Trying to translate right, instead I am translating diagonally.

[DaddyCabinet]

I am just running vanilla KSP. I have tried turning on sas, adding asas, going into chase view and pushing caps lock. I have also made sure that I have my thrusters on the center of mass. Lastly I am pushing L to translate right. Is this working as intended?

Edited December 16, 2013 by DaddyCabinet

[The Jedi Master]

Press D, not L! IJKL are the transition controls!

[Chrisd857]

Looks like it is working correctly. Because you have the RCS ports at 45deg to the cardinal directions, the diagonal thrusting is a sign that it is working perfectly. If you look carefully, the ports are doing the following:

   /       ______
| /       |\
|/        | \
____         \


____        /
|\       | /
| \      |/
   \     ____

The forces pointing (lets say) fore and aft cancel out, leaving an overall left-ward motion. (excuse the quality of the arrows).

Edited December 15, 2013 by Chrisd857
try to improve my meaning

[Smidge204]

It is working as intended. If you look closely at the RCS thruster pattern, the next effect is an eastward thrust.

Consider rotating the RCS system (thrusters and tanks) 45 degrees to get what I think you were expecting.

=Smidge=

[Sirrobert]

The left right transition directions are based on the navball, not the camera.

So right = east

[Taki117]

As others have said, the diagonaly movement comes from the RCS thruster block locations. I will however point out that having your RCS blocks on the 45 (And not on the cardinal) will cause you to use more RCS fuel for the same amount of movement. (Since all 4 RCS blocks must fire instead of the normal 2) If you are not adverse to mods I suggest the RCS build aid mod It shows you where your ship will go based on where your RCS thrusters are and what directional key you pressed (IJKLHN respectively) Very useful for balancing the RCS of large ships.

[DaddyCabinet]

Thanks! That was really driving me crazy.

[Taki117]

Thanks! That was really driving me crazy.

You are most welcome, and don't forget to give Rep where it's due!

[UH60guy]

For future ease- If you want absolute easiest RCS controls in space, try pressing V (with default key bindings) a few times until you see "camera: chase."

Then, drag your point of view to the back of your craft. Now, instead of seeing the craft rotate with a static background, you'll basically control the craft from a fixed view while the background rotates. This means not only do the translation keys work as usual (ijkl), but I is now bound to down on the screen and navball, J is left on the screen and navball, etc. I never dock without doing this first!