[ODE] Vehicle Gears/DriveDrain/Engine techniques.

[Jeff Weber]

I'm soon to be creating the engine/drivetrain for my vehicles.  Looking for 
any techniques others have used.

Has anyone had any luck simulating gears using real torque curves?  In other 
words, if all the units for my vehicle are correct, and I apply drive torque 
derived from real torque curves and gear ratios, will the vehicle behave 
realistically.

I think in theory it should but was wondering if anyone has done it.

Also, how is DesiredVelocity handled in this situation. Is it acceptable to 
just make DesiredVelocity some arbitrarily large value and let the max 
vehicle speed be limited by different drag/resistance forces?

-jeff





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