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Hey, i had this issue but have fixed it. Seemed to be some kind of clash between Texture Replacer, Texture Unlimited and the introduction of the Astronomer's Visual Pack. I had to do a completely clean install and removed Texture Replacer and don't use Astronomer's pack now. Just uninstalling those mods didn't fix it. Needed a totally fresh start.

Hey I did wonder if there was some other patch that may have been altered that was not actually part of TR or TU and just got left there. EIther way a clean install was the only way i was going to fix it. The downside being that any evidence was obliterated because i literally uninstalled everything, right down to deleting the Kerbal folder in Steam and emptying the recycle bin. This was necessary because a previous install where i deleted the Gamedata folder contents but then just reinstalled them from the cache had not fixed the problem. Not much help identifying this issue now (my bad on that one) but if anyone else has the problem in the future at least it may provide a starting point. Anyhow, i'm sticking with TU now as it is working for me and the mods i want to use. Thanks for making it.

Hey I had an issue where all of the reflective surfaces (sunshield and hexagonal panels) were turning black. Was driving me nuts but i sorted it somehow. So just in case anyone else has a situation where they are using the optional configs that add the really shiny surface to the sun shield and hexagonal panels and they have turned black in game and in the VAB this is what i did. I had a clean install which included both Texture Replacer and Textures Unlimited ( i didn't realise there was a clash ) but everything was fine. Shiny surfaces worked. I then added Astronomer's Visual Pack, which uses Texture Replacer as a dependency, and noticed that a few things, the James Webb telescope included, had turned black. Uninstalling Astronomer's Pack and Texture Replacer didn't work. I could remove the shiny surface configs and the telescope would go back to normal textures but i really wanted the shiny surface. So, i did another clean install and everything is now working again. I have avoided Astronomer's Visual Pack and have gone with Stock Visual Enhancements instead as it only uses Kopernicus as a dependency. I'm not sure what it was with the combination of Astronomer's visual pack and Texture Replacer that caused it but whatever changed can't be undone by just unistalling them. They must change something that isn't changed back. It may just be me and no one else has had this issue but if you do, try the above. I had three fully clean installs in the last 2 boring days. and i really just want to get on with launching this telescope because the thing is gorgeous. Excellent work @bcink. Loving your mods.

Hey Cheesecake Thanks for this. I couldn't actually get the cfg to download. It took me on a very strange journey with a .exe searching for a torrent. Not to worry, i am not too concerned about the reflections. I will look to remove TR/TRR and go from there. Thanks again.

Hey I'm getting the all black cockpit and fuselage as well. I'm not forcing DX11 and have all the dependencies. I did a completely clean install of KSP recently and it was was fine. I then added a few new mods and think one of them may conflict in some way. Does anyone know if the shuttle uses Texture Replacer or Textures Unlimited in any way because the problem seems to occur when i installed the Astronomer's visual pack, which changed the main menu page from saying "Kerbal Space Program - Texture Replacer Replaced" to " Kerbal Space Program - Astronomers Pack" I also noticed that i have the mod by @bcink of the James Webb telescope and the textures on that have also been messed up. The shiny sun protector and hexagonal panels have also turned black, and that mod uses Textures Unlimited. Figured they must be related. However, i don't believe uninstalling Astronomer's visual pack has fixed it. I have to do a clean install to erase whatever changed. Thanks

I know this was asked a while ago but i recently had the exact same issue. Mine was caused by The Janitor's Closet. If i went into the VAB the cockpit was there. However, if i open up the Mod List window of Janitor's Closet and looked only at SPACE_SHUTTLE_SYSTEM the cockpit wasn't there. If i then took of the filter of all the other mods and shut the Janitor's Closet window, the cockpit didn't come back. I had to leave the VAB and then go back in and the cockpit reappeared. So it is either The Janitor's Closet or the Filter Extension dependency it uses. I only figured this out in the last day or so and will likely uninstall Janitor's Closet as the Stock advance filter in 1.3.1 pretty much does the same thing as the Mod Filter in TJC. Hope that helps.

In the last 24 hours this thread has taken an excellent turn. Looking forward to the impending design war. Having just finished an ISS replica build i am now looking to develop a fleet, potentially assembling larger ships in orbit, to strike out into the solar system. Hoping to get some inspiration from you all on heavy lifters because it is an area i struggle. Good Luck Gents!

