Undo accidental timewarp?

[Ziff]

Short story: I had an accident while AFK that caused me to time warp ridiculously farther into time then I was. Didn't notice. Overwrote persistence and quicksave. It's basically screwed up my planetary alignment and I don't feel like timewarping forever to get it back where it was. So the question is, is there any way to set the UT time back and it would revert the planetary alignment to where it should be or are those two things not connected in any way?

Edited December 22, 2014 by Ziff

[Anquietas314]

Short story: I had an accident while AFK that caused me to time warp ridiculously farther into time then I was. Didn't notice. Overwrote persistence and quicksave. It's basically screwed up my planetary alignment and I don't feel like timewarping forever to get it back where it was. So the question is, is there any way to set the UT time back and it would revert the planetary alignment to where it should be or are those two things not connected in any way?

There should be something like that in the save file somewhere, but I don't know where off hand. To avoid those kinds of problems in future, I highly recommend the Kerbal Alarm Clock mod. It has features which allow you to kill timewarp or pause the game upon approaching a point of interest.

EDIT: In your persistence.sfs or quicksave.sfs files, look for the following:

FLIGHTSTATE
{
	version = 0.90.0
	UT = 736029.128011023

This is the first occurrence of FLIGHTSTATE in my save file, but this may not always be the case. "UT" here means universe time. You could try setting this to 0 or some other value, but I can't promise it will have the desired effect and there may be unpleasant side-effects (game crash, inconsistent state, etc).

Edited December 21, 2014 by armagheddonsgw

[Ziff]

There should be something like that in the save file somewhere, but I don't know where off hand. To avoid those kinds of problems in future, I highly recommend the Kerbal Alarm Clock mod. It has features which allow you to kill timewarp or pause the game upon approaching a point of interest.

I have it. My cat jumped on the keyboard and timewarped and I didn't realize it while AFK. Stupid to leave the game on. Ugh.

EDIT: In your persistence.sfs or quicksave.sfs files, look for the following:

Sweet! I looked through there but didn't know it was called flightstate. I'll report back with what I figure out.

[Anquietas314]

Sweet! I looked through there but didn't know it was called flightstate. I'll report back with what I figure out.

Like I said, I can't guarantee it will work, but good luck all the same

The units appear to be seconds btw, in kerbal time 736029 seconds is a little over 34 days (6 hour days remember), which is consistent with my save

Edited December 21, 2014 by armagheddonsgw

[thereaverofdarkness]

If you edit the time to a point earlier than certain things you did, it will undo them. If you have an estimate of how far you were into yoouor persistence when you left, you might try setting the time to just a little past that, then make sure your most recent creations are intact so you know you didn't go too far back.

[Ziff]

Yep, that worked. Thanks everyone!