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Unread 09-01-2008, 14:07
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Re: pic: Omni Design Trial

So, if you were to set up the wheels to be optimized for straight driving by adjusting the friction to be high enough that the rollers would not be able to roll at normal driving loads, would that make the sideways force vector on the rollers negligible under these conditions? I'm thinking that the inability to overcome static friction would keep the rollers acting like regular tread, and the wheels would indeed act almost like regular wheels under those conditions.

I'm thinking about this as it applies to this game only.
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