Sounds like version 0.10 is out!

Our first update that focuses on audio! 🙂

Highlights

• Audio:

• Procedural track:

• Couple any two nodes

• Support for direct drive steering wheels

• Replay Menu

• New Radial Menu

• Dynamic Field of View option for greater sensation of speed

• Transbrake for drag cars

• Shift logic improvements

Audio

• Added new vehicle engine mixing to avoid sound phase problems and improve quality
• Integrated custom BeamNG plug-in to control new vehicle engine sounds
• Improved integration of FMOD sound library
• Exposed parameters for vehicle engine modding (equalizer, volume control)
• Added interior filter for all vehicles
• Added filter changes depending on camera angle to vehicle
• Added new asphalt roll and skid sounds
• Added starter motor and mis-shift gear grind sounds
• Set up new 2D and 3D ambient sounds
• Created ambience zones (SFX Spaces) and ambient 3D emitters in all maps
• Added dynamic reverb for tunnels in all maps
• Added dynamic environmental reverb for distant driving
• Greatly reduced time lag and increased smoothness of skid sounds

New Vehicles and Parts

• Added ‘Box Utility’ trailer (Normal and Large)

• Dryvan: Added ‘Loading Ramp’ part. Added ‘Beam Industries’ skin

• Old Gen Pessima: Ported exhausts from Hatch. Added ‘Racing Livery’ skin

• Hopper: Added ‘Windshield Bar’ and ‘Spare Wheel Cover’

• Torque Converters and Flywheels are now separate parts with different options to choose from

• Added 265/35R18 Race tire for 18x11 wheels

Physics

• Added ability to couple any two nodes
• Improved initial coupling stability
• Pressure simulation for tires, balls, blobs, etc; is simulated in a fully volumetric way now
• Added “getRelativeAirDensity” vehicle Lua function that returns air density in relation to sea level air density
• Improved aerodynamics debug visualization. It now shows independent normal, drag, lift lines as well angle of attack. Normal’s line length is related to surface area at the point
• Groundmodel hydrodynamic friction is not limited any more
• Wheel angular velocity calculations are exact now using full numerical accuracy
• Exposed “torqueArm2” parameter used by wheel torque reaction
• L-beams are anisotropic now, allowing different compression/expansion parameters
• Added beam “beamPrecompressionTime” parameter that allows gradual compression of a beam over a time duration
• Added beam deformation limits (using “deformLimit” and “deformLimitExpansion” parameters) to reduce vehicle stretching
• Added perpendicular and perpendicularN functions to mathlib.lua. These return a vector that is perpendicular to a given vector
• Improved vehicle memory reclaiming
• Small speed optimizations
• Improvements and fixes in physics core’s sound APIs

Input

• Added support for end-of-travel deadzones in bindings

• Updated SpeedLink Drift OZ steering wheel bindings

• Added inputmap for Heusinkveld Engineering Sim Shifter Sequential

• Added inputmap for SimXperience AccuForce steering wheel

• Added force feedback support for SimXperience and OpenSimWheel-based steering wheels

• Improved default force feedback settings for Logitech G27 and G29

• Added new binding to switch to previous camera, not just for next one (not assigned to any key or button by default)

• Added new binding to edit UI Apps (shift+alt+U)

• Added support to directly switch to any camera using bindings (number row keys by default), whether it is enabled or not

• Normalized force feedback strength between vehicles

• Improvements for input handling for cars with no engines

• Tweaked kbd/button clutch rates for more forgiving shifting

Artificial Intelligence

• AI racing line calculation improvements. Vehicle position and direction is now taken into account.
• AI racing line optimizations (converges faster)
• Improvements in AI path waypoint progression
• Corrected BeamNGWaypoint (manual waypoint) radius calculations
• Made AI settings persistent across vehicle recovery (“i”, “r”)
• AI steering improvements: Calculates target position using circular interpolation on AI path nodes, producing more accurate vehicle trajectories.
• Added ability to specify the drivability of roads the AI will consider in flee pathfinding.
• Added ability to set the desired drivability for AI in scenario JSON files
• AI road Drivability Fixes in Jungle Rock Island
• AI road dead end Fixes in Jungle Rock Island
• AI road fixes and additions in East Coast Usa
• Added new onAiModeChange callback
• Implemented selectable vehicle tracking in vehicle jbeam (“general”: {“enableTracking”: true})
• Made the ball prop available as a target for the AI

