WIP Beta released A new *CITY* map - LOS INJURUS 2023-12-20

Yeah that's probably the case. He has done that in the past before. I just hope he is okay.

 

Is the newest version of the map on the repo or should I download it from some other link that bob sent?

 

It's been very quiet here, is bob.blunderton ok?

 

This map as Bob has said is very graphically intensive. I've built a few systems in the last month and done some extensive testing and benchmarking with this map. Here is a little preview:



Core Ultra 9 285K and RTX 5090,

I can bring that system to just below 60fps with everything on max but with 50 or 40 cars spawned

Also, I managed to get a 16 core X3D chip, and while X3D doesn't really do much for this game. This particular map actually shows a decent improvement with 3D cache but only when there isn't a bunch of AI cars spawned.

 

The Bob was mostly taking a break for sanity reasons (and having injured myself pretty good some months back didn't help things much!), and one very important reason that I'm sure any other 'modder' or map maker can attest to:
LETTING THE DOCUMENTATION CATCH UP BECAUSE THIS GAME IS GETTING CRAZY COMPLICATED ON THE LEVEL-EDITING SIDE OF THINGS!
Seriously, this thing is drowning my brain - likely part because I'm getting old - but I've been editing / creating game environments since ID Tech 1 engine - the original Doom - THIRTY YEARS AGO. This game engine has come quite far over the last 10 years, of which 9.5 of those I've been creating / editing levels here. It's been a good run and it does continue.
Now that I've gotten it to run on my end (always a good thing, right?), and waited the 8+ minutes for it to do cache and load in the 1st time (on my 6 year old computer), I've seen a TON of graphic bugs (mostly concrete trim textures such as median barriers and some bridge railings, and most concrete bridge girders) and a missing set of buildings (the collision is there, though). A road or two is also oddly dark, some of that is leaving a concrete road very very brown colored - too dark.
The DAM water / lakes are also a very odd turquoise color (surprised I spelled it right!), and don't look natural. But it might make you want some cool-aid. That will be fixed.
If you've found some really stupid bugs, feel free to screenshot those some! If you have more than a concrete texture or two missing or saying no-texture, feel free to screenshot that.

@Tyler-98-W68 That is correct that x3D will help rendering and thus improve FPS (on any draw-call limited scenes such as this and Roane County, or even Cities Skylines or Fallout 4 downtown areas). X3D doesn't help a ton with physics - it's power is in those draw-call intensive scenes since it gets a burst of those every frame and the more it can handle in memory on-chip (which is much faster than system RAM) the faster it can get through them in one set of cycles.
The next iteration of Zen (Ryzen and also it's higher-tier counterparts) will have possibility of DUAL memory controllers on-chip, and up to 12 cores (vs 8) per core complex die (of which desktop processors can have two per AM5 socket). It will be interesting to see how this reduces not only latency, but if it truly increases memory bandwidth - which is something the physics (and yes draw call performance too!) relies on quite a bit, at-least once the CPU requirements of vehicle physics at your current refresh rate is satisfied.
A lot of games in the DirectX 10 & 11 era were very heavily draw-call limited (remember the Corvega factory roof of Fallout 4 always having an FPS hit, this is why!), the most recent of which is Cities Skylines 2, but even Wasteland 2 was limited a bit. Cities Skylines 1 and 2 (which I call Cities Slideshow) and Wasteland 2 are all UNITY-engine games, and there's a bunch of them stuck on DirectX 11. Try to avoid those Unity-engine games and play Unreal-engine games in-stead (High-Rise city is very resource-oriented but still a city builder, but importantly is on the Unreal Engine and will hit your CPU as hard as BeamNG does on a moderately sized city!), since Unity-engine games are known now quite well for lack-luster performance. Unity is okay for indie titles that aren't monstrous in spectrum, but for things like City builders or anything like a super-detailed environment, it chugs hard-core and the FPS hit is very real.
Fallout 4 was Bethesda's same engine since Oblivion, but it's modular nature (magnified by turning "precombines" off - this is a pre-run-time object combiner that lowers render overhead / draw calls - for scrap mods in settlements) could easily overload the rendering backend of the game in super-detailed environments or when the weather was clear enough on high detail settings.
Being stuck in DirectX 11 means (mostly) only a single core was available to process said draw calls through the CPU to send to the GPU driver to tell it what to render on the GPU.
Vulkan and DirectX 12 solve this by allowing today's massively-multi-core processors to load-balance and process draw calls across many cores, which is why you should choose DX12 or Vulkan whenever you have the chance, for the best performance for your dollar / setup.

