Can't re-target my ship

[Chris Simon]

This is probably my own stupidity, but I'm playing for the first time after the last update and I can't re-target my ship for some reason.

The backspace key that I've read about somewhere never worked for me, but I was always able to "return" to my ship by flipping between system objects by Tab and Shift+Tab until I found my ship.

Now the Tab flips only between planets and my ship isn't in the list.

I've also searched the key bindings and didn't find anything.

I would appreciate any kind of suggestion. :|

Thank you!

[Vanamonde]

Are you sure the ship is still there? Is it listed on the menu on the left of the tracking station? Do you have the corresponding tab turned on? 

[Chris Simon]

8 minutes ago, Vanamonde said:

Are you sure the ship is still there? Is it listed on the menu on the left of the tracking station? Do you have the corresponding tab turned on? 

Yes. I am controlling the ship. When I press "M" I return back to it. It's just that in map, when I target a planet (to fine-tune my approach trajectory, for example) I can't Tab my way back to the ship. I have to stay focused on the planet and control my ship from there. Or switch to a different planet that is closer to my ship so I can see better. It drives me nuts.

I don't know what "corresponding tab" means, though.

(EDIT: Ah, yes, if by "corresponding tab" you mean if I have the visibility of ships turned on in the upper thingy where you can switch various types of objects on and off then yes, I do have the ships tab turned on (i.e. I can see the ship icon on the map))

Edited January 31, 2021 by Chris Simon
sudden enlightement

[Vanamonde]

I have not seen that happen. Might be a bug. 

[Chris Simon]

6 minutes ago, Vanamonde said:

I have not seen that happen. Might be a bug. 

Yeah, I'm starting to suspect it might be one of the mods that acts like it's okay but have some secret non-descript problem with the newest update. That's the only possible explanation
I'm going to try to find out which one it might be. Tomorrow, probably. I'm kind of done for today.

Thanks anyway. At least I know it's specifically me and not the update.

Edited January 31, 2021 by Chris Simon
typos

[Vanamonde]

Okay, and thread moved to Support since it is looking like a bug. 

[18Watt]

Try pressing the tilde button, which is ‘ ~ ‘. 
The button on most keyboards is actually the back quote button, tilde is usually shift-back quote. 
 

If your keyboard settings have been altered, the key assignment you are looking for is CAMERA_RESET. 

[Chris Simon]

11 hours ago, 18Watt said:

Try pressing the tilde button, which is ‘ ~ ‘. 
The button on most keyboards is actually the back quote button, tilde is usually shift-back quote. 
 

If your keyboard settings have been altered, the key assignment you are looking for is CAMERA_RESET. 

YES!

Thank you, that does the trick. In my 300+ hours in the game, I haven't noticed this key (I guess it's the one others refer to as "backspace")

 

[18Watt]

3 hours ago, Chris Simon said:

YES!

Thank you, that does the trick. In my 300+ hours in the game, I haven't noticed this key (I guess it's the one others refer to as "backspace")

 

I think at some point in the distant past the backspace key did something along these lines.  Then again, I could be getting my games mixed up.  Glad that helped you though!

[Chris Simon]

On 2/1/2021 at 2:30 PM, 18Watt said:

I think at some point in the distant past the backspace key did something along these lines.  Then again, I could be getting my games mixed up.  Glad that helped you though!

Yeah, the main problem with KSP is that there is too much stuff about it all over the internet and the game has been out for so long that simply googling a problem doesn't usually work because it either gives you a million antithetic answers, or it gives you one, but six years old.