[SUGGESTION] Use Advanced Ballsockets for wheel braking #235
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enhancement
New feature or request
good first issue
Good for newcomers
help wanted
Extra attention is needed
high priority
Stuff that needs to be done as quick as possible
serverside
Short Description
In their current state, brakes have a lot to desire. Despite there has been attempts to fix braking while the gearbox has no engine power, there's still a lot of problems present on gearboxes.
One of the ways to improve braking could be by using an advanced ballsocket constraint on the wheels connected to the gearbox. That way, all that needs to be done is control the rotational friction on the constraint to apply a brake. This is currently done by Wire Clutch entities, which from what I've heard works flawlessly. I also tried some testbed contraptions with ballsockets applied on the wheels and the braking seems to scale just fine as the friction goes down.
However, there's only two concerns I have at the moment of writing this suggestion which root on my complete lack of knowledge on this topic:
There's also the cons of this adding one constraint per every single wheel connected to a gearbox, which is my opinion is an acceptable drawback for the improvement this could provide.
I've heard there's another methods to accomplish better braking that people does already as an alternative to ACF brakes, I'd gladly hear about them if that were the case.
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