modding-general

[small basalt]

in theory, should I be adding triangles to the Jbeam file? Because they'll be modelled as tubes, and the aero kit will be on top of the whole front end

[quiet heart]

it is for the light bar to emite what glow there but it is allways on an not goes off

[flint charm]

edit them in blender bro

[flint charm]

can anyone help be sort out air suspension for this? pleeeease.

[pliant robin]

https://www.beamng.com/threads/independent-air-suspension.43122/

this one might help.

[acoustic ivy]

Yeah but you cant edit some parts in blender

[river forge]

Do it in text form then?

[quaint solar]

can someone help please

[river forge]

Have you tested what the Golf_on material looks like on its own? so without the glowmap?

[quaint solar]

i made it myself and its the same but glowing

[river forge]

And it has the headlight material assigned to it?

[crystal wraith]

I get you’re trying to help, but googling and sending the first result isn’t the best option, I mean, the thread is 8 years old

[pliant robin]

for me it is still work.

[quaint solar]

uh idk

the model have only one assigned material - Golf and the other is mapped to it

is there an option i can make a model with one material, separate the headlights and taillights from it and it will work?

[river forge]

The part of the model that needs to light up, needs to have the headlight material assigned to it

It doesn't have to be separate model, it can also just be a different material on the same model
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms89wP8m4ZU

[errant plinth]

Is there anyone who can help me to get the hang of the lightbar pattern editing and such?

[quaint solar]

but what if i have texture putted on the model, can i just send you the model i am working on and you can say what i need to change in it?

[river forge]

Just select the faces of the headlight, and assign the headlight material to them

The textures will remain the same, as the glowmap will make it show the Golf material whenever the glowmap is in the off state

[quaint solar]

okay, i will figure out something, thanks

one more question, I need to add 2 material for taillights and headlights or I just can make one for glowmap?

[acoustic ivy]

idk whats wrong

i want to fix the black spot

[little portal]

You didnt accidentally select a different material for that triangle?

[acoustic ivy]

ya

nvm i got it fixed

[river forge]

I'd suggest making a different glowmap for those with just the lowbeam function, to prevent the rear lights from getting brighter when you turn on the highbeams

(Though in your case, the on_intense is the same as on, so it wouldn't matter)

[quaint solar]

IT WORKED, THANK YOU 😄

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @river forge (current: #2 - 379)

[crystal wraith]

anyone positive how to alpha clip a material while pbr, ive heard you need an opacity map but last time that didnt work for me

[errant plinth]

Is there anyone who can help me to get the hang of the lightbar pattern editing? I believe it's called the lightbar controller?

[flint charm]

How i did not find this in my searches has me stumped but thankyou!!

[flint charm]

Not sure what you mean. The entire mesh is able to be edited in blender?

[acoustic ivy]

no i mean like main body crew jbeam in blender is not editable

[flint charm]

It sure is man. Are you sure you have the correct plugin

[flint charm]

Every aspect of the car is modifiable in blender. There's just a process to it, if not done in correct sequence it won't work. Ask me how I know 🤣. What are you trying to do exactly that might help us help you a bit better

[acoustic ivy]

yeah turns out i was using old ver of the plugin im sorry

[flint charm]

I had the same issue last week. All good man

[crystal wraith]

Anyone know why this happens

Sorry couldn’t snip it, needed to hold alt for the road tool

[brittle warren]

Yes

[crystal wraith]

well maybe i didnt make the opacity map right, how do i make one?

i just used some website

thought it would work since i use a website for my normals, metalics, and roughness and thats fine

[brittle warren]

The stuff you want to be able to see needs to be all white and then the rest either transparent or black

And use just pre muti alpha

[crystal wraith]

gotcha, so just color the image?

[brittle warren]

I use gimp to do it because you can just move a couple sliders and your done

[crystal wraith]

my brain is too tiny to understand gimp atleast atm lol

i have it i just dont know wtf to click

[brittle warren]

I'll send u a short clip later of how to do it it's really easy

[crystal wraith]

only happens with a large decal road, when using a smaller one i can place anywhere

[crystal wraith]

anyone, please lol

[brittle warren]

What's wrong if I may ask idk what your trynna do?

[crystal wraith]

i need to loop the road around the track for AI to drive on for races

and after 9.3 width the track drops

idk how to explain it

[brittle warren]

Maybe there are small games in your mesh that aren't really visible

Gap's

[crystal wraith]

shouldnt be though, when i use a road thats smaller, for example, a 9 width road, i can place anywhere

[heady trail]

No collision on the right side?

Next to the road

[brittle warren]

What are your other decal road settings

[heady trail]

Nvm just saw this

[crystal wraith]

there's collision

[crystal wraith]

like the defaults?

[woeful bone]

how can i add collision to this model?

[crystal wraith]

inspector > Visible mesh final

[brittle warren]

Either make a collision mesh Wich is the right way or the way Gunner said but that way is gonna be glitchy

[brittle warren]

Hmm that's odd

[woeful bone]

where is inspector?

[crystal wraith]

no offense to the poster, but its a huge person, i dont think theyre gonna take time to make a col mesh

[crystal wraith]

in world editor, look around

[brittle warren]

You can make 3 squares?

[crystal wraith]

i mean, they dont even know where the inspector is... lol

[brittle warren]

True true

[brittle warren]

Should be on the right side in world editor click on your mesh and then in the inspector find collision mesh and set it to visible mesh final

[woeful bone]

where?

[crystal wraith]

click window

i think im fueling a brain rot youtube short right now

[woeful bone]

thank you so much

one last thing, how can I add this ramp on the map?

[crystal wraith]

spawn it in

[woeful bone]

creating an object?

[brittle warren]

Yes

[crystal wraith]

when you do this do you mind also explaining the auto on/off lights mainlevel.lua or send a new link to the modding to dummies thread, cant find the one you sent a bit ago

[brittle warren]

Yea i can bro

[brittle warren]

here is the thing i shared the group is dynamic lights or something

somthing like this

[crystal wraith]

its weird, i can cover the track horizontally, but not vertial

[noble monolith]

looks like there is a gap in the middle

[crystal wraith]

okay, i tried turning the map sideways and it might have fixed it

[crystal wraith]

its not just there, its anywhere

im gonna go insane, now i have a NEW issue

and its back to doing it again, ofcourse it is

[median cargo]

hi

[minor moth]

it worked on 0.33

now tango wont spawn and you cant buy it

how the fuck does paint break it

are skins a requirement now or what

what

HUH

cursed

why is the game removing a part thats a core slot part

[quasi wave]

i got a question how hard is to create ai paths for racing tracks? ive tested a lot of racing mod tracks and all of them have slow ai even on flee whith an average of 90 kmh on wide ass curves.

i ask this because i want to fix it

[warm sphinx]

Is the decal road set to over object?

iirc there’s a maximum banking angle but I can’t remember if the over object decal roads or non over object have higher maximums

[crystal wraith]

Yes

[crystal wraith]

if anyone has an idea of how to fix it pleasssee let me know

anyone know how to implement a catch fence sorta thing into my beamng map

like how the tirestacks work, just would look like a fence

[keen notch]

thats beamng bug after 0.32 update if i remember correctly.

and yes, its still not fixed

[crystal wraith]

all this needs to be is one long line, not curved or bent

[ebon nimbus]

how do i fix this flimsy problem

[pliant robin]

do you have any guide of Air SUspension? (This time i think i might update to 4 Corner Air Suspension independent)

[crystal wraith]

0 rush, just a reminder

[brittle warren]

Sorry forgot with all the drama in pgd lol

[crystal wraith]

oh i didnt know there was any lol

[brittle warren]

go to his bug crawler channel lol

[crystal wraith]

lol

[crystal wraith]

gotcha

https://medal.tv/games/beamng/clips/jBXvQ9N53VkIeEs_T?invite=cr-MSwxajIsMTc4NDk3OTkzLAhow do i fix the lights flickering, ignore the skybox lol

[crystal wraith]

anyone know why when trying to edit my sunsky, it simply doesnt save nvm just gonna do it manually through json

[crystal wraith]

still not working manually, anyone know why

json vs ingame

this not working has the potential of ruining my entire map smh

cktodbox ruined this map ugh

whole damn map looks like a blueberry

[crystal wraith]

i deleted my old sunsky, in attempt of adding a new one, which fixes it until i rejoin, then theres no sunsky, for some reason it doesnt appear (the new one) in my scenetree

god damn finally got it working

[ebon nimbus]

can someone tell me which nodes and beams is causing the problem or atleast what thing is causing it

[little portal]

Put // before a beam and keep on doing that until you found the issue

[ebon nimbus]

Ha I found the issues

Its the nodes overwriting getting confused

[little portal]

Like the same node with a different location in a different jbeam?

