Drift Car

Try the car out for yourself! Control the demo with arrow keys.

A car class with somewhat realistic-looking friction mechanics.

Using the class is easy! Copy car.js into your p5 project directory and create a car in your script:

car = new Car(); // Initialises car in the middle of the canvas.
// OR
car = new Car(x, y, angle); // Initialises car with desired location, angle

you need to call the following once every loop through draw() .

car.update(); // simulates the car
car.show();   // renders the car

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This class is a slight improvement on using the classic slidey-spaceship as a car vehicle. It doesn't come close to an accurate representation of vehicle steering - for one thing, the car can turn in place! While it's possible to implement a more accurate model, you lose the fun of being able to directly control angle-rate by pressing arrow keys. More accurate models of vehicle dynamics use steering angle as an input for control. Since all we have are on/off keys on a keyboard, this wouldn't be much fun to control.