Replay

• Added replay menu to dashboard and main menu

• More consistent behaviour of replay seeking shortcuts (arrow keys)

• Added informative text when a replay fails to open correctly

• More efficient replay seeking

Vehicle Lua

• Added a transbrake controller, equipped with drag transmissions (activate in Pie Menu or add your own binding)
• Improved brake pressure delay handling, now better simulates real braking
• More accurate cooling rates for brake drums
• Improved DCT mis-shift protection and stalling behavior
• Post crash brake now has a better brake control without accidentally entering reverse gear
• Added support for cars without a rev limiter
• Torque now falls off after redline to help re-use the same base engine with different redlines
• Implemented overrev damage, vehicles can take damage from exceeding their maximum rpm
• Air density is now taken into account for engine torque calculation
• Added support for a “noisy” idle RPM
• Added engine load smoothing for simulating throttle response
• Implemented engine starter throttle blip
• Increased default starter motor torque for faster engine starts
• Added “clutch fade-out” support for superchargers for easier configurability in hybrid turbo/supercharger setups
• Added support for a “kerosene” fuel preset
• Switched from using purely “throttle” for dynamically adjusting the shiftpoints to a new “aggression” factor that is much more adaptive to driving style
• Shift times are now dynamic, driving aggression and gear ratio differences are taken into account
• Implemented delay to punish shifts without using enough clutch, while still applying damage to the affected gear
• Improved automatic S mode to be more accurate compared to similar modes in real life
• Improved overall logic that prevents shifts in unwanted circumstances
• Implemented “Shift Denial” to prevent engine damage due to overrev when downshifting
• Improved automatic shiftpoint calculation to prevent gear hunting
• Improved wheel slip based shift prevention in corner cases like losing ground contact with one wheel
• Improved neutral gear selecttion in arcade modes and various other small improvements for the shift behavior
• Improved ESC/TC via killing the throttle input when the ESC is active
• Added active diff prototype to the sunburst drift mode
• Improved stability of limited slip differentials
• Shafts connected to wheels now provide wheel friction and electrics value for animated shafts
• Implemented ability to have the transmission influence the engine inertia (flywheel etc)
• Implemented proper error handling for non existing or faulty controllers
• Added support for loading custom powertrain devices from the vehicle lua directory
• Split vehicleController common logic and shifting logic into multiple files, allows for custom shift logic without replacing the common logic
• Added live tire pressure readout to tuning menu
• Made clutches stronger for manual transmissions for more direct feel

Vehicle Jbeam

• Barstow: Increased rigidity of mirrors, bumpers, pillars, new tire and suspension tuning
• Bolide: Reduced spiking in cowl
• Burnside: Increased rigidity of front frame and body parts, new tire and suspension tuning
• Covet: Improved design of Covet suspension using geometry information from real sources, improved tire tuning
• D-Series & Roamer: Improved rigidity of pillars, body parts, better hinge design on Roamer tailgate
• ETK800: Increased rigidity of body parts, reduced spiking of rear subframe, reduced weight of tailgate and improved hinge design so it can pop open, handling tweaks
• ETK-K: Increased rigidity of body parts, reduced spiking of door frame, handling tweaks
• ETK-I: Raised ride height of rally version
• Hopper: Increased rigidity of front suspension and frame, added windshield lightbar
• H-Series: Reduced wheel hop when locking the rear brakes on the cargo van
• Miramar: New suspension and tire tuning, race version has wider suspension track, added adjustable panhard bar length to center rear axle when raised/lowered
• Moonhawk: Increased front frame rigidity, new tire and suspension tuning
• Pessima: New suspension and tire tuning
• SBR4: Increased rigidity of hatch and spoiler, improved rear suspension behavior with race tires
• Sunburst: Raised ride height of rally version, changed RS all wheel drive system to use a viscous limited slip center differential, ABS and ESC added to “Street Tuned” config, stronger LSD for “Hillclimb” config
• T-Series: Reduced engine inertia and dynamic friction, made rear suspension more flexible but increased rigidity of rear axles, fix floppy door hinges
• Large Flatbed Trailer: Increased Rigidity
• Cleaned up some vehicles’ materials, fixed some duplicates.
• Changed some naming of configs for more clarity (“Rally” -> “Rally - Gravel” and so on)
• Police/Fire/Ambulance/Taxi and similar vehicles are now “Service” vehicle configuration type. You can filter them in the vehicle selector.
• Added new beam expansionLimit feature to the vehicles to reduce stretching of the body in crashes
• Increased tuning range of suspension and steering alignment variables, using “beamPrecompressionTime” to prevent damage
• Added caster tuning variable to suspensions where applicable
• Removed rev limiters from pre-computer age vehicles
• Increased rigidity of all solid axles
• Changed most transmissions to use auto calculated shift points
• Modern automatics use advanced shifting aggression while older ones use a basic method
• Improved windshield durability when landing jumps
• Added pressure and ballast tuning variables to the Inflated Mat, Ball, and Pressure Ball
• Tongue jack added to small trailers

