Automation Offroad Overhaul [WIP Released]

[fallen scarab]

Always loved ATT but thought the off-road side was lacking, so I started filling in the gaps. Right now it’s just a proof-of-concept, but it’s playable:

• 6 crawling trails in a brand new, hyper detailed area above the dam reservoir.
• 1 short hillclimb route (very happy with the environment quality)
• 1 big rally trail course (medium/low speed, longer and more technical than the existing one)

Forums link: https://www.beamng.com/threads/106291

To play the mod, just download and install like normal, then launch automation test track as you would base game.

(this is technically my first map mod, if you can call it that considering its just an expansion to ATT. Please feel free to tell me all the beginner mistakes I'm making.)

[main kestrel]

Nice

[fallen scarab]

new crawling trail

[fallen scarab]

Crawling area #1. 75% complete

[fallen scarab]

pink loop is the harder one, took me about 6.5 minutes in the base stammy, pretty much requires locking 4wd. Green route is less of a crawling trail, more of a trail; completed in base covet in two minutes, most cars should be able to make it.

Planning on 1-2 more shorter trails for this area.

[steady knoll]

This looks pretty cool

[open pier]

dayumm ts is epic

[fallen scarab]

orthographic

[fallen scarab]

Updated on the forums with the new area.

If anyone could check out the crawling, that would be cool. I've never made a rock crawling trail before so any feedback would be apreciated.

[spiral tulip]

the map expansion is great, crawlings pretty good, but the ONE thing i dislike is with the install the snow by the crawling is BLINDING

[fallen scarab]

weird, I didn't have that issue; maybe my bloom is set lower.

ah yeah. my bloom was basically off for some reason

[fallen scarab]

solution: script that says no more bloom

[fallen scarab]

finally got back around to mapping after beam decided to delete like 20 hours of progress. got the deco mostly complete for these couple new cliff-side trails.

just to note this showcase isn't yet finished and the mod hasn't been updated to include it yet.

[fallen scarab]

Some 8K wallpapers of the mod I took about a month ago

[coarse badger]

A new update coming soon? 🤩

[versed pulsar]

This is very nice

[fallen scarab]

hoping I can get it done come weekend. All said its not a very big update, but it does flesh out the mountain pretty well.

rockwork and details can take quite some time

definitely worth it for the quality though

[versed pulsar]

If you want help or anything for crawling stuff hit me up, i could help out maybe. I’m kind of experienced

[fallen scarab]

I've never made, or really driven crawling trails before, so I started this as a practice exercise. Im mainly looking for feedback, so If you have anything you like or dislike about the trails please share.

[versed pulsar]

Alright. They look good from what i can see but ill need to wait for the release to try them lol

[fallen scarab]

map is released lol

just not some of these newer trails

[versed pulsar]

Oh ok

[versed pulsar]

U might wanna change tags and title

[fallen scarab]

title checks out

WIP just means im not done

does not mean that its not available

[versed pulsar]

Put it as (Released) too, makes it more obvious

[fallen scarab]

in the title?

[versed pulsar]

Yeh

One of mine vs urs

[fallen scarab]

Automation Operation Offroad [WIP Released]

[fallen scarab]

all 8k

[versed pulsar]

Fire

Looks mint

[fallen scarab]

did some bonus stuff too. rockwork for this bridge.

alt route / hairpin escape lane (blind hairpin and I ALWAYS come in too fast).

Trying to make a path that loops the hillclimb rally to the other side of the mountain. Required some very creative engineering

added some water features around the new area.

[versed pulsar]

Beautiful

[dusty summit]

Kind of unrelated to your project, but since youre editing this map, theres a lot of spotlights in the tunnel under the dam. These cost like 50fps in overall performance even with a decent gaming PC

In the vanilla version I mean. Just a tip if you want more performance

[fallen scarab]

They're all point lights, and they're not shadow casters or anything so they make about zero difference performane wise. deleting/hiding them netted me about 2fps; from 124 to 126; which was within margin of average anyways.

and even if I did actually turn on casts shadows for all of them my fps only drops to around 12

[dusty summit]

Hm, you are correct. Maybe they have updated things

Well its about a 30fps gain for me, from 230 to 260 average. I had shittier specs before

[fallen scarab]

vulkan or dx? I run vk

also crawling routes done

should have update ready tonight. was just doing patch notes but got sidetracked with all these junctions

[versed pulsar]

What vehicles did u use to test each route?

