I'm having some trouble with the Max speed of my ships. I'm using ODE for physics and I'm wondering how I can get it so that my ships have a top speed. If I simply apply a force to a body it keeps getting faster and faster forever. To counter this I subtract the velocity of the body from the force being apply, which seems to work but I dont think its a very dynamic solution. Can anyone suggest a better way of doing this?
Well, I don't know ODE as I use Newton, but that shouldn't matter. In Newton you have to set a linear damping factor. Using this factor the maximum speed will be limited as the friction becomes higher and higher as the speed increases...