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Originally Posted by Ether
Could you give an example wherein mounting the mecanum wheels incorrectly (i.e. a diamond when viewed from above) is necessary (or even desirable) because of "how your programers want to program it" ?
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Well, if you really enjoy confusing other teams it might be advantageous to do diamondcanum.
Otherwise you're better off going with the standard X. Especially if it stops working correctly and you need support from other teams to get it working. I know if someone asked me to help with their mecanum drive at a regional and I saw a diamond pattern to their wheels, the first thing out of my mouth would be "Well, you might want to change that to an X".
It's a standard, WPI Lib Holonomic drive code relies on it, and most teams not using WPI still choose X anyway.
Feel free to choose a diamond pattern, but don't ask me to support it if it doesn't work.