Show Orbit lines for a binary pair's Barycentre

Riverside

Riverside
Prompted by this thread:

how does a planet orbit nothing?

I fly with orbit lines on, and it's not uncommon to find say a binary pair of moons orbiting a gas giant, or a pair of planets orbiting a star. Their orbit lines show their relationship to each other, but the orbit of the pair around the parent body isn't shown. I'd like it to be.

Note that for the barycentre of a binary main star system the game does not model the movement of the entire system compared to surrounding systems or the galaxy, so no orbital line would be possible for these.
 

Riverside

Riverside
mossfoot said:
Gotta admit, it would be nice, though I'm also concerned about clutter as well.
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I agree it could be confusing. However as the thread I linked to showed, it is already confusing, but in a different way.

When you get close to a body, the orbital lines of nearby bodies fade away. Something similar could be implemented so that at a distance you see the orbital line for the barycentre, and as you get close enough to resolve the detail of the binary pair the barycentre line disappears.
 

mossfoot

mossfoot
Riverside said:
I agree it could be confusing. However as the thread I linked to showed, it is already confusing, but in a different way.

When you get close to a body, the orbital lines of nearby bodies fade away. Something similar could be implemented so that at a distance you see the orbital line for the barycentre, and as you get close enough to resolve the detail of the binary pair the barycentre line disappears.
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Sounds good.
 
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