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Author	Topic: Why do tires float?
ArgonV Pilot	posted 12-26- 07:33 PM Why? How? What properties do they have that make them float? What does the game code do to tires that make them float? If they werent tires, would they still float? They have inertia, bodypts so why do they float!?!?! Whats the secret? Why are they hiding it from me. Its maddness I tell you maddness! If those blasted tires would let me crack their secrets we COULD have water landings! IP: Logged
goth Pilot	posted 12-27- 12:18 AM Is it because the tires aren't moving? Wouldn't they sink as soon as you moved them? IP: Logged
ArgonV Pilot	posted 12-27- 01:26 AM Nope, because when the tires spin they can still float. When the tires are standing still, they can still float... IP: Logged
wakeup tailgunner Pilot	posted 12-27- 04:33 AM Ho ho... Tyres don't 'float' as such. What they do is to continually 'bounce' until they are killed by obKilldelay etc. It doesn't help if you want to make something float in this way. Tyres have negligable mass, and so the effect is not too pronounced. Add the weight of, say, a plane, and you have an uncontrollable pogo stick. I havetried this every which way, and never got anything else. I concluded it is a material thing. Rubber. boing boing.... Please could somebody prove me wrong! I would love to be wrong here, but this is something I have experimented with a lot, and gave up on. I am now trying plan...er...'B', well, more like 'R' now.... IP: Logged
ArgonV Pilot	posted 12-27- 02:00 PM Actually, Ive seen many tires actually stand still on water. Thier mass properties were souped up (In enlarged the cylinertia) but when I crash into the water with that B-17, many of those tires just sit there on the water and dont cause any splashes. Now some do bounce... but some do not... [This message has been edited by ArgonV (edited 12-27-2000).] IP: Logged

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