modding-general

[dry cargo]

https://www.beamng.com/resources/republic-of-wintergreen-license-plate-pack.27421/

[brittle warren]

yea they are def dull

[ebon tangle]

are the textures named correctly?

[stoic raven]

every time i try and add coreslot to this line it breaks the jbeam entirely or just doesnt work, anyone got any ideas?

[brittle warren]

you have too many } at the end

[viral juniper]

Adding onto what BrokenBrainCells said, you are missing a } after "z":0

[brittle warren]

That too i didnt even notice that lol

[stoic raven]

exact same result when i fix it

[brittle warren]

according to the jbeam addon for vs code it should be something like this

[stoic raven]

i swear ive had that exact setup before

and it wouldnt work

[brittle warren]

Idk doesnt hurt to try again lol

[twilit python]

I've got to do fully custom suspension JBeam for my sprint car. I've never done suspension JBeam so any idea's on how to do that?

[dry cargo]

I'd ask in #modding-vehicles

[twilit python]

Oh ok.

[topaz salmon]

Is it possible to add slots to existing parts yet?

[olive maple]

As in like say add a slot to a engine part for example?

[topaz salmon]

Yeah

Or add a slot to the vanilla bumper without replacing it

[olive maple]

Yeahjust add a slot,name it smth unique (say sean_bumper_acs) then wherever the jbeam for the addition u want, put the slot as that. I can send u an example once im home ina few hrs if you wud like.

[topaz salmon]

Sure yeah, I can wait

[olive maple]

Alr

[feral falcon]

Idk why it's doing this anyone know how to fix it?😭

[twilit python]

FELLOW SPRINT CAR ENTHUSIAST???

Is anyone familiar with converting/updating textures on old mods? This is the late model mod from 2017. It's still running the .CS materials shit. Me and my friends all have custom schemes and having better textures would be so cool. It just desatures the hell out of everything.

[dry cargo]

but how is this possible???

[fluid turtle]

when exporting the dds for the skin check the dx or something from like 1 to 11 i’ll get the proper numbers in a moment but the guys at BSC taught me

BC7 (sRGB, DX 11+)

[twilit python]

I do that. It’s not the skin.

The mods super old and runs old texture shit. All the skins and even default skins with the mod are desaturated like that.

I believe it’s running pre PBR 1.5 or something like that.

The mods from 2017 so it’s super outdated everything. I’ve modernized some code but the texturing has been a bitch.

[lunar lance]

Lower your beamspring value, its too high for the node weight you defined

[ruby plover]

friction and damp

[thorny notch]

slide mod

[twilit python]

What’s that?

[thorny notch]

can i get tha mod

[twilit python]

I’m not sharing the mod to anyone yet. It’s nowhere near finished. Sorry

[thorny notch]

ok

[near falcon]

How do I add liveries to mod vehicles?

[tight shuttle]

assuming the mod vehicle doesn't come with a template, you'll need to import the .dae into blender, then select all the body panels and their secondary uv channels so that you can export the uv layout as a png

[near falcon]

Ooh, thank you!

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @tight shuttle (current: #412 - 7)

[near falcon]

I can't find the export button

[near falcon]

Wait...I see it

Oh my gosh!

Long day at work... 😅

[tight shuttle]

oh sorry, yeah i meant a separate uv sub-window

[near falcon]

Wtf did I do wrong?

[tight shuttle]

that looks like the wrong uv channel

each body panel should have 2 uv channels, one for the base textures (normal maps and such) and another for skins

[near falcon]

How do I select it all at once?

Wait, am I only supposed to do the body? Not also the doors etc?

[tight shuttle]

multiple select in the 3d viewport, then tab into edit mode, and then select everything with A

[near falcon]

What happened to my game??? All my mods are gone and the game acts as if I just started???

[dry cargo]

is there any mod that adds clear side markers for the sunburst?

[glacial forum]

did you launch safe mode or delete temp stuff?

[near falcon]

The game updated in the background... It's all good now

Scared the heck outta me

[dry cargo]

i'm asking 'cause EUDM models look a bit weird with them. i don't mind, though

[glacial forum]

if my dumbass can figure out how light textures actually work I might make some, I've been trying to make yellow headlights for it

[dry cargo]

cool!

[twilit python]

Is it possible to make chassis and body's spark more upon crashing and bottoming out?

I just dislike the lack of sparks and whatnot from the car.

I don't want to change any game files, but is there somewhere in the vehicle JBeam to do it? Gotta make sure it's part of the mod and not just for me.

[tawdry marlin]

Help where to find uv for diana bx

[tawdry marlin]

this is uv for regular bx but there is none for coupe?

[twilit python]

Both

[tawdry marlin]

thanks

[ebon tangle]

assuming its the same robin i was working with i dont think that model was ever unwrapped. it 100% isnt skinnable, at least not in the normal way

[frigid copper]

anyone know what might be casuing a police config to keep swapping color in traffic

[warm harness]

anyone know how to fix uv warping when making a beamng skin?

[brittle warren]

Wym uv warping?

[warm harness]

i'm making a livery for the scintilla, and for some reason an image i have on the rear fender is stretched

which i assume is due to the conversion of the uv texture from 2d to 3d

[brittle warren]

Hmm mine usually don't do that have you looked at the base skins to see if they are edited images like warped or anything

[warm harness]

base skins? as in the base uv?

[brittle warren]

No like the images they use for the base skins

[near falcon]

Aww, shoot :(

[potent portal]

i have found a weird problem

if i have both of them active: i cant drive the pigeon, no throttle at all

if i have one of them active i can drive

but then i activate the other one and it stops working

[near falcon]

Is it possible to add decals? I just want some simple things on the doors

[misty root]

Can someone help me idk why I can't import beamng files into blender nothing appears when I got to where all the cars are located and if I drag a file into blender it appears blank

[dry cargo]

anyone who does lua dm me

[stoic wadi]

Does Beamng support height maps? Is there any way to port them to the game?

[green wolf]

i had published a mod yesterday, came back this morning and it was gone, completely wiped from existence, no message from moderation, nothing

what is the problem here?

is there any way i can reach someone about this?

[dry cargo]

Yes they do if you asking about maps

[stoic wadi]

no, i asking about cars

[dry cargo]

Ok

Idk then. Ask in #modding-vehicles

[stoic wadi]

And in which texture slot are they located?

like..i think textures slots are the same

I've seen other slots like "normal detailed"

[dry cargo]

Ah. They are for when you import a terrain. You will need to export the terrain via the first options in the terrain editor then reimport but change heightmap to your image.

I can't tell if you are talking about cars or if it were sarcasm lol

[stoic wadi]

oh, anyway thx

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @stark gull (current: #3292 - -9897)

[tacit halo]

nah

you need to convert them to normal maps

https://cpetry.github.io/NormalMap-Online/
https://smart-page.net/smartnormal/

theres these 2 optionbs

use whatever you think works best for your thing

[stoic wadi]

already

i didnt know that substance have height to normal conventer

now all works

[odd gazelle]

how can i just give a flat torque multiplier for an engine

"mainEngine":{
        "$*torque":1.6,```

no workie

[tight loom]

where do i put agents traffic mod

when done downloading ?

[distant pendant]

mods folder

and read the instructions on the repo page.

[tight loom]

when i put it in mods folder do i leve the zip?

[distant pendant]

leave it zipped

[tight loom]

ok

[tired cradle]

Anyone know how I can grab the current simulation time in JavaScript for a UI app? I did

var timescale = bngApi.engineLua('be:getSimulationTimeScale()')

but I’ve never done this before so I got no clue what to do lol. It just returns undefined

[tight loom]

where do i find the directions in repo ?

nvm

[bronze venture]

Hey, so i started making this basic thing but when i export it the materials DO exist and everything but they're just white, how can i fix that?

[faint bison]

Add them in game

[crystal wraith]

best guess is make it an image texture

[dry cargo]

is there a mod that adds gasoline V6 engines to the d-series and roamer?

[crystal wraith]

https://www.beamng.com/resources/hunters-engine-pack.20473/

[dry cargo]

thanks 👍

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @crystal wraith (current: #173 - 21)

[dry cargo]

@torn fossil the early roamer lights aren't still fixed

[solemn patrol]

guys why isnt my skin appearing in game?\

[tight shuttle]

try removing the persistent id
if that doesn't work, check the console for any errors

[solemn patrol]

like the entire persitent id code or just the random letters on there?

[tight shuttle]

the whole line

[solemn patrol]

turbo lost LMFAO

i worked when I did it like 2 months ago

cause I ported a usbp explorer skin from gta and it worked, now that I tried it again it doesnt

[ebon tangle]

Its a two stage mat, check the second stage in mat editor maybe?

[solemn patrol]

when you say mat, what do you mean by that?

[ebon tangle]

material

[gusty cedar]

Would it be reasonable to have multiple Terrain objects in a single map?

Or would the performance be terrible?

[drowsy ocean]

how do i actually make the textures for the car

do you use blender's shader editor or something?

