Re: Question on car skidding

Arnaud Ceyrolle <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:39:58 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.games.torcs.general
Message-ID <CAN3Qb7zqqd_Qbyw5PwynHaHtk498gsZ3f2gt==R-b3kUP94vJw@mail.gmail.com>
Oooooh thanks for theses advices (on analogue device), I will try it this
evening :-)

I myself try to stay on the track most of the time but on certain tracks
like Ruudskogen, it's merely difficult, and when you are completely stopped
1 or 2 times during a race, you can imagine that you have mainly lost the
opportunity to be in the 3 first places at the end of the race.

best regards


2013/11/20 Bernhard Wymann <[email protected]>

> Hi Arnaud
>
>  When a car skids by rolling on the sidetrack (grass), it begins to skid
>>
>> in every direction and finally systematically turns backwards (in the
>> opposite direction of the race).
>> The fact taht a car skids on the grasssounds rather normalto me, but why
>>
>> is never occasionally ends up facing the trackdirection?
>>
>> Is there an algorithm somewhere that always moves the car in reverse
>> when the car is doing a few slew round ?
>>
>
> No, not at all, during testing I had never that impression, but I try to
> spend most of the time on track, with varying success;-) Non the less, a
> slight (tiny) bias against some moving (not track) direction would be at
> least thinkable because of the center of gravity, driven wheels, etc.
>
> If you have an analogue steering device (mouse, pad or wheel), you can
> usually catch the car with countersteering immediately, or locking the
> wheels up (brakes) until almost 360° of the spin are over, then unlock the
> brakes and catch it. Going neutral or disengage the clutch helps as well.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Bernhard
>
>


-- 
*Arnaud Ceyrolle*

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