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Bug #5425

Landed vehicles experience torsion forces or precession movement

Added by Skeltek over 9 years ago. Updated about 5 years ago.

Status:
Needs Clarification
Severity:
Very Low
Assignee:
-
Category:
Physics
Target version:
-
Start date:
09/20/2015
% Done:

0%

Version:
Platform:
Win32
Expansion:
Language:
English (US)
Mod Related:
No
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Description

KSP Steam Version on Vista 64 bit, but bug should occur on all systems (only got one to test on)
Clean install to Version 1.0.4
Log files irrelevant for reproduction

Having a vehicle landed planetside and switching to KSC or any other location saves the root module of the craft to persistent.sfs
Accelerating the gameflow also ignores the position of all other modules.
Turning off Time-Acceleration or switching back to the craft activates the physics again.
When physics kick in again, the collision detection immediately sets all submerged parts above ground level resulting in a sudden buildup of forces to connecting parts (lander legs that are below ground, rocket engines and so on).

The collision detection and sudden repositioning of the parts can result in a massive shock to the vehicle, destroying the ground-touching parts or destroying the connections to neighboring partnodes - effectively detaching the part from the main craft.
This results in the either the whole vehicle immediately combusting or the supporting part(for example lander leg) being detached making the rocket flip over.
Also sometimes I noticed the rocket experiencing a sudden rotation around the surface radial axis, probably the first Euler angle change gets added up in higher accelerations, resulting in a very sudden angle change when physics kick back in. (Coriolis effect maybe?)

probable solutions:
1. Save and load positions of all parts to and from save file and keep part positions forcefully locked during acceleration. Since time acceleration seems to turn off collision detection for attached parts, they change position to below ground; that should be prevented.
(best solution)
2. When craft loads or physics kick back in, reduce position-correction in order to slowly make supporting parts raise above ground level. The shock on the supporting part and the stress on connected parts would be softened, but might result in a perfectly still craft to suddenly loose stiction.
(makeshift solution)
3. Make the craft indestructible for the first few gameticks. This would prevent destruction of craft in most cases, but might result in unexpected bugs or gameplay issues.
(worst solution)

History

#1 Updated by Skeltek over 9 years ago

The Priority was set to high, because a wide variety of vehicle designs can be affected, making it quiet a risk to leave any such vehicle with a certain amount of torsion/stress bending the frame left on ground.
Any landed craft can suddenly combust or experience sudden deconnection of parts, making it a russian roulette if landing a craft will ever make a person able to relaunch or drive it again at a later oint in the game.

#2 Updated by Summoners_Rift over 9 years ago

Was not able to recreate on Windows 8 64 bit.

#3 Updated by sal_vager about 9 years ago

  • Severity changed from High to Very Low
  • Platform Win32 added
  • Platform deleted (Win64)

Hi, please be mindful of the bug reporting guidelines and priority table when reporting issues, thank you.

http://bugs.kerbalspaceprogram.com/projects/ksp/wiki

Also, KSP for 64bit Windows does not exist yet.

And logs are always relevant.

#4 Updated by TriggerAu over 8 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Needs Clarification

#5 Updated by KenSharp about 5 years ago

Probably the same as #9412

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