[RELEASED] Sportbike PRO kit (motorcycle physics)

Hello, eddyjohnson3.

1. My apologies but it's still doesn't work well at 5.3 It can be fixed but now results are ugly.
2. Yes, everything is in manual. Setup of character for mecanim is extremely easy but ideology of mecanim itself is hard as hell At least for me
3. I bet you've tried chopper and motard bike. Choper can't perform stoppie because of long base, as for motard, i've made weak front brakes as because those guys in motocross hates strong front brakes
Try sportbike instead. Just accelerate to 30-200km/h and press "S" or down arrow. You'll get stoppie for sure.
Do not use ESP("Z" key) it's prevents stoppie.

 

Hello, hunterloftis.

Yes, it' uses standard WheelCollider. You may change everything like stiffness and other parameters.
But I must warn you it's not compatible with 5.3 yet. My fault. I'm working on that.
Now it' works in 5.0-5.1. Can't say for sure about 5.2.

 

Thanks for the reply.

You are correct, I can achieve wheelie and stoppie with the sport bike, although stoppie is pretty hard to control, which I guess makes sense if you do not have a real brake lever but just a button. One thing I noticed that shifting the rider weight using F or V actually prevents acheiving a wheelie. Shouldn't it be that shifting weight back should actually make it easier to get front wheel off the ground?

Still looks like a great package, I will be checking the progress of updates and hopefully make a purchase when I have the time...

 

Great news ! Now it working with Unity 5.3 !

The update will be uploaded to AssetStore as soon as possible.

 

Hi there, eddyjohnson3.

Oh, that's true. My fault ;( For now I have no idea why it's happens but when I finish mobile controls, I'll fix it ASAP.

P.S. Thanks for bug report

 

Now with full support Unity5.3 ! No "lazy steering" anymore.

Mobile version is coming soon

 

Hi everyone !

Just want to warn you
I've rewrite all controls logic for mobile version 1.5. It's waiting for Unity's approve.
So, if you have own code in any scripts DO NOT install 1.5 to your project.
1.5 is cool, is mobile but not compatible with old controls ideology.

I hope you will love new control methods

 

Is package still javascript?

 

The old code(bike and pilot's) is JS.
New code(keyboard and mobile controllers) is in c#.
Someday I'll rewrite in C# everything... someday.

 

So, mobile version 1.5 is available.

Now I'm focus on bugs fixes.

 

Hey!

I'm really considering acquiring this for my project. Just a couple of queries concerning it.

When the suspension moves, is it possible to have to springs actually compress?

Movement seems to be very sluggish (both when turning and when becoming straight again), and I'm looking for controls that feel much tighter (my end goal is motorcycles that handle like they do in GTA V). Is it possible to do this with your script?

I understand this is a more realistic script, and I want something more arcade styled, but other scripts on the asset store simply lack a lot of features this one has.

Thanks!

 

Hello, Timaman.

The spring is standard Unity's(PhysiX) suspension controller. So, it's working like any other suspension systems around the world.
Or you talking about real geometry(mesh) ? Yes, it's possible by animation or by script(change Y scale) but you should to make skinned mesh, write code by yourself.

As for sluggish leaning - it's depended on bike's setup and bike "geometry" - length of bike, center of mass, angle of front forge and so on. You may compare the chopper and sportsbike and you will see huge difference in speed of cornering.
So, you can make fast steering as you wish.

Thank you.

 

Hi! Thanks for your prompt reply.

I bought the kit and it's great, just one more question.

I've increased the steering angle so the bike steers quicker, but a side effect is that the bike leans a lot more than it should, especially at low speeds. How can I reduce lean without reducing the steering angle? Thanks

 

Hey, Timaman.

Sorry, for long answer.
First of all, you need to play with center of mass initial position. I believe it will fix everything.

