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Originally Posted by Chris is me
I think you're missing Gregor's point completely. His point wasn't to say that your team made bad design decisions, not at all. His point is that you're giving firm, absolute-sounding advice to other posters without having any experience with the mechanism yourself.
When you say things so definitively and firmly like that, it implies a level of confidence in your knowledge that goes beyond you having read someone else say something like that somewhere else on Chief Delphi once. It's disingenuous, and it is VERY easy to post like that, give bad advice by mistake, and hurt teams who listen as a result. Trust me, I've been there, it's not fun.
His other point was that by deciding an idea has no merit (won't "actually work") without any prototyping, you're limiting your options based on preconception rather than evidence. His follow up post is indicating that perhaps his own team has had experience with mecanum drive that makes him confident in his own design choice.
If you aren't precisely sure of what you're saying, don't say it like you are. One of these days someone just might listen. |
Are you saying that Ether is wrong when he says an off-center mecanum will require compensation for in code/ driver? When Ether says or corroborates something, I consider that more than just a random bystander saying something offhand. I'm not just throwing stuff out there randomly, I am providing a direct link to the information which is directly supported by Ether.
Because of that, I consider the compensation a problem, and for that reason I avoid off-center mecanum; it's extra work that my team just doesn't want to do. I am 99% certain that an off-center mecanum in this game's context will be extra work compared to just slapping a set of mecs on there if you stack off-center. The remaining 1% is just to account for designs that stack off-center but keep the weight centered. If teams want to deal with that, go ahead. However, if the OP was not aware of this at all, then I thought it could be helpful to warn them beforehand.
If the OP thinks they've got it, they can go ahead go ahead. Of course if they've already done it there should be no problem. I am simply pointing out that there are things that need extra work in an off-center mecanum, either in code or in driver (or mechanism, I guess, if you go with suspensions).
EDIT: That link you provided doesn't say anything about drivetrain in it as far as I can tell... am I just missing it?