dieselfuelonly
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- Chapel Hill, NC
I've always enjoyed games that let you drive cars and trucks ever since I was little. But they always had some kind of a limit, like that invisible wall, or the trucks sucked, etc.
About a year a go I stumbled across this little free simulator called Rigs of Rods.
Its basically any kind of vehicle you can imagine, cars, trucks, boats, planes, etc, that can do whatever the creator wants. Anyone can create a vehicle for the game, it just requires a bit of patience, a willingness to learn the required tools, and time. There isn't really any objective to the "game", except for some simple race courses. As with everything else, you can create your own race courses by laying checkpoints too.
The concept behind the "Rods" is that everything is created from "beams" and "nodes", just like in elementary school we would make shapes out of toothpicks and marshmellows.
You can change the softness of the tires, change the air pressure on-the-fly if the truck is equipped with them, if you have a joystick or steering wheel most of them can be set up to use it, there is a FULL manual clutch, meaning that you can set up an axis on a game controller to function as a clutch, etc.
There are thousands of different vehicles, terrains, objects, etc to download and experiment with. Nearly everything is user-created.
There is a big forum, like this one, that deals with the game, located at http://forum.rigsofrods.com.
Here are some screenshots that I took. All the vehicles pictured are vehicles that I have created. The Ramcharger is my latest project, I haven't finished it yet though.
Just a final note: it does require a relatively fast computer (both CPU and graphics card wise) to run smoothly.
Heres also a little video I made a while back:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=v13ID8ODeUE
Here is the main website:
http://rigsofrods.com/
About a year a go I stumbled across this little free simulator called Rigs of Rods.
Its basically any kind of vehicle you can imagine, cars, trucks, boats, planes, etc, that can do whatever the creator wants. Anyone can create a vehicle for the game, it just requires a bit of patience, a willingness to learn the required tools, and time. There isn't really any objective to the "game", except for some simple race courses. As with everything else, you can create your own race courses by laying checkpoints too.
The concept behind the "Rods" is that everything is created from "beams" and "nodes", just like in elementary school we would make shapes out of toothpicks and marshmellows.
You can change the softness of the tires, change the air pressure on-the-fly if the truck is equipped with them, if you have a joystick or steering wheel most of them can be set up to use it, there is a FULL manual clutch, meaning that you can set up an axis on a game controller to function as a clutch, etc.
There are thousands of different vehicles, terrains, objects, etc to download and experiment with. Nearly everything is user-created.
There is a big forum, like this one, that deals with the game, located at http://forum.rigsofrods.com.
Here are some screenshots that I took. All the vehicles pictured are vehicles that I have created. The Ramcharger is my latest project, I haven't finished it yet though.
Just a final note: it does require a relatively fast computer (both CPU and graphics card wise) to run smoothly.
Heres also a little video I made a while back:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=v13ID8ODeUE
Here is the main website:
http://rigsofrods.com/
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