moon doesn't want to orbit planet

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He was just not feeling it anymore. He wanted to be with someone else

@Thorne great to hear! I wasn't able to get it to happen the other day so it may be fixed :)

No problem, I haven’t tried lately but I’ll follow up when I do! The problem seemed to disappear in the last beta versions before the update though @pedro16797

Are you still experiencing this issue in the last version? Sorry for the late response

@Thorne we get planets on bug reports but not systems (systems would require to upload everything used in the system, all planets with their respective textures), if you can send me the files that would be an immense help

It’s hard to describe with pictures, but when I place moons I find that they are always orbiting a position 90 degrees off of the planet’s immediate location in it’s orbit; it also keeps its orbit around that position 90 degrees relative to the planet as you adjust things.

I have tried returning all of the values for things like inclination or arg. of periapsis (everything except for orbit distance) back to zero and it still does the same.

I haven’t checked but I don’t think I get that problem when I start a new system, I think it has started happening since the last update and I don’t get that problem when I put it directly into the XML or if I press play it will automatically orbit the planet like normal.

I think it’s just a problem with how planet studio initially interprets the location of the moon and that functionally it is actually orbiting the planet and would be in the right place if loaded into a new game even if I didn’t fix it in planet studio.

I Hope all my details make sense, it’s hard to describe lol

I can also share the system as-is if it isn’t already shared by doing the bug report @pedro16797

Did you do anything else after adding the moon for it to disappear?

Thanks, it works! Problem solved! @Dryhorse

This happens to me occasionally, the solution seems to be to press the play button in the upper right hand corner of the screen.