modding-general

[candid crown]

Under "slotType" "pickup__suspension_R" remove _ slammed from the end of it

Like this

[civic blade]

oh i see, much appreciated!

[candid crown]

No problem if that doesnt fix it let me know

[oak smelt]

i found a temporary fix, i just scaled up the strength of the car using the agentY car values mod

[civic blade]

Didn't fix, the option for the rear airbags disappeared

the option for the rear coilovers have the slammed at the end

[candid crown]

Ok do you have something in there called semi_spring_R_1

[civic blade]

in the image i first sent, the only instance where that name appears is there

in the whole jbeam for the rear 4 link

[candid crown]

Hmm

Im gonna be honest with you im not a hundred percent sure what it is

[civic blade]

me either not going to lie

[candid crown]

Does everything work if you leave it alone the way you had it before

[civic blade]

yea, everything works, just the airbags dont work

hell, even the front ones work

[candid crown]

Im not sure about airbags I've never really screwed with them

[civic blade]

its alright, just a little minor detail, thanks for the help anyways!

[candid crown]

No problem

[snow mountain]

for anyone wanting transparent app backgrounds: just add a background:transparent; into the apps div style

i got it to be transparent

[cyan torrent]

how can i fix this changing texture?

[steel maple]

how to fix?

[ruby kestrel]

Hope and pray. The material editor is an ungodly demon, you must sacrifice 3 goats to make it work. If you click the wrong thing once it breaks forever

[steel maple]

I have managed to fix it after like 4 hours of straight suffering, thanks tho

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @ruby kestrel (current: #623 - 3)

[ruby kestrel]

you have been graced by the gods 🙏

[craggy plank]

door is being weird

[heady trail]

d14 has huge forces, looks like youre pushing it into the coltri behind the door

[craggy plank]

whats the coltri?

[heady trail]

collision triangle

[craggy plank]

this?

[heady trail]

the one behind the node man

that

[craggy plank]

this thing doesn't have a node

unediting the jbeam makes the shaking go away, but it wont reopen when closed, probably because jbeam shit

wait

[heady trail]

of course it does? how should the game know the position bruh

[craggy plank]

but i can't see it?

[heady trail]

idk

ctrl r, restart game

maybe you deselected that part in the debug menu

[craggy plank]

its the quarter glass being in the way

aha

[lusty trout]

Hello, I'm looking for the info on the nine to be able to finish my skin (configuration section to put the name of the skin) but I can't find the configuration. I've looked at the info on the nine but nothing appears
I have taken the example of the skin helper (a useful info to show what I mean)

[heady trail]

the config infos are right here, or are you looking for something else?

[lusty trout]

I think that in order to create I need these files for it to work well

and in a tutorial that I saw on yt I also needed this vehicle file

[heady trail]

yeah, for the config

the .pc file is the configuration itself, info_*.json gives extra info to the config (stuff like 0-100 time, description, ui name) and the .png / .jpg is the preview

[lusty trout]

That's it but I don't know which config I have to use to edit

[limpid cargo]

Hi, 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 if saving / loading car damage is still possible?

[lusty trout]

and from here I choose the one I want to edit for the skin, I suppose because in the info it simply doesn't say configuration

[heady trail]

yes, and you need the configuration itself

easiest way is probably to make one, then save it and move it from 0.34/vehicles/nine to the mod

[lusty trout]

Here it would be like with other skins to put the name that was given to the folder

[heady trail]

That can be whatever you want, thats just what the configs displayed name is

just make sure that the name of the info file is the same as the part config, but with the info_ prefix

[lusty trout]

yes yes it is the same

[craggy plank]

door fixed, somehow

[heady trail]

door stuck

door stuck

[lusty trout]

I have not been able to create the skin it still does not appear I think I am taking the wrong files

[distant pendant]

if your trying to create skin, load the car in the decal editor. don't add decals, save skin. go to unpacked/skinname/

find file with cp, open it with photoshop overlay the skin uv in the beamng/content/vehicles/vehiclesname and create your skin. Overwrite the file with cp in name.

[lusty trout]

It will be much easier, thank you very much.

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @distant pendant (current: #72 - 40)

[distant pendant]

just fyi this method won't work with modded cars

as they aren't supported with decal editor

[river forge]

Eh, depends on wether the mod maker added skin support or not. Quite easy to add

[lusty trout]

If that's true I tried it when that vinyl update came out

[distant pendant]

suuuuubie, you any good with lua?

[river forge]

Hell no

[distant pendant]

shiiiiiiiii, tryna get this lua to prevent people from spawning props/ large vehicles

[river forge]

Yeah no any kind of actual code gives me a headache

[distant pendant]

hm

[abstract dust]

something is wrong with my bruckel 9 tractor mod

[lusty trout]

That's how it would be, I haven't already done what you said

I think I'm missing a file here

[stoic wadi]

Can anyone explain how to implement smooth lights?

I reviewed the Jbeam Bruckell Nine headlights and found no differences

[distant pendant]

ugh, beamng. they changed the skin system once again.

[brazen shale]

Guys how i can make a UK/JP/AUS Spec from the DT40L?

[distant pendant]

i believe this is the one you'll edit in photoshop

and then overwrite it, with the one you created

[stoic wadi]

Wait, no need, I found it

[river forge]

And incase anyone does need help with this ^ I collected some info here #1259896099225866321 message

[stoic wadi]

Thank you

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @river forge (current: #3 - 301)

[lusty trout]

More or less this is how I believe the game itself, the skin

it just doesn't appear to me

[heady trail]

the part doesnt appear or the config doesnt appear?

[lusty trout]

to choose if it appears but when I select and load the skin it does not appear

It's already solved

[distant pendant]

if you've created the file from the decals system you shouldn't mess with the json, or jbeam, or skin materials

all you need to do is edit the image how you want the skin to look

[wary turret]

I have blueprints and drawings for a mod that i would like to create but have no experience in jBeam

i can make the actual model but don't know how to config everything else

[lusty trout]

If I realized I only make my skin and save a question that comes to me if I put paint on my skin background then in the car I will no longer be able to change the color?

[distant pendant]

correct

[distant pendant]

there is a way you can make it still colorable but i haven't messed with it in awhile

[distant pendant]

I just make different colored skins, because if you go method of being able to use ingame color selector with the graphics, they get pixelated and look bad.

[lusty trout]

Yes and the truth is it is not very funny if you

Thank you so much for helping me and sorry for being so annoying.

[distant pendant]

you are not annoying, beamng is annoying to mod.

[lusty trout]

The truth is that even for a beginner like me

[knotty trail]

How do i fix these trees that go no mat depending how close i am to them? this has started to happen since last update

[mossy owl]

trying to make this in beamng but there's no Cade there's Microsoft edge HELP!

[brittle warren]

Well don't steal models from other games

[mossy owl]

it's the only one with a film camera on it

[brittle warren]

Make one noones gonna help u take models from another game especially another modder

[mossy owl]

.

[mossy owl]

i'm new to modding i don't really know how to use blender even with tutorials

[brittle warren]

Well I suggest looking up The Donut tutorial which will help a lot with learning blender and then just messing around with it converting a model is probably gonna be just as hard as learning to make it yourself and if you make it yourself you've then learned a lot of usefully info

[brittle warren]

Also why not use the mod in the neological video you sent

[mossy owl]

a can't it's private sadly 😭😭

[mossy owl]

@brittle warren what's usps truck?

[brittle warren]

? how do you know what im working on?

[mossy owl]

bio

what ur playing

[brittle warren]

Oh im making one of these

[mossy owl]

ohh cool can you dm me when it's done?

[mossy owl]

don't you need a new gpu?!

[brittle warren]

yea lol join my discord bro imma put it in my bio

[mossy owl]

subwoofer pessema!!!!

[brittle warren]

Yea thats my mod lol

[brittle warren]

GTUMMAN

[mossy owl]

looks amazing! mabby bigger wheels

[river forge]

#mods-discussion message

[distant pendant]

Anyone here know how to make a skin uv for additional parts?
I got a body kit I am working on that won't fit on the original skin UV

[pliant robin]

same issue as mine of Imperial Grille

[opal sky]

Decided to try and use normal maps while doing wheels, does not look right, at all, anyone have any advice?

Color and normal maps

PNG version of normal map

[cinder crater]

Hi. Made a map in beam ng half year ago about being test track of many different kind of obstacles and somehow point system seen while doing such obstacles. Im totally bored to continue it anyone wanna finnish it and upload or something? it's super crude. looks like this

map idea :

i need help to make it ready basically or i upload it being very much WIP 😄

[brisk glade]

How do I make Mods? Just wondering

[river forge]

There are many helpful tutorials on youtube, for all kinds of mods

A lot of it will come down to making jbeams, the physics models for parts and cars. Many extra features like working lights, powertrain stuff, dynamic mirrors, etc. are also controlled via the jbeam
https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/vehicle/intro_jbeam/

And depending on what you're making, modeling and texturing can also be a part of it

[brisk glade]

I see

[thorny rune]

Bring this to paint.net and export it as bc5 unsigned

ACtually

I think your nmap is too noisy

[opal sky]

I would also like to note, the shading is still broken even with only a color map

[merry crystal]

Anyone know how i can turn this into a proper uv for the windscreen after i unrwap the uv for the model?

