Upward Vertical movement w/ RCS during EVA

[maddog59]

Whenever I'm on EVA, the kerbals maintain their orientation when moving forward/backward/right/left/down. But as soon as I want to move up, they re-orient to face another direction. It makes getting them back into a ship without a ladder virtually impossible.  Am I missing something? Or is this just part of the standard gameplay?

[HvP]

The first thing that will probably help you is to go into the main menu settings and look in the General + Gameplay category for "EVAs auto-rotate to camera." Uncheck the mark to turn auto-rotate OFF.

Since it's happening only when you tap the UP key it may be that you have overlapping key assignments. The space-bar is the default key to reorient the Kerbal to the direction your camera is facing while on EVA. It's possible you also have this function assigned to the same key you are using for moving up. Those settings are in the main menu settings under Input + Kerbals.

Edited October 18, 2020 by HvP

[maddog59]

Thanks for the suggestions. I've turned off the EVA auto-rotate option, as well as cleared the 'orient to view' button in the Kerbal controls in Settings. I have only NumLock 7 mapped for UP and it works, but it also spins the Kerbal around 360 if I hold it long enough. Not sure what else I'm missing. 

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Not sure if there's a better way to do this, but I set 'Orient to View' in the Kerbal control to NumLock7 as well as UP in the Jetpack controls, and that seems to give me what I'm looking for. 

Edited October 18, 2020 by maddog59