Development Screens (Each post contains a picture OR contributing post)

The way it is currently set up is with 3 Limited Slip Differentials (front, centre and rear). It now has a widebody fitted to it which has helped a little especially with stability (as in not tipping). @Blijo has helped with adjusting the camber and tyre pressure to get better results.

Its still not perfect and I think the suspension (spring and damping) is currently the weak point. One issue I do have is that while I can sit and play around with standard beamSpring and beamDamp values all day I don't really know how to adjust the "beamDampFast", "beamDampRebound", "beamDampReboundFast", and "beamDampVelocitySplit" values. With there being so many values, figuring out how each effects the car is not at all easy. Without knowing exactly what effect each will have it is kinda impossible for me to find a perfect balance. Equally the suspension on rally cars gets adjusted from event to event as well, so no matter what I do the chances of it being spot on for what the player is driving on is almost nill. So not only does the suspension need to deal with rough (almost acropolis rally style) terrain, but it also needs to be able to deal with smooth French rally style tarmac. Then in testing each setup I have to figure out whether what I have done has had a positive impact or if I just drove the stage better, while also trying to factor out any placebo in whether the car feels any different to drive.

All in all you are left with an insanely complex balancing act. Overall I have decided to try and balance the car for slightly rougher terrain since the player would probably select a race car for tarmac.


So here is where the suspension is currently at.

My current thoughts from watching the video a day after it was recorded are. Perhaps the damping is too high since the car doesn't absorb the bumps smoothly, but equally there is a point in the video where the vehicle can be seen bouncing after a bump, which would suggest damping is too low. The spring rate seems to be somewhat in the right ball park, but maybe needs to be stiffer towards the end of its travel to try and prevent it from bottoming out so often.
I probably also need to adjust the suspension so that wheels can drop down further when no mass is upon them to keep ride height lowish while allowing for extra travel to absorb jumps and bumps where needed.
Equally though small island is very rough, so is it reasonable to expect the car to smoothly sail over that or should it be expected to struggle with it? I don't drive WRC cars for a living and no rally simulation to date seems to have handled these sorts of issues, since the tracks are usually pretty smooth. From looking at video it seems the cars do tend to rattle around a fair amount however they seem to stay composed at all times, but how much of that is down to the driver and how much of it is down to the car. Its really difficult to tell.


TLDR: Large teams of highly experienced engineers are paid vast sums of money to figure this stuff out on real rally cars. I'm a 20 year old Games Computing student with an interest in cars. So odds of me matching the real cars isn't all that high xD

 

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More progress!



me kustom anemone flowers already include two slightly different variations. Do you think they look too repetitive?
Should I make more variations of this flower, or focus on making more botanic specimen?

 

it's pretty, but very flashy. maybe put these flowers just in small areas of your map

 

Oh! A lovely porsche. Lets see i-


Oh.

 

How about now? Flowers are smaller and less eye-catching.

 

Maybe add some blue flowers.

 

redacted

 

Tuk Tuk (Thai name)


Edit : More TukTuk
Seats added


Even better with 4 wheel pigeon by @mike94

 

I finally got the wheels positioned correctly!
It went from this: (exploding upon spawn)

To this:


The stress lines are because I haven't fiddled with optimized the engine jbeam yet.

 

Bridge

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songthaew
Thai minibus


I use camper shell ,bed ,bed cover ,roll bar from a Dseries to make this thing.....

 

Playing with light before I procrastinate for another straight year.

 

The doors and mirrors are now in place:

I suppose I should start thinking about a name to re-brand it.
Ferrari is Italian, so it should be a Civetta.

 

Where did you get the model?

 

Website: https://archive3d.net/
I'll find the specific page later.

 

This is where the Ferrari can be found.

https://archive3d.net/?a=download&id=eea21881

 

Bathtub submarine

 

So, in the end I couldn't get the the suspension to work as I would have liked, so I decided to ditch my own efforts since they seemed to be going no where, it now has the same spring and damping as the etk i rally. I also tried to modify those, but only made them worse xD . So for now I am going to avoid putting a head shaped dent in my wall and defer that to a later date.

In the mean time so body kit progress has been made.

I may have to make a separate version of the chassis with the correct holes cut into the rear arches once everything is finished, since the wheels clip the original arches.