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VehicleWaterRudder

Since 0.7

A rudder: a side force at its point, growing with the square of the speed through the water.

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It steers nothing at rest.

Fields

FieldTypeRequiredDefaultAllowed valuesDescription
positionVec3yesThe rudder, in the body's local space, metres before scale: behind the centre of mass.
liftnumberno300Side force per (m/s)² of speed through the water per radian of rudder, N·s²/m²/rad, 0 or more. Defaults to 300.
maxAnglenumberno0Rudder angle at full steer, RADIANS, greater than zero and under 1.5. Defaults to 0.6.
sizenumberno0Height of its wet band, metres, greater than zero. Defaults to 0.3.

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