[twilit python]

Is anybody here familiar with suspension JBeam or know someone who is? I'm trying to get the suspension for my sprint car to work on a new chassis which has a completely new JBeam then what it was originally built on. I don't know how to do it so all the geometry and whatnot lines up correctly.

This is how it acts with the new chassis JBeam

I haven't touched and suspension JBeam nodes/beams so a few car connected, but improperly.

New chassis JBeam with the suspension works but the JBeam for the chassis is AWFUL. It makes the car 3X heavier then it should and doesn't work with the top wing JBeam which I made for the new JBeam.

Actually, this wasn't too bad. I just used the original linkage nodes and it seems to work.

[ionic lion]

Does anyone have the link to the infection mod thing?

[still prism]

anyone know why i lag when terrain painting

[distant pendant]

thats normal

[still prism]

my mates doesnt

[distant pendant]

my nasa pc does w/ using large coverings

so its normal

[ionic lion]

Does anyone one have the link to the infection mod

?

[twilit python]

Unless you plan on putting it in a BeamMP server, it’s completely useless to you. It’s on GitHub somewhere.

[crystal wraith]

oh my god wrong reply sorry

[gusty cedar]

How do i create a "detail map" properly? I know how to do the others, but i for the life of me cant seem to find what i should do to make one and not make the whole material black.

The material shouldnt look so black but it does no matter which one i select so i really need to figure out how to make a proper one. On the right is what happens if i deactivate it, and its what the color should be like, but of course it has no detail.

Ive looked all around but i seriously can not find an answer and i really need help, sorry if i sound desperate... But i really am 😂

[crystal wraith]

should really upgrade your textures

[gusty cedar]

Will do that then.

[gusty cedar]

Jesus christ, i hate working with materials. Somehow ive made all of it black.

Im just being an idiot most likely

[kindred cloak]

Can I try this out I’m a dirt car driver and happy to see things like this being released

[green wolf]

how do i tone down the reflectiveness in my materials? the bumpers have LESS clear coat factor than the fenders and they're still almost chrome-y

i've followed the example from the SBR4's aftermarket carbon material

[tight shuttle]

try increasing clear coat roughness by around 0.1

[gusty cedar]

No way, was the problem really that it had to be a png 😭

Never even thought of that and just grabbed a random normal map with a png i found for testing

Fuck that was it 😔 i just wasted 2 days or something because of me trying to use dds

[tight shuttle]

well... it's a bit confusing, but you start with a png, the game "cooks" it into a dds which it puts in the temp folder, and then that dds is the fully processed "final" texture that you move back to your mod folder

[gusty cedar]

Dammit

Thank you for the explanation

[green wolf]

still considerably shinier than the other material. the only different files between the two are the normal map and the AO map.

[tight shuttle]

maybe one has dynamic cubemaps enabled and the other doesn't?

[green wolf]

nope, both reflect the same way

[tight shuttle]

only other thing i can think of is a stray materials json hiding in the vehicles folder

[twilit python]

Absolutely! Just gotta give me a little bit.

[gusty cedar]

Ugh, muscle memory is killing me. Did DDS again...

[kindred cloak]

Thank you! will have fun and give you anything that I found went wrong with it.

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @twilit python (current: #978 - 2)

[green wolf]

i've found out that the normal map i was using was of a different format from the other material, causing a different look.

...problem is, i don't want my bumper to look like this...

found something out, nvm

[tidal summit]

Not sure if this exactly fits here, but I made a car and engine in Automation and exported to Beamng. it's WAY more powerful, like 90ftlbs of torque more powerful. Why does this happen, and how can I fix it ?

[maiden wave]

How to fix missing material bug?

On the docs it say:

Your first reflex with any material issue should be to check the console (` by default) for error messages.

-- However, there is no way to open a console with any key on my keybord, nor is there any option to open it from the menu!
-- There also is no such thing as a "console" to be found in the editor key binds!!!
-- So where is it? Not included because it's early access?

[regal latch]

Options -> Controls

[maiden wave]

Ok, but those things are 0 help in fixing anything 😦
It's the best mod for the game, but those missing materials are ruining it all.

To bad applying or changing or editing materials is such a pain in this game. I wish there would be a way to just change the freaking material of that object

[distant pendant]

your probably got it set wrong material lol

[zealous meadow]

peak

[umbral cargo]

why is my frame green?

[north bone]

Hello im new at beamng drive, is there anyone that has a good beamngdrive mods knowledge that can help me get my grapich more realistic and goot without loosing much fps. If yes im very gratefull pls dm me😊

[distant pendant]

lol

[limber forum]

anyone know what mod lets me put jato rockets on everything? i remember there being one

[tidal summit]

pretty sure that's called soemthing like JATO everything

https://www.beamng.com/resources/jato-and-ram-plow-for-everything.15430/

Can someone point me in the direction of a tutorial or something to make steering wheels function ? I'm assuming it's some jbeam stuff, but I'm having a hard time finding anything that isn't related to playing the game with a wheel.

[tight shuttle]

https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/vehicle/sections/props/

[tidal summit]

Thank you so much!

[wide stump]

how can i make these go down?

[neon ember]

hello i noticed there are quads "quads": [ ["id1:","id2:","id3:", "id4:"], ["1a6","1a2","1a1", "1a5"], inside of vehicles\blockwall\blockwall.jbeam are they just ignored by the system? since afaik they are not supported. only tris.

[tight shuttle]

a quad is just a shorter way of specifying two tris (i.e. at the same time)

[neon ember]

ah thanks alot for this info. ok so that means when i interpret, this it can be triangulated in any of the 2 possible ways?

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @tight shuttle (current: #338 - 9)

[tight shuttle]

it always does it a certain way iirc https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/vehicle/sections/triangles/quads/

A quad with nodes n1, n2, n3, n4 will create 2 triangles with the nodes n1, n2, n3 and n3, n4, n1 respectively

Even though there is no technical disadvantage of using them, they make it somewhat harder to understand the Jbeam files

[neon ember]

@tight shuttle awesome perfect very helpful thank you so much!

[tight shuttle]

np

[neon ember]

i just find it sad that the jbeam allows unstrict standards as you can do stuff like the pic below which can be a pain to all try to fix and parse out in when loading them in my addon. stricter standards would also prevent errors. got regex all over the place XD

[regal latch]

https://github.com/OfficialLambdax/BeamNG-Tools/tree/main/BeamNG-JBeamToJson

[neon ember]

thank you for sharing! i will try this one out weird though that you can't convert a single file, i would have expected a tool to be jbeam2json some.jbeam. I'm currently using json_cleaner which does a pretty much good job so far https://gist.github.com/pepoluan/361724bfa5cce9d863dadc6e2bdcb8c9

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @regal latch (current: #161 - 23)

[silent glade]

guys Im trying to edt the SunScale color in the world editor but it keeps resetting when I load the level. (I even saved the level)

[silent glade]

204

[torn fossil]

they are for me.. i'll look into it once again soon, thx for the feedback

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @jade bay (current: #64 - 55)

[rustic tulip]

Hey, what is the most detailed Agera mod?

[queen meadow]

am i correct in saying that a .dae file is the model itself, and the .cdae is the model with LODS? (for context im making a billboard model)

[final belfry]

hey, im not great at modding AT ALL but im making a beater skin for the burnside that includes the parts aswell. im having trouble with the interior. is there any way i can apply a texture to the colored part of the interior? im guessing the grey areas in the texture represent that... but its not working. in the second image, removing "/vehicles/common/nullcolormaskR.dds" from the colorpalettemap makes the color of the interior a little faded. thats all i got

[tight shuttle]

try putting the baseColorMap on the second layer, or remove the second layer altogether if you don't want the dash to be colourable anymore

[final belfry]

yup that worked thx so much dude

thanks @tight shuttle

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @tight shuttle (current: #314 - 10)

[tight shuttle]

oh, np

[final belfry]

ill probably have to do the same for the seats too, right?

[tight shuttle]

if they have a second layer, probably

[gusty cedar]

Is the terrain supposed to all go to max height when i try to load a road architect session?

I just reload the map and it seems fine, but first time i start the game it always seems to act a bit strange.

Might just be my incompetence

Accidentally made lava 😂

[warm moth]

ill add some part for vanilla cars but i can't edit the jbeam

maybe i need some help

[trail jasper]

midengine etk800 before gta6 🙏

[little portal]

what would be a good amount of faces for a fendr

[quiet cradle]

Any map that dont make my fps very low? Like a city or countryside not drift

[stable obsidian]

Hi, i'm trying to learn how to make customs object in order to make a skate park but for cars
but
i can't get that first ramp to collide correctly
my tires always get stuck at some point

[warm moth]

Clockwise HC 533

(HC means Hot Cars)

[final belfry]

making rusty license plates - font wont shop up on textures. what am i doing wrong?

[final belfry]

fixed it dw

[near falcon]

I need recommendations for old, weird cars! I love using the Reliant Robin mod, and I wanna find more old, ugly, silly cars

[cursive folio]

anyone know how to fix this error when using the new sunbursts engines? i didnt change any code other than changing sunburst to my mod name but it doesnt like the bypass antilag everything else works fine

[crystal wraith]

Put version to 1, I could’ve swore version 2 was supposed to have text, but try #

nvm didn’t see you fixed it

[tidal summit]

I'm watching through fillmans modding video and it's awesome. I've heard that everything can be thought of as a spring. That's how nodes and beams work, isn't it. It's all just weighted points on soft or stiff springs.

