Version 0.8 rolling in …

Happy holidays from the whole BeamNG Team!

Highlights

• New vehicle: Bruckell LeGran

• New campaign: A Rocky Start

• New powertrain physics system

• Completely renewed Garage mode

• Added ‘Quickplay’ hotlapping mode

Physics

• Vastly improved vehicle collisions

• Physics core is 5-10% faster

• Slight decrease of physics core memory usage

• Improved accuracy of friction

• More realistic water drag

• Improved stability of drag (both air and water)

• Working intake snorkels

• Fixed vehicle collisions on rotating frame of references (such as the hamster wheel)

• Fixed physics of couplers

• Fixed coupler resetting

• Toggling couplers resets them even when they are in semi-coupled state

• Added “Center of Pressure” debug visualization

• Optimized vehicle G-force sensors

• Fixed particles being generated while passing through terrain holes

• Torquenode does not default to Armnode anymore

Gameplay

• Added QuickPlay mode: choose the map, layout, car, environment settings, and go! ( Documentation available here)

• Completely revamped Garage mode, with full controller support:

• Default shifting mode is now configured through the Options menu, rather than using the Q key

• Radial / pie menu improved: better behavior, more items, fixed deadzone bugs, much easier and nicer to use

• Added three Steam achievements for completing the campaigns:

Vehicles

• Added new vehicle: Bruckell LeGran

• Added new vehicle: Travel Trailer

• Added new upfit for T-75: Dump Bed Upfit

• Added new prop: Wood Crate

• Implemented BeamNavigator for all cars with new boot screen

• Barstow: colorable stripes, tweaked torque curves, deformation tweaks, steering and front frame stiffened

• Bolide: added colorable stripe skins

• Burnside: added race suspension parts, optional 423 CUI V8 from Barstow with superchargers, cut hood, drag and custom variants steering and front frame stiffened, frame is now totally separable from body

• Covet: added ‘Vandalized’ skin, made ‘Rally’ and ‘Selecta’ skins colorable

• D-Series: added 2-tone paintjobs, added new “Beast” variant, added snorkel, front frame and suspension mounts stiffened

• ETK800/ETKC: More durable suspension, add “Post Crash Braking”

• ETK I-Series: made ‘Rally’ skin colorable

• Grand Marshal: added 2-tone paint, reduced spiking in trunk and front wheel well corners

• H-Series: added running boards, front frame and suspension mounts stiffened

• Miramar: colorable roof and trim using 2nd and 3rd palette colors, colorable Okudai skin, added adjustable 5-speed race transmission, working dashboard clock

• Moonhawk: deformation tweaks, colorable stripes, added colorable trim using 3rd palette color, tweaked torque curves

• Pigeon: Added ‘Street Cleaning’ skin

• Roamer: added 2-tone paint, added snorkel, fixed UV errors

• SBR4: corrected power output, added navigation screen

• Sunburst: corrected power output, added navigation screen, made ‘Custom’ and ‘Rally’ skins colorable

• T-Series: Cleaned up beam section headers

• Tanker Trailer: added ability to rip open

• Fixed vehicle steering wheels, pedals, and other parts becoming severely misaligned and sticking out in crashes

• Removed inter part coltris, leading to 5-10% improvement in vehicle optimization

• Reduced friction of plastic parts, added correct ground models to plastic vs. metal collision triangles

• Reduced weight of mirrors, rally lights, and some spoilers

• Fixed strange spawning angles and camera positions on props

• Fixed some inaccurate gauge needles on cars

• Many other small vehicle fixes and tweaks

Powertrain

• Modular and expandable system to create almost any drivetrain layout

• New interactive powertrain UI app, allows to toggle device modes with your mouse, and visualize the torque and speed of each component

• Simulation of torque converters

• Improved Automatic, Manual, DCT, CVT transmissions

• More advanced shifting logic with shift timing, clutch and throttle help

• Selectable locking differentials, locking wheel hubs, high/low range

• Improved limited slip differentials (Torque sensing, speed sensing)

