No Landing Gears for MK3 Planes

[Latori]

The title pretty much covers all the topic purpose, are we going to receive it on some kind of 0.91?

[zekes]

I'd love bigger landing gear - I have some huge planes and shuttles that look dumb sitting on stock wheels.....

[The_Rocketeer]

The KAX mod has a nice big undercarriage.

[andrew123]

The KAX mod has a nice big undercarriage.

http://media-curse.cursecdn.com/attachments/118/804/b3bca65fb38ab0afd91869e238cb1aef.jpg

Mods? For stock replicas?

Lol.

[FishInferno]

I'd love bigger landing gear - I have some huge planes and shuttles that look dumb sitting on stock wheels.....

http://i.imgur.com/bB2h5eI.png?1

You really take every opportunity to advertise your shuttle

Big landing gear are in the works, they just didn't make it into .90

[zekes]

You really take every opportunity to advertise your shuttle

Big landing gear are in the works, they just didn't make it into .90

Only when it's appropriate/on topic, but yes Shamelessly.

[andrew123]

You really take every opportunity to advertise your shuttle

Big landing gear are in the works, they just didn't make it into .90

I'd say something witty, but I'd be a hypocrite.

For example...

XD

It has landing gear! :D

[Latori]

But the new parts become useless without the gears, seems like the 0.90 update was kinda rushy...

[Claw]

Porkjet was a busy man, and he's working on landing gear. I'm sure the usual "soon" word can be thrown around, but there's no official announced timeline.

Cheers,

~Claw

[Wanderfound]

But the new parts become useless without the gears, seems like the 0.90 update was kinda rushy...

Less useful yes, useless no. For now, just use hardpoints to jack up your landing gear height when necessary.

[arq]

If you want a "stock-ish" way of getting a larger landing gear, do the following (note that I use quotes to denote what I'm talking about, but don't actually put them in the .cfg file):

1) Find the folder "GameData\Squad\Parts\Wheel\SmallGearBay\" in your KSP directory.

2) Copy \SmallGearBay\ and its contents into "GameData\mycustomparts\" or some other directory of your choosing (under Gamedata).

3) Open "smallGearBay.cfg" with any text editor (Notepad is fine).

5) Change the line that says "name = SmallGearBay" to any other name that isn't used by the game, ie "name = BigStockGearBay"

4) Underneath the line that says "scale = 1" add a line that says "rescaleFactor = 2.5"

5) Change the line "title = ..." to some other name. This is the name that will appear in the VAB, so it is useful to be able to identify your new part (it will have the same icon as the old one). Though this isn't technically necessary. You may also tweak the "cost = ..." field, if you care about that. You could change the "mass = ..." and other parameters too, but since this specific part is physics-less it won't matter.

6) Save your changes and load up the game.

This should create a double-sized version of the stock landing gear. The default for rescaleFactor is 1.25, so 0.625 would create a half-size and 3.75 would create a triple-size. 1.25 would be identical to the current version.

I used this technique to create a half-sized landing gear and 0.625m jet engines and air intakes (with much less mass, thrust, and intake, of course) because the regular jet engines are overkill for small aircraft. Note that if you forget to change the "name = ..." field, the game will confuse this part with the default one and can tend to mix them up, so don't skip that part.

[The_Rocketeer]

Mods? For stock replicas?

Lol.

Who said anything about stock replicas?

The guy asked for wheels, I give him: wheels! Also, an excellent and under-rated mod in many other regards.