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

Just wanted to mention about a spot on a highway where it suddenly goes from three lanes to two. Another small thing don't know if it's been mentioned/fixed already or not, but the exit by the default spawn point kind of suddenly gains an extra lane.

 

Yeah the exit doesn't look right, I am aware of that. It was a side-effect of texturing it through text editor or something like that (I create objects, then apply a default texture, then when a whole set is created, I make a copy of the set and apply another texture to it via a text editor - that one didn't work out so well as you can see for that specific piece). I have to get to fixing that, it's a real mess that one.
The part where it goes from 3>2 lanes needs to be re-striped a bit, don't know if I forgot or if there's a priority issue with the striping supposedly on there already. I will make sure to address this as soon as I can sit here properly again.

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Speaking of which, I haven't gotten jack done since Tuesday night since my back decided to kink due to the muscles tensing and not letting go. I can't get it to relax to the point where it'll let go of my spine enough for me to un-kink it through twisting motions. When you have 2~3 vertebrae that have KINKED it is some of the most pain a human can ever feel.
In other words, being physically disabled SUCKS, especially when THIS happens.
When I get the highway I'm working on fixed up enough to drive on, and iron out a few AI implementation bugs, the update will come out.
If this fails to happen within the next 8~10 days, then I will release a Patreon-member update in the mean-time.
This goes without saying that I'm slowly implementing a reduction in resources and trying to implement a link system where needed, don't know what progress that'll be at but I'm working on it is all I can say. It's just quite slow going with my back deciding to cast the spell of pretzel upon itself, since I can only sit here a few hours max at a time, then I have to lay down for at-least that many hours. You can't even sleep until you've laid down a few hours for the pain to subside.
Want to know the best part? About 4~5 years ago, I went to the local spine and pain doctor. Well I didn't get a doctor. I got JOEL STEVENS a police detective (pretending to be a doctor) who interrogated me about my condition, while monitoring my blood pressure like I lie-detector, who then told me to go get 'mental help' for my physical pain. Well MR KNOW-IT-ALL doesn't know that when you have been medicated with blood pressure pills due to the severity of pain alone ramping blood pressure levels to the point of nearly causing hospital-visit worthy levels of blood pressure, you don't test properly on lie detector tests (yes seriously, ANY added level of stress would nearly get the ambulance called whenever I went to the doc, to the point they wouldn't let me leave for a while at times). My PTSD alone (which also makes hell of lie-detector tests!) can put my heart rate up over 100bpm just sitting in a waiting room... let alone what driving in traffic does to it. Blood pressure readings have come back 144-over-something (85~95 range, forget the specifics) WHILE ON BLOOD PRESSURE MEDS, sheesh. Needless to say I got NO help from the doc, not even after a urine test (of course the doctor needed that, right? Yeah, OK). That doc never called me back, never billed the insurance, never another appointment... I have all the time in the world - but none to waste.
That's right folks. A human right - basic human right - to not be tortured with cruel and unusual punishment - to not have to sit here in agony - denied to me just so someone who's family hates mine can get retribution on me for reasons I still do NOT know or understand.
SO MUCH FOR HIPPA PROTECTIONS. Yeah. That's part of the lawsuit, too. This country is so F'ed up it's not even funny. I still would love to know what the heck I did in the first place to make Stevens hate me so much. Even his sister is down here doing all the stuff he can't do while holding a badge (read: illegal stuff, his sister got busted for using stolen license plates on her vehicle in 5/2024, same one she was stalking me with). I don't even break the law but these weirdos show up wherever I go. Tell me what the chance of the Bethlehem Township (by where I used to live) police detective's biological son working in the very same city I live in, now 750 miles away, is?
Land of the free my hide. DON'T EVER MOVE TO USA. THERE ARE NO RIGHTS. EXAMPLE: Here in the land of the free, they can literally pull you over, take all your (cash) money, leave you with nothing (really bad if you're not in your home state), and keep it with nearly no recourse available to you even if you are never charged or convicted of a crime. While THAT last bit hasn't happened to me (the cash taking part), it's happened to a lot of people.
So yeah, this is why I've not been too thrilled lately, sorry if that's spilled over into my progress blog a bit too much. Not a crazy person, but I am living with a heck of a lot of agony right now, can barely get around, can't stay vertical for more than 2~3 hours at a time, and let's just say that's not a fun life to live. It's hospital time soon. So if I go quiet for a while it's not the boogeyman, it's just me likely having a hospital stay or something along those lines.
KEEP THOSE BUG REPORTS COMING!
--That is all for right now
-The Bob
Oh, and the mower is sitting in the middle of the yard busted again. It was just fixed (x3). It's going to be sitting there for a long time, too, because I can't even get out that far into the yard to look at it (I wasn't the one who's been mowing the last 2 months). It can sit there until spring time for all I care at this point, I put out all the money that I could put out to fix the thing already this month. I need to move for my own safety (not to mention sanity) anyways.

