Recent content by The Sparrow

Thanks, I found an error in my code at some other place which corrected itself by causing extreme values. This made the torque dampened out compared to the linear force. It all works now. I realize it's not perfectly accurate, but it's good enough to be fun.

Ok, thank you very much. Sorry about the topic, I thought I could figure it out if I knew the answer to the first question. Wing.Position is a floating point value that shows how far forward or back the wing is of the CG SweepMag is the magnitude of the instantaneous velocity of the wing...

Thanks for the replies guys. I don't have any collisions, its just forces applied to the fuselage. So you say that I can calculate the force that the wing pushes with, and use that same force in both the equations to work out the linear velocity of the plane and the angular velocity? It doesn't...

But how would conservation of momentum equations change? Since I'd do a conservation of momentum for linear, then for angular, but that won't change the outcome of the linear, only the angular. I'm writing a small program, and I'm adding all forces and torques together before applying the...

Hi, I just have a quick question I hope I can explain well. Suppose you have a metal rod that you apply a force to for a brief moment at the center of mass. It won't rotate and it will move forward at velocity V. Now you reset the scene and move the the force so it's applied off center off the...

Wow, thanks a lot. I might not develop a very personal relationship with them just by reading the answers, but they definitely tell me which direction to look in or what other terms to search for.

Thanks, I've read up a bit more, but I can't find anything that tells me what they actually are, or how a graph of one will change if you increase a value by one, or if they have amplitude or anything. Is it possible to explain how a quaternion looks or feels?

Forums like these give me faith in humanity. I am busy with little project and I've just come out of angular physics after taking a deep breath only to have my head pushed back into the black deep waters of quaternions. I thought having the angular velocity is all I need, and I simply had to...