Hello and noob question on Mun navigation

[Arty163]

Salutations fellow Kerbalians,

I have finally been able to land a small inadequate rover onto the Mun. HURRAY!!!

Sadly, I cannot figure out how to steer a compass heading. I will being going in a straight line and watch the nav ball heading stray all over the place. The compass heading will not stay anywhere near a constant heading and it is very frustrating to try and search for the monoliths when I do not know which direction I am going.

If you have any useful suggestions please do share, I am grasping for direction here.

Thank you,

Arty

[Custard Donut (In Space)]

Hey Arty, welcome to the forum and congratulations on your Mun rover landing, i'm afraid i'm in the same boat as you with regard to trying to navigate on the Mun, i tend to zoom far out and away from my Kerbal or Rover and get my bearings that way hehe.

[Vanamonde]

I'm not sure what you're describing. Is the navball almost all blue? If so, the controlling part of your rover is rotated 90 degrees pitch-up from the direction you're driving, so it thinks the rover is rolling around on its back. As the vehicle tilts, the orientation of the navball will seem to flail around. You may not be able to fix it on that rover, but if you add a probe module or docking port at the "front" of the rover in the VAB and send the modified version to Mun, you can later right-click on that and choose "control form here," and the navball will make sense again.

　

Example: in this pic, there is a probe module facing up at the top of the rover, and another probe module facing forward at the front of the rover, and I switch to the lower one after detaching the rover at the destination.

Edited May 20, 2013 by Vanamonde

[Capt'n Skunky]

Happy Launching!

Arrr!

Capt'n Skunky

KSP Community Manager