 

So having given up on the Road Architect, being that it was more like "Road to Insanity", I chose on this dark and dreary day to give the recently introduced 'Road Spline tool' a try.
MISTAKE.
33 Minutes ago I tried adjusting ONE node. 33 minutes ago. It's still trying to process the adjustment.
1/4th mile / half kilometer length, two lanes, nearly default road style, 9 nodes in a bow shape to make a nice curve along the very perilous cliff like most my highways seem to be.
MISTAKE MISTAKE MISTAKE.
In-fact even trying to move a single node would lock the application for a solid minute in 10 second intervals.
So my experience of 0.37.x is this:
1.) Adjust terrain = lock the whole computer solid. Not even caps or num lock toggles work.
So I must use the inherently slower DX11 mode here that's frequently lagging/hitching on editing making fine terrain adjustments pretty much impossible.
Use Road Architect: This thing is fail in the truest sense of the word.
I can't believe this thing still DOES NOT work.
Use Road Spline Tool: This thing just locks the application up. It's been 36 minutes as I'm typing this now and it's still trying to adjust a single node width. FOR OVER HALF AN HOUR!!!
Did anyone test this? It's supposed to make a multi-lane road how? I don't see ANY way to change it from default 2-lane bi-directional road configuration!
This is supposed to be better than clicking a node, clicking the width box and typing something into the box and pressing enter.
For crying out loud, I'M GETTING OLD OVER HERE! What's worse? I CAN WATCH THE DUST SETTLE ON MY NOSE waiting for this thing.
What in good-grief caused me to ever leave editor 1.0 in the first place? I loved editor 1.0. It just worked. Did what it says on the tin.
This editor is plainly put a train-wreck. I've never in 30+ years of game editing since Doom, used any single application that was this bad for 'editing levels'. It's BAD.
They REALLY, REALLY have to work on this thing before I can do much with it.
Sure, I can ship things out as-is but that's really lowering the bar for quality.
--Not very happy.
-The Bob
45 minutes and it's still lagging hardcore. on that SINGLE adjustment. It's trying, supposedly.
My only consolation is that with the buckets of spiders and army of bees I've been fighting all summer and fall, it looks like it's going to be one hell of a bad winter. Well, I'll be very warm while I attempt to adjust this one single node of one roadway all winter long.
EDIT: After 1.5 hours of waiting for it to adjust this node and no more patience or ability to sit here waiting for it, I force-closed BeamNG Drive. I need to find another game-engine to port this level into, plain and simple. This editor is a MESS and I just can't do anything with it anymore, or need a better CPU to do it with, and with RAM prices, I'm not going to find anything for what I can (or am willing to) spend.

