Why does my rover turn to the right on Duna?

[oregomy]

Hi all! Ive been playing this game for a few weeks now and its my first time posting here!

My problem is, whenever I'm on Duna, my rovers pull very hard to the right to the point that the rover is basically rotating in place. Uphill, downhill, orientation doesn't matter. If I try to drive backwards, it turns to the left, as though the wheels were just permanently oriented to the right.

I have rover controls set to IJKL. I have also tried turning reaction wheel torque on/off, changing traction of individual wheels, and changing direction of individual wheels. The wheels are in perfect condition, I had an engineer look at them; none of them are broken.

Additionally, I detached my rover from an identical lander back at the Kerbin Space station, drove around (it worked perfectly), then put the SAME rover on Duna by editing the save file. On Duna, its experiencing the same "pulling to the right" problem.

Any ideas on what I may be doing wrong or how to fix this? I hope its not a bug.

Heres a picture with the wheel settings:

Thank you very much in advance!

 

EDIT: I am currently landed at the south pole of Duna. Editing my test rover to the north pole (inverting latitude value) gets rid of the problem. Whats the deal with Duna's South Pole???

Edited August 23, 2016 by oregomy

[IWanttobeEVA]

Reverse the motor (Normal to Inverse, I think) on one side of the rover only (two of the wheels). I've noticed that if you land a rover near the poles of a moon or planet on set of wheels will turn in revese. If you put a Kerbel in the command set and click control from here it will operate normally like it did on Kerbin. Quite strange, but I could be doing something wrong building it too.

 

[Vanamonde]

If you look at the navball, you will see that the rover believes it is lying on its back. Whatever you are using as the control part from which orientation is determined is rotated 90 degrees skyward from your intended direction of travel. Click on a part which is facing "forward" relative to the ground and "control from here" it. I don't know why the vehicle would only turn right, but I suspect this orientation issue is at least part of the problem. 

[Wayneo]

On ‎23‎/‎08‎/‎2016 at 10:01 AM, oregomy said:

Hi all! Ive been playing this game for a few weeks now and its my first time posting here!

My problem is, whenever I'm on Duna, my rovers pull very hard to the right to the point that the rover is basically rotating in place. Uphill, downhill, orientation doesn't matter. If I try to drive backwards, it turns to the left, as though the wheels were just permanently oriented to the right.

I have rover controls set to IJKL. I have also tried turning reaction wheel torque on/off, changing traction of individual wheels, and changing direction of individual wheels. The wheels are in perfect condition, I had an engineer look at them; none of them are broken.

Additionally, I detached my rover from an identical lander back at the Kerbin Space station, drove around (it worked perfectly), then put the SAME rover on Duna by editing the save file. On Duna, its experiencing the same "pulling to the right" problem.

Any ideas on what I may be doing wrong or how to fix this? I hope its not a bug.

 

EDIT: I am currently landed at the south pole of Duna. Editing my test rover to the north pole (inverting latitude value) gets rid of the problem. Whats the deal with Duna's South Pole???

I have had the same problem, it happens at the south pole of all the places i have tried.

[bewing]

23 minutes ago, Wayneo said:

I have had the same problem, it happens at the south pole of all the places i have tried.

Is your navball also pointed up at the sky?

[Baybrawler]

It's hard to tell from the photo but do you have 4 wheels or just 3? Also be sure none of them are broken, you can tell as they have a whacky texture if they are.