Wheels Join-ed: A work-in-progress method for a wheels type joint

ericzingeler

Saw a couple of threads asking about the possibility of joints. Here's a demo project of how joints can be made with motion velocity. It's a work-in-progress, but mostly gets the job done. I need to brush up on some trigonometry and calculus before taking this any further.



Grab project here

Please post questions, comments or contributions here.

natzuur

As always, great stuff @ericzingeler I could see this being pushed further into a full game easily!

Manto

Thanks for sharing! Works perfectly.

Here's what I just did with your demo:

ericzingeler

haha, nice... well done!

beefy_clyro

Very nice

blue_elephant

How could I use this but control it using left and right keys?

quantumsheep

That's pretty cool. Was toying with the idea of adding a 'driving' section to a particular game. This might come in useful

blue_elephant

@Manto1 How did you do yours? The car body and the arrow key controls.

Manto

@blue_elephant Here's the project file. The code is not optimized and there are some situations when the body moves unrealistically. In other words it's not perfect, but I'm making it better.

blue_elephant

@Manti1 Thanks a lot! This is very helpful.

UtopianGames

Nice work

Darren.

BoomshackBarry

Very cool - I'd love to turn this in to a full on hill climb racing kind of game Thanks for everything you share @ericzingeler!

kinzua

Awesome stuff there. Real silk. It feels actually like hill climb racing. Would love to see you do something cool out of it.

Sparkyidr

Very cool

StormyStudio

Agreed...Tres cool

KevinCross

Awesome work @ericzingeler and @Manto1

GSAnimator

Like it!

beefy_clyro

Looking forward to seeing how this progresses Good work guys

LuckyLurcher

@ericzingeler Excellent work. I've been playing around with it- it works really well and is very clever.

tenrdrmer

Finally got to play with this. very cool!!! It might help me bring an old project back to life.

ericzingeler

Thanks guys, glad people like it.

Manto

Updated it a bit.



Added:
- More realistic wheels. They rotate instead of setting velocity.x & y
- Drive types
- Ice

Btw, do you mind if I am posting these on your thread @ericzingeler?

beefy_clyro

Loving the updates

tenrdrmer

yeah definitely keep updating this.

Its great stuff!!!