modding-general

[river forge]

Mod info shouldn't be added manually. The repository creates it automatically when you upload the file, with info from the mods page

[shell fable]

I don't want to upload the mod though, I want it to be a local file

Would I have to upload the mod to the repository for it to work?

[river forge]

Oh, then why bother with mod info?
Not sure if you can get it to work by doing it manually

[shell fable]

I thought that you needed the mod info for the script to work

[river forge]

Not at all

Its only function is to add info to the mods ingame mod page (repo/mod manager)

[shell fable]

alright

Im also having trouble with the script not working in game

Im thinking its because of the layout I have the files in

[river forge]

I wouldn't know, I know nothing about lua stuff

Hopefully someone else can help

[shell fable]

Alright

Thanks anyway

[river forge]

As for the layout of the files, I see the zip has another folder in it with the same name, but I'm guessing that's only how you packed it to share, not how you actually run it yourself

[shell fable]

Yes

[calm venture]

how do i begin creating a trailer mod? specifically a semi truck, enclosed stacker car hauler

also including a liftgate

[mystic bridge]

I need someone to help me put the normal map of some wheels in their correct position, but they have to stay blue, because they don't work for me in yellow

[thorny rune]

what's the process for adding cargo loads to a vehicle? ive got the slot set up, but that's about it. Doesn't even show up ingame

[inner heart]

if no part use that slot, that slot wont bother show in game

you can make a dummy part to use that slot, then u can see it

[silent glade]

somehow

not working ingame

idk whats wrong

nvm

fixed

[river forge]

Creating a full vehicle like a trailer would be a big first project, I'd recommend getting to know the basics of modding first by trying to make a new part for an existing car

[narrow lion]

Trying to have custom signs edited from base signs to employ in a map mod. I can make it work when editing my OWN files but I cant figure out how to have it only save as a mod not locally.

Unsure what file is needed it be edited to incorporate it as a mod and not local file. Google turned up no useful results, just a bunch of unanswered questions.

File copied and moved with edit: t_billboardsigns_dealers_d.color.pdn

**File sourced from: **
\steam\steamapps\common\BeamNG.drive\content

[warm forge]

does anyone have a huge empty map with all assets imported? if anyone does please send it to me
like a template for a huge map?

[ruby kestrel]

your map needs to be under 0.33/levels/mapname

models should be under "mapname/art/" and then typically "/shapes/signs" or however else you wish to do it.

the textures for your model should be in the same folder, although they can technically be anywhere inside of the level's root folder. What you MUST do, however, is a 'main.materials.json' file for each and every folder that contains models. The .json will list the models in it's folder, and provide the path for the textures to be used.

As for doing just the signs, I dont think you could do that as a mod to be honest. I mean, you might be able to edit it in the world editor, which saves it under I believe "BeamNG.drive/0.33/temp/levels/[etc...]" and provide that to people, but I don't know for sure how well that'd work.

[river forge]

Guessing you replied to the wrong person?

[ruby kestrel]

oop 😭

[river forge]

No worries

[ruby kestrel]

@narrow lion Meant that for you :D

[pulsar hawk]

Does anyone know how to view sensor debug info (ie. Radar, ultrasonic, etc)?
From what I read online, you need license for beamNG.tech.

Context: I’ve added reverse sensors to the MD-Series, but I cannot for the life of me, figure out how to adjust the height so that it will sense a bolide. It works fine for sensing taller vehicles. The sensors sense slightly above the bumper height.
I’ve spent hours on trying to solve this and I’m getting a migraine reloading lua every 60 seconds for testing.

The only thing that really matters when importing animated models is your poly count.
I made animated tornados for the storm chaser server, and we would have more than 50 spawned at a time, with a very negligible fps loss.

For reference a typical car can have 600,000 to over 1,000,000 polygons. I would make my models have less than 40,000, and most of the time less than 10,000 polygons.

(You will also have to make your key frames extend further than your actual animation, otherwise your loop won’t be seamless)

[signal adder]

Thanks for useful piece of information 🙏

[toxic widget]

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[upbeat blaze]

before the latest update i had made my own maps of an irl track near me and now after the update when i try to load into them it just sits on the loading screen forever did i do something wrong here or is this just a known problem ?

it does still shop up when clicking onto maps it just doesnt want to go to the map

[little portal]

Wont your models look kinda low poly with only 40000 faces?

For some cars it could work but some need more detail

[pulsar hawk]

40,000 isn’t my hard limit just an example number. I use as little polys as possible, to achieve the level of detail/performance that is needed. You can use the “shade smooth” option in blender which reflects in game, and helps tremendously.

Also, he said he was making a windmill, not a car. If you were making a complete custom car, my goal would be to keep everything under 1,200,000 for the initial run, then refine it as needed.

A windmill can be very low poly imo, it only calls for a few components and shapes. You could probably make the base and pole with less than 100 polys, easily. And then the blades and other components, less than 10,000 polys probably. Nuts and bolt details could take another 10,000 depending on how detailed you get.

[heady trail]

How'd you make those?

Because you do need .tech for any of the sensor functionality

[pulsar hawk]

I didn’t make them, I just added them. It’s a mod from the repo. I was just trying to adapt it to the MD. https://www.beamng.com/resources/advanced-driver-assistance-systems.17384/

I’ve already asked the original creator, but the original height adjustment in the scripts no longer work, so he couldn’t help beyond saying that SHOULD change it, but it doesn’t. (You can see this in the mod comments)

[heady trail]

Oh, all adas mods for .drive use raycasts

You can't do anything else unfortunately

It's just pos, dir, and distance or pos1 and pos2 depending on the distance

All 3f vectors

If the height adjustment doesn't work you'd need to fix it in the code

[pulsar hawk]

Thanks for the insight. I will do some more research based on that.

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[sullen ice]

hellooo
im back from the dead
im going back into my undercab automation truck mod
and im struggling with something in the suspension

i wanted to give the same strength to my suspension as the official US_Semi suspension with the jbeam files
but when i do that my halfshaft seems to explode and the wheels detach from the truck
the problem is i dont find anything that seems to control the strength of the halfshaft
so i wanted to know if there was anyone here that could guide me ? 🤔

[narrow lion]

per my original message, I had them packed as a mod file but unpacked, they are stated here:

MyUserProfile\appdata\local\BeamNG.drive\0.33\levels\Johnson_extra\art\shapes\garage_and_dealership

within other files I don't see a file that references a few other of the signs within such. Additionally, i will look into making the main.materials.json but I do not see one in the folders associated with other signs imported and customized from the Utah and Italy maps on the basegame.

Johnson_extra is sourced from the repo, originally created by a recognized good tutorial for modders to use as a basis for map making.

[little cedar]

I am trying to make custom soundscapes for the indicators, but it doesnt work. It clicks, but the sound of the clicks, is the sound of the indicator stalk moving. The sound file is only referenced in IndicatorStart and IndicatorStop, not the indicator loop. But it acts as it is, looping the audio file forever.
Is there anyway to fix this? Any help will be appreciated

[heady quail]

hi, quick question, what is the correct syntax to have nodemove and core slot at the same time? couldnt find anything on the docu site

[river forge]

You can add any arguments together in the {...} section, just add a comma inbetween them

For example {"variables": {"$example":-0.25}, "coreSlot":true, "nodeMove":{"x":0.25, "y":1.0, "z":0.5}}

So in your specific example, with nodeMove and coreSlot, the line for the whole slot would be:```json
["type","default", "Description", {"nodeMove":{"x":0.0, "y":0.0, "z":0.0},"coreSlot":true}]

[merry crystal]

Anyone know why my glowmaps wont work properly?

[river forge]

Do the emissive materials work outside of the glowmaps? Like if you were to just apply ek9_lights_on directly to the model, does it look the way it's supposed to?

[merry crystal]

i got no clue, this is my first time trying to do glowmaps

[river forge]

Well give it a try then :P

[merry crystal]

I try to add the material in material editor, it says its there but it doesnt show up in the editor

[river forge]

Ah I don't really know about the material editor, I never use it

But what you could try, is to rename the headlights material in blender from ek9_highbeam, ek9_lowbeam, etc. directly to ek9_lights_on, so you can see what it looks like ingame

That way you'll know if it's a problem with materials, or with the glowmaps

[merry crystal]

Oh ok thank you

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[merry crystal]

didnt seem to make much of a difference

[river forge]

Then it seems the problem isn't with the glowmaps, but with the materials

Since it uses covet textures, try having a look at the vanilla material. There are a few differences

[proud sierra]

How do i make my camera go to the right?

[little portal]

Because highbeam isnt a material

You need the ek9_lights_on

You could set both on and off of the glowmap to the _on to test if it is the material

[river forge]

Doesn't need to be, glowmap materials are basically just placeholder of which only the name matters

[fervent wagon]

can anyone help me with my interior

my bolide's interior texture is wrong and the matierla isnt showing in the material editor

[little portal]

Yea but the guy searched it up in the material editor

[dry cargo]

is there a limit to the image size for th terrain import heightmap? im using a 32000 x 32000 image for it. (not exactly that res, I multiplied 8196 x 8196 by 4)

[warm sphinx]

It should match the terrain resolution iirc

But I don’t think there is a maximum

[dry cargo]

terrain resolution?

[warm sphinx]

If your terrain is 1024x1024 I believe your height map should be too

[little portal]

A gigapixel is crazy

[dry cargo]

ah. so is it anything here I should change?

[dry cargo]

yeah. and its still not the best for the map im doing. the map is 1000km x 1000km but the heightmap is 32km x 32km (if you do it to 1 pixel per meter)

[dry cargo]

?

[warm sphinx]

So is it 1024 x 1024 then?

In map size before x32

Also max height should be wayyyy more than 1

1 is 1 meter

[dry cargo]

it will be 32768 x 32768 since thats how many pixels are on the heightmap

[warm sphinx]

Well 32 meters in this case I think

[dry cargo]

yeah ik. its because it crashed a lot before lol.

