So I've been trying to get this to work for many hours now (yesterday and today) and it still doesn't have the robotics tab in the SPH, so most of the parts are inaccessible, even through searching by name. I've read so many of the pages on this thread and I've tried every suggestion I read: deleted all other mods; re-installed IR and Legacy parts; reinstalled with surface sampler, rework, and sequencer; verified integrity of game files for KSP via Steam; deleted the .ksp file in AssetBundles; etc. (That is only what I remember.) I followed these instructions but the tab is still not there. The weird thing is that I had it working fine last weekend. It let me save the craft and everything. If I try to open the file for the craft now, however, it says there are invalid parts. Also, when I click on the IR button on the bottom-right, it says on the top-right in red letters "NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object." Also, when I open any of the Rework Part .cfg files, under editor parameters, "category = none", which means it isn't set to the robotics tab or any other tab. For the Legacy Parts, this parameter equals "Utilities".
When I first installed IR, I did not install any parts so it just had nothing in the robotics tab, and everything else worked fine.
I also wanted to know if there is any way to get this mod on CKAN; I couldn't find it. I deleted CKAN, thinking maybe it could be the cause of all this--it was the only thing I did relating to KSP since IR had worked. I downloaded (and deleted) it yesterday.
Here is what i'm doing:
1) Download everything.
2) Paste Downloads\IR-2.0.11-Final-Core.zip\IR-2.0.11-Final-Core\GameData\MagicSmokeIndustries into Kerbal Space Program\GameData.
3) Paste Downloads\IR-LegacyParts.zip\IR-LegacyParts\GameData\MagicSmokeIndustries\Parts\Legacy into Kerbal Space Program\GameData\MagicSmokeIndustries\Parts.
4) Paste Downloads\IR-LegacyParts.zip\IR-LegacyParts\GameData\MagicSmokeIndustries\IR_TweakScale.cfg into Kerbal Space Program\GameData\MagicSmokeIndustries.
5) Paste Downloads\Rework_Repack_1.1.2.zip\GameData\MagicSmokeIndustries\Parts\Rework_Core, Rework_Expansion, Rework_Utility, and Rework_TweakScale.cfg into Kerbal Space Program\GameData\MagicSmokeIndustries\Parts.
6) Paste Downloads\IR-Surface-Sampler-master.zip\IR-Surface-Sampler-master\GameData\MagicSmokeIndustries\Parts\Rework_Utility\Plugins\IRSurfaceSampler.dll and IRSurfaceSamplerLocalization.cfg into Kerbal Space Program\GameData\MagicSmokeIndustries\Parts\Rework_Utility\Plugins.
There are files in so many places for the Surface Sampler mod, I'm just going to leave that out, but it would be more of the same pattern as shown above.
This has not worked, and I've tried at least six times. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
Great mod btw. I only used it for an hour and a half, but it was fun while it lasted.
These are the instructions I referred to above: