Hey guys,

I am struggling a long time to figure out how to create a formula for my mod.

 

Overview:

I created a brake rail which should brake down a minecart when it's on it.

I found this formula in the internet and applied it:

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this.currentBrakeForce = (Math.pow(targetVelocity, 2) - Math.pow(entryVelocity, 2)) / (2 * brakerunLength)

 

The minecart has an entry speed of 12m/s, the target velocity is 8m/s and the break run is 1m because it's one block.

 

I slow down the cart by multiplying the result of this formula with the current motion of the cart:

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train.setMotion(train.getMotion().multiply(this.currentBrakeForce, 0, this.currentBrakeForce));

 

 

I figured out another thing: The wiki says that that 8m/s are 1.2 in motion.

So I changed the formula depending on the motion (I don't know if this is right but it made sense to me):

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(0.15 * entryVelocity) / Math.abs(((Math.pow(targetVelocity, 2) - Math.pow(entryVelocity, 2)) / (2 * brakerunLength)));

 

Why 0.15?

As mentioned before 8m/s are 1.2.

So, 1m/s = 0.15 -> (8/1.2).

And then I multiplied it with the entry speed because it has to be changed to the "motion internal unit"?!

 

I am really frustrated right know, because I tried a lot of different changes within the formula. The problem is maybe the multiplication with the motion? I don't know.

Maybe someone can help me 

Thanks in advance!

3 hours ago, J3ramy said:

The wiki says that that 8m/s are 1.2 in motion.

Not sure where you're seeing this. BTW, minecarts already have a maximum speed of 8m/s per axis.

Maybe I should mention it. I changed the max speed and max speed on rail to 16m/s.

But my question is more, how do I convert the calculated force to the Minecraft motion?

Not sure, I haven't dug into the minecart code that much.

The only problem I see is that this:
Math.pow(targetVelocity, 2) - Math.pow(entryVelocity, 2)
Is guaranteed to return a negative value, which when multiplied against entity motion would cause the entity to reverse direction.

Yeah I tried it with Math.abs but it isn’t working either…

I might have understood it wrong, but if you are simply multiplying the x and z component of the velocity vector, then don't you just need the ratio between the target and entry velocity? So shouldn't your brake"force" be targetVelocity/entryVelocity?

Hey Thorius,

I will try it tonight when I’m at home again but it seems like it could work. I’ll keep you up to date 

Finally I managed to check it.

It works perfectly.

Thank you all!

You should know that this formula will also accelerate the carts to the specified speed. If you want to avoid that, use Math.min(brakeforce, 1).