 

I feel your pain so much... Im working on a level and unsurprisingly alot of the new tools are very finicky or just plainly dont work. Dont use mesh spline because the objects might dissapear into the ether between sessions! The building architect tool is like trying to operate an alien space craft, I made a whole building out of mesh roads instead one time lol. It sucks that the new tools designed to spend less time on repetitive tasks only works some of the time. Some of the tools I will never touch again because they simply just crash my game. Anyway, your definetly not alone in your pain, I am procrastonating my own project alot because of the same things you mention. Take all the time you need

 

When you create something, with the road architect or the mesh spline tool, and you're done with that road, this is what you do:
Go into the object selector / editor, where you can see the whole entire entity tree of the entire level (all things, like the terrain, objects, decal roads, mesh roads, player spawns and such), select the things that are in the road_architect folder (or whatever the SPLINE ROAD TOOL calls it, might be road_spline or spline_road_1), and put them in another folder, or move them out into the main level folder structure where all the loose objects that haven't been organized are. Now, see if the objects then won't disappear anymore. The road architect used to do this as switching back and forth between rendering and designing when you're on your 2nd or 3rd (basically, anything after 1st) road with OBJECTS, would end up transitioning some of your 1st roads objects from being objects to merely potential design elements/plans as-if it was part of the 2nd or 3rd road now in-stead of leaving it alone like it should. Try that. Sorry it's not perfect but I've never, ever been able to get a usable road out of the road spline tool. If you make a special folder for completed roads, and objects, you can put them in there, just don't name it anything to do with roads, just call it COMPLETED STUFF. Then you can back up the file in the level structure under the name you gave it, which is under /LEVELNAME/main/missiongroup/GROUPNAME/items.level.json. LEVELNAME is your level, GROUPNAME is whatever folder you called it, where you put the stuff. Don't leave it in a ROAD_ARCHITECT or ROAD_SPLINE folder or it can get injured there. Regularly back up your files and make sure to check them out to see if they're shrinking at all (they shouldn't! but who's to be sure). If you give each one it's own name like "Guiderails_on_mountain_pass" and throw all the guide-rails in there (and/or the road stuff with it), once you're done with it and have saved it, you can back that file up and do whatever you want. Name the next folder something else and put your next road's stuff in there, and back up THAT file then too. Keep going like this, so if it ever eats one, then you can go ahead and restore the file. Also make sure none of them double, as saving road_architect sessions within your level structure can do. ALSO, if you make a road, then further modify the decal roads or other things within the decal road tool, DO NOT re-enter said tool you made the road with such as road architect, WITHOUT moving the stuff out of the folder it was created in and putting it in your OWN folder, and backing up said folder items json file. Seriously!
Use tool > make stuff the way you want it (well, try to) > render/finish the tool up > go to object editor and move stuff out of road_architect folder (or road_spline folder) into your own named folder > back up file > feel free to modify things as you wish > back up file again making sure your new file isn't wildly smaller than the old one. SAVING SESSIONS WITHIN THE TOOL IN YOUR LEVEL STRUCTURE CAN/WILL CAUSE DUPES ON EACH SUBSEQUENT LEVEL / EDITOR LOAD, BE CAREFUL & MOVE THEM OUT OF YOUR LEVEL STRUCTURE. The sessions are those created by the tool itself IF you push the save session button and tell it where to save.
I can barely get anything out of that editor. It's absolutely a dumpster fire. I love the team but I CAN NOT STAND THAT EDITOR, so I couldn't show any anger towards anyone that can't stand it either. I used to love editor 1.0. I could fly with that thing, it was like wings compared to this new editor. I can't even get an icon to access all the modes because the toolbar doesn't show up entirely, cutting off the decal road tool, object editor, and some other things, into a submenu I have to go into constantly. Whoever designed this thing ... [well I shouldn't leave this in], but this editor is really in a bad way. Bad as in: I've (not only) NEVER seen it THIS bad, I've never actually USED anything this bad in my 30+ years of computing / game-editing. I've been doing this since MS-DOS 4 or 5 and Windows 3.11 For Workgroups, using things like DCK (Doom Construction Kit 2.2f, later Shareware 3.x versions), even EDMAP wasn't that bad (EDMAP was terrible compared to DCK, but hey I was new to computers and was using whatever I could find on those D!Zone and D!Zone2 CD's I bought with Doom / Doom II, and I found EDMAP 1st).
I SURE MISS MY 486 dx/2 66! I WISH I NEVER GOT RID OF IT! I HOPE THEY HAVE A 486 IN HEAVEN FOR ME! Wait, can I even play Doom up there? The only thing I didn't like about my 486 was trying to play Doom over a modem. You needed 33,600bps at-least to have Doom without a pause every 2 seconds. 14.4 didn't do it, 28.8 almost could do it over a modem... that I don't miss. When my buddy got a new computer (A Packard Fudge Bell) Pentium 120mhz or so, we could finally play at full speed.
OOPS, Got on a rant again. Don't get old folks.
But yeah, I've never used anything this bad. That editor makes me so angry/tense/frustrated I think it's causing my back (muscles) to lock up (causing it to kink under my rib cage, super painful) and my migraines to happen more often. That's why I just close it out when it gets stupid. If I fail to get the highway bit finished before I throw a release out, I'll try to make a semi-believable construction zone or something, and try to keep the AI from falling off the cliff.

