modding-general

[brittle warren]

Beam spring beam damp and beam stregth in the jbeam

[full rune]

Hello, im trying to make some shaved front and rear bumpers for the miramar, i have both the dae and jbeam made, however for some reason they do not appear in game and im not getting any errors

[mint vortex]

i want to make custom exhausts and idk like turbo kits and etc for engines in beamng. What apps do i need to do this and are there any good videos covering this?? i looked on youtube but couldnt find alot

[winter aurora]

So i did this and my front bumper is still folding like paper, what do i do

[brittle warren]

Does it have enough support beams

[winter aurora]

as in modeled ones in blender or like, beams in NodeBeam?

[brittle warren]

Well never use node beam its outdated and actively advised not to be used. Use vs code with the jbeam addont and the blender jbeam addon.

And the beams in the jbeam not blender

[full rune]

Could Someone Look At This And Help me figure out why its not working ?

[digital turret]

Greetings, drivers. I'm a graduate student and GA at Pratt University NYC in the MS, Information Experience Design program. We're using BeamNG.Drive as our driving simulator to allow our graduate design students to explore the possibilites for in-vehicle multimodal (digital, voice, haptic, and gesture) experiences. If you have any experience creating or modding the UI for interesting dashboard apps, I'd love to hear from you; any insights or experiences would be very appreciated. Feel free to PM. Thanks very much!

[neon ember]

Hi guys the collada exporter is a bit buggy in blender so there's a better collada exporter that will work for recent blender version 4.3. just in case anyone is interested https://github.com/hkunz/collada-exporter/releases/tag/v1.10.12

[fiery notch]

Can you reuse the same object in a model at all?
I need to use 18 XL cargo boxes in a trailer and there are only 16 unique normally, so I thought if I split it into 3 slots then I can reuse them - but it still doesnt work.
Should I just include a clone of a cargo box in my mod, like adding a cargobox_xl_90_degrees_Z box or smt?

[river forge]

Yep, that'll work. The model can be the same for all, you just need a 17th and 18th jbeam

[fiery notch]

yeah I just made additonal copies changing just the names from A to F etc.

[opal sky]

Can anyone find something wrong with this JBeam? Ive been fighting with it for an hour. Wont show up ingame at all.

[river forge]

You're missing the top part of the slots section ("slots": [) on these parts

Fixed version

You could use a program like Visual Studio Code (set to json - or jbeam with a plugin) to highlight errors like these

[deft wave]

i used a satellite photo as my terrain texture but it's blurrier than it should be and it's hard to use it as a reference

this is the image by itself

the part that's visible in beamng is the area with some buildings at the bottom middle

[opal sky]

thank you!

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @river forge (current: #2 - 361)

[deft wave]

oh and another thing when importing to beam the heightmap values are adjustable but idk how to match it to the irl height

[warped snow]

is there a way to have multiple separate meshes/objects in one .dae file? (ping me)

[river forge]

Yes, if you have multiple objects in Blender, it will export them all when you export to dae

[warped snow]

but if i have LOD models for each object it doesn't seem to work for me?

[river forge]

No clue, haven't messed with LODs in Beam

[warped snow]

okay, thanks anyways!

[little portal]

Whats the res on the original?

8k by 8k

Whats the max res for beam

4k by 4k is the max

Answering my own questions damn

So yeah the inage should be 4096x4096

https://www.beamng.com/threads/how-to-make-huge-terrain-area-with-square-size1.90627/#:~:text=BeamNG supports up to 4096x4096.

[deft wave]

yeah and it's stretched onto a 16km by 16km map 😭, but I realized that I might be able to make the map a lot smaller so I'll try that to see if I can get the quality up and make it easier to work on

this is pretty much the only part I'm trying to recreate

[indigo silo]

my game won't open

[night compass]

This is what I mean. This is just an example image.

If I move the camera up/down or left/right the image remains the same, the other colors don't display (image doesn't change as you move camera up/down)

I want to see how to display the other colors

[deft wave]

i got the size of the map from 16x16 to 8x8 and it's looking much more recognizable and the quality is way better

[ocean epoch]

can someone please make a b7 rs4

[little portal]

Out of curiosity, do you know how big the reference picture is irl?

[halcyon spear]

How to I put the new lighting onto the vehicles?

[ocean epoch]

chat acctually died

[brittle warren]

Noone here takes requests

[deft wave]

yeah it took a while to figure out but i found the size of the height map in pixels and it's 2m per pixel

i guess i could still double check with QGIS

[crystal wraith]

anyone know why my decal road editor gets huge when up close but normal when backed up

[plush goblet]

Working on a Superbird/Charger Daytona style wing for the Moonhawk as my first mod because it seemed simple enough. I got the mesh in game but the UV mapping confuses me. It inherits from the Moonhawk's skin as I want, but not from where I've mapped it to (on top of the trunk so that it theoretically copies the trunk pattern, at least for testing). I have no idea where it's pulling its UV from, so a little help would be much appreciated!

[brittle warren]

the uv map for the skin has to be the second uv map in the uv map section of blender

[brittle warren]

looks like u just zoomed in on it really far

[crystal wraith]

i didnt

thats like 10 feet forward from the second image

but, it somehow fixed itself of course

[plush goblet]

Ah yep, that was it. Thanks!
Is the first UV map used for anything at all or should I just use the second one?

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @brittle warren (current: #19 - 100)

[brittle warren]

first uv map is used for the base color and stuff so it is used

[plush goblet]

ohhhh gotcha

first one's for colors, second one's for skin

thanks!

[brittle warren]

yea pretty much

[plush goblet]

Related, what's the current way to do the beams/nodes/triangles part of the jbeam? I've seen references to BNE/NodeBeam Editor but it seems to have been removed at some point?

[brittle warren]

never use NBE it hasnt been updated since 2015, use vs code with the jbeam addons in the extensions tab and there is also a jbeam addon for blender

[plush goblet]

Gotcha. Are those in the game files somewhere or do I get them elsewhere?

[brittle warren]

you have top download them just look up vs code its by microsoft the in it there is an extensions tab click it and search jbeam....... The blender addon is from beam ng just have to search on google beam ng blender addon

[plush goblet]

Sounds good, thanks again for the help!

[warm solar]

how do you use the automatic performance thingy for configs

[river forge]

Check out this message #1259896099225866321 message

[neon ember]

can i keyframe static objects to move in beamng? like i noticed there are some videos of a press squashing vehicles

i already ran several tests using armatures and also just plain animating objects and their Colmesh-1 but nothing works. So I guess the only way is to animate the object directly in the game?

[river forge]

I would assume those are jbeamed props, like the bollard, spinner, etc. found in the vanilla game
https://documentation.beamng.com/official_content/props/

[neon ember]

ah thanks for the reply. how can i animate them? is there some keyframing feature in beamng?

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @river forge (current: #2 - 363)

[river forge]

Not as far as I know. The props make use of the same system as cars, called jbeam. There is some info about it here:
https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/vehicle/intro_jbeam/

[neon ember]

thank you. yeah i did some tinkering with jbeam and i also used the jbeam addon in blender, cool that they added this addon. so i guess these props with the squashing for example were probably just vehicles controlled with a recordmovement script back and forth. but on second though must have been some powerful engine to push and squash even trucks

its sad though that we can't animate the Colmesh-1 objects, would have been really cool feature

[crystal wraith]

anyone know why when trying to make a mission of any type, the game will just NOT let me place the start marker

like i cant even get the option to place one

nvm

ok got the menu open

but i cant place it still, its always doing this

[dry cargo]

hello
im not developing anything, but i have a question. does anyone know how to fix the windows in the B-Series Off-Road Semi mod? it seems like the textures are missing ore something like that

[crystal wraith]

download legacy t series mod

anyone know why this gap is here for my race?

decal road is one big loop, so that shouldnt be the issue

[crystal wraith]

how do i make more than 9 racers

wont let me go any higher

[river forge]

They use hydros for movement, they're beams that can change their length based on a certain input
https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/vehicle/sections/hydros/
As for their strength, a jbeam can be as weak or strong as you want it to be ;)

[bright holly]

how could I swap scintilla parts on a d series ? like I want the subframes of it for the d series but idk how to do

[thorny rune]

it's not as easy as "fixing" them, but i can tell you how

unpack the mod and get the b-series .dae into blender, then isolate all of the parts that are missing textures

i assume the b-series uses t-series textures, so, change the materials of the meshes to what the glass material on the t-series is called

adjust the UV maps, export the .dae back into the mod, and that (should) fix the problem

[proper zephyr]

Does anyone know how to make parking spaces work? I add a parking location in the editor, turn on parked cars in the settings, re-enter the game, go to the map, add traffic, but parked cars do not appear

[dry cargo]

okay, thanks 😄

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @thorny rune (current: #324 - 8)

[crystal wraith]

Or just install the legacy t series mod, that’ll fix it too

[thorny rune]

or that lol

[crystal wraith]

Anybody know how to make lights (point lights and spotlight) in a map turn on at night but off during the day

[brittle warren]

There is a main.level lua u need I posted how here or in modding for dummy's trynna find it. But you make a sim group and add it to the lua in a certain part

[crystal wraith]

Oh boy lol, let me know when you find that post

[brittle warren]

Here it is

[crystal wraith]

I see thanks I’ll take a look

[earnest agate]

Anyone know how to port a prop from one map to another?