[warm sphinx]

BeamNg cannot handle a terrain block of that size

[dry cargo]

so to stop it crashing I used 1. then scaled up

[dry cargo]

can it do 8196?

[warm sphinx]

Yes

That’s about the maximum

The supported maximum is 4096

[dry cargo]

ah ok. thats a bit irritating. I tried to get around it by using a larger image so it works better.

[warm sphinx]

Also it’s 8192 but yeah

[dry cargo]

oh well

[dry cargo]

oh yeah close enough

[warm sphinx]

Yeah 8192 is the max and then you can multiply the block size to make the map larger with the same terrain size

[dry cargo]

yeah. I was trying 32000 so that the map can be big, but wouldnt have as bad of the large terrian painting ect

[dry cargo]

thanks tho

[toxic widget]

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[warm sphinx]

So 8192 with a multiplication factor of 123x would get you your 1,000km goal

And then set your max height to whatever you want your highest point on your height map to be (assuming it’s pure white)

[brittle warren]

cant seem to make this work any ideas cause im at a loss

[little portal]

Whats not working

Remove the on_intense line

And simplefunction ignition instead of lowbeam and highbean

[brittle warren]

i want to be able to cahane it weith the low and high beams i want 3 seperate states of material switching

[little portal]

So whats not working

[brittle warren]

it doesnt do anything lol the tv2 material is on constantly

[little portal]

You sure the blender material is ipad and not tv2 by accident?

[brittle warren]

so the first name is the material?

[river forge]

Yeah, this should be the material in blender

[brittle warren]

i thought thhat was just the generic name of the glow map sorry checking it now

works perfect thank you @river forge and @little portal

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @river forge (current: #3 - 263)

[brittle warren]

So is there a way to make it work with html materials cause rn my sound keeps playioing when its supposed to be a material with no sound

[dry cargo]

@little portal got scammed out of a rep 😭

[brittle warren]

Thank you

damn didnt work lol

[river forge]

There's a cooldown

Not that it matters, the points aren't used for anything anymore

[dry cargo]

except funnies

[toxic widget]

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lordlichi06: 52 Reputation (#49)

[tacit halo]

can anyone give me 17 reputation

[dry cargo]

yes. thanks

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @tacit halo (current: #48 - 53)

[dry cargo]

rep farming trolley

[river forge]

Now I wonder if there is also a cooldown when someone else is giving rep. Thanks

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @tacit halo (current: #48 - 54)

[river forge]

Aha

[dry cargo]

15 rep to go

[river forge]

Anyway I can't find anything on this, try looking though the game files to see if any cars are doing something similar

Btw if you're making a screen with proper html stuff, do you even need a glowmap at all? Don't think the vanilla screens have one

[brittle warren]

idk lol im new to html textures im currently streaming youtube videos through html embed idk jack about anything but what ive gotten working so far lol

[gaunt quail]

Are you making a luxury limo with working luxury interiors?

[brittle warren]

im making subwoofer style show cars but im also working on a limo from the oldfullsize mod and putting my tvs in it

[tacit halo]

wtf why is there a fukin ipad embedded on your dashboard

[tacit halo]

thats a first for me

[brittle warren]

car audio is big on using ipads for playback because most of the time you dont have an actual head unit you just use amps powering alkl your speakers with a audio splitter and crossovers to split the signal to the amps

[gaunt quail]

As for the videos, I can send you actual fan made music videos made and rendered with b3D when my main pc will be fully repaired, for now I can work on a powerful laptop for the actual b3D project video template

[brittle warren]

i just use youtube embed but i have another htm that i can put webm format videos in just for some reeason when the material is on it doesnt reset the sound or the video when i turn the material of so isk if it doesnt work that way or what lol

[gaunt quail]

Did you try the dynamic material with frame after frame videos rendered as PNGs?

[brittle warren]

no its just easier to use videos and embeds so people can change the video playing since im planning to release the mod

[gaunt quail]

So the mod fully works if there is an internet connection, don’t you think that some people have weak hardware that can lag the game if the mod requires internet while running beamg drive?

[brittle warren]

you can also just download the video and convert it to webm format and i have one of the worst pcs in the beam community and mine doesnt laf at all having it run through the internet to play the video i have had 10 screens on at the same time with all different youtube streams playing and it works just fine

[little portal]

Is it possible to set the “diffTorqueSplit” with a drive mode?

To send 100% to the rear for 2wd

[meager sable]

I want to move the rear axle back to make a car longer but I’ve tried before and the wheel didn’t move what would I shave to do for it wo work and would I have to make a longer shaft as it rwd?

[gusty onyx]

So obviously I cant just have a 1:1 copy of a car on the repo, but to what extent do I have to change things? I'm not making a meshlap Im recreating a car I own, and I want to know If I can go ahead and just model the entire thing from my 3D scans or if I need to alter the design in a major way, aside from just like changing the labels and badges and such

[brittle warren]

You should just have to use node move on the suspension slot in the frame jbeam

[gleaming cipher]

Anyone wanna help me put this on my F8 car?

[thorny atlas]

Im importing a few different objects from other (vanilla) maps into the one im messing with. There are a few objects with random missing textures. I have found the textures missing and it looks like there are multiple of the same textures being imported in. I tried deleting all but one of them but that doesnt solve the problem. How would I go about fixing this? Thanks in advance.

[near gorge]

Could someone provide me with a tutorial on how to use imgui.

[vale mulch]

hey all... recently i just got my Standalone truck mod working in career mode, but one problem. repairing the truck is always free, and instant. aswell as new parts arent primered and when applying a new part i want to buy it primers the whole truck. is there something i need to do to get primed parts to work?
any help would be greatly appreciated

[signal adder]

if i make material as double-sided then gpu will render both side even if i am not looking at the back? i wanna make flower petals as plane to avoid extruding it and creating unnecessary topology, but i am not sure if it will create unwanted job for gpu

[river forge]

I don't quite remember, but I think double sided materials only work well for completely flat meshes, they can causes some weird lighting in order cases

For your thing, you might be better off duplicating the mesh, so you can have one with the normals facing one way, and one with the normals facing the other way. So it will look like 1 double sided mesh, but without weird lighting/shadows

[signal adder]

thanks @river forge , i am noob at game optimization 😄 i don't know what is triangle limit for a map in beamng, i am creating low poly world with area of 10km^2 and not sure if for example if i can put like 5mln triangles in flowers in different places, i read that gpu only renders what camera sees and ignores other stuff, but still i am not exactly sure how things work and how much triangles i can put into my map

[river forge]

Ah I don't really know much about maps specifically, maybe someone else can help ya out with that

Anyway what also helps me a lot (for cars in my case, but might be helpful for maps too), is looking how the vanilla game does things

[signal adder]

yea, good tip, i didn't think about it, will check triangles count on largest maps on original maps

[worn jetty]

Hey I was trying to get my mods in beam and I would pay someone if your interested please shoot me a dm

[river forge]

What do you need help with specifically? You can just ask around in this channel, I'm sure there are many people willing to help for free, me included

[worn jetty]

I made mods for assetto corsa and I wanted to put them in beam

[river forge]

Yeah no offense but that'd be pretty much impossible for a first project

[worn jetty]

Mods like this

[river forge]

I'd recommend getting to know your way around BeamNG modding first, for example by making a new part for an existing car

[worn jetty]

I can’t just pay someone?

[shut pollen]

not unless you have very deep pockets

[river forge]

There isn't anyone that does car commissions as far as I know (other than meshslaps - slapping the model onto an existing car)

And if there was, that'd run ya thousands of dollars. Full cars take a lot of time in this game

Most people only tend to make what they want, as passion projects

[thorny rune]

^

[river forge]

But you could start learning yourself, and work your way up to make a full car someday

[tacit halo]

beamng modding is mostly passion proyects, the few people that do it are grifters at that and they wouldnt even accept that since they cant take an existing car phisics and slap it

[sullen ice]

hey 😄
i am doing a mod with an automation base
and i wanted to know if someone know what do i need to change to "lower the sportiness" of my engine ?
to explain further :
i want to do a truck
so i want my engine to behave like the engines of the T-series when i accelerate
but for the moment when i accelerate, the behavior is closer to a 10T scintilla with a 140kmh topspeed rather than an big'old diesel engine that slowly go up in the revs

[brittle warren]

Friction and inertia and dynamic friction

[sullen ice]

thanks ^^

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[sullen ice]

someone on an other server, after seeing the video of how the engine is behaving, told me that i should change the flywheel weight (btw here is the video if you want to see)
but i dont manage to find it, do you know by any chance where it is ?

[brittle warren]

im not sure where it is for automation cars

[sullen ice]

😭

[tacit halo]

unsure if you can change it there, you should open the jbeam file, alternatively, you could swap the code from the t series engine (i6 or v8) so it would behave like that

[sullen ice]

in the end, after increasing the three settings a lot
and change the automation tires values by the T-series Tire values
i got a pretty good result in term of acceleration adn grip
but now im searching for someone to test my truck and give me an outside opinion, to see if someone can see some flaws that i dont see ? 🤔
i feel like the wheels are a bit too fragile, but maybe it's just me and the wheel are alright ?

[gleaming cipher]

Does this work? Making a Fictional Scheme pack so i can post it on the repo once my F8 car gets approved

(Sponsor is ridleys' truck stops)

[dry cargo]

how do I:

1. make the paints less square (like the old version style)
2. make the textures smaller (since it looks massive compared to a d series)

[meager sable]

So I’m trying to modify the jbeam on this car I’m making but since I got the new update I can’t export them properly and not sure were there going if anyone nows or can help it will be much appreciated

[brittle warren]

The jbeam just get exported to the the same jbeam you imported?

[meager sable]

I tried but it don’t work and now it won’t let me export it as what I want it as

[delicate wigeon]

I downloaded the toyota supra mod and i don't have any sound form the engine can some body help?

this one

https://www.beamng.com/threads/toyota-supra-a90-mkv-re-release.100370/

[patent hornet]

Does anyone know how to make a vehicle that you built in beam into a mod?

