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center of gravity?
08-29-2005, 08:43 PM,
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center of gravity?
Playing with the s2k today I have found that a) the center of gravity is all wrong and b) it is the key to making this thing drive right, which I still can't make it do...so this is very important. I have found that raising the weights makes the car lean in the turns much, much better. However, it makes them lean a little too much, so I've tried moving the back ones up and the front ones down, moving them towards the center or out, moving them forwards or backwards...it's a lot of guessing and I'm running in circles, because I can only change one thing at a time and I have very little way of testing - besides driving, making a replay and watching. This is very time consuming.I have some physics books lying around that will probably tell me how to calculate the center of mass and I might be able to come up with a spreadsheet...I'd appreciate any tips.One thing that really messes with me, though - every time I change the weight distribution the cameras move. I didn't realize they were positioned relative to the center of gravity. This is a really bad way to position them because I have no idea where the cg is, plus changing the weights changes the cameras...
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center of gravity? - by thelusiv - 08-29-2005, 12:42 PM
center of gravity? - by thelusiv - 08-29-2005, 08:43 PM
center of gravity? - by dolio - 08-29-2005, 10:36 PM
center of gravity? - by joevenzon_phpbb2_import3 - 08-30-2005, 09:20 AM
center of gravity? - by thelusiv - 08-30-2005, 10:10 PM
center of gravity? - by thelusiv - 09-03-2005, 10:44 PM
[No subject] - by uldics - 02-11-2007, 06:44 AM
[No subject] - by reece146 - 02-11-2007, 12:22 PM

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