Vessel orientation

[razorblade75]

hi guys! two question: 1) how i can obtain the position of a maneuver node and the orientation of a vessel? 2) how i can keep the vessel oriented in the maneuver node direction ON rails?

[razorblade75]

no one can help me?

[lo-fi]

1) Mechjeb source.

2) Mechjeb source, but I'm not sure this is actually possible.

Not my field I'm afraid, but that's your best bet to find something.

[tomf]

To get the maneuver nodes for a vessel you want vessel.patchedConicSolver.maneuverNodes. Then you are going to want to get the time of the node and use ManeuverNode.patch.getPositionAtUT() to find the position of the node.

I'm pretty sure that it isn't possible to affect the orientation of a craft on rails.

[Diazo]

You should be able to change the orientation of a craft on rails, it does get saved to the .sfs file after all.

It means messing around in the ProtoVessel stuff though so it would not be straightforward, and not something I have done myself so I'm not sure where you would start.

D.