This map will be a cluster of islands that have plenty of features and secrets. I will be posting most of the progress updates in separate posts. TO DO: Reposition the current objects. Make several areas with different themes such as: A racetrack that goes around an island, A residential area, and a dock. Do more detailed terraforming and painting, and add costal features. Add foliage, trees and rocks. Update ground textures. The name I just made up in about half a minute because I had no name to save the file as. I guess it makes a little bit of sense as it is just a random game "stage" or group of islands that the player is just thrown into.
Re: Alpha - Random Stage Islands Nice! Jumpin' right in and it looks cool. I like the atoll name, it's got that look from the air. Perhaps a lagoon or two will fit the bill.
Re: Alpha - Random Stage Islands I am having trouble making the terrain smoother. If I turn down "squareSize" then it will make the terrain smaller but smoother. I went into the .mis file and set "baseTexSize" to 4096 and went back into the game, but in the editor it still said it was 2048, and will not go higher. I tried to go to the location the terrain file was at (art/terrains/smallgrid/RandomStageAtoll3.ter) and the folder "smallgrid" did not exist. If anyone knows how to make the ground smoother, please let me know! I can post pictures of what I mean if you want.
Re: Alpha - Random Stage Islands I don't know much about the editor in BeamNG, but maybe it helps to delete the cache folder of the track (because at the moment this often helps if some people get trouble with updated versions of mods).
Terrain Remake I figured out how to make a large, smooth chunk of terrain by exporting a heightmap of the old terrain block and making the image bigger in paint and importing it back in. The new block of terrain is a little bit bigger too, so there is more room to do things. I imported the image twice and forgot to save, so I finally remembered the third time. I know why the crash happened so I will not use that feature without saving first next time. I smoothed out a lot of the map already, painted on some grass (that orange "no texture" thing got annoying so I switched it to sand too), and made a small lagoon. Detailing and adding foliage and rocks will be done as I work on that area. By the way, before I start populating the island, feel free to give ideas (I'll give credit where it is due). I want to upload this version of the map soon. P.S. I tried to upload the older version and it is still not doing anything. It is under the size limit and it's a .zip file too. Please help if you know the problem!
Re: Alpha - Random Stage Islands Excuse me but do you know when the map is coming out? It looks really fun to play on!
I updated the pictures in the first post and tried to upload the map again, but it still isn't doing anything and I have no idea what to do. Anyways, there is now a track which for some reason the car goes through, remade the road leading to the dock, added some houses, made some testing area..... yup.
Well at least you got it started and fixed some things. As I said before I can't wait till it comes out