[brittle warren]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcDCk5Fycgg

[distant pendant]

i was just thinking of how to do this and i click here and here you are posting this gem

you da man broken

[brittle warren]

Lol YW theres also a tool to do it but its better to learn the hard way first

[distant pendant]

what's the tool way?

[brittle warren]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rExRwqA11co

[distant pendant]

Ty

[earnest agate]

mildly oversized

[brittle warren]

Nope perfect lol

[earnest agate]

Anyone know how to scale down assets?

I got the textures to work but I cant seem to get the size down

[brittle warren]

You can either use the scale tool where the move tool is or you can use the inspector on the right side and there is a section called scale and u can change those numbers

[earnest agate]

Thank you, now the tracks arent empty anymore :D

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @brittle warren (current: #18 - 102)

[earnest agate]

All I need to do is just find the lower halfs materials

which should be somewhat easy now

[brittle warren]

yea lol it should be

[earnest agate]

Should look like this once I get them.

[bright holly]

can someone help me with thatt please ?

[brittle warren]

Thats way harder than just explaining it in chat also the dseries has coil over suspension so why use the subframes from the scintilla

[bright holly]

im making a mid engine widebody d series so I wanted to use the scintilla subframes

[brittle warren]

Well realistically your gonna have to redo the whole dseries frame jbeam to even make it somewhat similar in mounting points but its just like you would swap anything just copy the jbeams snd the meshes and put them in ur mod and go from there on connecting things

[bright holly]

okay thanks for the help !

[night compass]

@river forge this isn't dynamic mirrors but I was wondering how to manually use a cubemap for somewhat a similar effect

[crystal wraith]

how do i get to my map path from here

for sounds

pasting the path didnt work

[brittle warren]

levels

[crystal wraith]

ignore how stupid i am

damn.

[brittle warren]

happens to us all lol]

[crystal wraith]

this is about how well my race setup is going on my map 😭

anyone know how to have the other ai on a race have random colors

when using a custom config

[earnest agate]

Anyone know how to fix this?

[crystal wraith]

anyone know why my material just... disapeared... ingame

its in the folder but nowhere to be found

i was LITERALLY about to release the map

im gonna go insane

reloaded LUA, restarted game

nothing works

whyyyyyyyyyy i was literally about to be done after hours

i didnt even touch the map, i was messing with the god damn race mission and deleted one file that had NOTHING to do with materials

[ruby kestrel]

editor moment

[crystal wraith]

hilarious

[ruby kestrel]

theres like 4 different actual causes, and then at times it will just do it randomly to make you work harder. It's stupid

[brittle warren]

Remake it lol is it just one materials?

[crystal wraith]

i have multiple things placed, i cant just remake the entire map

id have to start completely over

[ruby kestrel]

you'll have to do the materials in the files instead of through the in game material editor

[brittle warren]

remaking a couple materials isnt that hard?

[ruby kestrel]

in my experience the material editor just doesnt even work, it's a temporary solution thats mainly used to test different textures and different values so you know what to input in the actual file

[crystal wraith]

this is an assetto port

[ruby kestrel]

it didnt delete the textures, you just have to remap them

[brittle warren]

And all u need to do is make the materials in the json file its not to hard

[crystal wraith]

okay, i did it, i never said it was hard, just didnt know what to do

now im getting this error in my race

ai is full gas but not moving and my camera is frozen

stg mission editor can never ever work right

[crystal wraith]

this leads to me needing to restart the game

i cant get the console because it moves too fast

[brittle warren]

the log file in ur user folder has the same info that the console has

[crystal wraith]

i may be slow, whats the path for the log, cant find it

[crystal wraith]

its not just in the main folder

oh

i thought you meant the other directory

[crystal wraith]

im not sure what to look for, nothing makes sense

in the log

i cant pastebin it becasue its too big

forgot i can do this duhh

[brittle warren]

well its layed out the same way as the console just not red lol and green lol just look through the endish until you see warnings or errors

[crystal wraith]

well it makes a new line like every milesecond so idk how really

idk what to ss theres so much

[brittle warren]

Im not sure id say clear ur cache but then ur gonna lose ur map the way u do it

[crystal wraith]

yea

[brittle warren]

Looks like its all thew same error in the race.lua

[crystal wraith]

you saying this helped me

I remade the race, and deleted the old one
but for some reason it still was using the old one, even though it was wiped off my pc

so i remade the race again, and it works now

its working now

[river forge]

Why ping me for that? I have no idea

[tepid sable]

why the spoiler doesn't appear ? 🤔

and yes I restarted the game several times

[earnest agate]

Anyone know how to make this texture stop resetting to the white one every time I launch the map?

Have to manually put it on via the editor every time

[river forge]

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

[tepid sable]

No

there aren't any

[dry cargo]

could somebody teach me how to edit beamng cars useing blender

[river forge]

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

[keen notch]

thanks

[warped snow]

is there a way to reload map that im working on in worldeditor?

[inland harness]

Working on a mod for the T-Series, anyone know what would cause my rear brakes to not work? I've switched to non-air brakes front and rear, all four wheels show in the brake torque graph, but rear wheels aren't actually braking and don't show in the brake thermal debug.

[inland harness]

Do you have nodes in the group "xt_spoiler"?

[tepid sable]

yes

[inland harness]

Hmm, I'd assume you re-exported the .dae, and verified you have the part selected in the config. I would have to look at more of the JBeam to try and get an idea.

[tepid sable]

if you want to look in detail here's the file

[river forge]

And the .dae?

[tepid sable]

in fact it's the spoiler of the basic 200bx that I fixed on the body part and not on the trunk.

[tepid sable]

The .dae seems normal do you think the problem could come from there?

I've re-exported it many times and it still doesn't work.

[inland harness]

Origin for the spoiler is the same as everything else? Also I'd remove the trunkCoupler code from the JBeam and see what happens.

[river forge]

That shouldn't affect it

[tepid sable]

the spoiler is in position 0

and ok I'll try to delete it

[river forge]

Your scale is off, try applying all transforms

[inland harness]

Yup that could be it, but also with the trunkCoupler code, I've had unused code in a JBeam cause some weird stuff, so I usually remove stuff like that just in case.

[river forge]

It's not unused, it makes the trunk latch act like it should with more weight added to the trunk (aka the weight of the spoiler)

[tepid sable]

okay

doesen't work

for trunkcoupler

[river forge]

I could take a look if you want, if you're alright with sending over the entire mod

[tepid sable]

🥲

[tepid sable]

yes in mp
The mod looks like crap lol

[river forge]

Yes there is :P

[tepid sable]

ooohhhh

[river forge]

After assigning a material:

[tepid sable]

thankssssss so much

yeepee

[brittle warren]

What are you making?

[tepid sable]

I've never had this problem before

[tepid sable]

low poly car ps1 style

[inland harness]

Need some low poly rims and tires to complete the look. lol

[tepid sable]

it's my first mod i made a year ago i'm improving it to publish it to my friends

[brittle warren]

Yea lol i hate low poly but if ur going for it make some flat rims with pics as the material like old games

[tepid sable]

🙃

original wheels

I especially like low poly crashes 😆

[brittle warren]

Looks like a burnout game lol

[tepid sable]

mod size is 6mb
for potatos pc

[tepid sable]

yea 😄

[twin tapir]

i fr dont understand textures,maps etc
can someone dumb it down for me

[brittle warren]

Like the uv map?

[twin tapir]

normals,uv and colours maps

[brittle warren]

https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/materials/materials_1.5/

Then uv mapping just look up how to uv map in blender

[twin tapir]

"dumb it down"

[brittle warren]

There is no dumbing it down lol its not something that can be dumbed down the docs explain it as best as anyone can lol

[inland harness]

Anyone know what causes brakes on powered wheels to keep rising in temp even in neutral and no parking brake applied?

[brittle warren]

I've seen that before on some mods but i cant remember what the cause was.

[crystal wraith]

can anyone tell me why my pacenotes are not on here

also upon starting the rallystage, i cannot go anywhere

[hushed bridge]

anyone know what the asphalt_prepped groundmodel is

[inland harness]

I'd assume dragstrip

[hushed bridge]

oh ok then i better not use that

[crystal wraith]

anyone?

