new physix, new bug or is this a realistic conic patch thingy?

[dikkjo]

Hello,

today i was attempting the kerbal grand tour as in Scott Manley\'s video, and as i was approaching Minmus and working on my periapsis, i saw this :

I have some trouble understanding whats going on with the purple orbit

Btw i have edited the cfg for the conic patch settings, both values are 3.

What\'s your opinion ?

[Shadownailshot]

That\'s interesting. I\'ve seen that in .15.2

[Candre]

I\'ve seen that quite a few times in 0.15. There was a thread for this a long time ago. It appears to happen when your trajectory escapes one of the moons of Kerbin and ends up in a solar orbit. I\'ve got some more screenshots from 0.16 that I\'ll upload later today.

[Bioman222]

Perhaps the Space Kraken began gnawing on your orbit?

That\'s the only explanation I could think of.

[Themohawkninja]

Perhaps the Space Kraken began gnawing on your orbit?

That\'s the only explanation I could think of.

Highly doubt it. IIRC, the Kraken only occurs at >9000 m/s.

[Ascensiam]

It\'s the new \'\'How Jeb would\'ve flied the craft on his own prediction\'\'

I kid, this is a simple bug, it\'s only temprorary as far as i know.

[Nooblet68]

I kid, this is a simple bug, it\'s only temporary as far as i know.

Aren\'t all bugs temporary?

[Shadownailshot]

Highly doubt it. IIRC, the Kraken only occurs at >9000 m/s.

Exactly why does the space Kraken occur? It doesn\'t happen all of the time either. It\'s quite... odd and unpredictable. It also seems to get angrier when you turn on an SAS or ASAS.

[Vanamonde]

Aren\'t all bugs temporary?

You\'ve obviously never played Creative Arts or Bethesda games.

[Bluejayek]

Exactly why does the space Kraken occur? It doesn\'t happen all of the time either. It\'s quite... odd and unpredictable. It also seems to get angrier when you turn on an SAS or ASAS.

It has to do with floating point rounding errors in the physics engine I believe.

My experience with it is that it happens most with large ships in kerbol orbit. My kerbol explorer craft often has issues on its first extra-kerbin SOI stage, but once I drop to the fginal stage (even if I\'m going faster) the kraken is gone.

As per ASAS, I find the kraken often reverses or just plain scrambles your controls... eg down will make you go sort of north west. ASAS cannot cope with this at all and just makes you spin massive circles.

[SteevyT]

I believe the purple line is your solar orbit drawn in Kerbin\'s perspective.

[dikkjo]

Oh i guess then it was just me beeing a n00b But finally i start getting what\'s the kraken!

Aren\'t all bugs temporary?

Sometimes temporary bugs becomes long-term solutions ;D

I believe the purple line is your solar orbit drawn in Kerbin\'s perspective.

Yes, but is it realistic or that\'s the result of floating point precision? My coder brain is more comfortable with the latter

[flaillomanz]

I believe the crew must be drunk, and the navcom has predicted their flight path based upon their combined BAL.

[Shadownailshot]

It has to do with floating point rounding errors in the physics engine I believe.

My experience with it is that it happens most with large ships in kerbol orbit. My kerbol explorer craft often has issues on its first extra-kerbin SOI stage, but once I drop to the fginal stage (even if I\'m going faster) the kraken is gone.

As per ASAS, I find the kraken often reverses or just plain scrambles your controls... eg down will make you go sort of north west. ASAS cannot cope with this at all and just makes you spin massive circles.

Ah. This happened to me in Kerbin orbit just last night while I was practicing Orbital Rendezvous (never really tried it before). I tried twice, round 1 had me pass within 90 meters going way to fast and almost out of fuel. Round 2 was planned more carefully, and i did it, but was not able to clamp onto the nose of my the spaceplane with my makeshift lander-leg-grapple.

[ddavis425]

Just so you know, this happens when you get an escape trajectory from one of Kerbin\'s moons.