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Fix gear overheating during regular use #3039

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@njits23 njits23 commented Feb 7, 2025

Currently, all retractable landing gear directly exposed to heat levels experienced during things like hypersonic flight and faster are big fans of melting.

This PR changes their skin and internal heat tolerance to be at minimum Inconel tier, preventing the gear from experiencing early death due to overheating when not fully shielded via clipping them inside parts. This clipping method is a workaround that only works for some gears. Now it should no longer be necessary.

Change skin thermal tags for retractable landing gear to Inconel, and change internal thermal tags for landing gear to HotStructure.
Change skin temp tag to be at minimum Inconel for retractable landing gear
Change internal temp tag to be HotStructure (inconel tier) for all retractable landing gear.
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Clayell commented Feb 7, 2025

Hm, it's certainly annoying that this shielding issue can't be fixed, as Inconel is very far above what most landing gear are actually made of (aluminum, including shuttle), and this PR could allow for some wacky shenanigans where suborbital (or even orbital if shallow enough?) re-entry can be done with the landing gear extended.

Shouldn't we also apply material tags to the stock landing gear so that they are the same?

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njits23 commented Feb 7, 2025

This PR also modifies the stock gear.
As far as I can tell there's also zero change to gear thermal conduction from skin to interior based on extension status, so this doesn't even affect that. See the two screenshots I attached to #3013, the PR that broke KF2 gear thermals. It is an entirely different issue.

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Clayell commented Feb 7, 2025

This PR also modifies the stock gear.

Woops, I'm blind. Sorry about that.

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