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Hello everyone, I'm a very casual KSP player for the past 4 years and for the life of me I can't remember how to make the EVA controls work like they used to. I remember that once on EVA and RCS got turned on, the kerbal would auto-orient him/her self facing away from me and normal to my screen. Now once the RCS kicks in they just stand there, and I have to manually rotate the camera to make sense of which direction I'm headed. Up to this point I can still manage with a little extra work, but my biggest issue is that lack of X and Y rotational axis. When in orbit things aren't always planner and I might need to rotate my self fazing the Z axis, but I can't seem to figure out how I can do that. Right now the only thing I can do is go into EVA, switch back to the ship/station, rotate it to orient the doors on the same xy plane as my kerbal, switch back to the kerbal and then get it. Very annoying. 

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When you turn on RCS, it's on but not yet engaged. He's sort of waiting for a command. Just tap the the w key and he'll immediately orient himself facing forward.

And controls are w,s,a,d like normal. Control and Shift are what you're looking for to move on the z axis (normal, anti-normal, or just plain ole up and down).

As a quick tip, zoom in closer on your Kerbal. Distance can be a bit deceiving when you're further back.

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38 minutes ago, Draalo said:

Check your game settings.

The option you are looking for is somewhat named as "Orient Kerbals on EVA to camera view".

 

Hotkey to manually orientate the Kerbal to camera: "Space"

That's pretty good. Never would've tried that one. Been keeping my hand away from the spacebar just out of habit. Had a lot of accidental stagings in my early career.

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1 hour ago, Draalo said:

Check your game settings.

The option you are looking for is somewhat named as "Orient Kerbals on EVA to camera view".

 

Hotkey to manually orientate the Kerbal to camera: "Space"

Note that 1.2 made it so that you don't have to change this in the settings anymore. Just toggle SAS on/off with 't' while on EVA. 

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2 hours ago, FullMetalMachinist said:

Note that 1.2 made it so that you don't have to change this in the settings anymore. Just toggle SAS on/off with 't' while on EVA. 

In 1.2.2 the option for kerbal orientation on EVA is still a option to check/uncheck and you can activate the SAS on EVA only with pilots.

Enginier and sciencist don't have this option. Or i miss something?

Funny Kabooms 

Urses 

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