Hey Does this pack work on Kerbal 1.3? Apologies if it is already answered somewhere in this thread. It's a big thread. I do already have an ISS Community mod but am running 1.2.2 because it never liked 1.3. Thanks

Hey As it is for the shuttle it doesn't matter whether the angle change is towards or away from the planet. The burn is using the OMS engines, which are mounted at a 15 degree angle so if i point directly at NP then my actual direction when i burn will be 15 degrees off. So i need to 'nose up' in relation to the NP, regardless of what that means in relation to the planet. I did try using the rotation formula but all that did was lock me to 15 degrees above the horizon. Not 15 degrees about where the NP was.

Hi Steven I found that by playing with a few bits ( e.g. changing 'node:eta' to 'nextnode:eta' ) and removing the line i quoted i managed to get it working. However, i am using the script to do a maneuver with a shuttle so the line 'LOCK STEERING TO NP' does point the nose at NP, but i need it to nose up about 15 degrees. Is there something i could add to this line that would accomplish that. eg LOCK STEERING TO NP + (followed by an instruction that would make it use NP as a basis then nose up 15)? Thanks Daniel

Hey I am using the example of the executable node script from the kOS guide to run my own nodes but it keeps failing and i can figure out why. The line that causes the failure is: wait until abs(NP:pitch - facing:pitch) < 0.15 and abs(NP:yaw - facing:yaw) < 0.15. The error i get is Get suffix 'PITCH' not found on object V( then gives the vectors). An attempt was made to get a suffix called 'PITCH' from an object of type 'VECTOR' when that object does not have that suffix usable in that way. I copied the script from the guide on the page 'Execute Node Script'. i have not tinkered with it so not sure what i'm doing wrong. Any ideas? Daniel

Hey. Trying to get something to happen when my apoapsis reaches 300000m. All i want to do is wait for that apoapsis then set throttle to zero but whatever language i use it never shuts the throttle off. For this particular command i am using a WAIT UNTIL command. I have tried all of the below but it never does what i want when the apoapsis reaches the desired altitude. WAIT UNTIL APOAPSIS = 300000. WAIT UNTIL SHIP:APOAPSIS = 300000. WAIT UNTIL ORBIT:APOAPSIS =300000. WAIT UNTIL SHIP:ORBIT:APOAPSIS = 300000. as well as other permeatations. Is the issue the language i am using or the following line, which is LOCK THROTTLE TO 0.? This lines seems painfully straight forward so can't think it is that. Or, as i earlier locked the throttle to 1, do i need to unlock the throttle first? I figured a new lock throttle command would just override the previous one.

hey, Maybe i'm being dim but i am not sure what you mean in your instructions by defining vehicle and mission and sequence so i just get the immediate crash and the "No boot file loaded. Crashing..." message. What am i doing wrong?

Okay, i may have been wrong, i do need someone to write the script because this nearly burned my brain out. I sort of get the premise but think i'm in too deep. with no background in developing i think a shuttle launch may be too ambitious but is also all i need kOS for because i'm well into an ISS build that i want to complete. I hate to ask but would a framework of the script be possible to get that i can then play around with numbers in? Or would that require seeing all of the script so far and the craft file of the shuttle i'm using?

Hi Just looking for a little help with a script. Probably bitten off more than i can chew. I'm a scripting beginner and am trying to write a script for a shuttle launch in RO/RSS. So far i get everything going okay and am getting to about 150000m but now want to switch the type of command i'm giving. Up to this point it is fairly simple to just give commands based on waiting for set speeds or altitudes to make pitch adjustments. (it may not be elegant but i'm just learning). But what i want now is instead of it actioning my exact pitch change, i want it to react to external factors, in this case, maintaining prograde at about 2 degrees above the horizon while the velocity is increased to close to orbital speeds. The issue i have is that if i set a pitch angle of, for example, 15 degrees, the prograde may be X degrees above the horizon but slowly dips until i'm losing altitude. I need to know how to instruct kOS to recognise and make changes without me giving specific pitch corrections. It would be almost impossible for me to script exact pitch angles that would guarantee a successful launch based on varying payloads so need kOS to make adjustments on the fly. I'm not looking for someone to write the code for me, just some help in which kerboscript commands i should be using. Any help really appreciated. Daniel

Hi DrLicor Dude, you have been saving my cheeks lately. I just started using OpenGL a few days ago but i never considered that as the issue. Thanks. Will give that a try later. Dan

Apologies if this is the wrong thread as i am really unsure which mod is causing it and the search is finding nothing. I use 1.2.2 and RSS. But the Earth has no land masses. Its fine when i launch but as soon as i am in orbit or if i am looking at the earth in the tracking station screen it is just a ball of ocean. Is this an RSS issue or perhaps a RSSVE issue? Hunted the various threads but they are so long now that finding what i'm looking for without a robust search tool is proving quite difficult. Any ideas appreciated.

