modding-general

[eager scarab]

I did one with a kangaroo and that imported in fine

https://www.tiktok.com/@tysteazy/video/7451536905969143047

[crystal wraith]

how badly do you want the portal animated

[eager scarab]

like that worked fine

I can live without it seems to be my only option rn haha

[crystal wraith]

extract this and use this then

its an obj, should import fine

im sure you can figure out how to make it animated on that other one one day

[eager scarab]

I tried this also tried this and got same problem but we will see

Yeah it's no big deal

[crystal wraith]

since this is an obj i maybe able to help

wait a sec before you import it

[eager scarab]

jsut thought it was easy, since putting animated characters in is a drag and drop I thought was gonna be simple haha

[crystal wraith]

ok i see why that one didnt work, lemme find a dif one

[eager scarab]

none have worked for me that's why I made a custom one

and I'm not good with all this technical stuff so it hurts my brain

[crystal wraith]

extract this to the folder in the lever, this should work

level*

if not then... idk i tried i guess :/

[eager scarab]

surely it works it seems proper

you beautiful human!! But why is it blurry😭

[crystal wraith]

😭

thats just how the model is, there was other portals but they all looked dumb

like hyper realism or something

[eager scarab]

I tried that first one and that was blurry too

[crystal wraith]

i think the video would still get attention, nobody will pay that enogh attention

here let me try something with that portal

[eager scarab]

That's fair

[crystal wraith]

goto material editor, and find the portal texture

try and see how the glow makes it look

make sure to save the texture at the top next to its name

can change the color under glow factor aswell

[eager scarab]

Why is it not coming up for me

[crystal wraith]

click the portal and just try clicking this arrow

but find the purple portal, not the obsidian

[eager scarab]

tf is xdrive

[crystal wraith]

idk lol, try unselecting it and searching portal

i mean this isnt needed or anything but would make it look cool

[eager scarab]

not coming up for me😭

[crystal wraith]

eh oh well not a big deal

[hushed bridge]

im trying to make a skin but im stuck here

[crystal wraith]

enjoy the portal ig lol

[hushed bridge]

its not appearing in the editor

[eager scarab]

hahaha

nah thankyou bro I appreciate the help

means alot

I can use this until I find someone that can make a animated one

[crystal wraith]

yup

[hushed bridge]

heres my json, i valididated it in the json website thingy

{
    "citybus.skin.ciytbus_RTA": {
        "name": "citybus_main.skin.ciytbus_RTA",
        "mapTo": "citybus.skin.citybus_RTA",
        "class": "Material",
        "persistentId": "03b2fe53-b37a-48d7-a572-f212158cd229",
        "Stages": [
            {
                "ambientOcclusionMap": "/vehicles/citybus/citybus_main_ao.data.png",
                "baseColorMap": "/vehicles/citybus/citybus_main_b.color.png",
                "metallicFactor": 1,
                "metallicMap": "/vehicles/citybus/citybus_main_m.data.png",
                "normalMap": "vehicles/citybus/citybus_n.dds",
                "roughnessFactor": 1,
                "roughnessMap": "/vehicles/citybus/citybus_main_r.data.png",
                "useAnisotropic": true
            },
            {
                "ambientOcclusionMap": "/vehicles/citybus/citybus_main_ao.data.png",
                "clearCoatFactor": 1,
                "clearCoatMap": "/vehicles/citybus/citybus_main_cc.data.png",
                "clearCoatRoughnessFactor": 1,
                "colorPaletteMap": "vehicles/citybus/citybus_main_p.color.png",
                "colorPaletteMapUseUV": 1,
                "diffuseMapUseUV": 1,
                "instanceDiffuse": true,
                "metallicFactor": 1,
                "normalMap": "/vehicles/citybus/citybus_n.dds",
                "opacityMap": "/vehicles/citybus/citybus_main_c.data.png",
                "useAnisotropic": true
            },
            {},
            {}
        ],
        "activeLayers": 2,
        "dynamicCubemap": true,
        "materialTag0": "beamng",
        "materialTag1": "vehicle",
        "order_simset": 0,
        "version": 1.5
    }
}

[eager scarab]

I'm glad I don't have this guys problem tho

[crystal wraith]

yea sadly i cant help with that guy

[eager scarab]

Alt f4 might be needed

[digital basin]

what did i do to break my textures? ive tried packed and unpacked and everything was working and next load up it was all unmapped again

[shut pollen]

just a handful of typos i think, you might also need to clear the persistent id for it to show in the editor or something. not home to verify and this looks cursed on mobile

[shut pollen]

probs missing a bracket somewhere considering everything is busted

[hushed bridge]

ciytbus_RTA
didnt notice this

i hate and love at the same time how our brains just ignore minor errors

[digital basin]

i cant find anything wrong or im just missing it, i cleared my temp files and restarted the game with the vehicle packed and everything was good to go until i got on again

[shut pollen]

yeah we skip over these things after looking at it for too long. you would have seen it tomorrow haha

[shut pollen]

first line comma broke it

maybe not, very hard to sift through on mobile. one sec

[hushed bridge]

ok fixed all the typos and removed the persistent id and still not working

the docs didnt say to remove it so

[shut pollen]

persistent id is how the editor knows what material everything is (simplified from memory, probs not 100% correct). did you clear cache after that?

[shut pollen]

yeah sorry dude, way too long for me to sift through on mobile. it will be a bracket/comma issue somewhere unless the whole file just isnt loading i guess?

[hushed bridge]

just did and it didnt work

and that makes sense

[shut pollen]

damn, will have to hope someone else comes along. feel bad about leaving ya hanging, but not much i can do when im so far from home haha

[hushed bridge]

ok i figured it out

i have to apply it in the config editor

i was about to say it would be nice if it said that but turns out i just skipped the entire paragraph

[hushed bridge]

ok so now this is happening

does it need to be the citybus material and not citybus_main?

ig its worth a try

[hushed bridge]

ok finally got it working but theres this weird dirtiness

its the same colormap as every other skin but its like this for some reason

it appears to be the specular map

ok for some reason despite the json saying "version": 1.5 it chose to be version 1

[old tinsel]

extremely overdue update post (life got in the way and I didnt get to mess with beam), I managed to get the stop/turn lamps separated in the pickup.jbeam! theres still some kinks to work out. couldnt have done this without your help!! thank you!

There is also that little glowing bit in the "middle" between the two lamp sections I gotta fix

I gotta get that sorted out, then I'll make some nice amber lenses texture for the middle bit

[unique zealot]

The portal

[rancid knot]

Do anyone know where to find dae file with Nomi gtrx, gtc, and gtt in it and the jbeam files?

[old tinsel]

spotlights are fixed! I tweaked the intensities so no matter if the taillamps are on or off, the turn lamps illuminate as bright as both the tail/brake would be together

[old tinsel]

dumb question: where are the dds/texture files located for the d-series? Ive dug all through the files, but have yet to locate them found in vehicles/common folder

[frank hawk]

Does anyone here have experience with the front axles breaking for basically no reason at all? Me and a friend is working on a "Group 5" etk i, basically a 2 door widebody etk i. We have managed to get it running and driving, but the front axles break after doing a respawn, if i do a CTRL + R respawn they work how ever long i want them to, untill i press just R, when i press R the car respawns and axles break immedietely.

[little portal]

would it be possible to change this value based on the drivemode?

so basically setting a variable thru the drivemode

[inner heart]

it will always be a range of number

you CAN make each number like 0, 1, 2 to be a specific drive mode, but it will only show as number in the tune tab

[little portal]

Best is if i dont have to use the variable, i want the torquesplit to change per drivemode but I dont know how

[inner heart]

oh

that idk but i feel it’s possible

modern etk have drivemode that changes between awd and rwd

[little portal]

Yea but thats thru an electronic splitshaft

And with that it isnt always awd, makes it so it pushes thru the brakes because when launching it only sends power to the rear wheels

[crystal willow]

so im building this car in beamng its a bruckell nine but i wanna add a 5th gear to it how do i do that

[hushed bridge]

uh

how is it not lined up perfectly everywhere

[little portal]

Transmissions jbeam

[crystal willow]

bruh

[little portal]

Tf you mean bruh its like a minute of work

[river forge]

UV maps (the map that links the 2d textures to the 3d model) are not always perfectly straight. So just because your texture is straight, unfortunately doesn't always mean that it's also the case on the actual model

[crystal wraith]

anyone know why my spawnpoints do not appear

[onyx rover]

accidently sent it in the wrong channel originally

[old tinsel]

I just did another bit for my mod and separated the brake/turns on the bastion. Now "lightbar" functions as both tail and brake lamps, while the original brake/turns now function solely as turns

[little cedar]

Would anyone know a lua script for switching the automatic gearbox to neutral when approaching a stop. In real life, usually they switch to neutral around 5kmh, and go back into gear (with a bang) when you apply throttle.

