Displacing radial elements partially removes action group assignment.

[Artimus]

KSP Version: any version on Windows 7, 8.1, 10 and for sure others.

What Happens: When displacing items with action group assignments the assignment is partially deleted. This is especially annoying when adjusting the balance of planes and the likes, since it does not only apply to displacing a direct item but also an indirect item like an engine attached to a radial fuel tank.

Steps to Replicate:

1) Create any kind of craft.

2) Attach any element that is configurable via action groups.

3) Set up an action group for that element.

4) Displace that element.

5) Launch the vessel.

6) Activate the action group -> only the element that was clicked still reacts to the action group.

Fixes/Workarounds:

Every affected element has to be configured into action groups again.

Edited November 14, 2015 by Artimus

[sal_vager]

Hi Artimus, this is actually a very old feedback issue and not unexpected behavior, though I agree it is not intuitive.

Your report is a little confusing though, as displacing parts with the offset and rotation tools doesn't reset the action groups, only removal of the parts does this.

If you'd like to change this behavior then you may be interested in Claws stock bug fix addon here.

Hope this helps!

[Artimus]

It may help in those situations. Often the case also is replacement of items within a larger arrange. Thus you really remove the parts, place it somewhere, remove the part to replace, add the replacement part and then reattach the previously set aside composition of parts. Then you got just the same issue and i actually see no sense in this behaviour. I guess it originates from the same problem that splits up staging elements from 8 to 7+1 for example.