Have a little play with this excavator just press start game.
http://www.shrewballooba.co.uk/gold/

keys to move
-r-
dfg

-u-
hjk

1 and 2 = views

dig out rocks from pool and drop in the hopper

Whats you average frame rates (the A:# in the top right of stats) and machine specs?

Thanks

nice demo

A: 57

win 7 64bit
i7 2700k
16GB
nvidea quadro 4000

Finally, an excavator sim!!! Nice work!

A: 37

MBP
2.66 GHz Intel Core i7
4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 (11E53)

Love it ! Tho I’ve managed to fall into water
chains/tracks are really convincing.

Thanks all.

Im getting about 30fps with intel hd for graphics on an I5
shadow is a bit of a killer in fps.

Yeah the tracks worked out well.
They are the only thing that could be classed as finished. The orignal model had about 14,000 tris per track and a ton of links. Obvioulsy couldn’t use physics with that. So went for low poly (1,300 tri) version, with Uv animation and 8 hidden hinged wheels for physics.

I get 33 average

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P9500 @ 2.53GHz
(RAM) 8,00 GB
Grafik ATI Mobility FireGL V5700
Grafik (Spiele) 512 MB

Very cool John!;)