Ive had this script for a while, but it doesnt work, even with the right file structure, and being referenced in the transaxle jbeam as a controller
`local M = {}

local function updateGFX()
-- speed is in m/s (m/s * 3.6 = km/h)
if electrics.values.wheelspeed < 15/3.6 and electrics.values.throttle == 0 and electrics.values.gearIndex > 0 then
controller.mainController.shiftToGearIndex(0)
end
end

if (M.doorsOpen or M.isKneeling) then
controller.mainController.shiftToGearIndex(0)
end

local function init()
end

M.init = init
M.updateGFX = updateGFX
return M`

This was for a different gearbox, thats why its 15 instead of 5

[little cedar]

For the ETK, its this file. I take its the same for all the others

[little cedar]

Add the 4th and 5th values here. Ratios under the writing

[little portal]

Since when do automatics switch to neutral when stationary?

The torque converter slips but thats about it

[little cedar]

Many bus gearboxes switch to neutral when stopped at a bus stop. It's known as NBS, and a specific gearbox, a Voith, that has really long first gears, switched to neutral around 10-15 kmh

[crystal wraith]

How would i go about integrating a mod with a map in the mod's zip

i want to have time trials for my maps but not as seperate mod

s

[river forge]

You can add as many folders as you want in the same zip, for example

modname.zip/levels/mapname/ map files go here
modname.zip/gameplay/missions/mapname/timeTrial/ time trial files go here

That way you can have both the map and time trials in the same zip

[crystal wraith]

thanks

[crystal wraith]

they still wont appear for my friend, is something im doing wrong? hold on ill send images

[river forge]

So they work for you, but not for your friend?
Are you by any chance working in an unpacked version, and then sending your friend a .zip?

[crystal wraith]

yes

[river forge]

Hmm could be some kind of packing issue then, could you send me the same .zip you sent to your friend?

[crystal wraith]

sure

[crystal wraith]

i sent it in dms

[river forge]

Shows up just fine for me 🤔 Maybe your friend could try deep cleaning their cache? Unsure if it would help, but I can't think of anything else

[crystal wraith]

sorry, do you mind testing one more?

just so i can be sure

[river forge]

Yeah sure

[hallow snow]

Hello, I've been developing a map for some time and I have one question/issue. Is there any method that I can use to make the roads less bumpy/jaggered? I tried pretty much everything and the roads still came out as uneven. I just want them to have a smooth slope... is there any workaround to this?

You can tell by the lines how uneven it is.

[brittle warren]

are they decal roads?

[hallow snow]

Yes

[brittle warren]

then use the really smooth brush on your terrain

[hallow snow]

Yes I tried the smooth brush it just makes the road bend inward on itself? Is there a certain pressure setting I need to use for best results?

[brittle warren]

try the flatten brush maybe or turn the pressure down a lot maybe

[hallow snow]

Hm okay I will try, the problem is I want the road to go slightly uphill and the flatten tool well, just flattens it

[brittle warren]

then your just gonna have to try the smooth brush and experiment

[proven igloo]

I made a new project an i startet with the basic (info and Jbeam) but the game doesn't know thats a vehicle and i even lookt up an tutorial and he had it exactly like me. Why? The game sas Type:"unkown".

[lilac pilot]

Hello guys, does anyone know how to make custom functional gas stations for custom maps? Haven't been able to find anything on it and straight copying how it worked on ECUSA didn't provide results unfortunately

[distant pendant]

setup the sera with a bx engine slot, everything works but for the love that is all holy i cannot get the intercool to show its mesh.
the part selector works, and the parts work just no visibility. i've been at it 3-4 hours

[hard radish]

Help! Why BTR won't spawn when i try to execute the following code?

core_vehicles.spawnNewVehicle("BTR80", {config = vehicles/BTR80/winter.pc, mainVehPos = vehPos, mainVehRot = vehRot}) 

[little cedar]

Would anyone know a lua script for switching the automatic gearbox to neutral when approaching a stop. I am trying to emulate the NBS feature for my gearboxes for the DT40L. They switch to neutral at speeds around 5kmh, when there is no throttle, and change back into gear when throttle is applied

[tacit halo]

anything that the console yaps about?

[proven igloo]

I had the same problem exactly like you and you helpt me lol. And for me it was that I writen in the flexbodies the name wrong.

[distant pendant]

No, console is being a quiet pain in the arse

[distant pendant]

Just added the bx engine slot to the sera, could it be something with the front tubs?

[tacit halo]

well i imagine the jbeam names on the sera and bx are different and the intercooler is generally bound to the body mesh and not to the engine

[distant pendant]

so how would i go about making it see the intercooler, i've already tried putting exy10sera_intercooler in the engines j beam and nothing.
It doesn't call for a intercooler in sera body

[distant pendant]

ah i wish it was that easy for me lol, i'm telling a car to use another cars engine slot so it's a bit wonky

[proven igloo]

Defently nothing in my range

[distant pendant]

im at the finish line, i just need that intercooler to appear

[blazing jetty]

Read this thread: https://www.beamng.com/threads/ultimate-tutorial-on-how-to-make-realistic-roads.97520

the trick is to place a meshroad over your existing road with enough nodes. Then lower it to match your road. In the settings of the mesh road set the break angle quite low like 0.2 or lower. Make your forest and other meshes like the rails invisible for the next task. Then use both the align terrain to mesh tools higher, lower and move the brush along the whole road. Make the brush big enough. Your road should be as smooth as a baby butt 🤗 make your other meshes visible again. You can make the meshroad invisible but keep it for further road changes or delete like you want to.

[scarlet folio]

Maybe it's not really related to modding.
The preview generator makes them different from vanilla previews
Is it possible to fix it?

[heavy swift]

Are these just custom configs with vanilla parts? If thats the case, then I don't know. Before the latest update, mine worked correctly.

If you are using custom parts, maybe one of them artificially increases the size of the car by having some longer nodes.

[hallow snow]

I appreciate your help but I've already tried this and it didn't make the road as smooth as I wanted it to. Either way I retried the method exactly according to the tutorial you sent and I got the same results. After doing some reading I concluded that the roads/terrain needs to be pre-rendered on something like blender for them to be perfectly smooth and the tools in the editor don't allow for them to be perfectly smooth... I could be wrong but from reading on forums that's the conclusion I reached

Still jaggered

[distant pendant]

Use flatten tool in world editor? You can set your height

[hallow snow]

Flatten tool flattens the road though no?, I want there to be a slight incline

Like it puts the terrain at a perfect angle rather than a smooth slope

Makes the road look like stairs almost

I think it's a game engine thing

Even the built in road architect tool makes the road not 100% smooth uphill

[blazing jetty]

Im pretty sure you miss something or the map has a setup problem. I did all my roads like that an they are smooth. The brush for heighten or lowering terrain to mesh must be at 100% strength and smoothness. Make a test. Build a meshroad with break angle 0 and let it float somewhere above your terrain and use the heighten to terrain brush to see if it works. Don’t save it. You can undo it later. Which size is the map and which scale do you use?

[hallow snow]

Could be... the map is 4096x4096

I already tried to build a meshroad then the heighten terrain technique it didn't work

[blazing jetty]

Mine is even bigger: 4096*4096 with scale 1.2. that is not the problem. Did you lock the terrain by accident?

I will make a small video. I need a couple of minutes.

[hallow snow]

Legend bro, and yes the terrain was locked but it doesn't seem to affect anything

I only locked it so I don't move it on accident

Here's the map top down and on the side to give you an idea of how elevated the road is

It's not even that bad maybe a 5/8% elevation and it still creates issues

[distant pendant]

smooth tool?

[hallow snow]

The smooth tool caves the road inward and doesn't get rid of the bumps

[distant pendant]

odd doesn't do that for me

[hallow snow]

Okay so I loaded in Small Island and did the exact same thing on that map and the road is perfectly smooth

So it must just be a problem with my map but I have no idea what it could be

[blazing jetty]

I guess your maximum height might be to big. I don't know the constraint exactly but the maxheight for a heightmap is around 1000-1200 meters. Your Mount Fujii looks quite high 🙂 If you export your terrain there comes a json with it. There you find your heightscale.

[hallow snow]

My height scale is 5000

Is that too high?

Well in the case would your suggestion be to restart the entire project with a different height setting?

I think you're right bro

[blazing jetty]

First we should get the max amount. You could export the heightmap and import it with a lower heightscale for testing. Your assets will float then of course.

