Coil-over Shocks in RoR

[CharmingCharles2896]

Hello everybody,

Just a quick question, I understand that the nitrogen shocks on the trucks in RoR are simply the shock body as a prop and the shock shaft is the actual thing experiencing physics. How does that work with coil over shocks? I don't understand how you'd get the spring to compress and refract like an actual spring.

[crazyman444]

They are attach in a similar way to a prop but use a section in the truck files called flexbodies, which makes the mesh flex as if it is a spring. This is what that line looks like.

4,39,44, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0, 180, 90, 32CoilRear.mesh
forset 4, 39, 22, 37

the forset line is what defines what nodes of the truck are use to simulate the deformation.

[CharmingCharles2896]

Thank you for answering so fast, so I have a follow up question. So the coil-overs are a prop attached to the chassis with a special function? Or are they simply a flexbody that the .truck file accesses through coding?