Released Isezaki Ijincho, Yokohama, Japan (Yakuza Like A Dragon)

To add to this, lights are over half way done now and beyond that there's some model issues that need to be fixed too (mostly small stuff don't worry) but we're definitely near the finish line now. When's its actually released I have no clue but it shouldn't be too much longer now

 

After a couple* delays it's finally out

Downloads in the first post as usual

 

Yeah if its not erroring or crashing you probably just need to leave it a bit longer, first try it can take forever (especially if you have a hdd or slower ram or something)

 

The tokyo highway doesn't have many resources which is how it can be so good, it's all the same few textures over and over and the road models on their own don't require too many polys or details by nature. It can be optimised how it is because it's so spread apart, you only ever have maybe 5% of the map at the most loaded or visible at one time since the rest is out of sight and out of mind.

We can't really do that here because the map is a single not particularly expansive area however, we already have super aggressive lods but due to how much stuff is always near the player there's always a large amount of assets that need to be visible and that's unavoidable without advanced culling stuff on the engine side. The load times are purely because there's like 8gb of models and 5000 textures and the game needs to load and then generate cache for all of these on the first run, and loading that many resources is something that will take time and we cannot do anything about, unless we delete half the map or something (which defeats the point really). For me it takes about 40 mins for cacheless first load and then 5-10 mins on subsequent runs (it was over an hour in the original versions a year and a half ago but vulkan improvements have massively improved this now. most of the remaining delays are windows related issues with file reading and you can do it in 40 seconds on linux) simply because there are limits to how fast the game and a normal computer will be able to process that much content, and lower end systems or hdds or slow ram would amplify this. We actively work with the people who understand and work on this side of the game to get these things as efficient as possible and this map has been used to test the limits of what's possible, but with the current state of the game engine there's only so much we can do without the sorts of advanced console features the original games have access to here. There's always a bunch of old ps2 game ports elsewhere on the forums if you fancy lightweight maps without much going on.

 

Tokyo Highway map is a map port from PS2 in the end, it's got very low poly meshes and low-resolution textures. This map port is from a PS4 game with full-blown asset streaming and a much more modern rendering pipeline than BeamNG. So yeah all performance issues are known to us, you either need to lower your settings (mainly textures), close background apps, or just wait and hope that BeamNG updates will improve the situation.

 

Hey, I just posted a hotfix for missing cubemap textures, I forgot to rename one path...