Hey! It's cultural.
Had. Blame my ex. :| But now I have a giant spider, (temporarily, weather permitting) a giant snowman and a huge (empty) beer bottle collection that I don't have a clue what to do with.
I've personally found the AWD vehicles handle best with only a light locking of the diffs, but a healthy rearward bias to the torque split.
Why? Too much locking just adds understeer, and with three diffs rather than one, that's two more sources of understeer. So keeping light locking helps give the turn in characteristics as dictated by your suspension. I generally use a little more locking at the front compared to the rear, to better handle the power. I send enough power to the rear wheels to a) optimise tyre heating and wear and b) give the car a slight oversteer tendency under power, so it feels a bit more like RWD than FWD. From memory, I used about 33% in the RB4 and 22% in the FXR. A couple of percent either way makes quite a difference to on power handling, if the rest of your setup is quite neutral.
Why? Too much locking just adds understeer, and with three diffs rather than one, that's two more sources of understeer. So keeping light locking helps give the turn in characteristics as dictated by your suspension. I generally use a little more locking at the front compared to the rear, to better handle the power. I send enough power to the rear wheels to a) optimise tyre heating and wear and b) give the car a slight oversteer tendency under power, so it feels a bit more like RWD than FWD. From memory, I used about 33% in the RB4 and 22% in the FXR. A couple of percent either way makes quite a difference to on power handling, if the rest of your setup is quite neutral.
Maybe I'm forgetful, but I don't recall anything like this happening?
Have no idea what you're talking about.
Funny, my IM client says it last saw you 13 days ago.
Although I don't recall speaking to you on it for a very long time.
cPanel has the licencing issue for me again?
Yeah, it's pretty weird. Did you not hear it last night too, Stuart?
Anyway, today I got sent home early from work, so my house mate and I built ourselves a little snowman:
(click photos for larger images)
Anyway, today I got sent home early from work, so my house mate and I built ourselves a little snowman:
(click photos for larger images)
Scawen is known to be working hard still on tyre physics. He might not be putting in the big hours he did at the start of this project, but then why should he? It's clearly not ideal to go so long without an update, but Scawen is commited to tyres, and at least when it's updated, he hopefully won't have to go back to it for a long time.
What I find more worrying is why we couldn't of had at least content patches in the meantime. Sure Rockingham, Scirocco and other surprises have to wait, but the existing models and textures could have been polished to a shine by now. So the question is either, why couldn't they be released, or why haven't they been done? We've had nice updates to tracks and interiors before, why can't we again to tide over the community until Scawen has something for us?
What I find more worrying is why we couldn't of had at least content patches in the meantime. Sure Rockingham, Scirocco and other surprises have to wait, but the existing models and textures could have been polished to a shine by now. So the question is either, why couldn't they be released, or why haven't they been done? We've had nice updates to tracks and interiors before, why can't we again to tide over the community until Scawen has something for us?
You've made this thread before. We closed it before. We're (mostly) all still here too, and shall be next time you come around. Until then, seeya.
Competition from GT5 looking pretty stiff: http://www.gtplanet.net/gt5s-p ... on-nascar-gameplay-video/ - cars are still accelerating hard at 30mph over the real top speed. 
Pit stop animation does look nice though.
Pit stop animation does look nice though.
If PoVo did something similar on this forum, it would incur a temp ban. As it is, it's off the forum, so I don't think it's right to ban him here for something he did elsewhere (even if this thread is the only link to that map).
You could make a car roll into the corner by getting the roll centre above the centre of mass, thus making the anti-roll over 100%. I don't think this would be nice to drive though. You would still get weight transfer on to the outside wheels.
Alternatively, you have a vehicle that runs on suspended rails, and you can just lower the centre of mass below the point at which the forces act on the vehicle (typically where the tyres touch the ground). This would actually cause weight transfer to go in the opposite direction to normal. This however, clearly requires specialist track to run on.
