WIP Beta released Land of Sands (270,000+ sq km map)

damoroc22 · Nov 29, 2023

help the map just turned dark and map preview not work and he broke after clearing cache

ARES IV · Nov 29, 2023

Be sure to redownload the map and verify game files via Steam.

damoroc22 · Nov 29, 2023

ARES IV said: ↑

Be sure to redownload the map and verify game files via Steam.
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that happen after clearing cache and map preview not work just for lands of sands map

ibishucovet1987.txt · Dec 1, 2023

damoroc22 said: ↑

help the map just turned dark and map preview not work and he broke after clearing cache
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Just redownload the map i guess. If you unpacked it before or pressed save in world editor, it could be the culprit of that issue you have.

my wifi is gone · Dec 19, 2023

ibishucovet1987.txt said: ↑

View attachment 1021886
Land of Sands
AKA
Sandia or Huge Desert Map
A very hot and big place, where you can test cars in hot temperatures, or just drive around the map, and exploring the limits of the game!

Download link is right below the post.

Okay, it's finally the time for me to actually post a work in progress map that i've been working on for about a month or so. This map is a sequel to my previous map Antarctica (https://www.beamng.com/resources/antarctica-98304-x-98304-km-in-size.25724/) Which is a big map based on real-life continent, and mostly used to test cars in cool conditions. This map is the opposite of that, it is hot and sandy, which is good if you need to test cars in hot conditions, and see how long they will last.

UPD May 29th 2023: The map has been released now, and it only took me one in a half months to finish it, but as far as the concept of the map goes, it took 2 months already by this point. The map still has plenty of things to finish, add, or polish, so it'll be more better than before, and more comfy to drive on. Lots of pictures you will see on this post is back when this post came out, now the map looks different, so keep that in mind.

Compare to Antarctica map i made, it is about 32 times larger than Antarctica, and it's made to be this big for few reasons.
Reason 1: Why not? Experimenting is fun anyways.
Reason 2: It's also handy to test cars on a long run from one bit of the map, to another.
And finally, reason 3: It is perfect for air vehicles, as they can land anywhere, as far as it's not water below them.

How exactly big this map is?
According to the game (and not my calculations), the terrain object is exactly 274,877.9 sq km, which according to the Wikipedia, is larger than New Zealand, United Kingdom, Western Sahara (which is the base of the map). Romania, South and North Koreas, Japanese island Honchu, and Iceland. That's how big it is.

And comparing to Antarctica again, this map has quite a lot of stuff included, such as traffic lights (that work, of course), night time lighting, couple of towns and villages, a VEEEEEEEEEEEERY long highway and other roads, working gas stations, and more.

Lore
(might be questionable or confusing)

The island was discovered in 1899 by some British folks who were going to South Africa, initially they were thinking that they have arrived to North of Africa, but what has actually happened, is that they have arrived to the island that was far from North of Africa.

When they found out that it is the wrong place, they decided to not just leave the place, but instead build towns and occupy the island with people, and create a new country on it. And later in 1902, Sandia was created.

When cars arrived to Sandia, they were imported from Japan, since they were cheap to import, and easy to fix. Since 1960s, it has started witnessing natural disasters, which destroyed and ruined some bits of the island, mainly the road system outside of towns, the most frequent natural disaster that the island has are earthquakes, which caused most of the roads to stick out of the sand, which in that matter causes troubles when stopping on the side of the road for normal vehicles that are not qualified for better off-road and climbing. Not only that, it also caused some roads to be bumpy, as well as curve very sharply, causing those roads to be driven one by one for each lane.

Sandia is the most hottest place in every season, especially in Summer, which is a perfect opportunity for some people to start traveling to the place to take vacations.

Some people arrive to Sandia in their cars from around the world to do "Arabic Drifting", which is a type of drifting at highest speeds, which is mostly done on public highways with cars already driving on them every day.

Sandia has taken some designs from American cities, East European cities, and Italian cities, by building structures similar to those countries, the most popular style used in some towns is Italian, which also gained attention from Italians themselves, which made an impact on Sandia, as it introduced Italian language in its society.

Somewhere in 2000s, Ibishu built the testing site for their vehicles on the island, to test the cars (not only just Ibishu branded ones) in hottest climates possible.

Main features of the map
-270,000+ sq km terrain, which is enough to take about 8+ hours to circle around it
-Working street lights at night
-AI Support (although it's very stupid)
-Very long highways, which is enough to arab drift until you get bored with it, and not because the road ends
-Complete freedom (...obviously)
-Kart Track (located in Hill Town spawn point)
-Secrets
-Memorial to my old cat (R.I.P.)
and probably other things i didn't mentioned.