[crystal wraith]

would anyone know how to make a soft collision, sorta like tire walls

[brittle warren]

Dont they use jbeams? or am i wrong on that one or is it a mesh road set to like mud or something?

[crystal wraith]

they may, im not sure

ill try the mesh road rq

[brittle warren]

try opening west coast and click on one?

[crystal wraith]

well im in the middle of something, and i will, i wasnt sure if there was an actual way to

[brittle warren]

Im doing it one seck

[crystal wraith]

lmk what you find out

[brittle warren]

the tire walls are forest items

[crystal wraith]

gotcha, ill figure it out somehow

[dull carbon]

I am having issues with extreme lag whenever I try and paint terrain in world editor, any fix for this?
my game is fine otherwise, just when i paint (doesnt matter what brush size) it drops to zero frames for a minute then works fine again

[brittle warren]

What is your sqaure size for your map

[dull carbon]

square size is 0.300

[brittle warren]

what is your actual map size also and are you using pbr

[dull carbon]

how would i check the actual map size? and I am not using pbr

[brittle warren]

what was the size of the height map you imported

[dull carbon]

the maxHeight shows 2048

[brittle warren]

well here a better question what are your pc specs

[dull carbon]

RTX 2070
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
32 GB RAM

ive been able to paint terrain just fine before, but on the map i am specifically on, it lags insanely bad whenever i try and paint at all

[brittle warren]

hmm its may just be because of how small your sqaure size is it is doing a lot at one time even if you make the brush small i know the smaller sqaure size i have the worse it is

[dull carbon]

well, even at brush size one it freezes for 30 seconds any time i left click

[brittle warren]

Mine does that too when my sqaure size is small i think its just a game limitation

[dull carbon]

idk why but any other map that's this size that ive worked on, it doesnt have this issue

[brittle warren]

are they all sqaure size of .3 also

[dull carbon]

i can check

[dull carbon]

yeah, i found another and it works fine

weird

[brittle warren]

Hmm thats odd then

[dull carbon]

beam is just like that sometimes lol

[crystal wraith]

Is there any way of stopping beamng from deleting my god damn materials, I’m tired of manually entering stuff into the json

[brittle warren]

um are you saving everything?

[crystal wraith]

Most of this was easily fixable but some I need to do manually and I’m getting tired of it

[crystal wraith]

Always

[dull carbon]

the city of no texture

i wish you luck my friend

[crystal wraith]

The light orange I can fix easy, the dark orange I need to enter manually Its really starting to piss me off

That’s an old image I got off for the night

[brittle warren]

well i mean you normally have to do materials manually its just when your porting maps doe they come in automatically because of how the models are since you import an fbx into blender it knows the materials and the images so when you export them blender copiews those images to the folder. Normally it doesnt work like that so be thankfull some work right lol

[crystal wraith]

Yea I guess, still annoying tho

[dry cargo]

this dont work ive tryed

[brittle warren]

Then your just gonna have to learn how to model in general

[wispy needle]

do you guys know how to make a horsepower gauge?

like what function it would use

(speedo = wheelspeed, tacho = rpm)

[glossy grail]

Is there anyone that could tell me how to get the heightmap of some bigger area in Europe, exactly in Poland. I tried in many ways like terrain.party but the site is just broken, Polish official website of heightmap of country, but it was limited to only 7 square km (I would want like 180, 15x15 km or smaller) and even when I got my heightmap in .tif I couldn't get convert it to .raw as I heard that Beamng uses this extension

And I would really want it in better quality because idk how good is resolution of 30m

[river forge]

What part of it isn't working for you? The tutorial is definitely still up to date and working

[magic radish]

can anyone here teach me how to fix textures

[hushed bridge]

how do i make a unified terrain color map like this

[crystal wraith]

anyone know why my decal road editor is stuck on my freecamera

only goes away when far away

i had this problem before and it went away but it wont now

https://medal.tv/games/beamng/clips/jyWeefUXXReS5zoYK?invite=cr-MSxIcGwsMTc4NDk3OTkzLA

[brittle warren]

Beamng does not use .raw

[crystal wraith]

Clear cache

[magic radish]

Dont work. It needs fixing

[keen fossil]

lets say one wanted to about making a custom front suspension how would i go about it? I got jbeam editor & the suspension 3d model

[brittle warren]

click on the link i sent in the other channel there is a video that helps

[little portal]

That video does not help him

Editing a 3d model and making a suspension thru jbeam is kinda different

[crystal wraith]

please, someone has to know why this is happeneing, i cant finish my map with this like this

[keen fossil]

bruhh

[brittle warren]

so making a model and editing the jbeam isnt what he wants to do? because its the exact same concept you just move the jbeam to fit your model

[little portal]

Suspension is a more complicated than a fender but he could give it a go ig

Use the jbeam of a vanilla car with the same setup

[brittle warren]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HegdmLoOD6o&list=PLUjOUeYozMDwAHpXFsATOhKeGbc-SV273&index=17

[hushed bridge]

i have over objects enabled and set the collisions of the object to visible mesh final but the decal roads r still invisible on it

[brittle warren]

set decals also to visible mesh final

[hushed bridge]

it is

[brittle warren]

Well you never said that u said just collisions

[hushed bridge]

i know but i meant both

but another weird issue too is the asphalt material goes back to settings i had it at before when i reload the map despite saving it

[brittle warren]

how low is the decal or is it right on top of the mesh?

[hushed bridge]

i had it at instance color and accidentally set the ao map to the grass ao map

[hushed bridge]

right on top

it appers on terrain too

and locks to the mesh surface

[crystal wraith]

anyone know how to make ai take turns slower

idk if decal roads have to do with anything but here it is

[crystal wraith]

nvm got it working

[brittle warren]

Homie on the curb is getting a penalty

[crystal wraith]

thats me 😭

wait which one the yellow one or the one flipping

#beamng-videos message

[brittle warren]

the one flipping lol

[crystal wraith]

yea thats me lol

[brittle warren]

https://tenor.com/view/karting-5-sec-penalty-kic-gif-2406858776196305064

[crystal wraith]

lmao

[crystal wraith]

the video is butter smooth while ingame i had like 35 fps, i do love replay mode for that

all i gotta do now to finish my map is add walls to all the fences

[brittle warren]

i cant use replay mode the camera path editor just confuses me lol

[crystal wraith]

i dont go too indepth with it, i can show you sometime if youd like though, its really easy

might make a video for my server actually

[fickle raptor]

cheesecake american early

[crystal wraith]

What

[fickle raptor]

this is a reference to a random radio commercial in MSC

[crystal wraith]

Oh

[acoustic ivy]

anyone how to make a jbeam from scratch?

[brittle warren]

well yea a lot of people do. what do you need help with?

[acoustic ivy]

like what program is best to use

[brittle warren]

Vs code with the jbeam addon

[acoustic ivy]

i see thank you

lastly is it possible to use another body jbeam for ur car

[brittle warren]

yea and then edit it to fit your car thats what is recommended especially if your new

[acoustic ivy]

i tried it a bunch of time but it doesnt seems to work on another mod alr replaced all the names to standard what things i could be missing at?

[brittle warren]

wym like what isnt working?

[acoustic ivy]

the body jbeam

[brittle warren]

well idk what isnt working really lol so icant really help are you replacing the flexbodies in the jbeam or what

[acoustic ivy]

that

[obsidian echo]

hey fellas, I have a mod that makes configs
the configs are listed as "custom" though
how do I force it to be not listed as custom pc configs

[acoustic ivy]

you need a json file for the custom configs

something like that to make it permanent

[sand dune]

so i was modding the daikisei katai adding a reverse beep does anyone have any idea where can I find the hashcode?

[brittle warren]

Try opening the whole folder in vs code and use the search feature to find it

[sand dune]

wait sorry am kinda new to modding, abt the vs code I have to download it right? or is it built in in the game?

[brittle warren]

You have to download it

[sand dune]

Okay, I got it. Thanks. So once I got it and searched it, opening the file of the code should pop out, right?

