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Help a brotha out with landing gear-- plane tips over, not good!! :(

12.5k Eggplant  9 months ago

It likes to veer off to the left when rolling, even when I tried nudging the front wheel to the right side. I guess the game doesn't like when you have a single wheel in front.
Also the plane tips over easily making it hard to land. I more or less copied the wheel traction, braking, and shock/damper strengths from other F-16 builds but it didn't fix the problem.

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    For the tipping issue, try moving you main landing gear outward, setting the nose gear brake torque to 0 and reducing your main gear brake torque, and reducing sideways traction of the nose gear.
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    If your wobbly joints, try increasing the mass scale of the rotators and the parts they're attached to.

    9 months ago
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    59.8k TheMouse

    @Eggplant
    Well, I hope you figure it out.

    9 months ago
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    12.5k Eggplant

    @Mousewithamachinegun123 actually just switched to regular rotators and I would say it's acceptable now. It can still faceplant if the landing isn't straight enough but I did not design the landing gear to be so close together

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    59.8k TheMouse

    @Eggplant
    On second thoughts then, FIX IT, OR I WILL BE EXTREMELY PUT OUT.

    9 months ago
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    12.5k Eggplant

    @Mousewithamachinegun123 haha that's where you're wrong. Just found the exact part of the problem

    +1 9 months ago
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    59.8k TheMouse

    @Eggplant
    Nice! Glad it is fixed!

    9 months ago
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    12.5k Eggplant

    @Mousewithamachinegun123 I found the issue it's with the rotators for nose wheel steering and rotating the landing gear when it's retracted. The connections are just weak for some reason and they cause the entire gear to 'snap' when landing or braking.

    +1 9 months ago
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    59.8k TheMouse

    @Eggplant
    Weird.
    Take an upvote, so more people will see this.

    9 months ago
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    12.5k Eggplant

    @Mousewithamachinegun123 Wheel has sideways traction and the com is dead center

    +1 9 months ago
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    59.8k TheMouse

    Have you tried adding sideways traction to the wheel?
    And is the com in the middle of the plane?

    +1 9 months ago