Any way to "give" a car momentum?

So, is there any way to literally give a car momentum, as in maybe speeding it up instantly?

Like to set a physics valvue to something somehow and then just watch a car fly off in game?
I doubt there is, just posting this just in case lol

 

Gravity or wind

 

I know, but is there any way to literally set a cars velocity to a set value?

 

i don't think so.

are you asking if there's a way so like, as soon as you spawn the car it's already going say, 50 mph?

 

Yeah, or if you pause the game and (maybe do something in the world editor?) then unpause and the car goes flying off

 

no that's not a thing unless you mod it somehow

 

right

 

If I'm not mistaken, in the Research version of BeamNG, there ETK that is being driven around the map accelerates from 0 to 100km/h (I think) pretty much instantly yet it caused no issues for the jbeams or anything... So I guess it is possible, just got to know how

 

Okay maybe not instantly, but lets say 0-100 km/h in under a second, is there any way to do something like that in any car?

 

Kaboom.

 

You could spawn a car, get it up to that speed, and then teleport it to wherever you want with freecam and f7.

 

That's not really what im looking for, i mean a way to literally accelerate a car faster than it normally can

 

Tried JATO

Sounds interesting

 

G-Force would be infinity, undefined, or nan depending on how Lua handles that division by zero (time being the zero), causing instant instability and the game would pause. I have zero doubt in my mind that any attempt to set a velocity instantly would result in errors.

There is no way around the time issue. You need to apply force to the car to change its speed. If you apply the force over a time of zero, read above. Nothing good will happen. You can, however teleport the car while in motion so you can have it appear at a point going a certain speed. This works well with cruise control for lower speeds.

 

I know, im now just looking for a way to make any car accelerate a lot faster than it normally can

 

just use the nodegrabber

 

I don't think that's true at all. Nodes experience sudden accelerations (instantaneous in the right situations) all the time during head on collisions. Otherwise the nodes would go trough objects when you crash, and that doesn't happen. The physics engine is obviously programmed in a way where division by zero is a non-issue. Just because the G-force in theory would be infinite doesn't mean it's a problem. As long as you don't do that specific calculation without clamping it it's fine. Plus, the G force wouldn't be /0. It would be /delta time (the time in between two frames).
If it was in fact /0 then it would cause this infinity problem all the time because the velocities of a computer simulation change incrementally. Not smoothly.