Rover Construction

[SilentSkills]

Hello all

I'm in the process of building a rover + descent/sky-crane stage on top much like curiosity. I figured out to use SPH to build the rover and the VAB for the crane + rocket construction using sub-assemblies

The problem I am having is that my placement node on the rover is always "Wrong". In other words the rover can only be placed on top of the rocket, instead of [CRANE] - [LANDER/ROVER] - [ROCKET]<.

So how do I control the placement node of the rover? Any tips the construction order of the rover? Any other tips?

Thanks

[Liowen]

Yeah that is an issue with doing it as a sub-assembly, it seems to forget there are more than one node. Depending on the crane design would it be possible to save that as a sub-assembly and just flip the engines if needed? This is how I have been getting around this issue, but maybe someone has found an easier way.

[Pecan]

In 0.90 there is a root selection tool at the top-left of the screen, to the right of the offset and rotate buttons. Click that, then (for some unknown reason) a part of your vehicle then, finally, the part by which you want it to attach. Now save it as a sub-assembly.

[Commander Zoom]

So SelectRoot's functionality has finally been added to stock? Nice!

[SilentSkills]

In 0.90 there is a root selection tool at the top-left of the screen, to the right of the offset and rotate buttons. Click that, then (for some unknown reason) a part of your vehicle then, finally, the part by which you want it to attach. Now save it as a sub-assembly.

You're the man, thank you