Hey, I am using the Car_project template that came with A7 and i am trying to get my vehicle to act like its driving on snow. I don't want it to roll over at all. I would like it to be like real life where if you are going fast and try to stop you start sliding and have little control over steering. And When you go slow and brake you have complete control over the car and little to no sliding. Can someone please help me with finding the exact values on the PlCar01 action. Thanks the help would be greatly appreciated.

No hits?

Oh c'mon, nothing?

The way I would go about doing it:

1- make certain areas slippery
(almost like a collision detection - try to
detect through progrmamming certain areas)


2- there is a command in the physics where you
can change the friction (in the middle of
the game, too!)

I think it is: ph_setfriction.
do this to the tires.

You can also change the friction
based on the speed of a car (if it is
going a certain slow speed, give it
more friction, if it is going fast,
reduce friction a little)....

Also, I wouldn't use the PlCar01, because you would
manually have to add each vehicle.

I would go to the Wiki and download the newer car physics
that someone made
(although I discoveres 3 problems, it never seemed to get out
of beta - but I figured it out and got it working after about
10-15 hours worth of work)


-Jimc74

Thank you so much for your reply. I did what you said and went to the Wiki and downloaded the UPDATED Version, and It worked amazingly. If you would, could you please write a piece of code that would tell the car not to roll over? If not its okay but thank you so much for this code i really appreciate it.

I am not familiar with that one. ( i think I used
a different one)
Can you use more than 1 car with the updated one?

I think it would be really hard just to write
code not to tell it to roll over... I think you
just have to mess around with the physic settings
(I never had my vehicles rolling over.... they just
slide everywhere)... But if you know you are sliding,
you can change certain settings (not easy, but it is good
to learn how to use the physics)... like changing gravity, friction,
etc.

by the way, if you ever need to "reset" a vehicle, it is rather
easy... just disable the chassis and tires, move everything
somewhere (and change the pan, tilt, roll), and restart the
physics for the objects....

-Jimc

opps... that would be

phent_setfriction, not ph_setfriction...


if you are having too much trouble, I can just send you
my code (I spent over a year with it....) so I can
send you what I did so far
(there were times I wanted to give up...)
Eventually it got really easy for me
after a while, though...


-Jimc74
jimowencassidy74@yahoo.com

can u give me the link for the things 2 download plz jimc74?

Can i have a link too, my car hardly moves!

I know im not the user you wanted but here is the link, CLICK. Just scroll down to the UPDATED VERSION and read the comments to see how to use it. I know you have to put one of the functions in main.

cheers