Going into IVA switches control point (even when point is not a command part)

[allmhuran]

This one's been around pretty much forever. I've had problems because of it recently so I'm posting it up again.

If you set the control point for a vessel and then go into the IVA view of a different part, the control point of the vessel switches to that second part. Thsi happens even if that second part is not a command part. It shouldn't happen at all, not even for command parts.
 

 

Edited March 7, 2016 by allmhuran

[Mister Dilsby]

Yes. One must be very careful with this effect. I make a comic on the forum, and often need to take shots from different positions and locations in the ship to tell the story the way I want. Sometimes I forget about this, and I set prograde or retro hold for a burn while I jump through different IVA views to get reaction shots of the crew. Hilarity ensues  

So, not sure you're really asking a 'question' here. Looks more like a PSA, and a very useful and well-done video of one  

[KSP Bro AE]

completely natural. I actually use it to my advantage

[allmhuran]

NathanKell posted info a nice hidden treat that should fixe this behaviour on the KSP subreddit. There's no GUI setting for this so it would have to be set by editing the file directly. I'm not sure whether this also fixes it for non-command pods, I will check tonight.
 

[–]NathanKellRSS Dev 12 points 3 hours ago 

The switch of control point when going IVA can be turned off in settings.cfg. Change IVA_RESETS_CONTROL_POINT from True to False.

I added that in 1.0.5.

Edited March 8, 2016 by allmhuran

[HebaruSan]

This rapidly scuttles any launch involving crew facing any other direction with SAS locked prograde. Thank you @NathanKell for the config file setting.

[NathanKell]

It disables any reference transform shift on entering IVA. So it should stop that ever happening.