[hallow snow]

Yeah I tested it with 2200 and there's already a major improvement so I'm pretty sure that was the problem

I can't thank you enough bro I've been looking for a fix for ages lol

Shame I have to pretty much start over though I assume I have to manually move all the assets around to match the new terrain layout

[blazing jetty]

found that:
https://www.beamng.com/threads/tutorial-level-building-with-lidar.39370/
good luck!

[hallow snow]

Thanks a lot!

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[blazing jetty]

Glad to help! Here is the video you don't need anymore 🙂
https://youtu.be/Agc27PZjtc8

[blazing jetty]

Perhaps you find a decent mountain as mesh somewhere and replace the terraformed one. You kill it out of the heightmap, and reimport the heightmap with a new heightscale which you have to figure out somehow.

[hallow snow]

Yeah I get what you're saying... I'll look into it later but I'll probably just end up with a smaller terraformed mountain (probably just a hill now lol) and go from there. I was taking inspiration for my map from Transylvania and you know how montane that area is with the Carpathians and all... I'll see what I can cook up but right now I'm taking a little break from it

[proven igloo]

What do i do when blender doesn't let me name two things the same?

@pliant robin You know how to fix?

[lilac vapor]

How can i use my own created static mesh in the road architect model patch selection?

I even can't find the models listed there. Where are they? I found the files but isn't there a way to register my models to appear in the list?

[river forge]

Why would you wanna give two things the same name?

[proven igloo]

Because the folder must be named the same as the thing you wanna export and when two things in one folder are than you have to name the two things in blender the same right?

[river forge]

Sorry I'm not sure I quite understand what you're saying. A folder can contain multiple .dae's, and a .dae can contain multiple meshes/models. I can't think of any reason why two things would need to have the same name

[proven igloo]

I'm don't have a good english sorry. I try to explain it diffrent. In the hedlights folder there are front left and front right hedlight but in blender they are two and to export them you have to name both of them the same name like the folder you want to export them (i think).

I will try tomrrow again. With fresh sleep.

[river forge]

They don't need to have the same name. One can be _L or _Left and the other can be _R or _Right

[proven igloo]

But it still goes in the same folder?

[river forge]

Yeah, they can even be in the same .dae

[proven igloo]

Bro you just saved my day thanks!

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[sacred arch]

is there anybody who is familiar with device trees? Im trying to set up a dual clutch transmission so that it actually uses clutches

[brittle warren]

So how would i go amout making a jbeam from scratch in blender i have one mapped out but i cant seem to figure out how to give it node name

[severe grail]

Hey there!
I need some help with my Pessima mod. The newest release fried the use of manual transmissions with my ev motor. Automatic transmissions work, driving manuals in arcade mode works. Driving manuals in realistic? No.
The entire car breaks and you can't control it at all with this lovely error:

Again, this only occurs with manuals when you drive them in realistic, not however if you drive them in arcade

[unique zealot]

Have you cleared the cache and used safe mode?

[severe grail]

I will try, yeah

Did so, same issue. I re-checked the powertrain files of the normal pessima and it all still is the same. And it works in arcade, which is giving me a headache

Oh my god
A friend of mine had turned on clutch assist. And that apparently can't handle the idea of an e motor with a manual and therefore breaks the mod

[severe grail]

Other issue:
I created a material
I edited in the world editor
I save the material
The json file does not get updated
The material is back to square one after a relaunch :/

[dire ember]

how to fix that how to fix that im tired please help i dont know what to do with mirror how to fix that

[distant pendant]

your triangles for your mirrors are colliding with the triangles for the door

[distant pendant]

what meterial is it for level or vehicle?

[severe grail]

Vehicle, made an arch trim piece and a new texture. Worked well before every time when I made a new material, but the code just never updates now when I press "save"

[distant pendant]

cause its saved in vehicles/vehiclesname/(yourmaterialsfileyoumade
You take it, and replace it with the material in the mods/unpacked/yourvehicle/

[severe grail]

Bruhh I am so dense
Thank you!!

[near gorge]

why are the roads looping back on themselves like this? its super annoying.

[viscid wedge]

quick question (i hope)
this one mod (dont know which one) adds an LS7 engine to the d-series, but it uses the stock v8 sound
this other mod i have (also dont know the name) adds a few c6 corvets (correct me if im wrong but that is the LS7) that has its own sound

is there a simple easy way to make the mod that adds the ls7 engine to the d-series use the engine sound from another mod? im willing to edit anything

[distant pendant]

do you have "looped" on the decal editor should be on the right side of screen

[near gorge]

nope. made sure not to

[distant pendant]

you'd have to port over the sound and file, and then you'd have to tell the d series engine jbeam to look for such audio source.

[near gorge]

decal?

[distant pendant]

this is usually a issue with the ground and not a loop. I suggest starting over

[viscid wedge]

that would set it for all d-series v8 engines that use the default sound though wouldnt it? the engine i want ot change the sound of isnt a stock one

[distant pendant]

then you need to make a mod and make a new d series engine for it.

[near gorge]

what do you mean by that?

[viscid wedge]

ok hold on im having some sillyness in carrer mode, lemme go elsewhere rq

[distant pendant]

Sometimes i run into this, and it's typically caused the ground mesh. I tend to have to restart what i was doing.

[near gorge]

weird. it only does the looping thing whenever i reload the world.

[distant pendant]

check your nodes, you've might of accidently placed one

[near gorge]

its not like an actual loop though, for some reason it like auto places a ton of nodes that loop back over the originals. i can fix it by splitting the nodes at the original ends, and deleting that weird bit; but whenever i reload the world its back

[distant pendant]

it's also not showing any decals in those areas that are looping back

that's odd, i suggest starting over.

[near gorge]

it only kind of shows them. its weird

[distant pendant]

shouldn't be that bad to redo.

your also using way to many nodes

[near gorge]

its not me

[distant pendant]

in that selection there i would maybe use 2-3 nodes

[near gorge]

road architect

[distant pendant]

oh

road architech

i thought that was road decals

[near gorge]

they are. thats how it works

heres the origin road. made by me

[distant pendant]

to many nodes

in my opinion

but should work fine

[viscid wedge]

then in this case couldnt i just take some files from the other mod? assuming i just want to use the stock visuals for the v8?

[distant pendant]

if you want it to be a d series engine, you'd have to edit the d series engine to see the audio sample for the other

[viscid wedge]

so which one do i copy over to edit, to add another engine?

this is in vehicles/common.zip/pickup

(also filtered to only show some files)

[near gorge]

question. is there a way to preview/edit the colormap in editor? or do i have to do this the hard way?

[little portal]

Any known reasons for caster and sai not showing up?

[little cedar]

Is there any way to use an SFXProfile created in a materials.json to use for the input whine for a gearbox? The ZF I am trying to emulate has a changing timbre throughout the RPM range, and I was wondering if I could create my own event sound with different sounds for different RPMs. Photo for example of what I mean
https://www.beamng.com/attachments/upload_2025-1-3_19-40-22-png.1195589/

[dawn ibex]

no, so long as you tell the jbeam for that engine that the engine sounds can be found here

because if it followed your logic the c6 would override all the other engine sounds and there would be a lot of conflictions

[tawny knoll]

is there a way to duplicate parts in blender and they work ingame too?

whenever i duplicate something it just doesnt load ingame (left side was what i made and right side was what i mirrored over)

i did the exact same thing when doing the jbeam so i know its the mirroring causing it

i even checked the Jbeam and its the same as the other side (bits changed from L to R though obv)

[river forge]

I always mirror, then seperate

[tawny knoll]

they are seperate objects already, but maybe im doing it a different way that aint right

[tropic sail]

can groundmodel properties be edited with lua in real time?

[acoustic ivy]

please help me locate dseries dae i need its drivetrain

i cant find d series in my main folder

[tepid nymph]

did you duplicate and mirror after that?

[tawny knoll]

i did that i think

i copied the part, then mirrored it to the other side

[tepid nymph]

you have to do 3 steps after that
1: applying all transforms (press ctrl+a and the all transforms) (scale only would work too)

Then the face orientation is wrong, so you have to into edit mode, click mesh, normals, flip

and then rename the duplicated part

[tawny knoll]

ah that worked, thanks man your a lifesaver o7

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[tepid nymph]

the d series drivetrain is in the common folder
Should be named pickup_common.dae

[acoustic ivy]

thank you

[acoustic ivy]

can i ask again how to fix this invisible thing

[river forge]

Seems like your model only has one side, add an underside to it

You can see here on a vanilla mesh how it has an inside and outside, which is not possible with just one layer of faces
(Left pic is the full mesh, for the right pic I deleted the front half of the mesh)

I turned on Face Orientation to see it better. In-game you will only see the blue side of the faces, while the red side will be see though like your hood

[acoustic ivy]

how can i see that

[river forge]

The face orientation? It's in one of the settings menus on the top right

[acoustic ivy]

ooooohhh

how can i fix it tho

[river forge]

Add an underside to your hood, so that it can have an inside and an outside

[acoustic ivy]

so copy and paste it?