[acoustic ivy]

please help me how do i fix this the suspension is not even and this is 3link when i also drive it go to the left

[ebon nimbus]

Yes

But same location

I kinda confused because I have the front shocks with the mounting point in suspension jbeam and frame jbeam

[quasi wave]

hey does anybody have the bolide gt3 rear bumper? if its possible the spoiler too ive been trying to find it on any website but nothing

[wise fossil]

weird question, but I am trying to make a custom garage on the American Road map and I am having some issues. I scaled up one of the hangars at the test track and have successfully applied the lighting and soundfx that I want for the space. I have DSC dynos and lifts that I am trying to make a permanent part of the garage while still maintaining their functionality. The only way I can spawn these is through the vehicle selector, and I am having trouble trying to get them to respawn when reloading the map. Does anyone know how to make it a permanent fixture while still maintaining its physics? TYIA

[crystal wraith]

Is there a way to allow more than 9 ai racers on an airace, it caps at 9

[olive maple]

Right so I am amking a transfercase thing, and for whatever reason it just cuts off when the case reaches >2500 rpm. Any suggestions?

[quick frost]

tire spins weird when car is moving, how can i fix that?

[olive maple]

nvm solved

[river forge]

Make sure the tires origin point in blender is right in the middle of it

[quick frost]

so its not the code problem?

[river forge]

I assume not

[pastel stone]

Hi everyone! Im tryng to build a Peugeot 307 mod, but I never done a mod before, so I would like to ask if someone could help me to make it

[unique zealot]

dont start off with a full car as a first mod and instead start with a part mod

[waxen galleon]

I'm trying to do an Belasco engine swap into the pickup and I have everything done but the engine is completely indestructible to to getting smashed into the ground with node grabber and was wondering how I could fix it. I've been looking for documentation on the break Trigger beam because I think that's broken in my mod

[ebon nimbus]

Can you send the screenshot?

With the nodes

[waxen galleon]

yeah

hold on

[ebon nimbus]

Not these

The nodes visualization

[waxen galleon]

okay

[ebon nimbus]

In beamng

[waxen galleon]

i can send more if you need

[ebon nimbus]

So did you meant the engine doesn't mount to the car right?

Have you check the engine mount nodes?

[waxen galleon]

no the engine mounts just fine

everything works but the engine is completely immune to physical damage and i cant get the !engine broken notification when i crash

its still running after being ripped out of the truck i had it in

not the truck in the back a different one off screen

[brittle warren]

Anyone in here know how to use material overide?

[viral juniper]

I do

[brittle warren]

am i doing this right?

[viral juniper]

I don't think it can be used that way, it has to be inside of one of your mesh entries, in the same location you have "pos"

[brittle warren]

well i coppied it from the nine and this is what it has

[viral juniper]

Ah, I guess I am wrong then
I've never used it that way, so I didn't know it was possible

Well then, I guess it should work
Just make sure "rooflights_on" is the same name of the material that would be assigned in blender

[brittle warren]

Ok so i cant use it on a glow map then im assuming? ive never tried it i want to be able to change the color of an emmisive material without making 10 dif meshes or a bunch of different keybinds

[viral juniper]

Well honestly I've never tried it on a glowmap material, I've only ever used it for static materials
You could try it, I'm willing to be proven wrong again lol

[brittle warren]

Ok lol imma take ten hours to figure it out and hope it works i wanted to just make variables for the emmisive values but i dont think you can do that in a material

[waxen galleon]

@ebon nimbus any idea?

[ebon nimbus]

I don't exactly know the problem because I'm not infront of my pc

So maybe need to wait for a long time

[waxen galleon]

ah okay

[dry cargo]

Does anyone know how to make a skin for beamng? It seems that the old videos don't work anymore

[river forge]

The nine has a bit of a complex skin system built into it (replacing with different materials depending on what frame colour option you select elsewhere), if you just wanna simply swap one material to another, something simple like this will do the trick

[flint charm]

so i made a C notched frame, moved the frame jbeam accordingly, i then imported the rear axle 4link jbeam and moved it up to match, loaded up the car in game and it shows the frame, frame jbeam and 4link jbeam have all succesfully been modified, but the axle mesh and links/mounting tabs have not moved..... guessing i need to move the axle mesh at the same time as the axle jbeam.....?

[rancid wedge]

A bit late, but there is a tuning slider for left/right placement on 3link axles, because they shift from side to side when compressing

So you should be good by just finding the new center and making that the new standard for the slider

[river forge]

Yeah, you'll need to move the flexbodies too. Easiest will be to add the pos (position) argument in the flexbodies section
https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/vehicle/sections/flexbodies/#pos

[flint charm]

thanks mate appreciate the reply. these 4 links are tricky, so many pivot points haha

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @river forge (current: #2 - 382)

[flint charm]

okay had a read and i didnt take any on that in , way to dumb to understand any of that haha

[river forge]

There is an example at the bottom of the page, maybe that can be useful

For the top flexbody, this will move it by -0.5m on the x axis and rotate it 180° on the z axis

You'll just need the pos part

[flint charm]

so i cant just lift the rear end up like this with the j beam?

[flint charm]

well im getting somewhere. its not exactly where i want to be but 90% of the rear end is where it needs to be , just no textures now hahahaha

[little portal]

Probably because of .001 textures

I use material utilities from blender

Shift q, specials and merge base names

[flint charm]

shift+q doesnt do anything ? i just tried, its all good man im in over my head here. might try something a bit more simple that moving links and lining them up with their mounts etc, theres alot going on with that 4link. i am learning but..

[little portal]

I believe its an addon

You just have to enable it in the addon settings thing

[valid glade]

where do i add my parts to the rear suspension to work in the jbeam

[river forge]

What do you want to add? Model, some kind of function, nodes/beams?

[olive maple]

Is there a way to link glow maps to drive modes?

[acoustic ivy]

why???

[little portal]

Just do it in the texteditor of blender

Should work aswell

[acoustic ivy]

thank you

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @little portal (current: #868 - 2)

[hard radish]

Hi. Is there any way to retrieve the true center of the current vehicle without the veh:getSpawnWorldOOBB():getCenter()? It doesn't work when spawning multiple vehicles at once.

[crystal wraith]

I’m confused, are you trying to edit this mod without permission?

Pretty sure that’s a paid mod and you basically just leaked it

[little portal]

Since when do you need permission to edit a mod for yourself 🤨

[little portal]

Ahhahahhaha

If he has it it was probably leaked before

Highly doubt it was a paid mod

[crystal wraith]

It’s pgp, most of his mods are paid

[merry crystal]

Anyone know why my front suspension works for my friend but breaks whenever he sends the mod to me? Ive tried clear cache but it still wont work

this is his video

[brittle warren]

It's shitty not to ask in the first place

[little portal]

No its not

[brittle warren]

Yes it is lol

Ask anyone that makes mods

[little portal]

So you would be offended if someone changed a few things on a mod you made for himself?

[brittle warren]

They can't cause I lock my shit

[little portal]

That doesnt answer my question?

[brittle warren]

Asking permission is common courtesy if you don't your a jack ass it's not hard to ask I ask plenty of people and always get a yes

[little portal]

Hey bbc can i change a node on your jbeam 🙏

Like who cares

[brittle warren]

Lol ur a crybaby who's mad people want common courtesy everyone here will tell u exactly what I'm telling you

[little portal]

Yea pff ive never been more mad in my life i am so mad right now

Youre getting mad at the wrong person

[brittle warren]

Lol no u just think u can do whatever with peoples mods like they are yours no that's not how it works be a decent person and ask permission it's not hard

[brittle warren]

Bro this guy lol

[little portal]

Seems like a sensitive topic for you

People editing your mods without permission?

[brittle warren]

They literally can't lol I already said that it's impossible

Also if someone want something done with my mod I just do it myself for everyone who has it

[little portal]

Any traumatic experience with people editing your mods in the past causing you to behave like this or is it autism?

[little portal]

Seems inconvenient

[brittle warren]

<@&710084482031550547> bro called me autistic for no reason

[little portal]

Nah i asked if you were or not

[brittle warren]

Nah your being a dick cause I said your supposed to ask permission

[little portal]

Tell that to the brazilian guy

[brittle warren]

He already been told your the one who has an issue with it that's why I told you. You asked the question I responded to

[little portal]

seems like youre the only one with issues about it based on your reactions

Couldnt care less if someone wants to tailor a mod to his needs but thats me

And you do tou

[olive maple]

Well they are right.. it is at least a bit of courtesy to ask anyway

[brittle warren]

I'm just a decent person lol I don't do shit to stuff that's not mine if I can ask for permission first

[little portal]

Youre treating it like its your house rather than a text file with a 3d model

Its really not that deep

[brittle warren]

Nah your probably just a mod theif probably take anything you can from other mods to use in your own bro everyone here has the same opinion as me but you lol. Grow up and ask permission lol. I'm done talking to you since you clearly aren't a decent person who understands common courtesy

[thorn jewel]

🤨

[brittle warren]

Am I wrong, in what I've said?

[thorn jewel]

No, I saw it has been handled 🙂

[little portal]

👏👏👏👏

[hidden gyro]

This mod is not paid I will send the link to it on Patreon so you can see
https://www.patreon.com/posts/113869538?utm_campaign=postshare_fan&utm_content=android_share

[crystal wraith]

Still shouldn’t edit without permission

He’s already had it happen before and trust me he doesn’t take it so kindly

[river forge]

eh, as long as the edit stays private, i dont really see the harm in it. obviously if you share it - even to just a few people - asking permission from the original author would be the right thing to do

[hidden gyro]

Thanks!

