Re: Tangent angle and yaw

Bernhard Wymann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.games.torcs.general
Organization wytec
Message-ID <[email protected]>
see http://berniw.org/torcs/robot/ch1/basic-drive-1.html:

RtTrackSideTgAngleL(&(car->_trkPos)) gives the angle relative to the 
fixed global coordinate system and car->_yaw is also relative to this.

Its like saying "the road is heading east and the car is heading south-east.

Best reagrds

Bernhard

On 12/29/2011 09:01 PM, muchacho wrote:
>
> I'm having trouble fully understanding these angles. The yaw is the rotation
> of the z axis, is that rotation measured from the axis at the first segment?
> For the tangent angle of the track is that measured with respect to the
> first segment?


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