[fallen scarab]

Easy is just like base covet. medium is either awd or finesse, hard basically requires locking 4wd

[versed pulsar]

I may have brought overkill 😂

40s maybe a touch big

[fallen scarab]

Before this update:

After this update:

oh yeah, and its available right now. v30 is released. https://www.beamng.com/threads/106291

[boreal shard]

my game just crashes when i try to load the map lmao did i install it wrong or somehitng

[versed pulsar]

Pc good enough?

[boreal shard]

just this map

[fallen scarab]

it probably has to do with one of the scripts. get any error messages?

[boreal shard]

ill check when im home

[torn basin]

Ay another teon mod

[weak stirrup]

Looking good 👍

[slow cobalt]

I have a problem with the map; it doesn't work. When I try to enter it, it kicks me out of the game. @fallen scarab

[smoky gate]

Damn I hope we get something similar in wcusa if italy soon

This is amazing

[coarse badger]

Same issue...😭

[abstract tree]

game crashes in like 10 secs of loading the map

[plain sapphire]

yeah

[fallen scarab]

do you have crash logs

and are you using any mods?

My game doesn’t crash so I can’t test it

[abstract tree]

still crashed

[fallen scarab]

Can you find the crash log

Should be in the current folder

I assume the crash is because I forgot to remove some dependency not included. Just don’t know what it is

I might have perchance found it

I accidentally nuke the materials file

I accidentally nuke multiple materials files

Don’t know why I never had issues

I can fix it later tonight

[abstract tree]

👍

[fallen scarab]

ended up being caused by an asset declared but never used or included.

updating on the forums now

[fallen scarab]

I’d appreciate if anyone could double check to be sure

[drifting umbra]

I can try tmrw

[surreal lagoon]

downloaded it and map doesn't show up in the game 🙁

[coarse badger]

The changes are in the original automation map. 😉

[plain sapphire]

yeah it works

[plain sapphire]

Suggestion:
A semi tunnel.

[digital kettle]

i would love to see that

with the sound echoing too

[fallen scarab]

Rock shed is a good idea

Might be a bit tricky to do

[smoky gate]

Maybe with the new waterfalls you could add a small water ford somewhere near the base of the mountain or on the twisty roads

[fallen scarab]

good idea. I already plan to sprinkle water across the map, and in general refresh the place.

[smoky gate]

Awesome

[vapid lotus]

will there be any super difficult route?

[smoky gate]

Honestly the current routes I struggled on with the aurata

Btw im still waiting for someone to make a 4 seat version

I know someone is out there who can do it, im unfortunately not that someone

[plain wigeon]

Did you make the cliffs or are they from a pack?

[fallen scarab]

wdym? all the assets are just vanilla stuff

[plain sapphire]

update when

[fallen scarab]

literally just updated a week ago

next one in like a month or two

probably

[fallen scarab]

maybe some really short connectors in other places, but probably not anything big. if you want something hard just bring a worse vehicle to the existing ones.

[fallen scarab]

actually I'll do mini update in a couple of days

to fix material issues with the new update

and a couple other small new things

[fallen scarab]

the editor desperately needs autosaves and backups

I've wasted so much time because of this

[fallen scarab]

Ill probably get this done tonight

But after I’m gonna put a hold on this mod to tackle something a bit smaller

Either derby arenas or small island

[fallen scarab]

did someone say rallyX in the snow?

[spiral tulip]

this update abt to be peak

[fallen scarab]

Automation Offroad Overhaul [WIP Released]

[fallen scarab]

wip

[fallen scarab]

I’ll note this specific course is going to be grassroots style. I have plans for a worldRX one elsewhere

[drifting umbra]

Ohhh im hyped.

Also is it gonna turn into a separate map.

[fallen scarab]

Will always be same map/override. just disable the mod to play the base map

[drifting umbra]

Just checking

[spiral tulip]

oh yes please

ts mod lowk abt to have a peak update

[jolly canyon]

Anyone else got this bug? I made sure to delete the terrainMaterialCache as instructed, and even cleared the cache after seeing that, but it didn't fix the issue. Unless I have to delete the folder after loading the map with the mod at least once?

[jolly canyon]

Deleted the folder again, but it still happens

[fallen scarab]

its because the update deleted one of the texture links.