Yup, crossfeed on the decoupler was definitely the issue. Ignore me, i'm an idiot. i'm new to RO. Getting Cormorant Aeronology working was pretty much the first thing i have tried to do since installing it. Pretty good with stock Kerbal but going straight for a shuttle in RO might be running before i can walk!

I did wonder if there was a name change because there was an SSME and SRB that were very similar. However i did search by manurfacturer and they were gone. The two parts that looked similar both had Rocketdyne as the manurfacturer if i remember (not at home at the moment so can't load it up to check). I did try fitting those parts and it didn't launch well. I assumed they were the wrong parts and perhaps had lower thrust values, (hence my gravity turn peaking at about 4000 metres and nosing over for a watery landing) but i did notice after that the SSME's may not have been getting fuel. Now you've confirmed the name change i will give those another go when i get home.

I'm using KSP 1.2.2 so i can use RO. I have this mod installed along with the @DrLicor patch for RO. However, i have found that in the VAB both the SSME and SRB4 have disappeared. All other parts for Cormorant Aeronology are there but those two are missing. Does make lift off...tricky. Am i doing something wrong with the install?I have the patch in the Patches folder. I tried having the whole patch 'Cormorant Aeronology' folder in the Patches folder, and i tried just having the RO folder from the patch in the Patches folder but niether resolved it. Any ideas?

Are you lining the centre of the blue manouver node target up with the centre of where you are pointing? if you are it will go crazy. The OMS engines are at an angle by design. They don't push the shuttle in a straight line out of the nose of the shuttle. They work in combination with the RCS thrusters (so make sure you always have RCS on when doing a burn) to push the shuttle at a slightly downward angle. I find if i line up the centre of the blue manouver target a fraction below the yellow V on my direction it tends to work out pretty close. Has anyone else had an issue with this mod whereby random RCS thrusters just stop working? At first it just seemed to be the fore translation thrusters in the nose, so if ever i was appraoching an object for dock nose first i couldn't slow down. All others, translation or rotation, even on the nose, were fine. Then, later that flight, i lost port/starboard translation on the nose too. Still had dorsal translation and rotation though. Plenty of monopropellant onboard and as i mentioned, other thrusters were fine. I hadn't changed any of the accuation toggles either. Any ideas?

I had KAS so uninstalled and reinstalled it and that did it. Thanks.

Hey When i first installed this mod i would right click on the end effector and it would give me the option to switch on the magnet. The option has totally disappeared from the right click menu now. Is the magnet automatic now or is this an issue with my download? maybe another mod is clashing with it? Dan

Which Canadarm mod are you using? I've got one but the magnet on the end effector doesn't work. In fact, the ability to switch the magnet on or off has totally disappeared from the right click menu now.

Not sure if i am doing something wrong but when i do an EVA it is not acting the way it used to. When i do an EVA the kerbal just spins out of control even with the RCS switched on he is always slowly rotating, meaning constant corrections and usually over corrections. Turning on the SAS also has no stabilising effect to the Kerbal. I've noticed that the navball on the screen does not link to the Kerbal either. It seems to still just show the reading for the ship i just got out of. Spinning the Kerbal around does not move the navball at all. It did used to. This is all made worse by not having a camera angle that locks you to the kerbal. The camera is always pointing in one direction and he is just spining on the screen, making it incredibly difficult to use RCS to bring him to a halt because he is rotating on all three axis so it is very difficult to work out which way to thrust to get him to stabilise if you are currently looking at him from an odd angle, not directly at his back. I have installed some mods lately, previously using stock i do not remember having these issues. EVA's were always quite easy. Is anyone aware of a mod that has caused these issues previously? I'm using 1.2.2. It seems to be Navball related as both the direction heading and SAS found on the Navball are just not tying to the Kerbal. The only Navball mod i use is Draggable Navball. Any ideas appreciated. Daniel