Hi everyone, I'm back from a very short 3 year hiatus. In the past few days I've made some decent progress on the frame's jbeam and I'm in the process of figuring out PressureWheels. Is there anyone experienced enough with jbeams who can tell me why only the wheel hubs are being generated and not the tyres? Here's the section in my jbeam file: Code: "pressureWheels": [ ["name","hubGroup","group","node1:","node2:","nodeS","nodeArm:","wheelDir"], {"disableMeshBreaking":false,"disableHubMeshBreaking":false}, {"hasTire":true}, {"enableTireReinfBeams":false}, {"enableTireLbeams":true}, {"enableTireSideReinfBeams":false}, {"enableTreadReinfBeams":true}, {"enableTirePeripheryReinfBeams":true}, {"radius": 2.2734}, {"hubRadius": 0.1915}, {"wheelOffset": 0.0}, {"hubWidth":0.17864}, //Width of the rim {"tireWidth":0.17064}, //Width of the tire {"numRays":12}, //The amount of nodes to make the circle, more may result in smoother driving, but at the cost of performance, weight & stability {"selfCollision":false} {"collision":true} //{"axleBeams":["al5","ar2"]}, ["FL", "wheel_FL", "tyre_FL_g", "ar2", "ar0", 9999, "ar2", 1], //{"axleBeams":["al5","ar2"]}, ["FR", "rim_FR_g", "tyre_FR_g", "al1", "al5", 9999, "al4", 1], //{"axleBeams":[]}, {"axleBeams":["bl5","br2"]}, ["RL", "rim_RL_g", "tyre_RL_g", "br2", "br0", 9999, "br3", 1], {"axleBeams":["bl5","br2"]}, ["RR", "rim_RR_g", "tyre_RR_g", "bl5", "bl1", 9999, "b14", 1], {"selfCollision":true} {"axleBeams":[]},{"disableMeshBreaking":false,"disableTriangleBreaking":false} ], The jbeam structure only shows the wheel hub and no tyre: Also, here's some screens of the flexbody deformation.
Huh. This is probably the largest comeback on the forums. Welcome back, hopefully this could be finished.
I honestly wanted to put off posting here for as long as possible but Thanks man. I really do want to finish this but it turns out making a jbeam is really damn hard (whoda thought?!). It doesn't help that the documentation is full of holes. Problem is I can't really progress with the jbeam until I've sorted this wheel issue out, so I thought I'd post here to get some help with a fix (gabester pls).
I just saw that your tire's radius is over 2 meters {"radius": 2.2734}, but I guess that is for testing only. Tires are difficult, really annoyingly difficult what Alex says could be best approach, just find some correct size tire and wheel, then copy needed parts from there, use your own flexbody and it probably works easiest.
Well the weird thing is I decided to create a blank jbeam and literally copied one of the ibishu pigeon's wheels over just to test it out. For some reason I got the exact same problem here! I've attached the mod package for this if you have time to test it out and see if it happens on your end. I honestly don't know what might be causing it, and the debug console is no help for this issue.
My god, it actually worked! So basically, all the parameters in the PressureWheels wiki that are said to be optional aren't actually optional for anyone with the same issue who finds this post. You have to specify everything in the PW section. Thank you, fufsgfen!
It is not the only thing being 'slightly' different from documentation, there has been numerous times I have been banging head to wall and it is something either missing or differently than in documentation. Best tactic, try every and each of the possible parameter or option, if that does not work, rage quit, start over next day, works for me
WHOA, this is the biggest mod comeback like ever. It was silent for years! I hope you don't give up anytime soon, but good luck!