Now to the QnA part of this post, i'll try to answer the questions that you might have when you first saw this post.

Question 1: Why is it this big?
Answer: As i said in the post, it's just curiosity and for other purposes, such as air vehicles

Question 2: What's the whole point of the map?
Answer: Providing a giant place to test cars in hot conditions, as well as having fun times in either single-player, or in multi-player with your friends. And also for arabic drifting as well.

Question 3: How big the file is?
Answer: around 600+ MB, but not over 1 GB.

Question 4: Will it explode my PC?
Answer: No, it is optimized well enough for machines that have minimum specifications for the game, or below that. I haven't yet tested it on my 8 GB i3 Laptop, and 4 GB Celeron AiO PC, but once i will, i will update the information for this question. (If i ever will)

Question 5: What happens if you go from one corner of the map to another with that size?
Answer: The graphics will just freak out due to Floating Point glitches. To fix that glitch, game devs have to rework the entire game engine so it'll support larger scales of maps like this one, but it is very... VERY hard to do on the engine from 2001 (Torque3D which is what BeamNG uses as a base, is based on a 2001 game engine used in a 2001 game Tribes 2, which is a competitor to popular games of that time, such as Unreal Tournament '99)

Question 6: What's the maximum FPS you get on your machine?
Answer: Let me provide the specs i have, and then i'll tell what FPS i usually get in the game
CPU: Ryzen 5 1600 3.2 GHz (overclocked up to 3.5 GHz)
GPU: Radeon RX 570 4GB
RAM: 16 GB running at the speed of 2667 MHz (according to Task Manager and BIOS)
The game on the map with these specs runs on average 90 FPS or even higher. Maximum it can go is up to 120+ FPS at normal settings. I checked it later with setting lighting setting to Ultra, which dropped my FPS down to 60, due to the usage of full PBR lighting.

Question 7: Does it have PBR textures?
Answer: Yes.

Question 8: Does it have AI traffic support?
Answer: Yes, it does, but traffic is veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery stupid in some places.

Question 9: When and where this map will be released?
Answer: To answer the "when" part, probably summer, or late May. As for "where" part, it will be either repo, or if something goes wrong with repo, it'll be on forums with google drive link instead.
UPD: This question can now be ignored, as it was found out that the only way to upload the map, is through any file sharing website (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.), i choose Google Drive since i'm more familiar with it than anything else, and it's also trusted since it's from Google.

Hopefully that's all questions you may be asking once you'll see this post, If you don't have a question answered in this QnA section, you can comment here, and i'll try to answer it.

And here's the pictures i took in the map, showcasing some places and the license plate of the map. (Warning, most of them are old, and long before the map has been released)
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Gonna credit some people who tried and had fun on the map in local BeamMP server.
@Born 2 Drive AKA SourDisc elsewhere
@Kirvis1393

Download
(Google Drive link)

When updating the map from one version to another, keep in mind that you have to remove the old version of the map, and clean cache, as it might result some troubles with playing on a new version.
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you know, now that i think of it, as a final touch, it would be nice having a few easter eggs on the map, since its so big! maybe even add a swiming 2d fish texture in some parts? anyways good job man!

Marek_Gutkowski · Dec 30, 2023

I just tried the map out.
I guess the saying "be careful what you wish for" is true.It goes on and on. I had to go to bed before I got halfway to my destination.
Outstanding job on an outstanding map.

domenicc4 · Jan 18, 2024

Anyone else have the issue of the map "Shaking" when you drive? It's very annoying (I'm guessing it's a mesh clipping issue of sorts)

SSRG · Jan 18, 2024

domenicc4 said: ↑

Anyone else have the issue of the map "Shaking" when you drive? It's very annoying (I'm guessing it's a mesh clipping issue of sorts)
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It’s due to the fact that almost every location is so far from the map’s real center.
A side effect of something this big. I think it’s a floating point precision related thing.

ibishucovet1987.txt · Jan 18, 2024

domenicc4 said: ↑

Anyone else have the issue of the map "Shaking" when you drive? It's very annoying (I'm guessing it's a mesh clipping issue of sorts)
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it's BeamNG's thing when you go far away. The engine isn't really optimized for those kind of things, and it results the shaking when the camera is far away from the map's center.

WakefulPrawn87 · Jan 31, 2024

ibishucovet1987.txt said: ↑

View attachment 1021886
Land of Sands
AKA
Sandia or Huge Desert Map
A very hot and big place, where you can test cars in hot temperatures, or just drive around the map, and exploring the limits of the game!

