Could we have unpowered, passive wheels that simple roll freely? Like trailer wheels. I'm working on movable gantries and I'm pushing/pulling them in place with pistons. Passive wheels would work very well.

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    11.7k KraZIvan

    @OldCoach I'm glad my suggestions worked, or not worked, I'm not too sure based on what you said on your post, but if you have any more trouble with the game mechanics feel free to keep posting your questions, although I would again suggest you don't make duplicate posts and also try to make use of the "suggestions" area of this website, which is mainly to your benefit but also to the benefit of the rest of the community.

    As an aside, I don't personally think saying "LOL" to a 67 year-old retired educator is condescending, I'm sure that over your long and distinguished career you have experienced many troublesome and condescending pupils and I don't think a simple electronic chuckle can do much in the way of rattling your cage. Quite the opposite, I think a mature person such as yourself can accept criticism and lighthearted quips in stride, and it's not something for me to "work on", as you say.

    5.2 years ago
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    514 OldCoach

    Thank you for your suggestion. Through trial and error, I've found a work around that works for me. The wheels are not free rolling but serves the purpose. I tried some of your earlier suggestions, but they didn't work. Turn angle and turn input are not obvious to me as to factors for free turning wheels. I'm 67 years old and a retired educator. I taught Aerospace science at a Catholic High School. I'm no dummy. I don't know how to manipulate this software like you do. That's why I posted these questions. I don't visit this forum very often so the ins and outs of where to post things are not that obvious to me. "LOL" is a bit condescending. Try to work on that.

    5.2 years ago
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    11.7k KraZIvan

    Lol why would you make a second post on this, you're better off upvoting already-made suggestions in the suggestions section of this website.
    I aldo already addressed your first post by suggesting you type "None" under motor input in the wheel's section. As for the wheel not turning, make sure you are increasing the wheel turn angle slider to something higher than zero, in addition to entering a turn input. Try these suggestions and come back and let us know if these worked.

    5.2 years ago
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    514 OldCoach

    I did that but then the wheels wouldn't turn at all.

    5.2 years ago
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    10.9k Insanity

    Just put the motor input for the wheels to something like slider 2 or dont include any batterys

    5.2 years ago
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    514 OldCoach

    Not seeing anyway to set torque to 0. I can only set torque to 100. On the XML, I see no page that deals with advanced settings.

    5.2 years ago
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    Advanced wheel settings turns down the torque to 0

    5.2 years ago

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