Elcano Challenge: Driving around Kerbin

[Leibniz]

The [thread=113778]Elcano challenge[/thread] appeals to me as a mixture of perseverance and sight-seeing, with planning at the start and freedom to do something else along the way. Minmus seemed a good choice; easy to get to and not too big. And so I started designing Minmus rovers, and taking them into the mountains west of KSC for testing. But as the rovers got better I realised that I prefer Kerbin. I like the green hills. I like imagining where the towns might be; roads and tracks and farms and factories; busy Kerbals getting on with their lives. So this is my extended test-drive around Kerbin, seeing the sights and visiting a few Kerbals on the way.

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[damerell]

Crikey, as if the regular trip around Kerbin wasn't enough. Good luck.

[Geschosskopf]

Wow, quite a trip. Congrats on your progress so far.

BTW, I really like the coffee shop and other buildings you visited. How did you get them there?

[Leibniz]

Wow, quite a trip. Congrats on your progress so far.

BTW, I really like the coffee shop and other buildings you visited. How did you get them there?

I built them in the VAB and then used [thread=37756]HyperEdit[/thread] to move them into location. It took many attempts to find some level ground.

There were some problems. The table and chairs are prone to exploding because they have a floor of structural panels which has clipped into the ground. I manually edited the save file to move the building back above ground so I could take the picture and drive away. The tower was awkward because HyperEdit does not change orientation, so when the building jumped around the world it arrived upside down. I eventually added some disposable reaction wheels to turn it the right way up.

I would like to use [thread=105247]Kerbal Konstructs[/thread] to place static buildings that are prettier and don't explode, but I know nothing about this kind of modelling and my artistic skills are limited. Maybe one day.

[Geschosskopf]

While I use HyperEdit extensively to put ships in space and various orbits for testing purposes, and play with their fuel states, and can even totally screw up the solar system, I have no idea how to place a building. Is there a tutorial on that?

[damerell]

While I use HyperEdit extensively to put ships in space and various orbits for testing purposes, and play with their fuel states, and can even totally screw up the solar system, I have no idea how to place a building. Is there a tutorial on that?

If I'm not very much mistaken, those "buildings" are vessels that happen to be on the ground.