I'm really starting to struggle in creating my custom suspension. The basic construction of it started as simply a fuselage rod attached to a hinge rotator with two wheels attached at the bottom of the rod. When I used this the wheels simply rose from their attachment point until they weren't in contact with the ground and the weight of the aircraft was instead resting on the fuselage rod.
I then tried enabling suspension in the wheels but to no avail with the same issue occuring.
I looked around on both youtube and this website and every post I could find simply said "it's easy just put a shock piece with a fuselage and a resizable wheel and you have custom suspension" so I added a shock and now I have two issues. Even at spring strength and damper 10,000% the spring immediately compresses down to its minimum length, and the wheels still magically glitch themselves halfway up the fuselage despite being attached at the bottom.
Can anyone help?
@Meepmaster87, what if you attach the 2 fuselage blocks, attached together by a shock absorber, with “torque links” like the one in the picture. I think this could not only prevent the suspension from going offset but also gives you the ability to restrict how minimum the suspension will get (by modifying the rotators of course). You may also try and lower the weight of the plane or add more springs, since more lead results in more stressed suspension and for the wheels the “glitch” because the stress the high load induces strains the axles so much that they “tilt” upwards.
@Bellcat Double wishbone suspension is for land-based craft or aircraft with horizonal suspension structures. The suspension I'm making is vertical and as such double wishbone won't really work in this instance, plus I'm not looking to make it very complicated, which double wishbone is.
What you made is, of course, the simplest form of suspension that is found on the stock jackhammer. My most favorite suspension is the double wishbone suspension because of the inherent stability it gives (no glitchy wheels, no unrealistic angles, et cetera). In effect, you just put 2 parallel struts joined by the base and with a small fuselage block with hinges. There is a shock placed on the fuselage also attached with hinges. The wheel can be put on the fuselage. If you don’t really get it, I’ll give you a Wikipedia article here.