Bug #9349
Medium and large landing legs' colliders are shorter than the legs
100%
Description
The real physical length of the legs is less than the length of the 3D model, particularly with the medium legs. This makes it difficult or impossible to tell whether your legs are long enough in the editor. And there may be some engines that would work for landers if not for the unavailability of long enough legs.
Also, it just looks bad with the feet buried in the ground.
Screenshots show how much leg ends up clipped into the ground. A screenshot of the small legs, which do not exhibit the problem, is included for comparison.
| large_landed.png (2.16 MB) large_landed.png | Large legs, landed | ||
| large_airborne.png (2.21 MB) large_airborne.png | Large legs, airborne | ||
| med_landed.png (2.08 MB) med_landed.png | Medium legs, landed | ||
| med_airborne.png (2.26 MB) med_airborne.png | Medium legs, airborne | ||
| small_correct.png (1.77 MB) small_correct.png | Small legs, landed: what it should look like |
History
#1
Updated by grey_ghost about 8 years ago
Updated by Oops, this is essentially a dupe of #9338. Should have looked at the recent bugs.
#2
Updated by orcaman98 about 8 years ago
Updated by 
- Status changed from New to Duplicate
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
Do you get the same popping thing when raising and lowering? It seems to me like the collider is correct during the animation, and only wrong when locked at full extension. I don't suppose that's the sort of thing likely to be different between Windows and Linux, but I'd still be interested to hear.
#3
Updated by grey_ghost about 8 years ago
Yes, the length seems to be correct near the end of the animation, and extending/retracting the legs while landed launches the lander up into the air. I didn't mention that because it wasn't something I'd expect to be able to do safely.