Hello KSP!

[Subject36]

Hey there KSP forums!

Although I\'ve already posted in the support forum, thought I should probably do one of these. Been playing for about two days now, and I\'m really enjoying myself. KSP is just so different to anything else I\'ve ever played, except maybe orbiter, but I\'ll admit that was too hardcored for me and didn\'t have the fun of building your own rockets.

I\'m still working my way towards a circular orbit. I\'m gradually making my orbits less and less eliptical. Remembering the first law of motion helped . I did have one kind of awesome comet-like one which went out further than than the Mun\'s orbit and then re-entered the atmosphere before slingshotting out ;P. Sadly didn\'t get any screenshots.

One final thing, how do you insert screenshots into posts? I can\'t figure out how to do anything other than attach them.

Looking forward to being past of the KSP community, which has already been really good in the support forum.

[Bill_Murray]

Hi, welcome to the forum!

Quick tip to help you adjust those orbits to make them circular. Firstly, any burn your make affects the point on the opposite side of the planet. If you burn at your PE the AP will change, and so on. You have two choices: you can prograde (burn whilst aiming at the circle on the navball, or retrograde (burn towards the circle with a cross in it). Prograde will mean a higher orbit on the opposite side of the planet, retrograde a lower one.

Now imagine your PE is 80,000m and your AP is 100,000, and you would like a circular orbit at that 100,000ms. Wait until you reach your AP and your prograde burn (facing the circle). Watch in map view until your altitude at PE approaches 100,000m and stop burning. Try to be as accurate as possible. The AP and PE symbols will shift and might even flick all over the place if the PE and AP are very close, (don\'t worry if the symbols flicker, it\'s a good thing). You can prograde/retrograde burn anywhere in your orbit, not just the AP and PE, and it will affect the point on the opposite side of the planet, and the AP and PE points will shift. Map view is useful for this stuff. You may need to do several orbits and adjust at the AP and PE several times to get a really neat orbit. Also, all orbits should be above 70,000ms.

To get those guys home all you would do is retrograde burn until your orbit comes back down to the planet.

Hope that helps, that\'s a rough guide so still lots for you to learn.

Your mission: go back to one of your spacecraft and make a circular obit at 100,000ms.

[Capt'n Skunky]

Welcome to the KSP Forums!

To put images in your post, just paste the URL into the text area, select the whole thing, then click on the image button (furthers left on second set of buttons, under the B button) and it will wrap the URL with image tags.

If the image is large, like a screenshot, we ask that you please wrap them in spoiler tags to help cut down on the vertical size of your post. This is done the same way as the image tag. Select the image tags and URL and hit the nuclear button.

Happy Launching!

Arrr!

Capt\'n Skunky

KSP Community Manager

[Subject36]

How about for my screenshots (ie pictures from my pc that don\'t have a URL)? Is it generally recommended that I upload them somewhere first and then use that URL? Because I\'m sure I\'ve seen other people on the forum putting their screenshots directly into posts rather than attaching them.

Thanks again.

[Tiberion]

You can add it as an attachment by opening the 'Attachments and Other options' menu just below the text box when you\'re typing a reply.

It\'s better for the forums if you use an imagehosting site, though; I recommend http://imgur.com/ - once uploaded you can grab the \'Direct URL\' or even the link formatted with the forum code (IMG tags) already.

[cteam]

welcome!