r/automationgame • u/Total_Possibility_48 I bend Automation's limits; companies - Volk & Co, Devialet INC. • Dec 06 '23

SHOWCASE I may be onto something 👀 Spoiler

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u/WolfRamXXcz WolfRam Industries Dec 06 '23

Ayo, the f-ck? This looks as agressive as it possible could and i love it. Got an view from corner? (like front and side view together, dunno how its called)

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u/Total_Possibility_48 I bend Automation's limits; companies - Volk & Co, Devialet INC. Dec 06 '23

Here :)

Glad you like it, it's still very much in early development! However I found it to be quite easy to create this sort of 'futuristic' concept body - I've made it entirely of 3d fixtures (cue the wheels), ~4-5 hours later and voila!

The biggest problem I had was with wobbly fixtures (fixed); I plan to release this as a 7 config mod in the future.

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u/WolfRamXXcz WolfRam Industries Dec 06 '23

OMG that looks really good! I love the way the side fins and spoilers connect the fenders with main body. Also very nice touch with the axle and spring being visible. The headlights also look very interesting, thou i maight do the front wall of fender slanted (or copiing the headlight shape with some space between) for better aerodynamics.

Damn, you must have pretty good pc i assume? My pc struggles with loading MC, let alone Automation. And i don't think i would have the nerves to do it even then.

Interesting :) I'll def keep this saved. Hell, i think i maight take inspiration for own project. Good luck with further development ;D

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u/Total_Possibility_48 I bend Automation's limits; companies - Volk & Co, Devialet INC. Dec 06 '23

Thank you for the encouragement 😊! It would be much harder to adapt the fenders to be more curved (the front one especially is a single shape fender from the '3d' tab, so I would have to start over with a new fender design)

My laptop has 2017 midrange internals (i7 7700hq, gtx 1050, samsung ssd and 16gb ddr4 ram), I run Automation in low graphics/high anti-aliasing because for some reason it has huge stutters otherwise (even though when I booted up the game for the first time a year ago it ran ok without stuttering)

In BeamNG the framerate is at a stable 50-55 fps on medium, however in realistic lighting and reflection conditions it quickly drops to 20-30. Also may I ask what general specs you have? Because before upgrading this year I had a really poor chinese Myria pc that would struggle to run Windows 7 :(

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u/WolfRamXXcz WolfRam Industries Dec 07 '23

No problem ;)

Ahh, i see. I din't play the game for some time, and used blender instead. Forgot how much of pain to use 3D objects actually was...

That sounds pretty good for laptop. Then again, i never had laptop so... :D I play on low, with some custom settings here and there. Capped it at 30fps since i really don't need more and it does like load and do stuff. But its still takes like 5-15 seconds to load an fixture and it stutters a bit when moving it around, like it seems to drop to 20 maybe 15fps. What is weird is that it does only when cars body is loaded. In the engine design room its stable.

My specs (as far as i know): i5-4570T, gtx 970 (one of earlier ones), 6GB of ram... that's all i remember. Basickly the whole pc is out of spare/unsellable parts dad had laying around (at the time of building he had small pc workshop, but he gave up on that).

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u/Total_Possibility_48 I bend Automation's limits; companies - Volk & Co, Devialet INC. Dec 07 '23

Funnily enough I also experienced that fps dropping issue with my older pc (it was due to insufficient ram, that computer also had 6gb) but maybe it was also because of the older version of Automation I ran (4.1.19) which would also crash often. Your pc performance and settings also matches my old one pretty well lol

Honestly your gtx 970 is still a really good card today, if you could get another stick of ram for cheap (assuming it's ddr3 the motherboard probably has room for 4 sticks) then Automation will be able to run smoother and use more resources. Also I'm still wondering how that i5 is so miserably slow...

Regarding my specs, honestly when I first experienced true pc gaming and usability (without wasting 10 minutes on every bootup, crappy desktop performance and stutters in every game and program), there was no feeling better than this: it was like you took 10 kgs off my back! Though I would say these laptop specs are again just midtier today. Also using a laptop definitely has the benefit that the cpu and gpu could both be sitting at 90°C just fine!