BeamNG is standing on the shoulders of Rigs of Rods, which uses soft body physics (points of mass connected by links that aim to keep the same distance between

BeamNG is standing on the shoulders of Rigs of Rods, which uses soft body physics (points of mass connected by links that aim to keep the same distance between two points up to a certain amount of force applied, after which deformation occurs): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigs_of_Rods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigs_of_Rods