Alternatively, you have a vehicle that runs on suspended rails, and you can just lower the centre of mass below the point at which the forces act on the vehicle (typically where the tyres touch the ground
). This would actually cause weight transfer to go in the opposite direction to normal. This however, clearly requires specialist track to run on.That's because I haven't read that one yet to see if it's spam! Gimme a chance, I'm at work and supposed to be working...
Oh that's just f***ing great. I don't suppose there is any history to undo anyone's changes?
No problems I'm aware of up here. Northerners eat lots of beans so we're used to strong gusts of wind.
The TVR T440R had a 4.2 litre version of that engine rated at 440hp. Sadly never made into production though.
They did, however, stick two end on end to make the 880hp V12 that found it's way into the Speed 12.
They did, however, stick two end on end to make the 880hp V12 that found it's way into the Speed 12.
Only that ^^^ *is* a true story.
Well yeah, I'm assuming he meant efficieny rather than loss, or 85% would be abysmal.
Agreed. Transmission loss on a chain driven bike should be substantially less than a car (for which the 15% figure is often said to be typical for a 2WD).
Tristan has largely covered this but:
Stiffer springs: you're more likely to bounce off a bump or pothole, lose traction, and have a fatal collision with a tree. More useful to adjust the roll balance to remove the understeer, thus improving handling.
Better (?) brakes: increased resistance to fade is useful for hard driving in cars that weren't designed to take it (which includes much higher spec cars than you would have thought). Before fade becomes an issue though, the increased rotational weight will slow your car, the increased unsprung weight worsen the handling, and the increased pedal sensitivity will make it to modulate the brakes in normal circumstances. There is a reason race cars use the smallest brakes they can (NASCAR sprint cup cars at superspeedways, for example, only brake when entering the pits, so have brakes just large enough to not melt or exploded when they brake from 200mph to stopped in a few seconds).
More power: while fun, also has the potential to mean when you do have your accident from over-spirited driving, you'll probably be going faster so it will hurt more.
Stiffer springs: you're more likely to bounce off a bump or pothole, lose traction, and have a fatal collision with a tree. More useful to adjust the roll balance to remove the understeer, thus improving handling.
Better (?) brakes: increased resistance to fade is useful for hard driving in cars that weren't designed to take it (which includes much higher spec cars than you would have thought). Before fade becomes an issue though, the increased rotational weight will slow your car, the increased unsprung weight worsen the handling, and the increased pedal sensitivity will make it to modulate the brakes in normal circumstances. There is a reason race cars use the smallest brakes they can (NASCAR sprint cup cars at superspeedways, for example, only brake when entering the pits, so have brakes just large enough to not melt or exploded when they brake from 200mph to stopped in a few seconds).
More power: while fun, also has the potential to mean when you do have your accident from over-spirited driving, you'll probably be going faster so it will hurt more.
I've got a new facial prosthetic (example shot, not me!), false teeth, fake ears, liquid latex, face paints, fake blood, and a costume I've yet to sort out. That's for my house party the night before Hallowe'en. Been getting in some practise with the gore nights the rock club here runs: Grey Purple. I should look much better than I did last Hallowe'en.
For the scary night itself, there's a zombie walk in the town centre I'll be party of. The organisers are hoping it will be a thousand strong, but we'll see. I've a couple of foam latex wounds to stick on my face, more fake blood and face paints, and some torn clothing for that. Was at the one we had in the summer too: far right top right
Yes, I've only one ripped t-shirt I use for everything.
Might sacrifice another white one to spice things up a bit.
For the scary night itself, there's a zombie walk in the town centre I'll be party of. The organisers are hoping it will be a thousand strong, but we'll see. I've a couple of foam latex wounds to stick on my face, more fake blood and face paints, and some torn clothing for that. Was at the one we had in the summer too: far right top right
Yes, I've only one ripped t-shirt I use for everything.
Might sacrifice another white one to spice things up a bit.Speak for yourself. I'd settle for just attractive.
Nice to read, thanks for posting.
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