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I was just trying to address the issue with a section of highway missing median barriers until I realized I hated that section / was too snake-like for a highway - even a California highway.
I will put some more (likely frustrating) time into it this week and see if I can figure out how to do anything with that infernal tool set they provide me. Let's just hope they don't start making power tools, or nukes, otherwise we're very very screwed. *cuts to show the shot of the earth exploding*

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In other GOOD news, I'm going to be taking the food from the church down to the food bank in the first half of this week, to help off-set the issue with SNAP (gov't food stamps / money for poor or disabled/disadvantaged folks for food) benefits being stalled due to the US government's dictator not being a very good dictator. I don't usually get political for reasons, most of which should be obvious; but I'm more than a bit miffed that children / families are going hungry plus our military members still are expected to serve and then not even be sure they'll get paid or not. NO ONE should live like that, NO ONE. People starve while the elites fuss and fight in congress, all while the dictator builds a party palace on the White House. Sheesh. I cannot believe the times we live in here. They will cause riots very soon, and have already caused much protesting in many towns thus far. I wish it wasn't true, but it's not going to get better by starving folks!
IF anyone has any food in the back of their freezer, or in the back of their pantry, and it's still good, please take it down to your food bank at the earliest possible convenience. Even if it's just a few things. If everyone did that, they'd have more than they know what to do with. Right now reality is the opposite. Just putting it out there. If you're not from the USA, you can ignore this plea (or, you can help out wherever you are, and it makes you feel good wherever you are).
That being said, I hope our gov't and dictator get their ducks in order, before the gov't loses control of the constituents they're supposed to be SERVING the interests of. I don't like seeing anyone suffer.
--That is all for the moment
-The Bob

 

I had a Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V, I miss that one.

 

65535% with you on that one! Gateway 2000 was the cream of the crop, and always used those good Toshiba CD-ROM drives too. Definitely a lot better than the other no-names out there. Didn't usually stick you with no-name cards that it was impossible to find drivers for, either.
If I was any more able I'd try to dig one out of the dump, but I also know better that they're corroded beyond hope after a few months in any temperate climate.
May you find another one day, here or beyond this mortal plane (regardless of your belief system, if applicable).
*looks and sees the 12mhz AMD-produced 286 chip for a profile picture* Shouldn't expect anything less, I suppose!

