Vamos rewrite -- ideas?

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However, I'll also have a chance to make tweaks to the way Vamos currently works. There was a good discussion about the Vamos suspension model here: http://vdrift.net/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=926

The realisation of real suspension-types should be a task to be done later.

Make the suspension-logic an exchangeable module.

A proposal for a „default“ suspension-logic:

„hinge-position“ in [ suspension-XX ] defines one point of the axis the wheel moves around. The x-component of „hinge-position“ is relative to the front/rear-axle-x-position defined in [ wheel-XX ].
The new „hinge-angle“ defines the angle to x-y-plane of the car-body (allows Anti-Dive). And the hinge-axis is rectangular to the line from hinge-point to wheel-center.

Geometrically this describes a plane by Wheel-center, one point, one angle and the hinge by one point and one angle.

The hinge-point can be in- or outside the car and on both (!) sides of the wheel. The distance can be nearly „infinite“.

This model allows a sufficient approximation of the different suspension-models. May be it means the same as the current model, but this one doesn´t work.