WIP Beta released Projekt Drive

Updating Bluebuck Content

Springs - Linear & Progressive
Shocks - Basic & Digressive (Need "Advanced")
Detailed Swaybar Options - Finished
Brakes - Experimental Performance Brakes implemented

Need to dial in updated configs and default profiles for springs/shocks then add Advanced Damper options.

 

Fixed Engine LUA bug that's been present for months.

 

Been working on the BX and I-Series to increasing degrees of success

 

Made an entirely new engine for the I-Series

Is a modular type Inline-6 platform that comes in

2600cc
3000cc
3600cc - Big Bore, Short Storke 'Special'

I wrote a lot of it completely from scratch so the way it all pieces together is a little different from my other engines. Took me all-day to make it. (about 12hrs of work)

Keep in mind I have a fully preparatory engine lua and hierarchy system. Vanilla engines aren't even remotely close to this kinda thing.

It also has it's own exclusive Transmissions
5speed - Manual
6speed - Close Ratio Manual
5speed - Automatic

(Also supports a 5 and 6 speed racing full-manual pair of transmissions)

 

I-Series is about 90% where I want it and is good enough to move on from for now to Clean up the BX

I-Series went from some of the worst content I felt I had to something I feel proud of again, so I can personally say I beat that challenge.

 

I've made an engine platform for the Sunburst that is 90% done. I plan to finish that and hold off on suspension and misc work on it as to not get hung up on it for too long.

I plan to very soon release a snapshot of varying degrees of up-to-date content.. some of it won't be as good as others. This will be with the intention of updating bi-weekly or monthly (hopefully) with additional content for the foreseeable future with new supported vehicles or improved/revised content on pre-existing supported content.

I also will be going over my donation platform and looking at it to make sure it's still operational. I know people likely won't donate but I'm still hopeful for the few who might be interested in doing so. As it stands no content is built with a paywall or premium concept in mind. All is currently planned to remain free to the public. I also will not be giving open permission for people to take my systems and copy from me verbatim, any use of my systems will have to be discussed directly with me as a collaborative work.

I only say this as my engine work has been the result of 6-9 months worth of R&D on/off... mostly taking place within 6 months of 2023. With heavy design reworking in Q2/3 2024 and now here in Q1 2025. It's not the most complicated systems but it's damn near close and the attention to detail I try to create with my systems shouldn't be overlooked. Please understand I really do pour days, weeks and months into this Projekt (pun intended).

 

I've been caught up making the info files for configuration files. As it's an alpha lots of this will be very unfinished and wip as plans to change things are going to be present post-release.

Upon release the front page will contain a description of where all available content is at in terms of quality assessment.

It'll go something like this

Legend

N/A - Non Applicable
E - Arguably Terrible
D - Not Very Good
C - Decent
B - Pretty Good
A - Almost Satisfactory
S - Satisfactory

ETK I-Series

Engines - (SBI6 - S), (Other Projekt Drive Inline 6 Engines - C)
Suspension - S/Almost (Some content unfinished/missing)
Configurations/Tunes - B (Few great configurations, few not so great, racing configuration unfinished)

Grand Marshal / Fullsize

Engines - Uses modular engine platform (V8 = A, V10 = B)
Suspension - B (Needs another overhaul)
Configurations/Tunes - C (Mostly There, Needs Suspension Overhaul, Again)

 

Apologies for the Radio Silence.

I've been going through some changes and I've just moved houses. My computer is not yet set back up.

 

My computer setup is still unfinished as I am getting a new keyboard as I had to give my old one to someone who had a keyboard fail and I was planning to upgrade as it were anyhow.

My current keyboard is so bad rn I can't even use it to mod without it severely hindering my abilities and efficiency so I just can't waste my time with it.

I ordered the new one today so hopefully I'll get that sooner then later.