[tulip cargo]

The original mod for Chinese Skins is broken, so I want to restore it. What should I do?

[river forge]

You'll have to rearrange the parts of the skin based on the new UV map

[tulip cargo]

Oh, I found out the answer in advance, you just put v1.5 version instead of the v1 texture version. I'll even send the evidence.

[hard gyro]

Are there any tutorials on how to add like, a new suspension to a vehicle?

I was gonna try and add the aurata suspension to the nine and I’m somewhat struggling to figure out where to start.

[brittle warren]

Just look up how to swap suspension from one car to another I know there used to be a couple videos on it but can't remember the creators

[knotty trail]

Any one able to help?

[river forge]

I personally don't know much about map modding, but it looks like only some LOD's have materials. When you go to a certain distance it uses different models (LOD's) that show no material

[knotty trail]

they were working before the most recent game update

[river forge]

Maybe something changed due to the new forest tool 🤷

[distant pendant]

man, i was way over thinking how skin uv maps work when creating new ones.

it's litterally just setting the uv map - 2, unwrapping it and then creating skin on that map.

[little portal]

If i were to make a glowmap with the lowhigh function for the headlights, would low be name_on and high be name_on_intense?

[quaint bridge]

Correct.

[shadow coyote]

when rothalpha remaster out?????!!!!!!

[acoustic ivy]

how tf do i unlock a locked dae

[tacit tulip]

No one knows, know one ever knows exactly when a mod will be released

this is also the wrong place to ask

[distant pendant]

what do you mean locked dae, shouldn't exsist show picture

[acoustic ivy]

yeah its a kenemation mod and i want to see how those things work and his dae is unaccesible i cant import it to blender and when i edit it in notepad ++ it only shows a bunch of null

this

[brittle warren]

well its a dts file not a dae probably and ask for permision and see if they will let you if not then you cant

[acoustic ivy]

i see but is there no way to access it?

[brittle warren]

nope

[acoustic ivy]

damn what the hell i guess

[distant pendant]

yes

i have programs that can open dts

it's 60 usd for the program though

[acoustic ivy]

i just wanna see how they do those rgb things and those indicator stuff with the running lights stuff but these damn mods are locked

[acoustic ivy]

crazy

[distant pendant]

cheap compared to some programs i have

[acoustic ivy]

i can live a week in 60dollars

[brittle warren]

is it milkshape?

[distant pendant]

no, i'd have to look on my desktop to see what it's called

i've only used it twice

[brittle warren]

uv unwrap pro i bet cause thats what i use

[distant pendant]

this keeps all the filenames/ textures/ normals

[acoustic ivy]

so you also knew how why did u said there is no chance???

[brittle warren]

because you shouldnt

[distant pendant]

^

I also wouldn't open it for you without permission from kenemation

why not just look at the ccf and see how they did their rgb interior?

[acoustic ivy]

well its not that bad cause im not gonna use his stuff you know im a beginner mod and i learn by seing the things how they work

[acoustic ivy]

ya thats what im doing rn

[distant pendant]

it's probably alot easier to see it in ccf with it being a 100x better mod.

[acoustic ivy]

but im down 4 mods and they are all dts

these people

[distant pendant]

people use dts when they don't want people screwing with their models

[brittle warren]

rgb isnt done in the model tho so

[acoustic ivy]

im fine with rgb but the thing im looking is the running light will turn off when you activate blinkers i cant seem to make it work

[brittle warren]

just glowmaps

[acoustic ivy]

idk where to put the meshes

and the material it self in blender idk how they do it

[brittle warren]

you just make a material and make a glowmap for it

[acoustic ivy]

im too stupid for this lmao

[distant pendant]

take it slow and easy

[brittle warren]

look at the glowmaps for the bastion

[acoustic ivy]

thank you

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @brittle warren (current: #48 - 55)

[acoustic ivy]

thank you also

[distant pendant]

ah i didnt do anything

[acoustic ivy]

emotional support i guess

[heady trail]

I had this added to the official docs as an example

https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/vehicle/sections/glowmaps/#advanced-example

[distant pendant]

all hail Zeit

[acoustic ivy]

thank you master

[still canopy]

does anyone know if a prop can have 2 diferent functions?

[solemn cedar]

Can I take the underglow from the bx and put it on another vehicle?

If someone can dm me and walk me through it and how to create lights in the wheel wells of a d series, I’ll tip you $$$

[sullen canyon]

Does anyone have the skin UV for the Nine?

[sullen canyon]

Thanks

[steep dome]

How do I begin with making mods?

[radiant oriole]

im almost finished with my mod where did the jbeam editor go? and how do i edit my jbeam?

[amber needle]

how does one add halogens to a vehicle

[narrow barn]

☹️

[amber needle]

whats the jbeam error checker thingy at again?

[radiant oriole]

i cant figure out how to jbeam a truck frame i have all the main stuff done tho

i just need to shorten it a little

[amber needle]

whats wrong with this line? i keep getting issues with it.
["lowhighbeam" , "SPOTLIGHT" , "tl3r", "tl2r", "tl1r", {"x":-40, "y":0, "z":-20} , {"x":0, "y":0, "z":0} , {"x":0, "y":0, "z":0}, 0, 0, 0, 1, {"baseTranslation":{"x":0.2, "y":0.35, "z":0.03},"flareScale":0.03,"lightBrightness":0.04,"lightRange":8,"deformGroup":"taillightglass_R_break"}, "lightScaling":{}],

[crystal wraith]

why do parts of my dae not import correctly to beamng, yet theyre textured in beamng. they import as no texture

[amber needle]

more specifically this'

[crystal wraith]

for my map

[amber needle]

figured it out

[crystal wraith]

this is supposed to have a grass texture, why doesnt it?

supposed to look like this

[amber needle]

why is there yellow bits on the inside of the taillight that arent fading properly?

and why is turn signals on the ui just always on

sorry for the poor video but noticed there’s quite a substantial delay between turning off the signal and it actually turning off

[frosty epoch]

how do i make a config i made for the pessima a mod ppl can use

the file type is .pc

[heady trail]

Are you smoothing the signal values directly?

Because you have to create custom ones that are set to the signal values, they need to be separate

[plain gazelle]

How do I code a frame for a big rig based vehicle, since I am very new to coding.

[pliant robin]

any help? i do rear seats and console modifided and in game it is existing ones

this is what i modifided in blender

[inner heart]

how do you still not know jbeam fundamentals

and how did you asked at a time i’m not available to help again😭

someone help this lost soul with some jbeam introduction plz, on how to modify existing part with new mesh

[pliant robin]

i'll try to figured it out

[rancid knot]

did bro modified the parts without duplicating the parts and not save the dae file with different name?

if you did then you modified the game and you cant get back unless you can undo everything, if you cant then clear cache i think

[river forge]

Nah as long it's outside of the game files it's fine, even if they are overwriting

Anyway yea make sure the flexbody has a different name, jbeam file has a different name, and the jbeam part itself does too

[crystal wraith]

God please someone help me

[warm sphinx]

Honestly too broad of a question. Could be 10+ different things that cause this

What have you tried so far?

[crystal wraith]

I don’t know what to really try, since all I really know is how to convert a map from assetto to beamng, I don’t know what to do in a trouble shooting situation

Somebody said its because things in blender have “.001 and .002” at the end but I’ve ported maps that have had those before

I’ve also tried manually selecting my the texture in beamng but that does nothing

The texture properly imports to beamng but when it comes to selecting it, it appears as no texture

[distant pendant]

if your object has 001 and 002 at the end there is a possibly that the materials will no longer work due to the name change.

correct those issues and that will eliminate the possibility of that then you can diagnose from then if that doesn't fix it

[crystal wraith]

they have that at the end when i import them into blender

and i can always reimport it fresh, so i tried removing the .001 and .002 but that didnt fix anything

and this is for other things aswell, not just stuff that has .001 or .002

[distant pendant]

selecting it in blender?

[crystal wraith]

yea one sec illss blender

[distant pendant]

it doesn't show, did you assign blender to the folder where the textures are?

[crystal wraith]

in blender all the textures show, but i can still try assinging the folder again

[crystal wraith]

yes, i know. i did it but i dont understand how it would help a whole ton, since the issue im having is the texture not showing in beamng, everything is textured in blender

as you can see here, this is blender

[distant pendant]

oh thought you said it shows in beamng

did you make sure the file path in material editor is correct?

[crystal wraith]

yep

ive kinda forgot how since i let this porject go for a bit, but i can absolutley 100% garuntee when i did it everything was correct and did not work

sorry for my sloppy typing, i just woke up recently

[distant pendant]

I probably can't help any further, 1. skill. 2. at work XD

[crystal wraith]

gotcha

says this yet its here with the dae

theyre all named different, but one texture

if anyone else has some ideas, please help

[crystal wraith]

you got any ideas of what to try?

[warm sphinx]

Textures have to be a factor of 2. So 2048 x 2048, 4096 x 4096 etc.

They can be non square as well but that’s less common

So say 1024 x 4096

[crystal wraith]

where would i adjust it?

would i just trim the image accordingly?

