EVA and the science lab (Answered... sort of. A working workaround)

[Tokay Gris]

I am really sure this has been asked a zillion times, although I can't find the threads.

I do know that within the science lab there are noch IVA views.

And now, for whatever reason, I can't get my two kerbals out of there.

Ususally, a left click on the hatch did the trick. Well, it wasn't necessary during my career save (not that far advanced yet) so far, but now it is.

Also, left click on other hatches doesn't work as well.

So.... did something change between 0.23.5 and 0.24.2 that I am not aware of?

Or is one of the mods causing the trouble?

(KAS, Kethane, ScanSat, MechJeb, Chatterer, all latest downloads)

Is there another way to get them out of there?

Or am I just not hitting the "sweet spot"?

Oh, and an EDIT:

Nothing is obstructing the hatch. It is pretty open from all sides and there never were any struts across it.

Edited September 20, 2014 by Tokay Gris

[Skorpychan]

My theory is that the kerbals are part of the experiments. Sort of like how the Kerbal Unreconstitutor works, only with science.

[Tokay Gris]

My theory is that the kerbals are part of the experiments. Sort of like how the Kerbal Unreconstitutor works, only with science.

Hehe... possible. Although every Kerbal in there went in the normal way.

[KevinW42]

I had the same problem as you. One workaround you can use is by clicking on the hatch through a MechJeb window. There's also a minor hack you can do to add a placeholder IVA (and thus crew icons), but I don't remember where the instructions for that are.

[Tokay Gris]

One workaround you can use is by clicking on the hatch through a MechJeb window.

This is really silly. THIS works.

I can't say I understand why, but thanks a lot!

Otherwise the mission would have to be put on hold....

[Monthar]

The only one of the mods you have listed that I never tried is the ScanSat. I don't currently have Chatterer installed. I do have the latest version of the other mods you're using and didn't have any problems with the hatch a few minutes ago. So try removing Chatterer and ScanSat one at a time as long as you don't have any parts from those mods on the ship and see if that fixes the problem.

[KevinW42]

I found the other fix you can use: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/63355-HACK-IVA-for-lab-module

[cantab]

It can be tricky to find exactly where to click on the hatch, it doesn't seem to fully correspond with the graphics.

Mods such as Crew Manifest let you transfer crew about, so you can shift your lab workers to a different module that way.