What happened to the Graphics engine?

Glad someone brought this up and the before/after screens tell the story. I mainly noticed what I feel was a terrible change in the tree LOD's.
No doubt the devs are trying various things to make the game more palatable to people with low end hardware but to make graphics
whores like myself suffer for it isn't the answer. I say bring on the "ultimate" graphics setting idea that gives users the option to allow
the enabling of everything possible and everything in between.

 

There was discussion of a draw distance slider a while ago but there was no technical stuff or discussion about it. It's a good idea and with the skill on this dev team they could do it. Even on my laptop, i play with High Texture, mesh and shader quality along with SSAO and sometimes anti aliasing and i get "usable" fps (20fps+) on most maps that i can open.

http://www.beamng.com/threads/please-add-a-draw-distance-slider.32002/

 

Here you can see how much better the old version looks. So sad that they downgraded the graphics, i hoped to see some proper optimization . But only downgrading happened since version 0.3.8.3. And the other thing is, they never said that they downgraded something in the blogposts.

 

I havent seen your post before i postet mine :/.

 

I just turn my brightness up in postfx and mess around with the ssao till it looks good. I'm waiting for the graphics update, which will inevitably happen.

 

Those old screenshots make the cars look like plastic.. The game looks considerably better after. I also didn't even notice the difference in the tree lods, its really not necessary to have them stupidly far into the distance.

 

Maybe u play on a small monitor, because i see the difference in lods without zooming in. I play on a 27 Inch wqhd IPS monitor.

 

if you have a beast pc. you shouldnt use ingame setting controls anyways..... if you know anything about modding its all in the game-settings.cs files or so other files in documents/beamNGdrive/settings there you adjust it to your computer specs manually. You know, instead of complaining or asking for ultrahigh settings. Do it yourself. Also check if your graphics card is limiting the processing power or with any conflicts with your gfx driver. you could always up the graphics that way also.

 

How do you use these? If I try to load the preset through the postfx manager it doesn't work.

 

There must be something wrong. My game looks better than it was before, even at normal settings.

 

Is this supposed to be funny? Or are you just saying the different presets make it look better?

 

No. I'm saying that instead of looking worse, my game looks bettee

 

Where can i find it? I'm probably missing it somewhere

 

Thanks