[warm sphinx]

Paint.net works best for dds images

Depending on current dimensions you may be able to simply rescale it

But it all depends

[distant pendant]

most image editing software
select image on tool bar / image resize / (enter the deminsions you want)

[crystal wraith]

ok, i resized it, so im trying right now to see how it is in beam

[barren quiver]

how do i add a livery to 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/

[barren quiver]

found a vid

[crystal wraith]

forgot to say, resizng worked, thanks

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @warm sphinx (current: #58 - 44)

[hushed bridge]

how do i make the road as bumpy as it looks

and how do i make it not go over the curb while still having over objects on

[misty pollen]

Is there a way I can live view where spotlights are on a car so I don't have to wing it in the jbeam file? I wanna fix a few things from a mod, and got permission from the author because they stepped out from modding

[brittle warren]

You just save the jbeam and cntl r your car and it will update that about the only way i know of

[formal crown]

I'm trying to slap the base game digital race screen on a modded car that already has it's own proprietary dash. When i try to use the dash ingame, all of the slots show up and the console throws this, and the screen itself has no texture. Can anyone help me figure out what I've done wrong?

[dry anvil]

does any one know where i would find the new bruckell nine .dae file. i looked in vehicles and cant see it anywhere

[dry anvil]

weird. i only have vehicles that start with M. no nine

[brittle warren]

then you didnt update cause thats impossible

[dry anvil]

i updated. cuz i used the drag version of the car

[brittle warren]

thern your not looking in the right spot

[brittle warren]

then you didn't update

[dry anvil]

weird cuz i can use the car. maybe ill have to verify files

[brittle warren]

because it has to be there also dont put ur mods in that folder use the mods folder

[dry anvil]

i havent put mods in it. idk why but those few made it in there somehow. everytime i delete them they show back up lol

[brittle warren]

That again isnt possible if you deleted it it cant go back in there because nothing gets put in those folder by the game

[topaz panther]

Hi, I would like help with the Road Architect tool in the World Editor.
On the level I'm creating, I need to manually load a session in the Road Architect tool everytime I load into the level. Can I setup my world to load this automatically?

[terse dawn]

does anyone know why my "grass" isn't transparent? i tried exporting DDS BC3 and it doesn't work

[blazing jetty]

Somewhere in the advanced settings I guess you should play around with the alpha blending settings. With the ruler you can finetune the transparency.

[blazing jetty]

I have an opacity mask:

[terse dawn]

thank you, it works. Do you know how to resize it?

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @blazing jetty (current: #434 - 5)

[terse dawn]

and also can you send me dm for your wheat.dds? its beautiful

[calm sinew]

I'm trying to start making skins and I followed the tutorial, but I can't find the template files 😭

[crystal wraith]

Goto Alpha clip, if youre talking about the black boxes

[blazing jetty]

without opacity mask the alpha clip is right.

[blazing jetty]

You can rip off my wheat if I publish my map 🙂

[calm sinew]

please someone help me, I feel so dumb

nevermind I finally found it

[terse dawn]

😢

[cloud oriole]

can some1 help me

i engine swapped a v8 from the q8 to a a6

but idk where the engine model is

and my exhaust doesnt appear in the menu

[stone glacier]

How can I get my car to use more gas if I switched to a bigger turbo. Or how do I edit the turbos .jbeam for it to use more gas idk

[brittle warren]

Edit the burn efficiency in engine jbeam

[coarse halo]

how do i add damage limit to arrive mission, which makes you fail it when you exceed the limit?

[cloud oriole]

do you have some time to help me mod?

[real fulcrum]

hey does anybody have a good tutorial (that is up to date) on texturing or is willing to help me with texturing (btw i am completely new to modding)

[rancid wedge]

So I took this over from the tiltdeck trailer to the D-series, but these lights are now white. They are supposed to be led lights, with the model taken from the common folder. (I think) what am I missing?

[tight turret]

anyone here?

[calm moon]

anyone know how to fix (suspension breaking)

[hybrid dune]

incorrect beam spring values and or incorrect node positions to have a strong suspension

oh actually sorry it looks like a beam breaks just increase the strength for the beams that break

[hybrid dune]

the beams might also be breaking from a unstable node vibrating

[calm moon]

i set the beamDeform and beamStrength to 15900, but it still breaks

[hybrid dune]

Did you set it to the correct beams

[calm moon]

i think it's with the halfshafts, so I just did that

[hybrid dune]

it looks like to me its the beams that are for toe adjust

[calm moon]

ok let me see that

[merry crystal]

Anyone know why this part stays here? Ive removed it from the blend and downloaded an older version of the mod and it wont go away. Its not attached to any other parts idk why its here

[river forge]

Deep clear your cache

[wooden crypt]

Instructions on how to Clear Cache can be found here: ```
<https://documentation.beamng.com/support/launcher_support_tools/clear_cache/>

[merry crystal]

ok thanks

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @river forge (current: #2 - 306)

[tacit halo]

no, you see part of the lower arm just snaps off? that beam or bunch of beams is not strong to withstand those vibrations

[fringe violet]

yo what's up guys. im new to modding and was wondering some tips and tricks.

[lament fable]

Alright, this is one that I've been sitting on for a while, and it may just be something to do with the way PBR materials are working nowadays, but I used to be able to make custom glowmaps for skins where anything on the emissive map would emit a soft glow similar to a flare or lightbars, but not the ENTIRE skin or texture image. Is there any possible way to still achieve this? Trying to bring back an old custom of a truck where the lightning bolts on the skins glowed white when the truck was running but nothing else.

A picture of the current state, lightning bolts light up but are flat instead of having the soft glow effect

The kind of glow effect I'm looking to achieve on the lightning bolts ONLY

[river forge]

...tips and tricks about what part of modding?

[river forge]

Make your emissiveFactor higher than 1 / your emissiveMap higher than 255 (since only part of the skin glows I'm guessing emissiveMap in your case)

[merry crystal]

didnt work

wait nvm i know why

[cloud oriole]

can some1 help me with flexbodies

[brittle warren]

what part

[cloud oriole]

audi engine to another audi
i have the jbeam and sound working
its just that theres no visable engine

mod by andronisk

[cloud oriole]

can i paste the jbeam file into this chat?

[brittle warren]

yea or just hmu in dms

[cloud oriole]

here

i did put the engine into the dea file of the a6 mod (the car where its going into)

[brittle warren]

also did u get permission from the original author and did you change the name of the flexbodies to the new ones

[cloud oriole]

i didnt ask since im doing it for myself and only myself so noone else has it

[brittle warren]

i would still ask tho and again did you change the names of the flex bodies to the new ones

[cloud oriole]

no?

their all called q8 but i didnt change the names in the dea either

[brittle warren]

so what did you do exactly

[cloud oriole]

i copied the jbeam of the engine into the other mod
and changed the engine mounts to the a6 mounts

and exhaust as well the trans so they all work

[brittle warren]

ok and the engine powers the car?

[cloud oriole]

yes fully functional as it should
also has all working upgrades
but the engine is not visable

[brittle warren]

did you apply all trnsforms to the engine parts in the dae

[cloud oriole]

no

[brittle warren]

they may just be in a differrent spot so you cant see em

try lifting the car up and see if its under the ground or something

[river forge]

Any errors in the console? (`/~ button)

[cloud oriole]

1 sec lemme check

[cloud oriole]

how do i apply transforms?

[river forge]

ctrl+A > all transforms

[brittle warren]

yea that but not if it has props it will mess them up

[cloud oriole]

all transforms to delta's?

[brittle warren]

no just all transforms

[cloud oriole]

oh btw i think theres no moving parts on this engine

[brittle warren]

then you can select the whole engine and do tr a and apply them all

ctr

[cloud oriole]

oh btw beam started up

theres no engine to be found anywere

[brittle warren]

hmm then check the console like Subie said

scroll and see if you find any that say cant find flex mesh

[cloud oriole]

wait i think the intire engine aint in the dea anymore

yes it gives flex errors

[brittle warren]

then make sure the engines in the dae lol

[brittle warren]

yep engine probably isnt in the dae then

[cloud oriole]

put the engine back in and did transform
now reloading game

[brittle warren]

ight cool

[cloud oriole]

hmm nothing

i saved the dea using ctrl s
do i need to export the dea?

[brittle warren]

yes lol you have to export it and put it in the mod folder

[river forge]

only way to edit a .dae directly would be with a text editor and a lot of patience, when using blender you always have to import/export - which then turns it into text aka a .dae

[cloud oriole]

textures are dead now but the engines in 🤣

[brittle warren]

fire you will need to move the materials .json to the mod ffolder also

[cloud oriole]

mission failed succesfully

[cloud oriole]

ummm where can i find that

[brittle warren]

ooofffff um did all the materials get named .001 in blender? and it will be in the mod folder that you got the engine from

[river forge]

👆 probably got duplicate materials from importing and exporting a bunch of time in the same blend file

Here's a little script for getting rid of duplicate materials, just toss it in the blender console```py
import bpy

only search on own object materials

mat_list = [x.material.name for x in bpy.context.object.material_slots]
remove_slots = []

the following only works in object mode

bpy.ops.object.mode_set(mode='OBJECT')

for s in bpy.context.object.material_slots:
if s.material.name[-3:].isnumeric():
# the last 3 characters are numbers
# that indicates it might be a duplicate of another material
# but this is pure guesswork, so expect errors to happen!
if s.material.name[:-4] in mat_list:

        # there is a material without the numeric extension so use it
        # this again is just guessing that we're having identical node trees here

        # get the material index of the 'clean' material
        index_clean = mat_list.index(s.material.name[:-4])
        index_wrong = mat_list.index(s.material.name)
        print(index_wrong, index_clean)

        # get the faces which are assigned to the 'wrong' material
        faces = [x for x in bpy.context.object.data.polygons if x.material_index == index_wrong]

        for f in faces:
            f.material_index = index_clean

        remove_slots.append(s.name)

now remove all empty material slots:

for s in remove_slots:

if s in [x.name for x in bpy.context.object.material_slots]:
    print('removing slot %s' % s)
    bpy.context.object.active_material_index = [x.material.name for x in bpy.context.object.material_slots].index(s)
    bpy.ops.object.material_slot_remove()

[cloud oriole]

idk if this tells you guys anything
they both called 001

[brittle warren]

Bro why is your blender so old?