 

Getting a new keyboard this week but I'm also unfortunately under the weather and have some other work things this week I'll need to attend to. Gonna be a little slow getting back into the order of things. I really wanna get some content ready for full release so I can come back and make more content on a loosely consistent basis, even when I have to step away for times like this.

Apologies again for my delays. I would've preferred to of had something released before all of this, and this is how all these delays have kept up everytime. Really wanna fix this type of stuff.

 

New Work in-progress gauges for the I-Series as I wanna replace the other gauges entirely. I feel they are not up to snuff for what I want and I only just started working on them again two days ago. No Imperial speedometer yet.

Some other stuff may be added as well but I'm hoping to move on from this asset shortly. Maybe even come back to add more to it later on.

I'm very pleased so far.

 

Probably spent ~ 30 minutes on this


Imperial (MPH) gauge
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quickly did over the Metric Speedometer

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~ Apologies as the original photo was taken with my graphics filter turned on so the colour was more bold then vanilla will present.

 

I've been working on the Grand Marshal. Making new Lua for some more advanced gauge cluster Logic which is almost finished.

I currently just need to fix one minor issue with one feature.

Go back and finish the ETK Gauge Accessory Lights

But currently I'm fixing the Grand Marshal suspension as it's currently in need of some updates to make the roadsport drive better.

(my roadsport is either a 5.4L with 300-320hp or 4.7L SuperCharged with 390hp and both rev to 7k with a special gauge cluster)

The Grand Marshal will have 2 new gauge clusters which are both almost entirely completed.

 

Colour me excited. It's always bothered me how many of the vanilla engine upgrades make peak power past the top end of the factory RPM gauge, and way past the indicated redline...

 

Since the update I've had to rework some of my I-Series content due to changes in the interior and unibody of the vehicle, fixed for now but may need to scrub for sphagettized garbage later.

I also have a new bug presented in the Grand Marshal thanks to the update and changes to the part hierarchy, I've alleviated it for now but it's now how I'd prefer it to have worked out. It'll need work later.

currently I have a catastrophic bug with the new version of the game that causes my game to hang like crazy during the loading of maps, upon significant deletion of my cache I got it to function but even with minimal mods present it presented it's self once more. It takes absolutely forever to load.

Considering the game is on a fast SSD presenting no other issues.
64gb of ram and a 9700X this is certainly unusual behaviour and a read through reddit shows I'm not the only one with these issues. Originally for me even Safe Mode didn't fix the issue either. I know it's weird to put it here but that's because obviously something is going on to many users and I'm not sure what.

 

sorry for the bump but, any updates?

 

Yes actually, sorry I've gone silent. I've started reworking things to be more user friendly, especially for career mode and such.

Basically the way I'm trying to make things now is so that the user installs the suspension and there are various parent parts that pre-select a combination of spring, shock, bumpstop and attributes.

You can modify those parts or go full DIY from there. Allowing users to achieve much easier fully setup "KITS" for suspension with less tinkering, without hindering players who wish to deep dive themselves. Also makes creating fully setup configurations with consistency easier for me.

I've also decided to undergo some engine overhauling that makes the system more sophisticated while also making it easier for me to build new engines that are easier to interact with.

I can make complex platform engines with all kinds of various displacement options while keeping realistic values and such in order with the least work possible. All simply because of some clever math I decided to integrate into it. A new platform takes something like 8-12hrs start to finish now.

It is worth it for how much easier it is to setup a build and in Career mode / mods and also how much more awesome it is to build engines at their construction limits.
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Apologies for the delays, I dunno when I can release but this feels so much less broken now. When I do release there will be a lot of missing content with the hope of releasing something additional on a monthly basis here on the BeamNG Repo.

I'm just a little demotivated at this particular moment as I've been sick for a month and stressed out of peak season at work.

Also a little disappointed with how some of my modded brakes work and the need to kind of slowly update my steering racks.

 

gotcha thanks for an update! i hope everything goes smoothly and you have a goodnight! good luck on the project.