Drifting

[thelusiv]

I agree rookie1, I'll check out your changes later. The reason I think penalizing leaving the track is good, is that in most kinds of serious racing competition, if you leave the track you are disqualified at least for that race session...in a drifting competition I think courses are mostly set up with cones, so the equivalent would be running over cones, and that would probably also lead to disqualification. Thus penalizing the player by not scoring for several seconds after leaving the track doesn't seem so drastic to me. Anyway, I think we want to encourage players to stay on the track, and discourage them from going off track as an easy way to lose traction and start into a drift. Like I said, I can get off the track, blast through 1st gear and hit 2nd with the wheels still spinning. Then I'm fast enough to be over the 10 m/s limit, and I'm already drifting, but I'm not really drifting, just faking it by burning rubber.

kidrock, are you sure you really went over 90 degrees? 90 degrees means the car is totally sideways, and over that would mean that the rear end of the car is further ahead of the front end in terms of the direction it's traveling in.

On that note, rookie1, why not add some text next to the score that pops up during scoring telling the angle of the drift (in degrees)?