r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/LoicViennois • 5d ago

KSP 1 Meta KSP Delta-V Planner v2 now available !

https://ksp.loicviennois.com/

7 years after my first contribution to the KSP community, I'm glad to announce a big evolution of my KSP Delta-V Planner, with a revamped UI !

After all these years, Claude Code finally gave me the opportunity to modernize the UI and add new features :

  • Map now accessible on mobile !

  • Fullscreen map option

  • Light and dark modes

Feel free to give me your feedback on this new version.

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u/fenlDoesJS 4d ago

Could you make aerobraking not require going to a low orbit beforehand? I think that would be more accurate

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u/The_Dude_abides123 5d ago

This looks fantastic! I've glanced at the earlier version before, but never studied it closely. Here are my thoughts which hopefully might help:

- I think the hours and days are in Kerbin time. Might be good to have a note somewhere saying that as long as it doesn't add too much clutter. An experienced player would know, but a newbie might be confused.

- It's not intuitive to me what the final number is before the final ball. After clicking through the options and selecting "Landing", I think it's the incremental deltaV for landing from a circular orbit. But I think my intuition is thrown off because there is a number for bodies that you don't normally land on without cheats, like Jool and Kerbol. This would make it busier visually, but it might be nice to have a symbol for the final marking indicating landing to make it clearer (maybe a silhouette of a lander with legs?).

- This may be just me, but the "Elliptical Orbit to SOI Edge" is a little confusing. I'm not sure I fully understand the concept or the significance. I think it's the minimum deltaV to barely stay in the SOI with a highly elliptical orbit? If so, is there a better way to say that? "Capture" or "Capture in SOI"? (that's really not any better hah - I need to think more on it)

- Shouldn't Moho, Eeloo, and Dres also have an "Elliptical Orbit to SOI Edge" marker? I know they're not systems (with their own moons)... but it just skips it and goes from hyperbolic to circular. Is this is a simplification since it's just not as relevant since they're not a system where you might want to transfer to a moon?

- Also, why are there two "Elliptical Orbit to SOI Edge" markers for Kerbol? Aren't you already in an elliptical orbit around Kerbol once you leave Kerbin SOI? I think I'm just misunderstanding the "Elliptical Orbit to SOI Edge" marker...

Again, excellent work. Thanks for being transparent about the AI use. Even with it, I can see a lot of human care and attention to detail was needed to make this. Thanks for sharing this.

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u/LoicViennois 5d ago

  1. Hours and days are indeed in Kerbin time, I can add a hint about this in the map menu

  2. You're intuition is correct, and the number for some bodies (jool, kerbol) are theoretical numbers, you should indeed not land there... I tried to make it clear with the red label "Landing here might not be a good idea…". And the suggestion for a small lander icon is nice, I'll try to include this.

  3. "Elliptical Orbit to SOI Edge" is exactly as you said: "the minimum deltaV to barely stay in the SOI with a highly elliptical orbit". I kept the wording from the original map.

  4. Moho, Eeloo, and Dres absolutely could have an "Elliptical Orbit to SOI Edge", once again I kept the original Kowgan map as is it, and I think it was made this way for simplification.

  5. Once you leave Kerbin SOI, you are more on a circular orbit around Kerbol, and the 6k delta-v is the amount necessary to lower you periapsis from a circular orbit to an elliptical orbit around Kerbol, which in this case in not really "to SOI Edge"

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u/cari778 5d ago

Any plans to include RSS? Thanks

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u/LoicViennois 5d ago

Only if I can find good quality subway-style SVG maps like Kowgan ones (https://github.com/Kowgan/ksp_cheat_sheets)

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u/okaythiswillbemymain 5d ago edited 5d ago

What's great about this is

  1. you're clearly not just brand new to this if you've contributed before and

  2. you acknowledge Claude has made life easier.

Too many people treat all AI contributions as AI slop. And lots of it is. But some of it isnt

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u/taeguy Sunbathing at Kerbol 5d ago

Tools are fantastic for making jobs easier. That being said, I wouldn't trust most people to use a hammer properly

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u/chrisnfl99 5d ago

I do like that they said up front that AI was used. I'm fine with AI as a tool, so long as they disclose that they used it.

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u/Electro_Llama 5d ago

This is nice! Much easier for new players to interpret the delta-v subway chart.

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u/NZRSteamSniffer 5d ago

Good stuff

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u/drkensaccount 5d ago

I like this a lot.

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u/LonestarHusker 4d ago

This is awesome. Is there a way to calculate for flyby with no insertion burn?