I Tried to Create a 'Realistic' Drift Feel with New Technology

Welcome to another episode of Trailmakers! Today I want to revisit drifting in Trailmakers using the gyros and logic blocks. Can I get it to feel more like legit drifting?

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[meow]

scrapman you were supposed to spawn it on stranded, thats why theres a roof

[harlyquin]

what i tried - rear wheel drive, slim wheels all the way round, no rocket engines because the rockets wont aid your wheel spin, add some weight for inertia, gyro and servos for steering, doing this aloud me to go slower to break traction and drift for as long as you want

[RisithLDS]

The map is built under the test map, and it has some Easter eggs too btw, there was one in the video

[NoNo-topd]

Place the thrusters at the front and have them pivot with your car so they always point in the direction you want to go. With your current setup, they push the car at an angle, making it harder to exit a drift cleanly. The thrusters should help you maintain speed through corners, as drifting reduces speed due to friction. By counteracting this friction with a force from the thrusters, you could achieve larger drift angles even at lower speeds.

[blaketfg]

You can also send a negative 0.01 output to a wheel to act as a brake. You can also use a different level of output between the front and back wheels to simulate burnout.

[Grunk-ikos]

Once you get passed a certain angle (more than your steering angle) then your front wheels start to lose traction too. Drift cars have a ton of steering angle so that you can still track when you are kicked way out.

[mmaster-sk]

I loved this. You took different approach than I thought. I would deploy low friction skis lifting back wheels a bit based on side speed.

[Z.DeAllen]

Trying to use drift physics on keyboard and not controller is like trying to pilot a deep-sea submersible with a contr... too soon.

[NineK]

You could try using skis in the back to take away traction from the back wheels on demand using a piston, not sure if it would work but worth a shot

[kathywaitegracie]

2:43 he says logic twice! 😂 also keep up the awesome videos! (Your my favorite youtuber😅)

[KingDeadMan]

The main reason you can't slide properly, is because the slip-angle is really high. You need tires that give way when you want them to.

[thomaas]

great video once again!!! althought one thing that you could have done was to put the gyro steering in the front of your car, like that it would make the back of the car oversteer way more easily with less forces :D (sorry I'm french my english might be bad)

[lazilexi]

Hiya Scrap! Had an idea for another possible drift mechanism - you could have the speed sensors connected to hinges on the back wheels which turn *the same direction* as the front wheels - so that rather than turning sharper it instead causes a strafing motion, which would help simulate the back wheel burnout which you mentioned several times.

[songlover]

Omg your front tires need a lot more steering angle.

[steepercreve]

i made this in scrap mechanic, if you use a logic block in trailmakers to power an engine you could toggle how kuch power it outputs and rev the front engline lower than the back and make it try and catch up which in turn makes it burn out. not sure if anyone else said this

edit: obv not realistic

adversitement
i have a little itty bitty shopping cart drift thing on my workshop under name steepercreve, i think its pretty fun :3

[leighamoebs]

1:06 there is "gnome" way out of this map

[meow]

i think you should look at community drifters for a video, the creator of the map has some great ones

[pharneposht]

One thing that could help you extend drift time is hooking thrusters up to three(or more)-step accumulator that outputs 0.0, 0.5, 1.0 power or something like that

[metrickpalidain]

Maybe try having grippier wheels in the front so turning out of the drift is stronger

[Cullinane]

I've been having some fun with the campaign and I'm really enjoying the process of designing a heavy-duty vehicle that can carry a huge load and be stable doing it. It would be cool to see a challenge where you and the boys take turn carrying a large round ball of varying weights from one spot to another.