[river forge]

Hm well no, but I quess a simple - though not irl accurate - solution could be to copy paste the hood, then for that copied version, selected all the faces and do Mesh > Normals > Flip to change the direction of the faces

That way you will have one version of the hood with the faces facing one way, and another with the faces facing the other way, so it will look like it has faces on both sides

However what I meant was actually modeling the underside of the hood yourself

[acoustic ivy]

bruh im cooked anyways thanks

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[bright sonnet]

Hi guys, this may not be the right chat and if it’s not, I apologize please re-direct me if you can. I’m looking at getting a paint scheme designing job for a smaller team in Nascar, and I made a sample scheme and I’m trying to get a render of the scheme to send to the team reps. I spent the last 3 years working on paint schemes for the varying Nascar mods on BeamNG (Gen 6 Camaro, Mustang and Camry, the Next Gen project that came out in August just to name a few) so I figured asking here would be appropriate, but if I’m in the wrong place again I apologize.

My main thing is I have this render image I took on Blender, it’s my first time trying to do this, I was just wondering what I can do to improve on this. I know you can load backgrounds in, I haven’t quite figured out how to do that or what I want, but mainly I just want opinions on the resolution of my render. Does this look about right, or is there room for improvement? I was mainly looking to have it not be fuzzy, be a clear render, but if anyone has any tips/suggestions it’d be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

[crystal wraith]

if you mean like a skybox backround, if you wanna use this i can show you how to use it

ill show what it looks like

[sacred arch]

@tacit halo you around?

[tacit halo]

im playing minecraft

[sacred arch]

understood, if you get a free moment later i just need a little help setting up a glow map. i redid the DRL'S on the etk800 and i want to set them to cut on when the car cuts on, currently they just stay on. also i redid this because it looks fire and we both know that last one wasnt the greatest

[tacit halo]

uh i suck with glowmaps

[river forge]

you dont say

[sacred arch]

shiiii lol

[tacit halo]

multiplayer mc

[river forge]

Use running for the simpleFunction

[sacred arch]

hmm can you help me lol im struggglginngggg

ive been trying to get it to work for the last week and a half

[river forge]

Change this to "running", it will activate the glowmap whenever the car is, well, running

And read this, it helped me a lot #modding-general message

[river forge]

That should do the trick yeah

[sacred arch]

i have to make the off map and add it give me one moment and ill let you know how it comes out

im changing the colors on the drl's on the etk800

[sacred arch]

so i make a secondary material as off correct

[river forge]

Yes

[river forge]

Oh no the mesh only needs one material

It doesn't need to be an actual material, just a name to let the game know what part of the model should be affected by the glowmap

This should be the same as the material on the mesh, and then the actual visible material will be controlled by the glowmap

[sacred arch]

im doing something wrong because its still now working

its weird, the oem headlights arent assigned to a glow map in the headlight file and they just work but as soon as i did a twist on it it hated it

[tawny knoll]

anyone know why my info file isnt working?

[elfin wagon]

Idk but maybe the induction type is it

[brittle warren]

So question if i wanted my wheels to connect to node nl16 and nl17 with no suspension how would i go about doing that

[naive mauve]

where would i put the picture to get it in the file to get it to show up on the main view

[crystal wraith]

I only make Maps but I can try to help, can you show the folder of the mod?

[tawny knoll]

you need to put the image you want in the cars folder (with the Jbeam files and that) and name it default.jpg

pretty sure thats it

[naive mauve]

that only works for the variant i believe not for the main

ive got it named Default.png rn and its not working on the main just on the variant

[tawny knoll]

try default.jpg

[acoustic knot]

oh boy oh boy...sure seems like a good mod from the background

[subtle hinge]

https://tenor.com/view/zane-smith-zane-smith-champion-front-row-motorsports-nascar-trucks-zane-smith2022-gif-27045827

[acoustic knot]

hey man could you help me?

ive never modded before, and i just wanna do a quick installation

[subtle hinge]

i can maybe potentially try

i have little to no modding experience besides installing mods lol

[blissful silo]

Hello all

Ive tried to create my own livery for the Carbonworks F4, and I have seemed to follow all the steps to make it however it does not appear as I made it in Beamng. Does anyone know if I have done anything wrong or anything that I have missed out?

The video I followed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=738Qgp3nUPM&t=776s

What it looks like

What it should look like

[river forge]

Seems like most of the textures are fine, and it's just missing your colorMap, the one shown in the bottom picture

First thing to check would be the file path. Does the location of the .dds in your mods files match the file path listed for the colorMap in your materials.json file?

[jade thorn]

this sounds dumb but maybe remove the # from the name?

might not work for you but i always had issues with textures when they had symbols in their names

[blissful silo]

ill try

would no.66 work?

@jade thorn

[river forge]

What is the file path of the colorMap inside the materials.json file?

[blissful silo]

.png

[river forge]

Your colorMap texture has teste in its name, but in the materials file it's test, without the e at the end :P

Also the materials file refers to another texture (c.data) that is supposed to be in the test folder, but in another screenshot you sent, it seems that folder only has 1 texture (b.color, not any c.data)

[river forge]

Also the file name in the materials file doesn't have 66 in it, and the way you named it here will not work. The file name needs to end with _b.color
(Yours ends with _b.color.66)

[blissful silo]

so i cant add on anything to the back?

[river forge]

No

And the file path and file name in the materials.json file need to be the exact same as in your files

[river forge]

Now make sure the name is the same as in the materials.json file. That one is called fr04_skin_test_b.color, but your texture is called fr04_skin_teste_b.color

[blissful silo]

OH

I DIDNT NOTICE THAT

[blissful silo]

anything else?

[river forge]

This

[quaint solar]

I have problem with adding brakes what i need to add to suspension, wheels and brakes jbeam???

[blissful silo]

i dont understand what to do

[quaint solar]

in suspensions I've added pressure wheels, in brakes tho code looks like this, and 3rd photo is the code of wheels, what I need to add/change?

[river forge]

This file does not exist - There is only fr04_skin_test_b.color and then your jbeam and json

I spotted these in one of your other screenshots, I'm guessing those other two black and white textures are supposed to be your clearcoat and opacity maps

[blissful silo]

yes

[river forge]

Well I don't see those here :P

[blissful silo]

its a seperate zip file

[river forge]

Why?

[blissful silo]

tutorial said to do so

[blissful silo]

what do i do with it

[river forge]

Uh, I guess that would work, but there is really no reason to have them in a separate .zip, they can just be in that same 'test' folder

[river forge]

Make sure those files are in that location - I'd suggest putting all textures together for ease of use

[blissful silo]

they are

[river forge]

Well you should be all good then :D

[blissful silo]

Thank you so much!

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[river forge]

Btw if you plan on sharing the mod, I'd still recommended putting all the files in one .zip, no clue why a tutorial would advice against that

[blissful silo]

its not appearing in agrage

[blissful silo]

nah its my own custom livery

[blissful silo]

its not there

[river forge]

But it was before, right?

[river forge]

Here

[blissful silo]

no its now

[blissful silo]

it should look like this

[river forge]

Yeah I meant, it was in the selector before, right?

[blissful silo]

yes

i reactivated in in my repository but its the normal skin

[river forge]

Did you change anything in the .jbeam? None of the changed made in the materials file should change wether it is in the selector or not

[blissful silo]

no

[river forge]

Hmmmm I'm not sure then, sorry

[quaint solar]

???

[river forge]

"what I need to add/change?"

What do you need to add/change in order to... do what? It's a bit unclear to me what you want to do exactly

[quaint solar]

brakes dont work

[distant locust]

Any devs willling to help me figure something out related to modded cars in career?

[dusty helm]

anyone know a good way to make a skin

i wanna make one for the bolide and maybe the H series but am struggling because i know nothing about modding

[river forge]

And what is it you're trying to figure out?

[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/

[distant locust]

I am just having weird issues with mods in career. I have built info files for my modded cars from other creators. I have them showing up in the dealership, and able to purchase. One of them when I buy the car it doesnt get added to my garage, but spawns in my yard. 2 or 3 of them wont let me paint them. They either revert back to original or give me patches. Is this related to how my info file got built?

[river forge]

Hmm I'm not sure, could also just be a problem with the mod itself

[distant locust]

I thought the same thing, but they all work perfectly in free roam. Is there anyone here who may be able to lend me hand? This can't be black magic to everyone. LOL

They also are not modland junk. I spent way to much time finding reputable modders. So i feel like there might be an issue in one of the files, but I am not a modder, or codeer so I am also not too sure.