[river forge]

yeah should be without the .001

also yeah what version even is that

[cloud oriole]

`honest ly idk lmfao

[river forge]

might be worth it to update :P

[cloud oriole]

i have the modern 1 but when i search for blender it likes to open this verion 🤣

[brittle warren]

Then delete the old version lol

[cloud oriole]

hehe

wheres the console?

[brittle warren]

idk on that version lol

[cloud oriole]

k lemme launch current

[brittle warren]

but on 4.2 its there

[cloud oriole]

that version may or may not have the console

[brittle warren]

try using this version lol

[brittle warren]

looks like 2.7 or below lol

[cloud oriole]

i have copied the link but it doesnt paste into concole

[brittle warren]

you have to put it into scripting tab and click the play button

[cloud oriole]

like this?

[brittle warren]

no click click new at the top right and paste it

then the play button

[cloud oriole]

ok lol
is it noticable i dont use blender often 🤣

[cloud oriole]

right done that and pressed play
now export?

[brittle warren]

yea and make sure to export it to the same dae so u dont have copies of the model

[cloud oriole]

i do have the original dea but its in another folder
does that matter>

[brittle warren]

likie the dae u made the last time that had no materials clik it when you export and overwrite it

[cloud oriole]

no the 1 from the original mod before i messed with it

[brittle warren]

yea then overwite it

[cloud oriole]

ive done that and reloaded the game but still the iconic no texture

[cloud oriole]

i still have the working dea
is there a way i can copy the textures over to my modded dea?

diffirent idea

im just gonna redo it

good news it worked

@brittle warren the body looks kinda dented now

[brittle warren]

Normals are probably messed up

[cloud oriole]

the engine texture would that be main meterials.json?

[brittle warren]

probably just rename it tho to engine.materials so it doesnt mess up the one already in the mod folder

[cloud oriole]

smart

[lament fable]

both are set higher than these values

[calm moon]

which part would I need to edit to make it stronger

[cloud oriole]

sadly that didt do it

its almost 01:00 here im continueing tomorrow
ty for helping me

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @brittle warren (current: #46 - 58)

[brittle warren]

yw bro also just hmu i nthe dms tomrow and ill help u more so we dont clog up te chat again lol

[vast rover]

Good evening guys, could someone help me because I don't know how to edit for beamng drive and I really like this tire, but it's been yellow for a while if anyone can help I appreciate it

[hollow timber]

For some reason I cant at all figure out anything about how beam ng lua scripts work. All i want is that whenever the player is in any vehicle it sends its stats to a serial port (i got chatgpt to help me with the actual lua scripting because I dont code in lua i use C++ or TS). I cant figure out this folder structure

unpackages/myDash.
| -> info.json
| -> vehicles
| -> lua/vehicle/guageCluster.lua

info.json

{
  "name": "Arduino Gauge Cluster",
  "description": "idc",
  "author": "Gavin",
  "version": "1.0",
  "lua": {
      "vehicle": ["lua/vehicle/gaugeCluster.lua"]
  }
}

guageCluster.lua

local M = {}

local serial = require('serial') -- Import the serial library

-- Open serial connection
local arduino
local function openSerialPort()
    arduino = serial.open("COM4", 9600) -- Update COM3 to match your Arduino's port
    if not arduino then
        log("E", "GaugeCluster", "Failed to open serial port!")
    else
        log("I", "GaugeCluster", "Serial port opened successfully.")
    end
end

-- Send data to Arduino
local function sendData()
    if not arduino then return end

    local rpm = electrics.values.rpm or 0
    local speed = electrics.values.wheelspeed or 0 -- Speed in m/s
    local turnSignalLeft = electrics.values.turnsignal_left or 0
    local turnSignalRight = electrics.values.turnsignal_right or 0
    local checkEngine = electrics.values.checkengine or 0
    local lowGas = electrics.values.fuel < 0.1 and 1 or 0 -- Fuel threshold
    local dashLights = electrics.values.dashlights or 0
    local highBeams = electrics.values.highbeam or 0
    local lowBeams = electrics.values.lowbeam or 0

    -- Convert speed to km/h
    local speedKmh = speed * 3.6

    -- Format and send the data
    local data = string.format("%d,%.1f,%d,%d,%d,%d,%d,%d,%d\n",
        rpm, speedKmh, turnSignalLeft, turnSignalRight,
        checkEngine, lowGas, dashLights, highBeams, lowBeams)

    arduino:write(data)
end

-- Initialize when the mod loads
M.onInit = function()
    openSerialPort()
end

-- Update function called regularly by BeamNG
M.update = function()
    sendData()
end

-- Cleanup when the mod is unloaded
M.onUnload = function()
    if arduino then
        arduino:close()
    end
end

return M

[terse dawn]

how to select this intersection? it doesn't show up in junctions or even roads. help

[brittle warren]

There is already outgauge support?

[jovial sundial]

anyone know why this happens?

[brittle warren]

Too much precompression on a beam?

[jovial sundial]

fixed it trying to rip itself out, but now when it spawns, it instantly bounces up like this

[brittle warren]

Look for beam spring values and try tweaking those

[livid bear]

im trying to make a heckblende for etk i , the model is mapped, whats is wrong here? im literally losing my mind

[brittle warren]

vant have spaces in the name for the material in blender

[craggy tartan]

i'm having some trouble getting good audio for an engine mod i'm making. i'm using engine sim, and the sounds it produces are really good. but beam makes it sound pretty terrible. i've got the audio samples in 100 rpm increments, i hoped that would yield good quality.

[surreal sage]

how do i open a "cached.dts" file

i have torque 3d installed already if thats needed

[amber needle]

anyone got the documentation for the career cargo boxes

[brittle warren]

You dont thats the whole reason its a cached dts and its obviosly a mod that someone doesnt want you messing with so stop messing with it

[novel wagon]

anyone know why the TG1 node falls down? ive never properly jbeamed anything before so i couldve just made a really obvious mistake

[brittle warren]

needs more beam spirng i think\

[novel wagon]

how exactly do i add more beam spring?? do i add more beams in blender or is there any way i could change that in the jbeam code

[brittle warren]

wel you can do both add mor beams in blender and in jbeam but to change the beam spring that is in the jbeam

[novel wagon]

oh damn fixed it, thx 🔥

love stealing code from other stuff lol

[hybrid dune]

looks like a node is too close to a collision triangle which is forcing the node to move away from the triangle.

Easiest fix is just move the base nodes of the spoiler up a little

[distant pendant]

why does my flat area show like that? its completely flat

[hushed bridge]

normal macro map

how do i insert primitives like a cube or sphere

[craggy tartan]

Is there anyone here that would be willing to help me with engine sound development? The engine sounds that i have made for beam sound pretty good on their own, but beam messes them up somehow.

[blazing jetty]

Double left click.

[kind copper]

How i can make strong brakes?

[calm prism]

I may be stupid but why can't i paint the spoiler and the bottom half of the car? i used th uv map of the etki in the game files. I did some temporary lines to check which area is which. and the transparant areas show up black on the car..

you can ping me when answering! :)

[terse dawn]

not working

[warm sphinx]

The body kit uses a different UV map

[calm prism]

yeah I figured that but

if I apply my skin then it doesnt go over the body parts

but if i choose basso livery, then it does for some reason

[warm sphinx]

The modparts UV is what you need to map to

[calm prism]

this is the code atm:

{
  "etki.skin.SKINNAME" : {
    "name" : "etki.skin.SKINNAME",
    "mapTo" : "etki.skin.SKINNAME",
    "class" : "Material",
    "persistentId" : "8d9bdf4c-739d-487f-b8d0-9dcf0ecf7cc7",
    "Stages": [
      {
        "ambientOcclusionMap": "/vehicles/etki/etki_modparts_ao.data.png",
        "baseColorMap": "/vehicles/etki/etki_modparts_b.color.png",
        "metallicFactor": 1,
        "metallicMap": "/vehicles/etki/etki_modparts_m.data.png",
        "normalMap": "vehicles/etki/etki_modparts_n.normal.png",
        "roughnessMap": "/vehicles/etki/etki_modparts_r.data.png",
        "useAnisotropic": true
      },
      {
        "ambientOcclusionMap": "/vehicles/etki/etki_modparts_ao.data.png",
        "clearCoatFactor": 1,
        "clearCoatMap": "/vehicles/etki/etki_modparts_cc.data.png",
        "clearCoatRoughnessFactor": 0.05,
        "diffuseMapUseUV": 1,
        "metallicFactor": 0.8,
        "normalMap": "vehicles/etki/etki_modparts_n.normal.png",
        "opacityMap": "/vehicles/etki/etki_modparts_c.data.png",
        "useAnisotropic": true,
        "baseColorMap": "vehicles/etki/SKINNAME/etki_skin_SKINNAME.dds"
      },
      {},
      {}
    ],
    "activeLayers": 2,
    "dynamicCubemap": true,
    "materialTag0": "beamng",
    "materialTag1": "vehicle",
    "order_simset": 0,
    "version": 1.5
  },
}

I don't know what I'm doing wrong tho

[warm sphinx]

The body kit requires a separate UV mapping placement and different json iirc

This is the case for most cars with a body kit or custom bumpers

[calm prism]

and how can I do that?

