Race car and drifting

Hello

I'm working on a top down racer and i'm having some problems getting the ai cars moving the way i want them to

It's setup so they move from node to node, always targeting the next node. This works fine with vector movement but the problem is they don't drift. It's like they're glued to the track

I've tried to achieve something similar using physics instead but i can't make it work. I suspect this is because of my less than stellar trigonometry skills but here is what i've tried so far

- compare the angle of the car with the angle between the car and the next node and then rotate accordingly while applying force at the current angle of the car. This sorta works except sometimes they will drive a full extra circle

- use the advanced directional object. That just opened a new can of worms since i've never used it before and looking through the samples i didn't really find anything i could apply to my situation

So any help would be very much appreciated

Either with applying drifting using the vector movement or a physics setup that actually works, as in the ai cars are able to determine if they're within 10 degrees of a given node and if not, rotate towards it and then apply force

Thanks!:D

I figured it out and as suspected it was due to my lack of trigonometry skills

In case anyone needs something similar i used this check

(oangle("Car",x("Node"),y("Node")-angle("Car")+360))mod360>180

to determine if the car should have negative or positive rotation

Hello Schrodinger!

Thanks for the welcome back:D

and thanks for that bit of code. That will come in handy for sure!

Yes, Fusion is king and Fusion 3 looks amazing!