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @brittle warren (current: #18 - 104)

[minor moth]

what is this syntax hell

why is there \ everywhere

you use / purely for paths and thats it

[sand dune]

cuz this is in uh Notepad

[minor moth]

nah you dont jbeam like this 😭

not the program literally the way youre doing a jbeam is making my eyes bleed, try look at another jbeam to see how the syntax works and read up some docs :3 https://documentation.beamng.com/

[minor moth]

soundscape sounds dont have hashes, they just have names

lemme show you an example

"keivan_reversewarn": {
"information":{
"authors":"BeamNG",
"name":"Beeper",
"value":50,
},
"slotType" : "keivan_mod",
"controller": [
["fileName"],
["reverseWarn", {"beepLoopName":"event:>Vehicle>Electrics>Reverse>Beep_05"}],
],
"reverseWarn": {
"soundNode:": ["b1"]
},
},

this should work as a beeper

[oak parcel]

oops, i broke the glass

to give a bit of context,

i'm trying to make some glass with police stickers on & now all of them have vanished

fixed dw

[oak parcel]

i seem to have broken it

[sand dune]

Ummm sorry to disappoint you ig I'm pretty new to modding 😭, but am using the vs code rn as thought by subwoofer jn but yea I do need to study this ☠️

[sand dune]

Thanks for the tutorial ! 😭

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @minor moth (current: #107 - 30)

[oak parcel]

i require some help

I've made my own glass texture (that have the police car stickers on)
The second I edit main materials in my mod folder & try to add my own glass material it breaks. Any clue why this is happening?
I also have the new parts in the selector as well,

[minor moth]

is the mat file called main.materials

[river forge]

Is your materials file called main.materials.json?

I was faster take the L

[minor moth]

ha i was faster

no i was

[river forge]

what the

[river forge]

Magic

[minor moth]

huh

[river forge]

Idk either

[minor moth]

tie

[river forge]

Anyway yeah if so, either rename it to something unique or put it in a uniquely named subfolder

[oak parcel]

yes

[river forge]

Any /etk800/main.materials.json file will overwrite the vanilla one

[oak parcel]

i fixed it but how do i add my own texture to the parts i've added into the game?

[river forge]

If the model is identical, you can use materialOverride in the flexbodies section
https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/vehicle/sections/flexbodies/#materialOverride

(If the model were different, for example with a different uv map, you'd have to make a duplicate of that model and give it the new material in Blender, but that seems to not be necessary here)

[oak parcel]

windows are identical in this case yes

so i just insert ["part", ["group"], [],{"materialOverride":[
["originalMaterial1","replacementMaterial1"],
["originalMaterial2","replacementMaterial2"]
]}],

into the main materials?

[river forge]

No this is for the flexbodies

One sec

This would be it for your quarterglass for examplejson "flexbodies": [ ["mesh", "[group]:", "nonFlexMaterials"], {"deformGroup":"sideglass_R_break", "deformMaterialBase":"etk800_glass", "deformMaterialDamaged":"etk800_glass_dmg"}, ["etk800_sideglass_R", ["etk800_body"], [], {"deformSound":"event:>Destruction>Vehicle>Glass>glassbreaksound6", "deformVolume":0.7, "materialOverride":[["etk800_glass","etk800_glass_police"]]}], {"deformGroup":"sideglass_R_break", "deformMaterialBase":"etk800_glass_int", "deformMaterialDamaged":"etk800_glass_dmg"}, ["etk800_sideglass_R_int", ["etk800_body"], [], {"materialOverride":[["etk800_glass_int","etk800_glass_int_police"]]}], {"deformGroup":""} ],

With multiple arguments (like here with deformSound, deformVolume, and materialOverride) it can be a bit confusing with discords colours.
Every item between the final two purple { } is a unique argument, shown by the <---> above

The empty [] brackets for the nonFlexMaterials are important too when using arguments behind it, even though the brackets themselves can stay empty

[river forge]

Here's the entire thing with better colours

[oak parcel]

time to give this a try

[oak parcel]

thanks subie

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @river forge (current: #2 - 368)

[river forge]

Material itself not working yet?

[oak parcel]

no not yet, i'm just glad to see it with no texture. i removed the main materials file for now

[river forge]

Ahhh I see

Yeah either toss that in a subfolder or rename it to something like policeglass.materials.json

[oak parcel]

is my main materials thing fine?

[river forge]

Uhh well in this screenshot it seems to also still include vanilla materials, it would overwrite those too (bad)

So just delete all vanilla ones like etk800_glass, and only keep the modded ones

[oak parcel]

oh right, i'll remove those

[potent cedar]

<@&710084482031550547>

Hey - can someone help me with my Bumper?

There is a little kink

Here u can see it better

[little portal]

Is your jbeam mirrored properly?

[potent cedar]

And the grill is called t6_bumper2 - is this correct?

[upbeat robin]

why whenever i try to edit the vertices in blender this happens?

[little portal]

Thats not mirrored, open the text editor in blender and youll see the nodes, and make them mirrored

You can change the x y z in there for each

[potent cedar]

How i can mirror it?

And how it should look

[potent cedar]

And i have the CV Plugin - is this also working?

[little portal]

By making the fb2r and fb2l the same except for the x being negative

And that for every opposing node

[potent cedar]

so i copy the fb2r and paste it to the others?

same with the 2l?

[little portal]

So fb2r and l should be equal, so should fb2rr and fb2ll etc

[potent cedar]

can u show it me in with a screen recording?

[little portal]

No

[potent cedar]

or screen sharing? i dont get it :c

[potent cedar]

mhm okey - i try

[little portal]

If fb2l is x 1 y 1 z 1 fb2r should be x -1 y 1 z 1

[potent cedar]

ah okey

and if it negativ i make it positiv?

[little portal]

Only for the x

As that determines left or right

[potent cedar]

And with value i took? l or r?

Is this right?

[little portal]

Did you make the other values equal aswell?

Fb2 should be 0

As thats the center node

And I usually round off the numbers to 2 decimals

[potent cedar]

so if the y is negativ the equal is still negativ?

[little portal]

Yes

[potent cedar]

okey

okey

done

anything else?

[little portal]

Did you do it for fb1 and 3 aswell?

[potent cedar]

nope

[little portal]

All those should be equal aswell

[potent cedar]

as 2 or like 1 and 3?

[little portal]

Same way like you did fb2

But then with the node name being fb3 and 1 ofcourse

[acoustic ivy]

can i ask guys

[potent cedar]

okey done

[acoustic ivy]

where is rear drive shaft flexbodies location? in jbeams

[potent cedar]

can u quick look over it?

[little portal]

Looks gooed

[oak parcel]

textures broke again after i put this back in the materials file & removed what you told me

confused

[little portal]

If you unpack the mod you are working on you can save the file in vs code and it updates instantly, or press ctrl r

[little portal]

Whats the material assigned to in blender

[potent cedar]

so i better unpack it?

[little portal]

If youre making changes frequently yes

[river forge]

Ah no sorry I meant just the vanilla materials should be removed

The vanilla textures that are part of your police glass are fine :)

[little portal]

Then open the jbeam file from within the unpacked folder

[potent cedar]

nope - still there

[river forge]

This entire thing is a material, all the individual things are the textures (and some other values)

So what I meant was to delete the vanilla materials like this one

[little portal]

Then its probably not the bumper jbeam causing it lol

Look whatever group that grille’s flexbody is assigned to and make those equal and pray for the best ig

[upbeat robin]

guys can you help me, why does this look like this after i edit it in blender, i didnt change any texture

[oak parcel]

oh right,

i'll try this now

[river forge]

The UV map (the thing that links the 2d textures to the 3d mesh) is messed up

[brittle warren]

Probably the uv map

[upbeat robin]

ok i will look how to create a new one

[river forge]

No need to create a new one, just edit the existing one

[potent cedar]

Should i try to make the grille as one part?

[oak parcel]

remove all the other materials accept for my material?

[river forge]

Yeah

It should only have modded materials

[oak parcel]

i just have this

[little portal]

Looks like it already is one part because the bumper isnt on the screen you sent

[upbeat robin]

ok thanks

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @river forge (current: #2 - 369)

[potent cedar]

yea i forgot to add it into the jbeam xd

[river forge]

Yeah just need to lose the }, on line 2

[oak parcel]

just like that

[river forge]

Yessir

[potent cedar]

But now it looks so - after the jbeam edit

so now all two sides

[little portal]

Copied the wrong side then😂

[potent cedar]

💀

[potent cedar]

Broooooooooooooooooooo thank u bud

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @little portal (current: #1281 - 1)

[upbeat robin]

i have no idea how to fix it, i just made it worse 🥲

[river forge]

Look up some uv map editing tutorials on youtube

Doesn't have to be specific to beam

[brittle warren]

Imean do you want it to have a sj=kin if not just scale the uv down until you cant see it lol then it wont have the black spots also import the b_color dds for the main material and do it on that image

[upbeat robin]

i will try that

[oak parcel]

i'm very confused, just did that and its still broken. hmm

[river forge]

Could you send the files over? I can have a look later

[oak parcel]

yes

[viral juniper]

I believe you are missing a bracket ] to close off the Stages section

[little portal]

Just throw it in vs code with the jbeam addon

[crystal wraith]

anyone know why my race isnt starting me at the propper spawn point

it seems its trying to spawn me at my last position

start position is right however

^^^im just redoing the race

[obsidian echo]

thanks a lot!

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @acoustic ivy (current: #1281 - 1)

[quiet heart]

What can i do ?

