Henno

I am just playing again after a 3 year absence. Running KSP v1.1.3 Have downloaded Mechjeb2-2.5.8.0 via Curse. I have done some reading and searching and am aware I should be posting logs and pics etc. This is a clean game with mechjeb being my first mod and I don't have a bug as such. Here's my first admission. I somehow unzipped KSP into the zipped KSP folder. By that I mean I now have a zipped folder ICON in user/downloads/ that is called ksp-win-1-1-3 (1) and I have to go in there to play the game, size is 1,533,422KB incidentally. Well I tell a lie I have a shortcut on my desktop now from inside that folder. If I try and place the unzipped mechjeb into the gamedata file inside that zipped file it says 'compressing' before it dumps it and I get no mechjeb when i start game. Second attempt was unzipping the game to its own folder in user/downloads. Of course now that game has none of my saved ships and career science achievements which are pretty dismal at the moment admittedly. If I do as I believe I should with this version and drag the unzipped mechjeb folder into the gamedata folder (as well as not inside the Squad folder) I get an error on start up that says: Mechjeb2 has been installed incorrectly and will not function properly. All mechjeb2 files should be located in KSP like this <KSP> GameData Mechjeb2 Parts Plugins which I think I kinda have except for the fact that I also have a folder called Squad in GameData and inside my Mechjeb2 folder I actually have folders called Icons,Parts,Plugins and another file called LICENSE.md Thanks in advance apologies as well for the general noobiness

Is this the place to ask a specific question about Mechjeb installation problems for a noob? I have been to the addon thread about mechjeb but it is a closed thread now.

Hey thanks for all that Starhawk. I have had a look at that thread and it is now closed. What I did glean from it though is I need a part on my rocket called AR202 which lives in the Control section. I don't have that part so have definitely not installed correctly. I need to ask further embarrassing noob questions and no doubt I will get told to do a search by the fun police. I am running version 1.1.3 of KSP and Mechjeb 2.5.8.0 Where should I continue my quest for Mechjeb installation for a moron? Just a vague question thread in Addons amongst all the nerdy Einstein like conversations? Henno in a muddle.

This is my first post in 3 years. I have just started playing again and oh boy has it changed! Career mode! Science mode! After looking back through my old posts apparently I was running mechjeb and protractor and something called Satmap! Now I have trouble getting a stock craft into orbit and am struggling to get mechjeb going. It is different installing it on the current version and I am pretty sure it didn't come from curse.com back then. Anyway if I do a few google searches for noob questions about mechjeb it gives the typical hits that are mostly 2 years old. If I search in here OMG the results are ridiculously advanced answers. A quick look into Addons was terrifying as well. Anybody tell me how and where to search for such foolish questions. Sorry for the long winded hullo. Hullo I am back.

Ignore this. I am officially a bad bad pilot and am handing in my wings. Somehow in starting a new game and changing the mods around I had left off the mapsat part. All going well now. Currently mapping Duna.

Ignore this. I am officially a bad bad pilot and am handing in my wings. Somehow in starting a new game and changing the mods around I had left off the mapsat part. All going well now. Currently mapping Duna.

Are there any gurus that can help me with a weird clashing problem this mod is having with Protractor? Whenever I install X4R1 I can only see it's little icon down the bottom and my Protractor calculator disappears. There is more info on the thread I started here: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/...d=1#post659552

Are there any gurus that can help me with a weird clashing problem this mod is having with mapsat. Whenever I install X4R1 I can only see it's little icon down the bottom and my Protractor calculator disappears. There is more info on the thread I started here: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/50539-Protractor-clashes-with-Mapsat-HELP%21?p=659552&posted=1#post659552

This on startup This when I try and load anything even a stock craft.

Below is the mess I have made of my KSP folder. I have somehow managed to get mechjeb going but can't remember how. My problem seems to be what to click on after I have cut and paste the .rar files from my /downloads folder into this folder. I have 3 options that are .rar related; Extract files..., Extract Here, Extract to uploads-2013-07-SubassemblyManager The instructions on spaceport say to 'Extract the GameData and PluginData folders into the main folder....' Can I copy and paste the GameData folder I can see in what I have extracted here under my 'sounds' folder or the GameData/SubassemblyManager folder into my GameData folder? I don't know how to extract some files to some folders and some folders to others if that's what the above instructions mean. AAAAaaargh, it's doing my head in!

FYI my next want is to put the stock rover on top of one of my launchers. Only problem there is I would like Jeb to take it for a spin but it seems to be remote controlled only.

Hey again, It's been a while since I asked a pathetic question so for your entertainment I put forward the following. I quite enjoy tooling around with the stock craft but am sick of building my standard asparagus staged mainsail powered launch craft underneath them. Is there anyway I can cut, copy or somehow add a craft I have built to a stock craft? All the best from Aus Henno

Thanks for all that guys. I'll try never to criticize my own pics again I'm in the process of banging off bits that I don't need. The spaceplane is back on the ground, well kind of all over the ground and all the lights are off. I'm off to Duna next, stand by for more stupid questions. Cheers Henno

Well that pic looks crap for a start. The other thing I have done to try and stop lag was change some rendering settings in the settings.cfg file at the advice of this clip http://youtu.be/_gqKiPo_3RE The guy that posted it was running v18.something and I'm running the latest version so my config file didn't look like his and my Graphics page under settings is a bit different as well but I have turned most of it way down.

Hi all. Here is my pathetic attempt at a space station. I finally got to of the big Rockomax tanks bolted to it and have gotten my first space plane up there as well. The space plane is not my design I came upon it on youtube and duplicated it. I am now experiencing lag so here is a question I have seen asked before on another forum when I first tried to search for it. How do I know what frames per second I have? The only advice I have seen given is to download some software, I think it was called FRAMS or something. My frames per second are obviously bad as the game is almost impossible to play now. Here's the weird question. I have noticed people talking about how many parts they have on their stations and that it's all the parts that are making the lag problem. I have been controlling a lot of my launches remotely and staging off the propulsion part (or most of it in the case of the two big orange rockomaxes) and deorbiting them into the planet and saving after that. I like clean space but don't care about polluting the planet, so sue me. Do the parts on the ground from crashed ships add to the lag problem. If so I may be kinda screwed...