Folks will find that passing up the intel offerings and getting either a super-budget-friendly 6-core Ryzen processor or, hopefully, the full monte that is the 8-core (or 12 and 16-core) Ryzen X3D chips with a decent 40$ air cooler on it and 32gb of RAM (16 minimum but you'll find it limiting) should have you set for the best all-around performance in ALL games today. There's really only one or two games that's going to favor intel right now, and seeing as intel's socket is dead on the first generation and next year's chips will require a new motherboard for intel (but not on AMD AM5), I'd pass it up. However, with a good enough steal-of-a-deal you might be able to argue that an intel system is viable (and very well could be if you're not the type to consider CPU upgrades - or more importantly, NEED one, a few years in - otherwise you'll have to replace your motherboard and maybe buy a new copy of Windows, too). However, regardless if you built an intel computer or AMD computer in the last 2~3 years, it's probably loads better than mine; so DO enjoy it for what it is and not what it isn't!
If someone saves 30% on an intel system, over an AMD x3D system, and the intel system can still power the GPU and not hold back the system, while providing the FPS required or whatever the monitor is trying to display, then you are just fine.
Just pass up the intel 13th generation and 14th generation processors, unless you know how to update BIOS right away; otherwise those things blow themselves up right quick on BeamNG or similar intensive software/games. The intel ULTRA series, however, doesn't blow itself up any, in-fact the most recent BIOS updates for ULTRA series will give it a small (possibly noticeable) speed boost (a few FPS maybe, but it's free).

I'm still running my system from 2019 here. I could put a new one together, and this one has SURE started getting pokey after 6 years, but it's been pretty stressful with my current living situation and thinking of trying to get a house in another state. So I've been hoarding $$$$ and trying to keep an eye out for a good deal on one. UNFORTUNATELY that involves moving lots of heavy stuff - thus that's going to run my body into the ground for months, so I've put Los Injurus on the back burner. BUT, since I've been in this limbo for a while and recently seeing how bad Los Injurus has gotten (combined with folks still commenting here and kindly still supporting the Patreon, thank-you btw), I'm going to push a bug-fix update shortly.
I can't stand the graphic bugs and missing buildings, you folks likely are annoyed by it also, so it NEEDS FIXED.
A pair of traffic lights is totally broken but that's my doing, never did get the smart traffic lights to work. Gave up on those! When the devs make it easier to make it work, I'll try and make them work. The rest of the traffic lights still work the same as they always do. Otherwise, those are unobtainium right now.

Thank-you to all those who care. It's nice reading that folks care, especially on the interwebs here.
Just know it's appreciated, and it does help.
--For right now, that is all.

If folks DON'T have broken concrete textures (showing no-texture on them and being orange/yellow), let me know that it's NOT broken on your end.
That said, when not admiring the no-textures or dark brown bugged concrete road color in some spots, the rendering engine near sunset makes this city quite pretty at times.
Most importantly, however, all the cliffs still work and the gravity still works, so this city can still do what the doctor ordered.... moosh cars!

 

Glad to see you're still around & trying to take care of yourself.

 

Happy to know that your okay!

