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Tuning Center Theory/Explanation?

Discussion in 'SimTools DIY Version' started by rundmg, Nov 26, 2014.

  1. rundmg

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    Hello,
    I have some questions on how the tuning center values really effect the motion. I guess my question is how does that number affect the value it is reading from the games plugin?

    is this correct or way off base?

    Roll and Sway make sense to always be the same, simply because you always want them the same since a car is going to roll and sway equally to the left and right and you can just increase how sensitive you want that (by lowering the tuning center values) or decrease it by raising the value.

    For Surge and pitch am i right in assuming the top value is the forces in the forward direction. that is when you break it is using the value you have on the top of the range. Therefore when you accelerate it is using the value on the bottom of your range (the negative number) to determine how much to move the axis.

    Therefore; if you have a values of say -1 to 10 for surge you car will be much more sensitive to your acceleration than your breaking? or to re-ask the question in a different way would this mean the game would have to give me a surge value of 10+ before it would achieve 100% of the available axis for that force and only 1+ for surge value in the opposite direction?

    My last question is what is the math behind the value i have entered and the value the game is reading. Does it divide the value that is read by the value I have entered and use that as a percentage of its available axis to use? IE if i have my top value for surge set to 10 and i press the breaks and the game gives Sim tools the value of 5 i would then get 5/10 = .5 = 50% of the axis that the force is allowed to use?
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    Thanks @bsft Ive actually read your write up a few times to get started, it and the documentation online helped me get a profile setting that i like for each game I just more or less wanted to understand the 'under the hood' stuff that it was doing so i better understood why the values i was setting were achieving the desired results if that makes sense
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    The larger the value, the less sensitive it is to the incoming values.
    The direction depends on how the developer of the plugin presents the info into SimTools. (most are the same thou)
    And the output direction depends on how you assign output in your axis profiles.

    In short thou, its just finding the percentage of the axis used.
    I hope this answers your question?
    yobuddy
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