Исправление физики Voodoo

Briefly: the modification corrects the overly sharp Voodoo physics, which San Andreas inherited from Vice City and makes it more similar in its behavior to other cars, removing the so-called "arcade" agility and hyper-responsiveness in handling.

Detailed: the history of car physics (and specifically handling.cfg and everything related to it in the EXE game code) has evolved in such a way that San Andreas received a large addition to the physics already present in the game. The game was supplemented with several new parameters, the key one being the so-called turnMass or the mass of the car when turning (rotational mass), which radically affected the feel of using cars. Also, several other parameters were changed and corrected, but they were not so significant, and here Rockstar made a choice — to start changing the already existing car settings from previous parts (III and Vice City) to make them feel different to the player. This became the second global change since Vice City, because this is no longer a technical thing, but rather an artistic one, stylizing the game by giving the cars a different driving style, different settings depending on which the car will behave differently. Many cars in the game have retained the old settings from Vice City, while many were subject to this trend of stylization due to the fact that in III and Vice City the car settings were very sharp, at high speeds and (mainly in GTA 3) almost always had all-wheel drive: all this was the legacy of the arcade spirit of GTA 2. Therefore, it is already possible to make a brief conclusion about what main settings were subject to stylization in San Andreas and what needs to be changed in comparison with the previous parts in order to get the same result — grip, acceleration speed, drive: these are the main characteristics that have undergone such changes in handling.cfg, these are the parameters (J) (K) (L) — grip; (O) (P) — acceleration and inertia of engine acceleration; (Q) (R) — engine type (drive).

Usually, to get the desired result, Rockstar simply lowered these parameters (JKLOP) and tried to take the engine type based on real life, where possible and compatible with the game. But as it turned out, not all cars underwent this processing, many of them remained the same because their physics did not stand out much from the rest, but Voodoo became a big exception, which was corrected by the time of Vice City Stories, it is curious that it was in VCS that the physics of cars again underwent the same tendency from San Andreas (true, in some places even stronger, which is why some cars are too slow, even too much), but this does not prevent us from using the settings line for Voodoo from there. Specifically — we just need to take the grip setting, which was clearly simplified (as well as the maximum speed and engine acceleration, but we don't need them, because this will affect the game balance), therefore we can simply take the settings (JKL) responsible for the grip and get a more reliable result. By the way, I will not deny the hypothesis that perhaps this very setting was being prepared for San Andreas itself, but in the end could only be involved in Vice City Stories, because during the development of City Stories games, Rockstar Leeds clearly applied the source code of San Andreas in order to improve player control on the basis of Vice City and add new features to diversify the game (that is, the physics of City Stories, perhaps, is an early version of the physics of San Andreas cars, since they have the same parameters with minimal changes, this hypothesis was opened during the reverse of Liberty City Stories, which has some confirmation).

The setting affects the turning mass of the car, grip and engine acceleration speed, taking them from Vice City Stories by almost 80%, a couple of parameters were set in accordance with the game balance