How do I get kerbals into my ship while it's on the launch pad?

[saskwach]

I built a space bus with a hitchhiker, and I'm having trouble getting kerbals inside. I built a bunch of ladders going up the side of my rocket, but they can't seem to climb from being on the ladder to the flat surface at the top of the ladder. I assume people have solved this problem, but how? Do I have to design my rocket so that there can be a single continuous ladder all the way from the very bottom up to the hatch?

[3_bit]

You'll need to use shift + w and use the non-retractable ladder to make something of a slope up around the edge.

[Francesco]

yup, but it's usually too annoying for me to do that: I mean, it's cool to transfer your Kerbals from the runway to the launchpad for two or three times - it adds to the experience of the game - but then, you'll likely prefer to bypass the problem entirely and use crew manifest

http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/18-1-kerbal-crew-manifest/

[Jason Patterson]

I usually use two of the small ladders to make the corner. The first goes on the side of the vehicle and is tilted at about 30 degrees and the second is on top and also tilted at about 30 degrees. It's a pain, but kerbals just don't make the corner without help.

I'd love a stock ladder part that mounted to the side or top that included a curved ladder for getting onto the top of vehicles.

[saskwach]

Huzzah, thanks. I actually tried to build a giant rover with a tower for getting into one rocket. It did not end well. I tried to change ladder angles briefly last night, but my 3AM brain didn't think to use the tiny ones.

Thanks for the suggestion for crew manifest. I'm going mod-free as long as I can, but that one seems pretty harmless. (Harm here is defined as making it easier for me to get Jebediah to his next crazy destination.)

[HoY]

Please forgive the shameless plug of my most recent video lol. I tackled this exact situation at the beginning of it. I DO have manifest installed but I wanted to add to the experience.

(Ps it's still uploading but won't be much longer)