[river forge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1FzB9cqzrQ

[patent hornet]

Thank you that helps alot

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[brittle warren]

Are you using the beam importer or the old jbeam exporter that makes a jbeam

[meager sable]

I’m using the latest one as my blender updated so I had to re install it but when I try put expirter in says I’m missing some files

[brittle warren]

send a ss of what it says

[meager sable]

Will when I’m home just collecting sister from school

[brittle warren]

ighty

[meager sable]

thats what it says when i try put it in

[red briar]

Hello i would need some help, Im trying to make my customized East Coast map with world editor a mod so I can put it onto my Beammp server can someone pls help.I have already tried it somewhat and it detected it as a mod in the mod manager but there were many missing textures except the roads I made with the road maker

[jagged parrot]

Anyone know why the texture wont show up, im at loss it said : 1503.503|W|engine::GFXTextureManager::createTexture|texture invalid filepath '/vehicles/roamer/nsmskin1/roamer_skin_nsmskin1.dds' corrected to '/vehicles/roamer/nsmskin1/roamer_skin_nsmskin1.dds'

Where did I do wrong?

[cold sundial]

Heyo guys, I'm having trouble distinguishing the player from the traffic, is there any way to check if the current parsed data is from the player itself? I'm using vehicle lua

[sullen ice]

can someone explain me how the brake line works between the t-series and the trailers ?
how can i make my fifthwheel on my truck unlock the brakes of the trailer when it's attached ?

i guess it use the ["us_semi_air_compressor","us_semi_air_compressor", "Air Compressor"]," that i can find inside the us_semi_engine.jbeam
but i dont manage to find where the air compressor is so i can copy-paste it into my truck
and i dont know if copy-paste it will be enough, maybe there is other things between the air compressor and the trailer ?

[fossil widget]

anyone know why the trains wheels on the railcars no longer work?

[meager sable]

so im making this and ive used the bluebuck files and changed the name but when i made a template now it doesnt work any one got any ideas what it could do or i something need todo

[snow mountain]

couple questions for different sorts of mods:

1. how do I make a UI app transparent/not have the annoying grey box behind whatever I'm trying to display?

2. are there any sorts of quick jbeam generators for car models? (ie if I just wanna do a really quick meshslap and polish the jbeam up later on)

(fwiw the documentation on app creation sucks so bad, last modified way before the documentation got moved out of the wiki)

[shut pollen]

no such thing as a quick jbeam generator. you would genuinely be better off making a meshslap lmao. you could try the blender jbeam editor, though that isnt really for starting from scratch

[heady trail]

As for 1

BeamNG CEF uses premultiplied alpha

So it'll always darken

You can't get clean transparency with cef

[snow mountain]

i know some things are transparent/dont have a square though (simple damage, default speedometer, default electronics)

and i cant for the life of me figure out how they do it even when looking at the sources

[heady trail]

Oh, different issue then

Can't tell you without having the UI app

[snow mountain]

compare this, with the transparent grey, to the default gauges and such that dont have the grey square

or the damage ui which doesnt have it either

[wooden crypt]

Hey there! 👋
It seems there is no characters on this server yet 😓
Reach out to the owner or the bot masters of this server to invite them here.

[verbal linden]

Any resources for Jbeam editing? I have the tools, but as far as tips to help.

[patent hornet]

How do i import the base game t series into blender?

[river forge]

Import us_semi.dae and us_semi_mechanicals_dae, both can be found in the game files /content/vehicles/us_semi.zip/vehicles/us_semi/ here

[north gulch]

Does anyone knows how spoilers materials and textures are managed for vanilla cars?

[hushed bridge]

in the asset browser no .dae files are appearing?

[vale patio]

anyone know how to export tires from beamng into blender?

[patent hornet]

after im done creating something in blender how do i put it in beam?

[unique zealot]

export it as dae and link the flexbodies in the jbeam

as well as making the jbeam

[clear crescent]

Anyone know where the upfits are in the files.

[hushed bridge]

how to prevent this

[sand bison]

Doing materials on my street stock mod make me want to jump from the empire state building

[inner heart]

common.zip

[thorn hinge]

hey guys im currently making a Skin for a car and im following the beamng website tutorial. it says to find the skin material in the material editor but it wont come up is there anything i can do?

it says to check syntax but honestly dont know what that means

alr figured it out

[verbal linden]

Does the Covet body jbeam (non mid-engine) genuinely not have any nodes or beams?

[river forge]

It does

[verbal linden]

If I open it in Blender with the addon or nodebeameditor, none appear

[river forge]

Not sure about the Blender addons as I don't use them, but it does have nodes and beams just like any other part

Maybe someone who knows more about the addon can help you

[leaden lion]

Hello, I am working on a dune buggy mod, and I am having lots of trouble with the suspension Jbeam. If I set the longBoundRange and BoundZone to get the travel how I need for it to handle well, I get all sorts of weird warping and instability issues. I'm looking for someone with experience making suspension for off-road vehicle mods (jbeam stuff, I know my way around kinematics and setup) to take a look at it, because it's honestly a mess and I'm at my wits end. I am willing to provide the mod.

[verbal linden]

I will say I am a little excited yet dreading working on the suspension for the vehicle I'm doing right now. The springs on the front are horizontal rather than vertical which I believe might get challenging. Jbeams already seen challenging enough

[brittle warren]

whicxh version of blender are you using im on 4.3 with the addon and it works

[gentle fox]

Dont use nodebeam editor, use visual studio code and the jbeam plugin for editing jbeam and for the locations use the blender plugin

When using the vscode plugin you can also view it in 3D inside vscode

[brittle warren]

also works fine in nbe so is the jbeam edited if so you may have a jbeam syntax error causing it to not work

[verbal linden]

I just extracted the files. Looking at the makeup for my project

[brittle warren]

try vs code like TommoT said

[verbal linden]

Okay. I think I have Cursor. If I need to change to standard vscode, I will

[brittle warren]

This?

you definitly will need to use vscode for the addon to work if thats what ur using

[verbal linden]

Yes, it's a modified version of vscode

[clear crescent]

Anybody know where the textures for the rollbacks are?

I wanna make a used deck

[unique zealot]

most likely in the common zip

[clear crescent]

I was looking through but I couldnt find the material.

[brittle warren]

open the roll back in beam and look at the materials in material editor?

[clear crescent]

Didnt notice the response till now but I figured it out.

Ended up making a wooden deck

Made it

Why wont it let me send this

So I just changed the node weight of the deck of the rollback and made the nodes know theyre wood. Now it explodes when I swap to it.

Any suggestions?

[brittle warren]

need to also change beam damp when you change node wight

[clear crescent]

Its saying theres an instability. Unsure what was changed that caused it.

[brittle warren]

beam damp

have to fine tine the values

[clear crescent]

One sec getting to it. Trying something else quick

[clear crescent]

I have learned that beamdamp and beamspring are perfectly scalable with node weight. I 3/4 the node weight and 3/4 the damp and spring and its perfect.

[brittle warren]

yea lol so that fixed it?

[clear crescent]

Turns out it scales until roughly you half it then not so much bc every other part starts causing problems but yes it fixed it.

Altho I forgot to save the 3/4 version incase lower didnt work. 😭

So ill do it again another time.

[severe grail]

This is what happens when I add the texture to the "layer 2" base colour map. The bleeding past the letters is fixed but cache.
The file is literally just the white "ibishu" over transparent background :/

I may just have had a skill issue. Hoping I fixed it 🤞

[dusty hull]

Who made the flood mod in BEAMng?

[keen shadow]

daniel-w
https://www.beamng.com/resources/flood.23313/
you could've looked it up in 5 secs instead of waiting for an answer lmao

[cursive tartan]

the front wheels wig out and idk why
-# (carbonworks mod, use the config i added)

[warm moth]

hm...i need idea i made some lorefriendly wheels

[urban chasm]

i keep having issues trying to get input actions working for a forklift i am mounting to the md series

[dusty hull]

Yes but his discord to get in contact

[river forge]

Just send them a message on the forums
https://www.beamng.com/conversations/add?to=daniel-w

[keen shadow]

Is aerofrom a typo?

[dusty hull]

Their is no way this dude doesn’t have a discord account

[river forge]

Well yeah, literally the first one you see. But what's wrong with a forums message?

[dusty hull]

On mobile I can’t access member list, or atleast I don’t know how. Thanks .

[heady nacelle]

Hi guys, I'm experimenting a bit with the t-series and modified the jbeam of the hood to create a front fender trim. The issue I'm facing is that the nodes meant to hold it in place are jittering sporadically when stationary. It holds in place good when driving I guess, but the nodes start moving around and snapping back repeatedly if left idle. This behavior is driving me crazy. I've attached the mod here—if anyone with more experience could take a look and help, I'd really appreciate it. I've never encountered this issue before so I changed around a lot but nothing helped rlly.

[crystal cipher]

Anyone know how to fix this?

I would like to have them so the reverse lights (bottom inner) are white, the signals (bottom outer) are the yellow/orange and for the brake lights (top) are the red

[tacit halo]

needs different material and glowmap for each part

[crystal cipher]

Ah, ok

They do have different materials

[hushed bridge]

i cant get this to have a material

it wont export with a material attached

and when i go in the shape editor it stays no material

[proud sierra]

Can someone help me move my hubs, they keep staying in the same spot

[amber needle]

how do you change the speed limit on a road

[brittle warren]

no?

