VelRahnKoon Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 Hi all, Sorry if it's been mentioned already, but one of the headaches for me in KSP 1 were those times where your ship would rotate through it's travel path (typically happens with inclined orbits), and the solar panels would no longer face the sun. I'd go to do a maneuver and ugh, no power. I know that the vessel doesn't use power if you change focus to a different vessel or to the space center, for instance, but I don't want to switch focus just to cheat the game code. I don't know if KSP 2 has plans for making power consumption (or any resource consumption) happen at all times, focused or not, but having the ability to have the ship automatically rotate itself so that the solar panels are continually face-on with the sun would be a huge QoL improvement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intelliCom Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 6 minutes ago, VelRahnKoon said: Hi all, Sorry if it's been mentioned already, but one of the headaches for me in KSP 1 were those times where your ship would rotate through it's travel path (typically happens with inclined orbits), and the solar panels would no longer face the sun. I'd go to do a maneuver and ugh, no power. I know that the vessel doesn't use power if you change focus to a different vessel or to the space center, for instance, but I don't want to switch focus just to cheat the game code. I don't know if KSP 2 has plans for making power consumption (or any resource consumption) happen at all times, focused or not, but having the ability to have the ship automatically rotate itself so that the solar panels are continually face-on with the sun would be a huge QoL improvement. Ever play KSP with mods? If so, try Persistent Rotation. It's not sun-tracking necessarily, but you can have the spacecraft always facing any of the maneuver nodes during timewarp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jastrone Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 i have heard that there will be many more power sourses in ksp2 that arent solar panels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 Don't most of the KSP solar panels follow the Sun? (It's coded in the Unity properties of the solar panel details.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rutabaga22 Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 18 minutes ago, kerbiloid said: Don't most of the KSP solar panels follow the Sun? I think they mean the fixed solar panels. They want the ability to have the spacecraft rotate to align fixed panels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ember12 Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 Rotational stability would be a useful feature. But it's quite possible to set up just three fixed panels so that al least one always faces the light source. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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