How do I change the way the game previews an orbital transfer?

[smallz440]

Whenever my ship is going to encounter the SOI of another body, it looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/hyDFQN8.png

Yet I see a lot of videos where the projected encounter looks like this, http://i.imgur.com/LRMCSrm.png, where the path is shown around the planet/moon's physical body. How can I switch my default view to this? I feel like I've tried every option in the game settings menu.

Edited September 1, 2013 by smallz440

[Specialist290]

In the settings.cfg file in the main folder of your KSP directory (that should be openable with a basic text editor like Notepad), there should be a line labelled "CONIC_PATCH_DRAW_MODE = 3". There are five different drawing modes for the game's patched conics display, numbered 0 through 4. This thread explains the differences between them.

[LameLefty]

There are also several mods that let you modify the maneuver nodes more precisely - Mechjeb 2's Maneuver Node Editor and at least one or two other standalone maneuver node editor mods have this functionality. They let you modify the comics mode on the fly and change it back at will.

[DChurchill]

The current version of that Precise Node mod lets you change the conics on the fly. Update that and you're done.

[smallz440]

Thanks guys. I try to avoid using mods so I just tried Specialist's method and it worked.