Problem Playback - vessel focus problem

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I recorded the scenario "Rescue Disabled XR1-01 (hard)" for XR-1, switching between XR-1s with F3 key to perform nosecone and doors operations for docking.

When I played back I saw that nosecone animation is performed only on focused vessel, so while performing docking, RESCUE-01 opended successfully the nosecone, while DISABLED-01 didn't.

Then a second time I focused on DISABLED-01, and this time this one was working, while RESCUE-01 wasn't.

Summing up: while in real time rescue was succesful, during playback no docks happens, no doors opens, no EVA is performed, and any ship goes for his own.

Is there a way to playback correctly multiple focus recording?
 

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Strange - does the same happen for the default Delta-glider? I just tried with those, and they seem to work ok.

I assume you opened the nosecones during recording, and not by postprocessing with the playback editor? The playback editor only affects global events recorded in system.dat, not individual vessel events in the respective *.atc files.

Can you have a look at the playback files RESCUE-01.atc and DISABLED-01.atc, and check if the nosecone events are recorded in both files?
 

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Well, I never tried that kind of scenario with two stock DGs.

I recorded all in real time, however I noticed another strange thing: (in real time) switching from DISABLED-01 to the other, APU was shutting down and stopped opening of nosecone, so at the first dock attempt I heard the docking sound, but actually DGs were bouncing, so I had to switch back to DISABLED-01, restart APU, and wait for complete opening of nosecone (I don't know if it is a initialization file issue).
Only then docking was succesful.

I had a look to .atc files (thank you for having enlightened me, never cared about editing them! :facepalm:), and NOSECONE instructions are there, however there is something strange with DISABLED-01 about APU:

0.291326691 ENG 0:0 1:0 2:0 3:0 4:0 5:0 6:0 7:0 8:0 9:0 10:0 11:0 12:0 13:0 14:0 15:0 16:0 17:0 18:0 19:0 20:0 21:0
2315.291934 APU OPEN
2320.50675 NOSECONE OPEN
2340.553969 APU CLOSE
2368.183517 APU OPEN
2370.498316 APU CLOSE
2375.809031 APU OPEN
2381.345906 APU CLOSE
2464.587818 APU OPEN
2469.402045 CHAMBER CLOSE
2469.402045 OLOCK OPEN
2469.927256 CHAMBER CLOSE
2469.927256 ILOCK OPEN
2481.790188 APU CLOSE
8428.157909 ENG 0:0 1:0 2:0 3:0 4:0 5:0 6:0 7:0 8:0 9:0 10:0 11:0 12:0 13:0 14:0 15:0 16:0 17:0 18:0 19:0 20:0 21:0

This is the whole file DISABLED-01.atc, I may be wrong, but I see too many contrasting APU instuctions, I'll try to delete the intermediate ones, and see if playback will be fine (BTW: timestamps are in seconds?)

In any case I'll upload playback files, working or not.
 
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Sorry, I can't help with the APU problem, you'll have to ask dbeachy1 about those. Also there is no need to upload the entire atc files.

So you are saying that both .atc files contain the "nosecone open" directive, but only the focus vessel reacts to it on playback?

Can you try two things:
  • Remove everything except the nosecone open directive from the two atc files, and see if the problem persists
  • try with the stock DG
 

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The APU switches off when you switch focus to another craft.

You can disable this in DeltaGliderXR1Prefs.cfg

Code:
# Enable or disable auto-shutdown of the APU when the pilot switches vessel
# focus; this is a safety feature designed to prevent the pilot from
# accidentally leaving the APU on and running out of APU fuel while the
# focus is switched to another vessel.
#
# The default value is 1 (APU auto-shutdown ENABLED)
#
#   0 = APU auto-shutdown disabled
#   1 = APU auto-shutdown enabled (recommended)
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
APUAutoShutdown=1

You might want to set unlimited APU fuel as well.

Code:
APUFuelBurnRate=0
 

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C3PO is correct. :)

What I'll do for the next XR releases is prevent APU auto-shutdown from occuring during replays.
 

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Yes, I've just discovered. :thumbup:
Still, there are unsolved issues, like the "rubber bend" dock, that during playback causes vessels to move out of axis, and doors that are not opening because of pressure interlock (during recording was not happening).
 
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