(You can also use images with the roads in white - I overlay a map on QGIS and then paint over the top - this will make road laying lots easier).Ħ. These will tell Beam where to paint the different terrains, saving you the trouble. Then turn each of these to binary black/white with your favourite method and save as separate PNGs, named GRASS or ROCK, etc. take all the grass (I use select by colour) and paste into a different layer or image. Separate the colours of the Attribute Map by terrain type. Get HighDef's Loaded Template Map from the repositoryĬreate a Heightmap (if you have one already, make sure it is 2048x2048 or less, 512 or 1024 work, and import into LD3t) as in video (use whatever settings you like, but get it to create an Attributes Map too (pick a climate similar to the map style you want).Ĥ.Export the Heightmap and Attribute map as PNGs to your level folder, or a folder in your level folder (e.g. If you have questions, feel free to ask, but I can't guarantee I'll be able to help. This isn't a hand-holding tutorial, more a demonstration. I usually speed up the video when it is boring, but you can play it slowly if you want to copy anything. Steve Hogarty revisited it for us last year and called it a 'fascinating distraction to idle away a few hours, and a near perfect simulation of what was happening in my child-brain when I played with Matchbox cars.I also do a few other little bits and bobs. You can pick up BeamNG.drive from Steam, where it's currently 20% off.

A lot of the changes are tweaks to particular vehicles, or to the physics of certain parts on particular vehicles, and sentences I fully do not understand like 'Added odometer measurement to vehicle electrics.'

There are lots more changes, and you can find the full release notes on the official beamNG site. The same feature will eventually roll out to other maps. AI vehicles will stop at red lights and traffic will flow as urban planners intended. As of this update, the 'East Coast USA' map now has working traffic signals. The new version of the map is four times larger than before, split into eleven zones, each with a particular focus.īeamNG.drive has come a long way since its greybox beginnings, and now has large open world spaces to drive around, with roads, buildings and traffic simulations. A greybox space filled with tubes, bumps, ledges for you to drive across and into, so you could see the game's remarkable soft-body physics shudder and shatter your vehicle into its hundreds of constituent parts. For those who haven't played it, Gridmap was the original physics playground shipped with BeamNG.drive.

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