Mostly being adjusting the JBeam to fit the car, but now I'm having a problem which is driving me crazy! In the JBeam file there's an "rx5l" and an "rx5r" node for the rear suspension. According to the JBeam file they should be in the exact correct position, but somehow it spawns incorrectly. This causes the rear left wheel to position incorrectly as well. Any idea's? Code: ["rx5r", -0.355, 1.491, 0.425], ["rx5l", 0.355, 1.491, 0.425], Clearing Cache several times doesn't solve the problem.
Something that is loaded after that might define position of rx5l so check all occurences of rx5l in all jbeam files, most likely rear suspension and body are files where it can be, but it is something that is loaded after where you define position.
Sometimes it can be part naming, other part overrides your part, to test that add _Risky to end of part name, not to name that is shown in game, but the actual part name to make it unique. Can't think what else it could be right now.
Maybe that is me, but 1901 Ford was founded in USA, 1967 was year when European Ford was founded. Which makes Ford pretty American brand.
Not entirely wrong though. While parent company is definitely american, Ford Cologne (now Ford Europe, after the merge of all european operations under the same umbrella) used to be pretty much a separate entity - a division - with their own independent design and engineering centers. Ford is the only automotive group to use the same name and badging for what essentially are two completely different brands across the globe. Before the "One Ford" philosphy, Ford cars from the two sides of the pond had little to nothing in common other than the Blue Oval badge, with the occasional exception. Think of Ford Europe as Opel once was in relationship with Chevrolet in the GM Group. The Focus always was a 100% european design (Ford USA only developed a US-only facelift of Mk1), this generation in particular being EU-only.
Ford Cologne had to be some way related to Ford USA though as company Ford was established already at 1901 and Ford Cologne happened only later times, 1925 when American Ford was annoyed by high cost of importing vehicles to Germany, so they rented warehouse and started building vehicles near Berlin and sometime around 1929 they relocated to Cologne, that was American Ford operation, American brand and vehicles. Certainly Ford Europe of later years is very different from Ford USA and designs etc. are whole different, they grow to meet needs of European markets. Focus is indeed very European design and I think it was more of brain fart from PabloMM, surely he meant that Focus is European vehicle, but such are human computing units that sometimes there are lapses.
Exactly. Parent-to-subsidiary relationship. Founded by Ford USA, largely independent division. If they chose to name the newborn subsidiary with a different name, we wouldn't be having this conversation today: Something Else™ Motorenwerke GmbH, Köln would be considered a german subsidiary of a multinational company.
I saw this pop up a while ago and saw you were using your own mesh and now the credits says you are using a downloaded shell and your own interior and mechanical model, so just wondering if that is still accurate? Furthermore are you scratch building a jbeam?
I did scratch build a car but wasn't very happy with the exterior, so I got another model and built the current Focus using parts of both models. The exterior part of the other model was superb, but the interior, technical parts and underside weren't, so that's where I used my own scratch built parts. I did start with a scratch built JBeam as well, but as this is really complicated and time consuming, I'm going to use a modified Sunburst JBeam to suit the Focus.
I would very highly suggest sticking with your own Jbeam, there are a number of devs who often give feedback to people doing jbeaming so if you are at an Impasse I would suggest looking to them. The model issue also suck buts I am sure you have taken poly count, density and flow into account with the model.
