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-The gas is on the right; the brake is on the left… one at a time people. | -The gas is on the right; the brake is on the left… one at a time people. Some people astound me! | ||
'''Any Vehicle goes through a few stages before it’s toast.''' | |||
-New- It’s brand new, runs like a champ. That seems to last a really long time, doesn’t it? | -New- It’s brand new, runs like a champ. That seems to last a really long time, doesn’t it? | ||
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YOU WILL SEE THESE USED MORE THAN ONCE! LEARN THEM | YOU WILL SEE THESE USED MORE THAN ONCE! LEARN THEM | ||
:-Blue Groove- The blue groove is the mental line that is made and changed every second. This groove is the one that your mind chooses as its best plan of action. For example, the blue grove for a normal turn would be a sweeping arch. | |||
:-Feather- To feather the throttle means to work the throttle back and forth between 40%-90% throttle to achieve an optimum level of spin on the car. (When the rear wheels of a car are broken free from the pavement the result is the rear wheels want to instantly slide to the outside of the turn. We can’t have them doing that now can we? So by controlling the speed at which the rear wheels spin, we control how much the rear wheels slide.) When going through a turn, to kick the back end farther toward the outside of the turn, throttle on. If you want the rear wheels to come more in line with the front wheels, throttle off. This is used in many situations where the engine controls the spin of the car. | |||
:-Understeer- When the vehicle makes a wider turn than was intentionally planned. (The rear wheels did not kick out enough) | |||
This is a picture showing the blue groove as a green dotted line and the Red line represents the line that the car actually takes. | ::This is a picture showing the blue groove as a green dotted line and the Red line represents the line that the car actually takes. | ||
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Understeer.svg | ::[[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Understeer.svg]] | ||
:-Oversteer- When the vehicle made a tighter turn than was intentionally planned. (The rear wheels kicked out too far.) | |||
This is a picture showing the blue groove as a green dotted line and the Red line represents the line that the car actually takes. | ::This is a picture showing the blue groove as a green dotted line and the Red line represents the line that the car actually takes. | ||
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Oversteer.svg | ::[[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Oversteer.svg]] | ||
Okay, now I’m ready to tell you the best driver profile. | Okay, now I’m ready to tell you the best driver profile. | ||
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Cornering under power is a tough prospect; it involves a skilled hand and a keen mind. To better understand how a car will react you need to understand a few key concepts. | Cornering under power is a tough prospect; it involves a skilled hand and a keen mind. To better understand how a car will react you need to understand a few key concepts. | ||
-NOTE-I’m relatively sure if you’re reading this you have no idea how a video game’s physics work. In basis it’s the same as Earth Physics, maybe because that’s what we based it on, if you’re actually curious enough to want to learn about those things, look it up. But the big physics problems we have to deal with here are, Friction, Centrifugal force (To understand centrifugal force you need understand this, any object in motion has a tendency to stay in motion unless another force is exerted upon it. In other words when your car takes a turn, it doesn’t want to turn, you make it, the force of the front wheels working against the weight of the car forces the vehicle to conform and move in the desired direction otherwise your vehicle would continue in the direction that is so pleased, strait, until another force stopped it, like… a wall.), and counter effects. The great thing about physics is that everything is predictable, what happens today will happen exactly the same tomorrow. And each effect has a counter effect, whither you believe it or not you are always fighting against counter effects in everything you do. | ''-NOTE-I’m relatively sure if you’re reading this you have no idea how a video game’s physics work. In basis it’s the same as Earth Physics, maybe because that’s what we based it on, if you’re actually curious enough to want to learn about those things, look it up. But the big physics problems we have to deal with here are, Friction, Centrifugal force (To understand centrifugal force you need understand this, any object in motion has a tendency to stay in motion unless another force is exerted upon it. In other words when your car takes a turn, it doesn’t want to turn, you make it, the force of the front wheels working against the weight of the car forces the vehicle to conform and move in the desired direction otherwise your vehicle would continue in the direction that is so pleased, strait, until another force stopped it, like… a wall.), and counter effects. The great thing about physics is that everything is predictable, what happens today will happen exactly the same tomorrow. And each effect has a counter effect, whither you believe it or not you are always fighting against counter effects in everything you do.'' | ||
''-NOTE-Each force that is exerted upon the vehicle creates a counter effect. Sometimes this counter effect is intentional, sometimes it’s not. An example of an intentional counter effect would be… If you floor it, the rear wheels will either spin, or push the vehicle foreword. An example of an unintentional counter effect would be… If you take a corner at high speed, the centrifugal force will pull the car outward (understeer), and if pivoting at the axis (the front axel) is easier than pulling the whole car out to the outside of the turn, The car will do just that and oversteer itself into a full-bodied spin. '' | |||
To best lean how to corner under power, find a Sabre GT or a Dukes. | To best lean how to corner under power, find a Sabre GT or a Dukes. | ||