[brittle warren]

Nah asking permission from the start doesn't matter if you share it or not, he is also a nice person and will probably say yes

[river forge]

fair enough

[brittle warren]

Any one know why this is happening worked fine yesterday?

[hidden gyro]

I just wanted to show you a mod that I thought was cool since it adds hydraulic steering to the solid axle

[brittle warren]

Bro you shared a zip of someone's mod you cant do that anyways. Share a link to the patreon not the actual google drive.

[hidden gyro]

I did not know

[crystal wraith]

Everyone makes mistakes just try not to do it again

[little portal]

Atleast i am not the only one who thinks that way in here

[hidden gyro]

thanks

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @crystal wraith (current: #281 - 10)

[brittle warren]

Id also delete the link to the zip file since it's still there

[hidden gyro]

I'm going to do this but I'll leave the Patreon link beautiful

[acoustic ivy]

try adjusting the window nodes this happend to me because of glass jbeam

[dawn ibex]

anybody have some insight into methods of getting the highest point at a certain coordinate?
ie pseudo:

local x, y, z = 432, -736, 53

local alt = getHeightAtPos(x,y,z)
print("Altitude: "..alt)

[olive maple]

So I have issues with the liverys/texture works. The colours are the same on the templete yet they look washed out on the car. Any help with it would be great.

[scarlet cedar]

vivace has all the materials set to a good amount, try tinkering with the clearcoat, metallic and roughness values in the material editor

[olive maple]

alr

shud prob add a clear coat then

[scarlet cedar]

yeah

[ebon nimbus]

any idea why my downpipe is getting alot of pressure?

[olive maple]

ok I feel smth is a tad wrong

[ebon nimbus]

nvm fixed

[tepid sable]

Help I have a texture problem in beam, I took as a base a model with its textures, the textures apply perfectly to the model in other 3d viewer but in beam only two apply correctly the others don't and you can't see the patterns.
How can I solve this problem ?

In beam

[tacit halo]

as long as you dont share it you shouldnt need to ask for permission, when you flex it and showcase it then it does become a different thing but still if you keep it to yourself who cares
making it public tho - yeah that you should just ask

[tacit halo]

you are using an exhaust mainfold node, which generally is less than 20cm away from most nodes of the engine

[little portal]

Exactly

[ebon nimbus]

ah

[ebon nimbus]

which node should i put at the end]

[royal crater]

is there a way to increase the amount of lines in the debug before it starts forgetting them? I'm printing from a table, and it's too long

[ebon nimbus]

what is the requirement of exhaust node

like what defines to make it work without the no exhaust end node found error

[ebon nimbus]

Mods

Pls kick this guy before he tag everyone

[brittle warren]

<@&710084482031550547>

[royal crater]

you have to have "isExhaust" on a node, and on a beam that connects it to another node. Then it's on every beam all the way to the end.

The first beam is often from 1 engine node to another node that is a part of the default engine nodes.

[ebon nimbus]

I believe i have

I'm now considering is it the node group problem

Because the nodes and beams basically the same thing, didn't change

[royal crater]

be sure to trace the tree from the very beginning

[ebon nimbus]

Well it's short

Like only 2 nodes

More like 2 nodes per side

[royal crater]

{"isExhaust":"mainEngine"} it does have to be in the mainEngine group, or whatever group it's in

I believe it's in the name used in the powertrain section

[ebon nimbus]

Powertrain section huh

Ok ill check it when I get back home

Thanks

[ebon nimbus]

ok now im confused

ok

i figure it out

the node for the exhaust is different

[crystal wraith]

anyone know how to make a mesh a "soft collision"

[ebon nimbus]

anyone know how to do lua

i need to combine and remove stuff from a lua file but i dont know how

[royal crater]

I'm not sure what you're asking. Can you clarify?

[crystal wraith]

sorta how the tire stacks work on west coast, when you hit them you sorta go through them, making a soft impact, not like youre crashing into a wall

[royal crater]

oh, you set the ground type. I can look up the specific name, and where to find it, or is that enough to help you for now?

[crystal wraith]

is that really it lol? ive alawys seen it ans swore it didnt do anything, ill try in a sec and get back

i know the name

[royal crater]

it refers to many things like grass, and how deep you sink into it or sand, traction levels, sounds, and particles. I've even made my own custom ones

[crystal wraith]

should be this, correct?

[royal crater]

not sure, I haven't used it in over a year

[crystal wraith]

ah

i got a video by TerryMartin, so i should be okay, but i still appricate the help

so, i got how to make the mesh how i want it, but i guess since its so thin nothing happens, is there a way to insert just an invisible square from blender into beam so i can just put the square behind it and use that as the soft collision

i know what i need to do for porting assetto maps in blender, plus a miniscule amount more, but little stuff like that im just clueless

[royal crater]

when making the object in blender, make sure that your Colmesh is nice and thick

oh

[crystal wraith]

yeaa

[royal crater]

use this an an example

I don't think it has LOD beyond just the default model

[crystal wraith]

so how does a colmesh work? does it disapear in game or what? lol sorry i dont know much about other than what i do

[royal crater]

in game you can set a collision thing to be based on visual or the colmesh (and maybe other options too). The colmesh is invisible. Sorry I can't be much more help, I haven't worked on map stuff in a really long time

[crystal wraith]

its okay, i think i understand

[weak flicker]

I have reconstructed the circled area multiple times but when i got to triangle the square i get those lines as shown in the smaller circle

[crystal wraith]

got it working eventually, thanks again for the help

[toxic widget]

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[royal crater]

you don't have to triangulate before exporting. But if it's not good in game, just do it manually with the knife tool, because automated processes will often not do what you want it to do

[weak flicker]

I though the whole model had to be triangles for it to work in beam?

[royal crater]

nah, but when you export it from blender it'll triangulate for you, so be mindful of that. Though beamng can read nontriangulated polygons too

[weak flicker]

Oh ok ill try and see how it works

[crystal wraith]

if anyone knows how to setup a drag race with a working christmas tree and time signs please let me know, i know its possible but not sure how

[tacit halo]

You probably could make it a command that you have to type in and just separate it into 2 parts

[royal crater]

luckily I figured out how to be more precise with sub tables to print, and fixed the issue I was printing for too

[royal crater]

I want to break all beams of a breakGroup in lua, someone got some quick and nasty code?

[fickle raptor]

if you had made this whole mod yourself

then im confident that you will be able to learn lua all by yourself

lua isn't even that hard its like js from how easy it is

[ebon nimbus]

No i didn't do the lua

It's from automation

I only know how to do jbeam and little modeling

[fickle raptor]

jbeam = json
json = js
and js is almost like lua

not really but

[ebon nimbus]

Lua feels like something else

Same as js

But i forgot what it is, I already forgot most programming language I've learn

[fickle raptor]

how do i get people to help me with mods

do i ask them? do i ask for help with certain stuff?

do they come up to me and say im going to help you

because i see a lot of mods with like 5-10+ contributors and i have no idea how they get all of these contributions

[river forge]

Yeah if you know some other modders, just ask em if they wanna help you with something or contribute to the mod

[onyx osprey]

Good afternoon, v0.34 does not show the GroundType option, only in beta 0.23, is there any way to fix this?

[brittle warren]

They just ask for help and then credit the person for what they helped with

[fickle raptor]

ahhhhhh right

[brittle warren]

What are you making?

[fickle raptor]

currently a car mod (i know i jumped into the wrong project) that im probably gonna rework multiple times the more i learn about jbeaming and get sidetracked on until its perfect

[hard harbor]

does anyone know where i can find the bastion engine jbeam file? it doesnt exist for me

nevermind

[hard harbor]

If anyone would be so nice as to tell me whats wrong with this jbeam file i would be greatly appreciative. Im not sure what i did wrong

[inner heart]

whats wrong with it💀

[hard harbor]

uh

this...theres no pngs for the v8 models either

[inner heart]

flexbody is set to a node group that doesnt exist

[hard harbor]

i followed a tutorial on how to swap engines, however. i havent been able to follow it because the part where i have to make a new vehicle folder in documents isnt possible, i have no beamng folder in documents

[inner heart]

how old is your tutorial

[hard harbor]

so how would i fix that in the jbeam?

4 years

[inner heart]

you cant, you dont even have the nodes section for the engine

atleast copy that back in and replace the bastion_engine to muscle_engine in the flexbody section

[hard harbor]

i see

this? + the deform group below?

[inner heart]

deform group u dont need to touch

this should be enough

[hard harbor]

ok ill try. Im not sure what else i was missing, i already moved the .dds files into the folder for the vehicle.

[inner heart]

you do not need to move the dds

[hard harbor]

ok so then just delete those, thanks

[inner heart]

all of the bastion engine model/material exists in common so by design you dont need to move them

also, that goody ahh 4 years old tutorial ask u to do shit in the document folder...

