Introduction

Crushform adds real-time visual damage to vehicles and props in Unreal Engine. Bodies dent where they are hit and lose paint where the metal moved, glass cracks and shatters, dirt builds up from the ground under the wheels, tyres squash on landing and wrap round what they press onto, and trees, fences and props break. The server decides the damage and the client driving the vehicle predicts it, so the same setup works in single player and online.

What’s in the box

System	What you get
01Dents	A lattice moves the mesh where it was hit: a point impact craters, a wall flattens the nose, a glancing blow drags the dent.
02Paint	Paint scrapes off where the metal moved, with scratches and chips around the impact.
03Soft zones	Stiffness zones set how deep each region dents, edited in the viewport and mirrored left to right.
04Hinged parts	Doors swing loose and tear away, hoods fly off, decided by the damage under each hinge.
05Glass	Laminated and tempered presets. Panes crack, shatter and throw shards; a crushed hood cracks the windshield.
06Dirt	Dust, mud, snow and wetness build up from the ground under the wheels, on the wheels too. Wash it all, or one spot.
07Tyres	Contact patch and bulging sidewall on landing, deformed in the material.
08Collision	Body collision follows the crumpled shape as the dents grow.
09World	Breakable trees, fences and props bend, snap and leave debris.
10Sound & FX	Impact sounds and effects per material, rolling audio and FX per surface, a layered engine sound.
11Multiplayer	Server-authoritative damage with client-side prediction. Players who join late see the same dents.
12Debug	Debug mode, a stiffness-zone overlay, stats and console commands for damage, repair and tyres.

How it fits into your game

Crushform never depends on your game’s code. A vehicle plugs in through an adapter component:

• Crushform Chaos Vehicle Adapter for a pawn built on Chaos Vehicles. It reads the wheels from the movement component, so there is nothing to wire by hand.
• Crushform Vehicle Adapter for any other vehicle. You list its wheels, and it finds the ground under them with traces.

Any other actor can take part by implementing the host interfaces, in C++ or Blueprint: ICFDeformHost, ICFWheelHost, ICFBreakerHost, ICFTireHost, ICFTireViewer and ICFEngineHost.

Modules

Module	Type	What it holds
Crushform	Runtime	The core: the deformation lattice, dents, paint, dirt, glass, hinged parts and the project settings.
CrushformBreakable	Runtime	Breakable trees, fences and props, and their debris.
CrushformImpact	Runtime	Impact feedback: sounds and effects when things hit.
CrushformTire	Runtime	Tyre deformation at the contact patch.
CrushformWheel	Runtime	Wheel surfaces, rolling audio and rolling effects.
CrushformEngine	Runtime	The layered engine sound.
CrushformVehicle	Runtime	The vehicle adapter for your own vehicles.
CrushformChaos	Runtime	The adapter for Chaos Vehicles.
CrushformCamera	Runtime	A chase camera for vehicles.
CrushformDebug	Runtime, not in Shipping	Debug mode: a free camera and tools to dent, dirty, wash and repair.
CrushformPlayground	Runtime	The moving hazards of the Proving Ground demo.
CrushformShaders	Runtime	Registers the plugin’s shader folder.
CrushformEditor	Editor	Editor tools and content builders.

Next

• Installation
• API reference