 

Hi

I've tried this, but moving the CoM up or down just makes the bike lean faster or slower, and doesn't limit the actual angle of lean, which is what I'm trying to do. Thanks

 

Okay.
First of all, can you make video of unpleasant behavior of bike ?
May you send me a project ?

I want to understand is that a real problem of physics.
Or visuals just "seems" not good and "fake" solution is better way.

 

Open up the sportbike project and set the wheelbar restrict curve like in this picture: https://i.gyazo.com/0a90b17bc0d7d6df8823d23418c13d4c.png

You'll see at low speeds there's 60-70 degrees of lean, and at high speeds at least 45. I want half of this, but I cannot figure out what it is that actually makes the bike lean. I've been through all the code and I'm 90% sure its caused by moving the CoM, but I cannot understand what section of code actually does that.

 

I see.
You like turn radius but dislike leaning angle.
Okay, give few days to think about workaround.


Bikes turning by leaning, so the bike geometry, base length and forge angle determines turn radius.
You may try motard bike and there is much less turn radius because of less bike base.
Anyway I'll find solution for you.

 

Okay, thankyou. I've yet to implement my own bike geometry, but it won't be much different from the standard bike, so I was hoping to work out these kinks first. Thanks again

 

I would like to ask for some guidance. I'm making a trial bike game, I came close to how I wanted with my scripts etc but I am looking for alternatives), I purchased your asset to try adapt it for my use but I am not sure where to start.
What I aiming to be able to do is:
-Rock front wheel to back wheel to turn bike around.
-Lift the back wheel up (like endo) but swing frame around to do a 180 turn.
-Wheelie bike but when bike is stationary, front wheel must stay in air, in trials this is a backwheel hop move.
-simulate pedal gap.
-side hop.
-track stand.
-ETC

I would not expect you to modify scripts (unless you would be willing that would be most awesome) etc but would appreciate some advice on where you think I could start, eg I use my own scripts, attached to parent object, to add force / torque to whole body if eg I want to keep that wheel off the ground (eg used for back wheel hop?) Or for a static wheelie would I need to rotate the transform to eg 30 degrees?

Thanks for any advise you could provide.

 

Hi Bcman, I would like to ask if you managed to make any progress or consider a bicycle version of your asset?

 

Hi there, khos85.

Oh, yes

Give me couple of days to show video.
Now I got rider, some tricks like backflip360, bunny hop and other stuff.
The only problem I still not finished it is absolutely broken behavior with no rear suppression with MTB and BMX

 

What! This sounds very nice indeed. My bike does not have any suspension, so sounds like just what I'm looking for! Can I be a early beta tester How do you implement eg bunny hop, with physics?

 

Hi, khos85.
Yes, it's all about physics - backflips, bunnys and other manuals

Here is WiP version of current project.
But, there is not just bicycle "preset" for SPK.
Bicycle behavior is very different from motorcycle, so it's new module.
I've called it "Bicycle Pro Kit"

 

Oh wow, looks good so far. Will you be selling this as a separate asset? How soon do you expect to be able to release this?
I would be interested in if more static moves can be achieved too, eg endo or backwheel hop, I suspect yet.

 

Hi there.

I think it will be new asset. But for you, real enthusiast, I promise it will be free
As for release date - still have no idea. It's not so stable as motorcycle after some jumps, so need time to make it really similar as real life.

Let's say couple of months.

 

That would be awesome! My game I am not interested in Jumps at all.. you mention months , nooooooo that is too long just kidding, well I hope you can make it available sooner

 

I highly appreciated this package. But please, translate your bike script to C# !
Our game project is entirely in C#, which isn't interoperable with JS.

 

In case you didn't know, you can put the js package, sportbike pro in this case, under a folder named "Plugins" and Unity will compile the js script first so you can access it from c# code.

But I second your request. At the first version of this package, I translated it from javascript to c# to feel more comfortable with it. It took less then a day but the bad thing is when the package is updated, you gotta start over.

