WIP Ford Fiesta Mk1 (1976-1983)

Alieu · Apr 1, 2022

BeamDrifter said: ↑

fodr vista rolled over and broke. resetting dosent wokr for some reasno so its canecleclled
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it wase me who roll ovear siesta )))!!@)!

ramer201010 · Apr 1, 2022

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it wase me who roll ovear siesta )))!!@)!
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CRUSE YUOOOOOO

Emil11001100 · Apr 1, 2022

i almost cried please tell me its a aprils joke

ramer201010 · Apr 1, 2022

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i almost cried please tell me its a aprils joke
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isn't it obvious? It's an April fools joke.

KokoNut18 · Apr 2, 2022

I'm laughing my ass off-

Emil11001100 · Apr 2, 2022

ramer201010 said: ↑

isn't it obvious? It's an April fools joke.
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Did you really believe me?

Sumguy · Apr 3, 2022

BeamDrifter said: ↑

fodr vista rolled over and broke. resetting dosent wokr for some reasno so its canecleclled
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Am i the only one that gets it that this is a april fools joke

a plane guy · Apr 3, 2022

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Am i the only one that gets it that this is a april fools joke
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No..?

Sumguy · Apr 5, 2022

a plane guy said: ↑

No..?
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Ok

Spiicy · Apr 6, 2022

ford fisting

jjgjggjdf · Apr 6, 2022

I check this thread for the first time in 60000 years and this is what I'm greeted by. Ngl kinda laughed my ass off

fod fister

Sumguy · Apr 6, 2022

jjgjggjdf said: ↑

I check this thread for the first time in 60000 years and this is what I'm greeted by. Ngl kinda laughed my ass off

fod fister
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food fisher

alexthecarguy1 · Apr 6, 2022

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food fisher
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fod fistra

a plane guy · Apr 6, 2022

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fod fistra
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Ford fish

Yash_gamin144 · Apr 6, 2022

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Ford fish
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ferd fes

RowanBirdX09 · Apr 10, 2022

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Since the post in development screens got 90 likes, here's a thread for it.

The Fiesta is Ford Europe's FWD supermini that was introduced in 1976. It was available in a 3-door hatchback and panel van body styles. The Fiesta is very light, the base model is only 715 kg (lighter than the Autobello!). It was also a very popular car since over 2 million of them were produced. Sadly not many of them have survived to this day. I have seen only one Fiesta in real life.

1980 Fiesta Supersport 1.3. In 1980 66 hp wasn't just sport, it was SUPER sport.

This mod should be really close to the real one because I have a 1981 Fiesta GX 1.1 myself. I took lots of measurements and about 400 pictures to make the model and textures as accurate as possible.

(The front wheels are 13 inch and not standard)
The model and the textures are all scratch made by me. I made the model in Blender and I didn't use any blueprints or drawings. Instead, I took pictures (side, front, back) from my Fiesta with a telephoto lens and used them as blueprints. I took them really far away with huge zoom to make them suitable.

The model, texture and jbeam qualities are better than in any other mod of mine. The FS30-2, jbeam, for example, was pretty bad and the polyflow was worse than in a stolen GTA model subdivided 5 times and decimated down to 120 polygons to make it run better in game.

I decided to photoscan the engine bay, wheels and the interior to make them super accurate. I took a picture from every possible angle and used a program called Meshroom to make a 3D model.

For example, it made this textured engine bay model in a few hours. It's too high poly to be used in the game but a really good reference for making the actual model. It was really easy to make the model this way.

Here's the wheel in real life, photoscanned and the actual model textured in game. It looks very accurate and almost the same (no rust or super faded tire texture in game).

I didn't photoscan the whole Fiesta because the technique doesn't work well with shiny surfaces.

The interior with red Supersport seats. The buttons on the dash should be darker but I realized that they're just really faded in my Fiesta after I did the textures. I'll change that sometimes. Also I noticed too late that only my Fiesta has some sort of leather bag over the shifter rubber boot. I'll need to redo that one. The center console in my Fiesta looks like it's some kind of home built plywood contraption that I haven't seen in any other Fiesta. The center console in the BeamNG Fiesta is the normal one.

The parcel shelf lifts with the tailgate.

It has a MacPherson front suspension and a rear beam axle. The textures here are really unfinished, it won't look this ugly when it's released.