[quaint solar]

okay I found the problem and i fixed it so you don't need to help me 🙂

[terse dawn]

any ideas why does this happens?

[dense trellis]

i would guess one of your road decal is misssing a texture

[terse dawn]

not one road all of them

[dense trellis]

oh is it when you zoom in or out?

[terse dawn]

whole time no matter what..

[dense trellis]

i'm new here, is there a vocal channel or something i could join to talk?

[dense trellis]

just in a few sections of roads or did it broke worse then on the picture?

like my current guess is one of the layer as a missing texture

[river forge]

No, only text

[dense trellis]

Bummer, but i think i undertand how much of a moderating night mare it could be

[dense trellis]

Side note, i'm having my own problem with a map i was working on. i'm working on a map based on johnson valley, i did all the necesray modification to the files to have my map selectable in the freeroam munue and it worked for a few weeks. rencently i fixed a cube map issue i had since i started this project and now my map is unaccessible.

i really don't know why, i'm trying everything bindly and backing up as much as i ca,

update, still broken, i can see "it" with debug check on the freeroam menu, but it spawns me on the default template map instead

[steady solar]

Hey is it possible to make a mod that controls every light on a car individually? So have a keybind for every different light? Or have prerecorded sequences for lightshows

[little portal]

Definitely

[dense trellis]

i think it would be possible, tho it sounds liek it could be a bit of a pain. but using the special key mapping, all the aniamtions are technically there

[steady solar]

alr

[little cedar]

How do I fix the torque conveter automatically slipping when using high throttle? Im trying to emulate a W3A gearbox from the O305

[terse dawn]

All roads, no exeptions..

[blissful silo]

Does anyone know if i need to flip text when creating a F4 mod?

[woeful shadow]

Is there a way to change the materials of these kinds of objects? For example changing the sections that use road_concrete to use road_asphalt instead

[acoustic ivy]

how do i fix the wheels

i rescale the whole model now i adjusted also the suspension but the wheels idk how to reposition them

[narrow barn]

anyone know why changing the samplename of a modded car turns it into just a body?

used to be a huracan STO, but now is just this

i have a mod that adds a blend called as it's named in the image above, but for some reason it seems like it's causing the car to not load properly

[shut pollen]

never seen that one lmao. what does the console say? its like something in the name you changed has broken the files

[narrow barn]

tbh slipped my mind to check the console. but it didn't report any fatal errors which would have appeared on the top right

[river forge]

Doesn't matter, there could still be a bunch of useful stuff in the console

[tacit halo]

Change the sample name to not use spaces and special characters

V10_lambo_exh

[narrow barn]

even when the file name has spaces?

[tacit halo]

Change the filename

And the stuff inside it

[narrow barn]

the mod itself replaces the vanilla vehicles just fine tho

[shut pollen]

special characters are a pretty common thing here and seem to cause strange issues nearly every time. would be easier if they either broke things the same way 100% of the time or just worked fine to begin with

[ebon nimbus]

i have some 3d model questions

how do i keep the shrinkwrap shape and merge it to the body without it freaks out

[dawn ibex]

how are you able to paint the actual terrain? i know there is the terrain painter but it changes the texture of the terrain, but not the base colour

(this is coming from modding the eca map)

[brittle warren]

well you would need to make a custom terrain material

[dawn ibex]

alright ill look into those

are there any kinds of guides on these "custom terrain materials"
i feel like there should already be terrain materials considering this is east coast usa and the entire map already has grass in it

i also feel like ive done this before but i just cant recall what i did

[dawn ibex]

after 2 hours, i can deduce its not something with the terrain material because it changes relative to whatever the physical terrain colour is itself and im wondering if i have to edit the terrainblock or somethig

[heady trail]

Colour is done in the terrain base texture in the new system

The terrain materials are gray scale

[dawn ibex]

forgive me but i don't really understand what that means

not really one of the experienced guys in map development

[narrow barn]

so what should i do

[shut pollen]

lichi covered that, remove the special characters in file names etc to start with. in some cases, numbers are considered special characters at the start of things too, so keep that in mind. post the console after you have gone through this if there are still problems

[little cedar]

Anyone know how to fix the converter from slipping when using throttles above 80%? Apparently it was added for smoothness when shifting or something
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/710083442834145280/1325709278153150636/image.png?ex=677e17fa&is=677cc67a&hm=d3cf05ddc7b85629543939343ceb0fc532d2a6f0cb95b31f9d96205a4a334895&=&format=webp&quality=lossless

[ornate wren]

How do I know the version of the game beamng drive?

[river forge]

It says the version at the top of the launcher, and bottom left of the games main menu

• there is a version.txt file in your userfolder that has the game version written inside

[ornate wren]

How do I change the game version?

[heady trail]

Terrain materials are made up of multiple textures per channel (colour, normal, heightmap, roughness, ...)
Those textures are usually: base, macro, detail (and 1 I can't remember)
The base texture is an overview of the entire terrain of the map
That is where colour information is stored, the other textures of that channel are black and white to support whatever colour the mapper chooses in the base texture

[river forge]

In your Steam library, right click, go to properties, then betas, there are 3 old versions to choose from

[ornate wren]

i want 0.33.x how ?

[river forge]

You can't, the only available versions are the ones in the screenshot I sent

Why would you even want 0.33?

[ornate wren]

Download mods

[river forge]

You can do that in 0.34 too, I don't think many of em broke

[ornate wren]

How please

[river forge]

https://documentation.beamng.com/tutorials/mods/installing-mods/

[pulsar hawk]

Does anyone know of an example (code snippet or mod) that i can use to connect my vehicles screen .js to a vLUA controller? Or even a geLUA extension would be acceptable as well. My controllers work, but my js isnt receiving my triggers.

[warm sphinx]

Every PBR map has an overlay texture that determines color.

You can still color things individually with a single color overlay for that texture specifically; but it but it will look far less smooth on color transition.

Typically this is done for asphalt roads tho because the hard edge looks accurate for pavement

[pulsar hawk]

i would assume the gauge sweep would be handled by the .js

[slow plinth]

i just realised that this is not #game-discussion-1 sorry

[acoustic ivy]

please help me fix the wheel position

[quick axle]

omg AN120 Hilux

nodemove

[acoustic ivy]

yeahh its about to be done

[unique zealot]

please say you will put it on the forums instead of the site shall not be named

not for me but because the forums lacks any other pickup mods

if you will

[quick axle]

wherre did the model come from btw?

been looking for one for a bit and this one looks quite accurate

[acoustic ivy]

its a secret

[acoustic ivy]

idk man its my first mod and idk what to do with it

tbh i dont wanna talk the mod in here you can just dm me about the mod qna

[unique zealot]

if you just ever do release mods, even ones after this one

always do it on the forums or the repository

[acoustic ivy]

oooooohhh thanks for the suggestion

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[brittle warren]

also use this #mods-faq message and make a thread for it here on discord

[acoustic ivy]

thank you

[brittle warren]

probably this one

[acoustic ivy]

nahhh

[unique zealot]

i am lost about the shading

[acoustic ivy]

this is assetto right?

[brittle warren]

right click and shade autosmooth

[brittle warren]

No

[acoustic ivy]

where is it

[brittle warren]

Sketchfab

[acoustic ivy]

nice

[unique zealot]

already done so and yeah, no change

[brittle warren]

ok go to the right side of blender and click the little green triuangle and go down to geometry data and see if it has custom slit normals if so click clear

[unique zealot]

seems to have fixed it

[brittle warren]

yea custom split normals always breaks everything lol

[unique zealot]

i might choose textures before jbeam

[brittle warren]

yea i would doesnt hurt

[unique zealot]

only issue is

im fucked with it

i know jbeam basics but its so tedious to do

[brittle warren]

i mean i can always help you if u want

[dawn ibex]

thank you so much brother

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[unique zealot]

i did ask subie a few days ago and theres 2 uvs, 0 and 1, 0 being the material and 1 being skins so i think i can get it mostly done

[brittle warren]

I meant with the jbeam lol

[unique zealot]

oh

ig you could tell me whether or not its a good flow or not

im gonna redo it again

although probably not right now but i will ping you when i get it

<@&710084482031550547>

[brittle warren]

I was away for one second what happened lol

[dawn ibex]

someone posted telegram page

[unique zealot]

telegram with a scam link

and i do believe i fucked up the jbeam somehow

[brittle warren]

Looks like your top beams have too much beam strength

[unique zealot]

what beams

[brittle warren]

How you do that lol

[unique zealot]

honestly i have no clue but i did backup

even if its not accurate atm

i am gonna redo that jbeam though, that can be a temp one

[brittle warren]

Yea fine tuning sucks since your shape is so basic you could just make a copy of your object in blender and delete the faces and use it as a jbeam

[unique zealot]

i had this but

idk if it looks good or not for the jbeam

[brittle warren]

yea just needs supports

[unique zealot]

i deleted it already now im questioning my choice

[brittle warren]

lol i do that a lot

[unique zealot]

yeah im gonna call it there and continue probably tomorrow

i'll give you a ping after ive done the basics

[fickle raptor]

what if the mod seems like its too low quality?

