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Rigs of Rods

PostPosted: September 22nd, 2011, 10:50 am
by EFFalcon
sounds odd... but its an open source vehicle physics simulator.

it looks like it was originally built for truck simulations, but its been expanded to do all sorts of vehicles. (Cars, planes, helicopters, boats)
http://www.rigsofrods.com

Theres some very impressive stuff in there, if you're really keen you can use its nods and beams logic to create your own chassis/suspension/steering geometries

Going to have more of a look at it when i get a chance.

Re: Rigs of Rods

PostPosted: September 22nd, 2011, 6:24 pm
by XR_Lightning
nice find! lol, in that 1st vid at the start of it, the battered metal part looks like an EA-ED :P

Re: Rigs of Rods

PostPosted: September 22nd, 2011, 6:53 pm
by InfernalTyrant
Sweet, downloading it now. Looks like some fun.

Re: Rigs of Rods

PostPosted: September 22nd, 2011, 7:13 pm
by LUXO_8
XR_Lightning wrote:nice find! lol, in that 1st vid at the start of it, the battered metal part looks like an EA-ED :P

Haha it does look like a box car ey..

Will have to dl it later.

Re: Rigs of Rods

PostPosted: September 22nd, 2011, 7:31 pm
by XR_Lightning
yeah I downloaded it, havnt tryed it yet, will stuff around with it later :)

Re: Rigs of Rods

PostPosted: September 22nd, 2011, 7:39 pm
by InfernalTyrant
It's confusing.

Re: Rigs of Rods

PostPosted: September 23rd, 2011, 8:30 am
by EFFalcon
yeah, its not meant to be simple, but theres a lot of potential.
i wouldnt mind making up an eseries chassis to play with :P

where Aaron, this is right down his alley

Re: Rigs of Rods

PostPosted: September 23rd, 2011, 9:02 am
by LUXO_8
Lol, try and make it so you can export from falcon builder into it =D. Not asking for much haha

Re: Rigs of Rods

PostPosted: September 23rd, 2011, 1:50 pm
by AaronEF8
I assume you'll be able to convert stuff from 3ds easily enough.
I wanna go home and check this out lol. Spewin my wheels/pedals are all in SA still.

Re: Rigs of Rods

PostPosted: September 23rd, 2011, 2:06 pm
by EFFalcon
not sure about 'easy'
seems theres a bit of work in getting it to work with the various other aspects of the game.

all of the 'real' stuff is in config files, like building the chassis and suspension links, the engine charecteristics etc.
but theres some nice damage modeling too, i'm deffinately keen to try and get a model in there to try it out.

Re: Rigs of Rods

PostPosted: September 23rd, 2011, 2:11 pm
by EFFalcon
an example of a double wishbone setup
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