Rotation and Rotation Rate of Celestial Bodies?

[Arrowstar]

Hi fellow modders,

Quick question for the community. I'm interested in figuring out two things in KSP at the moment: the rotation rate of each of the celestial bodies, and the amount of rotation at time = 0. Anyone know how I might go about accessing this information using the KSP API? Or is it available anywhere else? I'm looking to incorporate this information into KSP TOT 0.12.2...

Thanks!

[technogeeky]

Hi fellow modders,

Quick question for the community. I'm interested in figuring out two things in KSP at the moment: the rotation rate of each of the celestial bodies, and the amount of rotation at time = 0. Anyone know how I might go about accessing this information using the KSP API? Or is it available anywhere else? I'm looking to incorporate this information into KSP TOT 0.12.2...

Thanks!

This is a partial solution. This post contains a link to source code, which contains a planetInfos.txt file. This table contains everything needed to calculate whatever you would like (including sidereal rotation).

This is not a great way to obtain this information (it could be wrong), but I think it's right. I would be interested to know where in the API you can get all of this, too.

I don't know the name for what you want, but I assume you want to know the orientation of the planetary bodies at time = 0. The rotation rates are strictly constant (I'd expect), so once you know the initial configuration you know them all. But I have no clue what they would be.

[xEvilReeperx]

Hi fellow modders,

Quick question for the community. I'm interested in figuring out two things in KSP at the moment: the rotation rate of each of the celestial bodies, and the amount of rotation at time = 0. Anyone know how I might go about accessing this information using the KSP API?

Looks like CelestialBody has everything you'd need: initialRotation, rotationPeriod, tidallyLocked, and rotates are all accessible

[NathanKell]

Yep. RSS sets them all, too, if you want to see them being accessed and set; trivial to write a dumper.

[Arrowstar]

Great, thanks, guys!