Proposal for an epic map! (All expert modders here!)

I have a very great idea, but I don't know how to make it because I have no time at all for learn modding and map creation, so I'll ask help from modders and groups of modders.


https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oahu


That's Oahu Island!!
Its perimeter is about 200 Km (118 miles) and it would be great if someone could create a smaller version for our beloved game!
I know that's a huge challenge (the real one is 1.545 km² instead of the bigger map format for beamng.drive) and it will take plenty of times, but I think it could be a great idea make it done!

So please consider my idea and contact me if want more detail (unless you want to make it on your own).

 

Oahu eh?

I'm from Oahu lol, we had one for RoR maybe someone can port it on over?

or start from scratch, it would be awesome to have in beam though.

 

For the idea not bad, and I could help out as well.. but bringing it into reality ? hmm

 

What's a RoR?

And thanks, if we could get it done it would be tremendous!

I got the idea from TDU, my fav videogame ever, 200 hours of gameplay over 5 years.

Once, when I was 10 (now i'm 17) I thought Oahu Island don't exists, it was created for TDU.

But after some internet surfing, I knew what a beautiful island it is.

And litterally read a lot of things about live there (school, crime rates, health system...) and all the beuties of that island.

And I litterally forgot about the videogame and took Oahu as topic in mosts of my english tests.

Ok so you know why I really desire to free roam in Oahu.


We may start with some google earth photos or something else (Maps, 3D models...)

You are the boss.

 

Ah yes test drive unlimited sadly they got a few things wrong (map wise) but other than that , they did good.

I seem to be the only one from the state of Hawaii to browse the forums.

RoR is rigs of rods, take a look on the web.

 

It's also for maps?

 

no RoR is a vehicle simulator just like beam.

Here is what the layout looked like.

It was just a blank terrain with nothing on it.

 

I thought that the shape looked familiar, I too loved TDU and TDU2 and i still have it installed to this day. This would be AWESOME in BeamNG. Even just the landscape would be really good to have for offroading.

 

Wow so...is this already the model for work with it?

 

If you could find someone who could port it over.

 

Can you do it?

 

No sir, I don't even if its possible, you might have to ask a experienced modder to see if its possible.

 

Can you name some?

 

It would be difficult/fps heavy to do even half of the size of this island. It would take some time to do and a beefy computer to run.

 

Can you down size it?

 

In RoR I could run it with a core 2 duo 27inch imac at that time (2009-2010) with 60-100 fps. (yes I know this is not RoR.)

the map itself wasn't that big if I remember correctly.

@TommasoItaly99 are you looking at a full fledged terrain? or just a regular bare bones terrain to drive on?

edit

I downloaded RoR and took a screen shot

I couldn't get the whole map in the shot as RoR graphics engine likes to freak out when you zoom far out.

 

~400 km² seems the best size for quality and fps

 

Looking at terrain.party, the largest setting is 60km^2, and it almost fits around Oahu but a very small area will be missing if you want to export it. The other issue with a project this big is the squareSize. You will need a massive squareSize of 30 for this map, assuming the heightmap was resized to 2048x2048 and the heightmap covers an area of 60km^2. That means a terrain brush that has a size of 1 will be 30 times bigger than your usual sized map (2048x2048 or so)

 

I know it's a huge project...s****

 

http://www.beamng.com/forums/ideas-and-suggestions.4/
What is with the sudden influx of people that dont know how to forum


Maps arent expansive enough to do this anyway.