Quick question…
Are the larger engines like V10’s and V12’s going to be separately available as crossplane and flatplane?
I’m not sure that this division even exists in real life but I hope that, if it does exist, Automation will be featuring both types 
BTW I searched for this and found nothing on the forum already… 
As far as I’m aware, there aren’t different crank types available for V10s and V12s? I couldn’t find anything about it anyhow.
The Viper V10 is a crossplane. It was created by adding another pair of cylinders to a Dodge Magnum engine.
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The Viper V10 is a crossplane. It was created by adding another pair of cylinders to a Dodge Magnum engine.[/quote]
Yeah, I can’t find any Flat crank V10s though…
The crank in the Viper engine is NOT just the crank from the v8 with an extra crank pin added.
Viper, BMW M5 V10, Lamborghini Gallardo V10 all have 90 degree engine blocks, and cranks with just 5 crank pins, BUT the pins are in order as if the engine was a straight 5.
Audi V10 used/uses a crank with the pins (for that pair of cylinders) offset 18 degrees to get the cylinders firing as if the cylinder angle was 72 degrees, as a “proper” V10 then would get symetric firing order. (10x72=720 degrees)
On the other engines the firing order is 90 or 54 degrees.
I think the issue with V10s (crossplane flatplane) is that while both are probably possible (although I’m not sure as I’m no expert) there simply aren’t enough V10 engines out there to constitute time being spent on making both of the layouts work ingame. Personally I adore the V10 and I even drew up some poorly detailed plans at school for a inline 10 but it’s not a major engine configuration. It’s a very useful one as it combines lower weight than a V12 with more power than a V8 but it’s simply not common enough for the Devs to spend time on crosplane and flatplane designes. Of course I know as much as everyonelse does about what the devs plan to do but this is my guess.
As far as I know you can’t make flatplane 10 or 12 cylinder engines. V10’s can have odd or even firing with 5 pin or split journal cranks but I don’t see a reason to go that in depth for a engine type only used in a handful of cars.