[warm sphinx]

I can’t walk you through it, just look at how the vanilla skins are done

[hushed bridge]

how do i add primitives to my map like cube and sphere

[calm prism]

yeah I'm trying 😂

can you at least tell me what I'm doing wrong

or steer me into the right direction

[warm sphinx]

The body kit requires a separate UV mapping placement and different json to the normal body

Just look at how the vanilla skins are done, and copy that

[calm prism]

in the materials.json right

because I copied the code from the skin.materials lmao

[distant pendant]

so what hes saying is

the original uv for the car is only for stock body panels
there is a seperate uv for the body kits

your pulling uv for the stock parts

it need uv pulled for modded

[calm prism]

ahh these things

but those file names are already in the code, or am i stupid? 😭

[distant pendant]

they are but you've got it calling for the wrong uv

i was having same issue the other day and i can't remember what i did to fix it

[calm prism]

ah

[hushed bridge]

nvm figured it out its add object > level > static object and go to art/shapes/common

[burnt dagger]

hi, i want to try out modding but dont know where to start. can anyone pls help?

[dry cargo]

Well anything in mind, you'd like to make?

[burnt dagger]

idk, just mess around with some stats. I would love to be able to see wich part does what. can you help me with that?

like how much grip a tire has and so on

[dry cargo]

I also don't have much experience with the modding as well, so if anyone else seeing this would like to jump in feel free. I believe thats the jbeam files. So what car would you like to try this on first?

[burnt dagger]

idk how to open them.i dont have the program to

id probably start with the cherrier

[dry cargo]

But you know where they are right? I believe you can just use Notepad to open them, they are like text files

[burnt dagger]

i couldnt

[dry cargo]

Hmm maybe its the .dae files

Ima mess around a bit with mine first so we don't screw up yours

[burnt dagger]

where even is the cherrier

in the files

[dry cargo]

Its the Vivace

In the files

[burnt dagger]

thx

[distant pendant]

do not alter the contents in beamng/content/vehicles

[dry cargo]

Ok good to know

I was also using those

[burnt dagger]

im not. im just looking at them

[burnt dagger]

it says you shouldnt

[dry cargo]

Luckily I got a 2nd install to mess with

[burnt dagger]

would you mind helping me a bit in a call or so

[distant pendant]

thats not the correct way. Instead go to your .34/mods/unpacked (create folder vivace)
.34/mods/unpacked/vivace/ (create vehicle folder inside of vivace folder)
.34/mods/unpacked/vivace/vehicles

now if you wanna mess with jbeams, you can copy and paste as such
vivace_suspension_F.jbeam

rename and put into your folder
Laurenvivace_suspension_F.jbeam

(change the first line of code w/ the name vivace_suspension_F.jbeam to Laurenvivace_suspension_F.jbeam ( so the game can see you are calling for your suspension jbeam instead of vanilla)

Then modify numbers from there

[dry cargo]

Hmm thanks!

thanks @distant pendant

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @distant pendant (current: #70 - 41)

[distant pendant]

i am unable to go into a vc with you.

[burnt dagger]

np

[distant pendant]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNqsS5a9XVM

(this is the tutorial that taught me the basics of folder preperation and how to make/ copy parts)

[burnt dagger]

how can I see the downforce on spoilers? what variable is it?

[distant pendant]

I've not messed with downforce to be able to help you with it.

[burnt dagger]

ok

thank you

[distant pendant]

"The "$drgr" variable is the one that controls the downforce on this particular vehicle (for the rear spoiler). Make that number bigger inside the parts config file for a vehicle and you will get more downforce."

which i believe would be found in the wing jbeam found in vehicles/common/ as its a shared common part across other cars

again you would need to create file structure, copy over jbeam and change name so it doesn't get confused between vanilla and the modified one you will mess with

Just a fyi, everything i've told you was just less than 2 minutes of searching on google 🙂

[burnt dagger]

i just want to compare them to build the perc+fext car

[burnt dagger]

ok thx

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @distant pendant (current: #66 - 42)

[burnt dagger]

is the lift coef linked to the downforce?

[novel wagon]

the hell, when i equip my exhaust that ive made for my vehicle, for some reason and i have no idea why but the rear suspension gets super stiff and gets raised to its maximum, ive changed the jbeam so that not a single node is touching the suspension and from what i have seen there is no node names that are the same, the suspension acts normal with any other exhaust

even with -90 gravity the suspension is stiff and doesnt move down

[quaint bridge]

Uhh its hard to say but most likely your JBeaming is all screwed up, Weight is off, Or its literally breaking the rear end from the JBeam as usually this only happens when the limits of the Rear suspension are being touched by your Exhaust Beams, You can check this by doing CTRL+N (I believe unless thats what I set mine to) or go to the debug menu and visualize all the nodes for your exhaust/rear end and start the process of elimination to see where your Beams are messing up at.

[novel wagon]

Not sy my computet atm but honestly i really don’t think it’s my jbeam touching the suspension since it already broke the suspension when I used the original jbeam (I’ve just edited an already existing jbeam) but I’ll check once again when im at my computer👍

[quaint bridge]

If you edited an already existing Jbeam make sure its the same Exhaust Jbeam as the Original exhaust and just modify that, makes it so much easier (only saying that if you didn't do that already)

[novel wagon]

To be fair, the exhaust jbeam I edited is from the picolina and the exhaust sits right about where the suspension on the Miramar is, still doesn’t really make sense to why it’s breaking the suspension since I completely moved the jbeam to the front, but shouldn’t be too hard to just change that

[terse walrus]

hello, can anyone help me with jbeam and in-car navigation and technologies?

[stray zinc]

Does anyone know how to fix this

[tidal pollen]

@final belfry Hello, I saw your question on the thread for your snowy skins and I found these vehicles that have misbehaving snowy windows. Wasn't able to direct message you.

Dug through the LUA console and found these warnings if it may help.

[merry crystal]

Anyone know why sunroof wont open?

[hushed bridge]

how might i go about rectifying this

[hushed bridge]

fixed it i made a typo in material namer

[misty pollen]

Ah, question. So in the engine jbeam file, what controls the ability for the engine to over heat and what controls the engine's displacement?

        "thermalsEnabled":true,
        "engineBlockMaterial":"aluminum",
        "oilVolume":5.6,```

I have thermals set to true, but idk if I'm doing anything else wrong

[stray zinc]

Anyone

[gritty lodge]

How do i Create a mod that detectes the Crash Damage/Strength?

[final belfry]

check the forums, i figured it out

[little portal]

You cant, its sounds and torque values

[misty pollen]

Oh. What file would change that, then?

Or does it actually doesn’t matter because of the torque values?

[jaunty dawn]

delete this mod and install again.

[brittle warren]

Is that the old fullsize mod if so you need both the normal oldfullsize mod and the expansion pack

[rustic delta]

Anyone know how to fix the external action camera from doing this? https://medal.tv/games/beamng/clips/jlUvO10NZY5FHfgr9?invite=cr-MSxxZzEsMjAxNTA5NDc3LA

[brittle warren]

gO INTO CAMERA SETTING S AND TRY CLICKING RESET ORDER?

caps lol

[spring breach]

so im trying to mod the model of the nine, do i need to have the important stuff (suspension, engine, ect ect) if im just modding the body

[brittle warren]

Not really if your not planning on changing the postitions of them

[spring breach]

k

[gleaming cipher]

How can one make a new Jbeam for the bus body?

[brittle warren]

https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/vehicle/intro_jbeam/

[gleaming cipher]

how do i make a template?

[shut pollen]

that mesh will deform so poorly that there is genuinely no point in wasting time jbeaming it well. you can just look at general uvmapping tutorials to find out how to make a usable uvmap for skins, but with such a poor mesh you will really struggle to make anything worth having

[gleaming cipher]

could i just make a simple box Jbeam for it?

[shut pollen]

take a look at the wentward jbeam maybe? simple box wont quite cut it, but a vaguely segmented box with some nodes to strengthen panels would match the quality of the mesh. normally i wouldnt advocate for such poor jbeam practices, but unless you are going to spend significant time redoing the mesh it would be pointless to spend a lot of time on the jbeam

[gleaming cipher]

i dont have a usable texture for it cause the model dont even have a template.

wentward

[shut pollen]

yeah, whatever the base game bus is

[gleaming cipher]

ohh

[gritty lodge]

How do i Create a mod that detectes the Crash Damage/Strength?

