BeamNG: Personal Micro Blog(s) - January 2015

Atomix · Jan 12, 2015

Re: BeamNG: Personal Micro Blog(s)

aljowen said: ↑

There was this dude that goes by the name of pricorde. He created pontifex bridge builder. It was a node and beam bridge building game, a genre that is now quite popular on smartphones etc. He then started work on a game called rigs of rods. He then left that and tDev took over work on it along with some others. They have now moved on to create BeamNG and some new people have taken over work on rigs of rods which is now in active development again.
Click to expand...

From what i remember, pricorde had that, and also at the time the development of (today somwhat old) Outerra was begining, and he though it would be kinda cool to slap these together, and so the idea of ror came. I came to RoR sometime around ver 0.29, when the Linux client was still being developed, so this is just a story i heard.

redrobin · Jan 12, 2015

Re: BeamNG: Personal Micro Blog(s)

I just sat here for a half an hour and read this entire thread. I love it guys!

HadACoolName · Jan 12, 2015

Re: BeamNG: Personal Micro Blog(s)

destroyer8769 said: ↑

Nice, I don't think we have the Cruze wagon here in Aus, also about the cubemaps, ok.
Click to expand...

(Sorry to be off topic so I'll be quick)
We actually did get the Cruze wagon here in Aus

aljowen · Jan 12, 2015

Re: BeamNG: Personal Micro Blog(s)

Atomix said: ↑

From what i remember, pricorde had that, and also at the time the development of (today somwhat old) Outerra was begining, and he though it would be kinda cool to slap these together, and so the idea of ror came. I came to RoR sometime around ver 0.29, when the Linux client was still being developed, so this is just a story i heard.
Click to expand...

He isnt listed as a current Outerra developer.

tdev · Jan 12, 2015

Re: BeamNG: Personal Micro Blog(s)

Pricorde never had anything to do with outerra or bridge builder. He got inspired by bridge builder, but was not its author or alike. Idk how you even correlated outerra and RoR, they have no connection at all.

Atomix · Jan 12, 2015

Re: BeamNG: Personal Micro Blog(s)

nonono, i didn't mean it like that, i meant it like, that at that time, he got INSPIRED from outerra (at the time it was a drive around sandbox with nothing to do), and he bashed the N/B and vehicle idea together and got RoR

VeyronEB · Jan 12, 2015

Re: BeamNG: Personal Micro Blog(s)

Atomix said: ↑

nonono, i didn't mean it like that, i meant it like, that at that time, he got INSPIRED from outerra (at the time it was a drive around sandbox with nothing to do), and he bashed the N/B and vehicle idea together and got RoR
Click to expand...

afaik RoR is much older than outerra. If I remember correctly he was inspired by games like bridge builder and 1nsane both of which use similar (1nsane had a very basic version of it) a node/beam physics idea. 1nsane is also open world so again that is part of where the idea came from.

tdev · Jan 12, 2015

Re: BeamNG: Personal Micro Blog(s)

Atomix said: ↑

nonono, i didn't mean it like that, i meant it like, that at that time, he got INSPIRED from outerra (at the time it was a drive around sandbox with nothing to do), and he bashed the N/B and vehicle idea together and got RoR
Click to expand...

Sorry, but still no. I was there, can report first hand :|
RoR was there way before outerra: http://rigsofrods.blogspot.de/2005_08_01_archive.html
vs http://outerra.blogspot.de/2008_07_01_archive.html

Aboroath · Jan 12, 2015

Re: BeamNG: Personal Micro Blog(s)

Hell yeah, now we're getting somewhere! Thanks for all the info guys. I will definitely give the bridge building program a look and it makes perfect sense
that a beam/node program would be born from that ( I think I got that right ). I'm a big skyscraper fan and can imagine the similarities.

So cool to know where and how this came to be!

Again_Dejavu · Jan 12, 2015

Re: BeamNG: Personal Micro Blog(s)

So, when will the build server be put into effect?

logoster · Jan 12, 2015

Re: BeamNG: Personal Micro Blog(s)

hey tDev, is there any specific reason your taking pictures of the screen instead of taking a screenshot? (windows 8/8.1 actually has it built in now, just windows key + PrtSc and it saves a screenshot to C:\Users\UserNameHere\Pictures\Screenshots)

xingbreakin · Jan 12, 2015

Re: BeamNG: Personal Micro Blog(s)

tdev said: ↑

Machine doing its thing well
View attachment 50216
Click to expand...

