Open World Free Roam

[lava]

Won't it revolutionary to stream the entire world with Bing or Google maps. You have the option to place you vehicle anywhere in the actual world and free road a 1:1 scale. The roads can be generated as per a global map system. The detail doesn't have to be perfect. But it would make driving around your favorite roads amazing, and you also have the ability to explore the real world in real time-scale. Just like Microsoft Flight sim, but with BeamNG physics and cars.

[MultiRetroMan]

I would love to see this. Or maybe have an app where you can select a certain area in a city and it will automatically create the map using the 3D image system that Google Maps can create (would be even better if it used the 3D photos that the Google Car took as it drove round). :)

[Kirby]

unrealistic. Microsoft Flight sim is not rendering the whole world in 3D and in detail. Because you are spending most of your time high up in the sky, while Beam would have to render it in some kind of detail all out of google maps imaginery which is not possible.

[MultiRetroMan]

Originally posted by Kirby:

unrealistic. Microsoft Flight sim is not rendering the whole world in 3D and in detail. Because you are spending most of your time high up in the sky, while Beam would have to render it in some kind of detail all out of google maps imaginery which is not possible.

I wouldn't say it's impossible, I'm sure it could be done some way, albeit very difficult indeed. I remember a while ago there was a Pacman thing where it used Google maps looking down on the map to use it as the maze or something. That was quite good.

[Kirby]

Originally posted by MultiRetroMan:

Originally posted by Kirby:

unrealistic. Microsoft Flight sim is not rendering the whole world in 3D and in detail. Because you are spending most of your time high up in the sky, while Beam would have to render it in some kind of detail all out of google maps imaginery which is not possible.

I wouldn't say it's impossible, I'm sure it could be done some way, albeit very difficult indeed. I remember a while ago there was a Pacman thing where it used Google maps looking down on the map to use it as the maze or something. That was quite good.

maybe it's possible, but it's way too ambitious for an already very ambitious game. The time and money investment are not worth it. At best we'd probably get like a Crew level of detail on the map which is not all that great, I'd rather have the devs focus on making smaller real-life inspired maps with great detail.

[MultiRetroMan]

Originally posted by Kirby:

Originally posted by MultiRetroMan:

I wouldn't say it's impossible, I'm sure it could be done some way, albeit very difficult indeed. I remember a while ago there was a Pacman thing where it used Google maps looking down on the map to use it as the maze or something. That was quite good.

maybe it's possible, but it's way too ambitious for an already very ambitious game. The time and money investment are not worth it. At best we'd probably get like a Crew level of detail on the map which is not all that great, I'd rather have the devs focus on making smaller real-life inspired maps with great detail.

Totally agree. I wonder if there would ever be a game that would use Google Maps 3D as a game in the future.

Imagine being able to pick a place to start driving and then just drive around the area.... (Most people would pick their own street lol).

[MultiRetroMan]

Originally posted by Linda420:

best chance at doing it in any detail whatsoever (google earth is obviously low res) is to port minecraft's build the earth project to beamng. except its gonna be a few hundred terabytes in the very least (if 2b2t map size is 20TB, then surely is the whole 1:1 world). but of course, not to mention the lag - a 2013 torque 3d engine can only render so much with a stable framerate. never in a million cpu's will you be able to get 1 fps per minute. but hey lets be optimistic. what we're seeing nowadays is that maps are getting bigger and more complex. we can port lidar laser scanned 4k maps. there just needs to be more things that could be optimised in the world editor. if objects could be hid, geometry couldnt be, alas. none of this is top priority. theres a gta:sa map port and with all mainlands combined, its very unplayable. think about it... small photorealistic ports from real life into beamng? feasible, but anything bigger. well, here's that :)

My thoughts were to have it stream the map as you drive through, rather than download/install them. :)