RealChutes - Auto Arm doesn't work on staging?

[Jackelmyer]

So... I played through Stock until I was able to land on Jool, visit all the moons, and finish my tech tree + some.  Got somewhat modded up and one of the mods that kinda came "recommended" by CKAN and other mods was RealChutes...

 

These damn things are going to pancake me...

 

I tend to have my final Decoupler and Chutes on my final stage (0).  I'll be coming in at 70k-100k altitude and that's typically when I pop this last stage.  With Stock parachutes, the parachutes arm and when conditions are right, they deploy.  Simple.  Love it.

I do really like the way RealChutes works... however...  Either they arm and pop an error saying conditions aren't right (something like that) or they don't arm.  I'm usually spam clicking the chutes to figure out how to get them to pop when I want them too while not splatting on the ground.

What am I doing wrong?  The only conditions I change are...

Single Parachute --> Changed to Triple

Pre Deployment Alt --> Changed to 5000 (1300 default)

Deployment Alt -->  Changed to 1500 (700 default)

 

Why does it seem like my parachutes won't arm and stay armed until that 5000 altitude?  I've let it go to 700 altitude too and then bloody freaked out trying to click deploy fast enough.  I know I can arm them manually, which I do now... but I'm going to forget one of these days and BAM... Call me Jack... Flap Jack...

 

So how do I get these things to Arm and stay armed when I stage them?

[Esquire42]

24 minutes ago, Jackelmyer said:

So... I played through Stock until I was able to land on Jool, visit all the moons, and finish my tech tree + some.  Got somewhat modded up and one of the mods that kinda came "recommended" by CKAN and other mods was RealChutes...

 

These damn things are going to pancake me...

 

I tend to have my final Decoupler and Chutes on my final stage (0).  I'll be coming in at 70k-100k altitude and that's typically when I pop this last stage.  With Stock parachutes, the parachutes arm and when conditions are right, they deploy.  Simple.  Love it.

I do really like the way RealChutes works... however...  Either they arm and pop an error saying conditions aren't right (something like that) or they don't arm.  I'm usually spam clicking the chutes to figure out how to get them to pop when I want them too while not splatting on the ground.

What am I doing wrong?  The only conditions I change are...

Single Parachute --> Changed to Triple

Pre Deployment Alt --> Changed to 5000 (1300 default)

Deployment Alt -->  Changed to 1500 (700 default)

 

Why does it seem like my parachutes won't arm and stay armed until that 5000 altitude?  I've let it go to 700 altitude too and then bloody freaked out trying to click deploy fast enough.  I know I can arm them manually, which I do now... but I'm going to forget one of these days and BAM... Call me Jack... Flap Jack...

 

So how do I get these things to Arm and stay armed when I stage them?

There's a setting that changes when they'll deploy when staged: Deploy when Safe, Deploy when Risky, Deploy on Stage. Should be in the right-click menu for the part

[Jackelmyer]

Arg I can't find that.  I right click a parachute and the only options I get are Auto Strut, Ridged Attachment, and Toggle Info.

 

Toggle Info just shows stats and settings that have been applied.  I go into Custom Actions and I find all the settings for the chutes, but I don't have Deploy options...  Safe, Risky, Stage... not options I have. I would LOOOOVE those options though!

Ugh...  Found the blasted... 

 

For those who are thick as I...  There's a...  *sigh*...  a parachute icon at the bottom right of the screen when overlooking the Kerbal Space Center, not in the VAB/SPH. It's an overall setting.  "automatically arm when staged..."... Which for whatever reason, is defaultly turned off...

I'm not 100% sure of this, but I swore (and originally wrote this reply as such), that the parachute settings icon was shown in the VAB at the very least.  Isn't now.  Only shows the RealChutes settings button overlooking the Space Center.  Just an FYI for anyone else.

Edited December 13, 2016 by Jackelmyer