Out and about today. Picking real cherries, but soon, this could be a mod for the original GeneRally. Custom vegetation.

A brief redirection to my GeneRally mod. A discord member spotted a way to adjust the camera mid game. You're dan right I'm going to try make a follow camera.

Oooft, 3 days since I've touched anything. I'm human, I work, I also had learned how to change the alternator on my car, not a feature I'll be adding, I'll leave that to the pitcrew.

The tyre slipping is working wrong and I think Unity is against me, but I have to prove why...

Slip ratio works. Next is slip angle. After all that, it's tweaking and then working on different race surfaces.

They're the same picture.

(I accidentally multiplied downforce by 100, because I'm using downforce points as opposed to coefficient)

The car drives backwards now. Not when I want it to, it just, goes backwards. Guess that's on my debug list.

Also, acceleration from 0-100kph in 1 second is now harder since this tyre model, will have to continue working on how to achieve unreal levels of grip (or implement downforce and hope)

We have wheel spin, but somehow the physics engine is telling the car to skyrocket into the stratosphere if there's too much torque. An improvement I guess?

Also my first Unity crash.

A better engine torque curve is implemented. If only it would transfer to the wheels like I wish.

I still don't understand how Unity works. That's okay, I at least understand the grip circle.

Tyre models. I'd like to be ambitious here but they've got me a little stumped.

I guess my car knows how I feel too.

Time to make it a little prettier. Turning physics has begun also, but of course this looks boring with no skidding and sliding.

Without spoilers to Bathurst, that was a certified banger of a race. I just have to say that I must implement rain into the untitled racing game to embrace that chaos.

Today I rest, because Bathurst. Only the kinetics for turning is implemented but those familiar with GeneRally might recognise the basic oval in game. This gives an idea for scale.

Started coding meshes for the ground, using vertex shading for the surfaces for a low-poly look. I hope it works 🤞

Added some sample sounds (borrowed from a GR competition) and some gear whine. It feels a bit more lively. Added unnecessary gears for demo.

Tyre Slip is difficult, this will need a rethink. And by rethink, I mean sit down with beverages of all kinds and hammer away at it.

This is what happens when you:
- Match the GR1 formula torque (850)
- Add gears (wow, 2!) and diff ratio
- Get close to drag coeff of GR1.

You have a car that is dynamic off the line to match small worlds/tracks. Turns coming soon once I get to grips with it.*

*For legal reasons, that's a pun.

Car moves forward, with weight, with engine torque matched to RPM, hell, even has a simple two speed gearbox just so I can eliminate the single tone drone of maxed out cars. I can't wait for this to be a development hell.

One day I might even post media.

Well I guess it begins here. My quest to make a successor to my favourite top-down racing game. Think of this as a journal or something.