[bold girder]

Anyone able to have a look over my jbeams and see what i have messed up for the Rear rims not to show up in the parts list

I had both Fronts and rears in the same jbeam but front wouldnt show, Now only the front is showing up after seperating, I know rears will be broken but i cant find my mistake

[bold girder]

Im currently relearning beam after quiting modding years ago

[shut pollen]

too many quotes on the slot type near the top? playing dnd rn so half focused haha

"slotType" : ""GC_LMGTS_R",```

[bold girder]

Ahh you LEGEND. Such a small thing i didnt even notice

[shut pollen]

it took me a sec to notice too, no worries

[bold girder]

I could kiss you ahahaha. Thank you so much. Really appreciate the quick response, Its being doing my head in for 16 hours

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @shut pollen (current: #133 - 27)

[shut pollen]

glad i could solve it, defo beaten my head against the wall on similar things. vsc or something might catch this, im still using np++

[bold girder]

I use vsc but dosent register jbeam like the ingame jbeam viewer

[shut pollen]

there is an addon for jbeam, no?

[bold girder]

Would have no idea, never looked

[shut pollen]

first post in the pins here, just checked

[bold girder]

Legend once again,

[minor moth]

hot car indeed

[remote vine]

Look for some mod of the weeks and watch maybe the shorts of simulator adventures. There is a lot of funny things (⁠・⁠∀⁠・⁠)

[quiet cradle]

Anyone know a mod like idk a old car to drive chill?

[warm moth]

i have plan to rebadge covet ill put gavril badge to covet

inspired by geo metro

[pliant robin]

how can i fix this things?

[ancient grove]

guys i accidentaly did verify integrity and it deleted my mods folder, is there a way to get it back?

[untold inlet]

can car mods be compressed zip files? if not how do u make them normal

[violet egret]

i been trying it but the dds file doesnt show up in game did you ever figure it out ?

[novel musk]

Guys I need your help can someone help me and remodel the dansworths like the d2500 and d1500 and will someone help with the wentward 5000

[ornate flax]

Indestructible clutch ? There are mods, how ever they work poorly. Have a few Bastion build cars in need of a very strong clutch. (might be to many HP and Nm in the builds). Everything else works without breaking, except the clutch. Could someone make a clutch that can handle a lot of hp and torque (2000/2000) without getting warm and brake 😄

[wind scarab]

its a beam server not gta. pls delete it

[spiral jasper]

Man I love the B-series. Can have alot of fun with the right config

[spiral jasper]

RK Turbo everything. Gives you an indestructible block, which I believe also gives you an indestructible clutch/trans too. Could be wrong, but worth the download anyway

[dry cargo]

i need someone to put a windshield sticker on my mod

i can't do it myself

[distant pendant]

yes you can

[distant pendant]

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

[desert panther]

@sage pawn sorry for the ping, but how do I make a skybox show up with your mod? I'm only getting 18 presets when I've added in a 19th

Attached is the JSON file for my specific skybox.

Instead, it seems to combine with Shirakaba, with its skybox being used instead.

[regal wharf]

wish there was a mod to put 533's on the md and t series

[charred marten]

Working on a T series wheelie bar

[fluid parrot]

is there a way to add a license plate slot in a modded car that doesnt have one?

[crystal wraith]

Absolutely disgusting

[maiden tinsel]

Paid graphics if any 1 want it text me dm

[brittle warren]

No one is buying a dooky reshade preset lol

[maiden tinsel]

Suck it

[glossy hearth]

Reshade is not a beamng mod tho

[dry cargo]

looks ass 👍

[regal wharf]

nahh

[tacit halo]

for anyone trying not to be scammed:
https://www.beamng.com/resources/ck-dynamic-skybox.33030/
https://www.beamng.com/threads/ck-graphics-settings-mod-v2-3-3-for-beamng-0-35.87586/
https://reshade.me/

just with the dynamic skybox mod and not even maxed out graphics you can achiee pretty good graphics, dont pay for graphics presets

[dry cargo]

TEONS graphics also work well for vanilla and some modded maps

[regal wharf]

will this also make night skyboxes in vr finally good?

[tacit halo]

currently its in development and doesnt have dynamic skyboxes

so no day/night cycle

[regal wharf]

sad

[tacit halo]

you can create your own skybox iirc

but idk how and you need to be like
not trash at it to make it look nice

[regal wharf]

an issue with skyboxes in vr ive always had for now is that they dont get spaced at all. they are centered on each eye

and just at night this effect is more aparrant with the stars

[tacit halo]

idk i dont use vr

apart from not having a vr headset i highly doubt my gpu could handle it

[regal wharf]

welll i was able to play beam vr at lowest settings getting 40fps with a 1660 super

[tacit halo]

oh gosh why

[regal wharf]

glad i got a better gpu now. the drivers for that gpu were a joke

[tacit halo]

nah my gpu is on par with a 1060 3gb

apart from just having more vram that is

5500xt 8gb

[regal wharf]

meh, i know 1 vr game you could maybe run

like a genuinly well optimized game lol

[dry cargo]

that likely will run better than my rx 6500 xt

[tacit halo]

no

do you know how fucking dogshit this unstable piece of garbage of a gpu it is

[dry cargo]

my issue is and has always been Vram

[tacit halo]

mine is drivers

and might be vram when it decides to die

[dry cargo]

ah. does it not support the newest AMD driver software

[tacit halo]

since apparently thats an issue

[tacit halo]

nope
rdna1 is just ultra unstable

[dry cargo]

oh right.

[tacit halo]

and hey now i get confetti on my bootscreen

[dry cargo]

im on the adrenaline edition when I use windows. otherwise I use the AMD Linux Drivers which are built in

[tacit halo]

sometimes it even looks like an old tv without signal

[dry cargo]

yeah. you could save for a newer GPU if you have any money to spare.

[tacit halo]

lucky for me the drivers or windows make it not do that after it boots

[tacit halo]

im saving up

well i have the money but like options are garbage

[dry cargo]

what options do you have?

[tacit halo]

no amd
fuck them
i cant trust them
then theres no 4070 12gb in stock
5070 if prices go down
4060 16gb is wayy overpriced
4060 8gb not enough vram

[dry cargo]

amd drivers are fine for me with the latest ones but im not going to argue about using amd or nvidia.

[brittle warren]

someone by my graphics pls

[final belfry]

how do i texture the underbody of a car? it'd be the cherry on top to these skins im working on...

(as in the metal parts. ive already figured out the frame)

[wooden crest]

233 LAST BRO

[distant pendant]

what for you to run a paid rtgi plugin for fake ray tracing and nuke your performance by 40%?

while you graphics don't even look any good

first learn how to take pictures, 2nd get ziets graphic mod and fix that terrible aa, 3rd only simps for pics like reshade.

beam looks great w/ out terrible reshade, ya'll just need to know how to setup your time and sun position correctly.

i shame you dawg, shame.

https://tenor.com/view/shame-bell-game-of-thrones-walk-of-atonement-cersei-lannister-gif-16635977892557113898

[tired cradle]

Does anyone know the difference between transaxle and transmission ingame? I’m trying to remake an Accord 2016 but it’s a FWD centrifugal clutch transmission

It seems to work with a 6 speed manual “transmission” but idk how the game simulates the different transmissions and if it makes a difference. I really wanna make the car 1:1 but I’m guessing I’d have to rework the whole transaxle, or use a car that comes default with a transmission

[distant pendant]

Cvt is not a manual

The new sunburst has cvt trans for fwd

Id take the logic from it but keep the fwd transmission mesh

[tired cradle]

Wdym by this? Is transaxle for manuals?

[distant pendant]

Transaxle tranmission is a fwd tranmission that is transmission, and differential and final drive in one assembly

Cvt is a type of transmission that uses a centrifugal force with a belt. Both are transacle tranmissions but different methods of how
Power is delivererd

most fwd vehicles all use a transaxle tranmission unless your weird like audi

i think the only car that has cvt ( the tranmission your after) is the sunburst

but its engine layout in the sunburst is not transverse

so you'd have to take the logic from the cvt trans and put it on a transverse fwd transmission jbeam

ya dig?

fwd transverse transmission.

fwd non transverse transmission

rwd transmission (note how there is no side attachments like the fwd non transverse tranmission for axles) instead power is delivered to the rear pinion shaft for drive shaft.

the layouts are same for fwd tranaxle between regular trans and cvt just different internals

[tired cradle]

But it says my car uses a transmission for the CVT as well, unless this some AI crap

[distant pendant]

CVT IS A TRANSAXLE TRANSMISSION

[tired cradle]

Yea I’ve changed the clutch to be a centrifugal clutch, now I’m struggling with the vehicle controller, my RPMs are shuddering when I let the throttle go lol.

