What's involved in making a Landing Leg?

[Incarnation of Chaos]

Seriously; i got 7.5M first stages and landers that even with SpaceY's biggest leg tweakscaled to 200% don't do the job (Or look the part)

So how easy/hard would it be to roll my own assuming some blender experience but basically 0 animation/UV/Texturing experience.

[wasml]

For me the two most difficult parts are retractable landing gear and landing legs - so far my attempts have ended up being propellant-less launch systems instead of landing legs. You might want to look at the add-on section for some tutorials. If you do figure it out I'd be interested in hearing your battle stories - might be able to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

[Incarnation of Chaos]

4 hours ago, wasml said:

For me the two most difficult parts are retractable landing gear and landing legs - so far my attempts have ended up being propellant-less launch systems instead of landing legs. You might want to look at the add-on section for some tutorials. If you do figure it out I'd be interested in hearing your battle stories - might be able to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Oopie; i should've actually posted this in the modeling and texturing sub section instead of here.

Can a mod move this over to the Add-on Development section pls

Edited December 22, 2019 by Incarnation of Chaos

[Mecripp]

17 hours ago, Incarnation of Chaos said:

Oopie; i should've actually posted this in the modeling and texturing sub section instead of here.

Can a mod move this over to the Add-on Development section pls

If there are some legs you are using that just don't look right you can post the cfg fo0r them or send me a pm , I take it that tweak scale limit is 200% and still not the size you want with a little edit of the cfg might fix that.

[bcink]

On 12/21/2019 at 6:00 AM, Incarnation of Chaos said:

So how easy/hard would it be to roll my own assuming some blender experience but basically 0 animation/UV/Texturing experience.

I would consider this to be one of the biggest challenges in KSP part creation. It's definitely the equivalent of diving straight into the deep-end. The amount of informational resources get exponentially lower each step closer you get to completing legs.

I'll leave these here, but it will probably look like alien for a while. If you learn the above and get to the part implementation stage, you will appreciate these (precise structure is critical):