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This is AwesomeSauce/Petrovysky/Rat_Master etc. He's trolling
They're all the same person

 

Thanks. I could kinda tell since he said a car has six wheels.

 

Started a log trailer for the scania, still a lot work to do. I never thought my 2000Nm torque wouldn't be enough :|


(imported from here)

(imported from here)

 

What's the weight of the trailer loaded and unloaded? Can't wait to start hauling in this beast!

 

With some inspiration from this thread, I made this:

Just a quick model edit. Basically stretched the bed and frame by 75 centimetres and moved the rear axle back.
I'm currently working on the Jbeam (and I think I finally understand gabe's way of naming nodes).
I'm making this mostly as a Jbeam practice, but if it turns out either properly drivable or absolutely hilarious I might just release it

 

Fuck... yes.. Excellent work Jalkku.

 

Made a small English house for my first model in Sketchup. I got it in game thanks to DrowsySam's tutorial. VIDEO-TUTORIAL-Sketchup-to-BeamNG-with-working-collision-textures-%28for-noobs%29

 

While UK houses are small. They arent quite that small
Very nice first project, especially since people often have issues with collisions. If it had all of the baking and other shading magic on it i can imagine it wouldn't look to out of place on a mod.

Working on a Gokart. It only has 1 forward gear and gets a little difficult to drive above 35mph on bumpy terrain (aka not perfectly smooth) since it has no suspension (by design).

 

Why would anyone make a go kart with no suspension then give it more than like 8 horsepower? (We used to have a cheapo gokart with a tired old 2HP Briggs. It sucked and the carb eventually broke, but it was fun as hell.)

 

For science.
True reason: I wanted a simple project to work on and therefore wanted to eliminate as many components as possible. Also a 50hp engine makes it way more fun to drive since 5mph isn't exactly exciting. It can reach 58mph on a perfectly flat surface. Even more true reason: I actually wanted to make it 20hp but through trial and improvement i got to this result, and it kinda works ok. I may be tempted to reduce the top speed a bit when i tune it some more. But for now i am kinda happy.
Its also kind an interesting challenge to make it actually drivable.

 

My go kart has no suspension, unless you want like a Polaris Rzr or something?

 

Just doin some maintenance Should i redo the engine? It looks kinda crappy to me.

 

It would be nice if it was more detailed but I guess it doesn't really matter nearly as much as the rest of it.

 

It depends. If you plan on doing really detailed textures, I would advise leaving it the way it is. If not, then adding more detail won't hurt. Looks great so far.

 

The model itself seems fine (and will require textures) although the engine does look physically too big, so perhaps you should scale it down a bit

Also, you will need to model the inside of the engine bay. This will make the smaller engine look more normal sized once it's smaller.

 

Yep, it's in the works By the way, the underbody is almost done. I have the frame, exhaust, transmission, fuel tank etc. It wont be too long until its in game

 

At last, it's time to beam!

It's not quite done yet, I just have to add a firewall and some bits for the front suspension. Basically, this model will be exported to blender, and through some witchcraft, be converted to nodes (each verticy represents a node), and beams will be added in GregBlast's node/beam editor.

Also, if you're wondering why the jbeam has fewer edgeloops than certain other ones, it's because this mod (and most of my other Japanese vehicles) will be focused on driving characteristics, as opposed to extremely smooth deformation. Generally, fewer edgeloops are easier to make rigid, much like real cars. Of course, you can make a complex object rigid, but it's more work.

Also, my computer doubles as a toaster, so I don't really want "Moonhawk" FPS (and for those with uber computers, you should be able to have numerous AE86's at once with reasonable FPS, I hope...)

That said, if the deformation is a little to "Russian" for my liking, I may add more divisions (Keep in mind the engine bay is especially simple as it is covered with body panels, which will have at least 3 divisions across)

 

BAKASAN WHEN WILL YOUR HEAVENLY DELIGHTS MAKE IT TO THE SHOWROOM.

 

I have noticed that on both this and on gabesters covet the roof pillars have two nodes side by side in the middle of them. I was wondering if there is any particular reason?
Thanks

 

When they're done. Until then, all I can say is, Stay Tuned

(don't worry though, I'll try to post regular jbeam/ingame updates in this thread, and modeling updates on my modeling thread)

Well, the pillars should have some thickness to them, so the 2 nodes is what that is for. The reason they diverge into one node at either end is to keep the jbeam nice and simple, thus it should behave better. I tried ending the pillars with 2 nodes on the Megami, but i don't think it works very well, so I think I will remake them. Similarly, you could perhaps use only one node in the middle, although I'm not sure if this is a good idea for strength.


Back to progress updates, I finished and converted the base model into nodes, and am in the process of making the beams.

Hopefully I can have the running gear in place by the weekend, and avoid the flacidness that currently plagues the Megami.

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Update: Now ingame. Note the large amount of beams employed to ensure for a full rigid chassis

Now I just have to do the engine bay, and then set up the node weights and beam properties to get realistic strength and weight.

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Update 2: Engine bay is now done, minus the crossmember. The next thing to do I suppose is to calculate how much the bare frame should weigh, and make it weigh that amount. I also will need to adjust the beam values properly, so hopefully the jbeam is not floppy.

Once that is done, I can start adding more components

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