What’s The Best Game Engine For Crashing Cars?

12 responses to “What’s The Best Game Engine For Crashing Cars?”

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   thatsphresh1

   January 30, 2014 at 4:14 pm

   Not sure which is which, but the white car one was better.

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      zombiejesus

      January 30, 2014 at 4:26 pm

      The white car is BeamNG, the orange one is from Next Car Game.

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      Torres

      January 30, 2014 at 7:42 pm

      The BugBear engine makes the cars look like they weigh about 25kg

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   danmazkin

   January 30, 2014 at 4:33 pm

   The crash physics in GTAV are pretty great to be honest.

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   lonewolf

   January 30, 2014 at 4:34 pm

   I actually like the damage system from 1NSANE, where you could absolutely mangle the body of the car and the wheels would still turn. Sandbox mode was basically a challenge to se how mcuh damage you could do and still get it moving.

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   foggy

   January 30, 2014 at 4:36 pm

   Goddam I loved Flatout!

   Bring it on Bugbear!

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      dainbramaged

      January 31, 2014 at 12:47 am

      Yeah, I only ever had the demo, but I played the fuck out of it. We even milked it by trying to get through an entire race in first place with out smashing the little dude out of the windscreen. No one ever succeeded.

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   Fontgod

   January 30, 2014 at 8:59 pm

   BeamNG walks all over Bugbear’s efforts. Next Car Game seems to have predefined crash models depending on what angle it hits at whereas BeamNG is actually modeling the crash, pretty awesome how you can see the ripple effect along the whole car when its a head on crash.

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      edenist

      January 31, 2014 at 12:19 pm

      BeamNG uses a soft-body physics engine, NCG uses [like most games] a rigid-body engine, which greatly reduces the computational effort required, but produces a “good enough” approximation of reality.
      Sure, beamNG shows you can implement full soft-body simulation, but the computation requires wouldn’t leave enough left for the rest of the game [this is changing, however]. It’s also more development, testing and complexity which to produce something 99% of the people playing the game don’t care about [again, this is changing :p]

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   raptorana

   January 30, 2014 at 9:56 pm

   Interesting that the ‘Next Car Game’ one doesn’t damage the existing panels, rather it removes them and replaces them with broken panels (seen in the slow-mo ones).
   I like the white one better I think.

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   jordan_joyce

   January 30, 2014 at 10:13 pm

   For realism Beam NG… For silliness Next Car Game.

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   madwog

   January 31, 2014 at 10:57 pm

   gta4 is better than gta5 for damage.

   5 is more predefined, where as 4 seems more “soft”.

   beamNG is great, i got the alpha, played it at work for hours and hours.

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