Download link is right below the post.

Okay, it's finally the time for me to actually post a work in progress map that i've been working on for about a month or so. This map is a sequel to my previous map Antarctica (https://www.beamng.com/resources/antarctica-98304-x-98304-km-in-size.25724/) Which is a big map based on real-life continent, and mostly used to test cars in cool conditions. This map is the opposite of that, it is hot and sandy, which is good if you need to test cars in hot conditions, and see how long they will last.

UPD May 29th 2023: The map has been released now, and it only took me one in a half months to finish it, but as far as the concept of the map goes, it took 2 months already by this point. The map still has plenty of things to finish, add, or polish, so it'll be more better than before, and more comfy to drive on. Lots of pictures you will see on this post is back when this post came out, now the map looks different, so keep that in mind.

Compare to Antarctica map i made, it is about 32 times larger than Antarctica, and it's made to be this big for few reasons.
Reason 1: Why not? Experimenting is fun anyways.
Reason 2: It's also handy to test cars on a long run from one bit of the map, to another.
And finally, reason 3: It is perfect for air vehicles, as they can land anywhere, as far as it's not water below them.

How exactly big this map is?
According to the game (and not my calculations), the terrain object is exactly 274,877.9 sq km, which according to the Wikipedia, is larger than New Zealand, United Kingdom, Western Sahara (which is the base of the map). Romania, South and North Koreas, Japanese island Honchu, and Iceland. That's how big it is.

And comparing to Antarctica again, this map has quite a lot of stuff included, such as traffic lights (that work, of course), night time lighting, couple of towns and villages, a VEEEEEEEEEEEERY long highway and other roads, working gas stations, and more.

Lore
(might be questionable or confusing)

The island was discovered in 1899 by some British folks who were going to South Africa, initially they were thinking that they have arrived to North of Africa, but what has actually happened, is that they have arrived to the island that was far from North of Africa.

When they found out that it is the wrong place, they decided to not just leave the place, but instead build towns and occupy the island with people, and create a new country on it. And later in 1902, Sandia was created.

When cars arrived to Sandia, they were imported from Japan, since they were cheap to import, and easy to fix. Since 1960s, it has started witnessing natural disasters, which destroyed and ruined some bits of the island, mainly the road system outside of towns, the most frequent natural disaster that the island has are earthquakes, which caused most of the roads to stick out of the sand, which in that matter causes troubles when stopping on the side of the road for normal vehicles that are not qualified for better off-road and climbing. Not only that, it also caused some roads to be bumpy, as well as curve very sharply, causing those roads to be driven one by one for each lane.

Sandia is the most hottest place in every season, especially in Summer, which is a perfect opportunity for some people to start traveling to the place to take vacations.

Some people arrive to Sandia in their cars from around the world to do "Arabic Drifting", which is a type of drifting at highest speeds, which is mostly done on public highways with cars already driving on them every day.

Sandia has taken some designs from American cities, East European cities, and Italian cities, by building structures similar to those countries, the most popular style used in some towns is Italian, which also gained attention from Italians themselves, which made an impact on Sandia, as it introduced Italian language in its society.

Somewhere in 2000s, Ibishu built the testing site for their vehicles on the island, to test the cars (not only just Ibishu branded ones) in hottest climates possible.

Main features of the map
-270,000+ sq km terrain, which is enough to take about 8+ hours to circle around it
-Working street lights at night
-AI Support (although it's very stupid)
-Very long highways, which is enough to arab drift until you get bored with it, and not because the road ends
-Complete freedom (...obviously)
-Kart Track (located in Hill Town spawn point)
-Secrets
-Memorial to my old cat (R.I.P.)
and probably other things i didn't mentioned.

Now to the QnA part of this post, i'll try to answer the questions that you might have when you first saw this post.

Question 1: Why is it this big?
Answer: As i said in the post, it's just curiosity and for other purposes, such as air vehicles

Question 2: What's the whole point of the map?
Answer: Providing a giant place to test cars in hot conditions, as well as having fun times in either single-player, or in multi-player with your friends. And also for arabic drifting as well.

Question 3: How big the file is?
Answer: around 600+ MB, but not over 1 GB.

