show / hide per ship PLEASE

[ctbram]

Please add a way to show / hide ships per vessel in addition to by category in the map view. When you get a large complex commsat network up and have lots of probes the map become unreadable especially with remotetech installed.

What I have to do now is go to each ship I want to hide change its category to something not being used and then hide all the ships of that type.

This is bad because each time you switch to ship it consumes a small amount of memory that appears to never get back to the memory pool and I run myself out of memory if I have to show and hide ships a lot.

I would see something like the com center display and when you click on each ship you can show/hide it on the map. Heck why not change the ship name as well from there rather then once again switching to each ship to change it's name. I mean wouldn't a ship ID change be sent to the probe from mission control anyway?

Edited December 9, 2014 by ctbram

[Tex_NL]

More ship types would probably be an easier and more effective option.

With more types you could for example differentiate between satellites and probes. You can now hide your satellites to reduce clutter but keep your unmanned interplanetary missions visible.

[ctbram]

More ship types would probably be an easier and more effective option.

With more types you could for example differentiate between satellites and probes. You can now hide your satellites to reduce clutter but keep your unmanned interplanetary missions visible.

No not really. More categories would get messy and sometimes I want to hide a subset of ships within a category say commsat probes. You could add a category commsats. But now what if I want to hide all the commsats but the ones orbiting kerbin? Now I am back to switching to every commsat not orbiting kerbin and giving them a new arbitrary unused category and then hiding all ships of that category.

It would be very easy to have another gui windows accessible that looks like the tracking station windowi. Next to each vessel you have a show/hide radio button. You could also add a change ship naame and change ship type button there as well so you could rename a ship or change a ships category without having to physically switch to the ship. I don't see how that would be difficult.

Edited December 9, 2014 by ctbram

[worir4]

It would be good if you could group vessels together into your own custom categories and then enable and disable which you want to hide and show.

[ctbram]

It would be good if you could group vessels together into your own custom categories and then enable and disable which you want to hide and show.

Yeah that would be a good option as well. But I'd still like to turn them on and of individually. The more I think about an interface like haystack or targetron or even the remotech interface would be good and then have the option to toggling visibility, and changing ship name and category without having to physically switch to the ship would be great.

[BudgetHedgehog]

changing ship name and category without having to physically switch to the ship would be great.

You can do this from the Tracking Station. Click the 'i' on the right when you have a craft selected.