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English forum => Development corner => Ship Dynamics => Topic started by: RMS Gigantic on June 18, 2008, 03:52:42

Title: Titanic's propellers
Post by: RMS Gigantic on June 18, 2008, 03:52:42

(If this does not belong here, by all means, move it)

It's starting to get annoying now:

I go to New York on my MP server as the Titanic....
She fails to go under the Brooklyn Bridge as her masts don't clear it....
She takes a nose dive, and her stern rises....
And then I see it:

All of the Titanic's propellers turn counter clockwise when she's at full ahead!

When moving foreward, only her port propeller should be spinning like that:

(http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/images/speed_revolutions/image003.gif)

Title: Re: Titanic's propellers
Post by: Agent|Austin on June 18, 2008, 03:55:48

Its a game not everything can be 'prefect'  ::) Making them spin the other way will have some bad dynamics in ship sim since they spin clockwise for forward and counter clockwise for reverse.

Title: Re: Titanic's propellers
Post by: RMS Gigantic on June 18, 2008, 04:24:17

Quote from: Agent|Austin on June 18, 2008, 03:55:48

Its a game not everything can be 'prefect'  ::) Making them spin the other way will have some bad dynamics in ship sim since they spin clockwise for forward and counter clockwise for reverse.

I figured something like that was the reason....

Still drives me nuts, though.

Title: Re: Titanic's propellers
Post by: [RWP]DJM on June 18, 2008, 09:46:01

Hiya RMS Gigantic :)

I recall that you already mentioned this in another topic, so there's really no need to start a new topic about it :)

http://www.shipsim.com/ShipSimForum/index.php/topic,7179.0.html

Topic closed.

Regards.

Carl.