3.10 GHz maximum, and yet doing 3.44 GHz

negativeice · Jan 12, 2015

Re: BeamNG: Personal Micro Blog(s)

This a good thread

Cardinal799 · Jan 12, 2015

Re: BeamNG: Personal Micro Blog(s)

logoster said: ↑

hey tDev, is there any specific reason your taking pictures of the screen instead of taking a screenshot? (windows 8/8.1 actually has it built in now, just windows key + PrtSc and it saves a screenshot to C:\Users\UserNameHere\Pictures\Screenshots)
Click to expand...

that pc is for build updating, not for screenshotting, i'd assume. he also was setting up the pc, so it probably isn't a big priority to take screenshots from a program that he'd have to install on that pc.

logoster · Jan 12, 2015

Re: BeamNG: Personal Micro Blog(s)

Cardinal799 said: ↑

that pc is for build updating, not for screenshotting, i'd assume. he also was setting up the pc, so it probably isn't a big priority to take screenshots from a program that he'd have to install on that pc.
Click to expand...

i meant take screenshots when he started posting the pictures of what's on screen

also in windows 8/8.1 (what he installed on it) you don't have to isntall anything extra, screenshoting functionality coems built in, just winkey+prtsc and it saves it so the screenshots folder in the pictures folder, so that all you have to do is upload it somewhere (in this case the beamng forums)

TheAdmiester · Jan 12, 2015

Re: BeamNG: Personal Micro Blog(s)

logoster said: ↑

i meant take screenshots when he started posting the pictures of what's on screen

also in windows 8/8.1 (what he installed on it) you don't have to isntall anything extra, screenshoting functionality coems built in, just winkey+prtsc and it saves it so the screenshots folder in the pictures folder, so that all you have to do is upload it somewhere (in this case the beamng forums)
Click to expand...

Screenshotting has been a thing since at least before Windows XP. The only thing that might be new is not having to paste your images from the clipboard to save them. Considering the things he's capable of I'm sure tdev knows this already and has his reasons for not screenshotting things.

Stormdrain · Jan 12, 2015

Re: BeamNG: Personal Micro Blog(s)

New favorite thread. GG Tdev.

Aboroath · Jan 12, 2015

Re: BeamNG: Personal Micro Blog(s)

What's the latest on the steering committee, Torque integration/ planned new Torque features? Will they, if any, be included in a coming update?

Bubbleawsome · Jan 12, 2015

Re: BeamNG: Personal Micro Blog(s)

Hey guys, I could be wrong, but I think the devs might want to post stuff here without questions or the off-color comments we've been having. Positive responses and on-topic discussions I'm sure are fine but if we have people asking about if they have had any engine experience or asking about new releases and features it just turns into the devblogs. Let this be a place they can just post small tidbits without being harassed IMO. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Devs might not mind it the way it is though.

Aboroath · Jan 13, 2015

Re: BeamNG: Personal Micro Blog(s)

Bubbleawsome said: ↑

Hey guys, I could be wrong, but I think the devs might want to post stuff here without questions or the off-color comments we've been having. Positive responses and on-topic discussions I'm sure are fine but if we have people asking about if they have had any engine experience or asking about new releases and features it just turns into the devblogs. Let this be a place they can just post small tidbits without being harassed IMO. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Devs might not mind it the way it is though.
Click to expand...

You might have a point here. It is a personal blog so we should assume it's all about finding drive cables and empty cups of coffee. No one has brought anything
to this thread from previous threads that I'm aware of and I certainly don't intend to. Chill out will ya?

Forums

Mods

BeamNG: Personal Micro Blog(s) - January 2015

Atomix
Expand Collapse

redrobin
Expand Collapse

HadACoolName
Expand Collapse

aljowen
Expand Collapse

tdev
Expand Collapse

Developer
BeamNG Team

Atomix
Expand Collapse

VeyronEB
Expand Collapse

tdev
Expand Collapse

Developer
BeamNG Team

Aboroath
Expand Collapse

Again_Dejavu
Expand Collapse

logoster
Expand Collapse

xingbreakin
Expand Collapse

negativeice
Expand Collapse

Cardinal799
Expand Collapse

logoster
Expand Collapse

TheAdmiester
Expand Collapse

Stormdrain
Expand Collapse

Aboroath
Expand Collapse

Bubbleawsome
Expand Collapse

Aboroath
Expand Collapse

Useful Searches

BeamNG: Personal Micro Blog(s) - January 2015

Atomix Expand Collapse

redrobin Expand Collapse

HadACoolName Expand Collapse

aljowen Expand Collapse

tdev Expand Collapse Developer BeamNG Team

Atomix Expand Collapse

VeyronEB Expand Collapse

tdev Expand Collapse Developer BeamNG Team

Aboroath Expand Collapse

Again_Dejavu Expand Collapse

logoster Expand Collapse

xingbreakin Expand Collapse

negativeice Expand Collapse

Cardinal799 Expand Collapse

logoster Expand Collapse

TheAdmiester Expand Collapse

Stormdrain Expand Collapse

Aboroath Expand Collapse

Bubbleawsome Expand Collapse

Aboroath Expand Collapse

Atomix
Expand Collapse

redrobin
Expand Collapse

HadACoolName
Expand Collapse

aljowen
Expand Collapse

tdev
Expand Collapse

Developer
BeamNG Team

Atomix
Expand Collapse

VeyronEB
Expand Collapse

tdev
Expand Collapse

Developer
BeamNG Team

Aboroath
Expand Collapse

Again_Dejavu
Expand Collapse

logoster
Expand Collapse

xingbreakin
Expand Collapse

negativeice
Expand Collapse

Cardinal799
Expand Collapse

logoster
Expand Collapse

TheAdmiester
Expand Collapse

Stormdrain
Expand Collapse

Aboroath
Expand Collapse

Bubbleawsome
Expand Collapse

Aboroath
Expand Collapse