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For those following the blog, yes, I did get the food bank run from church done. Took over 20 Blessing-bags (bags of goodies for those less fortunate!), and over a dozen cases of food, along with lots of misc items. We only have a small church with a little over a dozen regular attendees - basically half of us are just big families and the other half are a few elderly couples. That said, we are one big family any time we go.
After discovering a young woman's vehicle broken down on the side of the road, whom I knew from church, and saw the 'don't tow, I'll be back this afternoon for this' note on a check receipt from a restaurant, I went to see her at her work. Thus, later, I sat on the side of the road on a bucket in the rain (this was several years ago), to change a wheel (with a stuck lug), and I never questioned any of it. A mess of quickly-rusting hand-tools later, after a trip to the tire shop, I had her all set (and just like that, she pulled up in another vehicle driven by her mother, to pick up her Jeep). She was so happy. It makes it all worth it in the end, though driving home looked like the world was ending - cloud to ground lightning coming down all around me and the sky was very dark for 4pm, greenish dark grey / black. Got home to find out it's a tornado warning, which surprised me none. Would I do it again? Yes - for anyone I know, and even those I've never met. I'm that guy - when you have no one else - I won't leave you stranded. I have a few tools, jumper cables, temporary flat fix kits, extra water / oil / coolant and things like that. Not boasting or bragging, but I am that person because it makes me feel good - no matter how bad I hurt before or after - for doing such things. This doesn't make me a good person per-say, it makes me FEEL good. If you feel good, and people know you do right by others, then you CAN be that good person. But, why? Well, one day you might be broken down on the side of the road, waving a white shirt (like a white flag) in the 105 degree F heat, and need a ride to the next exit on the limited-access freeway. I was that person in 2012. A marine gave me a ride to the next exit. I offered him some money, but he wouldn't take a penny. I got a ride to civilization (all of 3 minutes ride but a long and dangerous walk on the shoulder with my back to traffic), got my vehicle towed, got a hotel for the night (and spent a long time in the pool) and got the vehicle serviced thus left the next day. That marine in that 15 year old white F150, thanks man, I was the guy with the white Sable - if you're out there and you ever read this, thanks.
For what it's worth, my bench-mounted wire wheel made short work of any rust, sitting on a stool with my box of rusty bits.
Help someone. Make a difference. There's a whole world out there, and it's yours to make a difference in. Even if you don't have much, all you need is a little time, a little knowledge, and a little motivation. Someone might not get hit by a car on the shoulder. Someone might make it home in time to their kids for dinner. Someone might even have food to make for dinner, who otherwise wouldn't have. Sometimes all someone needs is a good listener for a few minutes, to help sort their seemingly overwhelming pile of problems they got swamped with.
Even if your life SUCKS, your car is OLD and held together with duct tape, hope, and prayer, you can barely get around most days, there's still a place and a duty for you on this earth no matter how great or small. That's just as important as what happens when you do it. YOU feel better. So helping others is really helping you.
So just remember that next time you have an issue, or life is overwhelming you, or you just need to get away. Go make a vacation day of helping others. It can help you every bit as much as a vacation - if not more - in most cases. I am physically quite disabled and I still manage, but that's what you do here in Tennessee, The Volunteer State.

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The person who got to the bottom of the 'invisible building' and 'no-see-ums objects' issues with Los Injurus is assisting me with a few more things with the level, so shout out to Car Killer. I am not at liberty to say what or how yet, but all reveals in due time.
--That is all!
-The Bob

 

I shut off the full-reflections on water to gain back some FPS to make it semi-doable to work with Los Injurus in the level editor, as it was too slow and laggy before. Thanks to Car Killer for letting me know the reflections (because I'm in DX11 mode, due to Vulkan hard-locks), and how much of the rendering time they were eating up (20~50% of the rendering time!). You can flick them back on by searching AGUA in the object selector > scene tree in the level editor, and check the box for 'full reflect' if you have a super beefy CPU / GPU and can use Vulkan. This will be ratified in the future when there's less Vulkan crashes and be flipped back on. Sorry if that disappoints anyone too much, but it had to be done for now.

This section got another detail pass, including the highway overpass, and evidence of some works going-on on the highway above it. In the last picture in the distance, top-center, you can see where a construction zone has been added so that it adds some immersion to the fact that the highway is (in theory / story) being slowly widened as it goes further and further out from the city center. That's why you see expanded bridge abutments, and you'll see construction barriers in the future that'll lend a bit more credence to this look. I have a bunch of construction props and equipment I have to port in (it's all scenery, if someone wanted to make something actually driveable, that'd be possible in theory but I'd have to send the full-detail model out that much more render-intensive and a bit more VRAM-munching if someone was going to do that).

