Cars [WIP] Caterham

[Omaatjehenk]

Great result, so much attention to detail on this one. I'm still impressed by the way you made the exhaust pipe look. A bit worn, looks so great!

 

[JackCY]

Endless details went over and all the anti-dive/rise/lift/squat done in 3D for DWB together with CG, brake, torque splits, CG height, inboard/outboard force location, tyre radiuses and cambers and that's hopefully all, of course it does ignore inertias not gonna go into that. Live axle can use the same calculation. Strut should be similar, same calculation.

The Triaged excel file linked earlier with anti-squat calculation for live axle, it's possibly faulty If anyone plans on using it beware and know what you want to calculate and how it's done there. There is a lot of confusion and differences online and some minor details can mean a different angle to be used in the calculation.

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Yeah the exhaust and textures overall have gone through a few stages by now. There are some nice added details in the latest iterations.

 

[Leonardo Ratafiá]

so... release before May then?

 

[Ben O'Bro]

so... release before May then?

Sure thing.

 

[JackCY]

Brake line works fine even when the wheel is broken over full angle.

Otherwise suspension is in progress, leveling everything to make sure there isn't some hidden phantom angle. Whole rear is read out, watt link approximated, all the anti-parameters done for DWB and live axle but need to make sure AC uses it right and doesn't add a hidden angle to it, might not be big but with the anti-squat etc. it can easily mess things up fast.

 

[Pirhana-A]

Dear Ben,

any knews about this long awaited and promising Caterham ?
reassure me, are you still working on it ?
I'm probably dreaming, but could this silence be a sign that you're in contact with Kunos to officially release it in a future update ? (it could perfectly match with the announced future british DLC)

Thx in advance for your amazing work !

 

[Leonardo Ratafiá]

I don't think so, it if was for Kunos they should downgrade the model since it's much more detailed as original content
The models are probably finished already, maybe there is some physics fine tuning work going on.
It's a great year for mods (if it's ever released this year lol)

 

[A3DR]

I'm probably dreaming, but could this silence be a sign that you're in contact with Kunos to officially release it in a future update ? (it could perfectly match with the announced future british DLC)

Let's hope not! otherwise only one version of this car will be available and the rest will never see the light of day due to licensing issues.

 

[Jebus]

Why would it be like that? Meco's Cobra have one version as an official Kunos car and the rest was released as a free mod.

 

[Ben O'Bro]

Nothing to worry about guys
The caterham is still on track, nothing to do with Kunos. Just regular lack of motivation that happens from time to time! and life carrying on with its ups & downs.

The 1700' model is indeed ready.
The r420 i haven't touched again yet
The Academy got some more details, i redid the suspension area, new bucket seats, added some details but no screenshots to show you
Just this skin preview!

Basically i got in touch with a contender of the 2017 Academy series, who is getting us references for the model in exchange of his skin ingame
He has a website here: http://www.caterhamr500.co.uk/
He used to own an R500, just sold, and bought some time ago an Academy that he built. (lot of useful pictures from this website already)
So voila the news; No release date. It keeps the "when it's done" label

Could be yesterday, could be next month

 

[dJomp]

Yesterday please. Anyone got a time machine?

Really looking forward to driving these when they're ready!

 

[Pirhana-A]

I spoke about official Kunos content hopes because I was so disappointed by the "Caterham Academy" physics that I fear another deception, but not because of the modeling, when I see the professional CG work done by M. Ben on his website, I entirely trust him to provide the best Caterham model ever (of all sims and games ever published), no doubt!
But physics wise I trust Kunos more to have access to deep technical manufacturer informations and to be more accurate than modders (no offence for their job). But you're all right that I didn' thought about the licensing and versions limitations for official content, my bad, sorry.

So... Ben... If I may, I could have a little deal for you...
If you need a small Caterham IRL fix (maybe to boost your motivation...)
would you be kind enough to let my try a beta of your mod if I let you have a ride with my car ?

(and if you pay attention to details... you'll probably guess that I don't live to far away from you...) ;-)

 

[Ben O'Bro]

Hey Valaisois!
You got my attention now
Physics wise should be at least as good as a kunos car. Thanks to the incredible work of @JackCY who fillls my mailbox with weekly graphs, curves and other fancy excel sheets he made

+ even better if we have feedback from actual owners, that's what we need to improve what we have...

Doing some aero tonight... calculating the different surface of the projection of the car at different inclinaison -10° -2° 0 +3° +6 etc.

 

[Ben O'Bro]

here is the academy so far
and the reworked suspension area (suspension model will change to what's official)
so new doors (converted to what the high poly i modeled long ago)

and early skin preview doors ON. Which apparently is regular for the academy, for better aero. I tried ingame, it doesn't affect too much the view

physics getting there slowly (did i say that already ?)
but it's too hot to work these days...

 

[ALB123]

here is the academy so far
and the reworked suspension area (suspension model will change to what's official)
so new doors (converted to what the high poly i modeled long ago)

and early skin preview doors ON. Which apparently is regular for the academy, for better aero. I tried ingame, it doesn't affect too much the view

physics getting there slowly (did i say that already ?)
but it's too hot to work these days...

Darn it! I've been trying to avoid porn lately. And then you go and post these screenshots. Looks beautiful.

 

[garyjpaterson]

Unsmoothed poly?

 

[Fat-Alfie]

More!

 

[Ben O'Bro]

gaaad i've been struggling with my mesh, nothing was wrong with it, i tried smoothing unsmoothing, delete recreate faces etc.
only to realize... it's the damn vray sun doing these wrong shadows
just by rotating the wheel arch i got the same effect to another face, close to the parallel

i moved the sun for the nose and it's also not showing

I can go back to work now

 

[Leonardo Ratafiá]

 

[Ben O'Bro]

got some work done on the Academy with the chassis + few details
doors are finished, i could add a roof and would be ready for winter!
the skin is from the official specs

Sadly our national Stig ate a little too much and isn't ready for bikini season yet.
Reminds me i'll have to redo the steering animation also to try to fit in this matchbox...

ps; for the purists, i modeled the chassis for RHD, and yet the driver is LHD, don't ask...


edit: and new mirrors, side & interior