Technical workshops?

I don't have anything to ask really but i'd love to see it later, if it gets recorded.

 

Def count me in, sounds genuinely helpful and would help people learn new things

 

yeah i use it do make cars pop all the time haha

 

sure, but some of them dont show what the default number is, looking for a better way to simulate seatbelts being loose for a bit then locking up (To stop you from flying forward) had some settings working with bounded beams, but had to remove it as I messed up other J-beam files.

 

Even though I don't have much modding knowledge this sounds so cool!

 

I am interested in joining in, seeing if there is anything I can bring to the conversation.

 

This sounds interesting.

• incomplete / missing documentation: What bits do you want explanation for? What should be documented?

RE: This. I'd like to see more of the engine side Lua->C++ api+changes documented. Ex. the latest update added a second parameter to detachCoupler and it can't be inferred from the use cases in the game at the moment.

 

Regarding
"We would love to solve some of your problems together with you and understand more what you do"

I know its about jbeam and physics here, but i have to get this off my mind.

Im the dev behind the headless client of the multiplayer mod beammp and also a team member of that mod. What i am trying archive is that beamng gets more into the focus of car enthusiasts and sim racers. With all the crash content creators, the game is flushed with those that love crashing cars (mostly minors). I think the game is worth so much more and i want to change that. So what im doing is to create multiplayer gamemodes. Right know i am trying to recreate fully automatic races, for the players to casually enjoy and that in a way that other sim racing games also have (Qualification, Vehicle Regulations, Pit systems, Track limits, Flags, Penalties and what not).

This is a immense project to get fully going, also because of the performance drain of the game (albeit we are investigating your new simplified vehicles system, for all non current player cars, to improve performance), the thing is that i am missing certain game features, like vehicle ghosting. See in other games vehicles get ghosted for everyone, if the player spun or crashed his car and is therefore a threat to other drivers. As of right know i dont see a way to dynamically give individual cars the simplified physics, but rather just the option to globally enable that for a player.

The multiplayer community is big, im speaking of ten thousands of players, and i suspect that lots of them only enjoy the multiplayer part. What i would like to see is some kind of coorperation between the beamng and beammp team to improve the game and our work, with for example features like i am looking for, and therefore increase the consumer experience which in return obviously also increases the games image and appealance to those that i am trying (and you likely too) to attract to the game.

Some Proof

 

Sounds like a great idea, count me in.

 

I'd be interested as well.

A big topic which I think would answer a lot of questions that people have is documentation, including just publicizing what is already available. A lot of people still think there's barely anything like back in 2020. Might also be interesting if we could have a system where knowledgeable modders could make their own changes and submit them for approval.

 

Proposed Topics += Backward Compatibility

I am a SW developer for work and I know that BC is a cost in term of perf, lines of code, etc. But at the same time you know that mods are giving this game a lot of reasons to be still alive after so many years, and deserve more attention.

One solution could be to give more progressivity to the features/functions removal, with more announcements. Maybe I lost some notification, but 0.26 came like a rock on my bike mods breaking almost them all.

T.

 

That's why I added that part.

Approval being done by the devs, and possibly modders who are known to really know their stuff. Essentially make the documentation into sort of wiki but with validation by peers.

 

Sounds interesting

 

I agree that the biggest pain point is the documentation. There are more than a couple topics that are incomplete such as the drivetrain and thermal simulation

I think that having some sort of calculator or formula that could provide rough beam values for different applications (like frames, suspension, wheels, and tires) based on the weights, lengths, and (when applicable) material type would be extremely helpful. If not that, then at least a table of values from which we can easily determine relationships between the values would be really helpful.

 

I don't have that much time and I don't know what to ask to participate, but it would be really great if it were recorded because I could watch it later.

 

an idea could be showing how the devs do the cars, maps and stuff like that and what tools they use, could be interesting to learn from them