Announcement of Mod Support Meeting

i would like to see the process of making a high quality, good looking map. I was trying to make one. It's a remake of this real place called Mt. Nebo, Arkansas.

Development was going really well until a sudden crash on load problem arose. I am unable to figure out why it is crashing for about 3 months to no avail. I really need help with getting my map working again.

Here is a link to the forum thread I made about 3 months ago:

http://www.beamng.com/threads/custom-map-suddenly-crashing-on-start.21098/

 

I think the process is very likely to vary greatly from person to person, or from map to map. For instance, since you're making a real-world location, the first step would likely involve finding some relevant DEM terrain data and some OSM roads and buildings. For a map like East Coast USA, you'd need to start by drawing out the map and determining what you want to do within it (since it's purely your creation). And some maps can even preclude needing a terrain block at all until late in the process.

Not to say that a straight answer isn't possible, but unless you're interested in buying a copy of World Machine, you probably won't want to follow in Hutch's exact footsteps.

 

My Mt. Nebo map has a heightmap from terrain.party. I did some calulations and made the terrain in BeamNG accurate to the scale of the real place. Right now it has roads and some buildings and trees. For some reason after that the map just doesn't want to load anymore. It crashes every time I load it. I didn't do anything to it. I did some suggestion by NadeoX1 saying that some things were named incorrectly. I renamed what he said to rename and it just made the problem worse. Now for some reason in-game two of the icons for my map appear. One of them is the crashing map, and the other one is the stock East Coast USA without trees or vegitation.
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I would also like to see better crash reports that tell you exactly what is causing the crash instead of spitting out all of this stuff about your game options, pc specs, and all of that stuff.

 

Thank you so much for doing this! I know how to make car models, but I haven't the foggiest on how to do J-beam stuff

 

Can I be here for migrating stuff too? So migrating a car mod from Rigs of Rods to BeamNG (Not a car Gabe has made since I know he doesn't want those cars to return to BeamNG)

 

does it include how to make a mod?

 

So can someone explain exactlly what is happening, will it be voice chat or what's the story

 

But I do have some knowledge with modding. The only problem is the JBeam, and I never migrated an car from Rigs of Rods to BeamNG (Not a car that Gabe doesn't want) but a mod. So is it a good reason or ask on the Q&A??

 

How to change tackwith, with global wheels?

 

How to Jbeam tut?

 

How to take models from other games?

 

It isn't 16th or April yet.

 

I will try to get on the website when i can this sunday

 

I doubt they will be able to tell you how to do that. Since that is usually somewhat illegal.

What is going to be the protocol for if we want to send you a mod but don't want to turn it into a public beta version for the unwashed masses?