... here, go to uh %appdatalocal%

you should find the beamng folder there

then in there, go to mods folder (you must have it) and create a unpacked folder in there

then, another folder for you mod name (anything, like Cs_muscle_engine)

that folder is now your mod folder where you create the vehicle folder and onward

you will see its structured similar to vanilla vehicle zips

except u dont need to fiddle with zip anymore

[hard harbor]

alright, made progress as now i can select the engine. It doesnt appear however and the parts are very jello like💀

[hard harbor]

i did not, only beam thing there is beamMP

[inner heart]

you in appdata/roaming

[hard harbor]

yes my bad lmao, i got it. Bear with me as im slow, appreicate the help

[inner heart]

likely the missing beam section for the engine

so all th nodes just falls to the ground

and confuse other flexbodies thats supposed to follow the engine nodes

[hard harbor]

i see, so in the beam directory. In the vehicle folder for "muscle" do i still copy my engine jbeam file into that? I created a new folder and then another inside of that under this path. Or am i moving/copying the muscle vehicle folder over to this new one.

[inner heart]

New folder needs to be named unpacked

then in Engine_swaps you replicate the vehicle/muscle folder structure

then u can put your jbeams in there

was vehicle plural there, i forgor

[hard harbor]

it works and drives etc, the only issue i see now is the model isnt there. Is this correct so far?

[inner heart]

your insane for modding without turning on file extension

[inner heart]

this plz

[hard harbor]

ive got no clue what that even is

Alright well so far ive got it working enough for me, i appreciate the help. This is all the time ive got for this but i suppose another day i will try and see if i can get the actual model into the car, im sure ill need blender or something.

[crystal wraith]

if anyone knows how to incorporate a working drag strip (light tree, time signs) PLEASE lmk, i tried copying from west coast but that just didnt work

[dull vigil]

If it doesnt appear put the DAE folder with the jbeamn engine

[uncut pine]

Hey...

I have a ramp object (dds)
with complete textures.
However theres a white patch on it,
almost feels like another object,
and its supposed to be a texture image
of a arrow on this ramp

But i cannot figure out where or how to find this to apply it.. ive looked everywhere, material editor etc ive tried the obvious.

Its a Stunt Constructor Arena Map from the video game Stuntman PS2 (2002). The map was made it 2014!!! And theres a lot of issues with it so im trying to fix it but i know little about world editor lol

[royal crater]

I'm having trouble with the print function in lua, why won't it print beyond the first comma?

oh, you use .. instead of ,

[worldly rain]

im trying to make custom exhausts for the fullsize grand marshall, i made the exhaust and i exported it to a unpacked folder with the exhaust jbeam in it, i changed the names to patch the ones in blender but its not appearing for me in beam

https://r2.fivemanage.com/image/Y2LAc0ZzIxE9.png

i also tried editing the body aswell by cutting out the fenders but that also doesnt appear for me

[brittle warren]

you need in your unpacked folder a folder you want your mod to be called then inside of it one called vehicles then inside of it one called fullsize so like this unpacked/nameofmod/vehicles/fullsize/yourfiles

[jolly berry]

Hi, may I ask how one can add code into the file of an other mod?
I made an add on to an existing map mod that needs one line in the existing items.level.json to run the other files. Currently I'm overwriting the whole file but that causes a lot of issues
Maybe there is a way to solve this with a script?

[storm hound]

Hey @vital robin , so, does your tacho work ?

I would like to recreate the DRIVECLUB's tachomter, but the UI doc is not very helpful...

[solid granite]

Hey guy I need some help I just downloaded a mod It's fine just I need is to fix the colour it's showing orange colour is there any way to make it black just that only that it's gonna be a great help

[river forge]

Ask the mods author to fix it

[solid granite]

He's new to this stuff he made the car mods thts suprising

[river forge]

Then he has no idea what he's doing

[solid granite]

Literally 😭hey sorry but can you tell me what should I change in the j beam to make the suspension soft

[tardy lagoon]

Does anyone know if there's a UV available for the xcSport Front Bumper for the ETK 800?

[dull vigil]

how do I publish my own mods on beamng because I've already tried but I don't want it when I put the file ?

[primal sundial]

guys, sometimes when I'm debugging things, I press ctrl+t, ctrl+b, and ctrl+n, to check the nodes
but sometimes the node I'm modifying turns red like in the picture and I have no idea why.
Does anyone know?

[brittle warren]

It's just the node you have selected in vs code it's like that so you can see it better

[primal sundial]

ohh i didn't know that, wow this will help a lot, thanks @brittle warren

[river forge]

For the repo

For the forums
(Go into whatever topic you want first though)

[dull vigil]

In fact is about my mod folder I don't know how to make my file work correctly

[river forge]

Your mods file structure should be
/mods/modname.zip/vehicles/carname/ files go here
or
/mods/modname.zip/levels/levelname/ files go here

For working on mods you can also have an unpacked version in /mods/unpacked/, but the version that you share should always be the packed (zipped) version

[dull vigil]

thank

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @river forge (current: #2 - 385)

[gleaming cipher]

How do i fix this

[brittle warren]

You broke dudes mod

[hard gyro]

Ok so I’m messing with getting engines from one mod to work on another mod.

It’s all within the Nine.

So I got the engines to show up in the part selector, on the frame I want them on.

But when I pick them, it auto switches back to the default engine for that frame

[gleaming cipher]

by adding skins? and making configs for the skins?

Not sure how that makes sence cause i have never touched the Wheels

[brittle warren]

You did something lol noone else has the issue as far as I can see

[gleaming cipher]

So me makin skins & configs is me doing something wrong... GOT It

it also is the same with a fresh install... so

idk stright from the repo install

[brittle warren]

What wheel and tire combo?

[gleaming cipher]

im gonna try it again rq...

its making me lag at the Showroom map

[brittle warren]

works just fine for me

[hard gyro]

Why is this happening.

All i did was move engines from one frame to another

[brittle warren]

Try restarting the game ive had that happen before

[hard gyro]

Ok. And if it doesn’t work? I’m trying to make a mod that lets me merge two of my fav mod parts together

[brittle warren]

Hmm did you make surre all the slot types were corrects and do you have any errors in the console

[hard gyro]

Ok so it appears when I have the mod the parts come from activated, it doesn’t work, but when I deactivate the mod, the parts show up but the engines don’t wanna work

[brittle warren]

Are there any cusytom lua files or anything in the mod?

[hard gyro]

Not sure what that is

I’m trying to take the engines and slanted radiator from the rod shop nine mod, and put them on the frame of the 4wd nine mod, while still having the 4wd nine transmissions available for those added engines

[brittle warren]

i would try asking the mod authors and maybe they can help you out

does the mod have a lua folder?

[hard gyro]

No

Also, pretty sure neither of them are here

[brittle warren]

this mod?

[hard gyro]

Yes

Ok, so the rod shop stuff has channeled and sectioned pickup.

I wanna put it on the 4wd chassis.

However, the radiators and engines on that chassis clip the hoods from the rod shop mod.

So I’m trying to move the engines and radiators from the rod shop to that frame so it doesn’t clip, while also keeping it 4wd, hence needing to swap the transmissions too.

I figured it’s easier to explain it fully than blindly ask about problems with no context

[gleaming cipher]

wrong photo

Got it

[brittle warren]

yea probably just deleted what you did and cleared your cache

[brittle warren]

well this is the error im getting when trying it

[dull vigil]

how i can change props engine position ?

[brittle warren]

use the in gmae prop transformer and then copy those values to the jbeam in the props section

open it with shift f11 then click live editor then apps and prop transformer

This isnt the place to ask people to make mods

[hard gyro]

I had to restart making the mod. Bunch of BS happened and it all got screwed

[waxen ridge]

ok hwere do i then

[brittle warren]

You dont

[waxen ridge]

where*

ok

[brittle warren]

people make what they want most dont do commisions and if they do it cost a lot because it takes time

[dull vigil]

wich one ?

[brittle warren]

are you in live view?

[dull vigil]

no

[brittle warren]

cause you should have prop trnaformer

do live view

[dull vigil]

i found thank

[hard gyro]

What does this mean?

[gleaming cipher]

Cache didn't do anything...

I deleted the version that's broken then I again reinstalled it then I put everything that needs to be in there in there

[dull vigil]

i copy the value where ?

[brittle warren]

well they have names in the prop transformer copy them to the corresponding name

[dull vigil]

ok

[hard gyro]

Ok I went through the two engine files and can’t find wtf that error code is talking about

What could I possibly be missing?

[brittle warren]

I couldnt figure it out either lol

[dull vigil]

i have a problem when i make the good folder structure the mod doesn't work

[hard gyro]

Ok so I figured it out. In those engine jbeam files from the nine, the name at the very very top of the txt file didn’t match what it was saved as. Changing that fixed everything (once I also changed the transmission slot types)

[brittle warren]

Because thats not your mod folder

[distant pendant]

are we able to edit ai script paths?

[dull vigil]

ah 🤣 🤣 🤣

new problem doesn't work agaon

[hard gyro]

Ok I found a NEW problem.

How do I make 1 part able to go to two slot types?

Like, the radiator slot for two different frames

[viral juniper]

"slotType" : ["slot1","slot2"]

[hard gyro]

So the problem now is that when I have MY mod activated, the base mod that I’m working with no longer uses the part that I moved to another frame even though I didn’t edit the base mod

[brittle warren]

Yo thats sick i wish i knew that lol

[hard gyro]

I hate this shit.

