Vehicle Mechanics w/ Body Movers

[i_Zolox]

My goal is to properly emulate vehicle acceleration and braking using body movers. The only issue is I can’t exactly wrap my head around how. I mean I can make the car move with no issue but properly making it accelerate realistically and braking is the problem I can;t seem to solve.

I’m also not entirely sure as to what bodymover would be based suited for a car chassis. Right now I have deemed BodyThrust my best option.

Any insight that would help me in achieving my goal would be greatly appreciated

[Wunder_Wulfe]

If you want the vehicle to move I would highly suggest just rolling the wheels and using actual wheel physics to push it. Should be easy with a few cylinders and some Constraints. I talked about the different ways of making vehicles move in this post I made a while ago:

Is anyone able to help me understand vehicles?

If youre looking for cross compatible support like on my game test, you should not use vehicle seat input at all. Some of the controls are terrible, specifically for mobile and console. The joystick, for example, controls both steer and throttle. The triggers also control throttle but the input is not analog. It is mostly better to map them yourself once you got basic input handling down. You can just use values for brake and throttle based on things like the fingers position or the triggers pre…

As for how you control these properties, just assign to them using scripts that listen for user input or vehicle seat values.

[i_Zolox]

The only issue with that is it would have a bit of trouble climbing inclined spaces

[Wunder_Wulfe]

Not really if using actual wheels with proper friction settings. You can sort of do it with something like a BodyThrust too, but keep in mind that it is still a BodyThrust and not a proper moving vehicle so it will do things like fly into the air if it is aiming up and they accelerate!

[i_Zolox]

What would you suggest I use for acceleration?
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[Wunder_Wulfe]

Just use the properties in the hinges. They have torque, acceleration, and velocity. You can mess with the torque to make it accelerate and brake.