Building a Group A ... Geo Metro? Automation + BeamNG

[@Tach_1le]

That is absolutely THE Geo color, any other color is wrong

[@tuckerliv]

Ran When Parked: The Geo Metro edition when?

[@dolphinadrien]

If I can manage to get some decent sales numbers, I'll be going in a somewhat similar direction for my build... 👀

[@xenoyparxi]

21:20 the weight distribution slider actually doesn't export, the engine nodes will remain at wherever the 50 slider position at. What _does_ export is if you go to advanced trim and under "engine" move any of the position sliders, more importantly "Position Y", that will move engine nodes in Beam and affect the weight distribution That does mean you'll tune the springs in Auto not with the same weight distribution as in Beam (tho by default I'd say the distribution is relatively similar between the two at 50 slider position). But you can move the slider to desired weight distribution to tune the suspension and then move the slider back to 50, and then use the Position Y to get the desired distribution in Beam. Tho _I believe_ the tyre grip is calculated with weight distribution in mind, so you can leave the distribution slider at a desired distribution and then further move the Position Y slider to move the nodes to the correct place. But then the visual engine model will be misaligned with the actual nodes lol, tho you can fix that in Beam with "advanced tuning parameters" part which will give you a "Engine Visual Offset Y" slider

[@ConeDodger240]

I'll have to reconfirm with Andrew, but that's something that we wanted to try and improve with the recent exporter updates. The way the weight gets distributed between nodes was at least a partial improvement over the previous exporter build.

[@anofsti]

🙌🙌 So happy to see you post a gaming video again! Hope you're doing well (and discovered that cheese is delicious)

[@ConeDodger240]

Cheese is still bad, but my daughter loves it so I guess that's my offering to the cheese world 😁

[@xenoyparxi]

18:40 you could use the trick with track width in advanced trim settings. You shorten the track in advanced trim under body, touch any morph so it updates, increase tyre width sliders and that should update the max width limit lol

[@ConeDodger240]

What a delightfully Toyota level hack. In the end, we didn't need more tire really.

[@Tfin]

Dangit, I got ahead of myself and didn't check everything before sending one in. It's heavier than it needs to be, and there's a gearing problem. But they really liked it.

[@spud4242]

ahh. the first gen Suzuki Swift.. thats what we called it in Australia or a Holden Barina... the GT had a 1.3L inline 4... so you could have made your 1.5 turbo a 4 cylinder..

[@rickjames7391]

What a great video! That's a geo I'd buy lol

[@ConeDodger240]

I dunno, that Geo Storm was almost dorky enough to love!

[@Sleepydwagonman]

Thanks for vid Cone ! Might go back to Automation and try something later but before then ... have you been pointed at the Metro 6R4 yet ? Check it out :-D

[@ConeDodger240]

I used to love the 6r4 the best in group b in the original dirt rally.

[@Sleepydwagonman]

@@ConeDodger240 He he he, those Group B cars were insanity on 4 wheels. Awesomeness

[@zacharykarr]

You kinda made a 323 GTX

[@ConeDodger240]

Huh, I didn't see any rust

[@dolphinadrien]

I very much considered making a 323

[@xenoyparxi]

23:40 you're mostly getting penalised for using race stuff, so if the car has anything race in it it won't sell well lol