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VehicleWaterKeel

Since 0.7

A keel: resistance to sliding sideways through the water, so the hull carves a turn instead of skidding, and optionally to heaving up and down.

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Fields

FieldTypeRequiredDefaultAllowed valuesDescription
positionVec3noThe centre of lateral resistance, in the body's local space, metres before scale. Absent: the middle of the chassis collider's bottom face.
lateralnumberno400Resistance per (m/s)² of sideways speed through the water, N·s²/m², 0 or more. Defaults to 400.
heavenumberno0Resistance to the hull moving up and down through the water, N·s/m, 0 or more: what stops a hull bobbing on after a wave or a landing. Defaults to 0.
sizenumberno0Height of its wet band, metres, greater than zero. Defaults to 0.3.

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