A better klaw using the RND droid arm

[Krazy1]

 @ColdJ I'm trying to do what you suggested, scaling up the RND droid arm to make a better klaw...

I had to set rescale = 650 for 20m diameter. So what is this "rescale" parameter? is it stock or something you did? Just curious.

I see a few minor issues...

1. I noticed 2 BB8 files in the GonkArm folder... maybe misplaced? There were many droid texture warnings when KSP loaded but the arm looks OK.
2. When placing the arm in the editor, the part is offset from the cursor a lot so it's difficult to place it where you want it, especially when holding ALT for node attachment. I managed to do it.
3. The attachment node is just very slightly off center from the axis. It might cause some torque when pushing asteroids but it's not that bad.
4. When right-clicking the arm (in the editor), the PAW leader line is pointing nowhere near the center of the part. It's coming from a point way down in the ground. 
5. When hovering the mouse over it, it highlights green when the pointer is not actually over it. It is OK in the axial direction but the highlight radius is about 1.5x the real radius. If that's the only issue it's not bad but I wonder if the collision mesh is also too big and there could be krakens.

But the main issue I see is the length... it's just way too long to move asteroids around on the end. I want compress it to about 10% of it's present length so it's similar in shape to the stock klaw. Any idea how to do this?

Thanks for any help you can give me.

[ColdJ]

@Krazy1

Hi. Never expected you to rescale it to such an extreme, it is no wonder that the game had trouble getting all the colliders correct.

rescaleFactor is a stock parameter. 1 is the mesh size, 2 is twice the mesh size, You made it 650 times bigger, The game couldn't cope and that is why it is all mucked up. The BB8 and BB8E dds files are the texture files that the model uses. Main and emissive in this case and are meant to be there.

Try setting rescaleFactor to 10.

I will see about throwing together a klaw sized one for you and contact you in a PM with a link.