January 2015: Progress report – BeamNG.drive

Hello everyone 🙂 My first blog post, so criticism is welcomed.

Here’s our progress since the 1st of December for version 0.3.7.1:

Features:

• New level selector(WIP)
  
  
  

• New options menu(WIP)
  
  
  

• New parts configuration menu
  
  
  

• Research work on the tire model, more on that in the coming weeks 🙂

• Work on atmospheric simulation, the air density/pressure will reduce as you go higher

• Fixed a crash when exiting the level editor

• Fixed a crash when clicking OK on a parts selector dialog

• Shading issue that was affecting most vehicles

• Console spam when changing focus with FFB enabled

• Electrics not working if the vehicle has no engine

• Vehicle color affects others of the same type

• Water camera effect happening outside of water

• Pedals UI app having a heavy impact on FPS

• Derby having no boundaries

• Tree lod bug on East Coast

• New prop: Large Spinner
  
  
  

• New prop: Street Light
  
  
  

• Sunburst model, texture updates and deformation tweaks
  
  
  

• Added more power to the stage 1 engine tuning on the Gavril V8 engines

• Tuned pillar deformation on all cars to be more realistic

• Improved Hirochi Raceway collisions

• Improved lighting on East Coast, USA

• Industrial, Gridmap and Dry Rock Island model improvements

• East Coast performance improvements, better roads, town, terrain and vegetation fixes

• Various work on the main menu

• Improved East Coast grass textures

• 118 committed changes to our game SVN repository

• 21 Bugs and 3 Features issues closed in our internal ticket system