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AcesMario

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Alright, I've tried everything I know how to do. I can't get this craft to thrust evenly. From what I can tell, the center of mass and the center of thrust are good, I've got 3 SAS modules on it and engines with thrust vectoring. No matter what it always wants to pull to the right. Any thoughts would be much appreciated!

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First off, you're using mods so this is in the wrong subforum. Please consider carefully where you place new threads, Rule 2.4 is in effect.

Secondly, pictures would indeed help initially, seems like you can't directly view the images from dropbox since the originals are download only, I'd suggest you upload images to a image hosting site like imgur or photobucket.

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Your CoG is not exactly centered. You got lights, ladders and seats on one side that you don't have on the other. But that tiny off-set is easily compensated by the gimballing and SAS.

I believe your true problem lies in the clipping between your rover and lander. Try placing your engines a bit further out so the thrust does not hit the rover.

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Thanks Tex, that's helpful. I do find it hard to see the CoG and CoT exactly. It's a hard for me to eyeball the center of that icon. The clipping makes sense though. Also, sorry for posting in the wrong forum, wasn't quite sure where it should go.

http://i.imgur.com/PHQiYYx.png

http://i.imgur.com/Zj4cZbU.png

http://i.imgur.com/WNGSbYJ.png

http://i.imgur.com/6FJjNQ5.png

http://i.imgur.com/0y6XLjI.png

it also doesn't rotate around an axis that makes me think that it's the lights, ladders, etc.

Edit by Johnno: Please do not post several times shortly after eachother, especially if others don't reply inbetween. Just edit your latest post and add information to it.

Update: went in to fix the clipping issue, as suggested, and noticed that I had never added RCS thrusters above CoG to match the ones below..... Not sure which fix did it, probably a bit of both. Flies great now, thanks to all!

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