[humble epoch]

anyone know why when i spawn a object like this

local object = createObject(objectData.className)
object:setPosRot(objectData.pos.x, objectData.pos.y, objectData.pos.z, objectData.rot.x, objectData.rot.y, objectData.rot.z, objectData.rot.w)
object:setScale(vec3(objectData.scale.x, objectData.scale.y, objectData.scale.z))
object:setField('shapeName', 0, objectData.shapeName)
object:setField('collisionType', 0, "Collision Mesh")
object:setField('decalType', 0, "Collision Mesh")
object.useInstanceRenderData = true
object:registerObject(Sim.getUniqueName(objectData.objectName))
group:addObject(object.obj)

the collision doesnt apply unless i enter then right away exit map editor?

ohh nvm it seems to get collisions when i manually change the type from none back to mesh

but i still need to do it all auto with the script

[humble epoch]

be:reloadCollision() fixed the issue

[hushed bridge]

no matter what i do materials just wont apply to objects

oh

i jsut had to switch it to pbr

[fickle raptor]

i remember you from the insane ets2 modding server

[hushed bridge]

no longer working and the material disappears on restart

[humble epoch]

👋 hi hi

[brittle warren]

Map or Car?

And did u save the material?

[fickle raptor]

how to i stop my middle beams from spasming out? i have tried everything and im going to go crazy

i decided to make a scratch made jbeam instead of a modified vanilia car and i feel like im a rocket scientist

[hushed bridge]

map

yes i saved the material

[brittle warren]

Is it for custom objects or? Also try moving the temp material file from levels folder to your mods levels folder

[brave lintel]

Hello everyone! I'm very new to this modding thing and I'm trying to add a GT2 steering wheel to a BMW M3 E92. Can anyone explain me why it turns like this?

[glossy grail]

does anyone know if there is any good tutorial of creating map in Beamng? I mean there are some but they are kinda outdated and not showing all the most important things on how to create smth. Anybody knows some?

[lusty wharf]

im looking forward to make a car what program do i use?

[acoustic ivy]

i made a custom lights but this is the result is there anyone who can help me with this?

[acoustic ivy]

blender

[river forge]

Blender for models

Paint.net / GIMP / Photoshop for textures

Any text editor for most of the other files (.jbeam/.json), something like Visual Studio Code or Notepad++ would be recommended, but even the standard Windows notepad app would work

[river forge]

Looks like you need to fix your UV map. It's what links the 2D textures to the 3D model

[acoustic ivy]

ok ty

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @river forge (current: #3 - 276)

[versed glacier]

How I add mode to the game?

I want to add a nissan patrol

Nismo

Can anyone help me plz

@toxic widget

@toxic widget

@toxic widget

[tacit tulip]

You’re @ing a bot

[river forge]

You can find mods via these official resources:

1. The in-game repo
2. https://www.beamng.com/resources/
3. https://www.beamng.com/categories/mods.23/

The search feature on the site is pretty bad, try googling site:beamng.com and then whatever it is you're looking for. That way it will only show results from the official site

There are also 3rd party sites such as Modland, but those feature a lot of low quality / stolen mods, and potentially even malicious content / viruses, so using such sites is not recommended. If you do, use at your own risk, and don't click any suspicious ads or links

As for how to install them, follow this guide:
https://documentation.beamng.com/tutorials/mods/installing-mods/

[versed glacier]

Ok thanks

Ok thank

thank

[silent haven]

I'm adding glovebox to my car（based on etk800），but the shape are always spark when it open，how can I solve it？

[sullen ice]

if i want to redo the whole jbeam of the vehicle, so it have better deformation
should i just put jbeam around the body+ the jbeam of the interior
or should i do the jbeam of all the I-Beam of the chassis+the jbeam of the body+the jbeam of the interior

[burnt marten]

In an engine JBeam file, can you have non-standard keys and reference them somehow in Lua?

[swift roost]

i want to make a skin for a vehicle. how exactly do i put the file into the game? apparently i can use paint.net for the skin itself but idk how to actually put it in the game

[river forge]

https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/materials/vehicle/skinsystem/skintutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqFkVR2FiYA&ab_channel=BNGFPlus

https://www.beamng.com/resources/skin-helper.15037/

[swift roost]

thank you ill try this out

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @river forge (current: #3 - 278)

[near bay]

Hi

[ember pawn]

uuuu

[rancid wedge]

So I am making a openable hatch, but when closing it, the car gets pulled to the hatch instead. (found this out when making it 100x as strong for testing) what would I need to change?
It opens perfectly fine aut closing does just not work

[gentle fox]

What do you mean by non-standard keys?
If you mean if you can add stuff like "Version" with a value or something like that, then yes you can

You can access everything that is defined in Jbeam files and they are not limited to what the game itself reads. So you can add however you like pretty much

[marsh charm]

tried making a skin for hellish arrow's explorer but it wont show in the parts selector

also tried making one for maxies crown vic except this time it shows and game but doesnt have texture

[burnt marten]

Perfect, thanks!

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @gentle fox (current: #169 - 17)

[rancid wedge]

Either you didn't show it in the image, or you forgot the } in the final line on the jbeam. Any time you can't select something in the parts selector, the jbeam is at fault.

[little portal]

Open the files in visual studio code with the beamng addon and check for errots

[dawn rain]

Hello, I am trying to install the jbeam editor in blender and I can not seem to get it to work at all. I am following the guide from here https://github.com/BeamNG/Blender-JBeam-Editor/blob/main/docs/user/user_docs.md. I am installing it from the preferences tab just like the outlined steps but nothing happens. When I click refresh it gave me an error "User Default: [WinError 3] The system cannot find the path specified:'C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\4.2\extensions\user_default'" and when I create the file path I get no error but still nothing happens. I tried installing other addons directly from blender and those work. I am using the steam blender version but I tried both blender 4.2 and 4.3 from the legacy download on their website and those exhibit the same behaviour. Does anyone know how to get it to work?

[marsh charm]

yeah i fixed it last night

[dawn rain]

If anyone else is having this issue, I figured out what I was doing wrong. I was trying to install the file from the main codebase from here https://github.com/BeamNG/Blender-JBeam-Editor. The file you need is the one from the release page from here https://github.com/BeamNG/Blender-JBeam-Editor/releases. You only need the blender_jbeam_editor_X.X.X.zip file for the addon to work

[hushed bridge]

game crashes whenever opening asset browser

[thorn hinge]

How do i change the material for a map in beamng

I dont want my grass behaving like asphalt

[native gazelle]

So, if I wanted to learn how to modify lighting fixtures/textures on cars, how should I begin? Where should I start?

[tough sierra]

right side skirt shows up left one doesnt, any reason why this could happen? jbeam seems fine

[tough sierra]

skins

[pulsar flame]

the Origin point on the steering wheel is wrong in your 3d software, adjust the orgin point so its correct then it will work

[sour cape]

Any beam devs out there. What part of the headlight jbeam file changes the light fading properties

looking to add it to the burnside lights as well

[river forge]

https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/vehicle/sections/glowmaps/#material-transitions
and
https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/vehicle/sections/electrics/#smoothers-arguments

[sour cape]

thank you very much

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @river forge (current: #3 - 281)

[safe trout]

any video tutorial about how to make this smooth lights?

[river forge]

Not yet, you'll have to make do with the documentation for now 👆
@safe trout

[sour cape]

ok so i got smooth lights working on headlights but now taillights are giving me troubles :/

the taillights go in and out at different steps but not smoothly

[marsh charm]

skin shows up as blank colour on hellish arrow's charger

[frigid forge]

I'm having a different kind of issue with the smooth lights, they work, but when turned off they get stuck in a dimmer phase, and then turns off for good suddenly, the jump can be clearly seen. Even when it's working the issue happens, the moment is not pulsing, it's stuck for a second in a dim phase, not fully on, not fully off, just stuck in a weird way, hopefully the video shows the issue clearly...haven't been able to figure out how to solve it.

[sour cape]

are you textures pbr?

i found that to be my issue for the taillights

[frigid forge]

Yes, they are

[tulip sapphire]

how do i make the interiors_details_bl_g.dds material glow? do i need to update to PBR, newer system or something?

[sand bison]

So after the update my mod won't show up in vehicles anymore. Any help?

[brittle warren]

is it activated? and did u move your mods from the .33 folder to the .34 folder?

[sand bison]

Yep. Did both

[hushed bridge]

check ur user folder

the one from 0.33

[hushed bridge]

still happens after update

[sand bison]

So it shows up in other people's game but not mine:/

[brittle warren]

Thats super odd

[sand bison]

I got it to work. Some weird things with files and whatnot

[hybrid python]

how do i make a new map for beamng?

but only using beamng?

if somebody says that i should put this in another server then my brain is gonna get so confused on which one

[warm sphinx]

You can't do it without some file editing and moving. Its not all going to be in game

[hybrid python]

oh..

[warm sphinx]

https://github.com/alexkleinwaechter/BeamNG_LevelCleanUp

This will get you allot of the way there

[hybrid python]

looks like i will just have to deal with saving official levels.

i tried, but thats fine :)

when i turn 18 or 19 and move out then i will finally be able to do the things i wanted to do my whole life.

without having to ask for it

[brittle warren]

Why cant u use blender? Its free

[hybrid python]

i would have to ask my father to download it on my computer, and i have no clue what his answer will be

which is why i just gave up and will wait until i can finally move out.

[warm sphinx]

You don't need blender to make a map

You just need to be able to move around folders and edit json files

[brittle warren]

True i guess but if hes making a full custom map he would need to have some sort of 3d model program cause a lot of beam assets are grouped in to single dae's

[warm sphinx]

Fair. But at least 75% are usable without breaking them up

[brittle warren]

Yea u right

[hybrid python]

aAAAgh

i give up this is too hard for my simple brain :(

[tough sierra]

what i am doing wrong here??? everything seems fine, ive had the same issue with every model i export pls help

[unique zealot]

Make sure to apply transforms with Ctrl + A, check for empty material slots and your normals are facing the right direction

It previously happened to me and it was the materials

Also check the explorer

[tough sierra]

ok

[tough sierra]

normals seems fine

[tacit halo]

Ckeck the console for ant possible errors

[tough sierra]

blender console?

