tyre/tire selection

[zimluura]

placement of rotor: with most cars i think the rotor goes outside the hub assembly, but i think all cars have it outside of the pivot point (knuckle, i think it's called) on the steering.

fixed offset: i'm not 100% sure of the best approach. i think the 2 most important visual things, at least for the moment, are:
1) for the artist's overall wheel style, the wheel mesh needs to line up just-right on the wheel edge.
2) that we want to be able to make wheel styles that will work on any car (at least sorta fluidly). to have the same wheel style be able to fit on more than one tire thickness will mean having it be variable (i think).

another thing about the offset: i assume that the front-wheel pivot point would be pretty important to the handling characteristics of the vehicle. some of the vehicles we have might not have this point even close to correct. and therein lies another issue: that we could do a wheel offset, and that it shouldn't be the same as the offset from the pivot to the center of the wheel. i think right now the steering rotates around the center of the wheel


i have a caliper mesh already put together. wanted to go give a good look at my car's before uploading it. not sure how simple it should be modeled. i guess it does need to have both inside and outside modeled for open-wheel cars. but the part in between could probably be really sparse on the details.
for placement i think the same x-spot as the rotor. then perhaps an angle of rotation around the rotor (definable in the .car file)? might make it go upside down on some cars (which, for all i know, might be how it works irl). until there is a robust system for buying and storing car mods in-game, we probably don't really have to worry about caliper clearance.

i'm less in favor of a wheel template in blender. but it's just sortof a principle thing, i'm really starting to think there's no real alternative :|

is there anyone here who knows ALLOT about cars? i've never taken my suspension apart so i'm going off of models and a basic understanding.