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The default brake balance is set here:
data.acd
-> brakes.ini
-> [DATA]
-> FRONT_SHARE=0.58 ; Percentance of brake torque at front axis
If you want to set a 75% Front Brake Bias, use this:
FRONT_SHARE=0.75
Of course you also have to make sure that your setup.ini has set the boundaries of available brake bias setting to allow for your set brake bias in brakes.ini to be legal.
If you set your brake bias in brakes.ini to 0.75 and have your min / max brake bias in setup.ini set to 0.55/0.65 then the car will load into a sessin with a 0.65 brake bias and 0.75 will never become available.
It is best practice to disable items in setup.ini when building physics from scratch and rebuild each item in setup.ini one by one once your default physics setup of the car is spot on, otherwise you will be juggling way too many balls at once and may get lost ;-)
Thank you for the time spent writing this, I'm aware of the brake bias option and the setup.ini, but that is not what I need.
I was talking about brake power multiplier. What I would like to do is to set it to default at something different to 100% .
These are the corresponding lines in setup.ini:
[BRAKE_POWER_MULT]
SHOW_CLICKS=0
TAB=GENERIC
NAME=Brake power
MIN=80
MAX=100
STEP=1
POS_X=0.5
POS_Y=3
HELP=HELP_BRAKE_POWER_MULT
This is what in AC comes closer to real-life brake-pressure or pedal force. For Mégane Trophy, Renault advice to start with 75% of the overall power to start building setup.
Unfortunately, in AC brakes is one of the most simplified things: in the case of a front-disks / rear-drums car, for example, you cannot set a different brake torque for front-rear. What you can do is just set an overall max brake power, and then play with bias to move it. It's a bit limiting, far from real-life but we can live with it.
But ever since I start reworking race-car, what I really miss is a way to change default brake power (RL "pedal-force"), so the point is: am I missing this option, or it just doesn't exist?