[0.21][Parts Pack]Deep Space Mission Pack - Now open source!

[Ben Kerman]

Do I have to do anything special for my solar panels to work? I can't get them to produce energy.

[Kreuzung]

Hmm, it works fine for me.

Do the batteries work?

[CDonkey]

Yes I have currently working probe with a small battery, small ion engine and 4 deployable panels from the dynasat fix parts and they work fine.

[Lezflano1]

For some reason the ion engine says its not compatible with my version I have 0.17

[Terotta]

I keep trying to download this file but when i attempt to move it into the parts folder it says it will not encrypt the file any suggests?

[CoDominium]

I also cannot get the ion engine, battery, or solar panel to function. Also in the parts directory, the file names turn green, which is something I have never seen that before. All of the parts show up and work, except for the the electric ones. Keep up the great work guys!

[phoenix_ca]

For some reason the ion engine says its not compatible with my version I have 0.17

Did you install this plugin? It's required for the solar panels and ion engine.

What I'm curious about is if the Energy resource from that plugin plays well with the one from PowerTech (making parts using either one compatible with each other). Off to muck about with things.

Edit: Ooookay, so it seems that nothing using energy is working with this mod. I stuck an ion engine with a battery on the pad and it won't start. Stuck some MMI panels on the platform. Nothing. Stuck some DSM panels on it. Still nothing. Right-clicking the DSM panels shows an energy gain of 3 during the day, but the battery and engine show nada.

Both the DSM battery and DSM ion engine read:

Battery Power: -1

Overall Power: 0

The part and ship indicators show Energy at 50%. I'm considering slapping PowerTech MuMech code into the cfg files for the DSM modules to get them working.

Edited September 23, 2012 by phoenix_ca

[The Destroyer]

Maybe its not compatible with 0.17?

[Spearka]

Maybe its not compatible with 0.17?

it is compatible, i have already used the ion engines without any fault at all

[numidark]

Spearka KSP say Ions Motor Not compatible with version of KSP

Update files for Ions Motor is possible ?

It must change a setting in part.cfg ?

Edited September 23, 2012 by numidark

[Kreuzung]

If you go to the thread for the plugin (I'll make it more obvious on Kerbal.net sorry), you see that the -1 energy thing is caused by not copying the resources folder.

[phoenix_ca]

Curious. Okay, didn't know that; thanks. I've been using KSP Mod Manager to manage all the bloody mods I have installed (it's quite the handful...or fifty), so not surprising an installation error like that slipped by me. >.<

I wonder why it doesn't copy the resources folder though. That's...odd.

[numidark]

"This part type isn't available in this version of KSP" in picture

[Lezflano1]

Yeah i installed the EEP Plugin messed around with it and still couldn't get the Ion Engine available

[morpheus2n2]

Probaly going to get flamed for this but dos'e anyone have a .craft file of a DSM ship been trying for weeks to build one and keep getting failed results , as much as I love this game when it comes to building my own ships I just can't get it right

[kockaspiton]

Here's a working, small interplanetary craft with launch vehicle:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/12210338/DSM%20IPC%201.craft

[morpheus2n2]

Here's a working, small interplanetary craft with launch vehicle:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/12210338/DSM%20IPC%201.craft

Cool thanks so much one question the reactor dosn't seem to work, the ion drive will kick in for a few mins then it will die and nothing else will happen.

[-YLLogicaL-]

One of the screenshots in the original post reminds me of...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFz4O7xifZ8

[Kreuzung]

Right-click the reactor to activate it. Note that there currently is a glitch with the text not changing from "activate" to "deactivate", it only updates if you open the context menu again.

The reactor starts to work though.

BTW kockaspiton, I managed to get the part resources for the reactor working and Mu fixed the bugs I had with them, so you could make them use a resource (or two) if you wish.

Edited September 24, 2012 by Kreuzung

[Tassyr]

Question- so I installed this, fired it up, got it to orbit. On the ground at KSP, I can charge solar-style without a single problem. Anywhere in space... nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. The solar panels all report 0%. Help?

[KinkyFerrets]

Question- so I installed this, fired it up, got it to orbit. On the ground at KSP, I can charge solar-style without a single problem. Anywhere in space... nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. The solar panels all report 0%. Help?

Same issue here. Had dynasat600's on board.

[willow]

Could it be that your batteries fully emptied? Unfortunately there's a feature/bug in KSP where empty tanks are marked as spent and they are unable to be recharged again. It's an annoying bug especially when you're using multiple batteries. I had the situation where half of my batteries got marked as spent and I had to spend the rest of the ships natural life with half of the designed batteries.

The solution right now unfortunately is... Don't let them empty. Which sometimes requires some complicated outerspace tango.

Perhaps one of the energy plugin designers knows if it's possible to disable a tank before it is fully emptied and re-enable it when it is filled again above a certain treshhold, or to mark a tank as unspent just to get it back online?

[Kreuzung]

>KinkyFerrets

>willow

You're both talking about something else here.

PowerTech had some issues in .17, get updated version here.

The battery death thing is a long time ago, I fixed it somewhere back in .15, MMI currently uses another system that does break but this mod is safe.

[phoenix_ca]

>KinkyFerrets

>willow

You're both talking about something else here.

PowerTech had some issues in .17, get updated version here.

The battery death thing is a long time ago, I fixed it somewhere back in .15, MMI currently uses another system that does break but this mod is safe.

Keyword "currently". MMI.S will be switched over to use EEP eventually.

[kockaspiton]

Keyword "currently". MMI.S will be switched over to use EEP eventually.

It's nice to see that EEP is finally becoming a standard. Hopefully in the future all electric parts will work together from different mods, the current fragmentation was causing massive amounts of confusion.