Stormworks: Build and Rescue: Advanced Car Building Guide.

Well, What I mean by Advanced cars is to build cars that have a Realistic size compared to your Player and Have Decent Features Etc. In this Guide you will Learn the Basics of Making Decent, Realistic sized and Good Looking cars!

Before you start, I would like to say that This Guide is a Work in Progress it will be Updated.

First we Will Start with the Most Important Step of making a Car, It’s Chassis!

So, To make a Realistic Sized car that Fits the Player For Most Kind of cars it should be 9 Blocks wide.

As you can see the Width of the car is 9 Blocks.

This allows for Perfect Looks, But For Vehicles like Trucks and Buses it may need to be Wider than 9 Blocks.

Now, for the length of the Car, So how Long should your Car Chassis should be? Well, That Depends of the Type of Vehicle that you are making. But in this guide we are Making a Basic Sedan,

So, as you can see the Total Length of the Car is 27 Blocks. This is Good Length for the Type of car we are Making.

Now the Height, the height of the Car is separated in 2 Parts, The Height of the Body and the Height of the Roof.

As you can see the Height of the Body is 4 Blocks. This gives the Vehicle a Good Height and it Fits nice with the height of the Player.

Now the Height of the Roof.

As you can see I have added Roof, Windows and Seats to make the Roof. Now we can see that the total height of the Body With the Roof Included is 7 Blocks. This is Mostly how Tall you vehicles are going to be if you make them as shown in the guide.

That’s all for the Chassis.

Now we are Done with the Chassis, Now Let’s see how can we Move the Chassis. So in Stormworks there are a Few ways to Make something move. You have Modular Engines, Small Engine, Medium Engine, Large Engine, Electric motors Etc. But for this Guide we will be making a Modular Engine Cause it’s Compact and Easy to use. Now for this Guide i will be using the M – Tech Ecu and my own manual Transmission Microcontroller.

M -Tech Ecu – https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2861764426

So, Let’s make a Modular Engine! [You can Also use any other Modular Engine Guide.]

First Search “Modular” in the Search bar to get All the Parts.

Place down 3 Crankshaft Blocks in a Line as shown.

Then Place 6 1×1 Cylinder Blocks as Shown.

Then Place down a 1×1 Drive Belt as shown.

Then Place down a Starter as Shown.

Place down a Alternator, Air Manifold and a Fuel Manifold as shown.

Place down a Exhaust Manifold as shown.

Place down a Coolant manifold as shown.

Delete 3 Blocks in front of the Drive belt and Place a 3×3 Electric Radiator as shown.

Delete 3 Blocks from the Bottom right Below the Cylinders and Place 2 Modular Engine Corner Blocks and a Modular Engine Straight Block to attach the Two Cylinder Sides as shown.

Now Connect the Radiator to the Coolant Manifold and Attach a Intake to the Air Manifold as shown, now there are a Few Block that can be used as an Air Intake for engine but for this Guide we will use the Air Ram Block.

Place down a 1×1 Modular Engine Clutch as shown.

Now the Engine is Ready to run! But we still need to Give it fuel.

For this Guide I randomly Placed down a Medium Fuel tank. Now we will use Pipes to attach the Fuel tank to the Fuel Manifold on the Engine.

Search “Enclosed” on the Inventory Search bar to get Pipes that we will use to attach the Fuel tank to the Fuel Manifold Neat and Clean.

[The Red Blocks are the Pipes.]

Place Down Pipes as shown and We are Finished with Building the Engine!

Now we Need to get the Engine Running. For that You need an Ecu. I Recommend Using the M – Tech Ecu as it is Smooth and has a LOT of Features and is easy to use.

Place Down a Battery as shown. [It can be placed Anywhere.]

Place your Ecu down.

Now it’s time to wire it all up! but before that we need to place a Key Button Down so that we can Actually Start the Engine as well as a Dial to measure the RPS of the Engine.

I have Randomly Placed a Key Button and a Dial. Now connect them to the Battery and let’s move on to Wiring up the Ecu and Starting the Engine.

Wire them up as Shown.

Now we can do the Final Step before Starting the Engine, Wiring up the Ecu.

Air Manifold – Connect to Air Manifold on the Engine.

Fuel Manifold – Connect to Fuel Manifold on the Engine.

RPS – Connect to RPS Node on the Crankshaft.

Throttle – Connect to Seat W/S,

Composite Engine Data – Connect to Composite Cylinder Data Node.

Toggle Engine On/Off – Connect to Key button.

To Starter on Engine – Connect to Starter on the Engine.

[This is Optional but you can also Connect the RPS Node from the Crankshaft to a Dial to Measure the RPS.]

Auto Clutch – Connect to Clutch on the Engine. [Since I am using my 6 – speed manual Transmission Microcontroller I don’t need to attach it.]

Now for the Scary Part. Spawn the Car and see if it Starts.

And if you did Everything right It Should Start Right up! Congratulations! Now the Engine is Complete. Now we need to send the Mechanical power that the Engine is Making and send it to the Wheels. For that we need a Transmission first so that we can shift gears, Now you can use any Transmission microcontroller that you want I will just use the one I made.

Transmission Time!

[The Orange Pipes are for the Gearboxes.]

Place down Enclosed Pipes and 1×1 Gearboxes as shown. Now we can use the Transmission microcontroller and Wire everything up! [Once again you can use ANY Microcontroller I will be using the one I made.]

This is not Necessary but you can Add an Extra dial to tell u what is your Current Gear.

Once again Connect Everything to electricity.

For the Reverse Gear set the Ratios as shown.

For ALL the Gears that will let you go forward set it to these Gear Ratios as shown.

Now, If you have done Everything Correctly and Wired everything up it should work. Spawn it and Give it a Try.

It Works! Now u can Shift! But we Still need to turn.

Place down a Numerical Inverter and Connect Number to Invert to the A/D from your Driver seat and the Inverted Number node to you Left Front Wheels Steering node, If everything is Done Correctly you should have Steering. I also recommend Adjusting the Sensitivity of the W/S from 80 – 100% and the Steering to 25 – 40%. Now you have a Chassis that can Drive, Steer and Shift! Congratulations!

[WIP.]