Oh, I get you. I tried that, it didn't look good - like everything was breaking up rather than a controlled mechanical sequence. The arms extending that way also have an effect that's unique among all transforming aircraft I know of - it actually has a fairly evenly balanced increase in frontal area top and bottom as it breaks out of high-speed aircraft mode, so it wouldn't have an immense sudden nose-down input if you were applying real flight physics to a giant robot. So it would go straight ahead instead of entering a vicious tumble as the slipstream ripped off the arms and legs, which is progress? I guess? But I'd better stop talking about it before I kill another cat-girl.
Anyway, basically right now the parts start moving from the ones closest to the mechanical center of the linkages (the cockpit in this case) first and propagate outward, for the most part, but more important than that is that messing with any of the joint timings outside a very narrow range it's currently centered on makes things crash into each other, especially with the boosters mounted.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
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Anyway, basically right now the parts start moving from the ones closest to the mechanical center of the linkages (the cockpit in this case) first and propagate outward, for the most part, but more important than that is that messing with any of the joint timings outside a very narrow range it's currently centered on makes things crash into each other, especially with the boosters mounted.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows