On Thursday 01 February 2007 09:55, Joacim Persson wrote: > On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, leee wrote: > > On Thursday 01 February 2007 00:35, Curtis Olson wrote: > >> For what it's worth, if someone wanted to adapt one of our existing > >> fdm's to do automotive vehicle dynamics, that would be a cool thing. > > > > It had occurred to me that YASim could be (ab)used to fake a car. > > I have been using a setup for testing/measuring fuselage drag of the > Chinook, aka the "chinook bus". I just added a thruster element down at > the rear wheels and a adjusted few other things. The original rotors were > replaced by a miniature rotor the size of a cpu fan, just to keep yasim in > helicopter mode. It actually autorotated sometimes. It was also during one > of these test runs I had an accident with a cow (the new greenhorn breed) > and crashed. ;) That was before the recent ground bumpiness/friction patch > so I didn't always bother to stay on the runway. > > But what cannot be simulated currently, in the above manner, is > powerskidding with the driving wheels. There is also no gear box model. >
Did you use a single thruster or a pair, located at each wheel - nasal differential code anyone? But regarding the driving wheels and gear box - well - I guess we shouldn't expect too much, bearing in mind that it's a flight sim:) LeeE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