[brittle warren]

uv map is messed up

[quiet heart]

Ok

[river forge]

this looks like it could also just be the model thats messed up. mirror mesh needs to be perfectly smooth

[brittle warren]

True

[potent cedar]

How i can make an new material / shader with normal map?

[brittle warren]

Well do you havea normal map and stuff already

[potent cedar]

ofc

I am just new in Beam xD

[crystal wraith]

ghost ping 🤌

[brittle warren]

? what lol

[crystal wraith]

i had a ghost ping

[brittle warren]

Then in world efditor just click on your car icon that shows up, then up at the top click window/ material editor then click the circle at the top of the world editor with a plus icon then click pick from ttstatic and click your car and find the material your wanting to map it to, then give it a name in the same window and then click ok and then in material editor ther will be a spot with base color and normal and rougness click on each one the blank image and find your materials images then scroll back up and click the save icon next to the name of the material

[potent cedar]

wait i try

[potent cedar]

mhm i dont get it to work

[brittle warren]

what is it doing

[potent cedar]

cant open the tex

[brittle warren]

wym like exactly what isnt working can u send a screenshot?

[proud sierra]

So im trying to make a car spawn using d series jbeam, i re named everything but when i spawn it it spawns a white d series that breaks the game

[river forge]

You missed something while renaming then, no way to tell what from just your message though. Any errors in the console (`/~ button)?

[proud sierra]

Says something about main slot not found

And missing stage one data

[river forge]

Does you main jbeam (used to be pickup.jbeam, now probably renamed) have its slotType set to "main"?

[proud sierra]

Wdym

Wait

I i think i forgot it lol

[proud sierra]

But yes its set as main

[rancid wedge]

so I copied over the side steps to have another set at the back, but after renaming and moving the nodes, the slidenodes that connect it to the frame now slide along the rail freely, where do I change this? the documentation doesn't seem to say anything about non-moving slidenodes

[brittle warren]

Did you name it in the cinfig.pc to use your jbeam

like this

[proud sierra]

Ah, i don’t have a config thats why

[crystal wraith]

anyone know why some things dont import to beamng

there should be the background

i really really need some help with this, any would be nice

[brittle warren]

is the mountain a 3d object?

[crystal wraith]

i mean, what else would it be? idk what youre really asking

sorry if this comes off rude im just confused

[brittle warren]

yea your right since ur just importing assetto maps. Um did you try exporting it seperatly

[crystal wraith]

nah i havent tried that yet, but i will

dont think this literally means anything, but its made of triangles

but ill try importing sepreately

[brittle warren]

tris is fine beam triangulates the mesh anyways when you import a dae so if it already tries the better

[crystal wraith]

so.. importing small parts work, but now i got this problem

nvm it fixed it self

[brittle warren]

Is there actually 2 of them or is that a reflection lol?

[crystal wraith]

i guess somehow it copied when i placed them

[crystal wraith]

there was 2, idk it copied itself somehow

so im wondering, is there a limit to how much you can import at once or something?

actually, im gonna try to join it and see if that works

ahah, that works

[brittle warren]

Not that I know of it just may lag for a sec lol

[drifting meadow]

anybody that can help me edit all the nodes on a car im working on? I have it fully built in blender, and its in the game using another jbeam file

[brittle warren]

So the hardest part?

[drifting meadow]

Exactly

[pliant robin]

how can i fix trunk cant open?

[crystal wraith]

I don’t make cars, but I’d suggest you getting an interior and other stuff before worrying about openables

[pliant robin]

ah ok.

one worried part is shifter

[elder marten]

so i want to make a mod. I just need to know if its possible to take the extra lights from the ETK I series and make it so they are an option for the roof rack on most vanilla cars

kinda like this

[heavy swift]

It is. You will be able to copy paste most of it for each car, but you'll have to move the mesh and the jbeam nodes to the correct position. The lights should follow the nodes and align themselves.

[elder marten]

alr thanks @heavy swift

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Gave +1 Reputation to @heavy swift (current: #79 - 40)

[quiet heart]

how i add a door chime sound ?

[elder marten]

so ive found a jbeam file to a roof rack with extra lights on another mod. im wondering what info i need to change or if its even possiple (i have no idea what im doing)

[green wolf]

i've made some tire textures. where do i find the converted .DDS versions of these images?

looking at documentation, the texture cooker automatically does this process. however, it only shows the path for map textures.

[river forge]

No idea, but you can save them as .dds in the proper format manually using Pain.net

[minor moth]

roof racks are universal

just make the light align to whatever pos on the y and z the bar is (x shouldnt change, for center node of the front bar at least)

will require some math but itll make it universal

[tacit tulip]

kinda dumb question but what does the map size number symbolise and what is the max size?

[green wolf]

i've tried this method but saving them as a .DDS file doesn't save any of the image's data and the resulting image file can't be opened later either by the game or paint.net

some kind of data doesn't get written to the image's file when saving as a .DDS through paint.net

[brittle warren]

Then your doing something wrong because pain.net has never had an issue opening .DDS files for me ever no matter what bc format it is, paint.net is literally what almost everyone uses to make .DDS files

[green wolf]

it can open existing .DDS files just fine, but it can't create said files for whatever reason. at least not properly

[brittle warren]

It can cause that's what everyone does lol. It works just fine bro I think your doing something wrong because everyone uses pdn to make .dds files

[green wolf]

.PNG files work just fine and beamng converts .PNGs to the .DDS format automatically anyways.

i just need to dig for the converted files for a little while i guess.

[brittle warren]

There in the .34 folder under temp/vehicles or .34/vehicles

[green wolf]

...that would have answered my initial question.

[brittle warren]

I didn't scroll up to see ur question just saw u saying pdn doesn't make DDS files right which is blatantly false.

[green wolf]

it does not give me the option to save as a .dds file. my paint.net is up to date.
but whatever. my question is answered. i'm done here.

[minor moth]

appdata > local > beamng > temp > vehicles > common (i presume) > whatever tire texture called

[minor moth]

direct draw surface and for color BC7 normal is BC5 unsigned dxwhatever i fogror and BC4 for rough/metallic

[green wolf]

yes, i've found my converted textures. thanks bacon 👍

[minor moth]

it should option you if you ctrl+shift+s the file and then in the suffix menu in explorer do Direct Draw Surface instead of PNG

[brittle warren]

So this is dds so i know for a fact ur not clicking the right thing

[minor moth]

iirc its 2048 km x2048km of actual HQ land or so, and max is iirc 16k (engine cant do more fast enough afaik but i could be wrong)

[tacit tulip]

ah alright

[brittle warren]

You can import up to an 8k height map and turn the sqaure size up to quite high to make it more than 16k or there is a program you have to build youself that takes base 16k heightmap data and creates the .ter file so the game doesnt have to cause the game legitimatly wont do it

[minor moth]

yeah im not that into map making but i know for sure game has serious issues at anything past 8k

cooker cant sometimes convert 16k textures if theyre too complex and makes the game crash

also would you happen to know anything at all about electrics functions, i want a trigger to do a hazard but it no workie

[tacit tulip]

I was wondering because I was going to nab the cities skylines terrain map thing

[brittle warren]

yes lol it doesnt like it at all lol. I read somewhere they are suypposed to be doing something to help support bigger maps, but icant remember where i saw it

[brittle warren]

like a hazards button?

[minor moth]

yeah a trigger to be specific

i have no clue what function calls hazards to be triggered

i press

it no work

full logik

[brittle warren]

im looking lol i made my own for my interior lights just cant remember what i used lol

[viral juniper]

The Aurata in game uses this: {"onDown" :"electrics.toggle_warn_signal()"}],

[minor moth]

ty

[minor moth]

it work

[viral juniper]

Awesome, you're welcome

[tacit tulip]

are you sure it's kilometeres?

[brittle warren]

Yes everything in beam ng is in kilometers

[tacit tulip]

alright

[hushed bridge]

if i have a model with 2 materials how do i set 1 material to be instance color and the other to be instance color 1

[brittle warren]

Like the color selector? wym instance color?

[crystal wraith]

anyone know how to make the ground sightly reflect my car

i have a metalic and rough map

[brittle warren]

set the material reflections to level at the bottom

[crystal wraith]

just ends up reflecting the sky

[brittle warren]

Hmm are your normals correct ?