 

...and never a dull moment over here. Definitely not dull but maybe possibly STRANGE if a little annoying.
Approx a half-hour after finally getting tired enough to go to bed last night..
BANG!
Sounded like a gun being fired off in the same room as me... if not louder.
Well... nothing's BURNING, that's a good thing. Put my head back down. Collected myself for a minute and waited for my soul to re-enter my body and see if I ... wake up stuck in the ceiling ... from that loud sound.
Sit up, the computer's off. Well that's not good. Computers are NOT supposed to go out with a bang.
Trying to turn it on was the tell-tale fssssszzzz of a dead power supply, barely audible. Power supply tester showed only 5vsb (5 volts stand-by, it's what runs diagnostic led's on the motherboard to let you know it's plugged in and has wall power, and sometimes other things).
Off to the wizard of computer parts, in the big big city I go, I go, maybe a bit too slowly at that (yes I was that stupid TOURIST acting nearly lost without a GPS of any kind, in Knoxville, this afternoon/eve).
Eventually bumbled my way into a place that sold parts and got another PSU (and didn't even BEAMNG anyone's vehicle - not even mine! Wow, we're really getting somewhere! Literally. But I didn't see any pianos drive by either otherwise things could have been different. Much different. Much louder and less melodic with more BOOM and CRASH.).
After a few hours of cleaning + removing the old supply (and a lot of dust in places I can't normally get to), I could finally put the new one in (after testing it of-course), and test the machine.
That's where I'm at now. For the moment. The power supply is sitting on my mouse pad (I do this in the event it was good from the factory but decides to start smoldering/burning shortly after being hooked up, can quickly disconnect and smother or remove it from here more easily), running the entire machine sans the project drives which are sata stuff I didn't bother to hook up yet.
Connect to the net once I log in (stupid annoying 76 second delay from log-in to desktop showing up, wtf?)... only to see Jayztwocents has the exact and I mean EXACT same thing happen. He said his ears were ringing, mine not so much but maybe I've been around a lot more loud equipment (construction work, my riding mower, worked in factories now and then as needs be).
So immediately thought... hrmmm, that's odd, he's thousands of miles away, how'd that happen? Checked solar flares, nothing out of the normal parameters especially right when it happened, so it can't be that. No other activity in the house so it wasn't some type of surge from the house (lines are a different story, but a 1300 watt Seasonic unit can put up with a lot, we HAVE had direct lightning hits but no majors while this was on).
Needless to say I'll try some other brand for a bit, let's see how long this thing lasts (might be made by Seasonic anyways, have to look it up), this one's a Thermaltake at around the same wattage (totally overkill, this PC uses 800w max, this is more to stand up to the Tennessee power grid a bit longer due to more robust components).

So we shall see how this goes. Looks like the PC survived. It was just idling on desktop having not been used for a good solid 30+ mins with the screen shut off.
Got lucky this time, didn't want to have to build a new one yet, those are pricey and I just don't want to put out that much cash right yet. Not yet.
While there was dust inside the PC, it wasn't CHOKED with it, it was more dust from the times it was off or was being cleaned as it was mostly on the bottom levels clumped up in corners. Only very very light dust levels on the actual components. Even the inside of the failed power supply was fairly pristine, and it was only a very light load applied. The power has not quickly gone off-on as it sometimes does here in Bedrock Tennessee. No clue. Just random failure I suppose (well I'd hope).
I just find it very very very strange that the same thing that happened to Jayztwocents happened to ME, within a few hours. Strange. Guess I'm not alone, or maybe his was made in the same factory on the same day with the same batch of caps as mine (looking inside, the heatsinks on mine aren't black, and the layout is different, from the one he has).

While the Thermaltake unit is nice, Seasonic's cables are definitely better fitting / better made. Much more satisfying solid clicks on the Seasonic. Not even sure they're in all the way but they're in as much as they'll go. However, you can't take cables from one series and put them on another, for most units. Use the wrong cables and you'll blow things up, make sparks, magic smoke will be let out into the great beyond (and your airways), and you may even have cast FIRE spells upon the thing (please refrain indoors). This is ESPECIALLY true for brands that DO NOT make their own units in their own factory such as Corsair, Thermaltake, NZXT (2nd run is Seasonic?), etc, but you can look up a Linus Tech Tips power supply manufacturer database on their forums and find all the sources for the units out there. Sometimes even the same model line of units may change sources/manufacturers and thus become incompatible cable-wise with earlier models.
Needless to say I have a jolly old time un-routing all the cables. I'll route the replacements better some other time, I could really care less how it looks provided it works and has airflow. I've found that while nice routing is nice (if cables are LONG ENOUGH), it makes it a real PITA to service the machine sometimes. In a large case the massive space, vs a few narrow cables here and there, it is much less of an issue than say a much smaller case with same amount of wiring.

