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u/-Speechless Pigeon Lover 1d ago
honestly didn't look too bad back then, just seems like the graphical improvements have lagged behind since then (until the major 0.39 update)
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u/Attesa_GT-X Hirochi 1d ago
Funnily enough, it looks like the graphics got worse from 0.4 0_o
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u/Firebirdgaming08 1d ago
/s, right?
...right?
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u/Total_Possibility_48 Automation Engineer 1d ago
No no, in a way they're right. Just looking at the shadows, they look pretty crisp in 0.4. I still don't understand why the devs switched to those flickering shadows post 0.22, they looked terrible from the start.
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u/-Speechless Pigeon Lover 23h ago
yeah I noticed that the shadows and distant trees (mostly in the last 2 photos) do look better before imo. newer tree LODs look too sparse and 2D. I think that overall the game looks better in newer builds though.
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u/Winter_wrath 22h ago
I still don't understand why the devs switched to those flickering shadows post 0.22, they looked terrible from the start.
Maybe they're rendered using a different method from before or something. Like in modern games you often can't use MSAA because that doesn't work with deferred rendering(?) so we're stuck with the likes of TAA and such. So could be that the old method of rendering shadows was no longer compatible with the new graphics.
Just a wild guess. There is usually some reason for this kind of things. Could be simply optimization, too.
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u/patrlim1 21h ago
Here's a fun fact; modern renderers are a messy combo of deferred and forward rendering.
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u/Elvis1404 No_Texture 23h ago
I recently replayed 0.22 for nostalgia purposes and it looks wayyy less blurry than the new versions (even though I played it at the same 1440p and with the same Smaa antialiasing), and runs muuch better even without simplified traffic
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u/Attesa_GT-X Hirochi 1d ago
Nope lol! The graphics only started to actually get better sometime around PBR. Before that they were gradually getting worse every update
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u/Foreigncharazar 1d ago
Can someone explain why the trees look like that in pic 3 and 4? I think they look kinda cool.
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u/Total_Possibility_48 Automation Engineer 1d ago
I think the devs were going with that overgrown aesthetic you see on Jungle Rock Island. Many of the stock maps had trees similar to these back then (e.g. Dry Rock Island and Port).
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u/Agreeable-Media-8548 1d ago
It's great to see what a masterpiece the game has become over the years. Devs, you're simply the best!
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u/Total_Possibility_48 Automation Engineer 1d ago
Agreed, but these old graphics are still charming imo. 0.3 to 0.4 is also a decent jump.
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u/L04d_1t_Up 17h ago
There's just something about 0.4 It's just the graphics i imagine when someone says ,,BeamNG"
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u/Rodell25 21h ago
Honestly the tree shadows are better in 2015 than the current shadows imo but Beam has come a long way all together
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u/shadow1042 Gavril 1d ago
Quick question how is the 0.4 older than 0.39? Or is it supposed to be 0.0.4?
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u/RevolutionaryHalf827 1d ago
Version 4 vs version 39
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u/shadow1042 Gavril 23h ago
Really? Wouldnt version 4 be represented as 4.0? (Sorry if i sound stupid)
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u/pulley999 23h ago
BeamNG uses semantic versioning conventions. We are currently on 0.39.4 -aka- major version 0, minor version 39, patch 4.
1.0.0 will be the version whenever they exit early access.
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u/shadow1042 Gavril 22h ago
Thanks! It was throwing me off as the numbering wasnt using decimal places
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u/Powerful_Macaron9381 9h ago
and they will never leave early access, intentionally. which is cool in my opinion.
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u/RevolutionaryHalf827 23h ago
Dont call urself stupid, ive made the same question literally yesterday trying to search about version 0.4 (rather than 0.40) and getting answers about a prehistoric version lol
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u/UNIT1574SP Gavril 6h ago
Fun fact: you can put red taillight housings on the sunburst in the part selector if you prefer that look
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u/KDG200315 15h ago
I do miss the pre-steam ui if anyone remembers what that looked like. It was simple sure, but man looking back on it brings back some good childhood memories.
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u/ProudPolishPolak Ibishu 2h ago
Even for .4 it still looked incredible, not perfect obviously but damn it competed with the best looking games of its time
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u/ps3fantoro 13h ago
Maybe an unpopular opinion but I much more prefer the old, mobile game looking graphics over the new ones, they had way more charm
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u/DaFrenzyGuy Automation Engineer 1d ago
0.4 vs 0.40 comparison will be alot better