Please tell me the minimum and maximum values you’ve changed the springConstant variable to.
Are you changing the values in the script then testing it in Studio, or are you trying to change the values in the script while you are testing? Changes you make to a script while testing won’t make a difference.
What is the diameter in studs of the vehicle wheels?
What is the MotorMaxForce of your wheel HingeConstraints? If it’s not high enough your hinges won’t have enough power to push the car forward.
Are the wheels spinning when you get to a bump? The Friction of the wheels might not be enough to climb up the bump.
As soon as I get on my pc I will provide all the informations. Thanks for the help.
Just skimming over the code, I see several really fundamental problems, enough that I think it’s a waste of your time to play with tuning values here and there. Your suspension code is running in a Server script, but affecting a vehicle that a player’s client is going to be simulating (that’s what you want, anyways). This alone is a huge problem because it means that even if you get something stable in Studio, it won’t work once you publish it to a real game and have actual client-server latency and you’ll be back to having no working vehicle.
But besides just the script context, I see things like the deltaTime parameter not being used (it’s of critical importance), no scaling of forces to account for mass of the vehicle (which can change with occupants, cargo, or add-ons), clamping of forces to max of 1000 which seems arbitrary and could easily be too little, and then use of BasePart:ApplyImpulse() which requires expert level knowledge of how the physics simulation works if you hope to use it as part of a stable controller. Normally you would use ApplyImpulse for one-time things like jumps or launching cannon balls, or explosions; tuning it just right to get smooth continuous motion is just asking for pain.
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So how can I fix my script? What can I improve?
I’ve set the springConstant to 150.
I’ve changed the MotorMaxTorque of the back wheels to 483.331 (as the same as the front wheels) and now seems that the vehicle has a little bit of more force when getting over a part.
When I get to a bump the car works perfectly, but the problem is when I get to a series of a bumps one after another, where if I don’t have enough speed the car might get stucks, and the wheels don’t spin anymore.
There’s also another problem. When I get out of the vehicle, the car parts get completely destroyed, but the scripts and the remote event is still present in the workspace.
I was recommending that you not try to fix it, that you abandon this approach for now. The fastest path to a working vehicle is to build one from physics constraints.
But… if you really want to roll your own scripted suspension, you really need to start at the beginning, learning the basics of physics and control systems. Trying to get someone else’s broken code working by trial and error, without understanding what it’s trying to achieve in the first place, this is IMO an exercise in frustration that will waste time better spent on learning how to build it yourself from first principles.
483 is almost nothing compared to what the max torque should be. Try at least 10,000 to begin with and go up in steps of 5000.
Keep increasing the values until something happens. Going up in small increments is going to waste time, try much bigger numbers to see if it changes.
No, It’s 483 thousand. Not 483.
I already tried watching tutorials, but I just can’t understand anything. If you have any tip I would be glad to hear it.
Then that’s probably too high.
Before you reply back to us you HAVE to experiment with ALL the numbers I’ve mentioned. We really can’t help you if you only try 1 thing at a time when we’ve made a bunch of suggestions in each of our posts. Please understand when we say “Try these 3 suggestions” and you only try 1 of them that it makes it very hard to help you.
Start with 1 of the number variables and make it really high and test the car, then make it really low to see how that affects how the car drives. Change just that number until it works the best it can.
Move on the the next number and experiment with it the same way.
Keep going until you run out of numbers to change.
When you’re done you should get a rough idea of how changing each one affects the way the car drives.
You’ll probably have to go back through all the variables again and experiment more because many times (just like a real car) changing just 1 variable affects how all the other variables react.
After some tests with all the variables and propeties, this is what I noticed:
Setting the MotorMaxTorque at 1000 is already too much. If I set the MotorMaxTorque higher than 500 the car becomes really drifty.
Changing the damping or springConstant variables doesn’t affect the car in any way. I’ve tried setting both of the variables from 1 to 5000 to 15000 to 1000000 and even more but the car is still the same.
Also changing the 1000 in this piece of code don’t change anything: (I’ve tried 900, 90, 10000, 1000000 and even more but nothing change)
forceMagnitude = math.min(resultantForce.Magnitude, 1000)
Also changing the suspensionHeight and suspensionLength don’t change anything (I’ve tried 1.5, 0.1, 100000, 10000000 and other numbers but nothing change).
If 1000 for MotorMaxTorque is too high then you must have a very light car. This might be why you’ve got issues.
A car needs to have some mass for the suspension to work properly.
Is the car just a single Part or a MeshPart that’s very light?
I’ve never used raycast suspensions or tried to code them, so I’m just guessing as to answers to your questions. As @EmilyBendsSpace said, you’ve got some issues with your code that need to be addressed.
I’ve always used Constraints and they are pretty easy once you understand them.
Try this car I made to see what I mean:
Motor steering suspension car.rbxm (15.8 KB)
In the script I explain pretty much everything you need to understand it.
My car is a model with 45 parts (without counting the wheels and the chassis). All the parts’ massless property is set to true. The only parts with the massless property set to false are the wheels and the chassis. Anyways I’ve looked at the model, I’ve read the script and I’ve played a little bit with the propeties of the Hinge Constraints and with the Spring Constraints, to see how they affect the car.
In your car how big is the Chassis Part? If it’s small you may want to try increasing it and increasing its Density as well, just to give the car some more mass.
The chassis size is (16.802, 0.584, 6.32). I’ve changed the density of the chassis to 10, 7 and 15 (and also changed the MotorMaxTorque), but no matter what’s the density, sometimes the car shakes (not always). Here’s a the current chassis:
CarChassis1.rbxl (66.6 KB)
(I’ve removed the car model, the UI and updated the script by removing the parts of the script not in use).
I’m not sure about how the script works. I tried messing with the forces I could see but I’d recommend going through the tutorial you mentioned.
I brought down the SuspensionLength and Height to something like 3 and 2 because you had them jacked up to insane amounts.
Your wheel hinge MaxAcceleration should be around 10 or 20, not 50000.
I didn’t get much further than that because I don’t really understand how the code is supposed to be working.
Why not just use the Roblox Constraints instead? Have a look at the car in my post here:
How can I make a car - #7 by Scottifly
Or go to my car suspension test place on my Roblox profile to see what’s possible with just Constraint suspension.
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After month on trying to learn how to make suspensions with raycasting, I have decided to start learning how to make cars with Constraints, and I have started today with experimenting with Constraints. Thanks for the help, and your vehicle model that you have shared with me in one of the last posts, is helping me undestanding constraints. Thanks for all.
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Using constraints really will be easier for you in the long run.
That said, Roblox physics constraints come with their own challenges. You will need to pay close attention to part masses, and more specifically, the mass ratio of parts that are connected with constraints like springs. If you make something like a car with a heavy body and very low-mass wheels, you might find that it vibrates, jiggles, even flies apart. Whenever possible, try to have connected assemblies have similar mass, or at least not orders of magnitude of mass difference.
The other think to look out for are how the spring settings interact. Damping, stiffness and max force are obviously all important tuning factors, but in a vehicle suspension the spring “free length” is equally important and often overlooked. It establishes the preload condition when your spring is holding up a mass. If you try to tune with stiffness alone, you’ll probably find it difficult.
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