Couple questions regarding landing legs for those with 0.14 experimentals

[1909]

Hi all,

I haven\'t downloaded any of the 0.14 experimentals, was waiting for the full release, not that I have a choice now , but I have a few questions regarding the new landing leg part and it\'s potential for modding.

My understanding of how they work so far is based on videos, such as

If anyone has played about with it could they have a look below and answer the questions if possible?

Thanks in advance:

- Is there only support for rotating parts (as shown in the video) or can parts be moved in plane? E.g. could you create telescopic landing legs?

- Is it possible to attach nodes to the articulating parts of the model and have other components move with it? For example, could you create \'deployable\' engines that start tucked in and extend out when required? Think of the ship at the end of First Contact (the Phoenix) where the warp nacelles deploy once in orbit? 3:25 on this video

- If the above is possible, could fuel lines be attached to the extending engine and be fed from a central tank without snapping... or would both an engine and tank need to be extended at the same time? Alternatively, could the part set to have fuel flowing through it?

Cheers 8)

[Tiberion]

Rotating only, for this part. Someone will likely figure out a way to telescope models via the plugin system, though.

Unfortunately, the leg part has a separate collider node that rotates with the mesh, and the VAB only recognizes the normal node_collider as an attachment node, and it only covers the hinge of the leg, which doesn\'t move and is where it attaches to other parts.

I would say that function would have to wait until a more robust animation system is added, since it relies on adding functions to the VAB, which is likely beyond the scope of what user-made plugins can do.

[1909]

Well that\'s a shame. Though I\'m sure some very cool rotating parts can still be made.

Thanks very much for the response Tiberion