Hi and looking for help please :)

[Paxton]

I've been a member of the forums for a while now, but with work, and not alot of free time/playing other games etc., I wanted to wait a bit on KSP for updating and I must say, it's come a long way.

A while back I got MechJeb for KSP, fairly easy too I must say. However, I downloaded MechJeb 1.9.8 I think, and it wasn't working. Had everything copied over from the zip as I was supposed to. Then I saw MechJeb 2.0.9, got the zip for that, but there's only 1 part, in the Parts folder, in the zip file.

What am I supposed to be doing here, what am I missing? I really really need some help with getting MechJeb to work. It was real easy to get it working before, and I don't have all the "know-how" as many others do with flying spacecraft and doing mathematical equations and everything else, so I kind of need MechJeb, to get me landed on wherever it is I want to go.

Well anyone reading this, if you'd like to reply back with step by step instructions on how to get MechJeb properly put on my system so that it will work with KSP, that'd be great.

Thanks

[Bilfr3d]

I may be able to help....

Now, first off, what is the first file/folder in the zip?

[TheCanadianVendingMachine]

Do you know about the easier mod system yet? GameData is your friend, just copy and paste the folder inside the zip to the Gamedata folder. Do note - NOT IN THE SQUAD FOLDER

[Paxton]

Okay, first, I downloaded uploads_2013_03_MechJeb_1.9.8.zip. The first folder in that zip is MechJeb. Inside that folder is Parts, Plugins and Ships. I copied over the Parts and Plugins folder to their respective locations. Didn't copy over Ships, as that is a craft file, meaning, its a small, and already built ship with MechJeb parts on it. Anyway, after I put the other 2 folders in KSP folder, MechJeb menu's would come up in game, but not all of them were working.

I then downloaded MechJeb2-2.0.9.0.zip as I saw on Google, that was the most recent MechJeb. The first folder in that zip is MechJeb2. Inside that folder is Parts and Plugins. In the Parts folder is only 1 folder labeled, MechJeb2_AR202, and inside of that folder are 3 files, model.mu, model000.mbm and part.cfg. Inside the plugins folder is Mechjeb2.dll.

When I had uploads_2013_03_MechJeb_1.9.8.zip extracted to the Parts folder under KSP folder, there were 10 folders in the Parts folder. In MechJeb2-2.0.9.0.zip I don't see any MechJeb parts.

I know how to extract files from folders to their proper locations, my problem is that, I did that with the 1.9.8 MechJeb zip, and the MechJeb menu's weren't working correctly, like some of them would come up, but many others wouldn't, and I don't think MechJeb 1.9.8 was even working.

When I took a look at the contents of the MechJeb 2.0.9 zip file, I didn't see any MechJeb parts in that zip file. Am I supposed to copy over the MechJeb.dll from the 2.0.9 zip and use the MechJeb parts from the 1.9.8 zip?

@TheCanadianVendingMachine

No, I didn't know about the easier mod system. How does it work? Do I just extract the folder to that Gamedata folder? And which folders am I extracting? Just the main MechJeb folder?

[Bilfr3d]

I will answer for the Canadian..... just copy over the whole Mechjeb folder in the zip into the gamedata folder - everything will now load by itself in a normal starup - just like the normal parts. Hope this helped!!

[Paxton]

Thanks for the help there ToTheMun and TheCanadianVendingMachine. I unzipped the folder MechJeb2 from the MechJeb2-2.0.9.0.zip into the Gamedata folder, but it only brought up 2 MechJeb items in the list and that was under control. What other zips do I need for MechJeb?

[Bilfr3d]

Is there actually more than two parts in the actual parts folder? (To check, go into GameData, go into MechJeb2 and there should be several different folders there - parts, plugins, ships and maybe sounds. First off, go into the parts folder. If there is only two other folders in there, then it is fine - if there is more, some sort of problems going on (possibly the actual parts themselves aren't made right). Secondly, go into the plugins folder, and there should be one plugin in there. (well, I say should be.....)If there isn't, well there's another problem.) Also, are your mechjeb menus working inflight? Lastly, where did you download this version?

[Paxton]

Well, here is where I got the MechJeb 1.9.8.zip file from http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/mechjeb/

And here is where I got the MechJeb 2.0.9 zip file from http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/12384-PART-0-21-Anatid-Robotics-MuMech-MechJeb-Autopilot-v2-0-9

The screenshot you see on the second link, is not anywhere close to what I see on my screen with all those menus. Probably a year ago yea, I had menus like that, but either I'm getting the wrong zips, or something wasn't packaged right or I need both 1.9.8 and 2.0.9. But I have no clue.

[Specialist290]

The menu layout changed with 2.0.9, although I think there's an option somewhere that allows you to use the legacy layout.

If you've already got 2.0.9, you don't really need to keep 1.9.8 around unless you still have the old parts on some of your ships.

[Bilfr3d]

Well Paxton, that is all I can think of. I hope I have been of help, and now I would suggest you putting a thread in add-on support. You would probably get more help there. See you round, ToTheMun