[VAB/SPH] Action Group settings don't get mirrored on item duplication

[Darbin Giesorg]

Solved: By installing the stock bug fixes mod. Thanks, sal_vager.

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KSP Version: Steam v1.0.5.1028 vanilla | Windows 7 x64

Description: When duplicating / mirroring an item on a ship in construction, action group settings for the main item do not get applied to the duplicate until confirmed again in action group settings.

Reproduction:

• Have upgraded SPH / VAB to allow action groups. Enter.
• Place command pod (any, to allow control).
• Stick antenna to pod (or light, gear, engine, anything that allows toggle with direct visual confirmation).
• Set toggle via action group (using Gear, Light, Brakes, whatever, any group will do). A button press should now extend the antenna.
• Pick up antenna, set radial or mirror mode, place as a pair of antennas (or 8, anything bigger than 1).

• Launch vessel.
• Press action button. Only one antenna will extend.

• Revert to hangar.
• Select action groups. Select item. Remove command from action group, then select command again.

• Launch vessel.
• Press action button. All antennas will extend.

More Info: While it appears logical that a newly placed item will not automatically be added to action groups, pairs or sets of mirrored items usually get triggered together. If you click one antenna in SPH action groups mode, you select all of that set, so any command is applied to all of them and it is not apparent in VAB/SPH that the item is not actually being triggered.
The problem for me was that I placed two engines on a plane meant for high flight which I would toggle on/off with the RCS button so the jet engines could maintain full throttle. When moving the engines around, mirror mode wasn't activated, so I accidentally only placed one engine, realized the mistake, activated mirror mode and placed both, of which only one was included in the action group despite both being linked. So I flew to the survey location, fired up the engines, pressed R when the ap was high enough and only one engine switched off which made my plane tumble around uncontrollably. This wasn't the first time this happened and I struggled at first to find out what caused the issue as mousing over the action group items highlighted both engines simultaneously and clicking either showed me that pressing RCS would toggle them both.
 

Edited February 14, 2016 by sumghai
Removed solved label - in the future, just mark the best answer, and people will automatically know that it has been solved. Thanks!

[Gaarst]

No they don't.

More of a "feature" than a proper bug, it happens to everyone AFAIK.

Hopefully 1.1 UI changes and fixes will fix this.

[sal_vager]

Hi Darbin, you may be interested in Claws stock bug fix mod here.

[Darbin Giesorg]

14 hours ago, sal_vager said:

Hi Darbin, you may be interested in Claws stock bug fix mod here.

Holy excrements, yes. Why isn't this in the main trunk? Thanks a bunch.

"Retains action groups for symmetric parts when they are removed and replaced in the editor."

Exaaaactly. Big kudos.

[sal_vager]

Well they only hired him last week

[StarManta]

On February 11, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Gaarst said:

More of a "feature" than a proper bug, it happens to everyone AFAIK.

 

If a bug happens to everyone, that doesn't make it a feature, that makes it a worse bug....