Rover suspension control

[SkyRender]

I've suggested something like this before, but now I actually have a mockup for it.

A simple slider control that lets you set the suspension stiffness between 0% and 100% would go a long ways towards improving the usefulness of rover wheels. As it stands now, if you don't put on exactly the right amount of weight for the wheel, it either bounces your rover about as you drive over the surface like it's made out of polystyrene or it lowers your rover so close to the ground that just moving forward will generally break something.

[jebster]

+1, neat and practical idea

[Bilfr3d]

This could be helpful for driving around the Mun.......... sometimes. If you were on the Mun though and you set it too low, if you start flying, when you come back down, the wheels will start acting like a trampoline, and you'd just keep on going up and down, until either the wheels or something else breaks off, you set the stiffness higher, or... *sniff* ... you send the rover into orbit.

[Zaeo]

This could be helpful for driving around the Mun.......... sometimes. If you were on the Mun though and you set it too low, if you start flying, when you come back down, the wheels will start acting like a trampoline, and you'd just keep on going up and down, until either the wheels or something else breaks off, you set the stiffness higher, or... *sniff* ... you send the rover into orbit.

Not an issue. It won't be higher than current, and can only get more stiff. A stiffer suspension would mean a higher chance to break a wheel, but a much more controlled handling.

[Kegereneku]

Interesting idea.