Old Version Discussion

More work has been done on the Pre Small Island mod. Forests are being worked on (JRI trees work really well!) and the old grass has been recreated based off of a single Snip

Will make it soon.

 

ok some of you have recieved the link to the gdrive

 

Considering that someone was allowed to upload dry rock island with AI pathing to the repository(namely this), you could probably do the same with fall island.

 

My memory isn't great, but I remember many years ago (around about 2014) my friend sent me a copy of BeamNG 0.3.something. Back then, my computer was so weak, the lighting would be dark as hell, and the game crashed the moment I tried to accelerate. After years of thinking, I came to the conclusion that it was a mixture of 2-3 things.

The age of the computer was the main culprit, but it could have been a problem with the graphics settings. Everything was set to minimum, and I later read one of the 2016 update logs that mentioned the game previously crashing on those settings. Linux could have also played a part in this, but by the time I read that update log, I had bought the game on Steam (2019), and had long deleted the old copy.

 

Alright, I've been working

odd.

 

I've been trying to find a video showing the problem, but all I'm seeing is those damn "Lightning McQueen Big Sizes Jumps Into Red Water!" based videos. From what I recall, the game ran at about 15 fps or something. I can't remember the exact number at this point. The lighting looked like a slightly brighter version of 0.27 at midnight. I could see everything (relatively) well, but the sky was pitch black, and everything else was very dark. I could replace the default D-Series with another version of it, although I only ever tried spawning the Off-Road model. It all seemed to work, but for some reason, it was the acceleration that triggered it.

 

you probably had the gamma set really low

 

I hadn't really touched the gamma, unless my friend had it like that. Even with low gamma, it wouldn't be as dark as it was.

EDIT: Reverted back to 0.4.0.6 to get this picture. Imagine this sort of darkness, but with colour in the environment. From what I remember, all of the objects had their normal colours. (grey grid, white D-Series, etc).



FURTHER EDIT: It looked like this, but the Time of Day was set to its default of around midday (not midnight, as per the picture below). It could have been my GPU that was causing the problem with the lighting though. Unfortunately, I can't remember what the GPU actually was. The picture brightens up to its intended state if you click on it.

 

Do you know if its safe or not? It looks tempting to try

 

this is really cool so is it possible that there will be every known version of the game on this google drive and I know this is not going to be helpfull but i have the update before or right after the roamer remaster on my laptop

 

All good according to Microsoft Defender, though I'd check it elsewhere too. Seems okay.

 

I would absolutely love to upload my old versions of Beam, I just dont want to risk the devs banning me or something of the sort. If one could come in here and grant permission I would absolutely love to help out

 

Yeah, that would be great since we're just sharing suuuuper antiquated versions that are cooler to have for preservation's sake.
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Like, before 0.4 tier old (everything past that van be played with relative ease)
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Yeah! I think it would be really cool to drive. Also finally DRI gets some love from someone other than me.

 

Very interesting! I suppose I have the earliest release version but I have no idea how the heck that guy got version 1.1? Unless its an edited later version of the game made to look like v1.1 idk?

 

Yeah! I think it would be really cool to drive. Also finally sri

It really could be (that title screen looks kinda dodgy...)

 

Been working more on OG Small Island. It's still using materials.cs and Materials v1 lol
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What maps were around in 0.3.0?
I think it went DRI, Small Island, Industrial Site, Gridmap, and GSP. Am I right?

 

i also have a copy of 0.3.0, it includes all of those plus "derby arenas" and "cliff" (which strangely spawns along 2 covets with you? weird)
here's a pic of the levels folder. let me know if the pic doesn't know up. frankly i haven't used these forums much

 

I've downloaded 0.1, and it does indeed seem to be an edited version of a later update. The Moonhawk, the Pigeon, the T-Series, and more are all in the vehicle files, and I don't think the Moonhawk came until at least a year or two later. Microsoft Defender doesn't flag anything though, so that's a bonus.