[crystal wraith]

yep

well, it aint a huge deal anyway

was just a little thing i woulda included but by no means necessary

[brittle warren]

Send me your map and I can look through it for you and tell u how to fix it, you know I'm not gonna leak it lol

[crystal wraith]

i just released it lol, you can look but idk if ill update it https://www.beamng.com/threads/large-garage-photography-map.102773/#post-1805735

[brittle warren]

Well if I were you iwould update it if I figure it out cause it's nice to have good reflections lol

BRo your map kills fps lol like bad i get 3 fps for some reason and never had that hapen

[crystal wraith]

It’s a photo map, didn’t really worry about optimization

It’s because of the shadows, turn your shadows to partial maybe

Just wanted to release it too, I’ll worry about optimizing sometime

[brittle warren]

i shouldn't need to run at lowest serttings to load a map at more than 3 fps you dont need the 800 lights in the scene lol and all of them having shadows

[crystal wraith]

Well I’m sorry you have to, everyone I gave the map to didn’t need to

[brittle warren]

They dont play on ultra lol

[crystal wraith]

I don’t play in ultra

Like I literally said, I wanted the map out and I’ll update it tomorrow

[brittle warren]

yea i dont use apps to edit my photos to make em look good i just take in game screenshots

[crystal wraith]

I barely ever use external apps

I don’t know why you’re upset I didn’t do anything to you

[brittle warren]

Im not?

[crystal wraith]

You’re mentioning something that has nothing to do with what we’re talking about, you’re trying to get under my skin

[brittle warren]

No im saying that i take in game screenshots at ultra i dont take em at normal or low settings and edit them like most of the beam ng photo guys

[crystal wraith]

I take mine at normal minus some settings and the look fine, sorry I mis understood, I’m not in a very good mood right now

#screenshots message I used Lightroom for these, but like 1% of the power of the Lightroom preset

[little cedar]

How do I use the delta runtime to make a wait function in lua code?
I was told in the Modding For Dummies server that I need to use the delta runtime from updateGFX to make a timer to make a command to pause the code execution for half a second.

This is the stock code, and in the brackets is where the wait code should go
if electrics.values.wheelspeed < 0/3.6 and electrics.values.throttle == 0 and electrics.values.gearIndex > 0 then (wait code here) controller.mainController.shiftToGearIndex(0) print("NBS Enabled") end

[wispy needle]

my custom engine sound keep skipping and it's starting to drive me insane
i've tried short sound files, long sound files, mp3 files, wav files, different blend file formats, and nothing is fixing it

im gonna try an even longer sound file and if this doesn't fix it then idk what to do

ok it didn't fix it

I have no idea what's wrong with it

please help 🙏

[brittle warren]

wha tare the rpms set to in the blend?

[wispy needle]

600 for idle, then to 1000, then increases by 500 till 6500 rpm

[little cedar]

That doesnt really fix anything, my sound files are like half a second and it works fine
Is your game running at a low framerate of is very laggy, because sometimes audio lags if the games too laggy

[distant pendant]

I am making a body mod for the bx and need to move the engines back, but only the v8 props won't move with the nodemove on engineslot under body.

I don't want to have to make a custom engine for each v8 just to offset the pullies if i don't have to

[river forge]

Hmmm what nodes are those props bound to? They'll only move with nodeMove if they are bound to just the engines nodes

[distant pendant]

looks like the v8 pully nodes are seperate as they are a common engine

[dim fog]

idk if i should post this here but i dont know here is the file that the glTF exporter put the exported thing in.

[median cargo]

hi, how to duplicate a map of the game to make modifications on this map without damaging the real map?

[distant pendant]

you load into map, f11, you make edits, when you save level it doesn't over write. Instead it puts in in beamng/.34/levels

[acoustic ivy]

hello so i have a concern in my mod so i have a mod that has 500mb+ inside but when zipped its only 130 should i be worried?

[median cargo]

but how to reset the map settings?

in the world editor

?

[distant pendant]

what map settings

[distant pendant]

do you understand what zipping a file does?

[acoustic ivy]

yeah hahaha but im just concern before when im zipping the file it says 250mb with same contents but now its only a 130mb file

[distant pendant]

so you said before it was 500mb before zipping then to 130

but now it's 250 to 130?

[acoustic ivy]

wait imma show you

before its actually 320mb my bad but now

[distant pendant]

one is from 2024

[acoustic ivy]

no no its just a date

its faulty sometimes

but its the same contents

nvm ill just ignore it

[median cargo]

the settings in the world editor (TheLevelsEditor, sunsky, ...)

It's to make the game look better

[hushed bridge]

?

[wispy needle]

the default cars don't do it

so it's not that

increasing sound file length almost fixed it honestly, but there was just a tiny bit of skipping still
maybe I need a file to play below idle and above redline?

[warm sphinx]

The way I’ve reset in the past is to take a screenshot of a default levels settings and copy them over

[little cedar]

Ive made quite a few engine mods for the DT40L and have never had this issue. I use samples for idle and max rpm and samples in between. In this case, I didn't even use a sample of high enough max RPM, as the engine has a 2200RPM limit, not 2000. I'm not sure what your code is like, but try comparing it to this and see if its any different regarding the event headers etc

Also maybe try increasing the maximum sound voices in the BeamNG audio settings to 512

[wispy needle]

looks formatted identically to my sound blend file

[wispy needle]

I thought I already had mine at 512 but i'll check when I get back on

[slow viper]

Can anyone help me with broken/corrupt mod I'm needing to change the code but I don't know much about coding

[brittle warren]

Is it your mod?

[slow viper]

No but it's an outdated abandoned one and I just want to fix it for my own enjoyment and not give it out or anything, its one of the best diesel Cummins mods I've seen but sadly it's outdated

[brittle warren]

is it this mod?

[slow viper]

No here lemme show

[brittle warren]

hmm one sec ill look at it and se whats broken

[slow viper]

You want the file?

[brittle warren]

nah i downloaded it

[slow viper]

Oh alright lemme know

[wispy needle]

yup, already set to 512

[ancient plank]

hehe.. cummin

[crystal wraith]

@oak skiff this guys posting in like ever channel about his fivem scam

[median cargo]

yes, it is a method thank you

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @warm sphinx (current: #57 - 47)

[little cedar]

Well I'm not sure what the issue is then. Only other thing I can think of is that your engine samples have a silent part or a fade at the end, which is preapplied in some audio editing software

[wispy needle]

damn that's actually a good point

I didn't hear any silence when playing back the files but, I dunno

[little cedar]

Usually its added post export

[wispy needle]

downloaded file I mean

[little cedar]

Just to check youre using a 16bit WAV PCM file

Thats 48000KHz sample rate

[wispy needle]

nope
mp3

well I tried mp3 and wav

no difference in gap or quality

[little cedar]

I didnt know MP3s worked for BeamNG

The more you know

[wispy needle]

I'm pretty sure ogg files work too

[little cedar]

I know ogg, wav and flac work

Never thought of MP3 though

[wispy needle]

yeah

[potent cedar]

Guys, can someone help me?

[river forge]

Did you assign materials to the models in blender?

[potent cedar]

normaly yes

[river forge]

And their names match those of the materials in the cars main.materials.json?

[potent cedar]

ah i guess i found the problem

[river forge]

Also make sure the material names in blender don't have .001 or .002 etc behind them

[potent cedar]

bud add on every mat numbers

[potent cedar]

yeah haha thanks

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @river forge (current: #2 - 374)

[potent cedar]

Is there a way to remove them fast?

[river forge]

Yeah there's a script you can run, one sec

This one: #modding-general message

[potent cedar]

how i open the console?

[river forge]

(Toggle system console)

[potent cedar]

thanks bud

[quiet heart]

How can i add more emissive to my material ?

[potent cedar]

It didnt work

[odd badger]

Can anyone help me?

It's on the west coast

[river forge]

Hmmm the one I got might be outdated then, try looking online if anyone has a script to clear duplicate materials

[river forge]

Deep clear your cache
https://documentation.beamng.com/support/launcher_support_tools/clear_cache/
And use #support in the future ;)

[quiet heart]

How can i make to functional lightbars on other slots like frontflashers and a lightbar ?

[river forge]

Make sure their controllers have different names, so their patterns don't interfere. Other than that there isn't really much you need to consider

[quiet heart]

Ok thanks

[odd badger]

Tysm i will next time

[sour cape]

am i able to make a mod change a value in a jbeam based off of a graphic setting?

[brittle warren]

Im sure you could with custom lua but it would be a lot lol

[river forge]

Why would you even want that :O

[brittle warren]

Idk lol sounds like a really weird thing to do and what is changing jbeam values using gra[hics settings gonna do for perrformance

[inner musk]

i ported this ac map and this is happenign with the corners...

the tires deflate every time

what could i do about this? i tried doing tris to quads but it made no difference

in blender they look flat and fine

[vital robin]

Hey yall 🙂 Decided to dive my toes a bit into UI App development for BeamNG. I have a dev/design background and thought, heck, why not take a stab at putting together a tacho/dashboard.

