How to make gimballing engines and surface controls?

[Vlad. Just Vlad.]

Hello all.

I can make a model of part, I can texture part, I can configure the part. I have already made ??parts for KSP. But I don\'t know how to make gimballing engine or winglet. Can sombody explain me, how to make them? I\'m using 3d\'s max 2012.

[DYJ]

You want to make sure that the mesh intended to move is named 'obj_gimbal' for gimbaled engines. What the corresponding meshname is for winglets I don\'t remember, but you can find that out by opening the vanilla winglet .dae file with a text editing program.

In both cases the mesh will rotate around the scene origin, hope that helps.

[Vlad. Just Vlad.]

Really? Just create 'obj_gimbal', and it will work? Without animations, scripts and etc.?

[DYJ]

Yeah, that\'s it. Ksp 'Animates' the mesh by simply letting it rotate around the scene origin.

[Tosh]

Really? Just create 'obj_gimbal', and it will work? Without animations, scripts and etc.?

You may even skip that object name and just set thrustVectoringCapable = True in part.cfg. KSP will rotate an entire mesh around (0, 0, 0) point

I dunno would it work for ControlSurfaces though.

[Vlad. Just Vlad.]

Thanks