Texture problem returning even after cache clearing

Hello, the following problem keeps returning to my game:

Happens to a lot of objects made from metal, roofs, walls etc... When I deep clean the cache and start the game, the problem is gone. However... after 1 or 2 restarts it creeps back?! I removed all mods, so this can be ruled out. What could be the problem? Or should I just reinstall the game and hope that fixes it?

 

Does this problem happen in Safe Mode?

 

No in Safe Mode the texture is fine ...

So apparently it must have something to do with the fact that I copied all assets from the Vanilla Industrial map over to a custom map I am trying to make. When I start the game and open up the Vanilla map, the textures are fine, when I open my map project and then return to the vanilla map, the textures look like above. However I did not change a thing to the Vanilla map (which also wouldn´t make any sense since the textures are working fine when starting the map first).

 

It's a duplicate material issue they haven't fixed yet. It still happens in v0.31 safe mode after a clean reinstall + steam verification. https://www.beamng.com/threads/text...ll-issues-reporting.84894/page-7#post-1655127

 

ah ok, then it probably has nothing to do with me copying the files to a custom map. thanks!

 

This problem still haunts all my custom maps. I found something but I don´t understand it, maybe someone knows better...?

This is how it looks like when I start my game and open up a custom map:


When I change the Reflection mode setting to "none" it is fixed. But only for the session.


When I restart the game the setting is back to "Cubemap" even though I saved the material.

Does anyone have an idea what could be done?

 

Perhaps you should copy the cube map textures too? I can have a look if I have them from older versions of the game. Before an BeamNG update I copy all the old level files to a backup folder.

 

The main.materials.json file the "si_metal_roof" texture relates to is not located in folder of my custom map but is located at ProgramFiles(x86)>Steam>Steamapps>common>BeamNGdrive>content>art_shapes.zip . This is default for the material on all maps (vanilla and custom) and cannot be changed afaik. Also I cannot change the json file the material relates to since the material has the same name.

My initial idea was to create a new material for the affected assets to replace this. But I think this is not possible since the material names are somehow baked into the .dae file and cannot really be changed afterwards (or am I wrong with this assumption?)

Another thing is that within the said art_shapes.zip>main.materials.json, this is the text of the affected material:

"si_metal_roof": {
"name": "si_metal_roof",
"mapTo": "si_metal_roof",
"class": "Material",
"persistentId": "a7736816-5090-4656-846b-64d134bc88d9",
"Stages": [
{
"colorMap": "/art/shapes/objects/si_metal_roof_d.color.png",
"diffuseColor": [
0.988235354,
0.988235354,
0.988235354,
1
],
"normalMap": "/art/shapes/objects/si_metal_roof_nm.normal.png",
"overlayMap": "/art/shapes/objects/utah_breakup_texture.dds",
"pixelSpecular": true,
"roughnessFactor": 0.407999992,
"specularMap": "/art/shapes/objects/si_metal_roof_s.color.png",
"useAnisotropic": true,
"vertColor": true

Nowhere there it says anything about the cubemap or reflectionmode. Is this stored somewhere else?


I´d like to tell my game that the si_metal_roof material relates to a different .json file than the one outside of my map folder. I don´t know how to do that since when I change it and restart my game its back to default again and the changes are forgotten...

 

You can either replace the material name in the dae with find and replace in a text editor or load it in blender and change the material name there. DAE is just a XML file.

don’t forget to restart BeamNG after changing materials.

 

good idea, that actually worked. I created a new material and replaced all si_metal_roof with the new material. Problem solved.

I still wonder why it happens. On some maps it does not exist although I used the exact same workflow to copy assets from other maps.