Hyperedit for Satellite constellation?

[MysticDaedra]

Considering how long both the game and Hyperedit have been out (many years), there is a shocking lack of information on how to use this tool.

I'm trying to get 4 satellites into LKO for a basic RT2 constellation. I'm going for precision this time, but I'm not having any luck finding information on using Hyperedit to put my 4 relays into orbit at the right intervals. Anyone know how to do this and can give me a step-by-step? Virtually all the info on how to do this online is people saying "you can do this with hyperedit" which obviously is useless.

[Chibbity]

As I understand it you input the correct numbers into Hyperedit and it poofs it up there.

I wouldn't know, I'm not a cheater. (Prolly why there isn't alot of info on this, most people just do it the good ol' fashioned way; manually.)

: P

[MysticDaedra]

Perfect orbits for those of us with OCD are quite literally impossible without "cheating" due to limitations in the game engine. After futzing with this bullpucky for hours, I'm looking for a way to get it finished, not do it right.

You say input the correct numbers.... Would you mind elaborating? I have no idea what numbers I'm looking for to change.

[Chibbity]

Like I said, I wouldn't know.

Getting them roughly in the correct spot has always been good enough for me, I'm not that OCD about it really lol. (A grouping of 4 satellites should be roughly 90 degrees apart each.)

The stock debug menu is also capable of teleporting things btw if that's any easier for you to use.

[Mor'finn]

Originally posted by MysticDaedra:

Perfect orbits for those of us with OCD are quite literally impossible without "cheating" due to limitations in the game engine.

They are also impossible with cheating due to planets rotating. Your fourth satellite would be off by almost one degree.

If you want to try it yourself, keep other orbital parameters same and set Longitudes of Ascending Node 90 degrees apart.

[Jupiter3927]

I had to cheat my way to get a perfect satellite constellation once since the game would count centimeters in the orbit but wouldn't show me the centimeters.
I ended up editing the save file to have them in the same orbit but with the arguement of periapsis shifted 90 degrees for each satellite.
Hyper edit either uses radians like the debug menu or degrees like the save file.

The degrees you would enter would be 0, 90,180 and 270.
The radians would be 0, 1.570796327, 3.14159264, 4.71238898 and 6.283185307.

Since I did it by messing with the save file, they're all exactly 90 degrees and a little over 2r apart with r being the radius of Kerbin.
They're going to drift a bit and won't be exactly 90 degrees apart if you use hyper edit in the game without some other mod stopping time for you.


Throwing satellites in random orbits at various altitudes works too but you'll need more than 4 for full coverage.
No cheating with this method though.