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Too subjective and argumentative
Manual rotation vs using the physics engine
Hello! Let's say you have an oval track that consisted of two straight segments and two 180 degree rotations. The track has a 180 degree bowl shape all the way around. Just for fun lets imagine the track was off axis from its origin as well adding more rotations to position the vehicle. What would be more expensive: to position your vehicle manually by using sin and cos to do all of your positioning and steering rotation while omitting the physics engine completely or using the physics engine to simply pull the object to the track via gravity and use some local rotation for steering?
I suppose what I am getting at is that if you had a relatively smooth and consistent track surface in which the vehicle could be positioned through a series of manual rotations would that be less expensive (though impractical) than using the physics engine to achieve a similar thing?