[fallen scarab]

this

[fallen scarab]

I'll release a patch soon but it'll also have some of the new unfinished stuff

[fallen scarab]

new rock variant

fits snowy area a lot better

wip top down

[fallen scarab]

brig

still wip ofc, but the new grassroots course is connected

[smoky gate]

You should also make a lower road instead that goes through the water

Tbh it’s kinda for more weaker bridges

[fallen scarab]

Ford soon

Trust

[jolly canyon]

The car may be a bit battered, but it survived the crawl. Love the new routes you've been adding to the map!

[fallen scarab]

pushed new update to fix the water textures. also has the new grassroots track, but keep in mind its still WIP.

[vapid lotus]

) my car

[near valley]

where are the tires from if u dont mind sharing

or are they from a private pack

[plain sapphire]

why is it on kofi now

[jolly canyon]

Seems like the new v34 update files have to overwrite the v33 files, otherwise, just placing automationOO_v34 in the mods folder won't work. I also found some bugs, but I suppose you already know them, as the grassroots track and the roads around it are still a WIP

[vapid lotus]

BLKFXX pack
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gEflxt0tFvTnqQsMW3PAILFo-t6ze3rI/view?usp=sharing

[near valley]

preciate ut dude

[near valley]

thanks

[versed pulsar]

Just a tip, next time dm them a link to Beam Wheeler. I dont think Blkfxx would like u sharing his files like that, but idk

[near valley]

i was in beamwheeler but i thought all the modders were dead in there

[versed pulsar]

Nah

Blkfxx makes stuff still

Think Nix is

WM is im pretty sure

[fallen scarab]

fixed the file thing. all the level stuff you saw is just placeholder

[high fable]

I might not be releasing updates currently but I'd still appreciate people being sent to the original server

[vapid lotus]

Okay, I'll keep in mind, I thought it was okay if I gave the original link to Google Drive.

[vapid lotus]

sorry bro((

[spiral kelp]

The sun is too bright. Ultra graphics settings - 12:00

[smoky gate]

https://tenor.com/view/caseoh-flashbang-renza-gif-3499959455427823758

[fallen scarab]

Turn bloom off

There’s supposed to be a script that does it automatically but I think I broke it

[open pier]

https://tenor.com/view/flash-bang-cat-gif-9228092957721715341

[fallen scarab]

figured out how AI and nav-graph work. also added a little intro card

turns out you get a pretty cool effect if you line your minimap up

[jolly canyon]

Are new missions planned, featuring the new roads and trails?

[fallen scarab]

Hopefully, but not until I have more of this corner fleshed out

Definitely time trials and crawling missions. Maybe AI stuff if I can get it to work

[jolly canyon]

Take your time, the mod is already really good!

[fallen scarab]

added a bunch of sounds and ambience. (Image unrelated)

[drifting umbra]

is the ko fi up to date?

[fallen scarab]

Ko-fi is the only place I have it uploaded so that’s the latest version you can get. Not everything I post here gets added immediately

[drifting umbra]

ok thx

[fallen scarab]

Last update was here so anything after hasn’t been release yet

[solid flame]

Leaving a message here so I can remember to get the mod tomorrow

[quick mist]

woah this looks incredible, well needed

[fallen scarab]

added access road, optional joker route, and more rocks

• track exit

starting to come together. mainly just needs more scenery

pit of rocks for some reason

[fallen scarab]

game crashed and I lost 2 minutes of progress so I wrote this mod.

There already exists a backup and autosave system in the editor code, but it works a bit differently than what I’d lil and it also seems to be either unfinished or used by devs.

Got autosaves to work easily but backups are a bit tricky. Just by the nature of sandboxed lua

[karmic owl]

fire

[fallen scarab]

fixed how the dirt material is handled for new roads, which sould clean up some vanilla areas that broke because of it. in the same vein, I also redid the hillclimb section to improve edge blending, and just generally clean up the road.

its not super notiable in the picture, but 1 is new, 2 is old

[fallen scarab]

guys 1000 hours

in ibishu miramar (beamng)

in other news:

trail

[fallen scarab]

this section took me like 20-30 minutes

[fallen scarab]

and this one 30 or 40

so its taking me quite a long time for some of these hero sections

worth the quality for how slow progress is?

