WIP Civetta Bolide GX91C Race Car V0.72a

I'm liking the look of those new Tires

 

Thanks, they are not yet finished, the normals don't work when I apply them and after investigating it's left Dummiesman stumped, I may just have to change formats or something.






I love debugging... What monster have I created, Oh the game crasher 2000

 

No promises for weather or not it will stay this fast or quite this light.

 

Is the weight 20kg per wheel with downforce?

 

No, that's the weight of a single wheel. The whole car weighs 1052kg without downforce.

 

I can only ever get 215-220mph out of the current release, so this looks to be 10mph quicker in a straight line, have you been fiddling with gear ratios and downforce?
Also, have you got a pic of the revised front end as of yet?

 

The wheel speed is 20km/h slow past 300km/h so... keep that in mind, I was showing this using debug airspeed.

The Tacho shows wheelspeed

 

What were the average straight line speeds for cars of this era? Modern cars around this class could reach 200 Mp/h and keep it up through some turns.

Also, does this car still slide the front wheels in some turns like it's front wheel drive?

 

I cannot even test that, I have been completely reworking the suspension from nearly the ground up for the last two days.

All the stuff I've done since the last release..

Remodeled front
Tweaked suspension
Lightened Jbeam
Adjusted areo
Tweaked suspension
Tweaked suspension
Tweaked suspension
Tweaked suspension
Tweaked suspension

I slightly adjusted the front so it has a better ride setup.

But the rear is in a very unusable state, I've been trying to implement different suspension structure, from simply moving the control arms up, to rejbeaming them, and even testing a pushrod setup [which won't make the cut into any further development]

I'm basically just going to jbeam a custom variant of the same suspension that was already in the rear end but set the control arms up to a more realistic location and change the shock mount configuration

Miles per per hour?

 

Meeping awesome! Too bad it is nothing like the actual bolide.

 

Well, its got the same chassis from what I can tell.

 

Mostly, there are minimal tweaks to some parts of it however

 

Lamborgini Countach

Lamborgini Countach - Group C Racecar



Nuff Said.

 

Ahem.. 3 hrs of churning out progress later...



Major Track Suspension Overhaul
Achieved proper stiffness
Adjusted anti-roll bars
Tuned Rear Brakes to remain stable
Fixed Front Suspention's tenancy to bottom out under hard braking
Improved overall cornering

Adjusted Vehicle Weight
Increased suspension component weights
Removed unnecessary chassis jbeam
Current Weight : 1078.15Kg [2376.91Lbs]
Improved jbeam stability [0 Deformations on spawn as opposed to 12]

Engine Changes
Adjusted power curve - Max Torque: 500NM - Max Power: UnknownHP
Adjusted Transmission for Racing 5 Speed with longer 5th Gear
New Top Speed : 385Km/h [239 MPH]


I can't find the Max Power because the engine debug doesn't display it and the power curve app is gone, seems the game engine is going through some changes here.



Release of next major update to be determined.

Requirements
Needs more play testing
Small adjustments as possible problems are found


Listen Up!
I'd prefer if I could release the next update with the following based on community feedback if you feel I should make an update earlier than speak up.
The Following
Functional Headlights
Modeled Taillights
Finished visual tire model
Maybe some minor normal mapping work

 

Do the front tires still skid when taking high speed turns and not braking?

 

What do you mean...

Are you complaining about the fact they skid when they understeer, or are you complaining about them losing grip during cornering.

Or understeer..

 

When I get to the gas early in some corners the front wheels slide. Will test again when I'm done eating.

 

hi slayersen. so the thing i would like in the next update is the headlights working and the rears modeled as this would make th car look more like a period car

 

also @Instant Winrar that is the car starting to understeer. if you dont steer all the way you would keep a lot of grip

 

Well the front wheels are not receiving any engine power, the tires in the front have less traction [Friction Coef] than the rear to make the car actually head in the correct direction.

Front:
{"frictionCoef":2.56},
Rear:
{"frictionCoef":2.66},

This was done to compensate the wider rear tires...

Under power this likely causes the front wheels to drag back a bit.

But if I increase friction than the car will simply flip in most corners, if I change the ratio than the car doesn't accurately head in the right direction.

I can try to fix it, but you don't need to complain about it over and over... you should of simply clarified that you meant under throttle at speed the tires skid in the front.