Sideways drift how to

Troubleshooting physics
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I am trying to add power sliding to my flagrush mod and I'm not quite sure how to do it. I have partly adjusted the vehicle handle the way I need it to "even accidentally figured out a way to do donuts" I just can't get the sliding going. I want it to happen naturally taking turns at high speeds or deliberately by applying braking braking while turning at high speeds.



remember furballs could generate sideways drift but I am not sure how renanse did it.



some pointers would be nice.



thanks in advance.

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Furballs simply did not change the direction of movement when you hit any keys but only accelerates in certain directions. You could do a similar thing for the bike: keep a portion of the current movement vector and combine it with the new desired vector. Something like this:

newMovementVector = a*oldMovementVector + (1-a)*desiredMovementVector

For a greater a you'd get more 'sliding'.

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thanks man great help

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just getting back to this, but how do I go about finding the movement vectors and apply the acceleration,tried a couple things but didn't get it working








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irrisor said:

newMovementVector = a*oldMovementVector + (1-a)*desiredMovementVector


also known as linear interpolation, or lerp ;)
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Initial D!!! Driftdooooo!!!



ahem  ://

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guess I got some reading to do, any online recommendations, couldn't find anything useful in a forum search.

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think it might have figure something out will see how it goes.



I am off from work these days so investing a bit more than half the ass I can usually invest in learning to code is a set goal…for now :slight_smile:



we'll see what happens