Thrash Racer - Banger racing / life sim

[Artoo]

Hi.
If the playmaker window is visible during play mode in editor it can cause lag (i'm not sure if that is still the case on the latest PM)

if you do not use the custom fsm, is the lag gone?
if so then it's probably something inside that script that its causing it.

I mean input lag, is there some?
I´ve had some visual lag with large fsm´s, and if I activate them during gameplay.
I´ve made my scripts so that they don´t need to be deactivated and activated, they just have "inactive" states in them

[djaydino]

Hi.
There should be no input lag due to playmaker.

[Artoo]

Dunno if images are showing, I made a little experiment during weekend to test a hex-based terrain destruction, and HDRP lighting in Unity as a small side project :>

https://twitter.com/ThrashRacerGame/status/1533414860519874561/photo/3

[Artoo]

I´ve been experimenting with uneven track surfaces, height differences are exaggerated in the picture :>

[Artoo]

Well, progress was slow but now it´s picking up speed again!

I made a new clean project as a base and I´m rebuilding the systems.
The old project I had been building on was really old, I had used it for all of my prototype games.
It was getting a bit confusing to work on since I had all kinds of unused crap there.

Now it´s so much easier to develop since I add only what I need to the project. No more prototyping, now it´s going for an actual game :>

Here´s a new player character system, with a wheel collider for feet!
It doesn´t look like much, but it works much better than my old one which had trouble moving around and dealing with slopes 

[Artoo]

I prototyped a physical frame straightening system, I saw this done to some demolition derby cars.
Attach a chain in the front, put it in reverse and floor it!

You can still screw this up and end with more bent frame if you´re not careful,
this is a physical joint connected to the frame, and the results depend on what speed and angle you are reversing at.

I´ll create an optional way to straighten frames for cars that are too bent to achieve enough speed, maybe like by pressing the front down with a forklift, like I´ve seen done to banger racing cars.


...at this point it might not work so well anymore

[Artoo]

I´ve been testing ways to do smaller parts that fall off :>

[Artoo]

I´m building a damage system for mechanical parts, they are located inside the main colliders that deform in collisions, and eventually will start taking damage if hits are detected near enough.
So far it only works 1-dimensionally (based on distance from the center of a mechanical part), but I may build a 3-dimensional system for them.

I´m also making a system for detachable parts based on the deformation of the colliders, vertex changes in the colliders are checked and parts can fall off based on their movements. This is much faster for the game to calculate than my old system with everything connected with joints all the time, and could allow up to 40 cars in races. But I need to do more testing to confirm that :>

[Artoo]

A better collider system, that allows the cars to hit the environment in any angle without clonking into a sudden stop :>

I´ve also worked on a lot of new features, that are not visible (yet), such as
-new detachable parts system and collision and damage detection
-mechanical damages
-corrosion of frame and parts, which affects weight and structural strenght of the car and how well detachable parts are attached
-dirt, that builds up and adds weight and effects cooling
-brake and engine cooling, depending on aero and parts that block airflow

Also the cars are now built on prefabs, which has sped up working on them a lot

[Artoo]

I’ve swapped engine to Unreal Engine 5, because Unity wanted me to use some other engine 
From now on, you can follow the progress on my youtube channel.

I’ve been testing some early experimental crash physics lately;