The engine bay is mostly finished. The windshield/headlight wash tank and the radiator expansion tank need to be redone. The strut bar is not included in any factory models but it is really helpful. It stiffens the loose cardboard body a lot.

I made a 100% scratch made jbeam (okay I took some spring and deform values from official cars but I've changed almost all of them) so it deforms pretty well and feels like a real Fiesta. It also weighs 715 kg like the real car and the weight distribution is about right. It was quite difficult to make it so light without jbeam explosions and instability. The model spikes only very little in hard crashes.

Some crashes to prove that it's not a mesh slap if you don't still believe

Some model information, I'll add more later.

This is the base or "Popular" model, the cheapest and slowest. It has a tiny 957cc engine that produces only 40 or 45 horsepower.

The XR2 is the most sporty model. It was introduced in 1981 and it has a new 1.6 liter 83 hp engine.
It also has different headlights and better suspension.

Engine options

This 957cc engine has a low compression ratio and produces only 40 horsepower and 64 Nm of torque. It is really underpowered and can get the Fiesta go only 130 km/h. It is not a good engine for tuning because even a turbo can't increase horsepower very much.

This 957cc engine has a high compression ratio and produces 45 horsepower and 65 Nm of torque. It is better than the low compression 957cc but it's still underpowered. It is not a good engine for tuning but atleast it's better than the other 957cc.

The 1.1L engine has 52 hp (1976-1981) or 54 hp (1981-1983) and 81 Nm of torque. My Fiesta has this engine. It is not very good for tuning but a lot better than the 1.0 liters.

The 1.3L engine has 66 hp and 94 Nm of torque. It can make the Fiesta go fast and it's a fairly good engine for tuning.

The 1.6L engine is the biggest of them all and makes 83 hp and 122 Nm of torque. Only the XR2 and the US models have this engine. It is a good tuning engine, a turbo increases horsepower a lot.

Why did I make this underpowered wrong-wheel drive shopping bag?
My friend had suggested it but I would never had done this if I didn't have the car myself.

This Fiesta project was also my final year project in (Finnish) junior high school. The goal was to make the Fiesta drivable and finish the most necessary parts. I made a work report about the project where I also explained BeamNG.drive, modeling, UV unwrapping, textures and JBeam. Only a few people had patience to read the whole 17-page report but the teachers who read it said the whole project was incredible. I'm not sure how much they understood, though .

This is one of the videos I made to introduce the Fiesta: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AgpVExY5iv08shAlLMZRAV-t0VfSaxfa.

Other students liked my project a lot and voted for it, so I got in the top 10 most voted. I had to present my Fiesta project in front of the whole school because that was the idea of the voting system. Now a few more people know what is BeamNG.drive .

Please don't ask for release dates, the Fiesta will be released when it's done. No one knows when it's done, not even my Fiesta.
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3 years and nothing
This isn't looking good

mattsikung · Apr 10, 2022

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It's not your job to decide if this is dead or not

I haven't had much time to work on the Fiesta because there has been just too many other things to do. One particular project that took a ton of time and effort was repairing a (free) Peugeot 406 which is now my first car (I got my driving license a few months ago). It had some rust problems but otherwise it was in quite good condition and the clutch and air conditioner compressor had been replaced recently. Both rocker panels had huge rust holes but luckily I can weld. The rust didn't seem very bad at first glance because it had rusted from inside out. The largest hole was exactly 1 meter long. Both front fenders had rust and the paint didn't look too good so I decided to fully repaint them and the front bumper too. There were also some other rusted areas that needed repainting.
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After cleaning, clay baring, polishing and waxing it looks surprisingly good. It really did take a ton of time and effort to get it in such good shape
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And then the Fiesta updates:

Most materials are now PBR
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55 factory colors so far and there's still a few missing
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I'm remaking the engine and transmission since the old models were very inaccurate and honestly ugly. The old transmission (last pic) consisted of 3 shapes slapped together and looked like a deformed potato.
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RowanBirdX09 said: ↑

3 years and nothing
This isn't looking good
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AlexKidd71 · Apr 10, 2022

alexthecarguy1 said: ↑

fod fistra
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PowerstrokeHD · Apr 10, 2022

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ferd fes
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fiestord

coolgamer1050 · Apr 10, 2022

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