[jolly canyon]

It looks good! Take all the time you need, the wait will be worth it

[fallen scarab]

imported some new assets from various base game maps, and did some color grading.
before:

.
after:

[fallen scarab]

new stuff

[fallen scarab]

yep

yep

yep

love the vibe

feels like a completely different map (but still part of nz)

I think in a good way though

diver city

[fallen scarab]

spent a solid two hours trying to figure out how groundmodels work, and It only sorta makes sense now

[versed pulsar]

Very hot

[versed pulsar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCm2q83UW_E

[fallen scarab]

thanks for trying to help but the issue is actually a lot more complex, all this stuff I've already got figured out

[versed pulsar]

Oh ok

[fallen scarab]

the issue is actually mapping the depth to the terrain

[versed pulsar]

Thats what i use for everything

[versed pulsar]

Ohhh true

Terrain.depth.ter or whatever shit

[fallen scarab]

yep

*.ter.depth.png

which basically tells already how much you sink into the ground

if it exists, you can't override it

well you can

but also can't

thats where the problem is

I can make it work, but its more trouble than its worth, especially if its not the very last thing i do

[versed pulsar]

Yea

You can just delete the file i think

But

It affects parts of the map u dont want affected

[fallen scarab]

exactly

the solution would be to just edit the image directly, but thats a huge hastle, espeically if I need to do it again every time I update the map in a big way. Its something i'd consider doing once I've got every spot i'd ever want mud in already made

[ember marsh]

this is looking sweet, however I would highly recommend you clone the files for the base map, and combine it into a seperate mod map.
reason being, the way you are doing it currently, your mod will never work again if the devs rework ATT

[fallen scarab]

already have a hard copy of the current att saved, but I don't ever plan on turning it into its own mod. And it should really break at all if ATT were to get an update, my mod currently functions by overriding the existing ATT files, if those existing files got updated it'd still override them

one of my main goals with making this mod has been keeping file size low, right now it sits at 40MB but if I wanted to clone ATT and all its textures I'd be looking at 1.3GB Textures are really the only important thing to save, as that's the only thing I don't really overwrite, however I highly doubt all the textures for ATT would just get nuked. at most they could get changed but I doubt they will ever disappear entirely.

there could definitely be some stuff that breaks, but that would be fairly minimal compared to what's in place. worst case scenario I have to use all orignal map files and redo all texture linking.

either way, future me problem

new thumbnail

[fallen scarab]

added some new roads. just terrain so far

[karmic owl]

kinda random but I want to work on a map project thing do you know where i coud find tree assets and stuff?

[karmic owl]

Looking more over a forest map thingy but thanks!

Im planning to make a railway map

[versed pulsar]

@fallen scarab awesome map

You may have noticed you’ve been pinged here twice, automod banned me for “spamming” lol

Really enjoyed the map, improves what is already a really nice map

A few reccomendations:

• Add harder tracks, like steeper tracks with rocksteps, ruts, etc, stuff you really need to choose a line on
• Add some more fun tracks. Like stuff you can limmi bash up. No rocks, just a steep muddy section to blast up at full song
• More tracks below the snow line

[fallen scarab]

one of the new roads im working on

steep enough yet?

38 degrees at the steepest

[versed pulsar]

This looks mint

What car you using? What tires/hp etc

[fallen scarab]

this goofy thing. 260hp but buckets of torque

[versed pulsar]

Hmm ok. Well if that can make it up, it might be a bit too easy for me lol.

Yesterday i ran this car. 800+hp RB25 on 37s lol. Pretty fun to limmi bang up shit

I usually use vehicles on 37s-40s

[fallen scarab]

overkill much

[versed pulsar]

For your map yes lol

Not for the tracks i make tho

[strange oracle]

hold on I want to see if I can make it up that track with my total grandpa truck

[versed pulsar]

Photo man has entered the chat

[strange oracle]

update: peepaw spec can do the muddy sections

jeep things

[fallen scarab]

blog post I made on the upcoming v40 update. https://www.patreon.com/posts/automationoo-40e-149290986

[versed pulsar]

Did u bring ur pc to KOH

[strange oracle]

nah im not at hammers yet, was mistaken and I leave next tuesday

[versed pulsar]

Ah true that

[weak stirrup]

do i still have to drag the file to replace automation map or is it its own map now?

[weak stirrup]

@fallen scarab

[fallen scarab]

Mod in mods folder

Load automationTT like normal

Always been that way

[weak stirrup]

oh

[white mauve]

alright, gotta ask, where you get that mod?