I explored other tachos from the community mods, read the docs (that was a tricky one xD), and managed to put something together.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/13eeva07zt3htyxi79xzj/Beamng.drive-2025.01.29-21.42.39.01.mp4?rlkey=n9ao901pv3v69q66otf2rr1ph&dl=0

(audio in bg is some parks and rec clip playing while I was testing xD)

I realize I'll probably have to adjust the design/code to accommodate different RPM restrictions - but for now I just needed to build a POC before I go deeper into this and start adding fuel gauges, gear indicators, etc. 🙂

Anyone here with experience on this sort of thing with any tips?

[warm sphinx]

If you make a collision mesh instead of visible mesh it should be better

[inner musk]

that has no collison....

[warm sphinx]

You need to make one in Blender. Just look at how the vanilla objects do it

[inner musk]

?

[warm sphinx]

No. Just copy how the vanilla objects do it

[crystal wraith]

would just put a thin mesh road over it

[crystal wraith]

is it possible to make these connect, like fuse together

or should i just allign them and rely on auto junction

oh well, hopefully this works

[warm sphinx]

https://www.beamng.com/resources/beamng-rally-usa-pack.33083/updates

Is there any reason why my mod may be repo ineligible? It contains no real life branding or anything

[faint whale]

where should i start if i want to make a high-fidelity car mod (like vertex level, but only like 2-4 trims) if im pretty new to blender in general?

[crystal wraith]

if you wanna make a car like the vertex in context of detail, dont, you need to start out on something lighter

[faint whale]

what would you suggest

[crystal wraith]

a simple car

[faint whale]

i want it to at least look believable tbh

[crystal wraith]

just something simple

[faint whale]

that's not really specific

[brittle warren]

#mods-faq message

[crystal wraith]

its your first vehicle, make it simple

[faint whale]

simple doesn't really tell me what i should be doing

[brittle warren]

click the message ni just sent and start with a single paert of an ingame car

[crystal wraith]

if you wanna make mods youre gonna have to think for yourself, you choose what to do

[faint whale]

alright ig

so is making nodes and beams just typing them into the code? how would i know i put them in the right place?

[warm sphinx]

Trial and error by checking the debug views mostly.

You may also be able to move them with blender now, I personally haven’t tried

[faint whale]

so are the jbeam files just made from scratch? i don't see how you assign jbeam nodes to model nodes

[warm sphinx]

I would suggest looking at tutorials.

But typically Jbeam is modified from an existing similar part. This is especially the case for those starting out with vehicle modding

[faint whale]

ok

not sure why i even thought i would be able to do this, i cant even model a simple thing in blender

[warm sphinx]

Automation is probably your friend then

Don’t get too discouraged

[faint whale]

would it be possible to go and modify things from automation to be functional like steering wheels and fix textures like on lights

[brittle warren]

yes you can

[faint whale]

i might try that then

the main reason i even wanted to do this is cause automation cars don't look very convincing

[brittle warren]

Yea i hate automation cars but if you do one and then use it as a base to mod on you may learn quite a bit

[tiny drum]

Automation cars sometimes does glitches or corrupts the game

[glossy grail]

Thanks, and sorry for beeing kinda late but I didnt get any notification, but I still dont know how to do it properly, when I tried to import some heightmap I think from png or img I had just a flat area with size maybe 200x200m even tho I tried to import heightmap of a whole city(it wasnt flat)

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @brittle warren (current: #16 - 109)

[acoustic ivy]

help

[crystal wraith]

They just suck in general, feels like I’m driving a hot wheels car

[brazen cipher]

hey guys i need help with making a new wheel and adding it to beamng, i have the .dae file and both F & R wheels jbeam but they don't show up ingame im sure it's easy but i don't know anything about it

[river forge]

Any errors related to the wheels in the console? (`/~ key)

[brazen cipher]

im pressing / but nothing happens also the wheels don't even show up in the menu

[river forge]

The ` and ~ key, top left on most keyboards

[brazen cipher]

don't have it

[brazen cipher]

oh ok nvn here it is

here is what i see in the console

[river forge]

Try refreshing jbeams with Ctrl+R, then scrolling through and seeing if there's any errors related to your wheels

[brazen cipher]

nope nothing and the wheels don't show up in the config car menu, maybe the .jbeam code is wrong, if i sent it to you could you check them, im sure it's simple i just don't know anything about this it's just the .dae file and 2 .jbeam, thanks!

[river forge]

Yea sure send em over

Btw what is their file location currently?
Should be mods/modname.zip/vehicles/common/ files go here
or
mods/unpacked/modname/vehicles/common/ files go here
(The latter being easier to work with as it's not zipped)

[brazen cipher]

here

[brazen cipher]

it's mods/modname.zip/vehicles/common/ files go here

[still linden]

I'm using DrowsySam's Drogue Parachute and on the new BX it breaks the fuel tank and shakes, then when its deployed it flips. How do I fix this? I'm guessing its something to do with moving the location of the chute and/or editing the J-beam but I have no experience

also I hope this is the right channel to ask this lol

[river forge]

• The jbeam was missing the main opening and closing brackets all the way at the top and bottom
• The slotType didn't specify which hub type to use (4/5/centerlug/etc.), I've set it to 5 lug for now
• The flexbody name (Antera Type 109) didn't match the name of the mesh in the .dae (antera109)

There are some other issues, but at least they show up in-game now ;)

[brazen cipher]

ok they are in the menu now but they are invisible

[river forge]

For me they were there, just not in the right location. They are inwards a bit too much (under the cars body)

[brazen cipher]

hm

idk i never did any of this i tought it would be easy, just swap an already 17x8 rim jbeam with my model

[brazen cipher]

oh yeah i see them but yeah they are too inwards and with a void black texture what do i do now to make them in the right position and with a silver color like texture

[river forge]

Pretty much, you just need to tweak its position a bit and give them a material

Check out some of the documentation on the site or some tutorials, I don't really have time to go through it step by step

[brazen cipher]

yeah np, i just can't find any tutorials

[hard radish]

How to retrieve height of a current vehicle in beamng.drive? I've heard of Bounding Boxes, but interesting to see if someone already has working Lua function here.

[river forge]

https://www.reddit.com/r/BeamNG/comments/18rjdjo/comment/kf1mzk9/

[brazen cipher]

k thanks will let you know if i was able to do it 😂

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @river forge (current: #2 - 377)

[crystal wraith]

you need to remember this mod is experimental, stuff like this is bound to happen

anyone have an idea of how this track is supposed to go? im confused with the top small loop and the inside area

[still linden]

also it's a little old and hasn't been updated in awhile

[crystal wraith]

forgot 2 turns

[quaint solar]

Hello, I have a problem with glowmap materials on my car, I've added the normal and _on material and i tried to code the glowmap but it didn't work

here i photo of code, is there something i need to add, like add new material in the model?

here is the code of materials

[merry grotto]

why is my door mesh not showing up? the doors and body are in the dae and the flexbody in the door jbeam has the correct name

[merry grotto]

it has no material, nvm

[warm sphinx]

I assume it’s just multiple layouts with the small little loop being an oval sort of thing

What track is it?

[crystal wraith]

Salem raceway, but all I can find is an oval track when I search it, I don’t think it’s real

And yes I’m sure it’s another layout but I wanna have one race that uses it all

[warm sphinx]

How sure are you that it’s a race track?

And have you asked the mod creator?

[crystal wraith]

what else would it be, no i havent, i didnt even think about actually going and looking in assetto or in the maps files

i mean, its called salem raceway lol

[warm sphinx]

Ah ok I thought it was on just a random map you found

[river forge]

Different material? Jbeam issue?

[brittle warren]

well no its the right matterial and it doesnt happen on the other side and the jbeams are exactly the same side to side

[little portal]

Select that specific triangle in blender and see what material it shows

[brittle warren]

There is only ine material on the whole object

[crystal wraith]

anyone know why LerpAlpha or any alpha clip doesnt work on PBR

before and after making pbr

[brittle warren]

you need an opacity map from what i know and then use ppremutialpha

[crystal wraith]

ah

[brittle warren]

Dont quote me tho but thats what works for me

[olive maple]

So for whatever reason on my mod when other people download it, the front nose and f4 engine cover is invisable, yet works perfectly fine on my end?

[brittle warren]

are the models in the dae or are they somewhere else by chance

[olive maple]

they are in a new dae, but other things work fine like the front wing and rear wing

[brittle warren]

Hmm are they named correct cause it may be loading yours from the cdae

[olive maple]

yeah everthing is named correct

[brittle warren]

any console errors

[crystal wraith]

if its not private or anything, would you like me to try?

they may need to clear their cache

[olive maple]

https://www.beamng.com/resources/carbonworks-f3-2025.33229/ this should work right?

[crystal wraith]

some people dont see time trials on my maps but some do, what fixed it for them was cache and temp clearing

[olive maple]

tbh I hope thats the case

[crystal wraith]

works fine for me

[olive maple]

hm right

let me ask the guy then

thanks though

[crystal wraith]

yep

[crystal wraith]

anyone have tips on how to keep ai more on path for races

especially offroad racing

[fickle raptor]

how do i learn how to texture?

