Released Sandy Mountain 1.3b

i have one question, I'm trying to start a beam.ng drive yt channel and I'm certanly gonna use this map, I just wanted to ask how you make those awesome cinematic camera shots cause it doesn't look like the in-game "external" camera view.

 

thanks

 

Can I have your permission to mod Sandy Mountain by making it a flooded Sandy Mountain?

 

Okay.

 

This is really well done. Thanks for creating maps like that!

One thing: Can you (or someone else) do a massive map like this but without any actual roads (or only dirt paths)? Something to do some decent offroad exploration without crossing paved roads all the time would be aweseome.

Keep up the good work!

 

Looks amazing, but sadly it's extremely laggy on my pc despite being the same size as in-game maps like Utah.
Is this a common thing?

 

I use an i7 4790, gtx-750 (1gb), 8gb Ram and a mechanical hard drive.
I can play on the Utah map with decent settings, 1080p at about 40 fps.
I just tried reloading the Sandy Mountains map and then I realized that when I go to the default spawn position and I look straight ahead or I get bad frame drops, but when I look behind me it's fine. I went to free cam, moved up and I noticed there's just a lot more map in the direction I'm getting framedrops. So yeah I guess it's size related. Maybe if I could turn down draw distance it would help, but there doesn't seem to be a setting (at least in the settings UI)

 

Nice, thanks for the tip! That might come in handy for WCUSA as well

 

I just tried it and my FPS went up from 16 to 17 when I changed ScreenError from 12 to 40, it went up to about 22 FPS when I set it to somewhere in the 2500 - 15000 range, but beyond that it went down again. And when I change my car from the stock pickup to a racy etki it went down by a few again.

 

Other games perform exactly as I'd expect from these specs, I don't know from the top of my head if they all use DX11, but old and new games run fine.
It's just slightly bigger maps in BeamNG that tank my FPS quite badly.

Utah and JRI on Medium settings give me 40-50 FPS, 60-ish when I reach the edge of the map. On Low it goes towards 90.
Sandy Mountain on Medium gives me 55-60 FPS when I look in one direction, 16 when I look in the other.
WCUSA gives me 8 FPS on Medium, 27-33 FPS on Low settings, certain intersections, dirt trails, drag strip, some other locations give me 8 FPS on Low settings.

Would you say GTX cards in general might not be optimal for BeamNG? Because that would be good to know for future upgrades. This is by far my most played game at the moment.

 

very coolio