Do hover engines only apply down-force?

[FluxFaraday]

I've been trying to tilt my hover engines (30 degrees or so, not 90) and apply proper tags like 'lateral' where appropriate.

However I'm not seeing any lateral force no matter what I do (so far).  Are the engines "magickd" to apply only downforce no matter what angle. or, perhaps the ground-effect LUA script is fighting me in some way I don't understand.

Please share if you know, thanks!

[MRog40]

As far as I know only boosters apply lateral force, hovers do not

[hdparm]

@FluxFaraday By default hover engines are "magicked" to produce thrust along gravity. This can be disabled by right-clicking the hover engine, selecting "Advanced" and "Disable Thrust Along Gravity".

 

Vertical booster behavior can be changed too. You can right-click them and enable thrust along gravity.

[FluxFaraday]

Thank you, I'm going to experiment with all that.  It makes the vehicle behave differently for sure, but I'm not seeing any reliable lateral force, mostly random skidding