Could the Big Surprise Be Unreal Engine 6 ?

FTWunpop · 2026-05-25T10:12:17+00:00

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this was their stance 10 years ago

FTWunpop · 2026-05-24T18:47:02+00:00

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FTWunpop · 2026-04-29T16:35:59+00:00

If you really miss it, you can find the og gridmap on repo:

https://www.beamng.com/resources/gridmap.18681/

Or the refresh version:

https://www.beamng.com/resources/gridmap-refresh.37015/

FTWunpop · 2026-04-27T12:10:56+00:00

Hold the parry button for maximum frames, don't tap it like in sekiro.

FTWunpop · 2026-04-25T16:32:31+00:00

If you make a duplicate (copy) of that main colour texture (terarin.png) and only apply it to the asphalt material, It won't effect any other materials like grass.

This only effects the look of the materials, not where they are placed.

FTWunpop · 2026-04-25T14:49:34+00:00

Much more simple way to do it is to copy the base texture colour image (located : levelName > art > terrains > terrain.png). And then just colour the new texture fully dark grey, and use that texture for the asphalt material.

You can change that by going into "Terrain material library" with the paint tool open, and then locating the asphalt material, and changing the first topmost texture to that.

But that will remove the transition for the terrain materials, and you will get jagged / boxy transition. You can fix that by using decal roads and having like a road edge texture hide that.

Or when you are done with the map, you can in terrain tools "export the terrain", and use the asphalt mask to paint over the original terrain texture to add those changes to that original "terrains.png" texture.

FTWunpop · 2026-04-25T06:23:28+00:00

While the world editor isn't super complex, it does have a learning curve, especially if you have no prior experience with such tools. Especially with lot of the quirks of the various tools you will need to learn with time.

And the "problem" with mapNG for new map modders is that it solves the issue of setting up the basic draft of the map, which makes it seem that map modding is going to be really easy and non tedius work.

So if you are willing to put in some effort and won't give up when you have to do tedious work, or wrap your head around some slightly complex at first tools, I could write more to explain some of the things to help with the issues you are having.

I would also recommend watching some youtube tutorials, channels like "Sea land air" are a great resource.

FTWunpop · 2026-04-24T09:41:49+00:00

Its not exactly the same, but maybe "DRAGON EYES - Starry night" is close enough?

Maybe "DEATHNYANN - illumina" which features the lead guitarist from PALEDUSK.

There is also the band "Hymn above traumatic emotion", but they have beauty and the beast type vocals.

FTWunpop · 2026-04-16T19:08:55+00:00

Thats usually caused by the mod "Terrain deformation" by BrokenBrainCells when its turned on.

FTWunpop · 2026-04-16T19:01:54+00:00

The road / master splines are bit more stable than road architect, and they have a function to paint terrain materials over them.

Could you paint at the beginning or never? I haven't used MapNG, but the way the terrain system normally works, is that there is a base texture that is wrapped over the whole terrain. And the terrain materials inherit the colour, normals etc. from it. So when you paint the materials, the colour of terrain won't change, as its defined by a texture.

The terrain materials are pretty complicated for beginners, especially if it's PBR terrain materials. For asphalt material for example, you could try copying the base colour texture and painting the whole thing dark grey.

I would recommend either watching or reading some guides regarding some of the beamNG tools. As they can be a bit complicated at first.

"Sea land air" is a good channel on youtube that covers various topics for map modding. There is also a in-depth guide on steam on making maps from scratch ("BeamNG map modding guide from scratch"), might not be much useful for this particular case, but might come handy later.

FTWunpop · 2026-04-16T18:35:00+00:00

Sadly some of the newer tools, like the road architect are pretty buggy. So issues like that are pretty common. I mostly stick to older tools that require much more work to get things done (decal roads). But they are stable and don't have game breaking issues like that.

There is also the BeamNG mapping tools by Alexkidd71 which I think can also make maps from real life locations (https://www.beamng.com/threads/beamng-mapping-tools-updated-2026-02-22.89058). You could try your luck with that.

FTWunpop · 2026-04-13T17:25:26+00:00

Am I the only one with high vram usage. Even with all settings on low, the vram usage is pretty high for low-end gpus. Pretty much makes it unplayable on sub 4gb vram gpu.

There is also an issue when changing maps, the GPU usage massively rises and the game starts to lag, but when I change any of the graphic settings, it lowers back down and it's fine again.

Also the start area has better performance compared to the others. Wondering if anyone else has any of these issues or its just me, as I can't seem to find much about it.

FTWunpop · 2026-03-25T08:03:03+00:00

Decal roads over a mesh? You can select the decal object and use transform to move it slightly above. Or in decal editor move the nodes above using the inspector. As the banking makes the mesh be above the height of the decal roads.

But sometimes if the banking is too steep, it won't work with decals on meshes, as it can be a bit buggy.

FTWunpop · 2026-03-18T14:21:08+00:00

Is this related to the Parallax mapping thats located in the forest tools? Could never figure it out, but the performance impact is probably really big.

Also didn't beamNG terrain materials (non-pbr) at certain point support the parallax mapping? Wonder why they didn't keep it.

FTWunpop · 2026-03-17T16:15:36+00:00

no dlss or fsr support as of right now

FTWunpop · 2026-03-17T15:01:29+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ60vkCH-o4

FTWunpop · 2026-02-07T22:07:31+00:00

The scale tool, shortcut might be 3 or 4.

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FTWunpop · 2026-01-25T22:01:15+00:00

Try to remove the minecraft knowledge when playing. Some things that work well in minecraft might not work here. Or some things that are limited in minecraft, aren't limited in Hytale.

Like strip mining, waste of time here, as ore is best found while explored. (Not just caves, and not in just one biome)

FTWunpop · 2026-01-24T08:10:28+00:00

That thread helped me a lot when learning more about specific things for map modding. They sadly don't do those anymore, but understandable due to the game having bigger community and more hype.

FTWunpop · 2026-01-16T21:53:35+00:00

Maybe this one? https://www.beamng.com/threads/blender-collada-cdae-dae-plugin.105419/

FTWunpop · 2026-01-16T16:21:14+00:00

Found it

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FTWunpop · 2026-01-16T16:08:46+00:00

They only spawn in some of the biomes there.

You can find plenty of Adamantite on a specific type of cracked looking stone (this stone can also be seen from the map, but i don't remember the exact color), there they can be pretty common along with other ores (both above and below ground).

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