[rustic delta]

It isn't that.

It's jbeam stuff because the base car does it always

It's based on the Genesis F2

[wispy shuttle]

So I downloaded a mod and the rims and tires in the picture are not in the truck

[brittle warren]

Well that means there not in the mod ask the mod creator

[river forge]

Not sure if that's possible, maybe you could somehow use lua to check the lenght or some other value of a beam to see if it has deformed

[heady trail]

Maybe use g forces?

Or simply count the overall forces from beamDeformed calls

[split breach]

so im trying to make a skin mod and the skin wont show up in-game. can anyone try and help me figure out the issue?
(update: it showed up, without any textures)

[hollow timber]

Im making a custom gauge cluster and entertainment system. I have most of my hardware done but I was wondering how can I interface this with beam ng. I was trying to use the outgauge system but I would really like more control. Perferably using websockets. My mod is enabled but i see no activity.

lua/ge/gaugeCluster.lua

local M = {}

print("JDash - File")

M.onInit = function()
    print("JDash - Init method")
end

M.update = function()
    print("JDash - Update")
end

M.onUnload = function()
    print("JDash - unload")
end

return M

info.json

{
  "name": "Arduino Gauge Cluster",
  "description": "idc rn",
  "author": "Gavin",
  "version": "1.0"
}

[vocal bough]

Help me!

[dry cargo]

how can i port the spare tyre used on the gavril charro to the gavril roamer?

[opal cove]

sdasssss

sadasdasdasdasdasdasd

[civic umbra]

Calling all world editor experts. Im in the middle of recreating my local drag strip. Im struggling with getting the timers/trees/timeboards etc set up. Plz halp? 😅

[terse dawn]

is there any way of deleting this after i finalized junction?

[graceful dust]

Does anyone know how to fix this issue with the Flexbody? Right now it doesn't has any jbeam, and I just need to get it working to see if the scale and everything is alright. Quick help would be appreciated, thanks in advance

[gentle fox]

you need to register the lua if you want to use it in the Gelua VM

you need a modscript for that

[gentle fox]

what is the info.json for? Do you want to make a UI app?

[austere parrot]

try and rework the wentward body

probably not the best way but it's how I'd do it

[novel wagon]

anyone know why my cab mesh for some reason is attached to this dash? im building all of this on the MD series chassis

[proven igloo]

Hey i made a body kit and it does not appere in the game and the J-beam is even there.

[distant pendant]

make sure the name for flexbodies matches the name in blender

also make sure the correct material is applied and the material uv is in its correct spot

[proven igloo]

It's the same but how do i do this with material?

[distant pendant]

you ever mess with uv's in blender?

[proven igloo]

What is that?

[distant pendant]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNqsS5a9XVM

Scroll till he mentions putting materials on the parts

[proven igloo]

Thank you!

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @distant pendant (current: #66 - 43)

[distant pendant]

also the parts should still show if no material is on them

Send me a pic of your blender file with the body kit names visible
send me a pic of the jbeams with the names visible

@proven igloo

[proven igloo]

It workt!

[hollow timber]

sorry for late response but I honestly dont know. How do I make a mod script? I had googled some stuff and asked chat gpt and it said aparently i needed a info.json

[hollow timber]

@gentle fox

[tacit halo]

ricer gaming

[celest tapir]

Does anyone know how to replace the sound of a modded car on another modded car?

[dry cargo]

to make autoparts i need to learn blender right?

[brittle warren]

So i moved my custom car to its own vehicle and now its flying away when i spawn it any help?

[gentle fox]

Chat gpt isnt a lot of help for beamng stuff.
Take a look at how its done in other mods, i learned a lot like that at the beginning, since i found the wiki kind of confusing.

[hollow timber]

I knew chat gpt was wrong because It kept changing its mind and also there isnt much online about it. The wiki isnt "confusing" it just doesnt provide enough examples

[gentle fox]

One sec, i will write how the modScript needs to be done

[hollow timber]

Thank you

[gentle fox]

Well true i guess

[brittle warren]

also getting this error

[hollow timber]

or even just an example would help

[brittle warren]

These are my files

[gentle fox]

@hollow timber :
in /scripts/pirzsArduinoCluster/modScript.lua
setExtensionUnloadMode("prizs/ArduinoCluster","manual")
also put your lua mod file here:
lua/ge/extensions/prizs/ArduinoCluster.lua

the lua should also be adjusted to stuff like this:

local function onExtensionLoaded()
  print("Loaded Arduino Cluster")
end


M.onExtensionLoaded = onExtensionLoaded
M.onModDeactivated = deleteTempFiles
M.onModActivated = onExtensionLoaded
M.onExit = deleteTempFiles
return M```

[hollow timber]

tysm I will try this out

do the file names explicitly matter?

can i slightly change things more like

[hollow timber]

like this

i would assume but just to ensure im right

[gentle fox]

looks like some issue with the coupler points the way the error is written

[brittle warren]

well i figured out the error was just for the vehicle vecinity app my problen is just the car spawning the moonhawk and flyin away lol\

[gentle fox]

call the folders something like your name, usually helps more

[hollow timber]

ok

[hollow timber]

can i use reverse domain?

[gentle fox]

just because when you have errors its easier to finde the issue

[hollow timber]

like net.justwhatever.jdash

[gentle fox]

not sure how beam handles dots tbh, but should in theory be fine

[hollow timber]

il try without first and if it works il use reverse domain. Not the end of the world if reverse domain doesnt work

[gentle fox]

i usually structure mine like this

[hollow timber]

I have coded minecraft mods in the past and java loves reverse domain which is why im askinbg

But obviously java is very diferent from lua

[gentle fox]

makes sense

[hollow timber]

@gentle fox umm what kinda error handling is this. This is the least readable error i have ever seen

[gentle fox]

yeah beamng lua errors are very unreadable

but this one seems weird

[hollow timber]

its mad about my functiopn

this like here local onExtensionLoaded()

thats my line 3

[gentle fox]

can you send what your lua looks like now?

[hollow timber]

is it that my folder name in my mods folder isnt the same as in my "extensions", regardless this error isnt related to that. I will fix that anyways tho to make my folder structure better

[gentle fox]

dont call your lua main.lua

oh no

you forgot local function onExtensionLoaded()

[hollow timber]

oh whoops

[gentle fox]

my bad i forgot it

[hollow timber]

i just blindly copy and pasted your code without looking sorry

[gentle fox]

and i should have just copied instead of writing from the top of my head lol

[hollow timber]

yea works fine now. I wish it just said "Syntax error jdash/main.lua:3" not an entire page of red

[gentle fox]

yeah

[hollow timber]

im gonna fix my file structure a bit

[gentle fox]

have fun debugging when the game throws errors every visual refresh, those are even more fun

[hollow timber]

i shouldnt call my main extension main

[brittle warren]

now im just getting this error

[gentle fox]

is your filename really riviera..jbeam? with two dots

[brittle warren]

HEy i just saw that lol fixed it and testing now lol

[hollow timber]

i thought that too but just figured im new its probably some weird error logging

[brittle warren]

Fixed it now another question if i may so my jbeam calls for moonhawk engines but they dont show up now that i moved it to its own car

This is what i mean. it only shows my engine i have in the vehicle folder and not the actual mopohawk engines

[terse dawn]

why does this happen?...

nvm

[hollow timber]

yup i know know what your talking about. Im trying to get my electics on update and i keep getting an error saying electrics is not defined. (trying to steal some of the code from the outgauge protocol). Is there something I need to define to say I want to use electrics?

WAIT do i need to use vehicle and not GE(im assuming game engine)

[gentle fox]

You need the engines either in your vehicle's folder or in the vehicles/common folder to be available. It doesn't work to use every engine just because you have the slot. This is because beamng loads just that vehicles resources and not the ones for every single one, which wouldnt make sense, especially for performance.
This also means that you need the mesh and textures

[hollow timber]

oh umm tommo how do i use vehicle controls?

[gentle fox]

Possible

[hollow timber]

i tried electics but it didnt work

when i put it in vehicle it breaks

[brittle warren]

Thats lameeeeeeee but ok

[gentle fox]

You might need one in gelua and one in the vehicle vm

[hollow timber]

ok

[gentle fox]

You can make them communicate, but the gelua and the vlua are different virtual machines, its well documented in the wiki

[hollow timber]

do i register them the same?

i found them in the wiki

your right they did document these in the wiki

I wish they showed modscripts would have helped me in the beginning

[gentle fox]

That would be a vehicle controller afaik. Im not sure right now how exactly those work, but you usually also need custom jbeam

[hollow timber]

not excactly use sorry

[gentle fox]

No, for the vlua you dont need to register those

[hollow timber]

just read. I looked at the outgauge protocol and was just using the electrics

[gentle fox]

That can be done in gelua i think, just by getting them from vlua

One sec

@hollow timber did you try electrics.values.throttle for example?

