subassemblies?

[strider3]

I finally got a nice asparagus set-up for launch (still dealing with gravity collisions after the gravity turn, but working on that). I have a 2 ship expedition to Duna, the orbiter with science lab did not use the asparagus lower end but the lander did. So, I ran into an epic fail at Duna and I'm going to restart this entire Duna science gathering mission. But...I want to transfer the asparagus lower end, which is saved as a "subassembly", to the orbiter ship. I disconnected everything from the orbiter, from the Kerbodyne adapter down, and then replaced it with the asparagus subassembly (which also is topped with the same Kerbodyne adapter). But, after doing that, nothing above the adapter shows up in the VAB staging? Here's a screenshot and you'll notice I have none of the upper stages showing up on the lower right.

What am I doing wrong, gang?

[Snark]

I'm confused.  What is it that you're not seeing, that you would be expecting to see?

When I look at the icons in your staging UI, here's what I see:

1. A set of six asparagus engines around a center engine
2. Launch clamps
3. Radial decouplers for shedding the asparagus boosters, in three sets of two.
4. Nothing else.

And when I look at the screenshot you provided, here's what I see:

1. A ship that looks like it probably has six asparagus engines around a center engine (although they're not actually visible in the shot)
2. Launch clamps
3. Radial decouplers for three sets of two asparagus boosters
4. Nothing else.

Where's the disconnect?  As far as I can tell, everything that I see in the screenshot of the ship seems to have a place in the staging UI.  Do you have some stageable part there that's not showing up in the screenshot, or something?

3 hours ago, Victor3 said:

Here's a screenshot and you'll notice I have none of the upper stages showing up on the lower right.

...That's what's confusing me.  What "upper stages" are you talking about?  I only see one big, huge, tall stage in the middle, surrounded by the six radial boosters.  I don't see any "upper" stages, just a single center one.  What am I missing?

[DD_bwest]

yea i concur with snark,  your middle core doesnt look like it has a decoupler on it, So it is just one center stage that has the engine fire right at the start, along with the 6 boosters.  Nothing above the adapter can really be staged

did you maybe accidentally delete the decoupler + engine that was supposed to be attached to the orange tank and didnt notice?

[strider3]

I'm an idiot

16 hours ago, DD_bwest said:

did you maybe accidentally delete the decoupler + engine that was supposed to be attached to the orange tank and didnt notice?

That's exactly what I did, I deleted the decoupler and poodle engine that was on the upper Jumbo 64.

[Sharpy]

Also: expect adding subassemblies making a total mess of your staging. Whenever you add subassembly, fix staging manually. The game tries to guess how to stage things when you add new stages like that, but... it usually guesses wrong.