Jumping Eve Rover

[Little Kerbonaut!]

I finally landed a rover on Eve and for some reason it’s bumping up and down and won’t stop driving itself. My theory is that my rover is driving over rocks or is glitching. Does this happen to anyone else or just me?

[bewing]

Usually this is a problem with the springs in your wheel suspension. Do you have Advanced Tweakables Enabled in your Settings? If not, try turning it on and then go into the menu for your wheels. Change the suspension from Auto to Manual, and then reduce the Spring setting. You may also need to reduce the Damper setting at the same time.

 

Edited June 9, 2020 by bewing

[Little Kerbonaut!]

Oh ok, the rover ended up bouncing so bad it blew up. Well I am going to try again tomorrow.

[AHHans]

14 hours ago, Little Kerbonaut! said:

Oh ok, the rover ended up bouncing so bad it blew up. Well I am going to try again tomorrow.

Errr, yes, that happens, too.

But @bewing is right: fiddling with the spring and damper setting is the way to go. (Although I would guess that you'll need higher spring settings.) At some settings it will be more unstable, but at other settings it should be reasonably stable. Figuring out which settings you need is a black art of KSP rover design.

[Little Kerbonaut!]

Oh ok, does this happen on certain planets or just Eve?

[bewing]

Mostly just Eve. The high gravity at the surface is the fundamental cause of the problem, and Eve has the highest gravity of anything that you can actually land on.

[Little Kerbonaut!]

Oh ok, thanks!

[Fletcher]

On 6/8/2020 at 9:55 PM, bewing said:

...reduce the Spring setting. You may also need to reduce the Damper setting at the same time.

Thank you! Adding that this also fixed the same issue with bouncy/exploding landing struts on an Eve base.