Car changes his turn direction in the air

when you drive inclined to a ramp, then the car is always turning in the air back to his normal position (when you have enough air time) and want to land on the tires.

It just looks not realistic when your car changes his turn direction in the air.

i hope you can understand what i mean.

greetings from germany

 

I have noticed that too, but only on very, very, very long or high jump.

I think this is because the engine do consider the weight repartition (which is mainly at the bottom front, except for the Bolide) and maybe the air friction, which will make the car rotate while in air.

So, it may be totally normal, not so unrealistic.

 

it dont rotate forward or backwards.

it rotate to the right then to the left (or from left to right)

i dont think it is because of the air friction, i dont think that this game is so realistic to pay attention to that.


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Heavy things don't fall faster, so the wight doesn't matter. Normaly cars are turning to the front when they drive over a ramp because the front leaves the ramp at first. So the turning of the car might be unrealistic.

 

in a world with air friction heavy things fall faster.(depends more on the surface area and shape though)

 

I read somewhere that aerodynamics play a role in Beam. Let me demonstrate with a pictograph.

Here we see the air pressure wrapping around the car.

Code:

^^      /`-_     ^
^^     /    `-_  ^
^     /        / ^
^    /        / ^^
^   /        / ^^^
^  /        / ^^^^
^ /        / ^^^^^
^/        / ^^^^^^
^ `-_    / ^^^^^^^
^^^  `-_/ ^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^   ^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Because the pressure on the side going into the wind is higher than the one on the other side, the pressure difference makes the car want to point like this:

Code:

^^^^         ^^^^^
^^^  _______  ^^^^
^^^ |       | ^^^^
^^^ |       | ^^^^
^^^ |       | ^^^^
^^^ |       | ^^^^
^^^ |       | ^^^^
^^^ |       | ^^^^
^^^ |       | ^^^^
^^^ |       | ^^^^
^^^ L-------J ^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

so that the pressure on both sides is equal. Make sense?

Basically, after the inertia from the initial spin from the ramp bleeds off due to air resistance, the differences in air pressure around the car make it want to point straight again.

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little edit.

Found a quote from tdev here.

 

The air is dependent on the shape of the submesh, yes.

In all honesty, a real car doesn't fly through the air perfect every time, does it? Wind is also able to be applied to maps, so I'm sure that has something to do with it.

 

Quick someone model a car with wings!

 

A car essentially is a wing.


Thank you estama.