[brittle warren]

ight u can also just dm me if u want bro

[brittle warren]

bro there are some really low quality mods on the forums

[unique zealot]

i do prefer it in a chat like this in case anyone else needs it

[unique zealot]

the forums is still better to post it on

[fickle raptor]

any examples?

also, do i just ask for help/contributions/feedback etc.. or redo my mods if they're low quality?

[brittle warren]

i mean im willing to help anyone bro i hewlp people all the time in my server

[fickle raptor]

right i see a lot of people having their mods done by more than 1 person as in assistance for the mod

[brittle warren]

yea i do it without asking for recognition tho im not like that

[unique zealot]

😭

[brittle warren]

Not hating at all just an example its also from 2014 lol

[unique zealot]

that is fair but it reminds me of that motorbike meshslap

[brittle warren]

the one that was a 4 wheel car but with a motorcycle mesh on it?

[unique zealot]

yes

[fickle raptor]

yeah older stuff tended to be made worse than current stuff because we're all just constantly evolving over time

though there was good stuff even back then of course

[unique zealot]

garfield heights

[brittle warren]

True that and i swear some of the old mods were amazing

[brittle warren]

Ive been making a rework for it and i wish i could get ahold of the creator

[unique zealot]

it would be such a shame for that effort only for it to not be released because you cant get permission

[brittle warren]

Swear lol i made it like 4 times bigger and fixed a lot of stuff

[unique zealot]

do you have any screenshots

[brittle warren]

Nah not rn its been on the back burner been working on my old mods ill see if i still have it installed tho

[unique zealot]

fair

[brittle warren]

well i guess i shouldnt have cleared my cache lol all my work is bye bye but it was easy so i can redo it pretty quick

[unique zealot]

i think i did that too, i was trying to make the papers please map

[brittle warren]

well all i got back was the heightmap i made lol

[unique zealot]

damn

[brittle warren]

So im trying to use the biome tool and it seems stuck at 0 percent any advice or troubleshooting tips?

[silent pendant]

Where da grass

I did edits to that map and then completely lost motivation

[brittle warren]

Well I haven't done the whole thing yet it's a 4096x4096 height map gonna do it as I go but can't see to get the stupid biome tool or forest editor tool to work

[brittle warren]

Also I'm using my own terrain material and painting as I go haven't done grass yet

[silent pendant]

oh

[dry cargo]

I don't have a single clue on how to make a car mod is there any guides or anything that may help me make one?

[north gulch]

There’s the official one (kit car) on the beamng website

[dry cargo]

link?

actually i can look

1 question

does it show how to do lighting and jbeam

[north gulch]

I don’t know about lighting but it teaches you about the basics of jbeam

[acoustic ivy]

f this wheels bruh i tried everything but the nodes wont even budge please help

[north gulch]

Front or rear?

[acoustic ivy]

both

[north gulch]

And how did you tried to move the nodes?

[acoustic ivy]

i rescale the car but now everything is done i cant fix the wheels nodes

[acoustic ivy]

changing numbers?

and blender plugin for jbeam too

tried everything but they dont do nothing

[north gulch]

(Basic troubleshooting steps) have you saved the file and reloaded game?

[dry cargo]

man i dont know how any of you do any of this 😭 you guys have talent

[unique zealot]

Start with a part mod like a bumper

[acoustic ivy]

i suck at these nodes thing

[north gulch]

Tbh Beamng’s mod tutorial are quite difficult to understand

[unique zealot]

Yeah i was replying to the other guy

[dry cargo]

also no real guides on yt or anything

[acoustic ivy]

ow

[acoustic ivy]

ye

[dry cargo]

no clue on how to do that

[north gulch]

Probably

[acoustic ivy]

so basically im fucked?

[unique zealot]

https://youtu.be/GL51GpcbI6Y?feature=shared

[dry cargo]

thank you ill check it out

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[unique zealot]

https://youtu.be/w74NJmBfFtg?feature=shared this is a good one too although an hour long

[north gulch]

Fillman86 did some tutorials (I think, I am not sure)

[dry cargo]

he did nothing i understood tho

[north gulch]

Yeah…. It’s tough the firsts times but it will get easier as you will gain practice

[north gulch]

How have you rescaled it?

[acoustic ivy]

nah i dont wanna do that

[north gulch]

Welp 🤷‍♂️

[distant pendant]

1. you shouldn't need to move the front, you want to line the model up with the front and then use node offset on the body rear suspension slot to move the rear into place

[acoustic ivy]

oh i see so i can move the rear but not the front?

[distant pendant]

you can move the front but its not wise to, you need to line the model up with the front axle then use nodemove for the rear

[acoustic ivy]

why is it not nice

[north gulch]

You can also start with skin mods to learn a bit about the file system

[distant pendant]

cause thats the front subframe which also will move the engine placement, driveshaft placement, and various other things that go for the front other than the suspension

[acoustic ivy]

i already moved them 😭

[dry cargo]

perhaps

i was mainly thinking of making basic traffic cars for me and my friends

[distant pendant]

if you want to move them both then you need to go into the body jbeam and add this line of code to the suspension slots.

[dry cargo]

but ill get into learning the small stuff first

[acoustic ivy]

that seems alot of work but alr

[north gulch]

It’s a big first mod tho

[distant pendant]

{"nodeMove":{"x":0.0,"y":0.613,"z":0}}],

like this
(["pickup_suspension_R","pickup_axle_R","Rear Suspension", {"nodeMove":{"x":0.0,"y":0.613,"z":0}}],)

[dry cargo]

yea im going to start off on small stuf

stuff*

[distant pendant]

x moves on x axis, y moves on y axis, and z moves on z axis

[acoustic ivy]

okay ill try this out

[distant pendant]

its general good idea, to always line the mesh up with the front axle and then move the rear into place.

https://tenor.com/view/gi-joe-knowing-is-half-the-battle-knowing-battle-gif-25791425

[acoustic ivy]

thank you if i cant really do nothing ill try this out

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[north gulch]

Your best bet is to learn with small stuff (as you said) and then combine what you learn in different projects

[distant pendant]

if its just a mesh slap, this is the only way you should move the suspension

otherwise your going to break it

[distant pendant]

i don't recommend blender jbeam editor for beginners. it's quite difficult to understand and is a bit wonky at times. If you are not familiar with how to use it, it's very easy to break the jbeam.

I mostly use visual studio code to edit jbeams and then reload the game to see the changes i've made.

[acoustic ivy]

i havent broke a jbeam using it its just wont work or it will work i can say im familiar with it

[distant pendant]

so let me take a guess

[acoustic ivy]

yeah i skipped coding

[distant pendant]

you import the jbeam into blender and you hit import all parts, then you are selecting all parts of jbeam and moving them.

[acoustic ivy]

not really

[distant pendant]

whats your method of trying to move the suspension currently

[acoustic ivy]

i only used jbeam editor plug in for moving the whole suspension

thats it

[tacit halo]

have you guys considered : slot offset

[distant pendant]

well slot offset or node move on the slot is kinda the same yes?

[tacit halo]

thats how this fat fuck has a suspension

[tacit halo]

its just 2 differrent ways to say the same thing, yes

[distant pendant]

you can't really select the entire suspension and move it in the jbeam blender eidotr

[acoustic ivy]

yeah i just did it idk how it worked

[distant pendant]

each part has to be individually selected, then in edit move you select the nodes and then move. and then export and repeat this for each part of the jbeam

selecting it under object and moving them won't do anything

i suggest never doing that for moving suspension, like @tacit halo said and i said earlier, just use nodeoffset

[acoustic ivy]

it will work but only for few things

[distant pendant]

you need to listen

[acoustic ivy]

alr

yeah yeah

[distant pendant]

im saving you the trouble of trying to do it the hard pointless way

[acoustic ivy]

is it this line?

[tacit halo]

no the node offset should be on the body/frame

[acoustic ivy]

okay thank you

[tacit halo]

this will only offset the wheel not the entire suspension

[acoustic ivy]

i see

thank you @tacit halo and @distant pendant the slot works

[distant pendant]

you didn't leave it under that "front wheels slot" right?

you went into the body jbeam and added it yes?

