Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Developer Articles
KSP2 Release Notes
Posts posted by af22man
-
-
edit: read a post that explained that it just generates resources and is not controlled by kethane. reporting bug to squad.
-
KAS=fuel lines that can be hooked up after launch, so long as there is a little green dude handy to do the leg work. I use KAS for at least one thing in almost every industrial build I do......even tried to make a kethane pipeline to carry from one deposit on Kerbin to the next...though it ended horribly when I tried to break the 2km load limit. But will work wonders for your above stated needs.
please see Scott Manley's video here for an example of what i was building.
It clearly shows liquid fuel running into the available tanks across multiple docking nodes.
I built something similar in .18 and .19. no matter how i docked the nodes they worked perfectly fine. i am not going to use KAS to do what this mod has been doing since forever.
It is a good suggestion though, i might use that to transfer fuel to my rover train to deliver kethane from my mining rigs to my mun base. I just have to put my rig to rest for now until this problem is fixed.
-
The part your arguing about is a known bug that's been around for the entire life of the mod. Arguing about that won't get you anywhere, but helping you learn how to put your creations together differently is something we can help with however.
Did you try the fuel lines I mentioned?
what I am trying to do with this building is connect multiple empty tanks to my minor so I cannot run fuel lines after they have already been launched. This used to work and now it does not. That is the bug.
-
Ummm, no. I've been doing it since the clampotrons existed. I just did it a moment ago to make sure nothing changed. Hate to say it, but you just seem to be doing something wrong.
Ok. I hate to break it to you but the way that the clamps attach don't really matter. The FACT OF THE MATTER is that it's not passing fuel with a fresh install on those two parts when in the previous revisions it did no matter what. Stop arguing semantics of attachment and focus on the real problem.
-
All docking ports can "snap" to the stack node on a tank. Just move the camera around in the VAB to view the tank from the side and hover the docking port into the green node on the end of it. It will snap to the tank as soon as the two green nodes meet. Also, your problem may not be with the port, but with the adapter plate between the tank and port. Adapters tend to sometimes only allow fuel to crossfeed in one direction or the other depending on fuel lines. A work around if you want to use them would be to run a fuel line Around the adapter from the local fuel tank TO the local docking port.
actually the 2 clamp o trons dont snap to all pieces. the large tanks you pretty much have to turn up your symmetry button so that you can get them to all be on top of one another, then take symmetry down to one and place the clamp, this makes sure your in the center as much as possible. hell i cant even get the clamp o trons to snap on the small RCS tank.
-
it could be the rokomax adapters that are causing it not to flow, try it "naked" with just docking ports between the convertor and fuel tank, reason i'm guessing the senior's work is there isn't an adapter to sit between it and the converter.
for what it's worth, treat the convertor as a "rocket engine", it just so happens to be one that consumes a negative amount of fuel, oxidiser, xenon, mono.. in exchange for kethane and electric.
so if you need to add fuel lines, run them from rocket fuel tank to convertor, not convertor to tank (as you'd think normally and incorrectly stated earlier in the thread)
I have done this on the other end. thats where i tested all of the ports. and the results are still the same.
-
Just installed Kethane for the second time (used it ~2 days before 0.20 came out and when stock until now) set up my first satellite around the mun and because of the discussion about several detectors at once, i tried it myself putting up 8 Large detectors and activating them one by one (time gap) and i have a pretty well line even at 1000x
Now, before i spend hours again on designing kethane extraction/converting/storing crafts, i need to ask, is there still this special complicated guideline of building them you have to follow or has it been improved in 0.5?
If yes/no could someone please revise/quote the right way of building those again, as I dont want to go through the whole thread again looking for the right way ~.~
And Thanks alot for every help
if you plan on building storage tanks that connect to your miner in a train like fashion then just beware that currently the clamp-o-tron and the clamp-o-tron jr don't transfer fuel automatically, but they do transfer mono propellant. the clamp-o-tron sr and the shielded port transfer fuel just fine. not sure if its a kethane bug or a KSP bug. but all other systems work.
-
Update on fuel conversion.
So, it appears that the blockage is in the docking node itself. I attempted to use the new Largest port,the Clamp-o-tron Sr, and the fuel started to transfer fine. no issues. so it appears that the old standard Clamp-o-tron docking port is the problem.
edit: the shielded docking ports work just fine as well.
edit2: the small clamp-o-tron also does not work. it appears that the only docking ports taht work are the docking ports that can instantly snap to the center of an end of a tank, such as the large clamp-o-tron or the shielded one.
edit3: ok I just downloaded the game fresh. installed kethane and tested. still the same issue with the clamp-o-tron and clamp-o-tron jr ports. everything else works great
-
Update to the conversion issue. i have taken and created an empty tank and landed it nearby, i docked with the miner and it is still not Xfering fuel across the docking ports naturally, you have to alt click the tanks and Xfer it over, which is extremely inefficient if you have several tanks attached
here is an album of the system so far. ignore hyperedit, again i'[m using it to test things before i actually send them up. as you can see, its processing RCS fuel and its auto filling the RCS tanks just fine. there's no issue there, its when it is converting fuel that it has issue.
I have also disabled crossfeed and monopropellant still gets converted and stored in tanks, but not liquid fuel or oxidizer.
-
Update to the conversion issue. i have taken and created an empty tank and landed it nearby, i docked with the miner and it is still not Xfering fuel across the docking ports naturally, you have to alt click the tanks and Xfer it over, which is extremely inefficient if you have several tanks attached
-
well my problem is that i wish to attach multiple tanks to this unit and i cant run fuel lines to every tank i attach once im on the mun.
-
I am having a problem with getting fuel to flow from the kethane converter to fuel tanks across docking ports
http://i.imgur.com/LrAtFPZ.png
this is my rig. I'm using hyperedit just so i can see the new parts and how they look. but i used to be able to mine kethane and when i turned on the converter it would flow across the docking port to an available tank, it is not doing this now.. how can i rectify this situation?
edit:spelling and i also put a fuel tank directly on the end of the converter, and the kethane rig will only fill up that tank, nothing else.. did something break with this update?
edit2: here is a tank at both ends not receiving fuel once the directly attached tank is full.. something definitely broke with this update http://imgur.com/iY0mEHD
-
can you please update the download link so that i may download this. your links are broken due to high traffic
[1.0.4] SteamGauges V1.7.2 - 27 July '15
in KSP1 Mod Releases
Posted
I... I think I love you. This is fantastic!! I cannot WAIT to use these!