KSP 1.11.0 broke a lot of old add'ons

Firespitter

So I build this craft:

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Note the floaters with wheels. There're some parts on Firespitter with this problem, you launch a craft with them, and the damn thing jumps to 1KM high. I call this the Jumping Jack Effect.

Until KSP 1.10.1 , you could use World Stabiliser to overcome this bug.

However, on KSP 1.11, we get what follows:

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Complete, instantaneous, unplanned and undesired obliteration of the craft. The root part is thrown below the ground line and keeps falling into the center of the planet!

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Let's try again, restarting the scene from Launch. Now at least we have some fireworks to entertain us a bit:

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Everything that survives is under the ground, but we have this interesting full heat bar below, what hints what gone wrong:

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I forgot to take a screenshot of the report of the "mission", but I took one on the Impossible Innovations chapter.

I decided to activate all the cheats to see what I get (and yeah, since 1.8 the widgets are blurred - damn, Squad, not everybody is running KSP on a high end computer! We need to trim down the texture's quality!):

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By restarting from launch, the craft obviously doesn't explodes, but boy, the physics gone mad on it!

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Spawning the very same craft using Vessel Mover, curiously, doesn't summon the Ravage of the Krakens on the vessel!

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Everything works as expected from this point (including what does not work properly, as the FS wheels code)!

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On KSP 1.10.1 this does not happen:

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Neither on KSP 1.8.1 (I jumped 1.9)

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And KSP 1.7.3 works fine too:

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So, yeah. It's something on KSP 1.11.0 for sure.

My guess is something not being initialized on the Flight Scene Start - perhaps a race condition? If the part itself would be the problem, spawning the vessel using Vessel Mover would not had fixed the problem!

(to be continued)

Lisias
2020-1229