[distant pendant]

stop

[tired cradle]

Hey man I don’t know squat about this stuff I’m just following google

[tired cradle]

?

[distant pendant]

stop

a cvt isn't the same thing as a clutch in a manual transmisison

cvt is transmission itself

[tired cradle]

Ya I know

[distant pendant]

you don't change the 6 speed clutch to be centrifugal

you need a cvt transmission

[tired cradle]

It is a cvt

Sorry if I’m mixing it up

[tired cradle]

It’s cuz I’m doing both

[distant pendant]

no you don't

you just need to take the cvt from the sunburst and use it

[tired cradle]

Yes I did that lol all I’m doing is editing it

Cuz it’s not exact to my car I thought, if the original is correct then I’ll leave it. Like I said I’m just following what I read online

My car uses centrifugal clutch not the torque converter, but once again maybe that’s AI crap then if its incorrect

[distant pendant]

im out.

[tired cradle]

I mean, you were being pretty helpful with your messages. Idk why you suddenly got frustrated lol

[brittle warren]

Cars dont have a centrifigul clutch they use tourque converters

[distant pendant]

hes getting centrifugal clutch confused w/ the termonology of cvt

[tired cradle]

Yea it was the fuckin AI

It said CVT uses a centrifugal clutch if I search it up a certain way

Sorry badman I didn’t mean to make u mad 😭

[distant pendant]

cvt is uses centrifigul clutch that drives the belt, but power is still delivered to a torque converter.

oh no you didn't make me mad.

[tired cradle]

Ah ok

[distant pendant]

i just didn't know how to word it correctly for you

and im not 100% on what I was saying cause my knowledge on cvt is not great.

so i didn't wanna give you incorrect information

[tired cradle]

It’s all good I read my first message and realized I brought up the 6 speed manual for whatever reason, I think I had more to that message but didn’t write it lol

[distant pendant]

Well i can be a asshole sometimes, dont be afraid to call it out. Sometimes i dont even notice

[tired cradle]

Is this a bug? Missing comma, idk if that means CVT isn’t working as expected

I stg if that’s why I haven’t been able to get these values to work correctly this whole time lol

[tight shuttle]

jbeam should be fairly lax with commas

[tired cradle]

Oh ok I keep forgetting this isn’t raw json

Do you know how I can make my RPMs climb slower? It’s giving me a 1 second too fast 0-60 cuz it shoots you to max RPM. This target map thing is confusing too, I can’t set it to max redline without it jumping

What cars have a CVT that I can look at as well?

[tight shuttle]

engine inertia

[tight shuttle]

aurata + sunburst... aaand that's it

[wraith mason]

want to cut up on highways?

[crystal wraith]

https://tenor.com/view/squidward-meme-brain-smooth-chatbubble-gif-16562439958126711181

[cunning swan]

best tornado interceptor mod? Also best tornado mod? 😄

[ember wagon]

facebook pics are nice sometimes

[exotic galleon]

anyone know how to install modland mods for 0.34

[tired cradle]

Will that change the power output? Or just slow the engine down?

[hollow hinge]

does anyone here have a workflow on making car frames, do i use subd while modelling and bake it onto lowpoly?

[distant pendant]

you can do that, or just stick with low poly version and use substance painter for your normal map.

[hollow hinge]

thank you

[tacit halo]

car frames arent smooth areas, they are detailed bumpy with lots of holes and inserts, using subd will be more of an annoyance than anything else

[near falcon]

Does anyone know if there are any AMC Pacer or Gremlin mods (that don't suck)?

[crystal wraith]

They’re all shit automation cars

[tired cradle]

Where can we pay people to meshslap onto a vanilla car lol. I have a good model someone made but it’s bone stock jbeams

[summer vault]

if its got bone stock jbeams sounds like its already been successfully meshslapped

[hollow hinge]

I know, just wanted to know how you guys would do it

[patent palm]

does anybody know if there are mods for more rally mode stages

[tacit halo]

poly modeling + bevel normals + highpoly bake

[patent palm]

i need more content

[tired cradle]

Can’t be put onto a better jbeam like the sunburst? Even if it’s easy I’d still pay someone lol, I’m already hands full with this other shit

[summer vault]

what car is it even

[near falcon]

Yeah, that's the prob :/

[crystal wraith]

Super high quality gremlin would be cool

I don’t pay for mods much, but I’d get that

Or an old chevette

Pretty much any 70s-80s American car

[short relic]

Anyone got any good diesel trucks that are free they recommend

[distant pendant]

whats the google method to only search beamng website for mods, since the beamng website search function sucks

it was something specific you typed in google search to only show beamng website

[viral juniper]

site:beamng.com

[tepid tartan]

I think it's site:beamng.com your search query

[distant pendant]

thank you!

[runic carbon]

So with the UI being reworked in Vue (yay), can a developer speak on the plan for modded UI apps? I see there are quite a few UI apps that have already been rewritten using Vue. However, due to Vue being compiled and minified by Vite, I don't see a way to inject UI apps at runtime via a mod like has been possible with Angular - unless there is an API somewhere that allows defining UI apps and injecting Vue components I have missed?

I am working on a few UI apps and would love to use Vue for them to not only immediately improve performance and dev experience, but also to prevent my apps from becoming deprecated along with Angular in the future. I understand the Vue UI is under very heavy active development and there is a chance my apps, if done in Vue, could be broken at any time, however, I would much rather fix some broken Vue than continue using severely outdated angular 😆

[unique zealot]

dont use modland

[tacit halo]

why not 0.35¿

[hollow hinge]

is this too low poly for a mod or should i just use it as traffic

[crystal wraith]

everything looks fine but the fenders, they could be a tad bit more smooth

[tight shuttle]

just the latter

[tired cradle]

I realized what I did, I set friction and dynamic friction to 0 because the torque output was incorrect. I’m gonna have to use that calculator thingy to add it back

[tired cradle]

Pretty close to a functional VTEC, I’m using the RPM engage time to offset the VTEC boost to simulate getting better power, and the throttle position to simulate manifold pressure to also change the engagement time. Lots of lua editing

Also made another CVT to replicate base trim models without the paddle shifters. Just a more aggressive RPM target map

[tidal summit]

Not sure which channel for this, is anyone able to help me troubleshoot animating pop-up lights from automation into beam ?

[twilit python]

Does anyone know if there's an easy way to do rideheight adjustments without doing "beamPrecompression" I can't think of another way to add a wedge adjustment for my car but the rideheight is the beam precomp.

Wedge is literally spring precompression or spring perches.

Wait, I just did some thinking for a few seconds, the wedge would effect rideheight, but if It's just a modifier to the rideheight, doesn't that defeat the purpose?

Wedge would be 4 corner adjustment which rideheight already is. So, if I wanted a wedge, wouldn't it be "easier" to increase/decrease rideheight mins/maxes or setting?

I feel a little slow can I get another opinion?

I set it up to move the top of the spring mount nodes up/down but in Beam, that doesn't really do anything other then effect geometry and travel length on it's own without other shit.

Perhaps would changing beam strength values be useful?

[tired cradle]

This worked thanks. Now I’m trying to make it lower inertia under 3000 RPM to simulate sport mode but I guess the combustionEngine file only runs once on car load? Is there any way to constantly check the current gear + RPM and modify engine intertia or is it hardcoded?

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @tight shuttle (current: #297 - 11)

[tight shuttle]

i don't know of any way to change the inertia of the engine itself on the fly (and i don't know of any cars that do that irl)

but if you have a high tolerance for very hacky solutions, you could probably fudge it with a split shaft/lockable transfer case/etc. running into some dummy powertrain element with its own inertia that basically acts as a disconnectable sort of balance shaft?

of course, at that point it'd incur parasitic losses (and not the good kind ahem ahem blowers) when connected, so it'd be dubious at best

[bold girder]

Anyone know how to do custom engine sounds, I'm happy to pay for teaching or for a sound to be made 😋

[fossil jolt]

Hi beamng.gamers, I have a problem with creating a bus route (game doesn't listen to "navhelp" parameters). I want to make a u-turn as shown on a screenshot (red markings), but beamng's navigation doesn't want to drive thru the island thing, instead wants to drive forward (blue markings). These waypoints were created by me.

[wraith mason]

Check out Chillin on beam https://www.twitch.tv/jaedaily

[tacit halo]

dang like use #beamng-videos and not this

[tired cradle]

Definitely more work than I care for haha. I’ll look into it later. Is it not possible to do anything real time, like add boost? My goal was to recreate iVTEC so I’d need to be able to shift my torque modifier based on the throttle. But from what it looks like that’s all predefined 😦

[hollow hinge]

would using a 2k texture be more hardware intensive than using subd

[abstract panther]

Na the texture one will run way better

[tacit halo]

and if its for beamng it will spike wayy less
tho the lowpoly is a bit too lowpoly, personally the circle in the handle id model and id add like 2 or 3 more vertical loops

[potent portal]

any good gt40 mods that arent automation?

[hollow hinge]

thanks, im jus doing low poly rn for my first mod but ill switch to a more detailed model after

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @tacit halo (current: #50 - 67)

[dry cargo]

I would like to make a lore-friendly ford mondeo mk4 mod, but i didnt have skill at modelling, could someone pls help me?

