Realistic Offroad Physics

Realistic Offroad Physics changes how vehicles behave on mud, sand, dirt and other soft surfaces. Drive the wrong car off the tarmac and it sinks, loses grip and becomes a pain to control. Players have to pick the right vehicle for the terrain, and real off-road builds finally have a reason to exist on your server.

Per-Surface Physics

Each material has its own parameters:

• Depth: how far a vehicle can sink into the surface. Deeper materials are harder to cross and can leave cars stuck in mud or wet sand.
• Softness: how quickly a vehicle sinks. Gravel slows the effect, wet sand and mud drop a vehicle fast.
• Traction: how much grip the surface offers. Low-traction materials cut acceleration, braking and turning, so gravel and rocks cause skids.

What It Adds

• Surface depth behavior across soft materials
• Vehicles visually sink into the surface
• Loss of traction on slippery surfaces
• Realistic handling per vehicle type and class
• Optimized per-player synchronization
• Extensive configuration for off-road tuning
• Super low resource usage
• Fully standalone, no dependencies

Off-Road Performance Factors

Off-road performance is calculated from:

• Suspension height
• Wheel size
• Driven wheels, including AWD status
• Weight
• Wheel count
• Weather
• Vehicle class
• Off-road tires

Server Gameplay Impact

The driving dynamic on your server shifts. Players think twice before taking a road car into the hills, and vehicles not built for rough terrain get stuck when inexperienced drivers try to shortcut through it. The no GTA/offroad driving rule stops being necessary, because the hardest terrain now favors real off-road vehicles on its own.

Realistic Offroad Physics does not modify vehicle runtime handling meta, so it stays compatible with basically all resources.

Compatibility

Fully standalone. Runs on servers with no framework at all, and on:

• ESX
• QBCore
• Qbox
• VRP