[hollow timber]

here is my exact code

local M = {}


local function onUpdate()
  if not electrics.values.watertemp then
    -- vehicle not completly initialized, skip sending package
    return
  end
  print(electrics.values.highbeam)
end

M.onUpdate = onUpdate
return M

i just snached that from protcols/outgauge.lua

[gentle fox]

I think you need to target an exact vehicle for that. If done in gelua you need to use that something specific. I dont remember where i found that and how to do it and dont have time right now, sorry

[hollow timber]

no problem. Thank you for everything you've done

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Gave +1 Reputation to @gentle fox (current: #170 - 18)

[gentle fox]

Try finding a mod that might be doing something like that and try to reverse engineer its code. That usually helps

[proud sierra]

Can someone help my apply textures, its not working for me

[crystal wraith]

is it possible to put beamng grass on top of a dae mesh? something like the image below?

[crystal wraith]

ik you figured it out, but that can happen becasue the size of the texture aswell

you didnt do anything, skyboxes dont change depending on the time of day

you cant change that to my knowlegde

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @crystal wraith (current: #817 - 2)

[crystal wraith]

a new mod came out for dynamic skyboxes though.

CK dynamic skyboxes

[warm sphinx]

Not that I know of no. Just for actual terrain

[hollow timber]

anyone know how I can basically do some thing like this be:getPlayerVehicle(0):getElectrics()

[rustic delta]

Is there any way to activate a simpleFunction with two variables? Like, an either or, type scenario?

"p2p_active": {"simpleFunction":"nitrousOxideOverride"/"nitrousOxideArm", "off":"p2p_inctive", "on":"p2p_active"},

[heady quail]

does anyone have any ideas of what could be causing this transfercase to not be recieving the input from driveshaft?

[crystal wraith]

big bummer :/

[civic umbra]

After a bit of research and gamefile digging i've worked out that i need my mainLevel.lua set correct to trigger the drag timers. most people completely write their own script. is there a way to script the main lua to look for the main game drag scripts in directory \lua\ge\extensions\gameplay\drag? p.s. i'm super new to any for of coding and scripting.

[brittle warren]

Just import your model into blender and make it a height map for terrain

[little cedar]

What do these values do for gearwhine in the transaxle jbeam? Last time I tried, they did nothing

"gearWhineInputPitchCoefSmoothing":50 "gearWhineOutputPitchCoefSmoothing":50 "gearWhineInputVolumeCoefSmoothing":10 "gearWhineOutputVolumeCoefSmoothing":10

Maybe theyve been removed from the FMOD sound engine

[gentle fox]

also: the modding for dummies discord (MFD) might be of more help with your Lua sometimes in the lua section

[terse dawn]

turned out i needed to clear cache

[unkempt walrus]

Hi

[heady quail]

anyone know why NBE is refusing to load my jbeam and chucking errors? its claiming "missing value separator, on line: 238" but i see nothing wrong on 238 whatsoever
if i delete 238 entirely, it complains about 237, then 235, and i cant figure out what ive done wrong

[silver escarp]

@chilly flare I usually don't like pinging devs but I figured you'd probably be the best one to ask. This was in the v0.33 changelog and I was wondering what it is exactly. Does this mean we can somehow change the interior muffling whenever a door is opened?

[ebon nimbus]

is this good enough

[gleaming cipher]

Someone wanna Take on a project for me? I asked a Game dev to help me and he said the model has wayyyyyyyy to many edges (also out of Knowledge) im looking for someone who will be willing to Donate a few hours of there day to Have fun with a Bus model an make it have a skin UV

(The model)

current uv

if you decide to help youll get your name in the credits of this next update

and maybe a few $

[rancid wedge]

So I put the T-series rear frames into the MD-series and most things work instantly, but there is a gap between the upfit and cab. Can I somehow nodemove everything forward to close the gap? because when I apply the nodemove or nodeoffset to the rear frame slot it just moves the frame, but not everything else like axles and upfits. Is there any quick solution or do I have to move every object by hand?

[pliant robin]

New Engine?

[bleak sluice]

Im trying to import a tire texture but it doesn’t appear. How do I fix?

[ebon nimbus]

not quite

more like a remix

[pliant robin]

I thought is that new engine? If it is i suggest make it Hot V (V8 Turbo at Engine Gallery)

[ebon nimbus]

hot v is considerable but meh maybe future

im not sure is it new engine or remix

feel like remix for me

[pliant robin]

GM LTA, MB AMG GT Series is Hot V, BMW X6 too

[ebon nimbus]

but for my application hot v is not suitable

just meh

[chilly flare]

Doors aren't my area, but I guess just opening and closing doors are considered dynamic. Changes to muffling when these open etc are also on the list however.

[heady trail]

It's the in-rate for exponential smoothers that are put ontop of the whine pitch/volume calculation, most likely to avoid major jumps for those two parameters

[calm prism]

I want to make skin for the etk i series. and the skin works. but it doesnt spawn with the car

even though I selected the paint in the .pc file. this is in the pc file:
"paint_design":"etki_skin_kerst"

and this is the etki.jbeam

I don't want to manually select the skin every time I load the car
please ping me when answering! :)

[gleaming cipher]

How can i fix this

[heady quail]

ive pulled the exact code from the flatbed legs and mounted them to this trailer im making, but they seem to refuse to collide with the ground. i havent modified the node structure at all, they spawn above the ground and just fall through. they have collisions enabled but nonetheless phase through the floor

anyone have any ideas as to why?

[hushed bridge]

how do i add custom sound to an sfx space

like an audio file i downloaded not one of the default ones

[little cedar]

So, if I have my output in 4th gear at 0.20, and the output for 5th gear at 0.90, if I have the smoothing, it should fade the volume up to 0.90? I am trying to emulate a ZF Ecomat 604

[river forge]

Do you get any errors in the console (`/~ key)?

[river forge]

#mods-discussion message

[heady quail]

nothing that doesnt persist when this part isnt present

[heady trail]

It should, yes

You might need to lower the inrate value tho, exponential catches up pretty quickly

[tired nacelle]

is there a specific order these need to be in? porting the etki auto box to another vehicle, have gotten literally everything working except need to move the shifter location. added the baseTranslationGlobal and it seems to work, the prop moves position, but it also causes a fatal error with the vehicle? bit confused

this is the lua error. not gonna pretend i understand it haha

[calm prism]

can someone help please :)

[gentle fox]

The max function just expects numbers, you seem to be passing in the whole table

Did you copy the translation etc from another file? I think they need to be in order, im pretty sure the names are just to help and dont actually say what is what. Im not 100% sure tho.

[tired nacelle]

i took the info about it from the documentation

[gentle fox]

Oh okay. Judging by the lua error it could also be some syntax error like missing {} or too many of them. Im trying to figure out in my head rn what would cause something from the props section which should just be a number to be passed to the max function as a table

[lethal geode]

Make a config and every time load in the config

[calm prism]

Yeah I fixed it. Somehow it was a duplicate? Thats why the car didnt want to spawn with the texture

Now it spawns with the texture

[minor moon]

Any tips for eyeballing a paint color from an image or paint code to rgb/hex?

also any good paint editing applications? I’m thinking of making a Minnesota State Patrol pack or Wisconsin State too

[narrow ridge]

https://imagecolorpicker.com with this you just upload an image, select a part, and it gives you the rgb of which part you selected

you did say eyeball so sorry if thats not applicable

[minor moon]

Thanks

I’ll probably share progress once I figure it out, hopefully goes well

Btw while I’m here, anyone able to help me figure out making a materials and jbeam file for a vehicle? (Or a vid tutorial!) I’ve got the mod that has templates for base vehicles but I also wanna do mod vehicles if possible, and the Nine (which isn’t included in that mod yet)

[split abyss]

Gaaah my god working with materials is doing my fucking head in

[split abyss]

So I was working on my materials and noticed my edits weren't doing anything so I deleted the materials in the material editor since I thought that would force the game to start loading them from my json files again, but now the game refuses to load them at all. Like they don't exist, but they very clearly do. How do I undo this? Moving the json files out and back in doesn't work, disable and reenabling the mod doesn't work

[heady quail]

im having an irritating and weird issue where only these rear triangles and nodes refuse to have collisions, kinda. they have no collisions until a wheel hits, +at which point it gets stuck. ive attached photos of the nodes sections and triangle sections (with the apropriate nodes and triangles moved to the top of each for ease of reading)

note: the 'fu' nodes are intended to be underground but still collidable, but the rest are not.

all other parts of the frame of this vehicle have functioning collisions as per normal

this is compounded in its weirdness by the fact that tall crawler tires can climb up the back of this just fine

any ideas to fix this would be greatly appreciated, as this is an issue that expands onto other components and i cant figure out why

[heady quail]

i realise i cropped the triangles image slightly too far and missed half of the important triangles so heres an updated image with the important ones

[hushed bridge]

how do i make crown slope on mesh roads

[hushed bridge]

ok looks like its not possible

what about decal roads?

i could just use the raise terrain tool with max softness but that wont make a consistent slope

[sand mortar]

I am currently making a map, and the World Editor isn't automatically creating the full list of materials that the shape editor lists an imported object as having, only a few of them. I can fix this by hand but was wondering if anybody knows what is going wrong.

[true crest]

tried adding dynamic mirror to a car, but when i spawn the car, the mirror doesnt exist in the vehicle config/ on the car

[river forge]

Do you get any errors in the console (`/~ button) related to the mirror?

[true crest]

no

[topaz cape]

Hello, Where can I find employees interested in BeamNG?

[river forge]

What do you mean by employees?