If I use the rod shop tilted radiator in my mod thing, it disappears from the normal rod shop stuff. Idk why it won’t just go to BOTH things

[brittle warren]

make acopy of the jbeam and rename it

[hard gyro]

I tried. It breaks

Everything I’ve used I renamed with a 1 at the end. Then they don’t show up at all

[brittle warren]

cant use numbers

[hard gyro]

slams head into desk

That didn’t work either

Now it just doesn’t show up at all

@brittle warren if i change the name at all, it doesn’t show up

[brittle warren]

Hmm send me your jbeams in either dms or in here it dont matter

[hard gyro]

Now the goddamn engines disappeared.

[livid egret]

Guys, I'm trying to put an emblem on the steering wheel but it doesn't appear even though the 3d model and textures are perfect.
What could it be?

[dull vigil]

it doesn't work i tried

[royal crater]

you can you export a crashed car from beamng right? can you also include the node - beam - triangle structure too with it?

[brittle warren]

The gltf exporter but I don't think so for the beam stuff

[royal crater]

bummer, thanks though. I tried using the world editor exporter for dae, but didn't seem to be able to open it

[brittle warren]

The world editor exporter always crashes for me

[royal crater]

doesn't for me, but the file is unopenable, and looking at the code of the exported file.... yeah I dunno what I'm looking for lol

I just used gltf with jbeam ticked, and it opens fine, but no collision mesh

[warped sun]

i ask upon thee modders for help with my dumb idea
I want to take the MD series extended cab and drop it on the T series, so it'd be an extended cab and a sleeper cab on the same frame. I also want to engine options of the T series.
where do i even start to pull out the models and stitch them together

[royal crater]

there's more than just putting models over. If you don't care about collisions being any good, it'll be a little easier.

here you'll get basic info about models and how to import/export them

though if this is your first mod, you'll probably want to start with something a little simpler

[cunning zealot]

is there anyway to add something like airbag suspension to an automation vehicle? its for this storm chasing car that drops down to the ground using airbags. Example of what im trying to do is in the images attached.

[royal crater]

you can look at the car that looks like the crown vic, it has that

.

[cunning zealot]

Alr thanks

[pine skiff]

Is their any way about making assets (buildings and such) for maps? I have extensive experience in blender so just need to know the process of exporting and importing into the world editor:D

[little cedar]

This is the most up to date I can find
https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/levels/export_dae/

As far as I can remember, its like that

[pine skiff]

Alright, thanks. I’m illiterate but I’ll do my best to follow them, might find a YouTube tutorial somewhere but thanks for the help 😄

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[little cedar]

I was going to link this tutorial too but I didnt know if youd be quicker just by reading the text
https://youtu.be/49rOdSBpuSs?si=VXZLC_Hc4ff_avZP

[pine skiff]

I’ll try both, thanks a lot. This will make me actually have a chance of making my map. I’m a perfectionist and I’m making a replica map soo. Thanks again🙏

[little cedar]

No problem. It's good to see map creators using their own custom assets compared to stock BeamNG assets. Not saying that beamNG assets are bad, but theres only a small amount, and many maps use the same assets etc.

Whats the replica map youre working on?

[pine skiff]

A small little town in the north of Sweden 😄
might be ambitious for a first project but we power through

[little cedar]

Sounds good. How many KM squared?

[pine skiff]

Id really like to make it a snowy version, but first I’ll make the summer version 😄

[pine skiff]

Not too sure just yet how big I want it, but at least 3 I think. Need to take a look at the actual area

[little cedar]

I was working on a 4km squared map in Beam from PTS, and then I realised how long its going to take for all the roads to be dpne, let alone houses, trees, signs etc

Its a big project, but always remember that when its done itll be worth it

[pine skiff]

Yeah, I get that. But for this project I’m not making it for only me 😄 me and my cousins love blasting around in beamng and then I got the brilliant idea of making the actual area we grew up in, so if I lose motivation they can just call me out on it lmao

[little cedar]

Wow, that is actually amazing. Your actual location in BeamNG, where you can do whatever you want. It sounds so fun! Good luck!

[pine skiff]

Thank you 😄

[little cedar]

No problem!

[pine skiff]

Do you have any tips on ”pausing” the side walk on one side for access roads and such? I’m Using the road architect tool 😄

[little cedar]

No I do not. I think you can disable one side, but not remove a portion

So the only thing you can do is create a road until the access road, create a smaller road with no sidewalk, and continue the previous road

[pine skiff]

Aaah okey 😄 can I maybe use a T section and modify it somehow?

[little cedar]

I think

[little cedar]

T sections for me atleast have sidewalks on all sides

It could be possible though

[pine skiff]

I’ll have to investigate more when I’m at the pc 😄

[royal crater]

if you're making roads with beamng's inbuilt road maker, you can export it as a .dae from the top left file menu

[pine skiff]

How would that help me?

[royal crater]

if you make the road in beamng, but it's not quite right, you can export it, delete it, edit it in blender, then re-import it into beamng

[pine skiff]

Aaah, I see. Thanks for the tip👍

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[tacit halo]

the gltf exporter does export crashed cars

[royal crater]

the hope was to get the node/beam/triangle stuff to use in blendeer, not the model

[tacit halo]

oh does it even export jbeam at all? i dont think so really

your only option really is just imporiting the crashed model, then adjusting the jbeam to fit it

[little cedar]

Is there any way to make these links clickable in an info.json file for a configuration?

[slow glen]

Help. JBeam wrote it correctly. Why does the body stand like this

[hybrid dune]

in blender select the body
CTRL A, select all transforms and re-export

[slow glen]

Thank you

[toxic widget]

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[hybrid dune]

Np

[hybrid dune]

i dont believe so for security reasons

[little cedar]

Makes sense. People could exploit it to run external code

Thanks for the help!

[hybrid dune]

np

[pine skiff]

Is there a way to get accurate height info into world creator?

[pine skiff]

Like from real life, satellite image or some

[past basin]

Hi guys, since update 0.34, only the "Bruckell Nine" got the smooth halogens light. Because of that I´m making a mod that almost every vanilla car got smooth halogens light. Headlight, Highbeam, Lowbeam, indicators, reverselight etc. Though it is just a small changes, it´s still looks very cool and realistics.
you can be my tester via this link : https://www.beamng.com/threads/realistic-halogens-lights-for-all-vanilla-vehicle-v0-34-2.102885/#post-1808948
Oh and some feedback will be helpfull. thanks

[little cedar]

You can use LiDAR data, such as a point map I believe its called, and use a GIS program to convert it to a heightmap to then import into BeamNG

[dull vigil]

how i can resolve this ?

[little cedar]

Nodes arent connected by the looks of it. I am not sure how to fix though, but I do know that smoke and flames are projected at the node at the end of the exhaust

[slow glen]

how can I fix transparency?

[unique zealot]

You need to add a solidify modifier because it’s only 1 sided, that being the outside

[slow glen]

Thank you

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Gave +1 Reputation to @unique zealot (current: #74 - 42)

[dull vigil]

what i do after copy the base translation ?

[glacial tundra]

Dude is live

[unique zealot]

this is baking the lighting into the render, at least from the preview, how do I not do it?

this isnt technically for a mod, although it would be related in a sense

[pine skiff]

That would be great, do you know of some tutorial or anything about that? At least lidar data to height map part 😄

[novel wagon]

how do i add more Nm to my engine without increasing horsepower??

if that is possible

[inner heart]

are you looking for replicating irl engines that have high torque but low horsepower?

if so you are looking for low end torque

else you are looking for the relation between torque and power

[novel wagon]

yeah, its a diesel engine ive got but it feels very weak for what it is

low revving and i need more nm

[acoustic ivy]

what car are you tryna make?

[inner heart]

generally the easiest thing is find the torque curve for your engine

[acoustic ivy]

is it inline 4?

[inner heart]

or just remember that power=torque*rpm across the full rpm range

[novel wagon]

just making a 6 cylinder diesel engine

[acoustic ivy]

cool

[inner heart]

so high torque at low rpm produce average power

[novel wagon]

alright ill tweak a little thx 🔥

[acoustic ivy]

where can you tweak it tho?

[novel wagon]

engine jbeam 👍

[acoustic ivy]

i thought automation

[novel wagon]

ohh okay

used to do a lot of automation but ive moved over to actual modding now

[acoustic ivy]

i never tried that is it good?

i kinda want to buy that game for my pickup engine

[novel wagon]

made this badboy in automation but theres still a lot of stuff i need to fix just that i dont have motivation

[acoustic ivy]

try this line for tweaking

[novel wagon]

id say its pretty fun

[acoustic ivy]

im not sure tho

[novel wagon]

yessir thats right

[acoustic ivy]

cool

[twilit python]

Use just one road, loop it all around the track. I made a track relatively similar to that and that's what I had done. I should be able to help. Give me a second and I'll send some photo's.

[crystal wraith]

That was almost a week ago.. track is already done and released

[twilit python]

Oh, lol.

[crystal wraith]

I don’t think you understand that it’s impossible to put a large track on it, it needed to be the inside loop only

[twilit python]

Oh ok.

Is it AI or decal?

Oh that's AI, isn't it?

[crystal wraith]

Decal is for ai

[weak flicker]

So i have a question regarding testing stuff in game, Say i need to see how headlight or a dashboard or something looked in game before the vehicle was done, Could i just give it a Jbeam and Spawn it or how would i go about that?

