Valo City — a detailed urban environment directly ported from the iconic city of "Valo" in the game Street Legal Racing: Redline. This map brings the unique atmosphere of the original game into BeamNG, offering players a large, explorable city with a mix of dense urban areas and open highways. Despite being a work-in-progress, Valo City provides an impressive foundation for driving, exploration, and experimentation.

Main features:
– Island setting offering a compact yet diverse environment, perfect for urban and suburban driving.
– Landmarks and unique buildings faithfully recreated from the original game, adding character and immersion.
– Long, open highways connecting different areas of the city, ideal for high-speed runs and testing vehicle dynamics.
– Dense city and suburban layout separated by a canal, creating distinct driving zones and varied environments.
– Over 63 km of drivable roads, providing extensive routes for exploration and traffic simulation.
– Traffic AI implemented (functionality currently moderate), allowing for some dynamic city activity.

Porting challenges and known issues:
– Broken LODs for storefronts, affecting visual performance at a distance.
– Traffic AI does not fully follow traffic rules, limiting realistic driving behavior.
– Non-functional traffic lights, meaning intersections lack standard control.
– No gameplay-specific features implemented, focusing purely on the environment.
– High rendering demands due to unoptimized LODs, which can impact performance.
– Open garages and dealerships with optimized collision in walk mode.
– Custom collisions applied extensively, designed to better match BeamNG’s collision model.
– Inherited display issues from Street Legal Racing: Redline, resulting in some visual inconsistencies.
– Rotating windmills, adding life and dynamic elements to the environment.
– Functional minimap texture from the original game, preserving a key visual feature.
– Some texturing issues in certain areas, which may require manual adjustment.
– Incomplete elements and unfinished details, as development has paused over the last three years.

Additional details:
– The map began as a personal project in November 2019 and showcases the effort of translating a complex city from a different game engine into BeamNG.
– While development has slowed due to limited free time, the map remains a unique experience for fans of Street Legal Racing: Redline and BeamNG alike.

Mod author: Buksikutya77