Every once in a while I like to tweak the physics on cars to have them drive in a way I feel is more realistic, or can be better used to improving my driving. One car I most enjoy driving is a small open wheel car, the formula ford. It is very well done, but I feel there are some areas that could be improved upon. It does have a fair balance, but I feel it could use a little more lift off oversteer. I can adjust the weight balance from 56% rear bias to 58% and it has the amount of lift off oversteer (trailing throttle oversteer, tto)that I am looking for, but there are a few other things I would like to be able to adjust if possible. I feel the rear end does not slide easily enough on heavy throttle. Yes it is a low power car but I would prefer to have less longitudinal grip and have it bring the back end out not just from weight transferring forward but also from too much throttle if the car is already using considerable amount of lateral grip from turning hard. Now when placing more mass toward the rear it also does create more (tto), but then does has even more longitudinal grip on the rear tires when accelerating.
Is there a way to increase or decrease lateral grip and longitudinal grip independently?
Can I adjust the inertia from front to rear independently? Or does anyone know what each number down in blue correlates to?
Can I adjust the grip for the front tires and rear independently?
How could I possibly adjust the grip of the tires vs the slip angle they are at? To be able to make a tire more or less progressive in nature.
Here are some of the settings under "general" in the hdc file.
Thanks,
Slalom823
[GENERAL]
Rules=0 // what rules to apply to garage setups (0=none, 1=stock car)
GarageDisplayFlags=0 // how settings are displayed in garage (add): 1=rear wing, 2=radiator, 4=more gear info
FeelerFlags=0
Mass=495.0 // 425kg Car + 70kg Driver
Inertia=(475.0, 500.0, 95.0) // all inertia except fuel
FuelTankPos=(0.0, 0.15, 0.30) // location of tank affects center of gravity (very close and even slightly ahead of CG in F1)
FuelTankMotion=(560.0,0.7) // simple model of fuel movement in tank (spring rate per kg, critical damping ratio)
Notes="Formula_Ford"
Symmetric=1
DamageFile=Formula_Ford.dmg // file to find physical and graphical damage info
CGHeight=0.210 // height of body mass (excluding fuel) above reference plane was 0.215
CGRightRange=(0.500, 0.00, 0) // fraction of weight on left tires
CGRightSetting=0
CGRearRange=(0.56, 0.0, 1)
CGRearSetting=0
GraphicalOffset=(0.0, -0.04, 0.0) // does not affect physics!
Undertray00=(0.35, 0.040, -1.300) // offset from center of car, and between axles // Floor LF corner
Undertray01=(-0.35, 0.040, -1.300) // offset from center of car, and between axles // Floor RF corner
Undertray02=(0.40, 0.040, 1.350) // offset from center of car, and between axles // FLoor LR corner
Undertray03=(-0.40, 0.040, 1.350) // offset from center of car, and between axles // Floor RR corner
Undertray04=(0.40, 0.040, 0.0) // offset from center of car, and between axles // Floor Left Centre
Undertray05=(-0.40, 0.040, 0.0) // offset from center of car, and between axles // Floor Right Centre
Undertray06=(0.65, 0.035, 0.0) // offset from center of car, and between axles // Floor Exhaust Centre
Undertray07=(0.60, 0.035, -0.350) // offset from center of car, and between axles // Floor Exhaust Front
UndertrayParams=(250000.0,12500.0, 2.0)// undertray spring rate, damper rate, and coefficient of friction
TireBrand=Formula_Ford
FrontTireCompoundSetting=0 // front compound index within brand
RearTireCompoundSetting=0 // rear compound index within brand
FuelRange=(1.0, 1.0, 41)