[topaz cape]

I'm looking for someone who can create a parkour. I opened an ad on Upwork, but I think this place is more suitable because everyone here knows this game.

[river forge]

Barely any modders do commissions, and tbh I wouldn't trust 90% of the people thay say they do. Pretty much all decent modders make mods as passion projects, not as commissions

If I remember correctly, @warm sphinx might do map commissions? Might be thinking of someone else, sorry for the ping if that's the case

I don't know any other trustworthy modders that might

[shut pollen]

spencer johnson might, but he would probably be very pricey at this point. i think he has done quite a few similar maps to that

[glass spade]

if i am making an additional bumper to a car, can i just delete the other things unrelated to the bumper??

[pliant robin]

yes.

[gentle fox]

just remember to rename your new mesh if you copy and modify an existing one

[pliant robin]

like this but suggest to seperate the folders

[pliant robin]

do you guys have how to do Air Suspension?

[hybrid dune]

compare and contrast look at how the bus does it

[pliant robin]

can i adapt from Semi truck?

[hybrid dune]

you can adapt anything into anything that is the beauty of this game

[gentle fox]

its some jbeam and some lua i think. but suspension is pretty complicated if you haven't worked with it before, just as a heads up

[sacred arch]

I used to be able to find engine sounds thru the f11 menu, for whatever reason I can’t now. Can somebody point me in the direction of the engine sounds

[dry cargo]

why does it alwyas no material

[warm sphinx]

No worries I do infact do commissions. Though it is not cheap and I honestly wouldn’t be very willing to make a parkour map as it’s just not my thing

[crystal wraith]

make sure the texture is sizd in a resolution thats by 2

like 2048x2048

[crystal wraith]

god damn it WHY does beamng do this shit

i need that file manager tab

but its literally not on any of my monitors

its "open" but doesnt exist

i cant finish my map now becasue of this.

[dry cargo]

its not a port no

[crystal wraith]

ah, idk then

i am going to go INSANE.\

why is that still there

not a single mission even exists on the god damn map

[hallow gate]

i aint no expert or modder but i would try to raise the map a bit so the map is over it so nobody can see it

[hushed bridge]

where is the image file for this

i cant find it

[dry cargo]

i would like to create my own map, but i am terrible at city planning and terrain planning. where do i start?

[hushed bridge]

either recreate a real area or do a concrete jungle with no terrain

u dont really need to be good at city planning unless u want ur city to make sense when people look closer

[dry cargo]

oh, okay. thank you, @hushed bridge

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @hushed bridge (current: #635 - 3)

[warm sphinx]

Its a time trial not a mission, look under quick race

[crystal wraith]

is this in files or in the world edit?

[warm sphinx]

Files

[crystal wraith]

if its supposed to be in the files of the level, i do not see it

[warm sphinx]

Yes

[chilly onyx]

Hi guys
Does anyone know if it is possible to add additional nodes to activate lua triggers?
The screenshot shows the Race Corners mode and I moved these nodes back, but is it possible to add more nodes that would activate the trigger?

[heady trail]

I assume not as it most likely just uses all wheel outer-center nodes, which is really the only nodes the game can depend on to be close to the corners

[minor moon]

Is there anyone able to give advice on importing a state seal into a paint software?

Specifically trying to input the old MN state seal (POSSIBLY PIC 2) onto a vehicle's door vinyl (EXAMPLE PIC 1)

[crystal wraith]

i dont have one at all

okay nevermind, i got it gone but i have another problem

i have a full timr trial setup but doesnt appear ingame

nevermind this stupid icon is still here

from a past time trial that is literally COMPLETELY deleted

why cant anything ever work

[crystal wraith]

as you can see, where the mission marker red circle is, theres not time trial

like i might go insane istg

[stone glacier]

how can i make my autoamtion mods packed like the beamng cars? under a brand name folder. instead of havign the models separete liek this

[crystal wraith]

all this fixed itself, somehow

[pliant robin]

how to fix air suspension lua that use cannon lua? it's interfered with other repos

[calm thunder]

How do i make a custom beacon lightbar? I will try to make a thing like this (with the normal blue beacon from the piccolina)
(i have no backround with coding or anything)

[eager scarab]

Anyone know how to fix this texture issue?

[calm thunder]

im not that happy with the the results, But i hope someone would like to help me getting it into the game and making the beacon actually work.

[unique zealot]

Change this to match the other names, the .001 is added by Blender

Also show that too

[low loom]

can anybody perhaps help

[meager fractal]

https://tenor.com/view/janitorial-services-nyc-janitorial-services-nj-gif-21727913

[thorn jewel]

https://tenor.com/view/please-stand-by-hold-fall-out-dead-air-pause-gif-16956753

[river forge]

ty mods

[icy crane]

some good weather we're having today down in mod development

[tacit halo]

thank god for vencord that was one good storm of yapping right there

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @icy crane (current: #39 - 65)

[icy crane]

i'll just yoink your rep thanks

I was busy. but then I had 5 pings

[tacit halo]

consider the following : not having a life trol

[icy crane]

well it's whats expected of a moderator

I might just be unfit for the task 🙁

anyway let me not contribute to offtopic

[brittle warren]

Sorry for all the disruption

[crystal wraith]

why does beamng do this..

trigger is placed at ground in the editor but its actually in the air...

ugh it pisses me off

[crystal wraith]

nevermind, seems like this crap happens and then fixes itself like the 8th time you reload the map..

[crystal wraith]

someone please help

[eager scarab]

what do you mean by other names? Do I just name it obsidian? or get rid of the .001?

[crystal wraith]

NVM

[eager scarab]

Why's it so hard to get this into Beam😭 😭

[crystal wraith]

what size is the portal dds image

[eager scarab]

I would love to tell you if I knew what that ment 😭 😭

[crystal wraith]

goto wherever you imported it from

there should be a dds, tell me the size

[eager scarab]

I appended them from here idk where to go from here

[warm sphinx]

If you reload lua it sorts itself

Ctrl + L

[crystal wraith]

yea i found out, thanks

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @warm sphinx (current: #57 - 45)

[crystal wraith]

ok, locate the download folder of whatever this is

like where it was before it got in blender

[eager scarab]

It was a .blend file when downloaded

should I get a obj or something instead?

[crystal wraith]

okay hold on

no thats fine really

[eager scarab]

Thankyou bro I appreciate this

I went on fiverr to see if I can get someone to do this for me but apprently no one does this small weird things😂

[crystal wraith]

okay goto the texute

like goto here

click where it says base color then image texture

and that should be where the textures are

if not then uhhh, i really dont know

[eager scarab]

okay so since it's animated I think that's the problem maybe?

[crystal wraith]

possibly but im not sure about that

you can import animations, but idk about an animated texture

you may be able to though, i dont have any experience on that though

[eager scarab]

okay I appreciate the help

I could put a normal one in beam but I really wanted it to be animated I thought that would be sick

[crystal wraith]

still though, can you goto the folder that appears when you do what i said on your file explorer and see what size the portal texture is?

[eager scarab]

okay I'll look up how to get to it quickly and see

[crystal wraith]

when you click it and click image texture, there should be a path at the top

[pliant robin]

btw where's chrome trim of bastion door files?

[eager scarab]

sorry bro I might be dumb idk what to do from here

this is what I get when I download it

[crystal wraith]

no here ill send an image to help, 1 sec

[eager scarab]

thankyou bro

[crystal wraith]

follow in order

[eager scarab]

It just send me to the desktop

[crystal wraith]

ah

hmm

[eager scarab]

it just ends at desktop

[crystal wraith]

you sure youre selecting the texture, not something on top of it>

[eager scarab]

I'm on portal.001

changed it to image texture

open folder

and it just goes to desktop

[crystal wraith]

really weird

i mean you could try something idk if it would work

try exporting it as a obj and import it as an obj on a new project

im not sure what to do at this point, i just wanna help you get this

[eager scarab]

wait does this help

[crystal wraith]

yes

goto that path

[crystal wraith]

if you cant find it use this tool https://www.voidtools.com/

just can search anything on your pc in a second

[eager scarab]

bet

this is way out of my pay grade but oath haha

[crystal wraith]

dont get your hopes up, this may not work but hopefuly it does

[crystal wraith]

wym its free

[eager scarab]

No like I'm not qualified to do this haha

[crystal wraith]

oh lol

[eager scarab]

am I dumb

[crystal wraith]

no

just search the texture name

nether_portal.png

[crystal wraith]

😭 wtf

[crystal wraith]

try this

[crystal wraith]

bruh

[eager scarab]

haha

[crystal wraith]

i have one more idea

go back ingame with the portal

[crystal wraith]

goto window and open material editor

[eager scarab]

idk if you can read that text i've hovered over

[crystal wraith]

dw about that

search up nether and you should see the texture

[eager scarab]

nothing coming up

[crystal wraith]

ugh idk man, i really cant think of anything to try atp, i could help more if it was an obj, so i really dont know what to do..

[eager scarab]

Yeah I'm willing to pay someone to do it but can't find anyone that does these things

It's such a random little thing to do haha

[crystal wraith]

what do you need it so bad for? no reason im just curious

[eager scarab]

but so simple at the same time

Just to do a stupid tiktok

[crystal wraith]

lol

[eager scarab]

hahaha

I make dumb tiktoks lol

I want a nether portal now