90° Orbit Lines?

[Iron Golem]

So I went out on my third micro exploration trip. Pretty new to this aspect of the game and I am encountering some unique things.

I found two systems today where one of the planets had 90°, hard right angle orbit lines in supercruise (In one of the systems one of the right angle lines was also jumping around like crazy). After looking in the Orey I noticed it had a normal looking orbit there.

Is this just a graphical glitch that happens occassionally? I tried some google-fu and forum searching but found no relevant posts. I also took some screen shots.

 

[Sapyx]

Were you sitting right next to the star or planet in question at the time?

If you are right next to an object and looking at that object's orbit line recede off into the distance, it can look like it makes a "hard right-angle turn". It's just an illusion created by perspective. It's especially noticeable when the arrival star is part of a binary or multiple-star system.

The "jumping around" I have also noticed, particularly in cases where the orbit is extremely long and your ship is physically close to the line. The game seems to be constantly recalculating where to put the orbit lines, based on your motion and the motion of the planet in question. Usually, it keeps putting the newly calculated line right in the exact same place where the old line was, so you don't notice that it's doing this, but sometimes (perhaps due to different decimal point rounding in the calculations) the new orbital path is slightly different to the old one, so the line seems to jiggle about the place.

 

[Iron Golem]

Were you sitting right next to the star or planet in question at the time?

If you are right next to an object and looking at that object's orbit line recede off into the distance, it can look like it makes a "hard right-angle turn". It's just an illusion created by perspective. It's especially noticeable when the arrival star is part of a binary or multiple-star system.

The "jumping around" I have also noticed, particularly in cases where the orbit is extremely long and your ship is physically close to the line. The game seems to be constantly recalculating where to put the orbit lines, based on your motion and the motion of the planet in question. Usually, it keeps putting the newly calculated line right in the exact same place where the old line was, so you don't notice that it's doing this, but sometimes (perhaps due to different decimal point rounding in the calculations) the new orbital path is slightly different to the old one, so the line seems to jiggle about the place.

Yes it was when I was within 10mm mapping planets in sc. Thank you for your help Sapyx. As far as the line moving it sounds like what you're talking about is happening.

 

[varonica]

So I went out on my third micro exploration trip. Pretty new to this aspect of the game and I am encountering some unique things.

I found two systems today where one of the planets had 90°, hard right angle orbit lines in supercruise (In one of the systems one of the right angle lines was also jumping around like crazy). After looking in the Orey I noticed it had a normal looking orbit there.

Is this just a graphical glitch that happens occassionally? I tried some google-fu and forum searching but found no relevant posts. I also took some screen shots.

The 90° degree orbit lines are quite common, it's not a graphical glitch, it's more an optical illusion due to huge distances involved, if you follow the orbit line you find they don't actually turn like that. The jumping around is a graphical glitch however, I've noticed it's quite common in Neutron star systems but does appear in systems without neutron stars.