That's the good news.
The bad news? I got death-threatened in my own home here by my sister's dead-beat boyfriend. Lovely, I expect nothing less from my family. I need to get the heck out of here. SO PLEASE SUPPORT THIS MESS ON PATREON BECAUSE I REALLY NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE ASAP. It's been working on my sanity a while. I let them come back and welcomed my sister and her boyfriend to live here and this is the thanks I get as a disabled person, cornered in my bathroom - for a few seconds anyways, before I handily moved him all the way to the end of the hall and out the door into the older side of this house away from me. Not going to go into detail. I'm a lover, not a fighter, but I can most certainly take care of myself in that aspect pretty much better than any other aspect of my life. It took me about 3~4 hours to calm down enough to write this, but I'm not in a good way here at a home I've been living in and fixing up and trying my best to help maintain for over a decade (though I haven't been able to do as much lately since the end of summer, as my disabilities are really catching up with me for doing this physical work, which I should NOT be doing any of). What scares me is not him. I'm not scared of him, I am scared of ME. That PTSD runs through me with adrenaline in a the blink of an eye and a 200lbs person weighs but 10 pounds or so it feels.
So while I'm not in danger of life and limb (but it was made very clear he said 'he was a stone cold killer and he was going to kill me' several times loud enough for others to hear), I feel very betrayed by those who were supposed to love and care for someone other than themselves.
Who needs enemies when you have a family of narcissists like this? Yes, this is the same sister who I rescued from the previous abusive boyfriend two years ago, went to visit all those times, took her countless cartons of cigs that I paid for out of pocket while she was in the substance recovery program, welcomed here with open arms, gave her money for court processes (old stuff from before I picked her up), no issue - her current boyfriend is the one who comes over to me and threatens me, while I'm cleaning my damn bathroom of all things with a bad back.
Moderators, please leave this up. This needs to be said, just in-case something DOES happen to me. I just wanted to be fully transparent about my situation. My own flesh and blood mother, would choose a dog over me so she's not going to be a help in resolving this situation.
Please support this project's patreon, so I can go get another place to live and have a SAFE place to work on this. It's in my signature, but I'll put it at the bottom of this text. If you can afford to do so, even if it's five bucks, please do so. I'm just going to grab whatever I can put in a car and go live somewhere else. This computer and some clothes, that's about it. I don't even have the ability to move my own furniture at this point nor can I pay someone to do it. I don't care if I have to sleep on my back on the hard floor, at-least I won't be in a house with a family that stabs you in the back, borrows money from you and does not pay it back, name-calls you into oblivion, and now - death threats. Beautiful.
www.patreon.com/user?u=12840784 (PATREON LINK)
...and yes, things have been getting bad for a while now, and that's part of why I haven't been in the state of mind to work on this as much. I wish I had better news. I didn't ask to be disabled and on a fixed income either, but this is the life I'm given. I know I didn't ask to be despised and name-called for being disabled. While I laughed at the childish name-calling from an insecure man like my sister's boyfriend, and my family members alike, How low can you go to where you must attack a disabled person in their own home?
I wanted peace, but I guess that's just too much to ask. I have people show up to live here and 3 months in they're telling me how they're 'oh so tuff' they're going to put an end to a physically disabled person. Oh how tough... I'd shake with fear but I don't want to throw my back out from the exaggerated and obviously phony wiggling I'd try to show.
Sorry if I sound like a beg. I have no other choice. I don't have people to turn to, as I'm not one to come crawling to others, but like I said, this isn't doable here anymore. I wish it wasn't this way.
Please do not donate if you live check to check, I don't want to put my burdens on anyone (those who don't deserve undue burden) who has/have enough bills to deal with already; but if you find it in your heart to help others and have the means to do so, it would be appreciated.
The physical pain I can deal with, but when my heart hurts from being broken, that's a whole different beast.
I am just sorry I trusted my family. I of all people, should know better. I just wanted peace. That was too much of an ask.
--That is all, I hope, for now.
-The Bob.

