[ODE] Car Physics

[Alen Ladavac]

I was always under impression that the fake wheel-less cars in racing games
were for performance, not for features. But hey - you live to learn. :)

Couldn't you also get better drifts if you put in a better friction
approximation for the tires? And also add a stabilizer joint on the car
and/or pull-down force, so it can have unrealistic drive forces without
tipping over and without too much mass. Moving the center of mass down can
be a good idea too. (Hey - real car designs include those kinds of "fakes"
as well ;) ).

Just my 4 bits (one for each wheel),
Alen

----- Original Message -----
From: "DjArcas" <djarcas at hotmail.com>
To: "Steve Eckles" <steve.eckles at team17.com>; <ode at q12.org>
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 12:38
Subject: Re: [ODE] Car Physics


> > - It is 4WD. I would like (say) just RWD but makes the car move very
> slowly
> > and the front wheels just get pushed along, rather than rotate. I would
> > ideally like to do arcade style rear-end power drifts!
>
> Doing 'real' powerdrifts is extremely difficult. In MotoGP, Burnout and
> Rally Fusion, FI, we just 'cheated' at that point. You've run into the
> problem of 'I want cool, realistic, but not realistic physics'
>
> If you're after arcadey handling, I would very much recommend NOT using 4
> wheels and a box to attach them to - it's too realistic, but instead
having
> a box to handle collisions, and hang 4 graphical wheels from it.
>
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