Gavril T75

I agree with what you said yes, but it's just that I've seen the "alpha" card pulled so many times, it hurts. Also yes it's called Alpha because things are unfinished- we all get that (I hope).
On topic- I can't wait for a interior view for this thing...the role playing will be real.

 

there IS an interior VIEW, there just isn't an interior itself yet

 

Sorry that again raised the topic about damage.
I think the important thing that too strong, is the hood or the cabin is too weak. And it not depends from weight.

If we will take screen from B25Mitch, we see Hood vs Cabin=1:1

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In real life even the hood from aluminium, it will badly damaged but not the cabin.

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I know it's alpha, just my two cents

 

Here's a thing



What happened in that crash is the cab actually came off it's mounts, crushing the hood between it and the wall and likely being stopped when it made contact with the engine block. This is even with modern materials. The frame of that truck during the crash is fine, more rigid than the T75 by the looks of it. The impact speed is likely to be 35mph, same as the bus MMI tested. Even then you find that the hood of the T7f is quite accurate to this moden semi... kinda. The modern semi truck's hood is much less rigid. The only difference is, if you look, you can see the A pillars tear the hood apart on the corners instead of folding it. That said, its the ONLY video of semi being tested this way. The Semi's in the images seem to have hit things that missed the frame, meaning that the impact was straight to the hood, tearing or shifting the engine off it's mounts even.

The T75 doesn't crumple... properly... yet. But its "sort of" accurate.

 

Few beefs I have with this truck:

1: the truck is not stiff enough. I would expect it to be able to handle a bit of terrain without tearing it'self apart.
2: the steering on this truck is really bad, and is not set up like you expect normal steering to be set up, I would firstly have beams going across to each of the pivot points of each wheel to stabilize each wheel against the other, also adding Ackermann geometry to allow the truck to move properly.
3: rear wheels are a bad, and it's wrong that each wheel should have individual power like that. I would make the outer wheels lock to the inner wheels with some extra beams and have power transmitted to the inner wheels only. I would also strengthen each axle on the truck so that it doesn't feel like it's going to teat to pieces each time you throttle.


Another note regarding engine pitch, add a pitch variable to engine configuration so that the pitch doesn't change when adding another 3000 rpms to the max rpm.

 

I dont feel that we should complain about cars in experimental....its not finished and obvious things like what you mentioned are, obvious and are/will probably be worked on for the final release.
As for your 3rd point:
"slotType" : "semi_wheel_R_2",
//lock the inner and outer wheels
"differentials": [
["wheelName1", "wheelName2", "type", "state", "closedTorque", "engineTorqueCoef"],
["RL_2_outer","RL_2_inner", "lsd", "locked", 8000, 0]
["RR_2_outer","RR_2_inner", "lsd", "locked", 8000, 0]
//["RR_2_outer","RL_2_outer", "open", "open", 0, 1]

And

"semi_differential_R_2": {
"information":{
"authors":"gabester",
"name":"Gavril T75 Rear Rear Differential",
}
"slotType" : "semi_differential_R_2",
"differentials": [
["wheelName1", "wheelName2", "type", "state", "closedTorque", "engineTorqueCoef"],
["RR_2_inner","RL_2_inner", "open", "open", 0, 1]

 

I'm not talking about a differential between the wheels, but a solid connection between them.

I know it's unfinished, but that doesn't mean he can't take constructive criticism. I'm not complaining, I'm stating what I think should be changed.

 

The differential serves as that solid connection, the game supports no other means of linking the wheels.

It also has a visible ackerman setup going on....

 

Wheels are made up of nodes and beams, just like everything else, the beams on one wheel can be connected to the beams of the other wheel.

 

Nodes and beams which are automatically generated at run and not manually described in the vehicle JBeam therefore not being possible to manually latch a beam onto.

 

Seems I was not aware of this... Maybe it's possible to allow 2 wheels to be locked together using nodes of some sort, as an option?

 

Diggin' the new tweaks to the T75. I know frame flex on these things gets pretty wild when driving on anything but a smooth asphalt road. These trucks are
designed for massive torque and keeping it's massive weights in a straight line at speed. People seem to forget that after hours of thrashing around in a Grand
Marshal driving the T75 in the same manner will yield results completely alien but entirely realistic for a semi. The brain switch just isn't happening.

 

I've got the same issue with the treads, along with the horrible framerate. I'm running the latest experimental build and I did delete the cache.

Specs:
CPU: AMD FX-8350
GPU: EVGA GTX 780
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB

 

There is an issue with the T-series (and any similarly complex vehicles) with some CPU's at the moment, so there isn't really much you can do until its fixed.