How do I configure a drivetrain with 4 motors in VEXcode V5 text?

[xxx]

Currently, I can only configure 2 motors. My robot happens to have 4 motors.
This isn’t very convenient because I won’t be able to move my robot forward in a set number of inches that I want it to.

Is it possible to configure the drivetrain with 4 motors? If yes, how? If no, what should I do?

Thanks😁

[DougMoyers]

A forum search for “4 motor drivetrain” returned Vexcode text 1.0 4 motor drivetrain config near the top. GL.

[MissTerial]

I came across a post from this spring which may be of use. The post is about some features that were released in an SDK update, but they were related to motor_groups and the drivetrain. Looks like you can pair two motors up with a motor_group, and initialize a drivetrain with two motor_groups. It doesn’t seem like this can be done with the visual config, but the example given in the post makes it look pretty straight forward. I also linked to this post in the thread DougMoyers referenced, so people can find it there as well. Hope this helps.

VEXcode - updated SDK

VEXcode preview 3 contains a new SDK release 20190410_18_00_00 (and yes, that means 6pm last Wednesday). There are a couple of new classes included, not finalized yet so consider them in beta. First is a motor_group class. This allows several motors to be combined and treated as a single unit. Motors are instantiated in the usual way, set gearing and reverse flag as you normally would. Then create an instance of two or more motors. After doing that most of the motor methods such as spin an…