engine not lifting

[O.R.C]

I hope this is the right spot to put this thread. I have made a engine Object in blender imported it to Unity and then exported it as a .mu into KSP. MY question is why will my engine not fly. My object has a thrustTransform object pointing in the right way. It will just sit their on the tarmac taking up resources until I make it have infinite fuel. It then rockets into the sky, what is going wrong. If you need I can post my script.

PS. The engine is ion powered and i have copied the Ion powered engine that comes with KSP download strait into mine.

[Greys]

Could you post pictures of your test, and your cfg file?

[O.R.C]

This should have gone in the last thread but i will put it here. When my engine is active and not moving it has plenty of fuel. If the tank is half full or even full The engine will not move until i have activated infinite fuel.

[O.R.C]

This is my code

sorry i do not no how to out it in a code bar.

name = HFD_Electrice_Engine

module = Part

author = O.R.C

mesh = model.mu

scale = 1

rescaleFactor = 1

node_stack_top = 0.0, 0.125001, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1

cost = 7000

category = Utility

subcategory = 0

title = HFG_ION Electric Propulsion System

manufacturer = Ionic Protonic Electronics

description = Due to a raise in money the KSP science team came up with the idea to make a new Ion powered engine. This is what they came up with.

attachRules = 1,0,1,1,0

// --- standard part parameters ---

mass = 0.25

dragModelType = default

maximum_drag = 0.2

minimum_drag = 0.2

angularDrag = 2

crashTolerance = 7

maxTemp = 3600

MODULE

{

name = ModuleEngines

thrustVectorTransformName = thrustTransform

exhaustDamage = False

ignitionThreshold = 0.1

minThrust = 0

maxThrust = 1000

heatProduction = 0

PROPELLANT

{

name = ElectricCharge

ratio = 50.0

}

PROPELLANT

{

name = XenonGas

ratio = 0.001

}

atmosphereCurve

{

key = 0 4200

}

}

MODULE

{

name = FXModuleAnimateThrottle

responseSpeed = 0.5

}

This is my engine with out infinite turned on

this is it turned on

[Thorenn]

Hi,

PROPELLANT

{

name = ElectricCharge

ratio = 50.0

}

Is that not a bit mutch ? hav you built in a reactor to fill that amount of electricity ?

A thrust of 1000 wit that drain of Energy .... hm....i think that`s te Problem.

[Anariaq]

I had a problem with engines before. Maybe the thrust center is inside collision mesh? I had one before where the center of thrust was inside the collision mesh and did not work. Maybe that is the problem?

Anariaq

[O.R.C]

I tried changing the energy consumption to 1 but that did not change any thing. Also the thrust object was not in side the engines mesh.

[Thorenn]

Trie

atmosphereCurve

{

key = 1 4200

key = 0 4200

}

or

atmosphereCurve

{

key = 0 4200

key = 1 4200

}

[O.R.C]

I tried the scripts but it still does not work. I did find however that when right clicking on my engine it displayed "ElectricCharge deprived" what does this mean. it also say "Status: Flame Out"

[Thorenn]

to big elecrical consumption as i sey`d in my first post

maby a isp of 42000 helps

Thrust 1000 electrical consumption/s 50 no Energy Source = Engine Off

[Tiberion]

Pretty sure I saw in the screenshot in the other thread that you had your thrust object just named "thrust"

the name of that object must be used in this line of you engine module in your Config file:

thrustVectorTransformName = thrustTransform

So make it:

thrustVectorTransformName = thrust

or rename that object to thrustTransform in Unity.

[Thorenn]

Wau Tiberion

Honor for O.R.C and me that we hav your interrest thx (my horrible English, sorry)

But if it flys with infinite fuel hack, it can be only a .cfg problem i think ?

Recource conumption to high.

Edited September 12, 2013 by Thorenn

[Thorenn]

putt this in your .cfg @ orc... (temporerly) it`s a pover generating module.

MODULE

{

name = ModuleGenerator

isAlwaysActive = true

OUTPUT_RESOURCE

{

name = ElectricCharge

rate = 55

}

}

[O.R.C]

I tried naming the the thrust as you said but that still did nothing. I also added that part of script but still no luck. This is a images of the engine when right clicked. I saw that the light is purple.

I have also made my power consumption less to see if that is the problem. It is now on: 0.1 : But that still does not help.

[O.R.C]

I had a look at the ion engines that come with KSP and i found that my engine does not take any power. I have told it to use power, so it will not work until it gets power. what should I do to fix this.

Edited September 13, 2013 by O.R.C

[Thorenn]

Take a original Cfg from a Engine change name = HFD_Electrice_Engine, if that thing didn`t lifts of there must be an Unity error/mistake.

[O.R.C]

I tried that but deleted the part about using energy. It worked fine and flew with out a problem. But then i added back the consume power part of the script and it did not work. I copied the power script strait out of the Ion powered engine script. What is wrong with it.

name = HFD_Electrice_Engine

module = Part

author = O.R.C

mesh = model.mu

scale = 1

rescaleFactor = 1

node_stack_top = 0.0, 0.125001, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1

cost = 5700

category = Utility

subcategory = 0

title = PB-ION Electric Propulsion System

manufacturer = Ionic Protonic Electronics

description = By emitting ionized xenon gas through a small thruster port, the PB-ION can produce incredibly efficient propulsion, but with a downside of very low thrust and high expense.

attachRules = 1,0,1,1,0

// --- standard part parameters ---

mass = 0.25

dragModelType = default

maximum_drag = 0.2

minimum_drag = 0.2

angularDrag = 2

crashTolerance = 7

maxTemp = 3600

MODULE

{

name = ModuleEngines

thrustVectorTransformName = thrustTransform

exhaustDamage = False

ignitionThreshold = 0.1

minThrust = 0

maxThrust = 100

heatProduction = 0

PROPELLANT

{

name = ElectricCharge

ratio = 12.0

}

PROPELLANT

{

name = XenonGas

ratio = 0.1

}

atmosphereCurve

{

key = 0 4200

}

}

The object works fine with out this part

PROPELLANT

{

name = ElectricCharge

ratio = 12.0

}

Edited September 13, 2013 by O.R.C

[O.R.C]

Why does the engine not us electricity?