applyTorque Tutorial

[Matte]

Khan Academy, I guess?

[-HP-]

Khan Academy, I guess?

Maybe

Thanks for the tip, that site was extremely useful.

[nescalona]

yay khan academy

[Matte]

I just watched all the three videos, and now I have an idea of what the cross product is. As said before, that site is extremely useful.

[LoWang]

does the applyTorque work the same way as wheel? I mean that it is silly weak when going on flat surface with a normal speed and must be set to crazy fast to have any strength to move a vehicle uphill or over an obstacle? I hoped it will be smarter, but after my experiments with powering a car by this it seems this way Is applyAngForce any better in this?

[Fizyk]

If you want applyTorque to be stronger, just multiply the torque vector by a number greater than 1. applyAngForce works in the same units, so giving the same numbers to applyAngForce will result in a torque of the same magnitude as with applyTorque.

[LoWang]

aha, so it is as I suspected :-\ Thx anyway

[Magos Mechanicus]

You know, you could have gears, i.e. apply more torque when you're going uphill than when you're driving on flat ground.

[LoWang]

Gears are clumsy and tend to break up under a bigger stress. But I think I have figured it out already, so it needs just a little more tuning and I will have a perfect rpm controlled motor ;-D

[Magos Mechanicus]

I don't mean have a physical gear. I mean write your E2 so with "Shift gear up/down" inputs that change how much torque is applied by the "go forward" command. So that the user can tune this on the fly to the needs of the terrain.