Quantum Booster Landing Gear Showcase

@AstrumY, okay, thanks!

@OrionTechnologies Wdym? The slider always starts at 0% and if you press show advanced settings or whatever you can set the Static potion for the hinges and rotators which is the position They will go to once their respective AG is set to false(if show advanced settings is on you can set the AG in the input tab which is the only way to get hinges to work via AGs and not sliders. Side note you'll have to tab on for ages until you reach the AG section

@AstrumY, when you deactivate the AG, how do the hinges reverse? I can’t figure it out, and how do the Sliders start in the right position.

@NSCA thanks! i just looked at the official new glenn renders on the new glenn website and that design wouldve been simpler and wouldve looked better

that looks pretty realistic! good job

@OrionTechnologies Sounds Awesome!

We’re going to use slide rail legs and grid fins on Eagle 5.

Ya, okay, maybe don’t do grid fins then. Oh, and the difference between F9 and Terran R landing legs is that the F9 has a telescoping strut and Terran R has a one piece strut that just uses gravity to slide down.

@OrionTechnologies i just realized the booster alone (without fins yet) has 375 PARTS!! and generally i like to have my crafts mobile firendly and together with the phoenix its 500 parts+ sooo grid fins would add 150+ parts

@OrionTechnologies but I Google it and they are basically falcon 9 landing legs

@AstrumY, no, slide rails are the Terran R ones.

@OrionTechnologies Ooohh slide rails are the ones in the new glenn renders right? I thought of using those but its pretty difficult maybe I'll use them in a future version!!

@OrionTechnologies well I made grid fins before and they aren't really that hard but u don't think they fit new glenns style alot

For Eagle 5, I’ll use grid fins and slide-rail landing legs.

@AstrumY, grid fins seem more efficient. But, they are harder to make. Depends on how up time you got on your hands :)

@OrionTechnologies what would you suggest

@OrionTechnologies probably guide fins cuz then i got a rip off of new glenn and i can ust design a new glenn upper stage and call it a day but i plann on using this for various upper stage as sort of Universal booster

@AstrumY, okay. Are you gonna use grid fins or guide fins(New Glenn’s method) for atmospheric attitude control?

@AstrumY, ya, and just to rub it in, Starship went from Star-hopper to TWO booster catches and three ship landings in less than five years.

@OrionTechnologies OH they're just small f9 legs though but maybe I'll use em for a future updated upper stage (I don't like stock landing gear as it just looks bad in most cases)

@OrionTechnologies OH yeah I played around with that for AGES but at the end I just set all of them to floppy except the one that's holding the actual leg with sort of just pulls and retracts the support structure thingy of the leg and it worked so...

@OrionTechnologies I never looked into these

@OrionTechnologies Yeah you're right blue origin is just Horrible at this point like if you're rocket took 20 YEARS to develop at least have it complete its full mission goal

Also how’d you get the hinges and rotators to deploy without the legs but without Vizzy?