[acoustic ivy]

rear only

[distant pendant]

no what i am saying is you didn't add nodeoffset to the wheels did you?

[acoustic ivy]

ya

its alr in there

[distant pendant]

can you show me a pic?

[jagged cradle]

anyone know how to fix this?

[brittle warren]

Apply all transforms on ur body in blender

Also why u got wheels attached to the body

[jagged cradle]

I am still at the start I will remove them later, but I wanted to fix the rotation first

[brittle warren]

Yea just apply all transforms in blender

[jagged cradle]

but somehow it always shows up like that in beamng no matter how I rotate it in blender

[brittle warren]

You have to apply all transforms click on your car then object towards the top then apply and then all transforms

[jagged cradle]

I tried it a few times with different directions sadly not working

[dry cargo]

so anybody got a idea why my mod cant find almost any part

says missing flexbody for almost everything

[jagged cradle]

in blender the car is perfectly aligned with the etk i series but in beamng it turns 90° up

[distant pendant]

cntrl a, apply transform and rotation

in blender

even though you move it in blender, it won't apply till you apply all transformations and rotations and re export it

[distant pendant]

because the objects names aren't matching what the flexbodies are calling for

[jagged cradle]

where do I apply transform?

[dry cargo]

they are, after i updated DAE it broke

[brittle warren]

Bro me and Badman have told u already

[dry cargo]

even restoring the mod to a earlier ver

[distant pendant]

select all, in blender, hit cntrl A - apply all transformation and rotations

[dry cargo]

its the same

[distant pendant]

show me the flexbodies in the jbeam and the model names in blender

[distant pendant]

thats collection

show me the mesh name

and show me entirety of it. not just a line

[jagged cradle]

Thank you guys 🙏

[dry cargo]

what do you mean by that

[distant pendant]

show me the whole thing.

[brittle warren]

also the second pic isnt a flexbody its just a jbeam name

[dry cargo]

this?

[distant pendant]

one second, at work

all this is slots not flexbodies

[dry cargo]

gimme a sec

where do i find them

[distant pendant]

search for "flexbodies"

[dry cargo]

thats just body jbeam tho

[distant pendant]

correct you need to do it for each jbeam

[dry cargo]

tho all worked properly

and on other testers it works

[distant pendant]

i suggest you watch this tutorial

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

a car mod is the last mod you want to learn on how to mod.

always start small first.

[dry cargo]

i am a modder for 2 years now

i was tought to mod by a pro

[distant pendant]

then your good

[dry cargo]

i have expirience is what i want to say

[dry cargo]

but i dont know how to fix this

[distant pendant]

all i suggest, is double check your materials, your naming, and your flexbody callings

[brittle warren]

That's a straight lie if u don't know where flexbodies are

[distant pendant]

they need to be exact

[dry cargo]

i know in other jbeams, never looked for them in the body jbeam

[distant pendant]

all jbeams are setup the same

[brittle warren]

Its the same in every jbeam

[dry cargo]

ik but other jbeams dont have this much slots

because the body has almost all of the slots

[distant pendant]

all i'd say is double check everything

[brittle warren]

also make sure your mesh actually exported

[dry cargo]

mesh did export fully

welp found the problem

its not naming, nor some other stuff

re exported for the 5th time and it works now

thanks guys!

[distant pendant]

always double check

[quick axle]

enable JSON with comments

ah didn’t realise it was fixed

[dry cargo]

not fully

some parts still dont appear

but i have help from a unnamed hero

[distant pendant]

on these attach to body nodes is the first set of nodes (fx4r) referencing the subframe and the 2nd set of nodes (f10rr) referncing the body?

[quick axle]

hard to denote from just these images, do you have the jbeam file for the body as well?

if those nodes are in it then yeah

[distant pendant]

all im trying to find out if the 2nd node names are the attachment nodes for the first set of node names

[quick axle]

yeah but to do that you need to check if those nodes exist on the body jbeam

[distant pendant]

i dont think your understanding what i am saying

all i want to know if the 2nd series of node names are the attachment nodes.

not if they belong on the body

[quick axle]

by second series do you mean f10rr, f12rr, f1rr and so on and so forth?

like the ones past the comma

[distant pendant]

yes

the first nodes are present on the suspension so i know its not those

[quick axle]

well then those will be part of the structure of the body, which will have a beam connecting them to the nodes on the subframe jbeam

so they'll be defined in the body jbeam which is likely in a separate file, and these beams connect the two

[distant pendant]

thank you

thats what i needed to know

[half sleet]

im working on a ford bronco mod and i cant get the frame to show up someone help please

[brittle warren]

check flexbodies and are you using vs code with the jbeam editor and jbeam syntax to check for errors in the jbeam

[half sleet]

i have the blender jbeam editor and this is my first mod so idk what the rest of that is

[brittle warren]

Download vs code and then opewn it and click the bottom thing and search jbeam and install them both then open your jbeam

[half sleet]

done

[brittle warren]

ok now open the jbeam and at the bottom there is and errors tab check it

[half sleet]

0 for each

[brittle warren]

hmm what vehicle did u start with as a base and what does ur jbeam look like

[half sleet]

i used the d series standard frame as the base

and you wanna see the jbeam in blender or the actual code

[brittle warren]

Actual code

[brittle warren]

you need to add a folder inside of bronco_r named vehicles and then one inside of it called pickup then put your jbeam in there

[half sleet]

nothing

[brittle warren]

well are you trying to load it through the pickup ?

[half sleet]

im trying to make a whole new vehicle

the bronco r baja truck

[brittle warren]

then it neds its own main jbeam and an info file and a couple other tthings

[half sleet]

what things go into the info file and i already modified the j beam to fit my frame

[brittle warren]

i mean you need a main jbeam like just bronco.jbeam like the pickup has its slot type is main you also need a default pc configuration file a lot of stuff so ytou best bet is to copy stuff from the pickup and rename things

[half sleet]

what all do i need

[brittle warren]

um the main pickup.jbeam default.pc and inside the default.pc see what the default config says and find the info.jason for that file and if i am remembering correctly thats all and the main info.json

[polar yarrow]

Would anyone know a particular way to shift all the suspension back on the barstow?

[brittle warren]

Use not move on the suspension slot in the frame jbeam

Anyone know why my materials wont paint onto the terrain

[polar yarrow]

Not move?

I'm gonna need a bit of help

[brittle warren]

like this where it says pickup suspension r

[polar yarrow]

Ohh alr, wait does this work on the unibody Barstow? I did this for my Soliad SUV mod

[brittle warren]

It works on any vehicle or slot

[polar yarrow]

Its not working for mine, its just removing the body altogether

[brittle warren]

You must have a syntax error then did you type everything correct

[polar yarrow]

Exactly how you had it, just set the Y to 0

[brittle warren]

That's from the beam ng documentation so it def should work fine unless you have a syntax error

[polar yarrow]

Oh, I probably did something wrong on my end then

[polar yarrow]

Does this look half right?

[brittle warren]

Remove the bracket after rear suspension

It will be Suspension", {nodeMove

[polar yarrow]

Oh, holy that worked

Thanks! I'll def be using this from now on. Thanks for your time :>

[brittle warren]

Syntax errors are fun lol

YW

[polar yarrow]

I've taken 2 coding classes and still cant understand it. The pain

This is def gonna save me time

[brittle warren]

It can mess some things up but mostly will be fine

[polar yarrow]

Yea for what I'm doing it'll be just fine

[tepid nymph]

You need the right plug-in and program. Since I’ve switched to visual studio code and use the jbeam extension I’ve never had syntax errors again

[brittle warren]

well you can still have syntax errors with no error message in vs code ive been using it since the jbeam plugin came out Its not a one stop[ fix for syntax errors

[inner heart]

what syntax error does it not caught

unless you meant general json syntax error then u can just put vscode to read jbeam as jsonc

[brittle warren]

quite a lot i spend a lot of time helping people with syntax errors who have the addon

[inner heart]

you should list a few then shove it in an issue in the plugin's github

[brittle warren]

i will when i have time cause i do spend a lot of time helping people with em cause it happens a lot i guess ill write them down as i see them from now on

[river forge]

You are missing some folders, last part of the file path should be /unpacked/modname/vehicles/carname/ parts go here

Also your frames internal name seems to just be Bronco_R, I'd suggest making that Bronco_R_Frame and reserving Bronco_R for the main jbeam

[tepid nymph]

I’ve spent a lot of time with jbeam, even before using visual studio code so that’s probably why it helped for me.

[brittle warren]

yea im mostly able to get everything without errors but other people man sometimes they cant even when u tell them exactly what to do

[dawn ibex]

im sorry i cant help more but uh do you have any lighting? are you sure its not painting and you just cant see it? if you try no texture, does anything happen (warning_material)?

