Released Ragdoll Crash Test Dummy 1.1

Crash test dummy available for download! This ragdoll humanoid weighs 75kg and will stand up until you hit it. The Jbeam is fairly light and allows multiple dummies to be spawned without FPS drop. 3D model by myself, although feel free to use it however you want.

Drop test:

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Multiple sideswipe test:

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Enjoy!

Spoiler: Extra Objects

15/9/2014

My second JBeam mod: a dynamic street light prop. Light on FPS and reasonably good collision. The object can be broken into 3 pieces.




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I believe this mod only works properly in the experimental build.

14/9/2014:

With the new collision improvements in the experimental build, jbeamed props are suddenly super cool. I figured I'd learn how to jbeam by making something incredibly easy, like a dumpster. After 3 solid days of combing through node names, manually placing coltris, getting the flexbodies to work and wrestling with the material editor, I have a new found appreciation for people who mod actual cars from scratch.


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Re: This mod is rubbish

It'll deform, especially if crushed between a car and a wall, but usually it won't sustain much damage from rebound collisions since it's fairly light (200kg).

 

Re: This mod is rubbish

whoops, sorry about that, fixed.

 

Re: This mod is rubbish

Awesome to see that you got it working, great work!

If you fix the directory structure inside the zip archive (as in put a 'vehicles' folder in there, look at the content/ zips) people would be able to just drop the zipfile into "My Documents/BeamNG.drive/mods" and it would work

Also, you don't need to ship the *cached*.dts files.

About the content creation part: what was your biggest problem on the way and how can we improve the content creation workflow for beginners in your opinion?

 

Re: This mod is rubbish

Hi tdev,

I found the workflow quite simple once I fully understood it, but the documentation in the wiki is lacking in places, which meant I had to discover some things by trial-and-error.

For example, the Flexbodies documentation (http://wiki.beamng.com/Flexbodies) is very brief and doesn't mention that the meshes must all be exported into a single .DAE file with the same name as the vehicle. This caused me some confusion as I didn't understand why my incorrectly named .DAE meshes weren't appearing on the jbeam.

Most of the material woes I encountered were caused by the latest exerimental build, so that was really my fault for not using the stable version.


I'll take a look at changing the file paths to get it to work in the mods folder (haven't tried that yet).

 

Re: This mod is rubbish

Yeah, proper wheels would have been cool, but I had to balance it against a few limiting factors:

1.) I'm not sure if BeamNG.drive can handle wheels that small.
2.) It would add a lot of nodes and beams to what should be a simple prop.
3.) thinking about how to set up a jbeam for castoring wheels does my head in.

So I ended up just turning the friction down to 0.1 for the 4 'wheel nodes'.

 

Re: This mod is rubbish

Gee, 100 downloads already? I'd better put up another mod I guess

I just updated the OP with a streetlight prop.


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