[brittle warren]

Like wym make your own textures like rusty materials and stuff? and normal maps

[fickle raptor]

both making my own textures and understanding texture maps

because i barely know how they work

[brittle warren]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa_1LjeWsJg heres uv mapping then for tectures look up how to make textures in blender case its kina a model by model basis of what you wanna make

[neon ember]

Anyone know how I can convert/decompress .cdae files back to .dae files? i lost my main .dae asset files. but there are still the .cdae ones available. am i able to convert them back to dae?

[brittle warren]

Nope can't it's impossible

[neon ember]

oh no.. so my assets all lost. ok thanks for the response

[brittle warren]

Yea maybe you can find a backup or something in your recycling bin

[neon ember]

its my 2TB HDD. i wonder how i can back up the data

[brittle warren]

Idk lol I always just keep a couple copies of my blend file just in case something happens I can reexport my dae

[crystal wraith]

Blender should autosave

[brittle warren]

Yea but if he wants his dae back he clearly doesnt have the blend file

[neon ember]

OMG how coul di have forgotten about the auto save hahaha thank you so much! i thought when i saved on E: the autosave was also on E: but turns out it's in C lol thank you so much!

good thing i also commit my addon codes on github

[pliant robin]

how can i move steering wheels?

[quaint solar]

Plz help

[outer comet]

hello everyone! who can help me make paint livery for mod car? I will not remain in debt.

[keen dagger]

hi

[fickle raptor]

how do i stop my piccolina doors from exploding into 5 different universes i just want suicide doors not suicidal doors man :(

[outer comet]

hi

[little portal]

Might be because the door is overlapping with that pillar in the middle

[rancid wedge]

Aren't there already suicide doors on the vanilla piccolina?

Or do you want a 4 door version with those tiny rear ones?

[fickle raptor]

no im trying to slap them on the roamer for a car im making

[rancid wedge]

If you took the piccolina doors to the roamer, check if any beams are wrongly connected and pulling on something, since the node names are different

And you could also just take the rear doors from the D-series extended cab

[fickle raptor]

bro i completely forgot about these doors thank you

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @rancid wedge (current: #200 - 15)

[fickle raptor]

they're pretty much exactly what im looking for

[rancid wedge]

Do you want that they are blocked from opening by the front doors?

Because you would need to remove that feature

[fickle raptor]

no thats how i want my doors to be cause the car that i want to make has clamshell doors

[rancid wedge]

Oh perfect, I bet the roamer front doors even have the same jbeam as the D-series ones, so it might even work instantly

[crystal wraith]

If this is your first mod, please, just don’t. You shouldn’t jump to hard projects, it’s dumb

If you don’t even know how to start a car then don’t try to make an insanely detailed car, go learn the basics

I make maps, not cars, but the logic is the same in the aspect of starting small then going big

There’s plenty of videos on YouTube

I could list at least 3 videos that first come up that aren’t outdated, you aren’t looking pretty much at all

Goto #mods-faq message

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @crystal wraith (current: #300 - 9)

[proper narwhal]

Im trying to make a custom skin for the h-series, but i cant find it in the vehicles folder, whats the name of the zip file for the h-series?

[distant pendant]

easiest way to make custom skin, is go into garage, select what variant of h series you want then go to decal livery editor in the garage and make a new skin, save skin, then go into .34/mods/unpacked (find your file name you saved as) then you can modify the _cp (color pallete blue red green for your color 1, 2, 3) and _D (for your decals), then _M for metallic (things you want metallic) _R (roughness for if you don't want decals shiny)

[proper narwhal]

while im here, why do they call it liverys? like why not skins, or paint jobs?

[distant pendant]

The term "livery" for cars comes from the French word livree, which means "handed over". It refers to the distinctive paint scheme and design on a vehicle that identifies its owner or manufacturer.

[flint charm]

hey all, modifying a jbeam in blender, after i have finished i save blend file, select j beam, apply all transforms and expot jbeam, then what? where did it go because its not in the folder i imported it from...

[obsidian echo]

hey fellas how does a json file look for configs? trying to make a new config for my personal default car

[pliant robin]

Nice but as all other comment said start with modifying Vanilla Cars in game like (if i am wrong what i meant sorry.) i done Bastion Panoramic roof First then later on i do Ground Effect Kits of bastion then if you confident make new car. (Even mine is new project it can be cancelled anytime p.s. my S15 nearly at that state but i still continued.) Oh some of parts i use simple notepad to do the job done.

[river forge]

It should overwrite whatever jbeam was imported

[flint charm]

thanks man i had an old addon, all sorted, dumb haha

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @river forge (current: #2 - 378)

[flint charm]

anyone keen to help me sort oit air suspension for said project? ive tried a few times but had no luck,

trying to replicate my old bagged 68 mercedes.

[acoustic ivy]

how do i edit a jbeam body without it deforming ingame? please help

[little portal]

What is that function

[potent cedar]

@quiet heart

[small basalt]

Question, does anybody have experience with making spaceframe chassis'? I'm trying to take the SolidWorks models I have of my team's FSAE car and make them into a beamNG mod of our car.

my main issue is balancing the quality and the number of nodes

I currently have about 2.5k nodes

[shut pollen]

....2.5k nodes? as in nodes that make up jbeam? please tell me that "nodes" are what they call vertices in solidworks lmao

[small basalt]

im looking at what BNeditor says but I would assume so, yes

iv'e gotten from a solidworks file to an stl, into blender, and then out as a .dae and .jbeam file

I have it in the game but it pauses due to instability

[shut pollen]

2.5k nodes is an obscene number, did you just convert the mesh to jbeam and call it a day?

[small basalt]

I actually decimated the mesh to about 25% of the original and then converted it

[shut pollen]

yeah ngl you would be better off starting jbeam from scratch rather than using a decimated model. what you have now will never work, even if it could run. you will have nodes so close and light that it would cause endless technical issues. give me a sec, will see if i can pull up some stuff for you

[small basalt]

thx

[shut pollen]

https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/vehicle/intro_jbeam/ covers a little stuff, but this sort of thing is a little outside of what beam really is good for.. im sure someone can come along and draw over your pic with their suggestions for what to actually have jbeamed, the rear will likely have to be pretty simplified though. ive got stuff to do unfortunately

[small basalt]

yeah, I know its a bit of a stretch to get this to work compared to a regular model, thanks though

[lime loom]

My backyard Kart and the autobello kart in the Beamng forums are examples on how to make frames that are lightweight and sturdy. But essentially, you only want one node at major joints in the spaceframe (corners, suspension mounts, engine mounts, spots where you expect a lot of stress to flow through)

Essentially, you want the smallest node count possible, so you can make the nodes as heavy as possible so you can work with higher spring and damp values

[small basalt]

gotcha, it shouldn't be too hard as I have the original sketch before the tubes went on so I can pull my data from that

[lime loom]

I'm excited to see how your project goes! I've been dying to see an fsae car in beam and the closest I've gotten on my effort was a variant of the backyard kart

[small basalt]

did it end up working?

[lime loom]

Kind of. I was able to mimic the performance using tire data I spent way too much time looking for and a 600cc sport bike engine, but it's still a frame designed for off-road use converted to street use, so is not as good as a dedicated platform would be

[crystal wraith]

Fsae would be definitely different

[small basalt]

do you know if I would be able to export only an engine from automation and put it in this car?

because our engine lead has all of the data i'd need

[lime loom]

Absolutely. Although automation is bad at making bike engines

[small basalt]

it's probably better than nothing

[lime loom]

Kind of. Automation assumes a ton of friction in the drivetrain and a much higher rotating mass than what you'd get in a motorcycle. You'd have to edit almost all of the engine data to get it to be the same as a bike engine

I have a few bike engine jbeams you could steal from the backyard kart if you want something for little work

[small basalt]

that would be amazing, thanks

[small basalt]

interesting

[lime loom]

Were you guys using an engine similar to a Suzuki gsxr600?

[small basalt]

honda cbr600rr

close enough that it would work though, but we're detuned to 75hp

I don't know how easy it would be to edit the engine curve

[lime loom]

Very easy, fortunately. The power curve currently is the easiest part of making a working engine for beamng. The rest of it, the cooling system, durability, and fuel efficiency take a lot of nuance and testing to get right.

[small basalt]

that's good to hear

[lime loom]

When I get to my PC, I can shoot you a dm with an example jbeam for the Suzuki engine.

[small basalt]

👍

that would be amazing

thank you

im glad that Solidworks lets you measure to a point and use the origin as a reference

so I can just use the exact coordinates in inches and divide it by 10 and I get my node location