WorpeX

Hi, seems you downloaded the leaf spring snake bite from 1991 which, as you pointed out, wouldn't be competitive with modern trucks. Unfortunately Snake Bite hasn't gotten much love over the years on RoR. I can say that someone is developing a new pack which would include an updated Snake Bite body and most, if not all, of its variations. However, I have no idea when or if it will get released.

Until then, this sounds like the Snake Bite you should use if you want to race against modern trucks.

I didn't have enough to post last week so I saved it for this week. Continuing to rebuild some of the older trucks up to the current standard so all the trucks are of equal quality.

Apart from the paint, UFO and AboveNBeyond were completely rebuilt from the ground up. Bounty Hunter has the same body (I think it looks good) but the chassis, interior and engine were completely redone. Reptoid got Swegs new body, but I realized pretty quickly that it wasn't accurate for this model year so I had to redo it to have the correct rear-end. Might be hard to tell that in this image though.

Apart from this, was able to build out and test a new replica node/beam for these trucks to move over to. I'm really happy with it, it might be as much fun to drive as TaurusRacers trucks while maintaining correct truck weight and speeds. Anyway, if anyone wants the private build for that hit me up [it only includes The Wrecker].

Weekly update, 3 trucks this week! Original Buffalo Tremor and Problem Child are both done. Thunder Nationals Predator still WIP, paint isn't done. Also been experimenting with doing what I did with Bearly Tame and have a Arcade and Replica build. Arcade build would be LF Class 2 settings. Replica settings had a private build of The Wrecker floating around to people this week for testing.

Weekly update!

First two are pretty obscure leafers ran in the early 90s. I've wanted The Wrecker built since my MTM2 days but didn't have the skills to do it and no one else was willing to tackle it. Super proud to have it done! Original Bad News as well. Not related to the fast traveling kind.

Last one is a meme cybertruck custom I built in 2020. Felt like cleaning it up and finishing it. Its stupid.

Started on the Original Buffalo Tremor as well, but its not ready to be posted yet.

Its not super difficult but it does require some file editing. Lets take one of JackM's new packs as an example.

Step 1: Download the below file pack

Step 2: Open the .Zip which was just downloaded. Copy all of the files inside the .zip into your trucks folder or zip file.

Step 3:  We need to find the names of the sound scripts which are part of this Fleet Zoomie pack we just downloaded. Open up the FleetZoomies.soundscript file in notepad. Inside you will find two functions. One called "FleetZoomies" and the other called "FleetZoomiesStart". These are the sound scripts which we need for Rig Of Rods to play sounds when our trucks do something. Remember these names and we can now close this file.

Step 4: Open up the .truck file of the truck you would like to add sounds to with notepad. Inside the file, look for a line called "soundsources". Under the line is where we will place the name of our soundscripts so that RoR can attach those sounds to this truck. You should see a number and then a name. The number is the node where the sound will come from. I suggest not changing this value unless you're familiar with node beams, it may be different for every truck. Next to the number is the name of a sound script. We will replace the current sound script names with the two we just retrieved in step 3. Feel free to delete any extra lines which are not used by our new sound files. Below is an example of the end result:

soundsources

98, FleetZoomies
98, FleetZoomiesStart

Step 5: Save the .truck file and play!

So I originally had no plans on remaking any of TaurusRacers trucks for Class 4 (if that is what I end up calling it) and just making different trucks. As you can see though, that has kind of gone out the window here! I wanted to do a remaster of Grave Digger since the ones in the original packs didn't have the best paint. I think it turned out pretty nice for what it is. Also, the very first Gun Slinger joins the roster!

7 hours ago, mozart said:

how many leafers do you plan to make worpeX

Until I get sick of making them! My list is long for leafer trucks I want in this game. I've also received a few leafer requests that I plan on starting on next. This one was not a request however... I think the only one who wanted this stupid thing in RoR was me.

GET TO THE CHOPPA MONSTER!

(...and yes, this WAS a real truck.)

Some updates...

Made a second mud truck custom called Starbound Beast:

Also still working on leafers! These are the two newest for the pack, Clydesdale and American Gladiator:

I know at least one of these was made and posted in SYP awhile back by Chazzy. It hasn't been released yet as far as I know.

Needed a leafer break, so I built one of the new mud trucks: Insanity!

Latest builds for the upcoming leafer class 4 pack! Up to 14 trucks now.

7 minutes ago, Grifdawg said:

Hi all!  This may not be the appropriate spot to post this but I've been having problems with downloading items.  Any mod I try to download I can't.  I'm signed in every time I try and I'm denied access.  Any suggestions?

Hi Grifdawg, I see you just made an account today. I assume that you have hit the download limit for the day. Try again tomorrow!

https://forum.rigsofrods.org/resources/penguinville.245/

I stopped watching after my favorite driver, Rusty Wallace, retired. Man, that was a long time ago wasn't it..... I'm old.

41 minutes ago, Tenacity Bethke (She/Her) said:

if you're interested, that Bounty Hunter wound up becoming the first Airborne Ranger that Cypher ran for World Finals 1

Nice, I didn't know that. Either I can't find any pictures of the original Airborne Ranger or Cypher immediately turned the truck into coil-over suspension.. which would disqualify it from me making it. If you happen to have some images of the truck with leaf springs would you mind sending it over?

I'll use this response as an excuse to post an update too. Only 1 new truck (Above-N-Beyond) BUT I decided that I can't leave well enough alone and completely rebuilt the chassis from the ground up. I now plan to have a Higher Quality chassis template for all of these trucks built with much better components (diggerfan components). This also allows/forces me to use blender for every truck so I can make each one a little more accurate. I have 6 of the trucks done on the new chassis, here is how they look now.

So far I don't plan on using new/better bodies to save time. They're... fine. I guess. I try not to think about them. Ok they're not great. Anyway I don't want to think about it or i'll end up re-doing everything again.

Been working on a low quality LF Class 2 expansion (class 4?). I realized there were a bunch of trucks I like that aren't in RoR but also knew I would never get around to making if I spent the time on full replicas. So, I thought I would be fun to just do some quick builds. None of them were supposed to take more then 1-2 hours to make as they're largely just repaints. Anyway, I won't release the pack in its current form but I have more planned so maybe if a healthy number of trucks get built I will. I'll take requests but no promises if it would require too much work (providing a body/graphics would help).

Edit: UFO opened a can of worms. The 1-2 hour thing went out the window real quick. More like 1-2 days now. Anyway, here are 2 more. I think they came out the best so far. I've hated my Bounty Hunter since the day I released it, it's about time I did it proper.

Flashback to that one time Thunder Chicken put Bigfoot onto the trailer!

39 minutes ago, Garrett Hanson said:

loving the fact we're getting the (i guess shorted lived) thunder chicken that harper ran from 2015 to 2018 (no PEI version unless if that's planned for a future update)
good stuff

Yeah, my goal was just to make everything which ran on the original TC chassis so I just made a repli-custom of the black 2018 PEI. It only existed for a couple of shows before becoming El Oso Loco anyway so it didn't seem worth the extra hours to build a replica.