[distant pendant]

this isn't a request channel, and there isn't one. beam mods takes months/ years to make . Time to start learning.

[dry cargo]

ok

[charred marten]

Wouldn't a drastic shift in the torque table do it? You could make it tuneable as well, just look at how Ashmaker does his jet engines.

[tired cradle]

I’ll check that mod out. And wym a drastic shift? When looking at the code, my understanding is it’s baked into the engine when it’s created and you can’t modify the table in real time

[charred marten]

Just look at Ash's mod.

The controller system is surprisingly flexible

[tired cradle]

Did you mean how he does the dynamic tuning? I’m only seeing torque modifier as variables

[charred marten]

Yep.

Variable torque per RPM

The Vertex mod has some fun engine variables as well

[tired cradle]

Ah I see, I meant like real time changes

So for example at 50% throttle the torque modifier will add 5hp @ 4800rpm, 10hp @ 5000, 15hp at 5200rpm, and then at 100% throttle it would be 5hp @ 5200rpm, 10hp @ 5400, 15hp at 5600rpm etc

I think it might just be too complicated for how the game engine runs atm

[charred marten]

I don't know how to tie it to the throttle, only RPM

[tired cradle]

Oh wait I can look at how NOS works

That might be dynamic

[charred marten]

I'm trying to figure out if the antilag actually works on my drag truck or if it relies on the OE controller 🤣

If that's the case, I'll modify the CEEP controller for myself

I guess I can switch out the controller as a test 🤔

[tired cradle]

What’s OE and CEEP?

[charred marten]

OE = vanilla

CEEP is an engine mod pack with some fun features. I use it for surging idle that doesn't mess up drivability like idleRoughness

Sorry, I'm a mechanic and tuner IRL. It's an old habit 🤣

[tired cradle]

Ooo cool ok ima have to check it out

I like the realistic shit, my goal is to make a mod pack that has all IRL stuff with realistic gains based on research. Even if it doesn’t work out I love learning about it all and trying to code it

Like you can code a custom NOS ECU with stages and all that and it’s just like, damn, how it would be done in real life too.

[charred marten]

As long as the window switch doesn't lead to a window mod, all is kosher 🤣

[ornate flax]

Have the Turbo everything mod. Does not help the clutch in the Bastion. Might be that the Bastion can not handle 2000+++HP

[small widget]

#modding-vehicles message

[red grail]

Hello, I'm looking for a bug-free Amarok V6 with an interior. I already have a version without the interior and with a bug in the rear axle. I think the version I have is free. You have to pay for the full version. But I'm looking for it and can't find it. Does anyone have it or know where it's listed?

[dim rock]

help

[autumn mason]

Holy moly eating guacamole! I have no idea what’s happened but those rims look like flat JPG’s.?

[dry cargo]

Clear cache

[hollow hinge]

are meshslaps a good way to start modding as a beginner

[dry cargo]

Kind of. Better to learn to do it properly tho.

[hollow hinge]

is there a tutorial for that?

[molten helm]

Hello I have cars installed on beamng after the update, everthing was missing from textures to the actual cars (the mods not the vanilla cars).
Thanks

[near falcon]

I have been taking parts from other cars and adding them to my car. Sometimes the textures turn orange (no texture) and I can't find what texture is supposed to go there

Is there some master file of textures for the vanilla cars?

[ebon tangle]

not really

[near falcon]

Is there a way to tell what texture is missing?

[ebon tangle]

yeah check console

[near falcon]

Where in the console does it say?

[ebon tangle]

idk man u tell me

i have no idea what ur consoles gonna look like

should be red text

[near falcon]

Looks like "material in pigeon unknown" is what's missing

[ebon tangle]

oh thats a material issue not a texture issue

so u gotta check ur materials file and make sure ur mapping is correct

[near falcon]

Ohh, OK. What exactly is the materials file?

[ebon tangle]

oh god

dude just read the wiki at this point

[near falcon]

The main.materials.json?

[ebon tangle]

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

[plucky lance]

is the repository down?

[tired cradle]

Think I figured out how make make the dynamic torque curve for iVTEC

In case anyone else is curious or needs it:

lua/vehicle/powertrain/combustionEngine.lua:748

variable “torque” in updateTorque, just change that as needed

Add “device.yourDynamicPart” to the variable and then “yourDynamicPart” to the engine. Change assignedEngine.yourDynamicPart value as needed in other scripts 👍

[lilac zenith]

everything looks fine bro nice paint job

how this happened bro 😭

[dim rock]

trying to mod

[lilac zenith]

ah ok

[charred marten]

My brother and I were talking about this last night. Apparently you can do tire pressure on the fly in some mods, so torque should also be possible.

[tired cradle]

Yup got it working

[deft orbit]

is modland safe at all?

I want more real car mods

I know its not recommended but is anything ok?

[ebon tangle]

i mean as long as you dont click the wrong links or download the wrong thing its fine, the mods are just really shit most of the time

[deft orbit]

are you 100% sure?

[ebon tangle]

fym of course im not 100% sure

thats just the risk u take if u use those sites

its up to u to not get pwned

[deft orbit]

prolly wont then ill just dig through the forums

ooh

i found a 737 in progress

plane

[tropic sail]

Hold up, theres no way to unfix nodes with lua? Setnode() can only fix them but you cant reverse it

Nodegrabber works by making some engine call which also doesnt work

[regal latch]

Hit me up on sunday if you havent figure it till then and we bruteforce it

[topaz salmon]

Dumb question but should I include power steering in configs?

[hollow hinge]

how do i fix this

the main body textures load in garage tho

[hollow hinge]

fixed somehow

anyoen know why the body texture only appears after selecting the original car

[twin geyser]

Hi! I need help, please.
On the right, this is a car I'm modding, but the paint job isn't looking good.
Both cars have the same paint job, but they don't look the same.

[minor moth]

your c.data and your p.data are off colour

[twin geyser]

how can i export those files from substance painter?

[minor moth]

they are your paint masks, p.color or p.data tells the game what color slot its meant to use, and it has to be R G or B purely with no deviation unless wanted for the perfect color representation

c.data is a black and white mask like an alpha that tells game what should be coloured by paint and what to leave alone (black is leave alone pure white is paint)

[twin geyser]

thank you for your help!!
Normally my car is supposed to be black like the one next to it, but it's not. Do I think it's my baseColorMap that's causing the problem? Do you know how to create it? Do I just need a solid color?

Thx

[tired cradle]

Anyone know exactly how VTEC works? I read about how upping the RPM of when it starts can boost the top end power more, so I’m trying to figure out what kind of torque curves I should have. My understanding is that if a car didn’t have VTEC, it would have the same upper power band and only the lower band would be lower for fuel efficiency

[lost sage]

can you guys send me some mods i wanna make my Beamng Japanese game

like japanese maps and cars

[hollow hinge]

do you guys know what to do if the car spawns in with the bumpers set to empty instead o fthe actual bumper??

[uneven oasis]

You have more access than me lucky mf

[tacit halo]

use google

[lost sage]

well google didnt play beamng

[tacit halo]

theres the c1 expressway, a bunch of yakuza map ports, #1315146390606839858 touge maps

[tacit halo]

but all the resources are in there
how do you think people find mods

https://www.beamng.com/resources/?order=rating_weighted and here youll see the top car mods which have a bunch of jp stuff

[lost sage]

obviously but if i ask google the best mods for a japanese modpack its not gonna be as good

[tacit halo]

i highly doubt that but whatever

google or other search engines have all the stuff, you just need to know how to use google

i dont know every single japanese mod

[hollow hinge]

what causes the bumper to be empty by default?? jbeam??

[hollow hinge]

nvm fixed

[brittle warren]

Because you didn't move any of the materials over to your new car

[hollow hinge]

thanks

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @brittle warren (current: #9 - 194)

[mental lark]

is there any documentation to the rally missions? im trying to make a custom stage but struggling with the pacenote editor

[mental lark]

in more detail: for some reason i cant make a driveline for my stage, since it gives me the "failed to load recce" error when selecting the mission

[hollow mirage]

how do i use cars i imported from mods in my career?

[tired cradle]

Anyone know how to access getSimTime, I can’t get it anywhere using engineLua in JS

[hollow mirage]

Cars installed via mods can’t be used in career mode? Pls help

[brittle warren]

This isn't for asking about problems its for people wanting to make mods

[normal drum]

Where do i find car mods?

