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What are "powerloss" and "massfactor" in vehicle xml?

Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 11:47 am
by the_jeby
Goodmorning,

I'm messing around with a .hvehl file for my car to edit the cW and frontSurface and I found this two entries:

<powerloss>0.180000</powerloss>
<massfactor>1.100000</massfactor>

what do they mean?

Thanks

Re: What are "powerloss" and "massfactor" in vehicle xml?

Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 3:17 pm
by gplracerx
At a guess, power loss would be an estimate of the fraction of power lost from the flywheel to the wheels. Mass factor might be the inverse of volumetric efficiency.

Re: What are "powerloss" and "massfactor" in vehicle xml?

Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 5:04 pm
by Harry
Both parameters are not used currently. They are part of my endless research and test implementations of "power generated by an engine". I have 4 different calculations for power and torque in place. 2 of them are used (Engine View and video overlays) and two others are "sleeping" currently. This is one of the sleeping functions.

- Harry