Fix rotation of spawned vessels #44
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Not sure how this is went unnoticed for so long, but the rotation of landed vessels created via
SpawnVesselis completely bogus.With
heading,pitchandrollset to 0 my craft was spawned on the side with a seemingly random heading.At some point I tried to spawn a vessel with a clamp attached and it turned out to be very nice for debugging. Clamp allowed me to keep the rotation a given vessel was spawned with.
Anyway,
(0, 0, 0)heading,pitchandrollbefore the fix:The main problem, turns out, was the incorrect order of operations:
rotation * normal->normal * rotation. Changing that fixed the(0, 0, 0)case, but for non-zero it was still bogus.The original code made a distinction between spawned part, the SPH and the VAB, and I'm not sure that's a good thing. Let's say I have a pod in the default orientation in the VAB, in the SPH, or spawned from a single part. If I then specify
headingetc as(h, p, r)I expect the navball to point to(h, p, r)when I switch to said pod. I find it more natural than rotating VAB vessels 90 degrees up. On the other hand if we don't do that, then VAB vessels will spawn on their bellies by default.For now I left the distinction and 90 degrees rotation for the VAB, so it shouldn't negatively affect legacy.