[remote vine]

Mod repo

[terse robin]

whats happening😭

[tired cradle]

preview of my first VTEC torque curve test, simulates it pretty decently too already

too early = low end power loss, too late = torque dip from high rpm/low end torque, but engage at low/high crossover and you get a good power increase

[abstract panther]

What’s the best way to make engine sounds using a YouTube vid

[mental lark]

does anyone know why my mission isnt in the folder its supposed to be in?

ah nvm, its stored in appdata, not game files

[tropic sail]

I solved it but you have to be careful with setnode, i had to limit calls to 1/per graphics step to avoid memory heap corruption. Not sure how to get around that

[regal latch]

Ok interesting, not the first case either where engine calls must be delayed by a frame

[tired cradle]

No clue what you guys are talking about nor do I know if this is helpful lol but i was using these the other day https://documentation.beamng.com/beamng_tech/deterministic_mode/

Changing the graphics steps and stuff makes the game insane 😂

[tired cradle]

I wonder if there’s a way to make the game the least laggy as possible to make live tuning more bearable. Anyone experient with that? I want to adjust tuning options and see it on the torque graph UI app faster, even with a decent PC it freezes for a second

[brittle warren]

Because it respawns the car each time not really a workaround for that

[tired cradle]

Maybe a NASA PC lol

[grim temple]

Guys whu can help me i got ebisu north ju open but its all black for me

[drowsy lichen]

wow

[crystal wraith]

@stoic geyser lol

[stoic geyser]

try ck skybox

[stoic geyser]

lmao, ill redo it soon with beam vege

[limber orchid]

can anyone show me how to make maps like garfield heights or west coast usa

or like stuff that has a town

[crystal wraith]

Uhhh place building, boom

[grim temple]

Ill try that thx

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @stoic geyser (current: #1481 - 1)

[subtle hinge]

How much triangles/vertices should a car model for BeamNG have? i wanna try something rq so yeah

[ebon tangle]

how many are u at rn

[subtle hinge]

-39

[ebon tangle]

what?

how the fuck do you have negative verts

[brittle warren]

Perfect he removed verts from the map with his car

[subtle hinge]

0, havent began

[ebon tangle]

lmao

yeah no point in answering cause if you have to ask ur not gonna finish

[subtle hinge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1198010719313080370.gif?size=256&animated=true&name=skull_onfuckingfire

ill just uh, ask somewhere else then...

[brittle warren]

You can have as many as you want depending on how mu8ch lag you want

[ebon tangle]

lmao no

too many verts and ur mesh will start spiking

[brittle warren]

Yes lol i make car mods and not if your jbeamand mesh are set up correctly

[ebon tangle]

🤓

[exotic prawn]

is there a way to put a mod you've made for a car and merge it with the actual car file or smth

like for example i make an unpainted bumper mod for the base car but i want to put it in the file

[worn nexus]

if anyone good w cars in game and has time pls dm, me if you have time

[ebon tangle]

wdym in the file

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @ivory wolf (current: #1481 - 1)

[slow viper]

did u find a fix?

[ember wagon]

This appeared without you opening it?

[terse robin]

Oh i opened it andd

That happened

and i cant even get in car without opening menu😭

[primal schooner]

How do i access italy map folder from my map folder? I want an asset thats only on the italy map

[sturdy juniper]

oi does anyone know of a video on how to learn to make blender beamng mods??

[cursive folio]

No i havent

[neon ember]

is this a mistake? same beam ? i know you can have 2 beams but with different scope modifiers. this one is just redundant i suppose? so it will just get ignored ?

[neon ember]

almost done with the addon, but probably still buggy i'm able to import .pc files now

i may need help from other developers to finish it... in case you are interested to follow udpates https://github.com/hkunz/dev-tools-blender-addon

still the export will be very tricky especially with the base class of parts thing and having lots of child parts etc then exporting it. for now i can only export 1 fully contained jbeam file.

[sleek thorn]

yall is there a good car trailer mod

i know there's one that has a red trailer but the model is very outdated afaik

[topaz iron]

there's this one if you don't mind having to manually set up the ramp https://www.beamng.com/threads/grant-gooseneck-wedge-car-trailer.98337/

[sleek thorn]

thats fine, thanks :D

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @topaz iron (current: #425 - 7)

[winged jacinth]

Hi guys, do y’all have a website to recommend for blueprints. I wanna try to do an irl car on blender

[ebon tangle]

wait are you forking the exisiting editor?

[distant pendant]

thats how the regular beam blender exporter is to. It can only export 1 jbeam at a time

[distant pendant]

does this allow you to create jbeams inside blender?

[trail grotto]

im curious, do we have a mario kart track in ng?

[dry cargo]

there might be maps ported, but ive not seen any.

if theres any on the forum/repo, go for it. otherwise dont bother

[trail grotto]

why souldnt i bother with mods outside the repo?

[dry cargo]

outside the repo and forum and a few things.
ill send you something rq

[exotic prawn]

like i made the mod but i want to put it in the base car without having to use the mod

idk if that makes sense lol

[ebon tangle]

what?

like you want it to affect the base game cars?

[tired cradle]

You want it to be in a vanilla car without it showing up in the mod manager?

Cuz afaik you have to drag the zip to mods, unpack it, modify, repack it, and move it back to the game folder

[exotic prawn]

like for example a honda civic with unpainted bumpers

and i dont want the unpainted bumpers to be a seperate mod for the car, i want it to be merged the original car

smth like that

[tired cradle]

Ohh, you’ll need to make a folder called vehicles and then the name of your vehicle

mods/HondaCivic/vehicles/HondaCivic/unpainted_bumper.jbeam

[exotic prawn]

alr thx sorry for the confusion, ill let u know if it works

[limber orchid]

can someone like actually teach/tell/show me how to make maps

[brittle warren]

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcVe50VACZvnhMDFBUQ469eZwBANwGOpU&si=TuD6NxeHffOEsuaQ Watch all of this guys videos they are really good

[sick forge]

I just got a hellcat off mod land lol

[neon ember]

no, i wrote my own since i didn't really like the way the official jbeam editor works, i find it difficult to use. what do you think about their editor?

[ebon tangle]

Its easy enough to use

[neon ember]

i find it easier to be able to select the nodes and beams and then edit the scope modifiers directly per element. i couldnt find this usability with their official editor.

[ebon tangle]

I wish you could save changes in blender

[neon ember]

yeah. with the one i wrote, im able to save the change and re-open the blend file at a later time and continue editing.

[neon ember]

yes you can also add new ones but it only saves nodes/beams/triangles json node structure when exporting. and it overwrite those node structures in when overwriting existing jbeam files.

[limber orchid]

cool

[tired cradle]

Has anyone done this for jbeam engines? I had to make a script to get IRL torque curves to be accurate on each car cuz the exhaust mod and all that, and just dropping that into the files. But it would be cool to make one that had all the options and explanations for them and stuff. Maybe even a part maker too

[weak flicker]

does anybody have a NA civetta bolide exhaust that fits the gtr body?

[native kettle]

Does anyone know where all of the beam NG documentation has gone? As all the modding links are now not working and there are no references

[proud solstice]

https://documentation.beamng.com/

[native kettle]

Wow now it works…😂 couldn’t get it to load

Nope powertrain is still gone

Trying to find the anti lag so I can understand how it works

https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/vehicle/sections/powertrain/

[warm forge]

how to use repository mods in beammp with my friends (they keep deactivating when we join a server in beammp)
is there a way to put the wheel pack mod to some game folder or somth so it wouldnt deactivate and if yes pls tell me the name of the folder

they used to work in any server before i cleared my cache

[carmine stratus]

Guys

I cant find the Pigeon's Engine JBeam file

Can anyone help

[tired cradle]

It’s really weird, sometimes I’m able to search them and get a link, you can even see the old preview text with the info under the link. I’ve seen random documentation people make all the time, I wish there was a centralized area with literally everything lol

I think the most helpful thing I found was the dumps that are on the forums with all the different functions and variables. But idk how up to date those are

[spare field]

That would be in the "common" zip file, under the "pigeon" folder

This is because the Pigeon shares various mechanical pieces with the Wigeon

[inland crane]

Anyone got any good mod suggestions for a fast off road car?

[quiet rune]

idk how long this would take but can anybody at least try to fix the kljp pack cus the sbr4 crashes and the bx/sunburst are the pre remaster

[proud solstice]

no, kljp update is already up for approval process

[distant pendant]

sunburst won't have kljp just a fyi not currently

[quiet rune]

rlly?

[proud solstice]

yeah

[grim temple]

Thx that worked

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @stoic geyser (current: #1002 - 2)

[oak fractal]

Is the rs6 mod still happening?

[carmine stratus]

it aint there

[carmine stratus]

Its apparently on hold for now

[crystal wraith]

Yea… put them in your server…

[tired cradle]

Is it possible to get variables to only show when two parts are selected? I want to have all-in-one ECU that gives you the variables for all parts but only when that part is installed

[charred marten]

Rolled out my own GIT server for mods and other things. Faster than the official repo at least 🤣.

https://git.208concepts.com/BeamNG-mods/lowered_t_series/releases

If anyone wants to know how GIT works, feel free to ask.

[cold oxide]

Low effort mods is a problem but are impossible to reject cause it will just Gatekeeping the entire Beamng Modding

And people will just resort to modland as a bypass which makes modding unsafe

[brittle warren]

What does this have to do with anything thats been said

[spare field]

Well it is as I've checked it myself. Are you looking for the .zip under the "content" folder in the game files?