 

i will try to support you in any way i can bob

 

My god... I do hope you find some where safe and far away from these "family" members. I unfortunately know all too well what its like to just give and give and give to narcissistic family members and only just get belittled, worn down, used up and then told that your just a terrible person for... well.. any reason that tickles their egos. Furthermore I also know what its like to be physically threatened by a family member, although not by the after mentioned people but rather my own my mums husband, a man whom does not hand out threats without acting upon them, and with him being a 230 lb 5'7 gorilla and my being a small 5'2 and 110 lb twig, one would do best to heed such threats.

Sometimes sleeping in the car isn't such a bad idea, although with your back that might just be a terrible idea. I hope you can afford at least a motel or maybe some apartment, perhaps one of your fellow parishioners could help

Please stay safe, and look after yourself

 

Please also be safe and careful, but do work out when and where possible, and get martial arts training if possible. Talk to a cop off-the-record, next time you're out for a walk and see one, ask for some advice but don't make an official report.
Hidden cameras work wonders, trust me on that, just make sure they're NEVER discovered. Back up the 'evidence' as you get it. Even audio recordings can help add to things if you've got plenty of evidence of the abuse.
I know I'm glad I stashed a few around the house here. They're trying to run me out, after a decade of busting my bottom for these narcissists and picking them up when they fall and giving them all the support they need - my disabled body gives out and I'm out with the trash I guess.
With family like this I just want to be a hermit. I can back myself up physically, I'm OK there despite being disabled - thanks ironically to the PTSD. I have learned to harness it's ability, with the martial arts training I've had decades in the past, but also less thrilled to mention that I've honed it a bit because people seem to love to think I'm just a wimp, because I don't act out or act physically imposing (because I'm not insecure thus never felt a need to). Well I don't act like that until someone does try and bully me and I'm either cornered or supposed to feel threatened. In a perfect world this would never happen, but unfortunately (At-least from my experience) the mortal plane we (or at-least I) live in is much closer to hell than heaven.

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Just know whatever you can do is appreciated, even if it's 1 or 2$. Every. Bit. Helps. I will save it up and get the heck out of here. I'm done with these mental cases for a family. I loved them. I did all I could until I couldn't anymore. I should have known they were wolves in sheep's clothing.

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I have had some time to work on this tonight, and got some nice stuff done. I got the highway closer to what it needs to be, all the central guide-rail has been placed. The stuff on the outer-edges is just temporary for now, more there as a guide for banking the road consistently (which I'll do manually carving it VS using the 'tools' the editor has that NEVER work right - causing more work for me in the end). Got a little terrain work down, mostly around the tiny shopping center I've added. Need more store signs while I think of it. I think there was a ton from Roane County but they got trimmed out when I ran the 'only keep what's needed' tool on this a year or two back. I can add them back, with the power of backups and a master-sources folder. Fun fact: The sources for this project take up MULTIPLE TERABYTES of my computer... and it's very nearly FULL.
Poor computer. Oh well.
I hope wherever I go has decent internet... but I'll take what I can get. Most places by now have half-decent internet and I'll be living somewhere I can GO FOR WALKS for once. Going for WALKS is something I used to enjoy, but it's going to take a lot of doing to get back to where I used to be able to walk decent lengths of time. That thing I took for granted in noisy suburbia or hectic down-town, don't take things for granted folks! I sure miss the botolios (I can't spell that) or whatever they were (meat pies, nearly like taco-shaped enclosed peirogies of MEAT and cheese, those things were AWESOME), used to have corner bodegas up north in Pennsylvania where the Spanish and Portuguese stores sold them for around a dollar a piece. I'd walk down once or twice a week, get a bunch, and if they had around 10 I'd bring them home and give the rest to the neighbor's family and friends (they were on food stamps and had kids and often shared a beer with me when I used-to drink socially).
...but back to the Los Injurus progress and less about me and my dreaming...
A very basic shopping center is here, near to the highway, it's a little something that's been added, with some trees around it. There's going to be homes along the side-road which for now will dead-end where the development will be. I will eventually put the road through again - it's only a small side-road so I'll get to it after the next update (it's easily bypassed with another road down below the cliff).
I will fix the lane issue with the highway going from 3 to 2 lanes 'suddenly' as it hits a bridge, in my next edit session.