 

Not trying to sound rude but I feel like this is maybe your own fault for using C# only, why not just use JS?
Nothing wrong with JS.. IMO.. Can't you just mix the two together? I do it and works fine.

 

Hi there, hottabych.

First of all, let me reassure you - JS and C# works fine together.
You can easily take any variable or method from C# and even vise versa.
All you need to call C# variables or methods from JS is put C# scripts to folder Plugins or Resources.
Really easy. It's showed in last version of this asset when I used it for mobile controls.

 

Not sure why half the code is in C# and the other half is in javascript but it makes this a pain to work with when I'm hooking it up to the rest of my game. Do you have a full C# version?

 

Hello, wightwhale.
There is no full C# version for all scripts.
As for me, it's not a problem at all.
But how can I solve your pain with C# and JS linking ?

 

That is the ONLY reason I have not purchased...FYI.

The REAL question, why NOT spend the time to convert ALL?

If you are not AWARE of strongly typed languages, your in the WRONG business.

p-

 

I have converted it to C# i'll send it to bcman soon.

 

Hi, bcman. Bought your plugin to work on a project and it's really awesome. Nice work!

I'm trying to experiment with a VR headset though and I'm having trouble figuring out how to make the VR camera follow the bike like the original Main Camera did. Do you know what I might need to do to make that happen?

I'm new to Unity, so this is probably something pretty easy but I'm just wondering if the cam switcher script might be interfering in some way. I've tried attaching the SteamVR script and making the Head GameObject the target.

 

Greetings, maxtwoseven.
Honestly I'm not experienced in VR cameras as well. But I wrote 3D camera for my 3D TV and it works fine.
So, write to my e-mail(smokerr@mail.ru) and we'll try to find good solution for your case.

 

I'm considering buying this plugin but I would need to be able to simulate crashes and stunts using the motocross bike (want to make a FMX style game). I'm happy to do the work to simulate those things I just want to know if its possible with your package without hacking it too much?

 

Hi there, tristanatbossa.

My asset provides physics. And crashes as aftermath of collisions. Sometimes it's looking good. Sometimes not It depends on Unity and nVidia physics engine.
You can improve it by yourself. I believe it's possible to make something really good like BeamNG on Untity. But face it - it's on your side. You and only you should imagine and code it then. Sometimes coding is fun. Sometimes not
To be honest - good and beauty crashes it's very big field to dig, to code. So, it's your decision. I think to make good crashes you need half of year of coding.

As for stunts, there is my other asset based on this one:
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/72195
with stunts
So, you can do easy stunts but should code it yourself.

 

Isn't it just a case of attaching the camera object to the parent bike object?

 

You will need to spend a long time to make a game like that and a good one, bcman's asset is a great start and I suppose you can just build on that, make your own stunts/moves. I made a trial bike game, took me over 2 years to do, it's almost complete, learnt a lot over that period... one thing I can recommend you use for the rider physics is FINAL IK, that is an amazing package with very many uses, together with BCMAN's bike asset, should work well together

 

Thanks, Khos. We did figure that out after a while. We made the camera a child object of the rider's head, which works fairly well. Unfortunately, the lean animations cause some motion sickness, so we'll have to figure out what to do about that.

 

Then you could consider to attach the camera/VR object on a different child object and/or remove the lean anims.

 

Yes, I agree with khos.
To make VR cam smooth and stabilized(what your neck really doing) you need to detach it from rider head(because he moving a little bit more than really need. To be more cinematographic ) and attach to bike.

 

Hi, Boris
What about c# code yet?

 

Hello, Alex-3D.

Can't say for sure.
There is some issues about strange not wanted drifting.
To be a honest, it may take from two weeks to few months, until I'll back to this code again.

 

same here c# version is welcome
maybie 2d5 sample it's can be fun

 

Hi! Does it work fully on Unity 5.6 ?

 

Yes, of course.
Tested with "Unity 5.6.0f3 (64-bit)"

 

Any news on a C# version?