Beta The Hawk (Story Campaign) 0.3

This season's hot new television event is here! Ride along on wild adventures and crazy cases with Detective Lamar Hawkins as he fights crime, one car chase at a time. Airing now, only on Lens Flare Network!



This is a narrative-oriented scenario. So if you enjoyed Darthbob555's classic story scenario packs, 'The Bridge Conundrum' and 'Operation 235,' you might like this one as well. Do be aware that this consists of a single pilot 'episode' scenario, so it'll show up under the 'Scenarios' tab on the menu. Expect a few exposition-heavy chapters mixed in with more challenge-oriented ones.



This scenario automatically saves the player's progress back to the start of each chapter. See notes below for further details.



This was technically released back in August, but I've slightly updated this version to be more in line with the repo's higher standards and to fix issues with the release of 0.33. Further episodes are planned, but none are currently in progress.

Spoiler: Important Notes

• The custom save/load system saves progress files under [your user directory]\[current version]\settings\cloud\saves\theHawk as a .json file. Note that this directory will be created automatically during saving; you will not need to create it. If you find yourself soft-locked, deleting this file should restart your progress cleanly. Additionally, this system may potentially conflict with antivirus programs. Should this happen, please let me know in the associated thread.
• This scenario includes a large amount of art content for West Coast USA. None of this content is saved into the level itself, but there might be some slight impact on the freeroam performance of WCA.
• This scenario includes music in most of its chapters. All of this music is set to the Music audio channel, so changing your audio settings *should* mute the soundtrack if you'd prefer to play without it. And for those of you who are Let's Play-ers or streamers, all music is 100% scratch-made by yours truly, so it should not invoke a copyright strike.
• This scenario does depict some mild language, but nothing unheard of in daytime television.
• Programmatically, this scenario is extremely complicated. It will almost certainly break from future updates, so don't expect everything to work perfectly at all times. Just keep me posted about any issues you had and how you triggered them.
• And lastly, rights: I grant permission for anyone to use my code for save/load in any of their BeamNG projects. You also have full permission to use the soundtrack in any BeamNG projects uploaded to this site so long as you provide credit in your mod's description. Projects done outside of BeamNG should not use this content. I'd also far prefer to be asked permission before you use any of my illustrations or named characters in your own projects. Thank you.

Spoiler: Known Issues

• Some elements, such as text and music objects, will not load properly when playing a chapter a second time in the same session. This is unfortunately a limitation with Flowgraph.
• Investigation Markers have some strange issue with culling. I'm looking into the problem now.