(Some) Wheels are not working as expected.

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Hyratel reported on Forum

looks like the biplane and blackhawk wheels are still Broke As Hell for tail draggers. Haven't successfully tried them with a tricycle yet

He's right: I detected that the biplane wheels are incorrectly oriented, and also kicking the craft up at launch. If you use a LSE, then the craft drops into the ground and don't kick.

Task: check all the wheels, and fix what's broken.

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Manul also reported:

The smallest retractable gear had been doing this since KSP v 1.4 :D

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Pull request #11 should fix this.

Checking it now.

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We have still some issues here, after merging the #11 :

• The biplanegear are still bumpy at launch.
• The blackhawkgear wheels animation is inverted on one side (ie., the wheel turns backwards compared to the original one)
• The miggear is floating some inches above the ground.
  • The collider appears to be a few inches to big or too low
• The airbusgear wheels animation is inverted on one side (ie., the wheel turns backwards compared to the original one)
• The herculeshear is bumpy at launch.
  • It's also a bit "buried" on the ground, the collider appears to be a few inches too small or too high.
  • It's also being rotate 90o at launch!!!
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• The x1gear have the lights always on (the light bulb is not being lightened)
• The x1sidegear animation is inverted on one side (ie., the wheel turns backwards compared to the original one)
  • It's also a bit "buried" on the ground, the collider appears to be a few inches too small or too high.

Crafts used on the test: SPH.143.zip

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To be on the safe side, I reproduced the tests on KSP 1.12.5. I recreated the crafts from scratch, to be absolutely sure no side effects from the upgrade pipeline (if any) would affect the crafts.

All the problems were reproduced the same. The biplanegear problem appears to be worse, and the blackhawkgear at least once was incepted withtout the colliders with the craft rolling over the runway as the gears weren't there.

I think I need to analyse these gears further before releasing them.

craft files: Uploading SPH.125.zip…

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I found this pretty weird, so I decided to download the complete distribution from SuicidalInsanity's fork, source of the #11 .

Exactly the same problems, so this is not something I screwed up while doing the merge. :/

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So I reverted the changes and did all the tests again:

• The biplanegear are still bumpy at launch, but it's also inverted - rendering it unusable.
• Idem for the blackhawkgear.
• The miggear sunks on the runway (no collider, it's the same on Firespitter gears). It's not recoverable (see next item)
• The airbusgear starts the game under the runway, but if you retract and extend the gears, it works fine after.
• The herculesgear is working flawlessly, however. I found no issues on the original one...
  • Other than one set of wheels spinning backwards...
• The x1gears start a bit bumpy, but other than that works fine - and the lights are not screwed.
  • And yeah, one side of the wheels on symmetry are spinning backwards…

I'm considering remerging the thing, but without the herculesgear and the x1gear (the x1sidegears appears to be more stable on the SuicidalInsanity's version).