How would I start making a working car?

[Sandessat (Sandy)]

Hello! My name is Sandessat, I know some things of LUA (Comments to Coroutines), and to prove my knowdeledge: I want to make a car, but I dont know how to start doing this with scripts.

I have the base and wheels done, if you need more information about them, tell me!

BASE: The body of the car, it is a mesh made from blender.
WHEELS: It is a mesh made from blender.

None of them are welded or anything, they’re just added normaly as a mesh in ROBLOX Studio.

[ProvenData (John)]

So the tutorial series I’ve linked is the same for other cars and trucks types besides drifters. This series should help you out, best of luck!

Edit: You can add or remove steps from the video.

[dthecoolest]

Here are some more resources I found:
The basic roblox tutorial car on the dev forum article using Constraints method, the drive script is worth checking out:

Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

Control mechanism I found, it’s a better solution to the while true do loop(can get laggy since it always runs) of the Roblox default tutorial:

Vehicle Input Controller Module

Heya fellow developers! I was just updating my Input module for my car game and thought someone else might find it useful, so here you go! local m = {} -- functions local inputs = {} -- input states local controls = {} -- keybinds inputs.Throttle = 0; -- User input determining the power sent to the wheels inputs.Steer = 0; -- User input determining the angle at which the wheels should be turned. inputs.Clutch = 0; -- A mediator between the engine/throttle and the wheels inputs.Ha…

This thread has some pretty interesting formulas to apply for suspension:

Car Suspension (Scripted)

Jailbreak Cars. I’ve been hearing a lot about them in the past few months and I’m really keen to get stuck into the mechanics of their suspension rig. After doing my research, I have found out from numerous sources, that the rig uses Body Gyros & Body Thrusts in combination with ray-casting at each corner of the vehicle to acquire the force to push down on each wheel. This makes sense. The only part that doesn’t make sense is how this would relate to the servo movement of the wheels individuall…

This thread also has a list of possible ways to script a car:

Is anyone able to help me understand vehicles?

If youre looking for cross compatible support like on my game test, you should not use vehicle seat input at all. Some of the controls are terrible, specifically for mobile and console. The joystick, for example, controls both steer and throttle. The triggers also control throttle but the input is not analog. It is mostly better to map them yourself once you got basic input handling down. You can just use values for brake and throttle based on things like the fingers position or the triggers pre…

Overall, look through them and decide which one is best for your purposes. Good luck applying and further improving your LUA skills!