It's a bit of a pain. 1: Unzip it so you can edit the map. 2: Open the levels folder. In my example, you'd now see a folder called east_coast_usa. Rename that to something else so that it doesn't conflict with the east coast in the game's files. 3: Now that the folder is called something different, all the materials.cs files, some .json files, some .prefab files, and occasionally other .cs files need to reflect this change. 4: Search the map folder for all materials.cs files. 5:Open them all in notepad ++ or something similar. Use the find and replace tool to replace anything that says "levels/east_coast_usa" with "levels/(whatever you named the folder earlier)". Then hit file>close all to close them all and save them all at once. 6: Repeat this with the other files that need editing. 7: Zip up the "levels" folder and name it to whatever, and it should work. Move it to your mods folder like normal. Note that there may be issues where these levels rely on files that no longer exist in other maps. A number of maps refer to files in the industrial map or JRI map that are not in the remastered version. Enjoy trying to find those. Also note that I'm bad at tutorials and barely know what I'm doing so I probably missed a number of steps.
Whoa, that sounds kinda difficult. I don't know if I'm up to the task, but I'll try once I get my computer fixed.
It's not too bad, especially once you've done it a few times. Fortunately, if anything isn't working right (missing textures, missing models), beamng's log/debugger that you activate using the tilde key tends to help. Based on my example: it can say that a material is missing in "levels/east_coast_usa" in which case I missed a notepad find-and-replace step, or it can say something is missing in "levels/industrial" or "levels/dry_rock_island" or whatever in which case it's looking for a texture that only exists in older versions of the game or got renamed/moved.
Yeah, I'll probably ask more questions once I get my computer up and running again. You seem to know a ton about this stuff, as you've posted the majority of the deprecated or outdated maps available on the forums.
oh my god WOW ! Thank you very much, now this is a stupid question but i just drag this into the mods folder right ? i dont really care if it over writes the current map
You can try, but I bet you're gonna get an error that says "out of memory" and then your game will crash. To avoid that, you can try going to: This PC>Local Disk (C)>Program Files (x86)>Steam>steamapps>common>BeamNG.drive>content>levels and then moving the east coast file that is there to somewhere else, and place in the one I uploaded. Honestly though, I really recommend against this, as modifying the game files is more likely to cause issues than normal mods. Take a look at the little tutorial I made earlier in the discussion, and I strongly recommend trying to follow that. I even used east coast usa as an example, so should be pretty clear what to do. Good luck!
I know this thread is old but if you have the old East Coast USA map could you please post it. Thanks