[restive violet]

hello i want help for learning how to create mods or codind an interface ui for create a rp server with a lot of things but i have no help in the doc and nothings is explain for me because i don't understand and when i made the things they tell nothing is functionnal

[onyx osprey]

https://www.beamng.com/resources/ebisu-north-course.33571/

[keen notch]

?

[brittle warren]

?

[little cedar]

Hey, sorry for not responding earlier. This should help
https://www.beamng.com/threads/tutorial-level-building-with-lidar.39370/

[twilit python]

I'm looking at the files right now and can't quite figure it out. Some help would be appreciated.

[stuck willow]

Hey guys, so I'm not to familiar with how modding sounds work, but i have Hellraiser's RB25 sound mod that i really wanna put into this super sick Nissan Stagea mod. Could someone explain to me the process of going about that? I don't need the engine model itself, just the sound. Thanks in advanced. DMs open btw.

[brittle warren]

just open both jbeams for then engines and look for the sound config section and copy it from the one you want and replace the one you want to put it into

[stuck willow]

oh ok, thanks. so do i have to unzip the mod folder? and then open in my notepad++? sorry, like i said, im kinda new to all this

[brittle warren]

you need to unpack it in the beam ng mod manager then yest you can use notepad but if your going to want to continue modding i suggest you get vs code and download the jbeam addon for it

[stuck willow]

ok good to know. do i need to unpack both mods?

[brittle warren]

yes

[stuck willow]

ight. and then copy the sound config and paste it in the config slot of the nissan?

[brittle warren]

yep

[stuck willow]

then repack it when im done? do i need to do any special saving techniques?

[brittle warren]

yea just repack it'

[stuck willow]

ok cool ,thanks. Lets ee how this goes lol

oh and can i leave beam open for this? or do i need to close it?

[brittle warren]

it can be open

[stuck willow]

ok cool

is the sound config typically under the engine slot?

[brittle warren]

yea

[stuck willow]

hell yeah bro, that worked. Thanks a bunch. Easy enough

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[pine skiff]

no scans are available for this high north 😦 imma cry fr

ive checked basically all known sites

[little cedar]

Damn

Yeah thats the thing about LiDAR data

Its expensive and some areas dont have it

So they only do important areas

[pine skiff]

my shitty small town in the north is important😡

[little cedar]

If you have blender you can use BlenderGIS and maybe get a heightmap on a displaced plane

That you can use for BeamNG

But its resolution could be better

I think its 10m/pixel or something

Depends on your scale

[pine skiff]

hmm..

Damn

might jusat ahve to make it for hand. but the tools in world editor isnt the best

[little cedar]

That would take forever, surely theres a heightmap somewhere

Maybe this would work
https://tangrams.github.io/heightmapper/

[pine skiff]

i doubt it.. iots not really a well known plave. thers like 3k inhabitants

[little cedar]

It seems that there is heightmap for everywhere

[pine skiff]

this just broke as soon as i try and zookm in

[little cedar]

It works fine for me. Maybe your internet isnt fast enough to load the tiles quick enough?

[pine skiff]

honestly might put project on hold (before it even starts) and do some simpler to first understand the world editor

wait wait wait i got this

how do i get a heightmap into beam :0

[dull vigil]

i have a problem , i made piping for my engine mod but he doesn't appear in the game

[pine skiff]

ive gotten herer but whn i press import nothing happends

[little cedar]

Is it a 16bit grayscale file?

[pine skiff]

yeap

[little cedar]

There isnt already a terrain block in the map or scenetree?

[pine skiff]

removed it, still wouldnt work

[little cedar]

Only thing I can think of is to relaunch

It always fixes an issue

Dont know why though

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[pine skiff]

ill give it a try

[pine skiff]

now the file dialog wont rtead them

[little portal]

If i wanted to make a strut, can it be the same 2 nodes for the spring and shock or do i have to make a seperate node next to the spring f.e.

[pine skiff]

a normal just flat map works, but not my downloaded one. so its something wrong with that one :/

[little cedar]

Hmm

[little cedar]

Youre working in an umpacked folder right?

[pine skiff]

yes

[little cedar]

Apart from that, I dont know what the issue is

It has to be that specific file

[pine skiff]

yeah i guess so, where can i get just a genereic heightmap that will work for sure=

[little cedar]

Not sure

Last time I use tangram mapper it worked fine

Maybe re-convert the image

[pine skiff]

real bummer :/ damn

[little cedar]

Sorry about that

You were so close

[pine skiff]

not really your fault 😄 just wont work :/

im gonna give some tutorials a watvh lmao

[little cedar]

Might be a good idea

[pine skiff]

yhanks for al lthe help 😄 im sure youll see me asking more questions in here in about 30 mins but still hahahah

[little cedar]

Ah thats ok. Hopefully you can find a good tutorial

[pine skiff]

learning LT3D rn which ive read is useful 😄

[little cedar]

Yeah it is pretty good. Ive used it before too, but I couldnt get the terrain I wanted

Gaea is another terrain tool. Dont know if youve heard of it

Its node based so you can control more

Kind of like World Machine

[pine skiff]

i have in my blender days 😄 ill have to try it out aswell. im quite aq big fan of nodes ahahah

[gleaming cipher]

What map is Hirochi speedway on?

[little cedar]

What do you mean. The racetrack is either on Hirochi Raceway in the map selector, or the West Coast USA Raceteack, which is in the middle of West Coast USA?

[gleaming cipher]

Thanks

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[little cedar]

No problem

Hirochi raceway is the full racetrack map, the racetrack on west coast is in the middle and has a drag strip and rally track too

[dull vigil]

how i can install a txt ?

[river forge]

Apply a material to the model in Blender, it's just the name that matters. As for how the material will look, either use the name of an exising material, or create a new one yourself
https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/materials/vehicle/typicalmaterials/

[dull vigil]

ok

[gleaming cipher]

Im having a issue where my new skin materials is not being read in Game. AgentY said theres nothing wrong (That he can see). The JSon is validated through the Validater.

Can Anyone one Help?

Even after a cache clear nothing

[pine skiff]

does anyone know of where to find good textrures for decal roads for beamng?

[pine skiff]

whenever i try to change the mesh of anything, in this case a barrier no list comes up where i can choose mesh. it used to come up but not anymore

[little cedar]

Usually the stock textures are good enough, you just need to do some searching

I know when I was getting the textures for my Endeavour, I actually took photos with my phones camera and edited them

[pine skiff]

yeah i think ill make do and just do details with decal roads 😄

[pine skiff]

but do you know a way around this issue?

[little cedar]

No, I am not experienced with RA

I tried to use it but it was too buggy so I stopped working on it and waiting until theres some updates

I had to restart Beam multiple times when using RA just to get a road and an intersection done

So maybe just restart

[pine skiff]

tried that :/
i myself cant get mesh roads to work and i need the terrain deform option

[pine skiff]

do you know how i can modify the grippyness of some textures? asphalt prepped is way to grippy

[little cedar]

I believe its in the material settings

GroundType or something

[pine skiff]

Yes indeed, is that also where I’d change it for like snow maps?

[little cedar]

Yup

I remember seeing a snow groundmodel somewhere

[pine skiff]

Alright 😄

These roads are so annoying? Why does the side effect on it dissapear, and the white lines sometimes 2

[cunning zealot]

Is there any way to swap from the default automation suspension to hydraulic suspension from the grand marshal on my automation car? I'd like to keep the same wheels and tires as the automation export though. This is my first mod so idk anything tbh.

[slow glen]

How can I fix this warning? If you look at the trunk, you can see how these dots "dangle left to right"

[brittle warren]

Well it says zero size beam meaning you have a beam between 2 nodes that are in the same exact position

[slow glen]

Okay. Thank you!

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[pine skiff]

anyone know why one side of the road is not showing up? it goes ther WHOLE road

well, it switches?

[terse dawn]

Help please! Im trying to make a map but i don't want to make terrain all by hand, i have DAE file of terrain but idk how to convert it to TER or something that can bring my terrain to beamng

[river forge]

Try looking at how the island (with the harbour and refinery) on West Coast USA is set up, if I remember correctly that also uses a 3d model instead of traditional terrain

[terse dawn]

yeah you're right, but my main problem that im not good at 3d modeling so yeah im searching for alternative, i wanted to do height map but yeah i can't generate heightmap of area i want

[pine skiff]

i really cant figure out why the sides arent showing up.. anyonje know? im using RA

[terse dawn]

here

fix that bend and it will work

if you will bend road to much the texture doesn't load correctly

[pine skiff]

but its weird this looks correct

[terse dawn]

too bendy

[terse dawn]

it doesn't always clip/cut texture

[pine skiff]

ooh :/ ill try and fix

[pine skiff]

dosent fix it:/ maybe ill add them by hand

[cunning zealot]

i also have notepad++ so i can edit jbeam files because ill need to

[crystal wraith]

You can bring terrain to mesh in terrain editor

[terse dawn]

im not sure if it will work

[terse dawn]

nvm it works, but i needed to change max height of terrain modifier

[vital osprey]

Hey guys,ive got an issue with a part im editing

The part shows up ingame,and i want it to be positioned like this

But its like this regardless what i put in the JBEAM

[river forge]

Select the part in Blender and do Ctrl+A > All Transforms

Then reexport

That will reset its transforms (position, rotation, etc.) back to 0 without actually moving it, hopefully that fixes it

[vital osprey]

Okay!

