Update Speculation thread

Awe, well I’m a bit confused what it means for the game tho?

 

I'm assuming it means it would slow down to a crawl on anything that isn't the newest hardware.

 

It sems to be about raytracing “sound-waves” which would allow for features like dynamic echo, or that the interior sound different depending how open it is.
Depending on the implementation it wouldn’t even be that performance hungry I think

 

Or may be splitscreen
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It might overload some sound cards and make many player "No sound after update"

 

From my experience with raycasting in unity it's not that intensive. Depends how much casting will be done.

 

It might allow electric vehicles to be shut down and started again.

 

I'd love more realistic tire screeching/scream sounds, they're good don't get me wrong but
wheelspinning and handbrake turns with full realistic sounding tire screeches/screams would be epic

 

Wait, why ain't there an offroad focused BeamNG map? I always have to find maps to do it on and it's always a hassle. Don't say Jungle Rock Island has a ton, it's barely anything.

one day?

 

Utah is good, but there's only one challenging trail (the cliffside one,) other than that it gets boring doing the same few trails over and over again. Don't get me started on mud physics, either.

 

Yes, give

 

Its better than what they used to be, always thought the old tires sounded like bird screeches

 

i wish this was the interior of the remaster covet

 

I too hope that the covet interior is made to look like a Microsoft paint drawing in the next update. I really think the cartoony look would be good for that car, even if not entirely realistic.

 

Huh, barely has any??
Jungle Rock island has quite a lot of off road trials.

 

Ignition is welcoming since that is a feature Rigs of Rods has if I'm correct. It would be interesting if details like vehicle chimes or needle sweep would be added in favor of that function.

I'll revise the new map topic here with my own theory. I'ma speculate it to being based on New Mexico. The area would still be sunny and dry as hinted, but would generally be a flat country terrain with some hills/mountains, long straight roads, desert vegetation like cacti, sandy areas and old rustic downtowns (maybe with suburbia too). Bonus features could include a oil rigs/refineries for trucking and classified sites for exploring. Those would help differentiate from Utah which has a lot of elevation changes, twisty roads and few buildings but still feel similar in terms of theme. yeah late to the party and quite a stretch but it is a thought I had.

 

It would mean sound that is rendered based on the physical attributes of materials that it bounces off. It means that developers wouldn't need to record a sound for each possible scenario, they just need to emit a sound and let the environment do the rest.

Think of it like ray traced lighting. All the devs need to do is put a light somewhere and the game engine and hardware does the rest, no pre-baking so everything is completely dynamic.

Realtime ray tracing as a technology in my eyes is something that benefits development workflow more than the end user. Devs have gotten so good at faking realistic lighting by using tricks and hacks that swapping it out for physically accurate ray casting etc doesn't appear to have any noticeable impact to the end user. This results in the unfortunate but common belief among gamers that RT is a pointless endeavour, when in fact it makes game development much better and more consistent in the long term.

 

Are we getting openable doors and or windows and sunroofs for all cars? That'd be aweesome! Even just openable doors

 

It means that if you're in driver camera and a window breaks, there will be less sound filter

 

Start at point A (the camera or the "driver's" "head") and trace a line to point B (outside the window, or above the roof).

Did you hit something (like the window's glass or the roof of the car)?

If you did, don't do anything special (you have windows/a roof).
If you didn't, then there's a hole, so make the game's sounds sound like you can hear the outside of the car, or play a wind sound, etc.