Thumbnail Showroom

I want to make thumbnails in the thumbnail editor that are in the same map as the official ones to preserve continuity, but there are multiple problems:

There is no white lightroom map in the game that could be used to take the thumbnails
the darkroom map is dark, and changing the colour to white doesn't make the lighting accurate compared to the official thumbnails

Official thumbnail

Darkroom map with colour changed


The lighting is noticeably different, and editing the car's colours, chrominess or turning on dynamic reflections doesn't fix this

Is there any possibility of the official thumbnail map being released?

 

I know what you mean and agree! But i don't think they want the official showroom public,(otherwise they would have done it already) so mods thumbnails look different (stock dark showroom) because thats oh so bad if they would look the same

stock vs mod comparison: mod showroom is still darker even with materials full on white, car is in a different angle

 

That still makes no sense though
it breaks the continuity of the menu by having contrasting thumbnails and you can already tell the difference between official and mod thumbnails by the beamng icon to the left of the name

 

Yeah, thats what i mean, i want them too look the same as well! But that little icon is barely noticeable...

 

I've tried editing the darkroom map's lighting, but i can't seem to actually get the same lighting as the official showroom

 

with enough tinkering:
official



generated


they're reasonably close and in menu resolution it's not overly noticeable

 

Tinkering as in editing the image or as in editing the map?

 

map editing

 

Can you show me what the default etki looks like?

 

ok just a sec

 

I still don't get why they won't let us make the same pictures! Why can't we just have this in the level selector and open it right up, choose your mod and generate thumbnails and they will look the same!?
We get 700 D-series configs and don't really need to open the part selector anymore (ok, thats exaggerated), but we don't get some showrooms and have to manually select things in the materials?
Any it would be nice if the generator would ignore stock game configs, and only make thumbnails for mod configs!

 

heres the default etki

 

Maybe we should bugger devs for the proper map

 

dev pls giv map ok thank

 

How do you do this exaclty after you loaded the showroom? Mine is currently white.

Would be nice if the showroom would be selectable in the level selector! I always have to choose a one-config mod (liebherr loader) and generate thumbnails to get to the showroom
I it like you guys don't want us to access it easily!

 

I might be being stupid, but there's only 1 "TSStatic" in the dark showroom so only the black one exists

Another thing i noticed is that somehow the reflections are different from the official thumbnails despite apparently being the same map

 

This is as close I'm going to get.
Official:


Custom:

 

how does one even load the dark one?
hit generate thumbnails without selecting 'stay on current map?'