Thanks @river forge

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[merry crystal]

Anyone know why my textures get messed up when i duplicate the signal model? I use the same textures. I needed to change the postiion of the signals because they were positined different on the new bumper.

(Left is correct Right is broken)

[dull vigil]

i habe a problem when i want to put material and texture its do this and after that rename all props like that as a result i have no texture in game

[river forge]

just select the little drop down menu here and click the same material but without the .001

[dull vigil]

okay thank you

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[dull vigil]

I don't know how i can resolve the problem pls help me

[river forge]

UV map issue, check out some YouTube tutorials about UV maps and how they work

[dull vigil]

ok

[little portal]

Ive always used material utilities for that, didnt know it could be done like this

[gleaming cipher]

I need help making base scheme pack for a mod. I have tried. But I can't do it to save my life. It's confusing cause the Skins in the main (info I think it is) JBeam..

And when I tried to copy/paste it was wouldn't work or read the new materials in the new file

I have cleared cache, read and went through the docs, Restarted several times, ran both Materials &Jbeam in the validater. It's saying both are fine.

[dull vigil]

i put a texture in blender but in game it doesn't work

[river forge]

Beamng uses its own material system, all that matters in blender is the name of the material

[little portal]

And mapping of the material ofcourse

[merry crystal]

Anyone know?

[brittle warren]

What's broken it looks just like the outer mesh is missing?

[merry crystal]

All the parts are there its the texture that looks weird

even though i used the same textures i just duplicated the moel

[brittle warren]

Did u make sure your normals aren't backwards

[merry crystal]

Yep normals are fine

[brittle warren]

so the orange material just isnt showing up?

[merry crystal]

No it showing up but is not coloured the same. It just looks weird and the glowmaps don’t work correctly. They just flash white

Instead of orange like normal

[brittle warren]

oh well in the pics u sent it doesnt look like its there at all um did u use control c to copy or shift d?

[merry crystal]

Control c

[brittle warren]

use shift d so it doenst make new materials and have .001 at the end its just a better way to do it idk if it messes other things up but id do it that way

[little portal]

Or enable the material utils, shift q, specials and merge base names

[merry crystal]

Ok thanks guys I’ll try this later 👍

[wintry sigil]

anyone able to give me a hand creating a mod to put standard wheels (4,5,6 lug) onto a semi? spent hours messing around but could never get my wheel adapters to show up in the semi parts list?

[hushed mulch]

Wouldn't that just be an issue of setting the correct slotType?

[wintry sigil]

Tried that, went through the files to find what a semi wheel slot type is, that didn't work, so I adjusted the directory, that didn't work, found a semi wheels mod and added another modders wheel adaptors to that same dir with ajusted slot types and that didn't work either

There's no existing mod for wheel adaptors and very few semi wheel mods, so not heaps to base anything on.
I think there's more to the semi wheels than just the slot type for some bizarre reason

[hushed mulch]

How used to modding are you? Are your folders set up so parts get placed into the US_SEMI folder?

[wintry sigil]

Not used to modding at all, I've got very basic experience playing with jbeam but quite a bit more with other languages ect

Pretty sure I followed all the directories, tried a few different locations too

[hushed mulch]

So if it's for the vanilla semi the path for your mod should be:
C:\Users${USER}\AppData\Local\BeamNG.drive\0.34\mods\unpacked${MOD_NAME}\vehicles\us_semi
or
C:\Users${USER}\AppData\Local\BeamNG.drive\0.34\mods${MOD_NAME}\vehicles\us_semi
Depending on how you're doing it.

And for making sure that you're using the correct slotType you can see what it's set to by going to "More options" > "Display names".

[jaunty panther]

does someone have beammp now? i want to test my mod rq

dm me

[gleaming cipher]

How soon do you need it tested? I got MP & a Server

[jaunty panther]

my server is running just join

[gleaming cipher]

I'm not home. I'll hop on this afternoon

[jaunty panther]

im testing it with a friend now

[deft stone]

guys, is here anyone knows about how do I put modded engines to modded vehicles? like, making Chevelle mod able to select Hellraiser's engines in config menu for example

[primal sundial]

you may have to make several changes, but in the example you gave, you would have to put the modified engines you mentioned in the chevelle slots

[silent glade]

tried changing the muffler in the tseries to my custom one

idk why it doesnt change the muffling in the exhaust

like it stays the same all the time can someone help me

[distant pendant]

make sure the uv is correct

[livid hemlock]

Can someone tell me how this happens? THe UV a right and the correct texture is applied

[distant pendant]

whats wrong?

[livid hemlock]

the diffusor should be carbon and the spoiler is shaded weird

[distant pendant]

can you post your materials and uvs?

you've provided no information to give ya any help with lol

[river forge]

Shading issue, which is an issue with the model itself, not with the uv or material

[brittle warren]

anyone know why my hubs wont move no matter how much offset i use

[normal light]

i have an issue that feels super close to one folks were helping with recently; long story short i'm new to modding and have created a cylinder in Blender to bring into Beam as a test. i can load the cylinder and i can see/grab the nodes and hear collisions but not see anything. i assigned a material in Blender but i'm a bit of a noob there too. i suspect i'm doing something wrong with the flexbody stuff but am finally frustrated enough to ask for help

[brittle warren]

are your node group and the group for the flexbody the same

like that

[livid hemlock]

Im using the vanilla scintilla material

[distant pendant]

did you click assign?

[livid hemlock]

but i reseted the vectors and in blender it looks normal

[livid hemlock]

yeah

[normal light]

"flexbodies": [
["mesh", "[group]:", "nonFlexMaterials"],
["missile_placeholder", ["missile_placeholder"]]

that group thing is where i'm scratching my head

[unique zealot]

is the mesh name the same as the name in blender

[normal light]

yes

[brittle warren]

so scroll down to nodes and see what the group name it

[normal light]

there's no group at all as far as i can tell, it's just 1 rectangle basically as far as the jbeam is concerned?

[brittle warren]

"flexbodies":[
["mesh", "[group]:", "nonFlexMaterials"],
["axleR", ["axleR"]],
["longshockR", ["axleR","buggy"]],

],

//--Nodes--
"nodes":[
["id", "posX", "posY", "posZ"],
{"group":"axleR"},
{"frictionCoef":0.5},
{"nodeMaterial":"|NM_METAL"},
{"collision":true},
{"selfCollision":false},
{"nodeWeight":12},
["axr0",1.2285,1.5483,0.5182],
["axr1",1.2285,1.5483,0.6269],
["axr2",1.2285,1.5483,0.7356],
["axr3",1.2285,1.3492,0.5182],
["axr4",1.2285,1.3492,0.6269],
["axr5",1.2285,1.3492,0.7356],
["axr6",0.614,1.5483,0.5182],
["axr7",0.614,1.5483,0.6269],
["axr8",0.614,1.5483,0.7356],
["axr9",0.614,1.3492,0.5182],
["axr10",0.614,1.3492,0.6269],
["axr11",0.614,1.3492,0.7356],

it should be something like this in the jbeam at the top of the nodes section you have to have a node group

[normal light]

"nodes": [
["id", "posX", "posY", "posZ"],
["m1", -0.075, -0.075, 0],
["m2", 0.075, -0.075, 0],
["m3", -0.075, 0.075, 0],
["m4", 0.075, 0.075, 0],
["m5", -0.075, -0.075, 1],
["m6", 0.075, -0.075, 1],
["m7", -0.075, 0.075, 1],
["m8", 0.075, 0.075, 1]
],

no group because it's literally just 1 object?

[brittle warren]

you have to have a group its just how it works bro

mine is also one object

[normal light]

right, not trying to push back at all -- i'm just brand new and looking to understand

[brittle warren]

copy the stuff from the top of mine and replace the group name with axleR with missile_placeholder

"nodes":[
["id", "posX", "posY", "posZ"],
{"group":"missile_placeholder"},
{"frictionCoef":0.5},
{"nodeMaterial":"|NM_METAL"},
{"collision":true},
{"selfCollision":false},
{"nodeWeight":12},

here i did it for u just replace urs with this right above m1

[normal light]

appreciate it, i'm just taking what you told me and using it to identify how it applies to other stuff i've tried -- thank you

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[normal light]

i didn't realize that groups were a requirement and i can see in other stuff where i was unintentionally getting it right basically on accident, which goes a long way towards explaining my confusion

much appreciated @brittle warren

[brittle warren]

Lmk if it works and we will keep trying to figure out why it isnt if not

[normal light]

that did the trick, which immediately confirmed my suspicion that the invisible object's nodes are also connected wildly incorrectly hahaha. thank you SO MUCH for the help!

just started a day or two ago but i have a pretty strong relevant skillset so here's hoping i can make something fun

[brittle warren]

Yw theres a lot of weird stuff you learn when you first start out lol and jbeam is also just annoying sometimes so even if you do it right it still just may not work lol

[normal light]

glad to have found this channel so when i hit the point of "what am i doing with my life" i can at least ask the question somewhere hahaha

[brittle warren]

yea theres always people in here helping there is also a modding for dummies discord in this message #mods-faq message there are a lot of experienced people in there who can usually give more in depth help

[normal light]

ty, joined that discord! i missed that in the FAQ, thanks

[onyx osprey]

Hello, does anyone have a script that can randomly activate and deactivate precipitation?