User Interface

• New Radial Menu

• Transparent thumbnail for garage and Radial Menu

• Added ShiftPointDebug app

• Improved Navigation app: Redesigned, now supports level images, better performance

• Added ThumbnailGenerator app

• Tweaked vehicle selector grid appearance, new thumbnails

• Added ability to tweak some External camera parameters in Options menu

• Added button to overwrite the default vehicle from Vehicle Selector menu

• Optimized Controls menu, improved its appearance, search now always searches in the full list of bindings

• Reorganized all Options subcategories. Controls menu is now included too

• Added ability to configure camera switching order (when using C key) as well as to remove specific cameras from the cycle

• Added new UI app “Clock Debug”, used internally to debug smoothness of framerate and physics. You can probably ignore this one

• Renamed Quick Race to Time Trials to better reflect the gameplay

• Added ability to tweak and remember Time Trials UI apps

• Improved default set of apps for Time Trials, now showing all inputs and brake temperatures

• Improved speed of all Options menus

• Hotlapping app performance improved and bugs fixed

• Added SimpleTime app

• Added Flexmesh debug

• Refactored and improved vehicle debug modes, split up aero and triangle debug

Nodegrabber

• Added ability to couple and decouple nodes
• Minor revamp of nodegrabber appearance and binding names/descriptions
• Improved nodegrabber mechanics: allow dragging nodes closer over the map ground

Misc

• Added procedural track generator, includes 9 tracks, seeded generation (same seed = same track) To use, go to Play > Time Trials > Select Map > Procedural Tracks

• Speed optimizations in the loading of levels

• Adjusted all level thumbnails (format/size)

• Added minimaps for: Cliff, Derby, East Coast USA, Gridmap, Hirochi Raceway, Industrial, Jungle, Port, Small Island

• GameEngine LUA callbacks for update and pre-render now have extra timing available, the last of which should only be used for debugging purposes: dtReal, dtSim, dtRaw

• Moved vehicle spawn code from TS to LUA

• Removed deprecated “Reload system LUA” binding

• Tweaked default Free camera speed

• Added helper message on how to tweak free camera speed when activated

• Improved logging of binding configuration and camera jbeam errors

• Added automatic switch to vehicle camera if user attempts to cycle it while in free camera

• Added dynamic field of view to Orbit camera (can be tweaked in Options > Camera; disabled during replay for the time being)

• Tweaked External camera zoom levels

• Fixed possible slowdown due to log spamming by ‘Steering’ UI app when used in conjunction with certain mods

• Improved colors shown for ground model debugging (in Debug menu)

• Improved Out Of Memory message, fixed issue with it giving potentially wrong advice

• Deprecated race.lua, moved api to scenarios.lua

• Added removeAllWithProperty to vehicle.lua as a way to remove vehicles with a specific property from the scene