[versed pulsar]

Grubby Mods

[white mauve]

hell yeah, you a real one

[fallen scarab]

not related to this mod, but I'm working on porting michigan from snowrunner to beam. looks pretty good so far

[versed pulsar]

YES

SNOWRUNNER PORT

Top ten needed beam maps

Never give up the project

[white mauve]

i think a mix of snowrunner and beamng would be the best (non-racing) car game of all time

[digital kettle]

perfect map to drive my supercars 😍

[smoky gate]

Beamng with snoweunner ground deformation would make the ideal game

[fallen scarab]

Also somewhat related to the unrelated, snowrunner has hit an all time high player count

[fallen scarab]

been a little while since any news on this project. been pretty busy with school and other project (snowrunner port), but I did want to pick this back up at least temporarily.

most of what I've done so far is import some assets from other maps, along with a few other *custom assets

one of those *custom assets are these flags. the mesh and texture are from the game, but I've altered them to create these aditional 3 color variants to help label some of the crawling trails

^^^ idea from YEETMASTA on the forums

here are some of the objects I've ported from other base game maps. (some are still getting their textures added).

curious to see where I can sprinkel them around

[fallen scarab]

new little area

[fallen scarab]

something a bit fun.

[fallen scarab]

the little things

[fallen scarab]

perspective

[fallen scarab]

gonna release on the repo soon

[drifting umbra]

HE’S BACK 🎉

[fallen scarab]

WIP road

crag thing

[fallen scarab]

tunnel

wip

[uneven notch]

it would be cool if the bridge was a little more weathered/wrecked

i think theres some good examples on small island

unless that road is meant to just be smooth

[fallen scarab]

this one is a main access road

[uneven notch]

ahhh ok

[fallen scarab]

I do stuff similar to this for trails and crawling roads

[fallen scarab]

the curse of placing 500 rocks returns

[uneven notch]

gotta do it procedurally like OTB
no clue how that works though

[fallen scarab]

OTB?

[uneven notch]

OwnTheBanks
made caney ridge and the gap

[fallen scarab]

procedural looks pretty good for large scale stuff, but for hero like I need probably wouldnt be great

I could probably make a world edit plugin to procedural rocks and stuff though

yeah, wouldn't be too hard, but its probably also not quite worth it for my use case

[fallen scarab]

let me clarify. making a result, would be like 4/10 difficulty. making it look not terrible without manual input would be 8/10

its also infinitely harder with this particular rock asset, because its essentially a perfect square/rectangle

[versed pulsar]

make that black creek decal a bit more natural, its a bit too contrasted to the ground, stands out too much

[fallen scarab]

wip

i havent touched the right side yet

which is also why its mostly not shown

[near valley]

love the map

[drifting umbra]

yo you gonna needa make a tutorial on how to cut out parts of the map

[fallen scarab]

terrain editor > remve terrain

[slow cobalt]

i nead the car

[near valley]

arent gonna get it

😄

[fallen scarab]

A new version has been release for early access on my patreon, if you wanna check out everything new. https://www.patreon.com/posts/automation-v41-154693659

some other exciting news, the mod will be coming to the repo in about two weeks

supporters will still get early access to all updates though, so stay tuned.

[drifting umbra]

Ohhh ill give that a try.

[drifting umbra]

https://tenor.com/view/yippee-happy-celebration-joy-confetti-gif-25557730

[ancient reef]

Ima try this out

Is it on the repo?

[versed pulsar]

^ holy shit use your eyes ^

[ancient reef]

🙁

[fallen scarab]

Doesn’t mean you can’t download it, it’s just not on the repo

[ancient reef]

Oh ok

[fallen scarab]

If you read this thread at all you’d have figured that out

[fallen scarab]

wip new little area

[fallen scarab]

cave

[uneven notch]

you should have the water run through the middle of the road instead

[uneven notch]

that works too

[fallen scarab]

pointlights to fake bounce light.

[fallen scarab]

improvement?

[near valley]

sexy

[uneven notch]

this is ridiculous lmaoo

utah cliff crawl aint shit compared to that

[fallen scarab]

i couldnt say no to the opportunity

[fallen scarab]

racking it up

[fallen scarab]

Going on the repo tomorrow. Might take a week to get verified though

[ancient reef]

This map is so tuff bro

[digital kettle]

damn

ur cookin man

https://klipy.com/gifs/yum-bang