Can't rotate a part on RCS after undocking?

[Agent86]

I just added two modules to a ship I'm building around Laythe, each with a bit of fuel, four XL panels and a bit of RCS. Now I want to orient them so the solar panels, when extended, are on a flat plane relative to the spine of the ship.

When I undock (With plenty of RCS, elec charge, etc.) I can drive the ship around, orient and translate in docking mode, but can't make it rotate using the Q and E keys. What's up with that? Anybody else notice it?

Edited November 9, 2013 by Agent86

[Ravenchant]

Weird. Even if you didn't have RCS thrusters in the right place, torque from the pods should make it rotate. Try turning SAS off, as well as torque from all but one command module, so nothing can cancel out. Also, does switching to rotation docking mode change anything?

[Agent86]

Weird. Even if you didn't have RCS thrusters in the right place, torque from the pods should make it rotate. Try turning SAS off, as well as torque from all but one command module, so nothing can cancel out. Also, does switching to rotation docking mode change anything?

Nothing changes, except for what should. Toggling SAS and RCS doesn't seem to help. Thing is, that during initial docking, the parts rotated fine. I just didn't bother with alignment as I was running low on RCS and wanted to collect some from the ship before realigning them.

[Agent86]

Actually I've just noticed that I can't rotate about any axis in staging mode. I can translate forward back left right up down in docking mode just fine, but can't rotate about x, y, or z. I've reloaded the ship and reloaded the game, no difference.

Edit: I finally figured it out.

What I had to do was undock the part, reverse a little, turn off SAS and RCS, save the game, exit the ksp application, restart it, go to the part again, reengage RCS and SAS, and then it will behave normally. So clearly a game bug.

Edited November 9, 2013 by Agent86

[Ravenchant]

Glad you could solve it. And that's a fine station you've got there!