[WIP] Landing gears

[vrga]

This mod will never be updated, nor will there be downloads. Thank you all for looking at it

Hello folks, i'm a bit of a newbie here on the forums and in general to KSP modding, but, motivated by lack of landing gears of decent ground clearance, i embarked on an effort to create new, bigger ones. With OPTIONS!

This is just the first model, i've gotten it ingame currently, but i have no idea what do i have to set up in unity to get it to lower/raise gears or to even spin as wheels do.

Also, as a side-joy, i get the lovely message of: "WheelCollider requires an attached Rigidbody to function." from the output_log.txt, when the game is loading the model. It might just be me having the utterly wrong hierarchy for what is actually needed.

Any input you folks could give me on this front would be greatly appreciated.

Some of you've probably seen pecenipicek on IRC posting pictures/vids to this, and that is my other nickname.

Now, as for future plans go, here's what Hyratel had to say as good options for future landing gears, all of which i plan to create relatively soon:

• Fixed landing gears
  
• Gears that end up flush with the fuselage/part where they are attached when raised
  
• Tail landing skid
  
• Fat landing wheels
  

Granted, this is will all probably be modelled and textured before i manage to figure out how to make them proper gears in-game.

The model weighs in at 956 triangles and the source texture are made in 2048²

In any case, cheers and i can barely wait for your comments, folks

Edited April 8, 2014 by vrga

[dishycourier]

This looks great! Do want!

[quadro7f]

Cool animation, great job!

[Echo 8 ÉRÀ]

C7 has a tutorial video where he demonstrates how to get an animated model into Unity PartTools: http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/showthread.php/11114-C7-Tutorials

[vrga]

C7 has a tutorial video where he demonstrates how to get an animated model into Unity PartTools: http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/showthread.php/11114-C7-Tutorials

Please re-read my post another few times before you start understanding what i actually wrote there, because your post tells me you have barely skimmed it.

@dishycourier and quadro7f, thanks

Edited September 3, 2012 by vrga

[vegany]

i posted a thread about geting animations to play in game see (http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/showthread.php/17514-Animated-Lander-Leg-tutorial) for a tutorial and vid, shuld be the same for landing gear,

hope it helps your stuf looks good

[vrga]

i posted a thread about geting animations to play in game see (http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/showthread.php/17514-Animated-Lander-Leg-tutorial) for a tutorial and vid, shuld be the same for landing gear,

hope it helps your stuf looks good

thank you, that does help a good bit

[Deltafee]

how do you make landing gear?

[Carthaginian]

want.

Want.

WANT!!!

[Blinkin]

Do want that!

[Kreuzung]

AFAIK even stock gear throws "WheelCollider requires an attached Rigidbody to function", at least it did in .15

[tjitte]

an actual landing gear requires a weel colider atached to the weel, i think you can then just use the landing gear module

[Nukesnipe]

Download! Now!

As a suggestion for future projects, could you possibly make a landing gear that's several large wheels that don't come far out of the bay, but provide a good amount of balance? Something like the C-130's landing gear.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]34590[/ATTACH]

[Punk]

Or caterpillar treads, some people have mentioned it may be difficult but would be awesome if you could. But what youve already thrown up looks great. Good work!