I think that an on the fly disconnecting sway bar is the next step in the off-road aspect. I love wheeling on the trails without a sway bar for obvious reasons. However once you pickup speed or you travel on the road, not having those sway bars can be scary. I've attempted this myself with no progress. Has this been done or anyone tried? I've only found one other thread from 2017 that didn't go anywhere.
Hmm, disconnectable sway bars would be cool, just wondering how it would work in game, I know you can lock/unlock diffs, but sway bars let your wheels have more travel, and I'm guessing it would also need to be a visual animation or something for it disconnecting... Can be done (probably)
Can be done definitely. There is a LUA controller for adaptive torsion bars that lets you modify spring and damp coef on the fly. It is unused but should work like the Vivace adaptive dampers. So changes behavior based on selected drivemode (comfort/offroad - soft, sport/off - hard). You can set the spring and damp coef to 0 for soft mode and this should disable the torsionbars. Then add the adaptive torsionbars controller with your sway bar names as torsionbars, and add 2 drive modes to the vehicle: sport and off-road, with references to the controller. This is theoretically how you should do it, not tested but should work: Code: "carname_DSE": { "information":{ "authors":"Diamondback", "name":"Driving & Safety Electronics", "value":250, }, "slotType" : "carname_DSE", "slots":[ ["type", "default", "description"], ["carname_DSE_drivemodes","carname_DSE_drivemodes_ICE", "Drive Modes"], ] "controller": [ ["fileName"], ["drivingDynamics/CMU", {"name":"CMU", "debugSettings": {"enableDebugMode": false, "peerIP": "127.0.0.1"}}] ["drivingDynamics/sensors/sensorHub" ] ["drivingDynamics/sensors/virtualSensors" {"name":"sensors"}] ["drivingDynamics/sensors/vehicleData" {"name":"vehicleData"}] ["drivingDynamics/supervisors/components/motorTorqueControl" {"name":"motorTorqueControl"}] ["drivingDynamics/supervisors/components/brakeControl" {"name":"brakeControl"}] ], }, Code: "carname_DSE_drivemodes_ICE": { "information":{ "authors":"Diamondback", "name":"Drive Modes (ICE)", "value":250, }, "slotType" : "carname_DSE_drivemodes", "controller": [ ["fileName"], ["driveModes"] ], "driveModes": { "enabledModes":[ "sport", "offroad"] "defaultMode": "sport" "defaultSettings": [ ["type"] ["controller", {"controllerName":"adaptiveSwaybarF", "TorsionBarMode":"hard"}] ["controller", {"controllerName":"adaptiveSwaybarR", "TorsionBarMode":"hard"}] "modes": { "sport": { "name": "Sport", "order": 10, "settings": [ ["type"] ["controller", {"controllerName":"adaptiveSwaybarF", "TorsionBarMode":"hard"}] ["controller", {"controllerName":"adaptiveSwaybarR", "TorsionBarMode":"hard"}] ], }, "offroad": { "name": "Offroad", "order": 20, "settings": [ ["type"] ["controller", {"controllerName":"adaptiveSwaybarF", "TorsionBarMode":"soft"}] ["controller", {"controllerName":"adaptiveSwaybarR", "TorsionBarMode":"soft"}] ], }, }, }, Code: "carname_swaybar_F_disconnectable": { "information":{ "authors":"BeamNG", "name":"Disconnectable Front Sway Bar", "value":140, }, "slotType" : "carname_swaybar_F", "flexbodies": [ ["mesh", "[group]:", "nonFlexMaterials"], ["carname_swaybar_F", ["carname_swaybar_F"]], ], "controller": [ ["fileName"], ["drivingDynamics/actuators/adaptiveTorsionBars" {"name":"adaptiveSwaybarF", "torsionBarNames":["swaybar_F"]}] ], "adaptiveSwaybarF": { "modes": [ ["name", "springCoef", "dampCoef"] ["soft", 0.0, 0.0, ] ["hard", 1.0, 1.0, ] ] } "nodes": [ ["id", "posX", "posY", "posZ"], //anti-roll {"nodeMaterial":"|NM_METAL"}, {"frictionCoef":0.5}, {"group":""}, {"selfCollision":false}, {"collision":true}, {"nodeWeight":1.4}, //front anti-roll {"group":"carname_swaybar_F"}, ["arbfr", -0.53, -1.44, 0.25], ["arbfl", 0.53, -1.44, 0.25], {"group":""}, ], "torsionbars": [ ["id1:", "id2:", "id3:", "id4:"], //18mm 2482 //19mm 3081 //20mm 3782 //21mm 4598 //22mm 5538 //24mm 7843 {"spring":3782, "damp":10, "deform":10000, "strength":9999999}, ["arbfr", "fx2r", "fx2l", "arbfl" , {"name":"swaybar_F"}], ], "beams": [ ["id1:", "id2:"], //--ANTI-ROLL-- {"beamPrecompression":1, "beamType":"|NORMAL", "beamLongBound":1, "beamShortBound":1}, {"beamSpring":2501000,"beamDamp":100}, {"beamDeform":15000,"beamStrength":312000}, //end links ["arbfr","fh4r"], ["arbfl","fh4l"], //rigids ["arbfr","fx2r"], ["arbfl","fx2l"], ["arbfr","fx2l"], ["arbfl","fx2r"], //mesh breakers {"beamPrecompression":1., "beamType":"|SUPPORT", "beamLongBound":2}, {"beamSpring":0,"beamDamp":0}, {"beamDeform":15000,"beamStrength":80000}, {"deformLimitExpansion":""}, ["arbfr","fs2r"], ["arbfl","fs2l"], {"beamPrecompression":1, "beamType":"|NORMAL", "beamLongBound":1.0, "beamShortBound":1.0}, ], }, Code: "carname_swaybar_R_disconnectable": { "information":{ "authors":"BeamNG", "name":"Disconnectable Rear Sway Bar", "value":140, }, "slotType" : "carname_swaybar_R", "flexbodies": [ ["mesh", "[group]:", "nonFlexMaterials"], ["carname_swaybar_R", ["carname_swaybar_R"]], ], "controller": [ ["fileName"], ["drivingDynamics/actuators/adaptiveTorsionBars" {"name":"adaptiveSwaybarR", "torsionBarNames":["swaybar_R"]}] ], "adaptiveSwaybarR": { "modes": [ ["name", "springCoef", "dampCoef"] ["soft", 0.0, 0.0, ] ["hard", 1.0, 1.0, ] ] } "nodes": [ ["id", "posX", "posY", "posZ"], //anti-roll {"nodeMaterial":"|NM_METAL"}, {"frictionCoef":0.5}, {"group":""}, {"selfCollision":false}, {"collision":true}, {"nodeWeight":1.4}, //rear anti-roll {"group":"carname_swaybar_R"}, ["arbrr", -0.53, 1.44, 0.25], ["arbrl", 0.53, 1.44, 0.25], {"group":""}, ], "torsionbars": [ ["id1:", "id2:", "id3:", "id4:"], //18mm 2482 //19mm 3081 //20mm 3782 //21mm 4598 //22mm 5538 //24mm 7843 {"spring":3782, "damp":10, "deform":10000, "strength":9999999}, ["arbrr", "rx2r", "rx2l", "arbrl" , {"name":"swaybar_R"}], ], "beams": [ ["id1:", "id2:"], //--ANTI-ROLL-- {"beamPrecompression":1, "beamType":"|NORMAL", "beamLongBound":1, "beamShortBound":1}, {"beamSpring":2501000,"beamDamp":100}, {"beamDeform":15000,"beamStrength":312000}, //end links ["arbrr","rh4r"], ["arbrl","rh4l"], //rigids ["arbrr","rx2r"], ["arbrl","rx2l"], ["arbrr","rx2l"], ["arbrl","rx2r"], //mesh breakers {"beamPrecompression":1., "beamType":"|SUPPORT", "beamLongBound":2}, {"beamSpring":0,"beamDamp":0}, {"beamDeform":15000,"beamStrength":80000}, {"deformLimitExpansion":""}, ["arbrr","rs2r"], ["arbrl","rs2l"], {"beamPrecompression":1, "beamType":"|NORMAL", "beamLongBound":1.0, "beamShortBound":1.0}, ], }, --- Post updated --- So I made a mod that adds this to the Hopper. But it overall works kinda weird and once you disconnect the sway bars they don't reconnect until you reset the car. You need to put sway bar controller in Additional Modification and disconnectable sway bars in sway bar slots.
