How to reverse engine on a rover?

[kahlzun]

Hi all,

I've built a rover in the VAB with individually placed wheels. It seems that the direction the engine turns is different on each wheel, causing it to spin out of control.

Is there something I can do in the .cfg or in the game to reverse the direction in one of the wheels? Its pretty useless at this point.

[TheXRuler]

Simply rightclick the wheel while on the surface, there should be a context menu that allows you to enable/disable steering and invert steering and or motors.

I have this menu (though it might come from a mod D:)

[kahlzun]

I can disable the motor, and the steering, but the rover design is a tricycle (should have mentioned sorry) and with only one motor it just spins in place. Inverting the steering just controls which way it turns when steering.

It's the 'thrust' that I need to adjust.

[ddenis]

One way is to use TweakableEverything. With this you'll get "reverse motor" option for wheels. @TheXRuler was speaking about this.

[sgt_flyer]

mmh - if you're with a tricycle design, the problem might come from which symmetry mode you used (if for the 'two rear wheels', you used 2x radial symmetry, it might be part of your problem try with mirror symmetry (plus, disable steering with the rear wheels, disable motor but keep steering with the front wheel)