[Supertuxkart-devel] bullet: chassis hanging at the ground

[Constantin P. <con...@ru...>]

Hi!

In the last weeks I've played around with the kart-variables quite a lot 
and I'm really hanging with the wheel-radius. I've decided to not touch 
this parameter pretty early, since I recognised it wouldn't have the 
effect i wanted it to have and was pretty unpredictable. In contrast, 
now it seems to me, that the wheel-radius would be an adequate instument 
to prevent the wiggling of some karts, esp of the hexley-kart. BUT there 
is only a very very small margin for this parameter until it feels like 
an invisible part beyond the chassis is hanging at the ground and the 
kart gets undriveable or the opposite way, the karts seems to fly and 
gets uncontrolable (instant wheelies). Don't get me wrong, but the whole 
thing feels to me like the wheels are not calculated in the 
ground-collision at all, and they are just hanging around, while, in 
reality the chassis is accelerating and steering.
I guess you know better about it, just wanted to give back some feedback.
I will play around with this and the dumping parameters over the weekend .
Btw.: Sorry that the kart-profiles aren't ready by now, but with my 
current local copy, it's impossible to balance the karts for huge 
AI-problems. I will get a fresh svn-copy today ;)

Greetings