RCS Keybinds

[Little Kerbonaut!]

I am trying to learn how to dock two crafts together but the normal WASD don’t work like they do for most things in the game. Does anyone know what each key does for RCS controls?

[bewing]

RCS is default mapped to JL (left/right) IK (up/down) and HN (forward/back).

 

[Little Kerbonaut!]

Oh ok.

[Vanamonde]

You can always refresh your memory about keystrokes by looking under options, and maybe even re-map them to something you like better. 

[jimmymcgoochie]

RCS does use the normal WASDQE controls to rotate, but to translate (move around) you need to use IJKLHN- IK for up/down, JL for left/right and HN for front/back. You can change those settings if you like.

If you have RCS enabled but no main engines switched on (or they’re out of fuel) the throttle controls will control the RCS thrusters to move forwards like holding H, only with more control. This can be useful to do small manoeuvres entirely on RCS thrust e.g. for satellites.

[Linkageless]

The method I used first was pointing the two vessels at their respective docking ports and very subtly using a main engine to nudge one to the other. 

Getting this to work meant I barely had need for RCS on early career vessels, and is still useful in combination with RCS in almost all situations.