camel backs/ bunnyhills

it says in the articles that a good camel back has verticies(sp?) on both sides of the hill...well i have made a good one with only 1 on the top and 2 on the bottom of each end, it has no pumping and has a good g consistancy..should i still add the other two verticies(sp?)

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It depends going ... if you can make one perfectly like that then more power to you, but making with vertices on the sides often times is easier. I use both, but the v on top and one on each side sometimes is a killer to get the pumping and g-control down.

I would definitely use one or the other, but usually not a combination of the two! if your bunny hop already has the perfect shape you were looking for, then why should you add something just because somebody told you to? in other words: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. imho, i think its much easier to create a nice hill like that using the side mid-point approach...but you may have just proven that both methods would work well.

More verticies is always harder to work with, but, you will always have better control over your shape. I find that sometimes its best to do the side method, then, split the middle segment. Then re-tweak those side ones so theres no "harsh" jolting into the hill, and then readjusting the middle one is easy, especially if you keep things mirror images of each other.

if it's good, just keep it. That simple. I don't use the method you do, but i should try (my bunnies suck [:p])

It is possible to make a hill with 2 segments and get no pumping, but the parabola is going to be very small, and will feel unnatural. I usually make my hills 5 segments, to get good shaping on the lead in and parabola, and still not make it very difficult to smooth.

[Brtnboarder495]

It takes experience and time.

Usually, my bunny hops consist of 2 verticies. 1 in the middle of the top of the hill, one on the middle of the bottom.

All of the bunny hills and camelbacks on Cataclysm were made with only 2 verticies. The shape was off, and I lost the feeling of speed near the end of the hill. Basically, you can make hills with only 2 verticies with no pumping, but you will lose alot of the airtime over the top and positive g's coming out of the hill. I reccomend using 5 verticies... one at the trough going into the hill, one at the highest slope of the hill, one on the top, one on the steepest drop on the other side, and one at the exit of the hill.

Yeah, I did that on one of my big hills of my new ride.