On, BeamNG released a YouTube video titled 'Revolutionary soft-body physics in CryEngine3'.

Originally, BeamNG.drive was to be based on CryEngine 3, but its use in a driving game uncovered numerous bugs, leading development to be rolled over to Torque 3D. īeamNG’s website, was opened on to deliver news of their development of the simulator. The game was placed on an open vote on Steam Greenlight on 12 February 2014 and was greenlit eight days later. On, the game was released to Steam Early Access. On 15 June 2018, BeamNG announced a partnership with Camshaft Software, Developers of Automation, revealing the addition of an exporter feature that allows players to export vehicles made within Automation as fully driveable vehicles in BeamNG.drive. Gameplay īeamNG.drive features various gameplay modes and scenarios such as campaigns and a time trial mode, aside from free mode. Campaigns are collections of small scenarios on specific themes (races, chases, stunts, etc.), whereas in time trials, the player selects a vehicle, a level, a route, and competes against their own best time. In free roam, players can explore and experiment with levels, allowing them to operate, place, and manipulate objects and vehicles within the level, but also change environmental properties such as gravity and wind. Players can utilize various objects ranging from road barriers to weapons like cannons, to inflict damage on their vehicles. The game implements soft-body physics to control both vehicle dynamics and collisions between objects and vehicles. Physics īeamNG.drive uses a real-time soft-body physics structure to simulate its vehicles. Algorithms have been written for the physics equations to be carried out. It relies heavily on coding in Lua, and uses packets of local data using the Lua network system while the game is running.

The game's engine constantly calculates physics equations and problems in real-time during gameplay. Vehicles in the game consist of a soft-body node-beam structure similar to those in Rigs of Rods.

The physics engine simulates a network of interconnected nodes and beams, which combine to form an invisible skeleton of a vehicle with realistic weights and masses. In terms of soft-body physics, vehicles realistically flex and deform as stresses to the skeleton, such as impacts from collisions, are applied. Aside from body deformation, various other types of damage are simulated such as degraded engine, detached doors and shattered windows.

Beamng drive tech demo v3