So it's very early in development, and this is very flat / bland for now, but it'll be getting more detail in the future. This is just the detail I could add at the moment, and is better than the boring unrealistic mound of land that was there before. Some of the terrain is no-where near done being detailed and is just done enough not to be (as much of) an eyesore at the moment.
The highway still needs it's banking, and much of the lane-striping is not done yet. I have some concrete sections down for now, but there will be much, much more detail added in later. I just want to get it pieced back together for now and slap some AI on it to get it working again, so I can release an update (finally) before this 'family' goes nuclear on me for existing as a disabled person.
Are we there yet? No, not quite, but I'm getting it there. If only to keep my (in)sanity at bay with my current situation.
My Chiropractor REALLY crunched me up good yesterday when I paid them a visit. I really, really needed that visit. I could barely get IN there myself, and honestly I'm not sure how I did it. I think anymore I use my adrenaline to get myself around to some extent some of my days.
Thank-you for any support you may give. It helps. I'm stockpiling it currently. I am just hoping that I can get my body back enough to at-least go for walks one day again. Out here in the boonies you will be hit on these roads (with no sidewalks) faster than you would get hit walking around in GTA Online. I don't want to get SMOOSHED! I try not to be a statistic.
-That is all for now.
--The Bob

EDIT: Oh, wide-shot of the under-construction area. I replaced that bridge you could see through the bottom of when driving under it, too. It's now just like the bridge in-front of the huge dam/reservoir across the other side of the level.

If I may, it looks pretty awesome sitting up there connecting those rock-faces. Much better than before.

 

bob i got a question
are you against someone making this map work with career mode or RLS ?

 

RLS? Not sure what it is, but if you wish to contribute something to make this level more compatible with other mods you may feel absolutely free to do so. I NEVER have a problem with fixes, bug-work-arounds, general quality-of-life improvements, or even things like when someone made themed trailers or squad cars back when Roane County had it's heyday. Going to think RLS is 'real life sim' maybe.

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I just got bonded out from several days in jail FOR ME BEING ACCOSTED, FOR ME BEING DEATH-THREATENED, ON MY OWN PROPERTY, when I was on the way to church (I'm a trustee) to open it up (and warm it up) for the morning mass, all over a bunch of LIES.
I. Have. No. Words. Neither does my church congregation who were entirely gob-smacked, confused, and rightly angry with the Sheriff's F-troop for screwing up in such a way that I'd need to make up new words to describe this level of grab-arse.
Other then the fact that I am both more respected and treated A WHOLE LOT BETTER by the folks inside a jail, than by my own family.
I'm not kidding.
...and the charges potentially carry 3~6 years in prison and I didn't lay my hands on anyone. I am traumatized to heck and back. I just can't get over it. The whole bleep-show is just entirely a farse of a police report. What a way to try and boot me off my own family's will that I don't even care about, and hate me for being disabled due to 'being here' for everyone else when they needed help but when I need help and my body has LONG since given up I'm called lazy, a leach, and death threatened - For having a bad back and needing rods in multiple places in my back.
At this rate however, I've given up caring one bit about being successful in trying to live in civilized society. I'd rather be 'on the inside', at-least they know how to take care of someone who's DISABLED physically and can help them out (and now very likely mentally, wish I was kidding). I can barely get through a shower by myself anymore here at the house.
The sheriff's deputy that showed up to save the world from the lies spread about me, didn't even give half a second to verify anything I said. Nope, no care in the world. Whatever. It's not me that gets SUED over it. This country is F'ed.

 

Sorry to hear, that sounds like a lot of completely messed up sh*t.

 

RLS is a mod that improves upon the vanilla career mode and im sorry to hear that

my question was just out of curiosity and my lack of talent/time, also your map would fit career mode really well