Rigs of Rods: a soft body physics
based vehicle simulator with support for driving, flight, and sailing. It offers a variety of functionality from multiple transmission types, offroading, flight and buoyancy mechanics, throttle-
based hydraulics, advanced steering types fully-deformable beam-node structures and contactable sub-meshes for collision simulation.
Originally developed in
France by Pierre Michel Ricordel (Pricorde), RoR was designed as an open source trucking simulator, depending on user generated content to stay interesting.
It's successor BeamNG.drive is a pay to
play driving
game in public alpha, thus far offering much less functionality and content than it's free-to-play counterpart.
Shane: "Are you playing that awful driving simulator again?"
Fred: "Shut up Fred, RoR is
awesome, best physics of any
game!"
Shane: "But it's not a
game, there's no objective!"
Fred: "Who cares, I can independently adjust the friction coeff..."
Shane: "Exactly why it's not a game"