[lime loom]

I'd highly recommend using the vscode extension for jbeam. It'll alert you of jbeam specific syntax and formatting errors.

[crystal wraith]

Anyone know how to make really nice neon lights like the ones in the showroom map mod? Like are you able to import lights from blender to beamNG and they’ll work?

[brittle warren]

No you can't import them at all. And they are made using emissive materials and spot light props

[crystal wraith]

Okay thanks, because all I’ve been using is point lights and emissive anyway, so thanks

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[crystal wraith]

How do i make walls (in blender) on a building, not see through, (from inside it appears as a closed room, but from freecam outside the walls are one sided)

[unique zealot]

add the solidify modifier

[crystal wraith]

thanks

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[crystal wraith]

sorry, where do i do this?

[crystal wraith]

thanks

[crystal wraith]

didnt work, maybe i did something wrong?

[distant pendant]

apply the modifier

before exporting

[unique zealot]

in object mode hover your mouse and press control A

[crystal wraith]

ok

[crystal wraith]

Applied and still not working

did alot of tests today so maybe im missing something cus my brain is fried

[unique zealot]

why do you want to have it closed entirely in the first place, I dont think it matters that much if you can see in from the outside which based on the images, you wont

[crystal wraith]

the light comes in

[unique zealot]

click "face orientation" in the middle menu in the top right in blender

[crystal wraith]

okay

[unique zealot]

if its blue, it's ok, if its red, the faces are inverted

ok select the faces and press shift N

the red ones

[crystal wraith]

i did, it didnt do anything

[unique zealot]

open the menu and select "Inside"

[crystal wraith]

sorry, what menu?

[unique zealot]

after you press shift N

[crystal wraith]

nothing happens when i press shift N

[unique zealot]

press it again and then click the option after it shows up

[crystal wraith]

absolutely nothing happens whenever i press it

[unique zealot]

press it again

[crystal wraith]

ive pressed it like 25 times, my man lol

[unique zealot]

did you select the faces first?

[crystal wraith]

yes, theyre selected

[unique zealot]

ok so press shift N and then select the box that says "inside"

[crystal wraith]

my man, nothing happens when i press shift n 😭

[unique zealot]

have you selected the box?

[crystal wraith]

yes the faces are selected

[unique zealot]

the box named "inside"

[crystal wraith]

my man

no menu pops up after pressing shift N, with the faces selected.

[unique zealot]

it appears in the bottom left

[crystal wraith]

okay, but for me its not appearing anywhere

[unique zealot]

i am pressing shift N here

and nothing happens until I select "inside"

[crystal wraith]

idk how many times i need to tell you.. that box does not pop up.. in the corner...

[unique zealot]

record what youre doing

[crystal wraith]

okay one second

[unique zealot]

its in this menu btw if you want to use that

[crystal wraith]

couldve started with that 😀

[unique zealot]

its the same result

[crystal wraith]

also, saying i had to be in edit mode probably wouldve helped

okay ive pressed inside, theyre still red

[unique zealot]

record what youre doing this time

[unique zealot]

it doesnt look like you have them fully selected, press 3 and then do it again, or go into xray mode with Z and do it that way

[distant pendant]

use face selection for and manually select all the outside walls then recal

[brittle warren]

vertex select mode wont work have to use face select mode like badman said

[crystal wraith]

like that, correct

[distant pendant]

your not listening

use face selection and select only the outside walls and then recal

[crystal wraith]

im listening just fine, im not understanding

[unique zealot]

yeah no, listen to badman and also this time dont do the inside

that was if it never worked the first time it should turn blue

[distant pendant]

since you've selected the entire thing you've inverted the inner walls to red and the outter walls to blue now

where was if you select only outter walls to turn them blue only

[crystal wraith]

okay, theyre blue now

[distant pendant]

and the inner walls are blue?

[crystal wraith]

sorry i was broad, the outside is now blue and the inside is red

[distant pendant]

undo your previous actions untill the outside walls are red again

dont go into wireframe and highlight all

stay in mesh view, and manually select all the exterior walls and then recaluclate

outside exterior walls

my bad*

[crystal wraith]

when i do this, the interior then turns red and the outside turns blue

the wall is one big texture, the inside and outside are not seperate, could this be why

sorry if im frusturating you, i know very little about blender

[distant pendant]

you put a solidify modifer on yes?

[crystal wraith]

correct

[distant pendant]

does the modifier still show up when selecting the mesh?

[distant pendant]

your fine, people did the same for me when i was learning

[distant pendant]

select mesh, go the modifier you have on the walls.

and take a pic of the modifer that you have for the wall

[distant pendant]

hit this down arrow and hit apply modifier

[brittle warren]

click control a when hovering over the modifier also works

[distant pendant]

then try again by selecting only the side walls

[crystal wraith]

its darked out, so i think its applied already

[distant pendant]

it'll go away when its applied

[brittle warren]

cant be in edit mode

[distant pendant]

^

[crystal wraith]

ohh okay, yea i got it let me try selecting the walls again

[unique zealot]

it will disappear when it applies

[gleaming cipher]

Gotta love when this happen

[distant pendant]

when what happens

[brittle warren]

What happened looks fine to me?

[crystal wraith]

how do i exactly select just the outside walls, becasue when selecting it appears to select the inside aswell, since its one big connected texture i assume

[distant pendant]

do you know how to make it so your selecting faces instead of verts?

[crystal wraith]

no

[distant pendant]

press 3 in edit mode to select faces

then manually click on the outside red faces, hold shift to select more than 1 face at a time

[crystal wraith]

okay, i see

[gleaming cipher]

All the textures

[gleaming cipher]

all the .001 textures

I fixed it tho..

[brittle warren]

well according to the pic u sent there werent any at all

[gleaming cipher]

I meant these (Materials)

All the Green had .001

[distant pendant]

just do bulk rematerial

[gleaming cipher]

huh? Thats a thing?

[brittle warren]

Well you cant see that in the pic u sent whatsoever

[crystal wraith]

okay i did it, but the outside sill appears blue and the inside red, if it really comes down to it i can just put the map inside of a large box or something

[distant pendant]

when i get home send me the file i'll take alook at it

[crystal wraith]

okay

[distant pendant]

it looks like your solidify didn't solidfy so its still just one thing mesh

[crystal wraith]

ah

can i just send it now so i dont forget later

[distant pendant]

yes

always good to take a break

[gleaming cipher]

Gotta do this shit again bro wtff

Why so many .001-.007

[brittle warren]

quit importing seperate colladas with the same material put em in one dae

[distant pendant]

you can also, just go prefences, clean unsuded data blocks to remove any unsed materials

[brittle warren]

well when he imports it he has to go manually change the names back then he can but theres a script in here somewhere that does that for you most of the time

[gleaming cipher]

Script?

[brittle warren]

Yea or just do it manually and make ur dae the right way and you never have to keep redoing it ive never seen someone have this much trouble with it before

[unique zealot]

🥲 im procrastinating so badly here naming all the nodes

[brittle warren]

yea lol node naming sucks

[unique zealot]

the sooner the better

ive renamed all the nodes and

why isnt the blender plugin exporting them correctly

[brittle warren]

whats it doing

[unique zealot]

i will record it

and look at the detais like the time

[brittle warren]

ight

[unique zealot]

basically what i said, it's not exporting

am I missing something?

i do know about the nodes and the tris but i just want to export it as it is

[brittle warren]

Ok you made that from scratch right that version of the exporter wont do that i use this version for that https://github.com/50thomatoes50/BlenderBeamNGExport/releases

[unique zealot]

it's not 100% from scratch per se

[brittle warren]

i mean if it has an original jbeam

[unique zealot]

the structured jbeam file was the same but i rebuilt the nodes from it

[unique zealot]

nonetheless

here is a thanks, for bot purposes

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[brittle warren]

Lol use the one i send trust me it will work just have to give it strngth values and stuff

[unique zealot]

i need to attach the actual upfit to the frame first

among other things

[brittle warren]

well you need nodes for that lol

[unique zealot]

it did export the nodes

its just the frame jbeam i need to get

[brittle warren]

Yea but only like 8

[unique zealot]

10

would this one be a good place to put node strengths?

[brittle warren]

well the beam strength but yea id look at how the flatbed mounts and kinda reverse engineer wher the beams from it go

[unique zealot]

also, which nodes would be best to attach to, the left & right or middle?

[brittle warren]

i would do all of em do the left to left right to right and middle to left and right

[unique zealot]

i was thinking that

need to lower the dae lol

[brittle warren]

just a bit lol

[unique zealot]

lets get the triangles first