Excelent to hear the Hopper is comming up next. Also, i remind you that updating Torque3d to a newer version is still on the To-Do list (If i remember correctly). with this, we should get PBR.
Actually, most likely after the Gavril Bluebuck, will come the Soliad Wendover, unless they thrown in something in-between, like the case with the ETK K-Series.
It may just be my sense of humor, but this exchange made it seem like Gabe was dodging the question Q. "Somebody mentioned a possible walking mode some time back. Is this still in the works?" A. "I can assure you, the Hopper will be in the next update." Q. "I... I mean cool, but that's not what I asked." A. "Sh, shhhhh..... the Hopper will be there." At any rate, the console code that had at one point enabled the player to walk in first-person mode is no longer functional, supposedly having been removed to clean up the engine's code. It was just a holdover from vanilla Torque 3D. While they are planning to make Torque 3D more feature-complete, with PBR a long-term possibility, they aren't technically updating the Torque version. Torque 3D has since moved on to a new version number, sorta-kinda leaving BeamNG behind. And changing BeamNG over to the new version of Torque would, at this point, require far too much work retreading steps the devs have already taken in making the game we know now.
I'm curious to know if the Devs will release a modern muscle car. I know that mod creators could make a fictional one from Gavril, or Bruckell, but they probably will never have the quality of the official BeamNG vehicles.
It seems like the devs also work atm on the physics engine. I talked to Mitch and well I can say that the B-25 would be ready for update but the plane reacts to the changes in the new dev build even worse than from 0.6 to 0.7 were I also had to change alot. I don“t know what type of changes, but could be performance improvements.
One thing. The devs said that the Bluebuck would be the next car in game, after the LeGran. But Gabester said the Hopper would be in the next update. Hopefully the devs can clear this up.