WIP Beta released A new *CITY* map - LOS INJURUS 2023-12-20

Is that in the Patreon version?

 

if you are ever going to make a race track what would it look like something like Daytona with its oval or like willow springs ?

 

The roads in question were originally from SoCal Interstate map and were grandfathered in to this Los Injurus map. It used to use old mesh-roads-as-bridges tricks (which did just great) when I didn't have custom models to fit the bill. I now have custom bridges, which I made, which will be going in those spots since I now know people want that fixed.
The water level is lower in the last year or two than it used-to-be, but I will be redoing that area into a route-1 look-alike. It will be just two lanes for the most part, with occasional homes / businesses in the far future, and some spots with a center turn-lane.
Make requests for that area if you like it. It used to be a make-the-car-boat-over-water-in-road by going fast test-area. This was also the spot that made me recommend the game-water being denser by default.

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Not 100% sure which track will be in, but there will DEFINITELY be at-least 1 oval asphalt track, and at-least one or two asphalt and/or dirt tracks with winding German-style road courses. I love me a good race course, and if the existing roads and dirt track doesn't see you satisfied, more race courses will be added.
Feel free to add in some pictures from your favorite asphalt or dirt tracks, ovals or winding race courses alike, as reference material. Suggestions are always a good thing to help get what you want!

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I've got 80% of the rotten boards ripped off the deck, luckily the joists and ledger board (where it meets and secures to the house) isn't rotted, except for a little superficial rot that won't bother anything structurally. Was pretty nasty though, and lots and lots of spiders to keep me company - and the occasional 6-inch long lizard crawling about (I wanted to keep it but it hid right quick).
When I get the deck put back together (after a bit more tear-out of some bug/woodpecker mangled railing caps, and another 4~5 rotted deck boards in another spot of the deck), and finished up, I can get back to full-time map work. One whack with my 28-ounce Eswing hammer went right through many of the deck boards - that the extent of the rot in some spots. Made removing them easier, though.
At the bare minimum, my work there is long, LONG overdue. Shame on me. Better late than never though, but the spiders surely aren't as thrilled as I am.
Keep suggestions for the map coming, while I try to beat the onset of cooler temps to get my work done outside. When I am back mapping full-on I will use some of the reference material you send in (pictures of things you want) to inspire future projects and additions to the map.
Who says you can't have everything (in a map) ?

 

i would recommend something like Willow Springs raceway since its fitting with the desert environment or Sonoma Raceway

and what German racetracks will be the inspiration ? Oschersleben, Sachsenring, Hockenheimring, Nürburgring GP ?

 

Oh, wow.

 

For this being a car game some places to fix/tune your car like garages and places to buy cars would be nice, using convenience stores and gas stations for that is a bit unsatisfying

 

Now I actually wonder if you could port in some highway signs from ATS with each sign describing what route that is or where to that way.

 

maybe a suburban area like the Garfield heights map if not thats ok

 

didnt know it was shaped like a penis

 

Hollywood Boulevard, but instead of those stars with the celebrities, add contributors on the project and some people who helped you make the map, especially that part, and maybe the person who suggested it?? It could be a fun easter egg.

 

There will be plenty of signs. Like Roane County but even more-so here as there's more roads, it's super easy to get lost. So, I am prepared to put a LOT of signs into the map (there are some resources already in place and it's a small part of the map bloat).
I just haven't had time to put the majority of them in yet. There's only a sampling of signs for now. Rest assured you'll see many more as time goes on, including a signed 'Route 1' designation like the real thing.
This is a very valid suggestion and is underway to some extent (with much more to come). Expect a realistic amount of road signs. I need to get more things laid out first so I don't have to do double or triple work re-working them as I add things. Signs are unfortunately one of the LAST things I add in for this reason.

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Yes there will be something alike to this. It's already on the drawing board, so to speak.
There will not only be that for noting contributors, there will also be businesses and roads named after / dedicated to Patron and other supporters (such as those who contribute free-use models or help in some awesome way). NO ONE will have their name put in WITHOUT permission from said person as to what the name will be (real name, online name or 'handle' as it is called sometimes), so to those who support now, in the past, or in the future, no worries about that. I'll ask first (almost there for some of the named things!).
Still, great idea(s)!

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Got 80% of the deck boards replaced and just about couldn't breathe last night when finished. I could barely take a half-breath because of my back condition and bending so much. Yeah, not fun, but I survived. Still have the railings / some more boards / cleaning & staining to do, at-least another 7~10 days or so, could be two weeks; but then it'll be done before it gets too cold or rots too much causing me to fall through it.
What's better yet? As soon as I got done (ran out of screws after 90% were in place yesterday) and knew I was done for the day, I sighed with relief and rolled back a bit, one of the rolling-stool wheels went right through (KRUNCH!) one of the 'good' salvageable boards as I backed away from my obstacle. LOVE-LY! Wood doing wood things, is all I can say. At-least it's not one that I already fixed.
Put it this way, our deck is a great argument for TREX or similar manufactured non-rotting wood. Ugh. Oh well, it MUST be done, even if it cripples me for a while until I recover.