• Engines can stall, be dragged into reverse rotation, restarted with starter motor or by bump starting

• Flow of power remains correct when driveshafts or axle shafts break

• Implemented energy storage framework (fuel tanks, batteries, etc)

• Initial support for electric motors

• Initial support for multiple engines

• Support for replacement or add-on drivetrain controllers for custom vehicle types

Vehicle Powertrain Upgrades

• D-Series/H-Series/Roamer: Added locking axle differentials, high/low range switching, 4wd/2wd switching, unlockable front hubs
• ETKI: Added 2 AWD transfer case types (viscous AWD, adjustable race LSD AWD)
• Pessima: Added 2 AWD transfer case types (viscous AWD, adjustable race LSD AWD)
• Sunburst: Added 2 AWD transfer case types (viscous AWD, adjustable race LSD AWD)
• SBR4: Added 2 AWD transfer case types (viscous AWD, adjustable race LSD AWD)
• Semi: Added locking interaxle differential, locking axle differentials

Input

• Added support for 4th and 5th mouse buttons (not assigned by default, can be used for gas/brake, shifting… anything)
• Improved the force feedback feeling on FWD and AWD cars
• Added new inputmaps for: “Racing Wheel Thunder V5” (using a “PS(R) Gamepad Adaptor”), “Saitek Heavy Equipment Wheel & Pedal”, “Saitek Side Panel Control Deck” and “SpeedLink DriftOZ”
• Revamped inputmaps for: “CSL Gamepad for PC”, “Dualshock 4 Playstation Controller (Wireless Controller)” (wired mode), “SRWheel”, “Dual Trigger 3-in-1” and “Fanatec ClubSport” (force feeedback now enabled by default)
• Created new wiki page with all information related to controllers: Controller Support
• Minor speedup of controller detection and FFB system initialization
• Fixed invalid steering values coming from iOS version of BeamNG Remote Controller app
• Fixed remote smartphone controllers generating many error logs for the first few seconds of gameplay
• Fixed H-shifters forgetting the current gear when alt+tabbing to a different window
• Fixed sticky right-mouse-button when a menu shows up while rotating the camera with mouse
• Fixed random moving elements in several special vehicles when using XBox controllers (deadzones were missing)
• Deprecated discrete camera zoom bindings in favour of smooth zoom bindings

Replay

• Improved replay format: now supporting sounds, props (pedals, etc), full car transparency and current UI app data streams
• Bumped replay version: files recorded with previous versions will no longer be readable (this will continue happening until the replay system is stable enough)
• Minor improvement of file sizes related to vehicle shape (though new features still made them bigger)
• Fixed incorrect camera orientation during replays
• Fixed playback freezing during fast-motion in replays if computer couldn’t keep up with the required calculations
• Fixed replay length being inaccurate by up to one second and leading to lockups
• Fixed several vehicle shape corruption bugs during playback
• Now all vehicles move when seeking through replays featuring more than one vehicle

Artificial Intelligence

• Initial support for lane driving. Currently accurate only for single lane in each direction
• Added a Risk parameter on the AI app. It tunes the overall aggressiveness of the AI controlled vehicle
• New pathfinder for the AI (no map target) flee mode
• New pathfinder for the AI random mode (does not require a prespecified) target), and reduces unnecessary three way turns
• Refactored AI Flee Mode
• Dynamic aggression for the AI manual Mode

User Interface

• Improved loading screen: less likely to hang, better status messages, fading on finish
• Enhanced main menu: new sounds, better navigation and improved looks
• Fixed units of turbocharger app
• Support for one level of subcategories for tuning variables
• Updated UI Apps thumbnails
• Added support for blurring arbitrary rectangles below the UI
• Optimized UI updating (based on current FPS)
• Improved defaultGearboxBehavior to have two values: ‘arcade’ and ‘realistic’
• Added imageslider control supporting multiple previews, blending when in focus in various selectors
• Units system: length now reporting smaller units as well (yard, etc)
• Level selector improvements: better detail view
• Fuel consumption fixes: not displaying values that do not make any sense
• Improved hotlap app visuals