[river forge]

BeamNG console, `/~ button

[river forge]

Some other basic things to check

[tough sierra]

found this

weird

[river forge]

Well then either your mesh isn't in the .dae, or the .dae isn't in the right place

[tough sierra]

where should the .dae be

looks like this atm

[river forge]

Yeah that's correct, hm

Could you send over the .dae?

[tough sierra]

ok

dms

[river forge]

Yes thanks, 1 sec

Uhhh okay weird, it works just fine for me, so I guess the .dae isn't the issue
(Threw it in a completely different mod just so I could quickly get the mesh ingame, so don't pay attention to the Piccolina or the )

A typo would make the most sense, but I don't see any in your files... so honestly idk at this point 🤷😬

[unique zealot]

You might get a better answer in the modding for dummies server, after what has been tried here

[tough sierra]

aw man

[little portal]

Might ve a cache issue

You can delete the .cdae from the temp folder i guess

[tough sierra]

did that but didnt work

maybe ill just do complete cache clear

[little portal]

Is the vanilla car still there?

Might be that its colliding with the unpacked model

[tough sierra]

i remade the mod and now works

apart from texture

and ik why

[river forge]

What is the material name in blender? Make sure it doesn't have .001 or .002 etc. behind it

[tough sierra]

its nine_main_hotrod cus i was trying one thing

now after i restart game it should work

[fickle raptor]

convince him that is a creative program that you need to use for the stuff that you do

[hybrid python]

tried that before, last time he said no so i will wait until i move out, plus i have already given up now.

like a long time ago, gave up yesterday long

[sullen turret]

what changed in the update to cause a lot of modded cars to break?

[fickle raptor]

the fuck is this supposed to mean?

why can't this editor from the stone ages actually be responsive

[little portal]

The coma at the ]?

Chekx it in visual studio code

[fickle raptor]

vscode says nothing but BN is whining over nothing

[unique zealot]

Isn’t it advised against using BNE anyway

[fickle raptor]

it makes me easily connect nodes and make triangles

but i just went to the ide anyways to continue editing

[unique zealot]

I get you, although that can still be done in VSC or blender

[fickle raptor]

blender doesn't really tell me where it made the beams/triangles

even with the texxt editor open

[little portal]

Then use vsc

[naive oxide]

does anyone know how to make {"simpleFunction":{"brake":0.49,"lowhighbeam":0.49},
equivalent in new lights?
i got it working but not smooth

[river forge]

"glowMap":{
  "materialname": {
    "simpleFunction":{
        {"brake_filament":0.49,"lowhighbeam_filament":0.49}
    }, 
    "off":"lights_off", "on":"lights_on", "on_intense":"lights_on_intense", "materialEmissiveScaling":{"on_max":1}
  }
},
"electrics": {
    "customValues": [
        ["electricsName",        "electricsFunction"],
        ["brake_filament",       "electrics.brake        * electrics.electricalLoadCoef"],
        ["lowhighbeam_filament", "electrics.lowhighbeam, * electrics.electricalLoadCoef"]
    ],
    "smoothers": [
        ["electricsName",        "smootherType",      "params"],
        ["brake_filament",       "temporalNonLinear", [10,10]],
        ["lowhighbeam_filament", "temporalNonLinear", [10,10]]
    ]
}```

[storm badger]

Does anyone know the file name of this?

[quick axle]

tfsb i’m pretty sure

[naive oxide]

doesnt work, i dont know whats wrong

[safe trout]

anyone do a tutorial how to make this new smooth lights? please

[visual rivet]

does anyone have the burckell nine skin files?

[hard gyro]

Go to steamlibrary>steamapps>common>beamng>content>vehicles> Nine> vehicles>nine

You’ll find them there

[visual rivet]

yea ive got them now i just gotta figure out how to make them work since they made the jbeam different from the rest of the cars. since it does show up in game but the actual skin doesnt

[hard gyro]

Oh

If I’m making a skin, one that just uses the primary, secondary, and tertiary colors, what color represents tertiary on a DDS?

[tacit halo]

red = primary
green = secondary
blue = tertiary
i think its like that but it might be the other way around for g and b

[hard gyro]

Thanks.

[hushed bridge]

the game crashes every time i open the asset browser

i have deleted the assetbrowser.lua and then verified integrity, cleared cache

last time this happened a restart fixed it

[tawny knoll]

hey!

im looking for someone who could help with the Jbeam of a car i have been making. proper credit will be given to whoever helps out. its a 90s rotary powered corvette

its not a massive mod, will only have a few aftermarket parts and will be using the BX suspension

mod page: https://www.beamng.com/threads/94-04-inkaei-rxs-g2-rotary-corvette-jbeam-help-needed.99324/#post-1740239

if your willing to give me a hand please let me know!

[tacit halo]

that model is pretty rough

do you have a polyflow pic

[hard gyro]

fml
The skin tutorial im following uses skin helper, which hasn’t been updated for the Nine

[tawny knoll]

i do plan on remaking some body panels

such as the popups and skirts

[tacit halo]

ow god

[hushed bridge]

holy polygons

[light pewter]

that is

[tacit halo]

i mean its fine if its your first time
but its not good by any means

[light pewter]

mindblowing

high poly

[tawny knoll]

ive been told that before lol, it is my first time

[tacit halo]

and if its triangulated its basically usless since for anything youd want to have it as quads

[hushed bridge]

its not a bad model visually but that is not going to work in any games

[hushed bridge]

blender just shows it as quads for ease of use

everything has to be triangulated

it is impossible for it not to be

[tacit halo]

well yeah but for editing, quads are just better, so if you triangulate your model you are just making your life hard for it to be used

i generally dont even triangulate my models until they are done (or just let beamng do the calculations when it creates the cached .dae)

[tawny knoll]

then the frame, i know its high poly in some areas just have not gotten around to fixing that yet

[light pewter]

that rear will cause problems

[tacit halo]

that looks like a gta5 frame but just absurdly high poly

[tawny knoll]

yeah i know, like i said though i plan on fixing that

[hushed bridge]

i wish it was easier to lower polygon count

[tacit halo]

well yeah but it doesnt mean the frame is probably not accurate at all to anything

[tawny knoll]

what do you mean?

[hushed bridge]

me when decimate modifier removes 2 tris and turns my beautiful model into a cube

[tacit halo]

well it looks very blocky, and uh i know its not meant to be a c5 corvette but

doesnt look like an rx7 either way

[tawny knoll]

i originally made the C5 frame and then just incorporated it into the body

[tawny knoll]

its not supposed to

[tacit halo]

yeah well you have to base it in reality to a certain degree

yours just isnt realistic or feasable or usable in any kind

also interescting cubes is the worst thing ever

[tawny knoll]

never really been the best at 3d modeling lol

[tacit halo]

well yeah thats why making such a complex thing as a car is not reccomended for a newbie

[tawny knoll]

ive had blender for ages, just not that good at it

[tacit halo]

well my point still stands

if you arent good then you are just basically a newbie

we gaming

on the topic of frames

they require a complex understanding of well everything in a car and are a very very difficult thing to make

this alone took me like 2 months of work

[tawny knoll]

i was able to get it ingame awhile ago using D series textures and BX jbeam, the update broke it though

[tawny knoll]

ive got the knowlege on cars

[tacit halo]

well then uh you should really look into doing more models

as in not a mod
just models for practicing
modeling

[light pewter]

oohh looks good

is it going to be a mod or no?

[tacit halo]

yes

however keep in mind that this is a highpoly

[light pewter]

ahh dont worry

im sporting an rtx card

[tacit halo]

since behind what i just showed, is like 30 failed proyects and abandoned mods

[tacit halo]

ill be baking it to a lowpoly for making them normalmaps

ill do it the beamng way

i also like how normalmaps look, they have a charm to them

[light pewter]

true

[tawny knoll]

what do you think is the best course of action for the mod?

[tacit halo]

try again until done

gimme 2 seconds ill show you smth

[light pewter]

modeling takes me like 20 years and i have like no addons to make it easier

cus im a broke mf

so i just use fusion and use a mesh tool and import to blender

[tacit halo]

pt1

[unique zealot]

god damn

[tacit halo]

pt2

[tawny knoll]

oh wow

[tacit halo]

pt3

so
this is a shortened list of all of my proyects

most are dead, some are in hiatus

my blender folder contains many more models that only got to the half shell phase and then they died

many other of my smaller works are also skipped

[hard gyro]

Ok. So. Making a skin for the nine and read the “allow for body specific skins” in the Nine jbeam.

So what am I supposed to do if it’s not going to be body specific, and it’s supposed to be a universally applicable skin?

[tacit halo]

id say my start at "proper" beamng modding was this, the hirochi cerelia, which was my first attempt of currently 3 celicas ive made in beamng

[tacit halo]

?? all skins can be selected in all bodies?

[tawny knoll]

oh wow

thats alot

[hard gyro]

Yeah but I’m following a tutorial that uses skin helper. Which hasn’t been updated for the nine, and it’s saying to copy and use the main jbeam.

Well, the stuff it’s saying to change in that jbeam isn’t in the Nines main jbeam

It’s in one of the body ones and when I go through that, still can’t find it

[tacit halo]

Skin helper?

