Disable zoom and camera change upon docking

[BudgetHedgehog]

It'd be nice for cinematics and gifs if, upon docking, the camera didn't immediately change position and direction and the 'CAMERA - FREE' or whatever text didn't pop up either..

I'd like for the camera and camera direction to remain the same between pre-docking and post-docking while also possible hiding the text and possibly making the camera pan to the CoM a bit more slowly (maybe following initial velocity vector?).

Pls. Seeing as I see no rule against it, I am offering a free pizza/5 cups of programmer-grade coffee for this.

[purpleivan]

Regarding docking in cinematics, one trick I've used is to record undocking and then play the recorded video backwards. This has both the benefit of the camera not jumping from one vehicle to the other, but also there's none of the "wiggling around" that docking sometimes results in.

This isn't an alternative to your requested add-on though, just a work around in certain circumstances.

[BudgetHedgehog]

record undocking and then play the recorded video backwards.

That's.. actually genius! I'll have to start doing that, never thought about doing it. Still though, would very much like something to disable it.

[purpleivan]

I used it in my first cinematic. It's at about the 1:30 mark, although I cut away from the "docking" as soon as it was complete.