Improved truck physics v1.9 for Ats 1.5.x game version
Features:
- Mod adds more realistic and hard physics for ATS trucks;
- It is now more difficult to drive a truck, "feel" of the truck is increased;
- Changed driver body movement physics, which is now less static;
- Added five new modes for windshield wipers for vanilla and mod trucks (four intermittment modes, one long, one short) from 15 item list;
- Lots of changes was made in truck behavior:
1. Changed cabin weight to a more realistic value;
2. Changed brake efficiency: less overall effectiveness an less effectiveness at low speed (but higher upper margin of "low speed"). Increased max. brakes temperature, increased warm up/cool down rates;
3. Decreased autocentering speed of steering wheel. Decreased truck turning ability;
4. Increased rotational wheel resistance and air resistance. Also, increased inertia - slower acceleration and stopping;
5. Increased clutch strength for more realistic clutch-transmission behavior;
6. Decreased retarder effectiveness;
7. Increased chassis suspension travel values for vanilla trucks;
8. Slightly decreased overall damping force for truck/trailer chassis suspension;
9. Transmission inertia decreased;
10. Added tyres slip possibility. Tyres a little less rigid now;
11. Increased flywheel resistance - RPM drops faster, when not in gear;
12. Increased intensity of engine braking - truck slow downs faster, when truck is not given throttle;
13. Decreased engine compression - truck loses speed more quicker, when no throttle is given;
14. Increased transmission resistance - more losses in transmission.
15. Added slightly modified chassis files for various truck mods;
16. Added chassis, cabin, engine, transmission and wheel wear;
17. Less damage from truck to trailer, but overall damage level increased;
18. Updated physics for vanilla and Jazzycat trailers;
19. Added 4 new windshield wipers modes;
20. Added roll resistance and wet grip parameters for tires;
21. Added possibility to loose control over truck due to weather conditions or reckless driving;
22. And other changes...
Supported trucks
Mod can be used with any truck mods, but full support is available for this trucks:
Four vanilla SCS trucks;
Freightliner Classic XL by Softclub-NSK, Oleg Conte, Sergej Baltazar, dmitry68, Ventyres, odd_fellow, SCS Software, vitalik062
Freightliner Coronado by Softclub-NSK, Stas556, dmitry68, kriechbaum, knox_xss, David Otto, Joe Smith, vitalik062;
Freightliner FLB by Harven;
International 9800 by SCS, Blinkman, SoftLab NSK, Ventures, Joe, Slava1;
International Eagle 9900i by Superman, evh5150vanhalen, Danclark, Kriechbaum;
International Lonestar by SCS Software, Franck;
Kenworth 521 by Virat, Peerke, Kriechbaum;
Kenworth T600 by Josh Farley;
Kenworth T800 2016 beta by GT-Mike, SCS Software;
Kenworth W900 long by Dmitry68;
Mack Pinnacle by Sib3rius, Corby, Superman;
Mack Ultraliner by Elaman, Gazila, Mahad110;
Peterbilt 351 by jawa, Stas556, Kriechbaum;
Peterbilt 377 by AMT Team;
Peterbilt 387 by Ch_Vitalik, Kirilloid22, Dmitry68, Gosha Motor;
Peterbilt 389 by Viper2;
Peterbilt 389 by True Arts Modding;
Scot A2HD by Smarty, Transtar, kriechbaum;
Volvo VNL 670 by Aradeth;
Volvo VNL 780 by Franck Brasil.
Changelog for actual ver. 1.9
- Updated chassis definition files for trucks and trailers;
- Fixed incorrect cog_height_offset values;
- Some physics and camera physics tweaking;
- Dropped fullsupport for old truck mods;
- Added support for:
Freightliner FLB by Harven;
Kenworth 521 by Virat, Peerke, Kriechbaum;
Mack Pinnacle by Sib3rius, Corby, Superman;
Volvo VNL 780 by Franck Brasil.
Installation
Installation instructions:
1. Extract all files from downloaded rar-archive to some temporary folder;
2. Copy BASE.scs from Base folder to MOD folder;
3. Based on your requirements, copy required truck/tandem/trailer mod files (from Other folder) to MOD folder;
4. Open in-game mod manager and enable all copied mods (refer to "correct mod installation"
chapter for proper physics mod installation);
3.Play!
*Optimal controls and gameplay settings to start with (works for keyboard and gamepad users).
Steering wheel owners should setup controls the way they prefer
