Unresponsive chute

[SofusRud]

I have a rover that I have landed on Duna, returned to orbit and intend on landing on Duna again. The problem is the chutes on it don't seem to want to redeploy, when I right-click on them I just get the min-pressure and deployment sliders but no "deploy chute" option. There are no action groups for the chutes but I intended to manually deploy them all before hitting atmo. I have checked, and this problem is unique to this one rover, the lander which came with it can manually deploy its chutes after repacking. I checked the persistence file, and the only difference between the chutes on the different craft was that the rover had "Staged = True" and the lander had "Staged = False". I tried going through the file, manually changing all the chutes from Staged = True to False and then saving, but when I checked in the game nothing had changed and the persistence had reverted my changes.

Can anybody help me out?

Here is the persistence file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gsmsmnaidgo93ji/persistent.sfs

(It's the craft called "Ice Dentist")

Edited July 11, 2014 by SofusRud

[Claw]

Confirm that you repacked the chutes on the rover too? (I see you said you did the lander.)

[SofusRud]

Confirm that you repacked the chutes on the rover too? (I see you said you did the lander.)

I did repack them, but do you mean I should check the persistence file for having repacked them? If so, what should I do about it?

[LethalDose]

I haven't had to repack chutes on a mission, but I may have to in the near future for a resuable lander so I've played around with it some.

I feel like when they get repacked they get re-added to the stage queue (I think repacked chutes turn a dark green). Have you tried activating the next stage, or adding them into a higher stage to get them to activate?

Oh, and stupid question, but is the vessel controlled when you're right clicking the chutes?

[Kasuha]

Each part can be only staged once, so if you deployed them through staging the first time, you can't do that again (unless you edit the persistence file and clear their staged flag). You can deploy them using action group or through right-click menu, though.

[SofusRud]

I haven't had to repack chutes on a mission, but I may have to in the near future for a resuable lander so I've played around with it some.

I feel like when they get repacked they get re-added to the stage queue (I think repacked chutes turn a dark green). Have you tried activating the next stage, or adding them into a higher stage to get them to activate?

Oh, and stupid question, but is the vessel controlled when you're right clicking the chutes?

yes to both questions. I have never had my repacked chutes be reusable on the staging before, they only look like they should but don't.

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Each part can be only staged once, so if you deployed them through staging the first time, you can't do that again (unless you edit the persistence file and clear their staged flag). You can deploy them using action group or through right-click menu, though.

I know that, the problem is that the right-clicking isn't working

[SofusRud]

I have now worked out the problem thanks to taking another long look at the persistence file. something to do with the Deploy => "Active = False" and changing the false to True. It now works.