Disable Orbits

[brusura]

Hello

how do I change color of an orbit? Is it even possibile? I tried with setcolor and orbitcolor as you can see below but anytime I get a NRE when entering the foreach

 

foreach ( CelestialBody Celestial in FlightGlobals.Bodies )
	Celestial.orbitDriver.Renderer.orbitColor = new Color(0, 0, 0, 0);

Thanks

Edited December 9, 2016 by brusura

[Thomas P.]

orbitDriver.Renderer is only assigned in Scenes where the orbit is really rendered (Trackingstation and MapView). But if you want to hide the orbit, setting the color to transparent is not the best thing you can do: Experiment with the drawIcons and drawMode fields in Renderer instead.

[brusura]

I make sure to be in mapview with MapView.MapIsEnabled  and I tried with drawmode to OFF but same NRE

I had some success following sarbian hints:

 

                    foreach ( CelestialBody Celestial in FlightGlobals.Bodies )
                    {
                        Celestial.DiscoveryInfo.SetLevel(DiscoveryLevels.None);
                        //Celestial.orbitDriver.Renderer.drawMode = OrbitRenderer.DrawMode.OFF;
                        ScreenMessages.print(Celestial.bodyName);
                    }

Still I would like to know what I did wrong trying to change the color

 

Basically I need them to be transparent because I do not want to mess with anything else, I making this to reduce clutter while placing more than one manuever nodes , the idea is to show only those orbits:

Orbiting Body
Focused Vessel
Targeted Body/Vessel
Manuever Nodes

Edited December 9, 2016 by brusura

[brusura]

Hello

I got this mod I am working on, in an almost usable way, but I do not like at all to mess with discovery state of object to hide orbits and I'd like to use drawMode as suggested by @Thomas P. , those are my first steps in modding and I am still trying to figure out what is working and what not, the following code get a NRE right after the ScreenMessages prints in the console:

if (MapView.MapIsEnabled && Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.O)
{
	foreach (CelestialBody Celestial in FlightGlobals.Bodies)
             if ((ActiveTargetID != Celestial.bodyName) && (ActualOrbitingBody != Celestial.bodyName))
                        {
                            //Celestial.DiscoveryInfo.SetLevel(DiscoveryLevels.Name);
                                                      
                            ScreenMessages.print(ModName + "Celestial.orbitDriver.Renderer.drawMode = OrbitRenderer.DrawMode.OFF;");
                            Celestial.orbitDriver.Renderer.drawMode = OrbitRenderer.DrawMode.OFF;
                        }
}

 

Any hint would be really appreciated.

 

Thanks

Edited December 18, 2016 by brusura

[linuxgurugamer]

Try adding the following:

if (Celestial.orbitDriver != null && Celestial.orbitDriver.Renderer != null)
   Celestial.orbitDriver.Renderer.drawMode = ......

 

[brusura]

On 29/12/2016 at 2:12 PM, linuxgurugamer said:

Try adding the following:

if (Celestial.orbitDriver != null && Celestial.orbitDriver.Renderer != null)
   Celestial.orbitDriver.Renderer.drawMode = ......

 

I'll try that, but every celestial object should have an orbit so it should not be null, I guess?

[linuxgurugamer]

10 minutes ago, brusura said:

I'll try that, but every celestial object should have an orbit so it should not be null, I guess?

unless the code is running before it's been set