Vehicle handling

How does the vehicle handling work in this game? Is it like GTA IV where there is a handling.dat file and inside there is all the parameters for mass, top speed, suspension travel etc. Or is it not like that?

Cheers Tom

 

The vehicles have actual physics, in a sense the handling is real. What I can see happening is something similar to Rigs of Rods. Each vehicle has it's own file and in the vehicle's file are the parameters for engine performance and the list of physical properties and coordinates for the nodes and beams that make up the vehicle's physical structure.

 

That basically means just like in reality, to improve your driving you want to alter the mechanics, not your interpretation of how to drive "better"
This'll be awesome.

 

Will the handling be very realistic or will it be authentic?

 

I dont know if you played ROR , the handling quality reached from quite reallistic ( like the garvil cars) to not even near to neither driveable nor reallistic . It REALLY depends on the quality of the cars. All in all i can say dont expect a forza 4 or GranTurimo 5 , but dont worry it wont be like GTA 4. hope it helped

 

Thats good, considering a lot of RoR players will be coming to beamng, Why not have a similar system. Also it should be a bit easier to change things than RoR.

 

true story , i loved ror , even if i couldnt drive cars like the garvil mv4 because of the non-existance of a proper fps count. but the cars i COULD drive had an excellent handling