1 Jun 2012 15:53
Re: toe and camber
Hello Tom, have a look to Bernhard Wymanns TORCS tutorial. There you should find the definitions including a diagram. But AFAIK, you have to look into the Internet version, not the PDF version, caus the PDF version does not contain all. http://www.berniw.org Cheers Wolf-Dieter -- -- -----Original-(Continue reading)Nachricht----- > Betreff: Re: [Speed-dreams-users] toe and camber> Datum: Thu, 31 May 2012 03:50:28 +0200> Von: Tom Low-Shang <tom <at> lowshang.com>> An: speed-dreams-users <at> lists.sourceforge.net> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:19:21AM +0200, kilo aka Gabor Kmetyko> wrote: > > > > I am not the greatest of car setup creators, however I've got a> > feeling that it would help if applying toe -0.1 would mean "toe in"> > for both sides, similarly positive values would mean "toe out",> > regardless of the side? So it'd go "toe in" and "toe out" versus> > "toe left" or "toe right".> > Isn't this the convention for toe & camber in real life?> > > > 0.1° toe-in and 0.1° toe-out don't need a sign since everyone already> understands where the wheels are pointing. On the other hand camber> doesn't have similar terms and must qualify the angle as positive or> negative to be understood correctly.> > The only place I found that mentions toe-in as positive and toe-out as> negative is the Wikipedia article on toe[1], but it cites no source> for the usage.> > The format of the data in the XML files is internal to SD so it> doesn't have to be easily understood by non-developers. Once SD has a> proper user interface for changing setup, it should represent the> internal data using the conventional terminology.> > Until that happens, the early adopters such as myself will be happy> that the data files are at least human readable. It's one of the few> TORCS legacies
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