Audio

• Improved how sounds are affected by simulation time
• Better sound resource cleanup
• Limited excessive crash sound emitting
• Fixed bugs on audio system causing missing sounds and latency on start

Renderer

• Added support for dynamic deferred decals, used for navigation arrows on the road (temporarily disabled on lowest graphic setttings)

• Improved speed of UI textures upload to GPU

• Improved nodegrabber render performance

• Improved vehicle color palette (skins can now be coloured)

• Fixed possible render artifacts on the first frame after a vehicle spawns

• Fixed issue with spotlights shadows

• Fixed bug causing dynamic HTML textures (license plates and navigator) to initialize incorrectly

• Fixed crash when vehicles are destroyed with the lights turned ON

Campaigns

• Added new campaign: ‘A Rocky Start’

• Steam achievements are now awarded during campaigns (if online mode is enabled in options menu)

• Added the new ‘Exploration Map’ that can be used by campaigns

• Added Mission markers with UI hooks for displaying relevant information

• Added navigation lines to show the direction to campaign missions’ starting location

• Enforcing competetive scenario rules during campaigns

• Added ability to specify requirements for scenarios used in campaigns

• Improved Campaign json format and increased version from 1 to 2

• Improved campaign folder structure convention

• Added Odometer app for use in campaign scenario

Scenarios

• Added support for playing comics in campaigns or scenarios
• Deprecated onRaceWaypoint, replaced it with onRaceWaypointReached
• Added onVehicleSpawned extension hook
• Added onVehicleTakenDamage extension hook
• Improved how scenarios find prefabs
• Improved timing for displaying end screen
• Improved vehicle tracking with per vehicle data
• All vehicles can now trigger waypoints via onRaceWaypointReached extension hook
• Added waypoint branching - multiple routes to a destination can now be specified
• Ability to calculate distance travelled along a road path
• Improved statistics filtering for scenarios
• Scenarios can now specify required stats
• Extended cinematic camera to follow an additional valid target
• Added option to hide the countdown in scenarios
• Added directional waypoints with a flat collision plane, useful for start/finish lines

Misc

• Modified free camera behaviour, to allow smoother inspection of the vehicles and less jerkiness during rotation
• Improved “center” camera type
• Small orbit cam adjustments
• Added vehicles colors to vehicle configuration files(PC files)
• Improved level loading times
• Cleaned and optimized vehicled recovery subsystem, should work a bit faster/smoother now
• Outgauge split into two modules to use them separately
• Added simple job system: the mods will keep loading in the background when you start the game
• Added Generic executeLuaSandboxed method to catch lua execution output
• Removed system lua instance: was not used anymore - added replacement for broadcast function: queueAllObjectLua
• added new -batch command line option to prevent levels blocking the loading with messageboxes
• Creator mode basics: this opens an external browser window to control your vehicles. Very much work in progress.

General Bugfixes

• Fixed Recovery system only working for cars controlled by users (now also works for AI and others)
• Fixed Recovery showing the same message when tapping the key as when holding it
• Fixed Recovery system moving your car after being manually placed with editor or F7
• Fixed log messages were getting lost randomly
• Fixed inability to replace the vehicle when using the free camera
• Fixed game unpausing when resetting a vehicle
• Fixed inability to modify any of the vehicle color slots when using the free camera
• Fixed json serializer producing invalid syntax on null items in objects or lists
• Fixed creation of forest objects
• Fixed Lua Simobject field performance problems
• Added safety check to extension system: Case sensitive errors added preventing loading the same module twice
• Fixed problems when using certain C++ APIs from within Lua coroutines

Jbeam / Lua

• Powertrain controllers are a superset of the previously known extension system
• Powertrain controllers are tied to jbeam, so loading jbeam specfic code is very easy
• The entire vehicle powertrain control logic can be replaced by custom code if a mod desires so
• Added non-linear temporal smoother Lua function
• Removed synced GFX step of vehicles
• Cleanup of Prop control API
• Added possible default value as second argument to settings.getValue() to make it easier to use

Bug reporting/Help Thread here.