Maluch JBeam rebuild

Added rear bumpers (so far ST and FL/EL), lights on the FL/EL bumper are breakable

 

The front bumper might be more for decoration than for safety lol, unless the front cargo area doesn't deform that much irl, I'll have to check

 

Not much progress today, spent a lot of time fixing the halogens. Fixed the bug where having the FL/EL or Panek bumper installed would break the halogen textures, fixed flares not working, and made them breakable. They are very wobbly though, I need to fix it but idk how yet, they have long attachment parts so they aren't very stable on the bumper, I'll need to make some sort of support for them.

 

Getting all these options to be compatible with each other wasn't easy...

Every possible combination was tested and all works properly, unlike in the original mod.

 

About as useful as the Piccolina one which it's based on.

Added hood and it opens on crash like in real life, I think it's a safety mechanism because without it the hood would go through the windshield and decapitate the driver.

 

It may be too wide, but I tested a half overlap too before adding this mechanism, and then everything bent and part of the hood did go through, at least that's a thing in game, idk what would happen in real life.

 

I haven't really compared my Jbeam to any crash tests yet, will do after I add doors and glass, so far I'm just eyeballing it, setting the values to what seems about realistic for each part. Most are similar to Piccolina but the more modern ones like plastic bumpers are based on the Covet instead.

 

Windshield that can fall off the car when you crash, there's also a glued version used by the el sx, elx sx and Town versions irl that is harder to break off

(It's kinda hard to actually see the glass so I made the lighting darker to make it more visible)
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Quick change: Windshield trim falls off with the glass now because I saw that this happens in real life

 

Openable rear windows... Kind of. I couldn't get them to be tiltable normally like in the real car, so for now they just can open fully once the latch on them breaks, seems good enough to me.

 

Ok so I checked the weight of the car and it turns out it's already 250kg too much than it should be, and that's before I even added the interior.
Also, the most stripped drivable version I can make is 596kg, and 600 should be the whole car. So the chassis in reality must be closer to 250 than 300, but even that won't bring it down enough. Also I know my engine weight is accurate so I should reduce the weight of the fuel tank and suspension too. It's gonna take a long time to adjust all of this... If anyone has any info about the weights of individual parts, it would make it much easier for me.

 

I found some info that the 600cc one weights 45kg and the 650cc 65kg, but not sure if it's counted with the transmission or without it. I'll need confirmation.
I got the chassis down to 260kg now (started from 290), and stripped config from 596 to 524, so far not too bad I think. But I'll need to fit all the parts including interior in the range of 72kg now which I'm not sure if it's realistic.

 

Oh, that means my transmission is way too heavy. And also I mean 72kg for the interior, glass, doors, hood, decklid, bumpers... Yeah that's not happening.