Re: [TuxKart-devel] Little Tutorial on vehicle physics

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Ingo Ruhnke wrote:
> Found a little tutorial on vehicles physics, comes even with a little
> example programm (compiles without problems with allegro):
> 
>  * http://home.planet.nl/~monstrous/tutcar.html
>  * http://home.planet.nl/~monstrous/download.html#cardem08
> 
> Might provide a good start for Tuxkart physics and should be a whole
> lot less throublesome than full blown ODE support.

Wow! That's a good tutorial.

So back to the question of ODE versus home-grown dynamics.

ODE would give us things like animation of suspension parts and
convincing animation of things like crashes, jumps and stuff
like tipping up on two wheels.  Once you've gone through the
pain of making it work, ODE gives you a lot of cool/unplanned
effects 'for free'.

We should look at how Torcs works - I believe it uses ODE and
PLIB - maybe they've done a lot of the work for us.

However, doing something based on this tutorial would be much
easier to implement and subsequently be easier to tune.

It's a really hard call.

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