Vehicles in UE4 , a constructive debate

[Sly401]

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Hi, thanks for starting this thread. I agree with a lot of the points made on here, especially about needing a simpler more modular wheel component. Today I submitted USimpleWheeledVehicleMovementComponent which simply provides n-wheel support with suspension and friction of tires. This allows you to apply drive/brake torque to individual wheels as well as steering. I’m hoping this will make it easier to make different contraptions like shopping carts, skate boards, arcade vehicles, etc…

I also submitted a fix to how our suspension forces were being applied. It seems that before my change we were applying the force based on an offset from the vehicle center of mass instead of the spring position. This required people to often give a negative spring force offset to get realistic results. Here’s a video showing the fix: https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/Cq0a7qUXEAA7kWe.mp4

Please keep the issues coming.

EDIT: I should probably mention this won’t be in 4.13 as we’ve already branched for that, but expect this in 4.14 and in github soon if you’re building from source.

EDIT2: I forgot to mention that we’ve also added a bReverseAsBrake which will allow you to turn off the reverse being tied to brake functionality.

Now this is the best news I have heard in a long time, many thanks for implementing this.

I look forward to redesigning my vehicles using this… mmmm wel maybe

Many thanks again

Paul G