Alpha Myherin Main 0.1

Hi everyone, this is my first attempt at a BeamNG level, specifically a rally special stage. Feedback is welcome, as are improvements to the current pacenotes. If anyone is interested in collaborating on more rally stages, let me know



About the stage: This stage is based on a real-life section of the 2024 Rally Nuts Severn Stages event held in the forests east of Aberystwyth, Wales. This particular stage is SS6 - Myherin Main and is just under 26km in length. Bring your stamina, because this one goes on for a while The surface is 100% gravel/dirt.

A few notes:

• The map isn't intended for free-roam and only really has one road on it (the special stage). If you stray away from the main area it's just one texture and a lot of un-smoothed LiDAR terrain which eats cars.
• The area covered is 12288x12288 meters, but the imported heightmap was scaled down to 8192x8192 with a terrain resolution of 1.5m per-pixel. This made it hard to be really detailed in areas and there are a lot of jaggy edges around the place.
• The trees are largely billboards (a majority with no more than 2 faces). I've been informed that I should be able to get up to the same number of full-poly trees without suffering performance drops, but whenever I tried I ended up watching a 20fps slide-show. I'll keep trying to improve the forests and trees in general as I upskill.
• The terrain was imported from 2m LiDAR scans taken by the Welsh government. 2m resolution wasn't amazing so it was mainly used to block out the level and then a lot of terraforming was done in the editor.
• 26km was a lot to get through, so it's not the prettiest and doesn't match reality (some great onboard footage in YouTube).
• Currently I only have the forward version of the stage in place. I'll follow up with the reverse in another update.