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Show planes of center of mass, thrust and lift


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When I build ships that are slightly heavy to one side, it's hard to tell exactly where the yellow and black ball representing the center of mass lies within the 3D structure of our rocket or jet. I also think that it is pretty difficult for human's to read depth accurately so if three planes were shown with the ball, it would be much easier for us to estimate which side the weight/thrust/lift is leaning towards.

it would like like (below) but in 3d.

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. periods rep. plane facing you

- dash rep. plane perpendicular + horizontal to you

| line rep. plane perpendicular + vertical to you

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I really think this would be a lot of unnecessary coding for a problem that can be fixed by just rotating your camera each side to check it's position.

It would require no extra coding. They'd only need to replace the little ball model with 3 planes. That's an almost trivial change.

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