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why do maneuver nodes wander around?

maxdreamland

By maxdreamland
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1 hour ago, RocketBlam said:

I always thought it was because your ship rotates around its center of mass, which is somewhere near the middle. But your cockpit, where the node measurements are being done, is out on one end, so while rotating, the node marker location is changing because the distance between the cockpit to the node is changing, slightly. Note that it stops moving when you stop rotating.

I bet if you designed a ship where the cockpit was very near the COM, the problem would mostly go away. Something to test maybe.

I think brdavis' explanation (second post in the thread) nails it. By the way, this is a 10 month old necro.

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