Rigging spaceship landing gear

Support Animation and Rigging
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Hi everyone, I am trying to rig some spaceship landing gear. Using the transformation constraint, I have set up some bones to rotate up into the body of the ship, based on the z position of a controller bone.

However, I also want the ship to settle and rise as it lands on the floor, so it feels like it has some weight.
I’ve set up an IK and a floor constraint so that the feet don’t pass through the floor, but unfortunately this breaks my landing gear rotation and control bone.
Anyone have any tips?
Thanks

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To elaborate, these are the two behaviors I want:

landing gear unfold:

Landing suspension:

the problem is that the unfold doesn’t work with the suspension IK:

Is there a better way to do this? I’m obviously not a rigging expert any help would be much appreciated

Thanks