Now, I've searched for this but it seems no one has had this problem (Or I'm just terrible at search).

The issue is that my ACrab tips over like a sinking ship when I place it on the ground.

Anyone know why this is happening? I've tried looking into other ACrab ini's but I cant see anything that fixes it.

Does it have like a very heavy upper part and a very light lower part?
Are the feet/legs made of air?

Can you post it here, or is it a secret project?

Somewhat secret. It's got attachables on the torso. The legs are like normal legs but the two front are different than the two back legs.

Here's a pic of what I'm working with.


Is it a mass related thing?

I have no idea. The main body's sprite offset is set to the middle?

I'd love to see it to help out. If you're desperate enough, perhaps you can pm me the thing. I am good in keeping secrets.

I don't think offsets are the problem. Everything should be right regarding offsets.

Let me experiment with the mass and see if that changes anything.

EDIT: Doesn't seem to have much to do with Mass.

Ah yes, ACrabs. My Petsuchos from SET had this problem once. It took a redesign to fix it. Mass of attachables, and the placement of said attachables, are important. So does the mass of the legs and the body.
It has something to do with the combined center mass of the whole assembly. If it ended somewhere to the front of the ACrab, it'll tip forward. Try moving some attachables around.
And oh if you try making its mass all 0 it'll still mess things up since walking makes a pushing force.

Is there any easy way of dealing with asymmetrical ACrabs like the one Im working on or do I have to manually work with balancing out the center of mass?

Double post cause this is stupid.

Does anyone know if it has anything to do with the IdleOffset? I'm playing around with that right now and it seems to be doing something.

I believe the SpriteOffset of the body has to be below where the legs attach.

Looking at the Coalition drone's ini. Its sprite offset is above the leg's attach point.

I'm gonna see what the dislodge path does.

I came into this thread expecting crabs on acid. I was very disappointed.
C-, would not read again.

Only by one pixel. The SpriteOffset serves as the center of mass for a sprite, so the higher it is above where the legs attach to the base the more tip-able it will probably be.

That did it. Doubled the Y value and it works like a charm.

Thank you so much.

No_One, you are awesome. Thanks!