Micro Blog(s) - July 2015 to March 2016

wow LJFHutch, when i heard you were improving ECU, i was like, how can you improve a map that is already perfect. you never cease to amaze me. are those boxes and trash bin dynamic or just static objects? it will make this a whole new game if you can damage props

 

It depends on what car.

 

Or cold start or diesel. I think.

 

YAYAY!

 

no car should really be smoking except under cold start (as above) or poorly maintained diesel. Diesels shouldnt smoke unless not looked after properly.

 

Some rigid-body physics mixed in wouldn't be all bad...

 

But what about rolling coal bro all the cool guys roll coal bro

 

ahahaha, cool, rolling coal, nah, douchey as fuck. That and they're running the engine too rich, it makes that smoke and loses power.

 

if you roll coal your a douche bag plain and simple. if you smoked me out like that im throwing a bottle at your truck and your thousand pounds of torque will do shit to catch me either. i did have a truck pull up next to me and have him bait me into doing a burn out. he did one so i did one. than we both did a nasty burnout and went our separate ways. it was pretty rad.

 

But if you want to simulate an accident caused by a doucebag... I mean... That's what you do in this game.

 

So, just to be clear, the thermal system that will be released next update is just for the engine temperatures? Like, we are not getting brake and tire thermal simulation just yet?

 

Diesel smoke under normal conditions will also be "invisible" however if you are running rich (too much fuel/not enough air) you may have some black smoke come out of the exhaust.
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What car will actually produce visible smoke, given that it isn't broken and under normal conditions?

 

The beater covet could have some on acceleration possibly. If the struts are blown and the paint is in as bad of shape as it appears to be then the rings and valve stem seals are probably on their way out as well. I haven't checked, but it probably should have less power too, given it's well-used appearance.

The T-series should produce smoke as well. Older diesels didn't have perfect efficiency and they tend to smoke under heavy acceleration, particularly on take-off. The stacks are there specifically for that. Half their function is to prevent other drivers from being distracted by plumes of smoke, and the other half is to prevent their cargo from being fouled by it. That is why they will either have extra long stacks or ones that are shaped to project it outwards away from their trailer. If they ever decide to give it a jake brake (copyright infringement..?), it wouldn't smoke in that condition. Jakes work by preventing the engine from fully compressing the intake charge (exhaust valves open at the top of the piston's throw, thus wasting the energy required for compression) and cutting fuel. Obviously, no fuel, no smoke.

We aren't given an idea of the temperature of the maps (that I know of), but many cars will give off a bit of smoke in the cold. Even new cars will do it, most notably at idle while stopped.

Beautiful work on ECA by the way LJFHutch. I never really thought that it needed improvement until I saw how much better you've already made it .

 

Could you explain why rigid-body physics are more taxing than soft-body?

 

So the rigid-body physics is kind of a no-go zone, but how about spawning soft-body physics objects into the map, just like in some scenarios ?
Just in like, making props a different soft-body physics object category than the vehicles.

They might eat out a lot of memory as how they are, but with a bit of jbeam modding, in reducing their complexity might work.

This game really needs some dynamic props in maps.

 

For dynamic props like garbage bins:

Why not just a six node rectangular prism with physics sleep? Once physics sleep is implemented, that is.

I can't imagine that would be consume any more resources than the bumper of a car, and it'd only be consuming these resources when you're near it, so it's effectively one at a time.

 

Was thinking the same, there were some issues with this in RoR and I'm definitely against it for other cars but for props (more specifically map props) I quite like the idea. The main downside being that it would likely have to load all the objects at once and give them physics for a short period of time to allow them to settle, although this could be masked by a couple of seconds extra loading screen (assuming that is even necessary). Another thing to look out for with this is the proximity to wake/sleep, this would be much better if it was based on proximity coupled with velocity. So that X object wont be flying 10 ft in the air and decide its far enough away to enter physics sleep, as it was in RoR.

Other than that I think its a pretty solid idea and it would save a lot of resources and it shouldn't be too bad to program.