• Cleaned up prefab spawning code. Moved from scenarios.lua to ge_utils

• Prefab spawning Api changed to addPrefab, spawnPrefab and removePrefab

• Added global vmType variable for identifying which VM code is running under

• Moved tracking of waypoints from Vehicle LUA to Game Engine LUA

• Deprecated Vehicle LUA scenario.lua

• Unified extensions lua function names for load, unload and reload

• Added the option to exclude sub directories when loading lua extensions using loadModulesFromDirectory

• Set up simple obstruction/occlusion effect for vehicles inside buildings

• Increased robustness of S/JSON parser

• Improved editor visualization for SFXEmitters and SFXSpaces

• Load coreModules after ModManager for allow mod extensions run in main menu

• The rotation of the free camera is used now when spawning the first vehicle or when pressing F7

• Small improvement of orbit cam movement after a vehicle falls from a height

• Added startup time debug messages to investigate possible start up slowdowns

Bugfixes

• East Coast USA: fixed specular on vertcol material, fixed tree movements in wind being erratic

• Jungle Rock Island: fixed some terrain spiking issues and some minor vegetation issues

• Industrial: fixed a broken material

• Added rain objects

• Fixed .DDS textures to match the new specs

• Fixed several typos in scenarios’ description

• Fixed a broken road on JRI

• Fixed new vehicle spawning according to current vehicle’s local space instead of world space

• Fixed bug involving removing BeamNG manual waypoints from maps

• Fixed many Game Editor bindings not working, they will now take precedence over regular bindings again

• Fixed onboard camera not resetting the field of view on reset

• Fixed physics instabilities not pausing the simulation like it used to

• Fixed minor inconsistency in clock source (dt) of Pre-Render hooks (used for maps extension)

• Fixed wrong camera rotation center when switching between certain vehicles

• Fixed some crashes in Relative camera when refnodes were missing

• Fixed minor stutter of external camera during simulation (may still stutter during replays)

• Fixed inability to edit ‘cockpit apps’ while in Cockpit camera. They will now be shown with a slight transparency

• Fixed radial menu obstructing view while using menus

• Fixed keyboard focus issues while renaming a replay

• Fixed derby scenarios with missing extensions field

• Fixed message display for damage progress

• Fixed damage goal; damage message was not getting displayed

• Fixed bug where restarting a scenario toggled the police beacon light instead of setting it.

• Fixed JRI chase AI going off road

• Fixed input filter settings persisting from other modes

• Fixed bug when pressing Shift + C with no vehicles in the scene, not checking if the vehicle exists.

• Fixed bug with scenario triggers persisting when a new scenario starts.

• Fixed chapter 1 crawl scenario, vehicle has to be in low range so it has a chance at climbing the hill

• Fixed chapter 1 drag - callback from vehicle lua now fires correctly

• Fixed level listing code to be backwards compatible with mis files

• Fixes for extension namespace changes, allowing extensions to have underscores in their names and still comply with the new naming format

• Fixed transitioning to Freeroam from a scenario

• Fixed SimpleAGears app so that it shows correct gears on modern automatics

• Fixed DCT issue where the car would briefly drive forward when shifting into reverse at high rpm

• Fixed wrong ETK fuel consumption display when standing still

• Fixed brake temperature color inverting when the brakes melt

• Fixed minor issue with BOV handling for diesels

• Fixed velocities and rotations of sounds sources

• Fixed some serialization issues for reducing diffs of levels and CDAE

• Fixed a crash during generation of binary mesh files with large number of triangles

• Fixed crash on startup when mod_info is an invalid file zip

• Fixed SFXSpace not stopping/playing ambient sounds correctly

• Fixed bugs that could crash the game

• Fixed a number of serious coupler bugs

• Fixed deformed beam debug statistics

• Fixed beam stress debug visualization

• Fixed crash on load level when tree size is set to 0

• Fixed crash on load level using special SFX parameters

• Fixed crash on game start

• Fixed Legran parking brake pedal clipping through floor

• Fixed some GTT wings instability

• Fix some door beams mixed left to right on Grand Marshal and 90’s Pessima

• Fix right side exhaust of moonhawk jiggling too much

• Fix ETKI rear bumper instability

Bug reporting/Help Thread here.