Hi, Charlie here. I used to post often.
Where was I? Ah, yes, this nugget of brain fudgery from the VDrift forums posted by NaN:
So I've spent some time today try to figure out why cars are still flying off in random directions when hitting curbs sometimes.
It turns out it is a bug in Bullet, to be more specific in the SIMD_DEGS_PER_RAD macro.
Code:
#define SIMD_PI btScalar(3.1415926535897932384626433832795029)
#define SIMD_2_PI btScalar(2.0) * SIMD_PI
#define SIMD_HALF_PI (SIMD_PI * btScalar(0.5))
#define SIMD_RADS_PER_DEG (SIMD_2_PI / btScalar(360.0))
#define SIMD_DEGS_PER_RAD (btScalar(360.0) / SIMD_2_PI)
The first one to spot it gets a virtual cookie.
For the answer visit the thread, I won't spoil it here. Instead, I'll post a screenshot, also sourced from said forums and taken by Stunt Rally author CrystalH.