[hard gyro]

Yes

I’ve been following this https://youtu.be/LqFkVR2FiYA?si=8oXuQiu6upFTjOMo

[light pewter]

ima make a accord mod

well try to

[tacit halo]

Didn't you see me explaining why that's not a good idea

[tacit halo]

Can't help with that Ive never used anything like that

[hard gyro]

Shit

[tacit halo]

I just
Make it from scratch and copy the code from an existing skinn

[light pewter]

yeah

i know how to model

i have a scan i can use as a reference

[tawny knoll]

i did that tutorial ages ago and ran into issues, its either outdated or not perfect. i had to go to the forums for help iirc

[tacit halo]

Oh that's rather good, but still keep in mind that the difficult part is texturing and jbeaming also, consider the following : make shell, shove mk2 pessima stuff
Ez profit

[light pewter]

yeah ik

im not a scumbag who would do that tho

this mod is gonna be free

just cleaning up the 3d scan rn

[tacit halo]

Ez profit as in You wouldn't spend months making a crappy chassis that looks worse than If you just reused mk2 pessima

[light pewter]

oh

this is going to be as accurate as humanly possible

its not going to have very many configs at first

basically just a stock accord

nice thing about the scan is that it has the interior aswell

so i dont have to use a million different references

[hallow cloud]

Hello sorry to ask but can someone like screenrecord downloading a mod from modland then putting in folder for game the instructions I keep reading are getting me confused and my adhd ain’t helping either 😭

[urban chasm]

if u go into mod manager from ingame and there is a button to open mod folder

[hallow cloud]

But I’ve done that

[urban chasm]

i do not recoomend modland mods but thats the location

[hallow cloud]

What’s wrong with it?

Is modland bad

[urban chasm]

there shouldn't be any virus or anything but usually those mods are lower quality

[hallow cloud]

Oh then we’re should I go to get them

[urban chasm]

yea just not recommended

that mod could be broken because of hte update

[tropic heath]

how make car door have stronger opening spring?

[brittle warren]

Mostly all stolen mods

[finite current]

so im trying to make a rusty livery for the nine and i cant get it to properly work, heres the files and what its doing in game

this is my first time trying to make a skin for a car

[cosmic laurel]

You need to change the path for the skin in materials

since you made another folder it should be /vehicles/nine/rusty9/nine_main_skin_rusty9

[tropic heath]

if its not the file directory, might need to make the .png a .dds
ive had that cause issues with skins for me

[cosmic laurel]

that shouldnt matter

its just got the wrong path

[tropic heath]

just suggesting it as its something ive ran into before

[finite current]

ive done that and now the car is blank

[cosmic laurel]

hmm

have a look in the console

[finite current]

how?

[cosmic laurel]

press '

[finite current]

not doin anything

[cosmic laurel]

maybe try in freeroam

if that doesnt work check your keybinds for it

[finite current]

alright

[cosmic laurel]

click on the red error thing

and ctrl R the car

[cosmic laurel]

oh wait yoy already had it active

click it again and ctrl r

[cosmic laurel]

is there no red errors anywhere if you scroll up

[finite current]

nope

[cosmic laurel]

try opening up your skin and saving it as dxt1/dxt7 dds

if not i have no idea

[finite current]

i already did that but idk how to get it to dxt1/dxt7

[cosmic laurel]

are you using paint.net

[finite current]

no i used my tablet to draw the texture, i did download it tho

[cosmic laurel]

open it in paint.net and when saving it should give you the option

i imagine the issue is with the skin texture itself since the path is clearly right if its not no texturing

[fresh laurel]

hey my mesh is suddenly importing with the no material texture on it? the previous mesh worked just fine but this one wont import with the materal. not sure why

[cosmic laurel]

is the right material assigned to the mesh in blender and not a .001

[fresh laurel]

yeah

i basically did the same process as the first one but its just refusing to import the material now and i cant figure it out

[cosmic laurel]

yes

one more thing did you use the skinuvs or did you just draw the texture on a blank file, if so you need to resize your image to the same aspect ratio as the skin uvs

[finite current]

i used the skin uv

[cosmic laurel]

should be ok then

could also be worth trying making the background white

since materials are funny with alpha

[finite current]

can i save it over the other or should i make it seperate

[cosmic laurel]

save it over

might want to make a pdn with the layers seperate as well incase you want to edit it

[finite current]

ive always got the transperent one in my storage server lol

[cosmic laurel]

if you want to make it colourable properly its different but it should at least tell you what the issue is

[finite current]

still blank

[cosmic laurel]

hm

god knows then

[finite current]

the material thing im using is borrowed from another skin mod someone made for the nine , idk if that might be causing the issue

[cosmic laurel]

maybe try remaking the materials using a vanilla one

but that looks fine to me

[finite current]

ill try

do i use the skin one or main?

[cosmic laurel]

skin

you dont want to use the whole file just steal one of the vanilla skins

[finite current]

hows that look?

[cosmic laurel]

give it a go

itll look wierd cos it has the palette from another skin

but it might work

[finite current]

still blank somehow

[cosmic laurel]

bruh

try painting the car white

[cosmic laurel]

yeah i have no clue

sorry

[finite current]

dam

[finite current]

okay i kinda got it working, just cant see it

[finite current]

getting there, just dont know why its so low quality and not the color ist supposed to be

[cosmic laurel]

To improve quality you can save the dds as dxt7

To make it colour able make a palette map for it with the rust as alpha and the rest as full red

[dull forge]

Hi, I'm working on a bus routes mod, and I am wondering why my objects aren't appearing on the italy map after 0.34. The other maps are working fine.

[sick crypt]

Why are the map creation guides so lame?

I tried to create a simple map, but the game decided to give out an endless download, and then the inability to create a landscape.

[rancid knot]

How to attach/make parts not fall?

[river forge]

In your parts jbeam, make beams that connect to the car (they can connect to nodes from different jbeams)

[tacit tulip]

Mods

Yippee it’s gone

[proud sierra]

Anyone know where the 14x6 4 slot wheel dae and jbeam is?

And whitewall tire dae and jbeam?

[vernal badge]

What are the differences in terrain version? My map is version 9 according to the terrain.json file. I'm investigating why some people are having the terrain not load and am wondering whether this is the cause. One person reported that a different map loaded fine and the only differences are that it is version 8 and uses 1 material.

Edit: the person now reports that since the latest version (0.34) it works now, I didn't make any changes.

[crystal wraith]

Why when i import a dae to the game, some texures are missing and some arent..

[verbal linden]

Is there any kind of information on creating UI apps? I did a little searching and couldn't find much

[finite current]

its working now but what if i wanted to have the rust be the colors i made it when i drew it?

[crystal wraith]

what is happening is the DDS image is importing correctly to the files, but in beam it appears as nothing

[pulsar harbor]

ive been trying to make my own map for a couple days but i keep running into issues and im not sure what to do

could anyone help me next time i try?

[craggy tartan]

does anyone know how backfire works these days?

[tough sierra]

show blender

[crystal wraith]

show what specifically

the project im working on is sorta secert so i cant show entire photos

i can send those in dm though

all things are textured in blender

[craggy tartan]

thumbnail doesn't work on my end, would someone be willing to have look if the issue is on my end or not?

[tough sierra]

textures

[tough sierra]

also show .json

and if theres any .001 or .002 in blender delete them

[acoustic ivy]

you need to put materials in it in material editor for it to have texture ingame

[tough sierra]

i dont think so

thats one way to do it tho

[crystal wraith]

like which part, sorry. I know how to import maps from assetto to beamng but not much beyond that in blender

[crystal wraith]

these both make up pretty much the entire map

[tough sierra]

they issue many times

just make sure textures dont have them its easy fix

[still canopy]

what is a .cdae?

[safe hull]

I believe it's cached dae? Could be way wrong

[still canopy]

thx

[lusty trout]

I want to make skins for Bruckell nine but I can't find the skin_uvs file in its folder so I can edit it.

[verbal linden]

Any UI app modding help? I haven't been able to find much documentation

[hard gyro]

What’s the best program to make skins. I’m trying to use Paint.Net but the UVs are too crusty so I can’t get right on the lines

[verbal linden]

Did you try adding a new layer and making changes on the new layer?

Basically have the UV underneath your work for reference

[hard gyro]

Yes

That’s exactly what I’m doing. But it’s still turning out shit

I can’t figure out what beam officially uses

Their skins are crisp and perfect

I’ve spent 4 hours on these skins already just to find they’re horrible if I use ANY sort of contrasting colors

[verbal linden]

Did you try using the UV and an existing skin?

[hard gyro]

Yes

That’s where I started.

And when I zoom way in to try and really follow the lines, the UV just looks like this

[gilded lark]

could anyone explain to me on how to use the new simulation lights? i have it to where the glow maps will simulate but the texture wont

[lusty trout]

Or does it have another name because I know the others if I find the UV

[urban chasm]

having issues algning this driveshaft so it will line up

[hard gyro]

This is the problem I keep getting.

This crusty shit is the best I can get with using paint.net, the UV, and one of the other skins as a base.

Is there a way to open the model in blender, color it that way, then use that as a skin?

[ancient bear]

https://www.beamng.com/resources/beam-regenerator.2627/ can someone else verify that this mod is broken? it doesnt work for me at all (yes ik that its outdated)

[verbal linden]

This is possibly due to the composition of the car body mesh. A lot of the cars have clipping mesh. Probably unavoidable without redesigning the mesh unless it's something else. Looks like mesh clipping to me

[hard gyro]

Great.

4 hours fucking wasted

Is there a way to do it in blender?

[safe hull]

Whats your DPI and or PPI

I usually use a higher resolution for my skins, that way I can avoid what you're experiencing, in most cases.

[hard gyro]

The base UV is the resolution im using

Which is like 4000x2000

[safe hull]

Interesting, I'll have a look into that.

[hard gyro]

I’m not even trying to make a complex or high detail skin. Just move the highlights and different color zones to other areas

im about to lose it honestly

[safe hull]

I am having trouble understanding what you're trying to do here. Are you trying to make the highlighted areas more visible for a better workflow?

[hard gyro]

One sec

Making a personal skin for the nine.
This is an early version with less detail

Fenders and sideskirts are supposed to always be black.
The pink is primary, white secondary, and gold tertiary

I’m trying to change the raised part on the pink to be white

That’s the ONLY thing I can’t get is those to be crisp

Fenders I figured out already obviously

[safe hull]

Dm me, I dont want to clutter up this thread. I think i can help.

[hushed bridge]

how do i make one decal road appear over another

i have changed z bias to no avail

renderpriority nor decalbias do anything either

[hard gyro]

Evidently a smooth curve in paint.net means Jack shit on the car itself.

