Redline being the 3D Car Physics engine I started a few weeks back has had some very impressive progress. For those who didn't get to read about the proposal of this project it's a physics engine meant to be coded in pure gml without the use of .DLL's to simulate realistic driving behavior.

Good news? What's the update? Well, I've found a way to calculate trajectory as a car hits a slope and have a pretty sketchy, but a working collision system allowing me to simulate jumping off anything with a slope and landing properly. I've also worked on a system to calculate the angle the car should be in while different parts of the car are at different Z levels. With this, making a turn on a berm or angled turn is possible. Like I said though, it's a little sketchy at the moment because sometimes the front of the car will go through an object when going up a slope or delay in a change of angles, but Im that much closer to succeeding. When I fix some of the errors I'll post a teaser for you guys demonstrating what the engine is capable of so far.

Aside from GM, I recently got a car. It's an old 1996 Ford Thunderbird LX. 3.8 liter V6. Not a racecar or anything, but this summer I'm putting my money into modifying it. Here's a what a '96 thunderbird looks like:

Mine's a midnight blue. I just got it repainted. I'm looking to work on the inside next. The damn car has no headliner, radio has no antenna (1 station comes in), one speaker is blown, the seats suck, the a/c is hot air and the list goes on. It's just little things though. All that matters is that it runs. xD First car's aren't supposed to be amazing. I'd rather get a piece of trash car as my first than a fancy over priced car. Because I'm probably going to break it. lol. The thunderbird was my father's. He hasn't used it in 10 years. It's been sitting. So I'm restoring it.