I’ve been researching curves and splines for a videogame project of mine.
I’m not 100% sure what it means to have a curve ‘banked’.
It seems to help vehicles with turns on curvy roads, but I don’t quite understand how exactly a curve is banked / what it means to bank a curve (visually) / how it helps with turns.
I have seen some formulas / math for it, but I’d like to understand the concept before exploring potential implementations.
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It means that the surface of the road tilts to the side – down on the inside of the curve, and up on the outside. Imagine an airplane turning. When it turns left, the left wing drops, and the right wing goes up. A road can do exactly the same thing, and for the same reasons.
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