Quote from sinbad :None of the cars in LFS would suffer from noticeable body flex. And the bonded glass will provide a lot of the stiffness too - break the windscreen and your chassis rigidity can drop by up to 60% (depending on the car). Some, cheaper, cars flex so much the doors won't open when the car is jacked up on one corner. Road cars flex too - it might not look like they do watching the doors (for example), but it's there, and measurable in millimeters easily. Without chassis flex a kart would be undriveable. no springs, dampers, rockers etc), and thus relies on the controlled 'give' of the chassis to provide compliance. That is why roll cages are round.Ĭars aren't made of out square tubing anyway - they are a monocoque construction these days, where the skin, rather than separate tubes, carry the stresses.Ī kart needs the flex because it DOESN'T have 'suspension' as such (i.e. It's like comparing a sheet of balsa wood against a 1' thick sheet of pine.Ĭircular metal tubing, of similar dimensions, is weight for weight STRONGER and STIFFER than square tube. Karts are made out of simple circular metal tubing, cars are made out of. Quote from XCNuse :lol, think common sense wise. None of the cars in LFS would suffer from noticeable body flex.

unless, in the case of the doors, I've left them wide open. Maybe the exhaust could rattle about a bit (not that you'd tell unless it was a slow-mo vid, but I don't know what the doors, or any other body part, should do independantly of the body - thankfully on every car I've driven they just stay put. The car body does pitch and roll and bounce and hop, the suspension compresses and extends underneath it. I hope you guys know what I'm trying to say here. While watching slow motion replays I'd like to see the whole car frame (including doors, exhaust pipes and whatnot) react to forces, wobbling, shaking, bending/reverting and so on. Currently the car is just a solid rigid model. I was wondering if (or 'when', actually) ScaViEr are going to implement similar car body physics in the future versions of LFS that can be seen in Rigs of Rods, for example.

Rigs of rods mods vehicle