Apply force instead of displacement with hydro

Is it possible to apply a force instead of a displacement with a hydro?

Or alternatively, is it possible to apply a torque to an arbitrary set of nodes (through lua)?

 

You could have a really floppy hydro, which would tend to 'persuade' instead of brute force a displacement.

For applying torques, you might want to look at the lua for wheels or the engine, e.g. combustionEngine.lua:

Code:

  obj:applyTorqueAxisCouple(inertialTorque, device.torqueReactionNodes[1], device.torqueReactionNodes[2], device.torqueReactionNodes[3]) 

Depending on your requirements, thrusters might provide a useful starting place too:

Code:

obj:applyForce(thruster.id2, thruster.id1, t )

 

haha yes, that's what I'd been thinking of so far, but it needs additional control lua as the displacements involved are relatively large.

Good shout, thanks

I'd completely forgotten about thrusters! That may well work.

Thanks for your help