four wheel weight transfer

Gregor Veble > wrote in message >...

> If you ever tried to ballance any four legged table you should know that
> its legs NEVER carry the same ammount of weight, no matter what stuff
> you try to squeeze underneath the leg hanging in the air

Unless the table is on carpet! Mine is on carpet, which makes it look
as though all legs are carrying equal weight. But, I suppose this is a
bit like having suspension.

Yes, I see now - a proper model of suspension is what is needed to
model weight transfer - only, this is a fair bit more complicated than
I anticipated. It seems to me that the chassis must actually be able
to pitch and roll which means that the suspension is not fixed at 90
degrees to the chassis. Is this right?

In any case, I am not going to try to model this for now. It's for a
2d game - so all that detail would be wasted. But isn't there an
aproximate way of working out weight transfer from the tyre forces? On
the other hand, perhaps it's not worth doing at all if not done
properly...

Ruben