Landing Gear Spring & Damper Strength

[XLjedi]

I have a rather heavy VTOL plane that I'm trying to "soften" the landing gear on. I want it to be a little squishier on landing as right now it's a tad bouncy at the normal default 1.0 settings. Should I be increasing spring and decreasing damper for this?

[SpannerMonkey]

Spring controls stiffness, damper controls spring speed , adjust spring, but it's not as simple as that and if you just back off the spring load you'll find the suspension bottoming out on landing so you need to balance the two, less spring usually if , you want to avoid wheel destruction , means a touch more damping

[Xcorps]

Spring Strength is how much the suspension pushes back. Damper Strength is how much energy or weight is absorbed.

Spring strength is what you want to adjust for this, upwards a little. If you were getting a lot of bounce from rolling over terrain, you'd want to adjust damper.

[sal_vager]

The guy who fixed up the wheels, Arsonide, lost blood, sweat and tears getting the gear in the condition it's in, and he suggests you don't mess with the settings.

Softer suspension is one thing, but a softer landing with a smaller descent speed is better.

Not the answer you're after of course, but KSP's gear isn't quite 'right', so be careful.

[XLjedi]

I'm good with these answers thanks! I'll tinker with it and see what happens.

What could possibly go wrong?

[Xcorps]

Originally posted by Spinjack:

What could possibly go wrong?

What we have here is a rocket scientist.

[alan85224]

Originally posted by Spinjack:

I'm good

What could possibly go wrong?

how hard can it be?

[Xcorps]

>Hard to tell if people picked up my (intended to be humorous) game reference..

Yes.