Sit() dragged the seat's body assembly ~15,700 studs to the client-owned
character while the knuckle/wheel assemblies stayed at the spawn pad,
tearing the car apart; wheels then fell out of the world.
Server-side character:PivotTo() does not stick (client has authority) --
it holds one frame and snaps back, so the pre-seat teleport could not fix
this. Instead: record each part's offset from the body while the model is
intact, take server network ownership, let Sit() and the snap-back settle,
then reassemble every assembly around the body (forced level) and hand
ownership back to the driver.
Verified in Studio: max part separation 6.42 studs (exhaust, normal),
up-vector 1.00, driver seated, drove 98.6 studs at 41 studs/s intact.
Four independent bugs kept the car immobile at the world origin:
1. Wheels collided with their own chassis. Wheel inner edge sits at 2.80
vs body edge 3.00, and wheel top -0.20 vs body bottom -0.70. The
overlap is intentional styling, but in one collision group the wheels
ground against the body: motors spun ~1 rad/s against 20,000 torque.
Wheels now use a CarWheel group that ignores CarChassis.
2. Suspension exploded on spawn. PrismaticConstraint+SpringConstraint
between a 0.6-stud hub and the ballasted body was unstable enough to
fling knuckles ~10,000,000 studs out, past FallenPartsDestroyHeight,
deleting the wheels. Replaced with a rigid welded hub mount.
3. Car spawned at world origin, not the pad. MapBuilder made a SpawnPad
part but no SpawnLocation, so characters spawned at (0,0,0) and Sit()
dragged the car to them. Added a real SpawnLocation and the model is
now pivoted after parenting, with the character teleported first.
4. AntiCheat snapped that legitimate spawn teleport back. An ~8,500-stud
server move reads as a teleport hack. Added AntiCheat.grant() so
server-initiated moves are exempt for a short grace window.
Verified in Studio: 881 studs in 6s, 496 studs/s top speed, 152 deg
steering, braking 33 -> 0 studs/s, chassis stays upright.
Daikoku Futo PA becomes the hub (Tokyo Xtreme Racer structure): park, pick a
mode, drive out the exit gate to start the run, pull back into the PA to end it.
Modes:
- CRUISE free roam, banks session + lifetime kilometres
- DUEL gap-based battle: hold 350 studs for 3s to win
- TIME ATTACK solo flying lap, 4 sector splits, saved personal best
New shared modules:
- Circuit.luau one source of truth for loop geometry. progressOf(pos) gives
lap distance, which drives lap detection, sectors and duel gaps
alike, so the map and gameplay can never drift apart.
- Modes.luau mode definitions + duel/time-attack tuning constants
Server-authoritative throughout: ModeManager samples the car real position on
Heartbeat and the client never reports distance, lap time or gap. Teleport and
respawn jumps are rejected from distance accumulation.
ProfileTemplate v3 adds DistanceStuds, BestLapTime, BestSectors, DuelsWon and
DuelsLost; ProfileStore Reconcile migrates existing saves.
Rename: repo, wally package, local dir and stale NAS asset paths all move off
the old fnf-sim name. NAS folder was already 0-tokyo-wangan-racing, so those
doc paths were broken before this.
- New shared Chassis.luau: geometry constants + per-car tuning from stats
- CarManager.buildCarModel rebuilt: prismatic+spring suspension per corner,
servo-hinge steering on front knuckles, motor-hinge driven wheels,
hidden dense ballast for anti-roll; VehicleSeat kept as input device only
- New client ChassisController: drives motors/servos from seat
ThrottleFloat/SteerFloat per Heartbeat; speed-sensitive steering lock;
engine braking on throttle release
- Driver gets network ownership of every unanchored part (constraint
assemblies are separate; missing one causes stuttery physics)
- Docs: MESH_SWAP.md rewritten for shell-on-chassis workflow; ROADMAP updated
Per user direction, the MVP is now simply driving cars on the expressway.
- Removed RaceManager and Economy modules entirely
- Slimmed Remotes to DataUpdated / SpawnCar / EquipCar
- ProfileTemplate now just remembers the last driven car (v2)
- Cars: dropped price/rep/upgrade fields; kept identity + driving stats
- CarManager: stat-based tuning only; RX-7 allowlist via GameConfig.canDrive
- DataManager: assign default car on join; downgrade RX-7 if de-allowlisted
- Client: replaced garage/economy UI with a simple car picker + respawn
- Docs: GDD/ROADMAP/README rewritten for drive-only; added docs/MESH_SWAP.md
- Gates: stylua clean, selene 0/0, rojo builds
jesse
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