noob question on turning

[culixstar]

so i finally built a hovercraft but i cant get the thing to turn. i have 5 directional thrusters and 1 RCS. do i need more RCS units or thrusters?

[Khissi]

One RCS will work, but since I'm a terrible pilot.. I mean REALLY awful, I usually use more. As for thrusters... you MUST have equal numbers facing to all sides.. for example... at least one facing left, one right, one forward, and one back.. having one facing upward helps you get it down just as one facing down will help it going up hills and such. More than one hover engine is really good, as well. Again, not necessary, but makes the craft easier to manouver. I pretty much go overboard because I like to climb mountains with mine, but it's a personal thing.

Again, for turning, ONE RCS will work, but, you will have to have a thruster on each side, as well.

[[WDR] DrDeve]

think of your ship as a cube.

Each side of the cube needs at least one thruster. (SV/CV)

For an HV the hover engine is the bottom thruster, and gravity adresses the top so you need at least a directional thuster on the 4 reamaing sides

[1stDayBreaker]

zou point the way you want to go, works for me

[culixstar]

Originally posted by WDZ DrDeve:

think of your ship as a cube.

Each side of the cube needs at least one thruster. (SV/CV)

For an HV the hover engine is the bottom thruster, and gravity adresses the top so you need at least a directional thuster on the 4 reamaing sides

i dumped one direct thrust, so now i have on four sides (front back left rigjt) still cant turn tho. was goin to add 2 main thrusters on the left and right

[culixstar]

more speed but no yaw

[[WDR] DrDeve]

SOmethis sounds wrong.

climb in, open control panel ( P ), and next to statistics in lower right and clcik on the i-inna-circle.

For an HV with one normal thrusters in back, one directional on the other 3 sides, and one RCS you should get this:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=684161416

Perhaps your HV is heavy and needs more thrusters/RCS than the above -- the pic above is for the most minimal HV Im aware of (zero hull blboks) - so your milage may differ.

[culixstar]

yup just needed a 2nd RCS, yaw went from 0.0 to 30.0