Tokamak help please...
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| Hi all, I am using a steering wheel and pedals with the original car demo Sweenie posted a few weeks ago. I have sorted out acceleration and steering, but I can't figure out how to make the car brake realistically. Can anyone point me in the right direction please? Many thanks IPete2. |
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| the tokamak forum is where to go, find it on the forum @ www.playerfactory.co.uk |
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| Increase friction on the front wheels? Or perhaps create a simmilar response by making the front wheels massively heavy forcing the car to dip and come to a halt??? Sorry - just guessing here, no actual experience with this in Tokamak... 0.2 Danny. |
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| I'm not familiar with the demo in question, but it seems to me that increasing friction would be more like slowing down than braking ( a fine distinction, but i hope you see what I mean. ) Presumably acceleration is achieved by applying a positive force, so could braking not be as simple as applying a force in the opposite direction? |
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| That would be my assumption too sybixsus. |
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| Sure. "Braking" means as much as slowing down very very fast right? Else you'd call it 'stopping' :/ You hit the brakes, your wheels stop turning, and nothing else but the friction between the rubber of your tires and the ground will bring it to a halt after a few meters. Right? More (extreme) friction means quicker stop (more 'abrupt braking'). If I understand Tokamakokikak enough (=little) and you parent the body of your car to the wheels. Then a change in dynamics in the wheels (speed /direction) should be reflected in the dynamics of the car-body (given enough spring, etc.)?! ?! |
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| Hi guys, Thanks for the suggestions... I have now come up with a way to make it brake, as follows for those who also need to know: I check the brake pedal whose setting ranges from 100 - 0. I take the figure given away from 100 to reverse the range 0-100. I use this calculation to add linear and angular 'damping' (er I think - it's on a different Hard drive so I can't exactly remember or view it now). So the harder you brake the more the braing occurs. I reset the effected damping variables on acceleration. I'll find time this evening to post a code example for you to slot into your car demos. Ipete2. |
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