[silver compass]

working on this truck mod for someone. How can I adjust the driver camera so that it's not behind the seat? Is it in some jbeam file? Thanks

This is built entirely off of the "us_semi" btw

[brittle warren]

It called the dash node in the jbeam you have to move it

[silver compass]

ah ok, gonna try that, thanks!

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[tacit halo]

Nah you prolly fucking up something dawg

[gleaming copper]

hey i got a question i was using ashmakers monster frame and i want to fit it to the challenger mod ive been reworking im not 100 percent sure how to jjbeam or anything if someone could help me i would really appreciate it

[proper narwhal]

can someone give me a tutorial on how to import my own horn sounds

[loud girder]

how do you reset the template world map?

[rancid knot]

How to remove “003” and “005” in the names?

[tacit tulip]

click the thing you want to change the name of, hit f2 and then you can change the name

[rancid knot]

It doesnt work for “generic_perf_parts.005”

[smoky silo]

@rancid knot Here 🔵 but when you change name and other names get .### select material without .### from materials list 🟢 .

[rancid knot]

that instantly works ty lol

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[glacial forum]

how do I find where a jbeam I edited with the blender plugin was exported to?

or does it just overwrite the one you imported

[river forge]

It will just overwrite whatever you imported

If you ever want to also keep the original, just copy it to a different location before importing ;)

[glacial forum]

thanks

[rancid knot]

tried to make a new material, but it doesnt appear in the game (even in material editor)

[heady trail]

looks like youre missing the brackets to open and close the file

just give it { at the start and a } at the end

[wheat salmon]

yo anybody know how to impoert beamngs car into blender

i wanna mod some cars

@heady trail or someone.

im kinda new to beamng moding so idk.

[river forge]

Don't just ping random people lol, someone who thinks of themselves as a "community guide" should know better

Anyway, for all official cars, you will find their .dae (file containing their 3d model) in (steam folder)\steamapps\common\BeamNG.drive\content\vehicles\ then into the .zip of the car in question > vehicles > carname > carname.dae

Extract that .dae file somewhere, then you can import it into blender with the file button in the top left > import > collada (.dae)

[wheat salmon]

Sry for ping, and ty.

[river forge]

All good, just letting you know ;)

[wheat salmon]

kk : )

am i stupid or

...

I think im stupid :3

[river forge]

Well the full location would be
D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\BeamNG.drive\content\vehicles\bastion.zip\vehicles\bastion\bastion.dae

But I doubt file explorer likes working with .zips (since they are technically just a file, not a folder), so you might be better off searching for the zip and then following the rest of the file path manually

[wheat salmon]

Oh ok, ty then : )

bru my typing

thanks @river forge

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[wheat salmon]

Yo i cant find any bastion file, i think ima just not mod cars.

But ty.

[river forge]

Maybe this can help

[wheat salmon]

Tysm

[inner forge]

What can this be caused by? (not my mod, I'm just curious)

the other side is fine

[terse dawn]

it happens if you restart veh and not do anything?

[inner forge]

its always like that, in all configs

[terse dawn]

weird,maybe latches nodes are too weak

[inner forge]

wait I just realised that if you put the game at 1000x slow motion and respawn the car it's good for a couple of seconds

I guess it's clipping into the hood or something

Modland quality 🤷‍♂️

[terse dawn]

FR

[river forge]

Yeah Jbeam issue

[proud sierra]

Can someone help, if my rad support gets damaged every body part other than the actual body turns invisible

[proud sierra]

Jbeam

[river forge]

You probably have a 'leaking' deformgroup somewhere

Add an empty {"deformGroup":""} under every flexbody section with deformgroups, to properly close them (see screenshot)

Also good practice with some of the other sections, for example here you see the devs giving the beams some standard properties at the end of the beams section, just so that any following sections won't act weird if they are missing their properties

[proud sierra]

Under all of them?

[river forge]

Just any that have deformgroups, like in that first screenshot

[proud sierra]

Ok

[hushed bridge]

i put the image in the right directory and made in 1024x1024 but it wont show up in game

oh i just had to make a material in the material editor

[hushed bridge]

can someone please help

its been 4 days and the asset browser crashes my game every time i open it

[brittle warren]

is it on every map?

[hushed bridge]

no just the one im making

[brittle warren]

Do you have an extremely large file in your map somewhere

[hushed bridge]

how big

largest i have is 64mb

but it wasnt crashing when i added that model

it started crashing when i added prop cars longer lod assets to it

but didnt stop when i removed them

[dry cargo]

Hello, good evening, how can I see the vehicles editor as before the update please? currently i have this and i can't modify any jbeam

[limpid cargo]

I'm looking for a lua way to save and load car damage - I know there is an option for this in the circular menu but it's broken (saving a prestine car and loading it results in explosion). Does anyone know of this type of functionality?

[hushed bridge]

ok well deleting that model fixed it

thats super weird

[brittle warren]

Sorry i was busy maybe the model was corrupted in some way

[hushed bridge]

ok yet another question if u couldnt tell i know almost nothing about the world editor

when selecting over objects on a decal road

how do i change the limits

like the height it will go over

i need it to go over this little rectangle with a cylinder cut out

but not the curb

[safe hull]

I need some help with this issue. I cannot seem to figure it out for the life of me.

[brittle warren]

Normals maybe?

[safe hull]

How do i fix that if it were the case?

[brittle warren]

look up how to check normals in blender

[hard gyro]

Can someone give me a quick rundown of what I need to put in a skin zip to submit to the repository?

[safe hull]

Can confirm, that is not the issue, the normals are fine. this only happens with the glowmap transitions. with out them it works normally.

[brittle warren]

hmm your using the new lighting im not sure then i havent messed with it

[safe hull]

I might just forgo the glass because the actual "bulbs" themselves work flawlessly. I think its a texture related issue at this point

[little cedar]

SOLVED
It does work in the RND order, so the third number is the first gear
In the automatic gearbox jbeam, you can define the RPMs to shift with a array, but is is the first number 1st gear, or does it start in reverse, so the 3rd number is the 1st gear?

[rancid knot]

whats the problem in the jbeam file? The mesh appears in beam but the material is not changed (Colorable Rear Crossmember)

ignore the secondary and tertiary since the “mechanicalsRepaintCrossmember” should be Customizable like in primary (forgot to change it)

also idk if these names even matter

[mental estuary]

What is the best way to line up a google maps screenshot over a heightmap so to make real life roads without point clouds or any other complicated things

[slate spindle]

Hello,can anyone help me?How to delete this material,i pushed tsstatic button

[river forge]

If I remember correctly, materials made with the world editor get saved in your userfolder /0.34/vehicles/carname/ here

Could be wrong though, been a minute since I've used the world editor for materials

Anyway if it is there, just delete the something.materials.json file from there, that will delete any changes you made. The original materials are stored in a different location

[slate spindle]

I cant find it

IDK how , but this material picked from mesh

I really need bmng dev

I havent got directory for this material

it shows oly one dot

and i cant change name or map

[lusty trout]

The new Bruckell nine has the file (nine_skin_uvs) ?

[river forge]

Yes, nine_uv1_layout.png

[lusty trout]

Thank you so much I was looking for it like crazy

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[violet heron]

hello, i'm lipe, i'm currently a stage creator in richard burns rally, but with the future inclusion of rally mode i'd like to try to bring some of my creations to beamng. the thing is that i've been looking at beamng's documentation to import real terrain, and unless i'm missing something. currently the option is through a heightmap image, right? at the end of the documentation it talks about opendem, but i imagine it will be to get the heightmap of the real terrain. i'm completely new to beamng in the world of modding.

This height map is roughly limited to 2 square kilometers. To import a larger area, it would be necessary to divide the terrain into several sections, right?

[shut pollen]

you can have pretty big heightmaps in beam (16k res max i think, plus a modifier for how many pixels per metre). there is a point where you have to sacrifice detail for size though. if you want all of beams terrain features you must use a singular height map, you can cheat with mesh as terrain (like spearleaf island does) but you lose features. if you mean opendem only supports 2km2 per capture, you will either need another site or to stitch several captures together yourself. 2km2 would be fine for a highly detailed map. might not be making much sense, pretty late here. track broseff specifically might be your guy for this, does both rally stuff and mapping

[warm sphinx]

I am in fact your guy for this 😅

BeamNg in theory does not support terrain blocks bigger than 4096x4096, typically in 1x1 scale that is 4096x4096 meters. A scale bigger than 1:1 and the terrain becomes very jagged. Some maps like the default Johnson Valley even have smaller than 1:1 scaling if they have very complex terrain like whoops and ruts in the case of JV

You can reasonably go all the way up to 8192x8192 but it will become more ram intensive and is not offically supported. You can also in theory have a map be non square (say 4096x2048) but again unsupported offically

Depending on how RBR works you can also just import the entire stage as a DAE and not use any terrain blocks though it will visually suffer and there may be issues with "tire poppers" which are really annoying to deal with.

TLDR: If a stage is very straight and long in one direction it likely will be tougher to import, if it loops around on itself it is more likely to work with beams terrain system.

And yes, all done off of a height map

[tacit halo]

is that game the very old one but that still has very good driving phisics that was abandoned ?

[shut pollen]

you can defo see when ram is getting abused with maps like the 16k res version of caney ridge. you start having issues like rock/tree collisions not working sometimes on systems with less than 32gbs ram

[violet heron]

Richard burns is experiencing a new youth these days, the modding community is in full swing bringing out improvements in all senses, from new replay methods, cars, stages, pacenote systems,...

the stages I have made have been completely modeled in blender from lidar data with a precision of 0.5 meters and thanks to a blender addon exported to Richard Burns.

I have to do the math because an average stage is 10km long and I don't know how much surface I have in square meters, but I think it exceeds 10km squared, because the game has a vision limit of 10km and in some areas, depending on the position of the camera, some mountain peak disappears.