Place bets NOW to see how many more weeks Bob's 6-year-old PC will last before something else blows up, shorts out, catches fire, rockets through the roof like a grand piano in Teardown with rocket boosters attached while in an IKEA user-level, or gets mistaken for a female gorilla by an extremely in-heat large substance-abusing male gorilla, or gets eaten by random rabid Tennessee Tornadoes. I really hope one of the last two doesn't happen, but the way THIS world is going and life in general, I rule NOTHING out. However, while I will try to fix it if it gets tornadoed - if a Gorilla gets it: That's it! I'm done, time for a new one, at this point. NO WAY am I working on THAT. Even The Bob has his limits.

So, now to clean off the parts cannon, put that away, and maybe wire this up a little better tomorrow so at-least the computer isn't working via a power supply sitting in the middle of my mouse pad.
Hopefully I won't need to get the parts cannon out for a while, because the less I have to drive in the big city as a haplessly lost and overwhelmed tourist, the better off for everyone else (am not really THAT bad, but definitely bordering on it!).
Or maybe I'll put the head unit that I purchased 9.5 years ago for the car I got a few months before that, in the car like I originally wanted to but just never did (because I realized I just did NOT care). Only owned the thing nearly a decade.
Who knows. Tomorrow is never promised to any of us folks, so we live for today! "Sha-La La-La La-La Live for today, Heyey-ey-ey!" Let's Live for Today is a great OLDIES song btw, by The Grass Roots.
When I wake, I thank God I'm awake, breathing, AND have a heart beat (there was that time I did not and had to restart my own heart in 10/2013). Then if I don't hurt too bad, and can move around without falling or getting stuck hunched over, then I go do something. If not, it's time for something on the computer. I'm not always happy to be stuck at the computer, but I'm still happy to be alive, no matter how stuck I am in a spot, or how bad I hurt.
@Memersand694 and @JoshD Thanks, appreciate the kind words (same to the rest who have mentioned!).
I swear this PC is possessed. I might have to have it baptized, or is that exorcised? I make one post here threatening to run BeamNG Drive on this and this thing blows up hours later. Ugh. Maybe it's just very very depressed. It didn't get it's fix of piano carnage in a while maybe. Maybe the sentient PC needs to be entertained with more games with cat launchers.

Whatever is up with this thing (maybe we can just blame AI??? CAN we do that yet?), it better quit it's [CENSORED], as I only have so much 'go' in me these days.
Or it just wanted a day off for it's 6th Birthday, Maybe? If it's that, I can't blame it. Glass half full maybe?

So for folks interested, go watch the JayzTwoCents video to see similar carnage to what likely happened to my unit (Oddly some 8 hours before he uploaded his video). I haven't opened mine to check, and looking in it looks fairly pristine/new etc, but it's up to Seasonic to fix now as it's still got 5~6 years more warranty on it. Maybe I'll take time to get a picture of it before I send it out for RMA. I will ask via email if I'm allowed to open it before the RMA as I do not wish to complicate things (some companies are picky if you open the unit - please DO NOT unless you have done so in the past to work on them and have discharged it first and foremost, because power supplies can have dangerous voltages inside, even though 'warranty void if tampered / opened' stickers don't hold merit in the USA). People -yes- have died from opening them and getting blasted, so please do not.

I will let folks know / keep updating on what's going on, no more* long dry spells with no posts. (* unless this thing acts up again and thus I'll be back when I fix it, or if I fall down the stairs in my house that doesn't have any stairs and injure myself)
-That is all! Thanks for the warm welcome back here! It means so much.
--Cheers!