2004 hyundia Elantra Build mid way done

cool271 · Jul 5, 2014

gabester said: ↑

I would recommend reusing the floorpan and firewall .jbeam structure from either the Covet or Grand Marshal (they are very similar) and adapting it to the Elantra. You can also reuse and adapt things like doors, fenders, hood, trunk, and bumpers, if and where possible. You could probably take the whole Grand Marshal structure, remake the suspension to be correct for an Elantra, and scale the whole thing down in size and weight to match the real Elantra. Also, the Elantra has 4 bolt wheels, so you should use wheels from the Covet (they have the same 4x100mm bolt pattern).

An important thing to keep in mind when scaling .jbeams: the scale values MUST match across all .jbeam parts for a given vehicle. If you have "scalenodeWeight":1.1 for a part, it needs to be 1.1 for every single part of the vehicle. This also goes along with a very important principle with our soft-body physics - if you reduce weight, you must also reduce spring and damp or the structure will be unstable and explode. I recommend using an advanced text editor like Notepad++, opening all of the .jbeam files simultaneously, and doing a "Replace all in all opened files" if you want to make a change to the scaling values.

As for the visual component of the underside - the Grand Marshal is not such a good reference because it's a body-on-frame rear-wheel drive car, whereas the Elantra is unibody and front-wheel drive. If you can find a picture of that car flipped on its side, you will have hit the goldmine of underside reference There will usually be a lot of strange corrugations and indents, and I always do those in the normal map rather than modeling them.

EDIT: Aha! Jackpot! Save this pic and study it hard...

http://www.beamng.com/images/imported/2013/11/37.jpg
(imported from here)
Click to expand...

LOL looks like my dad's car.... but wrecked.

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