Strange wheel behavior

[Shmauck]

I seem to have a strange wheel problem. I constructed a fuel truck in the VAB and put it on the launch pad to test drive it. So far so good, everything worked fine. Then, to test docking to my ISRU plant, I switched to the SPH and tried to launch it on the runway, which didn't work because my part count exceeds 30. So I switched back to the VAB and put the truck on the pad again. Now I experience the following: Steering fully left (A key) makes all wheels move to the correct direction except those on the 5th "axis". 

Steering fully right (D key) causes all wheels to steer "outward".

Not sure if this is related to switching the editors or what else may be causing this. Any ideas about the cause and how to fix this? Thank you in advance!

Edited April 30, 2019 by Shmauck

[bewing]

Try selecting your forward docking port, open the context menu for it, and click "Control From Here". Then please try your steering again.

I don't know exactly why the wheels do that, but wheels on rovers do seem to work better when the rover is built in the SPH.

 

[Aeroboi]

7 hours ago, bewing said:

I don't know exactly why the wheels do that, but wheels on rovers do seem to work better when the rover is built in the SPH.

 

It always happened to me when building in the VAB and driving from the runway is much more neat.

Is your navball set so that the nose is pointed 90 degrees? If not I suspect your default probe core is upside down, inside the service bay?
Is that a VTOL? I can't see the underside so I suspect engines are underneath...

Tip. Go to action group menu in the editor, select front docking port and put "control from here" on any of the 0 through 9 number keys. Then you can just hit i.e. "1" to control from that point.

[Shmauck]

8 hours ago, bewing said:

Try selecting your forward docking port, open the context menu for it, and click "Control From Here". Then please try your steering again.

That solved it. And I know that I did do that first thing on all the previous tests. It was very late yesterday...  Thank you very much!

55 minutes ago, Aeroboi said:

It always happened to me when building in the VAB and driving from the runway is much more neat.

Is your navball set so that the nose is pointed 90 degrees? If not I suspect your default probe core is upside down, inside the service bay?
Is that a VTOL? I can't see the underside so I suspect engines are underneath...

Tip. Go to action group menu in the editor, select front docking port and put "control from here" on any of the 0 through 9 number keys. Then you can just hit i.e. "1" to control from that point.

You're right about the runway but I want to save the funds to upgrade the SPH for now. 

My navball points 90 east, probe core is oriented correctly. BUT the navball is rotated 90 degrees to the side, sky facing right and ground facing left. Once I select "control from here" on the forward docking part, that changes to sky facing down and ground facing up.  I believe that's the reason for the wheel behavior. I'll try to change that in the editor. Thanks!

And yes, it's a VTOL with four Twitch engines mounted near the front and rear wheels. Thank you for the hint about the action groups! Did that now.

Edited May 1, 2019 by Shmauck

[Shmauck]

15 minutes ago, Shmauck said:

My navball points 90 east, probe core is oriented correctly. BUT the navball is rotated 90 degrees to the side, sky facing right and ground facing left. Once I select "control from here" on the forward docking part, that changes to sky facing down and ground facing up.  I believe that's the reason for the wheel behavior. I'll try to change that in the editor. Thanks!

I now rotated the probe core so that the initial direction of the navball is "upside down" (sky down and ground up). Now I don't have to activate "control from here" anymore.  Brilliant hint, mate! Thank you!