Peter Balholm

I am having some trouble. I have installed the latest version of TCA. I am intending to use it to steer a very heavy rocket with many, many clustered engines into orbit. However, I have not yet been able to bring up the orbit editor window. In fact, with the new version, I have not been able to bring up the main window in-flight. The window shows up (see picture) but has no contents and no controls. I can't change anything beyond the engine settings in the VAB. The only control is turning "advanced" on and off, but that seems to effect nothing. In a possibly-related problem, even when auto-stage is turned off in the VAB, the rocket tries to launch immediately, before I tell it to. Any advice would be much appreciated.

Do not give up on liquid-fuel rockets! The first liquid fuel rocket engine was built in the Victorian era by Pedro Paulet in about 1895.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Paulet Honesty compels me to point out that NO corroborating evidence has been found for his claims, first made in 1927 (Believe me I have searched! I'll send you the documentation if you want). However, his engine should have worked, and would have an ISP of maybe 120-160. Of course, my hybrid (below) is much better. You do not need turbopumps, a liquid fuel rocket engine can be pressure-fed. For a great example, see the Sea Dragon rocket. It was the largest rocket ever seriously proposed; please note that it was to be built out of steel, by a shipyard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Dragon_(rocket) Also, the first ion-drive rocket engine was built by the Norwegian physicist Kristian Birkeland in 1912, and tested in an vacuum chamber. I have been developing a thorough story, and have hundreds of inventors, characters, and methods. In my story, people go to Mars in 1917. I find that it would be very difficult to move this date back much more than ten years (twenty, tops), though, because so many enabling technologies were invented around this time. I use a hybrid rocket engine using nitrous oxide and paraffin.

@Motokid600 - Thanks! I will certainly be using RSS and RealFuels, and have used them before. But, right now I am installing my mods a few at a time, after switching to 0.9.0. Anyone else have any ideas?

I have the same problem with Procedural Parts As MotoKid600. Just like him, I right click a part and the UI does not show up. However, if I click umpteen times in different places, it eventually shows up. It appears that I have to hit a specific "hot" pixel or something. (It seems to be on the midline of the tank, below center) It is very frustrating. Is there any other way to edit a Procedural part in the VAB, or a way to reliably make the UI show up? This is a serious issue and any advice anyone has would be greatly appreciated. What do the rest of you do?