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Can you do *THIS* with graphics? See below graphics before/after for me making a worn arrow decal.
Take this CC0 'free use' picture before/after for an arrow graphic.
I will happily sit here for 20~40 minutes or more to work graphics into something I can use, especially for FREE. That saves money for more important things, provided I have the time.
I also picked up an improved 'wild grass fields' (commercial / non-free) kit and a huge pack of sound-fx in a cheap deal. So maybe I'll have a sound stage in the map sometime soon - I sure hope so anyway!
Working resolution (before it's put in-game) is around 4k x 3k (4k square decal), but the in-game version is 1k for a 1.3mb per-layer graphic vs 16x larger for a 4k graphic. This might not be in the next version but it will go in when I get the texture weight down significantly so that 6gb ~ 8gb equipped video cards can run medium texture detail just fine, might even get large to run at that but I'm not promising anything right now.

 

Alright, so you'll be basing all the roads/names/"celebrity stars of hollywood blvd", etc. off of just Patreon supporters and people who helped you build?

 

There will be over a hundred different roads / streets (if there's not already!), many will be named from supporters and Patreon folks, some business will have their names also as an alternative option to them. There will still be regular roads like Fahldeerahl AVE and Commercialism BLVD, etc, usually in a satirical nature as always is with the maps I create with the help of everyone.
If anyone wants to suggest goofy stupid or even practical names for roads, that is always an option but I'm not in a hurry to do street signs right now.

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I recently purchase some building packs (royalty free) with another modeling software program (which can be used legit outside the program or in games not made within it), so I have been slowly-but-surely converting them over from DirectX native format to Collada that BeamNG uses while also optimizing them some.
I still have at-least one more 5$ refund to process. You know who you are. I will be in contact by the weekend or during the weekend about that. Sorry, but yes I'm still working on my deck, it's worse than I thought but the parts I fixed so far could support several beef cattle. I work quite slow, methodically, but when it's done it looks nice and it's much more solid than needed.
(begin mindless rant)
It's all I can do right now to handle things, and there's quite a queue right now (sorry, being honest, this is not from 'popularity' but helping others as much as is possible with my physical conditions).
Right now my brain is a worthless pile of mush as is the same feeling I'm getting from my body, trying to take it easy today, but thankful that I'm not stuck under the (previously rotten) deck.
Deferred maintenance says 'Hello!'. Don't be The Bob. Stain/paint your deck lumber every few years and you won't have so much of an issue like I did. Good argument for TREX product here (fake wood).
At-least it's not like the time in 2015 when I went to open the one back door and my one foot went through the floor. The person who owned this home previously nailed the flooring through a pipe just under the sub-floor, which leaked and rotted out the supports. "Ah the joy of home ownership, they said." ... I was just glad it was a slab with wooden floor almost right on it (it's raised a few inches for pipes, and insulation, to go underneath), at-least then I didn't fall into a basement or anything painful like that.
Now it's only a matter of seeing which floor I go through next. Or maybe just time to go on a diet.

 

I think a couple "This St." "That St." "That Ave." "This Ave." "420th st." and "42069th st" would be pretty funny to add when the time comes to add street names.

 

@ElTacoPaco Those are good road name suggestions, I will try and add something like that in without making map progress and testing issues such as me talking about improving 'this street'... yeah, that.

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Noticed the AI hamming it up at this section, inside lane on the asphalt side, the AI just tries to eat the wall over and over and I am not sure why. Need to look at the AI debug grid. The bridge just past this is getting completely redone shortly anyway (wider lanes, raised central area, and so-forth - though I don't yet have the sloped-start / sloped-end bridge pieces nor any idea what to do with the sidewalk there - might re-route the sidewalk to somewhere safer).
Actually there's a lot of AI derping in this general area, stopping when it shouldn't, trying to eat walls and losing, and so-on. I'll get to fixing that. This is just from not beta testing as long as I should have pre-release.
I've been slowly converting dozens of models over into something I can use, that I had gotten with royalty-free license purchases that were intended (but aren't required to be used) for other game-engines.
Oh and yeah I decided to sit in the (COLD!) house and not do anything today because I hurt like nobody's business.
In good news, I managed to get a almost-brand-new-looking fancy bmx bicycle for free to give to the 8~10 year old kid that attends church, who had his own bike stolen from his house by some sick individual. Who steals a little kid's bike? I mean really, that's LOW! So I just have to fix a little something with it and clean it up a little, and I will take it to church and present it to him at the end of service as a surprise, as a gift from our church. I was just surprised I could fit the thing in a 20-year-old non-hatchback Corolla that comprises my daily beater. That beater will likely be both my personal purgatory for my entire life and also outlast me, oh well, but at-least what I do will help those less fortunate in life.
I'm not rich, not poor, and my mobility is rapidly failing, but that doesn't mean I can't spend a little time trying to help others. That person you help today could be the guy/gal saving your life or helping when you really need it most, tomorrow. Plus it always feel good to pay-it-forward.
--That's all for right now, At-least BeamNG Drive + a lot of AI is good at heating up this room.

 

More roads names- my spelling and grammar propably is terrible cause I’m half asleep when I wrote this

“The Circle” (this is actually a real street by where I live)
“Democrat Rd” (another real street, its in Memphis by the airport and I drove on it to deliver in the area once)
“Republican Rd” (don’t know if this is a real street somewhere but if there’s one called democrat then why not)

Then of course the generic names like “main st”, “Park ave, “1st”. 2nd, 3rd street, etc.

 

Roundhill Rd
Picket Dr
Woodcraft Ln
Chapala Rd
Gulf St
French St
Dissapointment Rd
Cardstock Ln

 

"the loop" or "beltway" for the highway loop around Los Insurus

 

• Accident avenue
• Polar Parkway
• Depression Drive
• Wacky Walk
  
  The Loop of Death

 

How did you get the Win 95 look on your taskbar, windows, etc