0.39 Discussion Thread

didn't know sth like that existed

 

The Steel Mill in the West Coast USA map doesn't seem to have Zone Portals (Causing the car to briefly disappear when entering and exiting)

 

I just discovered that if you follow the artifial river in West Coast USA, it leads to an entire underground drainage system. What?!

 

That’s been there for a long time

 

Does anybody know why the shipping container mods are broken as of the 0.39 release? I was working on real shipping company skins for the shipping container and the mod shows up in the mod manager but not in the vehicle config menu, and I haven't edited any of the files. I noticed this also happens with other shipping container mods that I saw on the repo. Is there any way to fix this?

 

I have discovered what I think is a typo in the clutch logic for manual & sequential transmissions, and I have the fix too.
First the problem behavior vs the intended behavior:



Now the issue in code.
manualGearbox.lua, line 324 & 441 & sequentialGearbox.lua, line 270
all share this line:

Code:

if M.smoothedValues.avgAV * gearbox.gearRatio * engine.outputAV1 >= 0 then
       M.clutchRatio = 1

This is checking if the product of gearbox output angular velocity multiplied by the current gear ratio multiplied by the engine angular velocity is greater than zero and dumping the clutch if so. Why? No idea, it creates the weird jerky behavior when taking off in gears other than first.
I believe the fix is changing the last " * " to a " -" like this:

Code:

if M.smoothedValues.avgAV * gearbox.gearRatio - engine.outputAV1 >= 0 then
       M.clutchRatio = 1

This is now checking if the product of gearbox output angular velocity multiplied by the current gear ratio (aka the gearbox input angular velocity) minus the engine angular velocity, meaning it will only release the clutch pedal fully once it has stopped slipping.

I haven't found any odd side effects due to this either which is amazing, should be super easy to fix, in total only three characters lol. Anyway thank you to the best dev team ever, this is my contribution

 

why do some cars' chrome parts turn body-colored and how can i stop it?

 

The shipping container was remade in the BeamNG 0.39 update and now has a new skin jbeam and materials file. I have updated container skins in my Fictional Trucking Skin Pack if you want to use those files as a guide for your mod.

 

I did that a couple hours ago actually. Thanks a lot!

 

a big ramble before i completely abandon the game/forums. I don't like where the game is heading at the moment, there's just overfill of useless stuff, seriously, do we need another prop, why can’t the devs focus on something more interesting, why won't they admit that the game runs worse than gta 4, why does the game look like 0.38 with fancy clouds and better shado- oh, nvm it is like what i said, just runs like crap tho, i can believe how terrible it's gonna run on the ps5. Why do we need useless content like the wydra just to say the game has a lot of vehicles/to bring new players in, i rermeber the devs adding meaningful content, like "oh, there's no modern supercar, lets add scintilla" or "we've built so advanced suspension simulation, let's add some offroad basher's" or even "there’s no modern hatchback, nor a crossover, lets add a whole fcv platform" not just like "here you go, another prop no one of 99,9% players gonna use" or "let's remaster the useless props and have MuYe talk about it for half an hour" or now "here you go, a car with bad jbeam, and unoptimised code" (crash master talked about this goddamn car) link here (from 4:00 to 4:11)

 

beamng never ran better than gta 4. In terms of new car people always said that beam needs more modern cars, so devs added it. The performance situation is weird because half of players (including me) don't have any issues, but afaik the update was rushed because people were going insane, and 0.40 should fix everything

 

You fix it then. Game is way better looking now then before. Performance is worse, but that will be fixed over time. Also what usless stuff? Tf you complaining about them adding new stuff? Crash master made good points, your just trying to get attention

 

what’s with all the yap, of course it runs worse than gta 4, with all the complex beams and nodes and how cpu intensive it is you should really expect that, not everyone is gonna have a nasa super computer

 

Because GTA 4 is from 2008 and hasn't been updated to modern standards..?
Why doesn't Cyberpunk run better than Half Life 2?

 

why am i complaining abt new stuff? idk, it's useless, who geniuenly uses props outside of the 0.0001% of players? The game (on 0.38) looks like 0.39 when just playing with maps updated for 0.39, the clouds are bugged tho, but it runs significantly better than 0.39
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gta 4 runs bad on everything, even consoles, it's gonna be the same with beam on ps5
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yeah and it doesn’t use the power it's given at all (if it's not a rtx XX70 + ryzen 7 X700x above)

 

If anybody using it, it's already not useless

But gta 4 didn't receive updates improving it's performance, Beamng will get them (even hotfixes made performance better).

That's a renderer issue (or one of the hardware components bottlenecking others)

 

Maybe you should use the props then, they have a lot of fun ones like a couch or a CRT TV. It's fun to load a bunch of props into the bed of the D-Series and watch them fly out because they're unsecured.

You're comparing a modern game to one that was released in 2008. This is a stupid argument.

Rockstar is notoriously bad at optimizing stuff. Also, Beam already seems to work pretty well on the Steam Deck. And, again, you're comparing a game released on the Xbox 360 and PS3 to a modern game released on the PS5. This entire argument is baffling to me.

That's literally what 0.39 added though. It added a new car onto the FCV platform.

So, you say this, but the Wydra was actually really interesting. It can float and paddle through the water, and it was the first recreational vehicle added to the game. It also features a skid-steer system, not seen on any other vehicles before it. I think you're just bitching to bitch atp.

 

You’re comparing two very different games. Beamng calculates the damn physics 2000 times per second. Then, you’re calling this update useless? Well let me tell you that my computer which is most definitely not a gaming computer now can run west coast with ultra settings and traffic. If I were to try that before0.39, I’d be better off watching a slideshow with pics of beam. And why should you care if they added props? They’re not gonna go adding the most complex and novel vehicles every update. If you want beam devs to do something different, apply for a job in beam and become the ceo or the head of some team. Or learn to mod.

 

Now, for some people 0.39 does actually run worse, some computers run the game much better now but some don't, and some even run it worse. But if the game isn't running good then 99% of the time it's because your computer falls below the minimum requirements.
0.39 does have a lot of questionable changes, like the invisible walls and the car spawn limit that got removed. And 0.39 is also probably the most broken update. But unless there's some kind of bug or other problem that makes the game impossible to play, you shouldn't uninstall it just because "0.39 is a bad update". But if you want to quit and/or uninstall the game, go ahead.

 

This is the first time i hear complaints about the ardente's jbeam, and the video shows very little proof, is this a thing?