CarWorks

CarWorks is a tool developed by Cas with the purpose of aiding in custom car creation by providing some degree of automation to the process. Together with Dash Manager, it is part of a project that started in 2020 and as of March 2021 remains in a preliminary stage, albeit already being useful. A forum thread was started on 10 December 2020 in which the first versions were posted.

The interface is mostly text-based. Different uncompressed car files can be loaded and edited and then put together. It can load and save OBJ shape files that it automatically scales so that cars have a natural size in meters. It was originally intended to handle all of the car files, but at the current stage, it can do mainly two things: edit car parameters in a way that's more direct than with Car Blaster and generate a complete 3SH file for a car from an OBJ shape producing all three scales and borrowing wheels and debris from a pre-existing car. The car files can later be edited with Stressed, so it's optimal to use them together.