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Pikes Peak - LIDAR Edition 0.94

The famous hillclimb race, now with smooth pavment.

  1. Ewanc
    Here's the century old Race To The Clouds, all 12.4 miles and 4300 feet of it. Every detail possible was added including; guard rails, all big bolders and logs along the side of the road, tree placement and scaling, road signs and markers, and even the drainage gutters.

    Features include:

    • Time Trial Mode; the full hill climb course and a shorter GT2 style one, both are reversible.
    • 2 separate versions of the map, one is paved and the other is the "classic" gravel.
    • New: super smooth mesh roads, modeled specially using advanced techniques to get realistic banking and contours.
    • Fully optimized graphics, for smooth frames and maxed out details.
    new_ppihc02.jpg new_ppihc03.jpg new_ppihc07.jpg new_ppihc06.jpg new_ppihc05.jpg new_ppihc08.jpg


    Perview video courtesy of Levy3Poop



    The terrain was generated using a combination of USGS 1M LIDAR for surfaces close to the road and 10m DEMs for the vast expanses out to the edge of the map, along with a low poly mesh to create even more terrain surrounding the map. I used google street view to create very accurate details all along the track.

    Here's an add-on that includes the buildings from the old version.
    https://www.beamng.com/attachments/pikezpeak_buildings-zip.462666/


    Known bugs:
    • The guard rail heights are uneven in places. This is purely cosmetic and their hit boxes will always work perfect.
    Thanks to:
    Ian @ The Colorado GIS Coordination and Development Program: For acquiring LIDAR elevation data for the whole mountain.
    Google Street View Car: Drove all the way to the summit and even back behind the train station.
    BeamNG: For all vanilla assets I used, which is about 90%.
    fufsgfen: For encouraging me to keep at it, and finally release the level.
    Next up:
    • Making this version compatible with the old one, so they can load independently.
    • Detailing the areas above Glen Cove
    • Adding curbs and rock walls to the meshed road models
    • Cleaning up the new roads and integrating them a little better.
    • Building a railroad system down the back side of the mountain.
    This map is very large and may require 8GB of ram to load successfully. Here's the Pikes Peak forum tread for this track. Please use this resource or PM me about issues and bugs rather than the review page, so they don't get buried or overlooked.
    Nadeox1, RyvyLo and thomatoes50 like this.

Recent Reviews

  1. molloyninja1
    molloyninja1
    5/5,
    Version: 0.94
    Superb map! I was getting flash backs to driving the road IRL. The detail is amazing, and I couldn't be happier with it. Adding the buildings at the summit would make it slightly better but overall, 10/10.
  2. Hank_Montgomery
    Hank_Montgomery
    2/5,
    Version: 0.94
    The custom sky map looks awful and grainy, the weird tree PNGs look bad too. This map needs some rework like adding PBR and replacing the sky map or removing it completely (i don't like BeamNG's default clouds though). This map has potential, but when is the map going to be updated? It's something we'll probably never know. Remove all negative reviews once you fix the map, please :)
  3. CH1L1 B0MB3N
    CH1L1 B0MB3N
    5/5,
    Version: 0.94
    nice
  4. Dawn Darklight
    Dawn Darklight
    3/5,
    Version: 0.94
    I mean, It's Pikes peaks bro! However, the map from today's standards looks a bit dusty, could use a glowup!
  5. Mr.Drift
    Mr.Drift
    3/5,
    Version: 0.94
    Very fun map to drive around, smooth roads and turns. Visually decent and very potato PC friendly.
    The skybox is kinda ugly which isn't a big problem while driving, but the ground behind the trees is too dark and inbetween trees, there is sometimes a 2D tree texture. That is the main problem i have with this map, those are very distracting. Also theres grass on the road sometimes. Many visual problems with this map.
  6. BruceLeeFan1988
    BruceLeeFan1988
    5/5,
    Version: 0.94
    This map is a blast to rally through in a custom Trophy Truck. I saw some Pike's Peaks runs on YouTube and wondered if there was a map for BeamNG and low and behold, here it is! Looking forward to time trials being fixed!
  7. Mrrallyracer11
    Mrrallyracer11
    5/5,
    Version: 0.94
    Really love this map, its great fun and really well made. Unfortunately at some point the time trials stopped working for me. Still an absolute blast to drive on it.
  8. rideurbikes
    rideurbikes
    5/5,
    Version: 0.94
    A beautiful map and a lot of fun. Unfortunately, update .31 has broken the races.
  9. JTubeYT
    JTubeYT
    4/5,
    Version: 0.94
    Good except that I'm able to drive through most of the rocks like it's not there
  10. IAmTheBatManXIII
    IAmTheBatManXIII
    5/5,
    Version: 0.94
    The map is amazing, I cant stop playing it!
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