Speed Unit Changer - Simple plugin to visualize speed in different units

[lttito]

After some guessing and hair-pulling, I managed to make my first plugin:

Speed Unit Changer, a simple plugin to visualize current speed in different units.

It's integrated with awesome Toolbar plugin made by blizzy78. You need it to use this mod: forum link

A Screenshot:

I need your help! Please try it and add (constructive) comments and ideas to improve it

Currently, it shows surface speed in m/s, km/h, mph (miles per hour), knots and ft/s.

Download it from dropbox

Edited March 26, 2014 by lttito

[Red Iron Crown]

Interesting. I assume it changes from surface to orbital speed when it changes on the navball, correct?

I would say it should have Mach number as an option, but that is more complicated as it's dependent on atmospheric pressure.

[KamikazeF0X]

Red Iron Crown why not use FAR ? You have better aerodynamics and a Mach meter and you can put the FAR window at the bottom of your screen

[acc]

nice idea. looks good so far

[PDCWolf]

Cool idea. Rated the thread 5 stars.

[Red Iron Crown]

Red Iron Crown why not use FAR ? You have better aerodynamics and a Mach meter and you can put the FAR window at the bottom of your screen

Honestly, because I don't spend that much time in atmosphere and I don't like to use game-altering mods. The Mach meter is in the "nice-to-have" category for me.

[goldenpeach]

Look very interesting!

As soon as I can I will try it!

[lttito]

Interesting. I assume it changes from surface to orbital speed when it changes on the navball, correct?

Currently, only shows surface speed. I'm thinking of give an option to choose which speed (surface, orbital or target) you can display your current speed.

My final desire is to display the speed in the navball and by right clicking on it, change the unit (cycling among several units), but I can't figure how to write in the speed field in the navball. Anyone know how to get the GameObject referent to speed in the navball?

[NathanKell]

Check FAR. Ferram does that. EDIT: Displays speed on the navball, I mean.

Edited March 27, 2014 by NathanKell

[JeffreyCor]

Nice to see this developed more. Really don't like FAR and would be nice to have different speed display options without messing up aerodynamics. ("better" is a very highly subjective term)

[BudgetHedgehog]

Just what I need. Repped and downloaded!

[goldenpeach]

I downloaded the plugin not long ago, all I can say is that it work perfectly?

The only downside is that it doesn't remember the unit you were using, although it's just a very tiny annoyance: it don't tKe long to set the unit you want!

[lttito]

Now it is released in add-on releases and project showcase, after managed to fix it for 0.23.5

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/75308-0-23-5-Speed-Unit-Changer-Simple-plugin-to-visualize-speed-in-different-units

[Pixelator]

Just a thought, if you were looking for some odd units to add, you might consider including furlongs per micro-fortnight (Or F/mF), equal to 166.309524 m/s

[lttito]

Just displaying units for people that are used to / comfortable with. The idea i had to make the plugin was that its difficult for me to know how fast im going with a rover at 20 m/s, but it's really easy for me know that Im too fast at 70 km/h.

[flashcactus]

An interesting thing to do. Although it seems to only be useful in the atmosphere, as you'll want the velocities in m/s to do anything meaningful in orbit anyway.

[Krahazik]

Does this mod conflict with FAR? Lately it does not seam to be working for me. I am still stuck with m/s on the navball. The altitude window still works.

Perhaps could add an option to display the speed in a window as well?

[Svm420]

@krahazik why do you need this with FAR. FAR already does this and better...

[lttito]

I didn't updated the mod since 0.24 IIRC as FAR does the same. Maybe if someone is still interested, I can update it (if work lets me).