Is there a reason why most BeamNG Mods are private?

The ETK SUV has been a WIP for a long time, so I don't think that's quite the same deal as some of the other mods. Bernd seems to have gotten busy and probably can't work on it much, I wouldn't be surprised if development has been put on hold for the time being. That's not to say that it's tasteful for the beta testers to brag about having it, but thankfully I haven't really seen anyone doing that.

I do have to agree that community screens has been a mess with all the unreleased/private and 3rd party mods though. Way too many of those semi-private mods that don't even look that good are being posted. I personally think they should stop posting those so much because it makes the game look like crap and doesn't really showcase the game's abilities.

 

That's very interesting, considering it's coming from a modder.

 

"most" aren't private and any that are private are usually of decent quality and take a lot of time to develop. People also tend to have lives so its quite hard to dedicated 8 hours a day to this stuff.

The only people who don't get this are usually kids with attention spans of seconds and no patience.

 

such as these kids?:

"omg gimme that lambo now or i will kill you and if you don't give it to me now, you will suffer the wrath of GRU"

 

I think relatively everybody understands this point, however people will post their wip stuff in community screenshots for the popularity and never release. Sorta like how BeamNG youtubers will post thumbnails of supercars so people dumb enough to watch them will click on their stuff and expect the money to start flowing.

just my two cents

 

Sometimes mods are simply in development and get released... eventually. Users posting in the screenshot thread usually have early access to said mods as beta-testers.

There are some notable exceptions - mods officially scheduled for release that are never released in the end - but most of these "private" mods that surfaced earlier this week are either russian mods that are a bit hard to come by or crude clickbait slap-on ports.

 

Now I've watched those before, and I gotta be honest I was dumb enough. I even asked for it

 

Well, had to do house renovation, then some cycling, then there was this kid and new phys... I mean contn... ahem mod is still being worked on.

However new models are providing to be bit more challenging than anticipated and will make bit longer, but I'm sure they will be released in near future, around Christmas.

I will be working at pace that I feel comfortable with, because I can.

Those with some experience from lfs might get the jest, for others, we the modders are not obligated to give you the gamers anything, we do this as a hobby and with our limits and limitations, we do provide information of what we are working with, some with hopes of getting feedback, some with ideas, some with motivation, it is our love to build something, so that you can love wrecking what we built, ahem, I mean to use content we build way you love to use it.

I do share some of the stuff, even at now there is something waiting approval, but there is no point sharing something that is not yet even nearly finished.

Anyway I can't sit very long periods of time as I get pains, there is blood clot stuff from too much sitting and so on, but maybe I get to finish something, working alone takes time though.

Mods not getting released can be because of many reasons, there can be issues that are not obvious from video/screens and which might take long time to fix, modder might need to study new skills to make fix happen, then life tends to bring changes, you might have hopes to build something and looks viable, but BOOOM there is change in life and it is not so viable anymore. Even updates in BeamNG might bring new issues that might be more than anticipated of.
Then some people are not very constructive, some are even destructive, maybe community could work together to get rid of such attitude / individuals and build more interest for modders of giving people something when people would be nicer.

Work together, love and help each other, you choose the future by choices you make today.

 

What mod are you working on?

 

Drifting camper truck thing, it might take years to make though, jbeam and textures are difficult part, can't do those, unless I learn and that will be very slow because I'm old, my brain is coated with teflon and can't sit for long periods of time, but it is fun to learn new things, also seeing own creation in game is quite nice too, so little by little something happens.

 

Cause they are either:
Too good for the public, mainly the annoying community

Russian mods that really aren't the best

 

I only like 20% of russian mods.

 

Ok...