[carmine stratus]

Yeah

Its not on the wigeon either

[spare field]

Well if you are, the path to the pigeon folder in the common.zip should look like this:
Steam\steamapps\common\BeamNG.drive\content\vehicles\common.zip\vehicles\common\pigeon\

[carmine stratus]

Theres no common.zip file

My bad

I found it

Thank you so much

[spare field]

No problem 👍

[deep maple]

Uh, sorry to bother again, I modified the model again, but there are still some normal errors below. I have tried clearing the normals data or flipping the normals. Is there any solution?🥹

[crystal wraith]

Okay…

[terse marsh]

Hey, so I want to make my first car mod, and i've run into some problems.
Just to be clear im not making a full car, im making a covet mod.
I've got 2 questions:

1. Sometimes there are 2 vertices in the same place, why is that? Do they need to be like that or can I merge them?
2. Sometimes if I merge them it will create something like this (see second photo), how do I fix that?
   I want to clarify beforehand that Im a beginner in blender, I know somethings but not many.

[night cedar]

if anyone can help, im having an issue which im pretty sure ive identified but dont know how to fix, i have 2 bodies, so 2 .dae files for simplicity but now im facing an issue where some of my meshes decide at times to not appear and in console it says failed to find that meshes name even though the name fully matches what it is in blender, the odd thing is it works in waves so its not ever ONLY the front bumper that doesnt appear but the front bumper AND hood, while at the same time the rear bumper has no issues than when the others work the rear bumper doesnt

[stuck willow]

Hey guys, not sure if this is the right thread or not. But my scenario is, I have an Audi RS6 and RS7 mod, the RS7 has a specific wheel that i really wanna put on the RS6 but doesn't show up. I tried copying the file for the wheels and putting it onto where the RS6 has all it other custom wheels and the script matches another custom wheel (i used it as a template to make sure i did it properly) the mod came with, the RS7 wheels i was trying to put on the car show up in the parts menu, but when i select it they dont show on the car. I'm new to modding/messing with files/scripts. Any help is appreciated. PS, plz ping me or dm me if you can help, i don't watch this thread all that close. TIA

[crystal wraith]

Just copying something isn’t gonna do anything

[night sinew]

Skin pack for cars that's human skin

[tired vector]

So I am trying to upload a mod to the repository, but it won't let me upload the .zip. The mod does include quite a bit of lua but I don't know what exactly is triggering the error.

[sterile sonnet]

i fucked up the bx editing the jbeam is there anyway to restore it

[snow rose]

is the dfa pack still compatable with latest updare

[sterile sonnet]

yes do you know how to fix bx problem

[ebon tangle]

why tf are u editing base game jbeams?

or rather how tf are you doing that the files are zipped

[charred marten]

Your best bet is to get a copy of it from someone

[ebon tangle]

lmao what

just verify file integrity on steam

[crystal wraith]

anyone have a good tutorial on how to mod, i know i know theres the one guy, but he has like 28 parts and isnt my speed at all, i mean i mostly know what im doing when it comes to beam, its just exporting from blender and stuff like that is what i dont know about

Vehicles, of course^

[charred marten]

I'm sure that'd work too

[shadow copper]

so, I had a mod that I created that used to work perfectly and since the update, it doesn't even wanna show up at all
did something change in the bx-series specifically?

[ebon tangle]

i dont believe so, what part of the mod isnt showing up?

something related to the F4 might have changed due to the sunburst remaster, im not sure if that would affect you

[shadow copper]

the literal mod itself isn't showing up

[ebon tangle]

hmm cant say ive seen that before

[shadow copper]

hol up

it's been broken for 5 solid days and randomly apeared now out of anytime

[ebon tangle]

lmao

many such cases in beamng

[subtle hinge]

uhhhhh

i think im doing it right

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/952768922812289044.webp?size=160&animated=true

[crystal wraith]

yea.. totally

[ebon tangle]

this is NOT imagemodeler 😭

[subtle hinge]

im just using it for reference, should probably turn down transparency

blurry references for an obscure vehicle ✅

[tight shuttle]

that won't work for a reference either, too much parallax/perspective distortion

[subtle hinge]

yeah i figured that out embarrasingly late...

its the best i have rn, so im just gonna loosely adjust it to what my eyes see

[ebon nimbus]

discovered new ways to make prototype engine blocks

[ebon nimbus]

and water to air intake

idea from csf b58 intake

[ebon nimbus]

build using reitax intake frame

but restructure the whole thing

[warped snow]

How can I have my lua extension loaded automatically?

[wind scarab]

s14 <333

[crystal wraith]

anyone know why when i export a model, no main mateirals folder is made

ive got a prop ingame, and with a jbeam, if i dont want it to deform, what values do i increase?

lol

[topaz salmon]

Jesus the nodes amount

[crystal wraith]

yea

jbeam exporter

its my first prop so it wont be perfect

first jbeam anything actually

[proud solstice]

redo everything and turn it into a rectangle instead

you have way too many nodes which will make the structure weaker

[crystal wraith]

idk how to make my own so, this should be fun lol

i have the editor in blender, i just gotta figure it out

nvm, i think i got it

[brittle warren]

Well if you exported the mesh as a jbeam just do the same thing but with a rectangle instead

[crystal wraith]

ok

[crystal wraith]

should i make a genuine rectancgle

ik its sorta a dunb question but i gotta ask

or like

2 rectangles, one for the stock, one for the barrel

like this

ok well, im gonna try that, see how it is

still practically shatters upon impact, is there a way to make it stronger?

[brittle warren]

sorry just got back home do you want the stock to break off? if not just do one rectangle and give it a couple cross beams, and what values did you use for node weight and beams dont put a node in the middle those are just cross beams

[crystal wraith]

so just do a literal rectangle? i thought that would make it float tho, im sorry if im being dumb

i didnt do anything to any nodes, i just exported it

but no i dont want anything to break

side note, model looks really cool lol

[brittle warren]

oh thats why it crumbles because it has not node or beam settings Use this for your beam settings thats what i use when i dont want things to break, if you want it to use 2 rectangles so it doesnt float then you will need to add beams between the 2 rectangles and brace them like i showed in the pic but between the 2 seperet onese

--Beams--
"beams":[

        ["id1:", "id2:"],
        {"beamPrecompression":1, "beamType":"|NORMAL", "beamLongBound":1.0, "beamShortBound":1.0},
          {"beamSpring":6658940,"beamDamp":18.8},
          {"beamDeform":7000,"beamStrength":42000},

[crystal wraith]

this feels embarassing to ask really, but i dont really know how to properlly connect the 2, sorry

been doing maps for a bit, but blender is still new to me

[brittle warren]

so if you want them to be the same object click on one then shift click the other and joing them with control j and use edit mode in vertex mode and click 2 vertices and hit f to fill it with a beam

[crystal wraith]

can i make this stronger? like set everything to 0 or something

or a high number

i know this is more than 2 triangles, but so it could be used for its purpose i had to do this

rectangles*

[brittle warren]

It shouldnt even bend if you made the beams like i showed in the pic add beams in the middle of the mesh corner to corner line inside the mesh and not just the faces

[crystal wraith]

ohh

i forgot the inside

now its like a movie prop lol

[brittle warren]

Bendy rifle

[crystal wraith]

i think its good now

it shakes around a little, but other than that it looks good

thanks @brittle warren

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Gave +1 Reputation to @brittle warren (current: #7 - 202)

[muted jay]

does anyone know how to modify the cargos for the flat bed?

[crystal wraith]

ugh

forums for now ig

[tight shuttle]

i saw someone mention 2fa on the forums, could that be it?

[crystal wraith]

yea forums now says 2fa lol

i guess so

[keen breach]

why is my mod not spawning

i made 3 nodes but i cant get it to spawn

[tight shuttle]

i think you need a minimum of 6 ref nodes

[crystal wraith]

so it has a working jbeam?

[keen breach]

THREE NODES

i didn't put the model in yet

[tight shuttle]

(ref position, x y z axis refs, and two front corner refs)

[keen breach]

alr

[crystal wraith]

calm down lol

[keen breach]

mb

[crystal wraith]

definetly a seperate issue, just did 2fa and still getting it

[tight shuttle]

ah

[ebon tangle]

yeah same

[crystal wraith]

and its been "uploading" for like a million years (its only 28Mb) on the forums

[ebon tangle]

so the servers must be dying again

[crystal wraith]

had to resort to the dark side 🥀

gotta say... modland has given me way more downloads than forums 😭😭😭😭

i know this isnt much, but for me it is

[ebon tangle]

the forums underreports and modland is full of scrapers

[crystal wraith]

modland in general just has 10x more traffic

i feel nobody really looks at the forums lol

i mean people do but not compared to the repo

[ebon tangle]

the average beamng player is a coomsumer after all

[crystal wraith]

Sound weird but I was wondering if anyone knows how I would get a texture for a real life item, like a box.

