Rotating parts?

[Smol]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of a mod that allowed you to rotate parts of your ships. For example have an arm that is originally Paralel to your craft and once in space could be rotated to be perpendicular to it.

The reason I want this is my tendency to create absolute monstrosities that would make any real space engineer insane and their tendency to have nearly no fuel after reaching space or at the furthest Minmus. So I want to try and design a sort of mothership that'll carry over a doze small probes to faraway planets! Getting spider-web looking ships into space though isn't really easy.

So anyone knows of a mod that'll fix my itch?

[Chibbity]

Infernal robotics, but it hasn't been update for 1.3 yet.

You could also make a stock hinge and rotate it that way. These tend to fail when timewarping though.

[Smol]

There are hinges already in the game? Under what section?

[Chibbity]

Originally posted by Explosion! (Juju):

There are hinges already in the game? Under what section?

I said make, not use.

As in build one yourself out of stock parts.

[Smol]

OH well I don't know how to make hinges then

[Chibbity]

Originally posted by Explosion! (Juju):

OH well I don't know how to make hinges then

The structural fuselage part is hollow, you can send structural girders through it and use that as a rotational hinge.

A bunch of thermomoters around the circular RCS part works as well.

However, as I said before; these won't hold up to timewarping.

[Smol]

all right I'll wait for that robotics one to be updated then. Thank you

[Lucid_LunaX01]

anyone knows a mod for me to make a trailer that freely can spin behind my "utility" rover?

btw. im using 1.4.1

[Chibbity]

I know of a mod that rotates docking ports, but I don't think it would let you spin "freely" like you want for a trailer.

Just make a stock ball and cup hinge. About the easiest hinge to make in stock KSP. Plus doing it stock is way more fun/impressive!

Here's a pretty simple example using decouplers.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1519878846
Once you detach the trailer, the couplers form a cup that falls onto the RCS ball. Boom, working trailer.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1519882189

[Manwith Noname]

Originally posted by you are next:

anyone knows a mod for me to make a trailer that freely can spin behind my "utility" rover?

btw. im using 1.4.1

This mod...

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/155344-13x14x-feline-utility-rovers-v126-03-may-2018/

...or this this one...

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/171377-13x14x-grounded-modular-vehicles-r30l-breaks-old-crafts-engine-on-chassis-new-paint-variant-ported-back-to-13x-fixes-jul-20-2018/

[Lucid_LunaX01]

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