convenient ways to put the visual focus on kerbin

[king of nowhere]

when i want to fin tune a manuever around a planet, i set the visual focus on the planet.

then i must go back to looking at my ship around kerbin. and that's not as easy, because kerbin orbit is so cluttered with stuff than i cannot select the planet. wherever i click, the game thinks i am trying to pick a satellite, or a piece of another orbit. sometimes i do remove everything from the map view. sometimes i click at random until i can get back on track, i'm not sure how. is there any better way?

[Grogs]

The Tab key will cycle between different focuses. It goes in order from the ship to the maneuver node (if any), then the sun, Moho, Eve, etc. Also, the ` key in the upper left of the keyboard will reset the focus to your ship if you need to.

[Serenity]

What Grogs said, TAB is the best solution, i have a problem though i dont have the cycle back button, its lost somewhere, since i changed buttons :p .

Edited August 13, 2020 by Boyster

[king of nowhere]

1 hour ago, Grogs said:

The Tab key will cycle between different focuses. It goes in order from the ship to the maneuver node (if any), then the sun, Moho, Eve, etc. Also, the ` key in the upper left of the keyboard will reset the focus to your ship if you need to.

thanks

i knew there must be a function for it somewhere

[MAFman]

I found that the tilde key ~ resets the focus on the active vessel.

[Klapaucius]

You can also go into the tracking station and hide items. That can clean things up a bit.

[RealKerbal3x]

4 hours ago, Klapaucius said:

You can also go into the tracking station and hide items. That can clean things up a bit.

That's possible in normal map view, too.

[swjr-swis]

On 8/14/2020 at 1:49 AM, Boyster said:

i have a problem though i dont have the cycle back button, its lost somewhere, since i changed buttons :p .

Probably because the factory-default key for that is 'Backspace', which will also trigger whatever actions you placed in the Abort action group.

[Grogs]

2 hours ago, swjr-swis said:

Probably because the factory-default key for that is 'Backspace', which will also trigger whatever actions you placed in the Abort action group.

My abort key is F9.

[Serenity]

14 minutes ago, Grogs said:

My abort key is F9.

Whats your quickload key?

Dunno hitting backspace hard brings some pleasure/immersion when aborting  

[swjr-swis]

On 8/14/2020 at 1:49 AM, Boyster said:

i have a problem though i dont have the cycle back button, its lost somewhere, since i changed buttons :p .

2 hours ago, swjr-swis said:

Probably because the factory-default key for that is 'Backspace', which will also trigger whatever actions you placed in the Abort action group.

I don't think I had my coffee yet when I typed this. Cycle back is not Backspace by default.... it's Shift-Tab. Which still explains why it's one of the first key assignments changed, as trying to cycle back inevitably (Shift!) throttles up your engines if you haven't deactivated or locked them, and the next moment you're wondering why your orbit is changing.

[Grogs]

14 minutes ago, Boyster said:

Whats your quickload key?

Dunno hitting backspace hard brings some pleasure/immersion when aborting  

It was supposed to be a joke - my 'abort' sequence if the engines suddenly start pointing upwards is to quickload or revert.

[Serenity]

12 minutes ago, Grogs said:

It was supposed to be a joke - my 'abort' sequence if the engines suddenly start pointing upwards is to quickload or revert.

ops, missed that one  good one