Vehicle loading changes

Fantastic! I love seeing how the game engine works and I love seeing the improvements being made. Cleaner code is awesome! Like someone else said im wondering if this will allow dynamic traffic - i.e. instead of having a select number of a set type of vehicle will we see different models being dynamically loaded?

 

Very interesting ! Show one more time that adding content is not necessarily the most difficult part. Optimisation takes longer, don't give a lot of changes in the next update (players will be more hype with a new car that if we say we change the way vehicles spawns) but it is essential to keep the game going forward. Great job devs !

 

Aaahh oh amazing

 

Does this have any negative implications for custom vehicle lua? Could it possibly break some things?

 

my i3 6300 approves of this

 

I'm amazed by all the improvements this game keeps getting, even after 7 years since it's forked from Torque3D. Wonder if there's any new commits to Torque3D that would even benefit your fork with how far it's branched. Sounds like some fun coffee filled debugging days ahead! Good luck, and thanks for the updates

 

Very cool to see! Thanks for the in depth post

 

Very nice work!!

 

1. I have no idea what you're saying.
2. It sounds really good. This is why I love the dev team so much

 

You guys are the best.
Not only are you trying your best to make everyone's experience better but you are doing it *WHILE* telling us all about your work. Making screenshots and writing a whole, detailed article; this is what I wish all game devs did to give people a little more clarity and a sneak peek behind the scenes of their favourite game. Even though most of us, me included, cannot understand everything you are trying to explain, it is still interesting how the game works besides what happens on the outside. Massive props to you for informing us about the progress. I am excited for the next one.

 

I enjoyed the read, even though I didn't understand most of it on a technical/coding level.

On another level, it's really good to see all of this work - otherwise it just looks like a single line in a changelog that, for all I know, took two minutes and moving around ten lines of code. Seeing this really increases my appreciation of what the technical side of the dev team does!

On the side of questions, other than the reason why (All those 'interesting topics' mentioned in the OP, which I understand is probably still under wraps), the main thing I want to know is what impact (if any) this new system for spawing has after the vehicle is spawned - at what point does the physics side take over?

 

Daaamn, that's so amazing to look at, and realize how much happens each frame, then multiply it to "FPS" to imagine how much work is done each second - and that's graphics only, what about physics that's calculated with rate of 2000Hz during that time.

I think I'd have a blast toying with dev build, (usually much lower fps) looks like it includes very interesting stuff. - and I'd love to see that implemented in public build:

(from 1:04 to 1:24 ^)

Anyway it's great that you share those datails, always nice to learn something new. Also makes feel each update to non-visible "under the hood works" more valuable when you're familiarized with it and how much effort have to be put around it, than just a string of text on devblog. Thank you for sharing

 

I think they've said that the showing of internal parts is a trick with editing software, they take a video of the normal vehicle and a video with the cab/chassis hidden and with one of the debug visualisations turned on, and just sort of mush the two together.

 

Thank you tdev for the insight.
As a regular player i feel more connected to a game, when getting insights and detailed explanations.
You end up understanding problems more than usually.

Wreckfest did actually the same what you are doing now. They have speedup their loading times by miles and everyone freaked out.
You can expect the same from BeamNG community when this package lands.

It is just great to see you are attacking important points step by step.
Thanks for Diamond we know there are coming 3 updates on how the car handles.
Thank to your insight we can add now less loading time, which sounds boring but feels so good when playing the game.

 

Thank you very much @tdev, this post has been really informative and insightful. It's really interesting to see how you and your team approach the optimization of this specific task.
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BTW, I am wondering why not use streaming for IO (not quite sure whether Lua supports it).

 

when i try to load up a map it says somthing delivery carsh anyone know what to do?

 

Try safe mode. If it works, it's caused by a mod. Otherwise look at the known issues and fixes thread.