Grid Fins and Super Heavy Landing Legs in Kerbal Space Program

[Zero_Skilla_Sam_Fart02]

What do you think, guys(from Squad too), about add Grid Fins for more realistic stock reusable (mostly) rockets  and Super Heavy Landing Legs for Heavier Landers?

[Starman4308]

Well, if you don't mind mods, well...

I'm pretty sure Necrobones has large landing legs in at least one of his mods, Roverdude's sounding rockets mod has grid fins, and I think SXT might have grid fins.

No guarantee that the grid fins work with FAR; I suspect FAR would voxelize them as bricks and not properly handle them.

[CoriW]

 

[Capt. Hunt]

If I understand correctly, all the current mod gridfins are "cheaty" because the current aero model doesn't properly handle them.

[Zero_Skilla_Sam_Fart02]

I know that there are some mods for it for example Kerbal Reusability Expansion and I have it, but I want it to be stock.

[problemecium]

I agree that the stock game needs this kind of thing. Landing our ultra-mega-super-huge ITS and F9R replicas is quite difficult when we have to land on the engine bells and make do with itty-bitty airbrakes that for some reason can only handle 1200K when opened :\

[Alshain]

On 04/30/17 at 10:33 PM, Capt. Hunt said:

If I understand correctly, all the current mod gridfins are "cheaty" because the current aero model doesn't properly handle them.

It's not the aero, it's the part.  You can't really have a collision mesh with the complexity of a grid fin.  Instead of a grid, it simply becomes a flat piece like any other control surface and the "air" cannot flow through the grid.