Good to hear that everything's fine. I got a small idea: the aforementioned Twin Leaf rear suspension: Also, here's a recent photo of mine: Try to find everything wrong in this photo, especially with the vehicles.
Twin leaf rear suspension would be the worst of both existing suspensions as it would lack both the smooth ride of airbags and the articulation of the walking beam.
it'd be a neat additon for the "T70 Front + Twin Axle Rear" combo, though: it'd be simple like the regular walking beam, but not make the semi too prone to tipping backwards from the rear load due to not having the articulation.
Exactly what I'm suggesting. Plus, if you put the T70 front and the Twin Axle Fifth Wheel rear together and use the Walking Leaf suspension, it's very possible that the resulting semi will do wheelies under load and throttle.
i just want to make an absolute base model truck with a 4 cylinder no front brakes (maybe even no rear rear brakes) and other parts needed to make it as cheap as possible but a 3 axle truck
1. Instead of 2 large spring packs attached to four different mounting points with walking beam you'd need 4 smaller spring packs with 8 seperate mounting points bushings, etc. it wouldn't be much if any cheaper to make over the superior walking beam setup 2. The lack of articulation is just a bandaid over the terrible weight distribution the ultra-short tandem has. Where the fifth is you have to put so much trailer weight onto the rear drives that the front drives are next to useless and you'd be better off running a single drive.
... At least I managed to perfect that combination so it doesn't tip so easily. Also, using the shorter trailers doesn't put so much weigth on the rear. --- Post updated --- I guess one of the saddest things about the current T-Series remaster is the fact that the devs didn't have the foresight to put a fifth shift position on the automatic shifter. Knowing us and our JBEAM modding shenanigans, it'd only be a matter of time before someone (read: me) would make an automatic gearbox with a P gear.
Well, I did say it was sad. Sooner or later someone will make a gearbox with a P position and put it on the T-Series.
Hey, I managed to create something you said wasn't possible: unread hubs for the tag axles. Turns out, the "speedo" trick isn't deprecated: it's set to True if not written, if you put it inside a hub and set it to False (example: "speedo":false), the UI wheelspeedometer won't consider it for the wheelspeed calculations, so if their wheels hit a curb and start to spin, it won't screw up the wheelspeed. I had to make them separate hub pieces and IDK if it tricks the base dashboard's speedometer, but here you go.
Hey, if you have some spare time, remember when we talked about putting bigger "auxiliary" fuel tanks on the sides to fill up spare space and you mentioned a bunch of slidenode-related stuff? I never managed to figure that out, but here's something interesting: if you put the 500L fuel tanks on the fuel slots the Twinsteer Day Cabover frame has, they DON'T fall off on their own at spawn. Perhaps the Conventional Day Cab has something that overlaps and thus kicks them off?
I haven't been on this discussion for a whole month. Has the expansion pack been released? If so, could you send the link?
I'm not gonna be doing IRL replica bodies. This mod has been publicly available for download and semi-regularly updated for the better part of a year now. The latest version(0.51) is available on page 28 of the forums: https://www.beamng.com/attachments/efc_us_semi_drive_exp-zip.1153480/ A slightly older version(0.48) is also available on the mod Repo: https://www.beamng.com/resources/t-series-drivetrain-expansion.29462/
I think the vanilla BeamNG gives you something like that, but with a different front. Either the "Conventional Day Cab + Tandem Axle Rear" combo or the "T60 Frame + Tandem Axle Rear" combo.
The stuff I add to the mod I want to have a functional impact on the truck rather than purely aesthetic. The T60 was just the result of me squishing the frame and hood to fit the little TCM engine better and have it turn sharper. I'm not interested in making a different hood, grill, fenders and headlights just for a slightly different looking but functionally identical truck.
