b_griffin

Thanks All I tried the docking ports and everything worked perfectly. However, the decouplers destroy the 4 nuclear engines when activated.. lol. Abandon idea. Launch success: 1st Decoupling worked fine: Decouplers in the nuclear engines tear the whole thing apart lol: No Kerbals were injured.

Hello, I tried to use a quad connector to 4 nuclear engines. Each of the engine had a decoupler and I tried to put another quad connector underneath the decouplers. It all seem good during design, but when I tried to launch it it would bend like crazy. I opened the .craft file and saw that only one of the decouplers was attached to the quad connector. The other 3 decouplers were just hanging there. First I tried many times to fix this in the vehicle assembly building but it will always only attach one. Then I tried to reverse engineer the .craft file to connect the 3 decouplers. I saw that you have to tell each decoupler that it has to be connected to the quad adapter and then tell the adapter that is connected to the decouplers. There seems to be some ordering tough because there are 4 places so you need to specify 01 02 03 or 04... I tought that when you flip the quad adapter then the top connector 01 should be connected to 02, 02 to 01, 03 to 04 and 04 to 03. After making all the changes, I saved the file and loaded back in KSP. In the building it seemed to load ok but all the engines were on (poor kerbals in the building were really worried about all the leaked radiation). When I tried to launch KSP crashed. So at the end I figured that editing the .craft file is not that straight forward and I was wondering if there are any editors out there to consistently make changes. I did try the kerbaledit but I dont think you can make changes to the ship file there. Has anybody try to edit this with some success? or how to edit them? thanks