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Rig of Rods<\/a> is an interesting piece of software. It’s an open source car\/plane\/boat simulator with a number of user-made vehicles and areas you can explore. The vehicles themselves, though, use “soft-body physics” \u2013 the wheels and chassis are flexible real-time objects that respond to the environment. A collision can deform them. The flight simulator uses advanced blade physics and the boating uses bouyancy calculations for realistic hull simulation.<\/p>\n

Beyond that, there are currently over 2000 user mods (it’s been around a couple years so the library is built up). Being open source, you can go crazy building your dream vehicle and testing it out. I like that a lot.<\/p>\n

I also like that it’s free. And it works on Mac.<\/p>\n

And I LOVE that you can rock crawl.<\/p>\n

Download it here: Rig of Rods<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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