Gravity Wells: A removed feature?

[Gordon Freeman]

Wasn't there an option to show/hide the gravity wells of bodies?

[smjjames]

Yeah there was, no idea why it was removed though.

[crashman1390]

I think it was removed because it was so intense on performance, since it had to render random numerical values which were always changing (and also to account float point errors for some loss of accuracy).

[Lord DC]

It was called Hill Spheres, because gravity wells are technically infinite. The option you are referencing would show the hill sphere, or sphere of influence for you KSP players. It is the ever-changing sphere in which an object would be bound to that planet's gravity.

[smjjames]

It was called Hill Spheres, because gravity wells are technically infinite. The option you are referencing would show the hill sphere, or sphere of influence for you KSP players. It is the ever-changing sphere in which an object would be bound to that planet's gravity.

They could still do it dynamically with the hill spheres like the way the previous ubox was. They weren't dynamic, but they still showed the limits where an object would be bound by that objects gravity.

[Lord DC]

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They could still do it dynamically with the hill spheres like the way the previous ubox was. They weren't dynamic, but they still showed the limits where an object would be bound by that objects gravity.

Correct, however there may be some errors/they forgot to add it, or they could be coding it right now, we won't know until the next release 

[Gordon Freeman]

It was called Hill Spheres, because gravity wells are technically infinite. The option you are referencing would show the hill sphere, or sphere of influence for you KSP players. It is the ever-changing sphere in which an object would be bound to that planet's gravity.

SOI≠Gravity Well

[Lord DC]

The or sphere of influence for you KSP players

SOI≠Gravity Well

please read again before making wrong assumptions. in no way did i state that sphere of influence was the gravity well.

[Gordon Freeman]

It was called Hill Spheres

[DiamondMiner10]

Gravity wells and hill spheres are different. A gravity well (like in Freeman's How the Universe Works gif) shows the gravity of an object. A hill sphere shows the point at where a large object in orbit would break up because of teal forces. Still, it was kinda cool.

[DiamondMiner10]

P.S. You and MagnetarHyper4436 should become buds

[smjjames]

A hill sphere shows the point at where a large object in orbit would break up because of teal forces. Still, it was kinda cool.

That's the roche limit.

[Gordon Freeman]

P.S. You and MagnetarHyper4436 should become buds

what even

A hill sphere shows the point at where a large object in orbit would break up because of teal forces. Still, it was kinda cool.

That's the roche limit.

Yeah, the Hill Sphere is the area where a body can maintain a stable orbit around a larger body without other objects affecting it's orbit.

[DiamondMiner10]

Oops, my mistake.. (getting episodes of The Universe mixed up in my head)

[Greenleaf]

To be clear, US² previously did show the gravity well
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GravityPotential.jpg


The code is still in there, but is for some reason, disabled right now.
I am confident that it will come back.