MapView Focus and Targeting

[rancid sage]

Scarecrow71, lead developer and only employee (unpaid, no less) of No-Show Entertainment, hereby releases his first-ever mod for Kerbal Space Program 2!  Are you excited?  Are you not entertained?  And don't you want to know how it all works?!?!

MapView Focus and Targeting is a simple little mod that allows players to focus on and target celestial bodies in the Kerbol system using keyboard shortcuts.  No longer will you have to zoom out, right-click in the vicinity of where you want, zoom in, right-click again, and then select either Focus or Target, and then zoom out and find your active vessel...too messy!  With this mod you can do the following all from the comfort of your keyboard:

Cycle through the planets and moons with Page Up/Page Down.
Target/Clear Target planet or moon with Keypad+/Keypad-.
Return the focus to your active vessel with Home.
So much easier, says I!  And I hope you do too!

And now, the legal stuff.  Or, rather, linkages!

SpaceDock Link:  https://spacedock.info/mod/3346/MapView Focus and Targeting
Github Code Repository:  https://github.com/Scarecrow-71/MapViewFocusTargeting

The README file, in both the zip file and on the repository, has all the instructions you need for install and use.  Just let me know what you think, and if you experience any problems!

[blissful coral]

Just to note, theres a better way to get a list of celestial body names

Rather than hardcoding it

[rancid sage]

Oh, I'm quite sure there are several ways to do things better in the code than how I wrote it. Cleaning it up at some point is on my list of things to do. 🙂

At this point, I just wanted to get it working.

In fact, I know that I have to condense the notification code into a singular function. May not save a whole lot of memory or space now, but it needs to be done to keep things clean.

[molten falcon]

Awesome, will try later.

[halcyon lance]

nice, this will make things so much easier. thank you!

[rancid sage]

You are welcome! I will be happy if even just one person other than myself finds this useful!

[coarse narwhal]

Would following the same camera controls as WASD For VAB make sense here? IE right click +WASD to move camera?

[rotund rose]

I'm curious how you would recommend doing this. Could you post a code snippet that would generate a list of all celestial bodies in the game?

[rancid sage]

Yeah, I did a search on celestial bodies by name (specifically looking for Duna and Eeloo as they should be distinct enough), and got nothing back. I had to use this piece of code to set the focus, which is odd because part of it is by name and part of it is by global id.

mapBody = new MapItem(focusedBody.GlobalId, MapItemType.CelestialBody);
Utils.MPSetFocusedMapItem(mapBody);```

[rancid sage]

I'm...not using camera controls here?

[coarse narwhal]

I realize that. I was wondering if something like this might make sense to include in this mod? Sorry if I wasn't clear.

I understand that something might seem functionally related might be completely unrelated programming wise so just disregard if that's the case. Just spitballing.

[rancid sage]

No worries. I thought someone already tackled tha VAB camera controls, though.

[coarse narwhal]

No no what I was getting at is if we could navigate the map view in the same way that the VAB mod does for the VAB

[rancid sage]

Oh. Thats actually a really good idea. The problem is that you are in flight, so WASD is already in use for the active vessel. But I wonder if we can do this. I'll poke through the code and see if it is possible.

[coarse narwhal]

Maybe like VAB uses right click hold as a modifier to distinguish between camera control and flight control

[rancid sage]

Right click hold already is in use in map view, but we could try to override that. Let me dig into the code and see.