVA-rotate-to-camera setting back and forth between default and otherwise at will in real time. Seriously, this should be stock, and Taniwha should get more props for it.

This IMHO is the best of both worlds. Having the Kerbal facing away from the camera is very useful most of the time, but when you need to reorient the Kerbal in pitch (facing up or down), then you use the mod to temporarily turn this off so you can get lined up. Then switch back to the default mode only with the new orientation.

[monstah]

This IMHO is the best of both worlds. Having the Kerbal facing away from the camera is very useful most of the time, but when you need to reorient the Kerbal in pitch (facing up or down), then you use the mod to temporarily turn this off so you can get lined up. Then switch back to the default mode only with the new orientation.

I've always found the spacebar good enough for that. Leave the setting at free rotate, whenever you need orientation just hit spacebar.

[LordFerret]

There's a mod for this (and has been for some time). It's Taniwha's FreeEVA. It creates a hotkey that toggles the EVA-rotate-to-camera setting back and forth between default and otherwise at will in real time. Seriously, this should be stock, and Taniwha should get more props for it.

This IMHO is the best of both worlds. Having the Kerbal facing away from the camera is very useful most of the time, but when you need to reorient the Kerbal in pitch (facing up or down), then you use the mod to temporarily turn this off so you can get lined up. Then switch back to the default mode only with the new orientation.

I just recently started using this mod ... it's excellent, it totally solved the frustrations of return from EVA to capsule for me. I totally recommend it. +1