Do any websites have image textures that can act as a UV map for real brands or anything

For example someone want me to make a 24 pack of beer prop, but since that doesn’t have a 3d model anywhere online, I need to get my own texture

[brittle warren]

Just look up what u want and add box art to the end and that usually works for me

[crystal wraith]

I’ve only been able to find what looks like the large sides, not the skinny sides or top or sadly

I think because it’s a limited flavor or something

[brittle warren]

Oh lol flavored beer what a sissy

[crystal wraith]

😭 hey I don’t even drink, someone just wants the prop lol

Busch Apple

[brittle warren]

I dont drink anymore either but I'll tell you what I wasn't drinking any flavored beer lol

[crystal wraith]

Best I’ve got so far is this

I wish there was just a website for this lol

[brittle warren]

I mean I'm sure someone has a website for box arts of beer but I haven't seen one

And its Busch bro is drinking apple flavored piss water

[crystal wraith]

😭

[charred marten]

I can put it on my git server as well, if you like.

[crystal wraith]

Nah it’s not that big of a deal lol, just a tiny prop

[charred marten]

Yes, but I don't have many rules and I'm not Modland 🤣

[brittle warren]

Modland will always be better than a random hosted server by some dude that noone knows

[charred marten]

We all start somewhere

[brittle warren]

I mean true

[crystal wraith]

Anyone know a good website for engine sounds, like a full sound, not some audio recorded on an iPhone

[distant pendant]

Looking for critique on the brand placements and rear bumper decals.

[brittle warren]

Looks good id add something here tho it seems kinda bare

[distant pendant]

Yeah still gotta do front end

[crystal wraith]

Hey i was wondering, is there a way of making the gun not break at all, or not flip out when you drop it on a car or something?

Like dropping it from an inch above the hood on example the grand marshal, makes the marshals hood absolutely explode

It’s not a big deal for the lever, but for future it’d be nice to not have that happen

[tight shuttle]

sounds like some beam spring/damp values are too high for their respective node weight

there may also be too many nodes for an object of that size, so i'd simplify it to the bare essentials and use props for animated bits like the lever and trigger

and a pair of noncollidable rigidifier nodes on either side so it doesn't bend in half

[ember cliff]

2wth

why do u need a gun for beam

[crystal wraith]

Uhhhhh why not?

[crystal wraith]

I won’t be bothering with that model, but thanks for the image, it’ll help a lot in the future

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @tight shuttle (current: #268 - 13)

[crystal wraith]

And I’m not planning to do animated interactive parts for a bit until I can properly figure it out

[crystal wraith]

Lil bump, cus I posted it late last night

[limber fossil]

is there any good tanks?

i kinda wanna make a warzone

[thorn hinge]

Can anyone link some highspeed touge or hillclimb maps

[charred marten]

https://www.beamng.com/resources/pikes-peak-lidar-edition.4986/

[distant pendant]

and with one quick google search you could of done.

https://www.beamng.com/threads/initial-d-touge-map-collection-thread.78757/

oh look the 2nd result on the google search

https://www.beamng.com/threads/initial-d-the-arcade-map-ports-thread.102268/

[thorn hinge]

That threads dead and i have most of those already

[distant pendant]

this channel is not for asking people to link you mods.

[thorn hinge]

Which one is?

[distant pendant]

there's google, and beam website

[thorn hinge]

👍 👍 🥀 💔

[distant pendant]

or #mods-discussion

[crystal wraith]

Why does it matter if a thread is dead

[twin canopy]

i need ford explorer mod so hard

i only seen it on modland

virusland i mean

[green pine]

Are these all 200bxs or real mods like nissan silvia

[thorn fossil]

How do I fix this? I’ve cleared cache, disabled all mods, can someone help me?

I’ve also tried reinstalling

[static brook]

Hey! Does anyone know where I can find the co-driver voice lines in the rally mod files? I’d like to revoice them in another language.

[brittle warren]

lua\ge\extensions\gameplay\rally\compositors\english\e_codriver_british_male_e1_m2_2025-03-09T00-24-08Z This is where the audio files are

[static brook]

Thank you!

[weary niche]

yooo it matches the skin i made (it totally works and is totally supposed to look like that, i swear)

[thorn fossil]

Real

[wary raft]

all bx with s14 front clip

[charred marten]

That should be a pinned message somewhere

[brittle warren]

It took me forever to find em lol so yea i agree lol

[lament helm]

guys how in hell am i supposed to mod this truck?

[crystal wraith]

what are you tryinng to do to it

[charred marten]

Narrow things down to the parts you need

[maiden cloak]

ultimate D series

[twin canopy]

anyone know this map

when im clean cache im accidentally delete it

now i couldnt found it

usa america something im not remember

sorry my grammar

[tired cradle]

American roads maybe…? Idk that’s the only one know

[trail grotto]

dont know if its the right channel: how do i get working split time display in a self created timetrial?

[crystal wraith]

american roads

[twin canopy]

Thanks you

[twin canopy]

Thanks you

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @crystal wraith (current: #163 - 23)

[twin canopy]

Thanks you too

[quaint solar]

has anyone know how to fix this?

[quaint solar]

uv looks like this, whats wrong?

[minor moth]

thats the body, your boot is the one thats fucked up

[quaint solar]

but i connected boot to body

[tacit halo]

why

that makes no sense

[brittle warren]

Pinto

[quaint solar]

bc i want to make mmy own boot by cutting thru the model but firstly i need i connect old boot to a new one

[tacit halo]

well you joined the uvs and now the boot uv doesnt exist

[quaint solar]

oh, so how i can fix this

[brittle warren]

Reunwrap the part u joined

[deft osprey]

is 98 psi on a 4 banger overkill or not enough

[glacial forum]

Not enough

[vast girder]

it says here in tis tutorial to replace the body with something else, but the scintilla doesn't seem to have a body

[worn kestrel]

Can someone guide me to make a ui app to simply display a cars weight from kg to pounds?

[wind coral]

anyone know how to fix this i can't download anything

[vast girder]

#mods-discussion
this channel is for DEVELOPMENT of mods

[wind coral]

someone told me to ask here

[mellow aurora]

Need some help if anyone knows anything about the flood mod or the infection gamemode please dm me

[weary niche]

yoo, anybody happen to know if skins with IRL performance brands on them are allowed in a repository mod? just curious

i can make fictional ripoffs if i need to

[smoky knoll]

whats that one mod that makes the roamer look like a escalade

[neon crater]

I think everything has to be lore friendly iirc

[shut pollen]

^some things have slipped through though

[quartz tendon]

is modland safe

ay btw yall know any good drift maps

[neon crater]

No

[dry cargo]

Not in the slightest

[ember cliff]

Has anyone put a roamer front end on the d series?

[abstract panther]

use a roamer Ute mod

[ember cliff]

nah nah

just like the actually front end

because i wanna see how it looks

because the roamer ute looks nothing like the d series

[abstract panther]

Ohh yea u might need to do it ur self because i have seen a couple but there either bad or private

[neon oxide]

anyone knows where the 3d for the gavril v8 is cause its neither in the common.zip/engines common.zip/pickup pickup.zip

[weary niche]

vehicles/common/gavril_v8.dae

it's not in the pickup folder for whatever reason, just the "common" directory

[neon oxide]

bruh

thanks @weary niche

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @weary niche (current: #1493 - 1)

[weary niche]

no prob no prob. it took me WAY too long to find it when i needed to lol

[crystal wraith]

Probably because other vehicles use it

[deft osprey]

how do i tune meo's drag wheelie bar

[brittle warren]

Tuning menu probably if it exists

[deft osprey]

i mean like what do the sliders mean

[brittle warren]

Idk haven't used it just play with em also use game discussion or mods discussion as this is for making mods

[golden patio]

What causes stuff to do that

[brittle warren]

Inverted normals in blender look up how to what direction your normals are and the red pones will be invisible in game

[golden patio]

All I did was change node names and then that started to happen. It's weird cause the model will be perfectly fine. And then when I go to change the note. Names to something custom. That's when it does that.

[cinder moss]

heya, can someone explain in short how paint design thing works, and how can i make it change the mattress texture?

[tidal summit]

I'm following the tutorial https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/vehicle/tutorials/basic_car_tutorial/, but am confused on how to add the supplied materials to the parts. Everything i've found online so far is about applying materials and changing colors and such, not just adding pre-existing materials. The materials supplied in the tutorial don't even show up on blender for me. Can anyone lend some guidance please ?

[green wolf]

looking for a tiny explanation on what this is, i don't see it inside the documentation for pressurewheels and it's a beam setting

are wheelSideReinfTransitionZone and wheelSideTransitionZone very different from eachother?

[dry cargo]

is there any way to scale down a group of nodes and beams on the visual studio code plugin?

like anything similar to the scale tool in blender for example

[brittle warren]

No

[dry cargo]

Not automatic scaling. But you can figure out to what scale and times by that (e.g at a scale of 0.8, do original number x 0.8)

[pale hare]

hello, i'm trying to do a mod to tweak a bit the exhaust particles, does anyone know what file path i need to follow?

[stuck tusk]

hi guys, do you know any servers where I can get help 3d modelling? I kinda wanna make a mod but suck a 3d modelling

[lament helm]

did i fuck up by changing these "nodeweight" values to lower? because now when i put this modded frame on the truck the camera goes bananas and everythings shaking