Post your Rover MEGATHREAD

[brobel]

here is just my small rover outpost on Duna. the small rover is a kethane rover and the larger rover is our maned rover. Use ksp attachment system to hook the rover to there bases our landing gear. (the large rovers base landed further away)

Does use a couple mods but was all gotten there by stock rocket

[Paulius_S]

Trying to create a lander and a rover... (and build the right size rocket for it )

[jdmgto]

The Persephone was made to be anywhere standard rover.

The Persephone rover during testing at the KSC.

On the surface of the Mun. Incidentally my first successful Mun landing, unmanned.

[AxelNova]

Hey!

I'm new to KSP so I'm not completely familiar with the game. Anyway... I noticed that you have more parts on the ship construction screen and also a bit different GUI than I have and I would like to know why.

Thanks for your answer.

[AxelNova]

Hello,

I noticed that you have a slightly different GUI and more parts on the construction screen than I do. I'm a bit new to KSP so please don't get angry because I don't know why. Is it a mod or some sort of an exclusive edition?

[Astrobug]

Hello, and welcome to KSP!

I would assume your talking about ThatBum's Inquisitive 2 pictures? I'm fairly certain those

are mods, most of which can be found at http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/

I'm not terribly sure about the GUI specifically, though.

[Specialist290]

Some mods like MechJeb, Kerbal Engineer Redux, and most of those in Romfarer's Lazor system also add extra GUI elements, too, so it could be one of those.

Either that, or you've got a copy of the old (0.13.3) demo.

[Lunniy Korabl]

For some reason I'm having more fun with rover EDL sequences than the rovers themselves!

[Brotoro]

For some reason I'm having more fun with rover EDL sequences than the rovers themselves!

I can understand that.

Nice image!

[firerider521]

Tiny, mediocre first-interplanetary-mission rover. It first had extendable solar panels, but they just broke off, and I had to relaunch with nuclear reactors. Eve is evil. At least to solar panels.

And yes, that's MechJeb in the side. Don't judge. I sometimes forget to F2.

[Deadpangod3]

Your solar panels break off in the atmosphere during landing? Just put them away and then extend them again one you've landed

[firerider521]

Not even during landing. They just... broke off, after landing. I extended them and they immediatly flew off.

But this is a known issue for Eve. It might not even be a bug.

[Catsceo]

I figure it would be best to introduce my self with my rovers!

Here is my first 0.19 rover:

Catching some air:

WELP:

Luckily Jeb is fine and happy as ever:

My tiny Duna Rover and its sky crane:

Not the most stable of rovers:

I found another magic boulder!

My massive Sport Utility Rover heading to Duna to act as transport between different bases:

Landed!

My Dres lander with my Dres Rover:

This thing can go wicked fast. Also, Dres is a great place to catch air and go flying!

Full album: http://imgur.com/a/JCuRu#0

I'd recommend taking a super stable rover out to Dres, just to fly across the landscape.

[RocketPilot573]

Here's my Eve rover:

Entry

After a verrry long wait, it finally nears the ground

And here its observing the "water". Note the broken wheel.

[Deadpangod3]

Not even during landing. They just... broke off, after landing. I extended them and they immediatly flew off.

But this is a known issue for Eve. It might not even be a bug.

I've never had that happen before...

[firerider521]

And here its observing the "water". Note the broken wheel.

clip

Funnily, I was on my way to observe the "water" until my rover wheels spontaneously "poofed" on the way there.

Never provoke the Kraken/physwarp.

[customyota]

My high speed, rocket powered, stunt rover.

[erendrake]

It's still a rover i guess, it uses wheels!

[Dunbaratu]

Mun Roller and Come Backer One

Mun lander with a Shrimec(*) and a platform to take off again. All parts stock, no mods:

(*) A term from Robot Wars TV Show meaning self-righting mechanism used when you're knocked upside down. No, I have no idea why there's a letter "H" in the abbreviation. I didn't invent the term.

In Transit to Mun:

Making de-orbit burn for landing:

Landed:

Disconnected from lander platform and starting to drive:

Self Righting mechanism (made of landing legs upside down on the roof) pushing lander back onto its wheels again after a driving mishap:

Driving rover back onto lander platform after an excursion. There is a docking clamp at the front of the rover that will connect to the clamp on the lander when it drives up against it:

Clamped to lander for re-flying:

And take off again, ready to be taken elsewhere on the Mun (or if I had better skill at landing and hadn't wasted almost all my fuel trying trying to abort crashing trajectories over and over, to be taken back to orbit around Kerbin again and dock with a space station.) :

[Akalaël]

Really nice idea, a reusable Platform to land again and again !

[automcdonough]

Really nice idea, a reusable Platform to land again and again !

I'm curious how this worked, because when I tried it I failed hard. The wheels fall right thru the parts. Is it because it's so flat that the wheels fall thru and are touching the ground underneath?

also, don't try this. I desperately wanted it to work but the wheels fall through the ramp parts. I've tried them all. save yourself the heartache.

I ended up going the skycrane route, a simple tank with side thrusters actually worked out perfect

Edited May 10, 2013 by automcdonough

[DYJ]

Guess this thing belongs here.

[HoY]

Guess this thing belongs here.

Must have that awesome creation. What mods does it use and where can I download it lol

[Dunbaratu]

I'm curious how this worked, because when I tried it I failed hard. The wheels fall right thru the parts. Is it because it's so flat that the wheels fall thru and are touching the ground underneath?

I don't know. I know that the panels did constitute a "bump" to drive up onto so the physics engine must be treating them as real objects for the wheels to interact with. But for attachment, I used a normal decoupler underneath the rover attaching it to the central axis of the rocket, and the docking clamps were originally not connected in initial construction. The rover was parked with it's clamp facing the front, and the lander's clamp was at the back. This is because you can't have two points of attachment in construction.

I ended up going the skycrane route, a simple tank with side thrusters actually worked out perfect

I was trying to avoid the problem of carrying around the takeoff fuel on the rover itself.

[joppiesaus]

I can't stop laughing. I think you can blame him for flipping your rover over!