Question 4: Will it explode my PC?
Answer: No, it is optimized well enough for machines that have minimum specifications for the game, or below that. I haven't yet tested it on my 8 GB i3 Laptop, and 4 GB Celeron AiO PC, but once i will, i will update the information for this question. (If i ever will)

Question 5: What happens if you go from one corner of the map to another with that size?
Answer: The graphics will just freak out due to Floating Point glitches. To fix that glitch, game devs have to rework the entire game engine so it'll support larger scales of maps like this one, but it is very... VERY hard to do on the engine from 2001 (Torque3D which is what BeamNG uses as a base, is based on a 2001 game engine used in a 2001 game Tribes 2, which is a competitor to popular games of that time, such as Unreal Tournament '99)

Question 6: What's the maximum FPS you get on your machine?
Answer: Let me provide the specs i have, and then i'll tell what FPS i usually get in the game
CPU: Ryzen 5 1600 3.2 GHz (overclocked up to 3.5 GHz)
GPU: Radeon RX 570 4GB
RAM: 16 GB running at the speed of 2667 MHz (according to Task Manager and BIOS)
The game on the map with these specs runs on average 90 FPS or even higher. Maximum it can go is up to 120+ FPS at normal settings. I checked it later with setting lighting setting to Ultra, which dropped my FPS down to 60, due to the usage of full PBR lighting.

Question 7: Does it have PBR textures?
Answer: Yes.

Question 8: Does it have AI traffic support?
Answer: Yes, it does, but traffic is veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery stupid in some places.

Question 9: When and where this map will be released?
Answer: To answer the "when" part, probably summer, or late May. As for "where" part, it will be either repo, or if something goes wrong with repo, it'll be on forums with google drive link instead.
UPD: This question can now be ignored, as it was found out that the only way to upload the map, is through any file sharing website (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.), i choose Google Drive since i'm more familiar with it than anything else, and it's also trusted since it's from Google.

Hopefully that's all questions you may be asking once you'll see this post, If you don't have a question answered in this QnA section, you can comment here, and i'll try to answer it.

And here's the pictures i took in the map, showcasing some places and the license plate of the map. (Warning, most of them are old, and long before the map has been released)
View attachment 1021904 View attachment 1021905 View attachment 1021906 View attachment 1021907 View attachment 1021908 View attachment 1021909 View attachment 1021910 View attachment 1021911 View attachment 1021912 View attachment 1021913 View attachment 1021914 View attachment 1021915 View attachment 1021916 View attachment 1021917 View attachment 1021918 View attachment 1021919 View attachment 1021920 View attachment 1021921 View attachment 1021922 View attachment 1021923 View attachment 1021924

Gonna credit some people who tried and had fun on the map in local BeamMP server.
@Born 2 Drive AKA SourDisc elsewhere
@Kirvis1393

Download
(Google Drive link)

When updating the map from one version to another, keep in mind that you have to remove the old version of the map, and clean cache, as it might result some troubles with playing on a new version.
Click to expand...

Hey the creator of this mod so I am having an issue where the terrain shakes so interior view is kind of messed up

damoroc22 · Jan 31, 2024

im actually working on a costa rilassante expansion with a new area called costa rilassante downtown including in uphill area neibourghood highly inspired on cuatepec mexico and a tasti cola factory with a warehouse with loading area focused on trucking because of 0.31the mexican area is 3 buildings becos a moment ago started working on that

ARES IV · Jan 31, 2024

WakefulPrawn87 said: ↑

Hey the creator of this mod so I am having an issue where the terrain shakes so interior view is kind of messed up
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ibishucovet1987.txt said: ↑

it's BeamNG's thing when you go far away. The engine isn't really optimized for those kind of things, and it results the shaking when the camera is far away from the map's center.
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Mikah 01 · Jan 31, 2024

Could you maybe also make the Map based on Tunisia ?

WhisperTheIdiot · Jan 31, 2024

when i use the map the camera gets all shaky and the farther i go the worse it gets
anyway to fix it?

SSRG · Feb 1, 2024

WhisperTheIdiot said: ↑

when i use the map the camera gets all shaky and the farther i go the worse it gets
anyway to fix it?
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lekjfjuijiofjw9fjoiweoigjw8egio literally like 3 messages above this one

Ananel81 · Feb 1, 2024

When someone ask something, BeamNG website needs a pop-up system who said if the question was already answered. :\

ARES IV · Feb 1, 2024

WhisperTheIdiot said: ↑

when i use the map the camera gets all shaky and the farther i go the worse it gets
anyway to fix it?
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Read the last few posts.

damoroc22 · Feb 10, 2024

tonight on costa rilassante expansion release added a landfill a wide avenue mexican neibourghood finished ia support finally releasing it here

damoroc22 · Feb 14, 2024

in version 5.5 i noticed that here is no ia races missions

passengerpigeon · Feb 28, 2024

Hi OP, is this map still being worked on and added to, or are you done with it?

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