After 140 hours of building and tuning this vehicle, I'm ready to present it to you. This is a Baja buggy - a lightweight, frame-based race car designed for aggressive desert driving, featuring an extremely durable, energy-absorbing suspension system. It's like the younger brother of a Trophy Truck – somewhat simpler in construction but still retaining its key characteristics. Specifically, it has a 4-link rear axle with massive travel. It also features an anti-roll bar.
The front suspension is built on a double A-arm design, and by the way, I managed to implement hydraulic steering with tie rods on this buggy. The front end is quite stiff to direct the car into turns and accelerate to high speeds - one of the key design decisions, as with low stiffness, the front suspension quickly bottoms out, leading to rollovers or crashes.
Behind the suspension arms hides a 4-cylinder engine - honestly, it barely fit in there, and I had to redesign the first engine because it simply wouldn't fit.
Moving inside the cockpit, you'll see two racing bucket seats. Taking the driver's seat, we see the dashboard - quite detailed, but I'll admit honestly: this isn't everything I could have implemented. First - due to game limitations, second - due to my limited knowledge of Funky Trees. But anyway, all gauges on the center console work (except for decorative toggles and screens). I even managed to create suspension travel indicators for the navigator, which looks quite attractive.
I think for Simple Planes, this dashboard doesn't look completely empty - rather, it fits the game's stylistic approach.
On the exterior, we have plenty of lighting: main light in the form of a light bar, and auxiliary lighting with large spotlight lamps for nighttime driving.
Behind the crew sits the cooling radiator with functional fans. Right behind the radiator is a 150-liter fuel tank - generally, that should last quite a while.
And so huge thanks Silver Star with helping Funky Tree! That's probably everything I wanted to share. Give it a try, test it out in the desert and beyond - I'll be happy to receive any feedback!
Specifications
Spotlights
- Johnnyynf 18 hours ago
- YarisSedan yesterday
- Trainz448 yesterday
- SomeSPGuyWhoLikesLore yesterday
- USAMustang yesterday
- YarisHatchback yesterday
- Hooha12 yesterday
General Characteristics
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 6.6ft (2.0m)
- Length 12.5ft (3.8m)
- Height 5.4ft (1.7m)
- Empty Weight 3,975lbs (1,803kg)
- Loaded Weight 4,240lbs (1,923kg)
Performance
- Wing Loading N/A
- Wing Area 0.0ft2 (0.0m2)
- Drag Points 3001
Parts
- Number of Parts 1325
- Control Surfaces 0
- Performance Cost 3,884
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@Th3Missil3 Same man
@Th3Missil3 it's probably the netting
How the hell is this thing a 1300 part build??? I legit thought at first glance it was just another little bugger type build.
This thing is awsome!