bug with rover controls

[psychopoak]

hi guys

I have a bug with rover controls at the moment and can not find a workaround or the origin of the bug.

when I try to control a rover it partially goes as expected. driving forward works fine, turning left or right, braking, everything is fine. but when I hit "drive backward" nothing happens. Sometime I see some jittering movement backward, but it merely moves the rover. and once I release the buttons the rover goes full forward, just like if I was pushign the buttons full forward. when I brake, it decelerates but once I release the brakes it goes back to "full forward".

the only way for me to regain controls is to hit "full forward". at this point I regain control as if nothing happened...until I try to go backward again.

So I tried a vanilla install, I moved the controls for the rover on the numpad, even tried with a USB numpad, removed all my controllers.

I tried to build a rover with a rovermate, a command seat, other probes. I put a docking port in the front of the rover, built it in VAB or SPH, nothing seems to worlk.

I installed "stock bug fix modules" with no better result and now I lack imagination on where to look.

anybody as any sort of idea?

thanks in advance

Edited August 6, 2015 by psychopoak

[Torih]

That sounds like the bug that advanced fly by wire causes. Are you using that mod?

If not including your full list of mods and the output file may help

[psychopoak]

hm...indeed I am. so you say I will then have to choose between AFBW and playing with rover? or could I just disable it when I want to drive a rover?

BTW thanks a lot, you are the first to bring that up and I think it might be an interesting clue. I should have a look at that and either find a workaround or make a hard decision. Or, third option, I would then have a good reason to get my hands dirty in the completion of the control panel I planned to make and for with I already have half of the piece...

any other thought though?

[Torih]

A few people mentioned that you can just disable the stick in the AFBW gui, however that didn't work for me. I have to remove the mod when I want to use rovers then reinstall it afterwards.

[psychopoak]

Torih, my man, if you ever come in Belgium feel free to remind me that I owe you one big delicious beer.

I quickly tested your solution in the middle of the night as I could fall asleep, and everything went better for my night as what you pointed out seems to solve the problem. Once I disable input from AFBW, it took a couple of seconds and then I can control my rover without any trouble. Oh boy am I happy!

thanks a lot man, you put hope for rover back into my heart. I definitely owe you one

[Torih]

Do like Belgium beer Glad its sorted.