Separate Map mod/addon suggestion!

[SeventhArchitect]

At the moment of actually traversing these forums, I had my tv hooked up to my computer, showing a beautiful sun maiden, and moon prince, each playing magic the gathering, and I decided, hey, why not run two instances of KSP, one mapping the ships in orbit and everything, and then realized, impossible, they are separate games. then I was like, maybe reopen the second one...but that'd take too long.

Then the idea popped into my head as I thought of the addons section, and it hit me like a brick.

No one before me has even thought of coming up with a separate interface on which you can watch your orbit while you pilot your ship.

Of course, making it a second screen inside the already operating one, would be a mess, it wouldn't look appealing, so I refined it to be two separate open windows, and the way to open the second window (showing the current orbit pattern of the current vessel), would be to hit a key, or click a button.

It's an idea made for monitoring the orbits a lot easier while piloting, specifically. I truly hate how hard it is to pinpoint spots and distances when docking ships (recently became a boss at this), and when I'm trying to make a very Specific orbit, it's also hard....

[stupid_chris]

Could you clear up a bit, from what I'm understanding you're making a mod suggestion, right?

[Majiir]

No one before me has even thought of coming up with a separate interface on which you can watch your orbit while you pilot your ship.

I promise you're not some kind of conceptual savant. This is a fairly common suggestion. There are mods out there (e.g. Telemachus) that put some kind of information and/or control into a second window, but I don't know if any provide full mapping capabilities. If you're really into this idea, I'd look at similar projects and see if extending one of them is viable.