I don't understand anything about programming, I tried to use the dynamiclights and chatgpt script as a base, but it didn't work.

[brittle warren]

some modded maps use ck map controller for that

[rancid wedge]

I want to add these bottom two keybinds and input actions, but how do I do that without overwriting the existing file and making the mod incompatible with others?

[onyx osprey]

I will look into it, thanks

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[brittle warren]

you can make your own by just renaming things and then put it in

[rancid wedge]

you mean renaming the file itself?

the ones I showed are the finished keybinds and stuff, but when I put that into my mod, doesn't that conflict with other mods trying to add other keybinds this way?

[brittle warren]

it would only affect the car your using

[rancid wedge]

well it's for the D-series, and before this I just used the rollback's tilt actions to controll it but there seem to be mods that break that, so if I add it this way wouldn't that also conflict?

there are many mods that add keybinds to the D-series

[hard gyro]

Ok so, I’m trying to put the CNVY long arm suspension on the CNVY LJ hopper frame.
Everything “works” but screen vibrates and parts of the frame are being wobbly almost like it’s clipping.

Unsure why, need help please

@burnt crown (sorry for the ping)

Have you looked into this before?

[burnt crown]

Unless there's a new problem with beam, i use the long arm shocks and springs on the LJ a fair bit and I haven't had those issues yet

[hard gyro]

Hmm.
I’m not sure what I did wrong then.

Would I be able to send you the jbeam i cobbled together?

I’m 99% sure I added everything required, seeing as the suspension actually functions. It just likes to vibrate wildly rn

[burnt crown]

Oh you're trying to do the links and stuff too. That idk about. It probably has to do with the beam spring damping

[hard gyro]

Crap

It seems like the frame is vibrating roughly where the skidplate mounts

One sec

[burnt crown]

Yeah it's probably cause the rear suspension is so far away from the original mounting points and it doesn't like it

You have to make a whole new frame that moves the suspension points back, if you try and just put the long arm suspension onto the regular frame the beams are going to be super short

[hard gyro]

What I tried was just making a copy of the LJ frame specifically for this one and it seems like they’re connected at the right points

Yeah this is all that’s happening

It drives and the suspension cycles fine

[burnt crown]

I'd copy the long arm frame and move the rear jbeam points back like I did for the LJ

[hard gyro]

Ok just noticed the engine wobbles quite a lot

[hard gyro]

Wouldn’t that make the frame short?

Like, completely too short for the LJ body?

[burnt crown]

You have to move the entire rear of the jbeam back 10", then the rear bumper part another 5" on top of that

That's all I did to make the LJ in the first place

[hard gyro]

Ok uh.
What parts would that be?

I’m not knowledgeable on jbeam whatsoever honestly

Just had random idea

[burnt crown]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1281824546000863262/1306785563847692379/image.png?ex=67abf265&is=67aaa0e5&hm=dea30fbf416e735286a96e133aa1c685d244c12cf8c8e8e1041b1b12fdf0363b& I'm working on a new LJ anyway which includes the long arm

[hard gyro]

Oh

If I still wanted to figure this out as a learning experience, what parts should I extend?

[burnt crown]

Open the LJ frame and the regular frame and you'll see. I'm at work and it's been awhile so I don't exactly remember

[hard gyro]

Ok. Thanks

Yup that worked perfectly, thank you!!!

HUZZAH
Yes I added the pickup roof, love pickup roofs

[tacit tulip]

Ooo that’s cool

[hard gyro]

I know! I had this idea since 12 hours ago

And now it’s 99% working. (Minus the pickup roof having broken rear glass because the mod I used it from for personal use wasn’t fully finished)

This is just for my own use.

I only say that as it’s literally just two peoples mods meshed

[brittle warren]

so where my wheels lol?

[hard gyro]

Nvm. The long arm suspension doesn’t track straight. Whole thing is ruined

how is that possible that under acceleration it tracks straight but under deceleration it veers left? Solid front axles suck lol

[deft stone]

umm...can u explain more? I have 0 knowledge about modding or programming..

is that like just simply putting files into folder?

[brittle warren]

are his engines in common? if so you can just make a copy of your Chevelle frame jbeam and rename it then find the slot type for the engine and change it to the one that hellraiser uses in his slot type

[deft stone]

hmmm not sure

maybe visual tutorial would help if you're fine

[brittle warren]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtCAgj2JMj4 try this

[deft stone]

thx

well, since I'm trying to work on this only for sounds, would just replacing sound files would make it easier?

(btw idk how do I swap engine or sounds neither yet)

[hard gyro]

@burnt crown (last ping I promise)

Would it be at all possible to add the bypass shock suspension to the LJ?

[burnt crown]

I mean, it's possible, but I'm not gunna be the one to do it lol

[hard gyro]

Fair

[brittle warren]

yes sound files is super easy just look for sound config in both engine jbeams and replace the one from the chevelle one with the one from the hellraiser one

[deft stone]

alright thanks for replying

[hard harbor]

when i try to edit the jbeam file for an engine, i click save and instead of saving it, it makes a completely new file. If i try to put the new one in and replace the old i get an error for file is invalid or corrupt? is there anyway to fix this?

[little cedar]

You extracted the .zip file right?

[pine skiff]

How do you guys go about making good looking parking lots and such? Cannot for the life figure it out

[hard harbor]

it’s not even a zip, it’s a jbeam file. There shouldn’t be anything to extract. I’m editing through notepad ++ then saving

[little cedar]

So its in the unpacked mods folder

[hard harbor]

yes

[stoic raven]

if anyone has any idea on how to fix this issue im all ears, ive got it setup the exact same way i did it last time and it works on another car but is broken here

never mind

it fixed itself

[tacit halo]

well by the look of things the hinge is acting more like a cable and not a solid object that you can hinge something with

[stoic raven]

i dunno what was wrong with it, i reset the car again and now its fixed itself

[inner heart]

the trunk "hinge" is not secured properly

[rancid wedge]

Yes this is a problem with solid front axles, especially if you have a lot of suspension travel, since the steering is not symetrical and the linkage basically applies slight steering input when the suspension goes up and down.

[faint bison]

Anyone know how to fix that

Now it doing that

And wheel gets upwoards and making camber idk why

[hushed mulch]

So, reverse engineering the Wentward destination display has lead me to having a HTML texture as the colormap for a skin that's map onto a placeholder texture. Now the issue is that following documentation and how the in-game display is made, the canvas is 512 x 32 which is a ratio of 16:1, as can be seen on both my display and the Wentward display, they're not 16:1. How do I "correct" the texture so that the 3D model and HTML texture size remain the same, but the texture isn't squished? If I make the 3D model 16:1 the text isn't squished. I've tried figuring out how the in-game version does it, but I'm not that good with textures. I can send files if needed.

[river forge]

Either squish or stretch the UV map of the model, I'm too tired to figure out which one of the too 😅 but sounds like editing the UV map is what you're looking for

[hushed mulch]

That sounds fair, does Blender automatically export the UV when exporting, since I haven't made a UV unwrap of the model?

Nevermind, after thinking about what I just wrote, anything else wouldn't make sense as I've already been able to map textures to the things 🤦.

I mean that's something

So shrinking the UV seems to work, now I just gotta flip it.

[hushed mulch]

Thanks for the help :D

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[river forge]

Yeah whenever you add a plane or cube or whatever it will come with a basic UV already

[hushed mulch]

Yeah, found that out. Here it just didn't match to how the plane actually is, so after changing it to match the shape it worked.

[pine skiff]

anyone know what to do after ive packed my map? i used it in multiplayer but now want to continue working on it. do i unpack the zip i got when i packed it, and then put that into the "unpacked" folder?

[river forge]

Yep, that'd work

Or you can put the zip in the mods folder, and then let the game unpack it using the pack/unpack feature in the mods manager

But I prefer the manual way personally, way faster

[pine skiff]

okey thanks alot 😄

[toxic widget]

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[pine skiff]

is there a way to quickly import terrain paints from other maps? feel like the asphalt_prepped is sooo light, its the only one my map has

[scarlet narwhal]

Are license plates a special kind of slot? I'm trying to create single license plate part with multiple variants inside, but when I put the actual plate code in a part with a different slot (not licenseplate_design_2_1) it doesn't seem to load anything

[tardy lagoon]

Is there anything in the platefont.json i need to change to be able to use special characters like * on my license plate?

Edit: Nvm, figured it out

[little portal]

Is your slot correcy

[pine skiff]

does anyone know what to do if i want to copy a asset from Westcoast USA into my custom map? i already have gotten the .dae files but it wants me to REPLACE the main.materials.JSON file, but i kinda need both.

[cosmic dome]

Remplace name main.materialsv.JSON

[pine skiff]

ooh so it isnt name specific? so i can have 2 json files and itll work?

aah thats good to know 😄 thaxx

[cosmic dome]

No problem bro 😉

[pine skiff]

for some reason it wont read the materials :/

[little portal]

I mean the jbeam slot

Open it and you can see the slot thing