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Bug #1921

subassembly struts (and probably fuel lines) are orphaned and do not reconnect

Added by numerobis over 10 years ago. Updated over 7 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Severity:
Low
Assignee:
-
Category:
Gameplay
Target version:
-
Start date:
12/07/2013
% Done:

100%

Version:
0.22
Platform:
OSX
Expansion:
Language:
English (US)
Mod Related:
No
Votes:
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Description

To reproduce:
1. Build a craft with a bicoupler.
2. Put trusses on each side.
3. Put a strut from the left side to the right side.
4. Click on the left side truss and make it a subassembly.
5. Place the resulting subassembly back on the bicoupler.

The result is a strut that doesn't connect: the nub is there, but it doesn't touch the other truss. Saving the ship and reloading doesn't fix it. The critical bit here is that the strut went FROM the part hierarchy we turned into a subassembly TO the rest of the ship. Struts from one part to another within a subassembly work fine.

Inspecting the subassembly .craft file, it seems the strut is stored with a "cData = tgt: trussPiece3x_-1 ..." i.e. its target is a trussPiece3x part with ID -1. When adding the subassembly into the ship, it's hard to tell exactly but it seems like StrutConnector.onPartStart parses the cData, notices the target is invalid, stores null for the target, and prevents the raycast that would normally occur.

More details here:
http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/60872-I-m-sick-of-the-number-of-bugs-in-0-22?p=825312&viewfull=1#post825312

Various people report the same behavior for fuel lines, which I think I have noticed but didn't try hard to track down.

History

#1 Updated by TriggerAu almost 8 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Needs Clarification

#2 Updated by TriggerAu over 7 years ago

  • Status changed from Needs Clarification to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

Closing this report out for now. If you find it is still occuring in the latest version of KSP please open a new report (and this one can be linked to it.) For best results, the wiki contains really useful info for when creating a report http://bugs.kerbalspaceprogram.com/projects/ksp/wiki.

You can also ask questions about the bug cleanup in the forum here: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/143980-time-to-clean-up-the-bug-tracker/ and tag @TriggerAu to get my attention

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