WIP Beta released Barbent's Homerange (Alpha) 0.1a

Murokmakto · Jan 25, 2026

Barbent Servo GT said: ↑

This is definitely not planned for now because the map and all the software do fit perfectly togeter. To make parts of the more complex systems modular, like for a mod for all the different maps, would brake specific design concepts and would slow down the management of the many aspects and the computation of the many different tasks. I am focused on developing the map with many completely new ideas and the interaction of them. Releasing parts of it as a mod would also unfocus me from my goals in a significant way. First I'd like to release the map and - the ferry for example. But of course: future is open
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Yes makes sense, it was just something that came to my mind when I saw it and I was wondering if there maybe was a way to do it.

M D Gourley · Jan 25, 2026

Barbent Servo GT said: ↑

This video is a technical demonstration of the weather choreography system for the upcoming release of the map
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Outstanding work Barbent, your truely inovating with new concepts...I'm really looking forward to trying out this in some screenshot artwork at some stage.

Barbent Servo GT · Jan 25, 2026

Bonus Video

The shallow lake turns into a raging sea and calms again as if nothing happened. BeamNG water surfaces are affected by the Homerange Weather Simulation as well. See how wind gusts and a thunder storm are changing the landscape while clouds are covering the sun.

THom6502 · Jan 26, 2026

Barbent Servo GT said: ↑

All systems running nominal! Weather Forecast: Blasting downpour and thunder!!

As previously described, I tried to supplement Homerange with many different systems, including simulated weather, initially on an experimental basis. Frankly, I wasn't entirely satisfied, because either it looked great, but only for screenshots, or it was only local, or the processing load was simply too high. Now I'm very happy to announce that I've managed to develop a weather system for the entire ~70km² map that actually runs smoothly even on my sluggish PC.
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Wow this looks awsome, great work Barbent.

Barbent Servo GT · Jan 31, 2026 at 3:35 AM

Matching all the colors to different times of day, depending on the weather, is proving much more difficult than I thought. Of course, this is also due to the fact that the BeamNG graphics engine doesn't support something like HDRR. So the impact on materials is quite rough. Especially their normal maps tend to get a bit flat when exposure is reduced. Well, I'm slowly getting closer to a good result, three steps forward and two back, with compromises – LOL . Today I was able to continue working on the map normally in the World Editor without any problems, while the weather system was running.

Some more bad weather impressions:

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