This applies to a certain configuration of my Gemini Joe addon, but only when I attempt to fly it manually into space. I think it's potentially applicable to any addon using the MS/SC modules, whichever versions of those modules may be in use for the configuration in question.
The basic issue is hypersensitivity of the rotational controls. That is, you're piloting a rocket into orbit (or a suborbital trajectory, etc.), and you reach an altitude of 10 or so kilometers. Your speed's good and you've cleared most of the troposphere, so you decide to start pitching your nose down. You ever so gently press pitch-down (in my case by using alt-8, which I've mapped to replace numpad8 in keymap.cfg). But instead of pitching down to 80 or 75 degrees, the whole rocket practically starts pitching end over end. Or if not that, you now find you are pointed at the ground, now rapidly coming up to meet you. Either way, the mission is lost; recovering anything like a correct heading is virtually impossible.
In the specific case, I'm using two config files to represent each of the two basic configurations: Gemini spacecraft paired with either the first or the second stage of the Titan II booster. In free flight, the first stage version's maneuverability is just fine, but the second stage version goes haywire as described above. Each of the two config settings files was implemented by cloning the existing the Gemini_Titan_3 .ini file from Project Gemini, and commenting out the stage I wasn't using.
I can't figure out why the first stage configuration can be piloted, but the second stage configuration cannot.
Given the general issue of absurdly hypersensitive rotation controls, how should I go about troubleshooting it? I suspect that I must be missing something very basic here, but I can't imagine what it is.
The basic issue is hypersensitivity of the rotational controls. That is, you're piloting a rocket into orbit (or a suborbital trajectory, etc.), and you reach an altitude of 10 or so kilometers. Your speed's good and you've cleared most of the troposphere, so you decide to start pitching your nose down. You ever so gently press pitch-down (in my case by using alt-8, which I've mapped to replace numpad8 in keymap.cfg). But instead of pitching down to 80 or 75 degrees, the whole rocket practically starts pitching end over end. Or if not that, you now find you are pointed at the ground, now rapidly coming up to meet you. Either way, the mission is lost; recovering anything like a correct heading is virtually impossible.
In the specific case, I'm using two config files to represent each of the two basic configurations: Gemini spacecraft paired with either the first or the second stage of the Titan II booster. In free flight, the first stage version's maneuverability is just fine, but the second stage version goes haywire as described above. Each of the two config settings files was implemented by cloning the existing the Gemini_Titan_3 .ini file from Project Gemini, and commenting out the stage I wasn't using.
I can't figure out why the first stage configuration can be piloted, but the second stage configuration cannot.
Given the general issue of absurdly hypersensitive rotation controls, how should I go about troubleshooting it? I suspect that I must be missing something very basic here, but I can't imagine what it is.
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