[balmy wren]

I'm trying to put a custom paint design on pessima and my goal is to have that skin on pessima.skin.bodycolored (bodycolored trim design) so if I join multiplayer server everybody else just saw bodycolored trim. The problem is that my custom design doesn't show on bumpers and skirts but if I set my skin for lets say pessima.skin.custom then it will show perfectly. First of all, is that possible? If it is, then I'm available for any ideas/suggestions.

[coarse halo]

is there a way to update a mission without refreshing the game?

[shut pollen]

you might be able to squeeze them diagonally in an 8kmx8km map, you could still have .5m accuracy if you went for the very ram intensive 16k res heightmap. not ideal but could work for some stages

[hushed bridge]

how do i change the temperature curve? i want it to be -1c at midnight and 7c at noon but whenever i type in "0 7 0.5 -1" it just sets itself to "0 -1 1 -1"

[heady trail]

you need values for 0 and 1

[heady trail]

ye, 0 7 0.5 -1 1 7

should work

[hushed bridge]

oh ok thx

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[steel maple]

How do I make the v4 lip removable?

[river forge]

Remove {"coreSlot":true} from the slot that it's in

[steel maple]

oh k thanks

thanks @river forge

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[steel maple]

gotta give you the rep points lol

[river forge]

Oh don't worry about that, they're not used for anything anymore :P but ty!

[steel maple]

doing that makes the front bumper be removed, and it doesnt show up in the slot

[river forge]

Could you show what the entire line for that slot looks like now in the .jbeam?

[river forge]

Ah you're missing a ] at the end of that line

[steel maple]

ohh lmao I completely missed that

its back now

Thanks!!!

[river forge]

Ayee nice, you're welcome and good luck with the mod!

[hushed bridge]

how do i make lights that turn on at night

like streetlights

[heady trail]

you need a mainLevel.lua like this one from small island, put that in the main /levels/.../ folder

[solemn cedar]

Do you know how I would be able to make underglow lights like this?

[heady trail]

down here change the two scenetree.harbour_lights to scenetree. and then the name of the simgroup in the world editor (you dont need the line for helipad_lights)

so if my group name is dynLights the command to replace those 4 lines would be

    if scenetree.dynLights then
      setAllLightsEnabled(scenetree.dynLights, value )
    end

[gentle fox]

the multiplayer thing has to do with how that works. In BeamMP the mods get loaded from the server and if you have your skin differently, others cant see it since they dont have that skin in their game. Your locally installed mods do not get synced to the server. So if you want it to show up for everyone you need to make a custom one and add it to your own server

[river forge]

Works the same as normal lights, just in a different position. For the material, make it emissive (for bonus points, make a glowmap for it, so you can turn it on or off). Add spotlights to project light onto the environment, which you can position like this #modding-general message

[balmy wren]

Thats not what i meant. Basically im trying to get my custom paint on bodycolored trim design (pessima.skin.bodycolored) and the paint applies on car except bumpers and skirts. And Im trying to get it fixed. About multiplayer, im saying why exactly i want it on pessima.skin.bodycolored (because i want to see my skin but other players to see ONLY bodycolored trim, not my skin).

[gentle fox]

Oh sorry i misunderstood then. Also have not worked with skins yet so sry, cant help you with that

[balmy wren]

I just cant find where to change material for them. I tried looking through vehicle files and material editor and still no luck

[heady trail]

those use the pessima_aftermarket material as far as i can tell

so you'd need to add the pessima_aftermarket.skin.bodycolored material

[balmy wren]

Hmm.. Im gonna take a look at it now

[heady trail]

seems to have uvs equivalent to normal, so you can just use the same skin textures

[balmy wren]

Sorry for taking so long but i still cant get it. In 1st attachment you can see that i changed uv and base on pessima.skin.custom and in 2nd attachment you can see that everything works (almost). When i copied the same code to pessima.skin.bodycolored it works except bumper and skirt (my goal is to put my skin on bodycolored one).
So possibly that it doesnt work because of a file that others have. You can see that in 2nd attachment it left the old material on bumper and skirt. So there are 2 files - pessima_skin_custom.color.dds (that i changed) and pessima_skin_custom.dds (i didnt change) and if change 2nd material to my skin too then everything will be perfect (already tested and can confirm). What i think is that pessima_skin_custom.dds is the one for bumpers and skirts. But where in the code is it mentioned to activate it? I need to make the same file for bodycolored but i cant find where to put path for it in code.

I can easily make pessima.skin.custom paint have bumper and skirt how i want by again putting my material BUT i HAVE TO rename it to pessima_skin_custom.dds or it will not work (because somewhere else in files its mentioned but i dont know where). I think that if i knew where pessima_skin_custom.dds is mentioned to access it then i could make one for bodycolored too

[heady trail]

You will need to change both because they are basically one skin, but split up into a color pallette so you can recolor it

You need to skin the pessima_aftermarket material as well, like I said above

The pessima material is the one for the body and doors and most panels, but the tuning stuff was added later and is in a different material

[balmy wren]

Aight. But do you know where is this file located in code? I know that it is the one that changes bumper and skirt material for custom paint design. But i dont see where its used in code.

[heady trail]

It's the same two skin files, but also applied on another material

[balmy wren]

Ah. I just couldnt find it being used neither in material editor, neither in code.
But im gonna try to figure it out. Thanks for help tho!

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[steel maple]

every single one of my textures turned into this and now my car has no textures what do I do???????

did I completely fuck up??

and I have a ton of each texture

[river forge]

just press this for each material and select the one that doesnt have .001 .002 etc

[heady trail]

Just select the ones that don't have the suffix

Blender duplicates materials when you duplicate the object

[steel maple]

I did and it still had no texture

like the whole car has no texture

[steel maple]

is there any easier way to do it? every single part of the car has the broken textures

[heady trail]

@balmy wren just add this to the materials (and maybe change the paths for the baseColorMap and colorPaletteMap)

  "pessima_aftermarket.skin.bodycolored": {
    "name": "pessima_aftermarket.skin.bodycolored",
    "mapTo": "pessima_aftermarket.skin.bodycolored",
    "class": "Material",
    "Stages": [
      {
        "ambientOcclusionMap": "/vehicles/pessima/pessima_aftermarket_ao.data.png",
        "baseColorMap": "/vehicles/pessima/pessima_aftermarket_b.color.png",
        "metallicFactor": 1,
        "metallicMap": "/vehicles/pessima/pessima_aftermarket_m.data.png",
        "normalMap": "/vehicles/pessima/pessima_aftermarket_nm.normal.png",
        "roughnessMap": "/vehicles/pessima/pessima_aftermarket_r.data.png"
      },
      {
        "ambientOcclusionMap": "/vehicles/pessima/pessima_aftermarket_ao.data.png",
        "baseColorMap": "vehicles/pessima/pessima_skin_custom.color.png",
        "clearCoatFactor": 1,
        "clearCoatMap": "/vehicles/pessima/pessima_aftermarket_cc.data.png",
        "colorPaletteMap": "vehicles/pessima/pessima_skin_custom_palette_uv1.color.png",
        "colorPaletteMapUseUV": 1,
        "diffuseMapUseUV": 1,
        "instanceDiffuse": true,
        "metallicFactor": 1,
        "normalMap": "/vehicles/pessima/pessima_aftermarket_nm.normal.png",
        "opacityMap": "/vehicles/pessima/pessima_aftermarket_c.data.png"
      },
      {},
      {}
    ],
    "activeLayers": 2,
    "dynamicCubemap": true,
    "materialTag0": "beamng",
    "materialTag1": "vehicle",
    "version": 1.5
  },

[heady trail]

not really? ideally you shouldn't duplicate stuff when modeling anyways, either make new objects or split off of one

[steel maple]

I didnt even duplicate anything it just randomly did this

its every single texture on every single part

[river forge]

iirc there is some code that you can throw into the blender console, that turns all 'duplicates' (.001, .002, etc.) into the original material

[steel maple]

welp I just lost everything I did today 😭

it looks like the DAE didnt even change and there are zero textures

[balmy wren]

This should work yeah. But something is still missing. Now its the opposite problem 😭

[steel maple]

i give up

I cant restart from the beginning

[heady trail]

Did you remove the other material?

[balmy wren]

I replaced baseColorMap and colorPaletteMap. All other changes made before i removed

With thsese

[balmy wren]

Tried exactly the same code you gave. And it looks like this:

[heady trail]

You need a pessima.skin.bodycolored and a pessima_aftermarket.skin.bodycolored

Both

[balmy wren]

oh. Mb. Let me try rq

[heady trail]

I said ADD

Not replace

[balmy wren]

@heady trail AND IT WORKS. Thank you man for putting effort into this. I really appreciate it.

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[oak smelt]

hi hi, i found this gif on discord the other day and im looking to see if i can create a mod that buffs the hydraulics to the match the gif
https://tenor.com/view/beam-beam-ng-beam-ng-drive-beam-ng-crash-beam-ng-car-gif-25177605

but currently, it looks like this

im not really sure how to fix this

there's also a mod on the repo that tries to achieve this but basically the exact same thing happens

[oak smelt]

i can provide the jbeam file that i have so far

[abstract tapir]

Hello.

I downloaded the Volvo XC90 mod from Fastlane, but I noticed that there is no right-hand drive interior. (I'm Japanese.) Is it difficult to convert a left-hand drive to a right-hand drive by myself? I really want the right-hand drive version. Can someone help me?

[brittle warren]

Your would have to ask FastLane for permission

[abstract tapir]

Ah...

[abstract tapir]

Is the process itself easy?

[brittle warren]

not really

[abstract tapir]

Could you please explain in more detail?

For personal use only

[brittle warren]

You would have to mirror everything pretty mucj then change where all the props are

[spice radish]

hallo, trying to make my exhuast quieter. currently messing with the settings in the jbeam, but nothing seems to make a noticable difference

anyone done this before?

[civic blade]

any 1 know how to diagnose this