now believe it or not but the trailer is old news
it was made before I rewrote the lightmapper
and the movers (doors and whatnot) had lightmaps on them
and among other things recently I managed to finish up the car
which is the last big feature I insisted on having in the game 🤔
for comparison this was the old car - I thought just driving around a sphere going to work out
and it would be a nice oldschool car
needless to say the driving was not up to standard - but many people loved the design of the placeholder 🤔
the new car got reworked a few times - it's mean to be a combination of a 4x4 jeep with a mini monster truck
the inside looks a bit better but I didn't bother to make a working dashboard
this new one is based on super basic spring physics - the game still has no physics engine 🤔
if you ever go mad as me and try to build your own physics:
update the gravity for all particles first and only then apply the spring constraints
turns out that is the trick to bring it together 🤔
also there is some extra correction - the direction of the car comes from the relation
of the spheres it's made of (6 spheres) and to make sure you drive in a straight line
there is a little cheat added - some of the speed that would deviate you from this dir is cancelled
and that is all needed to make a workable car 🤔
the rest is playing with values until it feels right and you can drift and so on 🤔
of course adding physics to a car has it's problems 🤔
until next time 👋