I am making an Acura TLX mod based on the ETK S-Series. I am having some issues with converting the original RWD drivetrain to FWD with Acura's Precision All Wheel Steering. Here is my issue: In the .pc file, I have input a 2.4-litre 4-cylinder i-VTEC engine, a Front Differential="tlx_front_diff" and rear differential="none", hooked up to an 8-speed DCT gearbox with a torque converter. I know that the gearbox works fine because I tested it with a config using Acura's Super-Handling AWD system and a 3.5-litre V6 engine. Problem is: none of the FWD configs will move in Reverse, Drive, Sport, or Manual modes. The engine responds to the accelerator and the transmission shifts, but the drivetrain will not power the front wheels. "Powertrain Visualisation" shows this: Engine>Gearbox>Dummy Shaft are all rotating, but there seems to be no connection between the Gearbox and the front_diff object. Can somebody explain how I can fix this? Anyone else who loves Acura?
You have to make a new gearbox with just FWD transfer case, as I assume that the front_front diff is looking for the transfer case object. Basically open up your Front diff jbeam file and look for what the powertrain input is and then either change it to the gearbox or change the garbox's output to match the one specified in the Fron diff powertrain section.
Opened up my front suspension jbeam file and found the diff (I don't have a dedicated file just for the diff) and changed the input to the DCT 'box. Still no power to the front wheels.
Could you send me all of the powertrain related files? (Susoension Front, Rear and the transmission + all of the driveshafts).
Try this... It should start working. Always folow the powertrain path in the files. Your front driveshaft wasn't getting powered due to you using a wrong Transfer case. I think now it should work fine if you use the FWD transfercase. ( but I'm not sure, as I've essentially gave the front driveshaft 2 options of input and I don't know how the game is going to handle it.
Still not working, here is what the powertrain visualization looks like. Seems like the game doesn't like one shaft having two inputs! Configs with Super-Handling All-Wheel-Drive stopped working because of these changes as well, they won't put power down to the front wheels.
ehh... send me the whole car and I'll play around with it... Meanwhile take a look at the Powertrain Wiki page and try to figure out yourself I'll most likely be able to work on it tommorow.
I officially hate ETKs even more, especially the S-Series, as for whatever reason there are multiple files for the rear driveshaft, so I gave up and made a new one. To make everything work just pick the "Rear driveshaft thingy" and then the aproperiate transmission. It works, It was just a case of rewriting the powertrain stuff... Next time at least read the powertrain wiki and try to fix it yourself, as it wasn't that hard P.S. Don't look at filenames.
I have an unusual setup since I am working on a remote desktop gaming machine (i3-4130 and GeForce GT 1030) controlled over the Internet from a Microsoft SurfacePro because I live in an apartment and have no place to put a desktop. Once I can download the new .zip file onto the remote machine I'll report back.
He can do what he want to it until he wants to release it. Then i think he needs to credit ninetynine
