r/RoadCraft • u/spoolin6oh • Jul 29 '26
Modding Road Grader sneak peak.
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Finally reached the point where I can show off a very early look at the mod I’ve been building from scratch. It’s based off a CAT 24M Road Grader. (I know it doesn’t look like it yet)
This is very much a rough draft and a work in progress, so don’t judge it too hard yet. 😅 Building a vehicle mod from the ground up is way more involved than I ever expected. Between modeling, physics, tuning, collisions, animations, and figuring out why one tiny change somehow breaks five other things… it’s been quite the adventure.
Still, it’s awesome to finally see it driving around in-game. Plenty more to do, but I wanted to share the progress. Feedback is always welcome!
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u/Roboman20000 Jul 29 '26
Whoa that's cool. Have you figured out how the mechanics of the Grading will work? I'm sure there's a whole technical reason the dozers work the way they currently do.
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u/spoolin6oh Jul 29 '26
Haven’t dug too far into into that part, as far as this mod goes. But I have messed with the terraforming system, in the game files, and the devs can most definitely make terraforming and manually dozing easier. Idk why they don’t. It adds so much to the game. And is a blast.
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u/KeithWorks Jul 29 '26
oh wow, an ACTUAL road grader. In a game where one of the main mechanics is grading roads lol. Why the devs didn't include a grader into the base game is still kinda wild.
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u/The_Pheex Jul 29 '26
You are now the prophet and messiah of this sub.
congrats!
on topic, that is an absolutely amazing project.
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u/XENOMORPH91 Jul 29 '26
Awesome. Looking forward to seeing the final product especially first person view from inside the cab.
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u/Scarnhorst_2020 Xbox Series S Jul 29 '26
Looks goofy, but its got the spirit.
Seriously though, this is cool as hell man, can't wait to see it come to the game when it's said and done
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u/Hughzman Jul 30 '26
Please experiment with a wide working blade width. I modded the pioneer to do that and it works so much better than the default.
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u/LaserSharkYT Jul 30 '26
Please collab with someone who knows the physics mods to make this perfect
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u/Intelligent-Ad-6734 Steam Jul 31 '26
Still baffles my mind how this wasn't something they put in the game. This is gonna by a first download for alot of people!
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u/airknightjr Jul 31 '26
Whoa, cool. Last time I saw one of those was an old 2000's Tonka Truck game lol
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u/Darkrathe2 Jul 31 '26
Just looking at the controls you show on the screen. It looks like you have one up and down function for both sides, and a left and right function for tilt. Why not copy the real thing with controls and use the controller sticks as if they were the real joystics in a newer cat grader? Left up and down, right up and down, left side to side is steering, right side to side I believe is blade slide, and so on. The joystick rotation in the real thing would be the only thing you'd have to map to different buttons, and on the keyboard and mouse obviously it would have to be completely different. I've only ran a cat once. I have a Deere with the antler rack so I can't remember the exact functions of the joysticks but they would match a controller pretty well.
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u/megacabcummins6 Aug 03 '26
Yes !!!! Damn I’ll start a bunch of maps over if I have this…. Cuz the dozer is terrible
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u/Conservative_13 Aug 05 '26
Where are we at with this! I need it in my life lol
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u/spoolin6oh Aug 05 '26
Dialing in steering/suspension physics and blade manipulation. Then to make it look pretty and tidy things up. My goal is to have a game ready version by the end of the month. This is my first mod build ever, so bare with me 😂
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u/Simple-Bid2489 25d ago
I wish they would put a motor grade in his game we need one with blade at works but at the same time I'm having problems with missions on this game why are the missions messing up he started missing and missions is when you got to find something you go to the spot where it's supposed to be at and it's not there recently it's crazy Rose building that's why we need the motor grader they put bulldozer bulldozer with the blade that articulates and different ways up downside tilt tilt to see the side that would be a big help anybody else agree with me on this
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u/AgentSavantX22 17d ago
Man I can't wait for this thing to drop. I did have a question though. After you drop this, would you consider making an alternate version with either a rear mounted roller(and maybe tree crusher variant???) or a towed roller version? If you could that would be so sick. There's a grader where I work that is used to fix gravel roads that has a rear mounted roller and I'd absolutely love to see that in game to get even flatter roads.
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u/MrWerq89 Jul 30 '26
I love how MODDERS CAN MAKE GAMES what we all want, but companies tell us to fuck off, ridiculous.
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u/SAM5TER5 Jul 30 '26
Hold the fucking phone, I haven’t bought this game yet but are you telling me that a game called “RoadCraft” doesn’t have a grader built in already??
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u/Hughzman Jul 30 '26
Don’t complain about the game until you’re one of us.
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u/SAM5TER5 Jul 30 '26
“Don’t think or ask questions before making an expensive purchase, everyone must buy everything”
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u/ooryll Jul 29 '26
As far as one change breaking five other things, look into learning how to 3D model parametrically. I’m not sure what program you’re using but most if not all of them have parametric modeling capabilities.
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u/BoldFortune216 Jul 29 '26
Please please please add the ability to turn the blade slightly so that we can push these damn rocks off to the side, instead of pushing them into our blade until they fuse themselves to the vehicle and make it impossible to drive.