modding-general

[lament helm]

did chatgpt just did the modding for me 💀 if this fucking works i will be scared

[dry cargo]

Modding for dummys.

[oak urchin]

What did you ask ChatGPT specifically?

[lament helm]

told him to lower the weight on the part by editing the file, he did actually change the right value 💀 i just did it myself because i needed the chassis to lose like a lot of weight

funny thing the minimum weight is "11", lower than that, and the entire truck folds itself apart

[oak urchin]

Yeah

[brittle warren]

minimum isnt 11 you just have to edit the beam values too lol

[lament helm]

mmm 🤔

is it on the same file?

oooh found it, gotta make it lower?

[digital temple]

Hi guys may someone of you could help me. Is there a working mod for 0.35.x that gives an LHD option for Ibishu Miramar ?

[brittle warren]

you have to edit beamspring and beam damp at specific ratios same with the weight.

so if you lower the weight by 10% lowere the damp by 10%

[lament helm]

got it, guess chatgpt is going to have some work to do then 🤣

its actually nuts that he did edit the file for me.

lol AI is gonna takeover

[brittle warren]

lol it can do some thingsw and i mean lowerting weight fpor it is pretty easy since there is a value called weight in the file

[lament helm]

yeah ik but even if it wasnt called weight i believe it would figure something out.. idk

[cinder moss]

can some1 help me with adding pbr paint on my mod?

[lament helm]

(i know the mods not finished)
but how am i supposed to import this to beamng? i mean this file had a lot of meshes and i just deleted everything excepted what i need 💀

or do i copy and paste on a file with all the parts?

[ebon tangle]

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

[brittle warren]

You just need to rename the part in blender and a jbeam and save them both to a new mod folder so mods/unpacked/your mod/vehicles/pickup and then your beam and model

[hushed lagoon]

i booted up the game for the first time in a while and totally forgot i was working on this forever ago c:

i really should pick up where i left off some time soon tbh, been so split on a bunch of other things

[civic sundial]

i dont get it

[brittle warren]

car cover?

[regal latch]

Spawning collectibles on a map

[dry cargo]

some help needed, probably with file formats. Mod doesnt appear in mod manager. I changed all jbeam parameters to match the sunburts (since this was taken from another car), but it wont appear

[hushed lagoon]

AMC Javelin based car

[crystal wraith]

So is it supposed to be made out of clay or what

[hushed lagoon]

i never got as far as texturing/materials

[crystal wraith]

Still, looks made of clay no matter what

[hushed lagoon]

the car still needs the wheels, glass, interior, jbeam modified, etc

[distant pendant]

needs modeled

[crystal wraith]

yea lol

Needs… bodypanels

[lament helm]

thxs

[quartz tendon]

Anyone know any cool drifting maps? I Saw "tiny drift island" all over tiktok but they always linking up google drive with mods and idk if its safe

[crystal wraith]

Not the place to ask

[burnt turtle]

How do you go about adding modded engines to an Automation car?

[night cedar]

if anyone would be willing to help, im trying to make a W1 style door and need some tips on how thanks

[spare dune]

I believe it would be the same as adding a modded engine to a vanilla vehicle

[burnt turtle]

I see.. yeah, i have no idea what i'm doing

[verbal geyser]

hello, is someone able to help me put a engine from one mod into another?

[tribal dome]

who tryin to send me a mod pack full of what they have im too lazy to get my own

[proud solstice]

no

[acoustic solar]

very detailed bulb on my d5 remaster

[desert panther]

How do I add something to your skybox? It always seems to redirect my addition to Shirakaba

I feel I'm doing everything right, yet I get frustrated as it never shows up the way I want it to.

[cloud talon]

Wasn't there a mod that added AWS to the 200BX?

[desert panther]

Idk

[desert panther]

https://www.beamng.com/resources/bx-series-aws.30548/

[cloud talon]

I was wondering why I couldn't find it. Thanks!

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @desert panther (current: #116 - 32)

[desert panther]

Welcome!

[quiet rune]

thinking of making my first mod idk what programme to use or what to even make

i need a lot of advice

[cursive folio]

start by downloading blender, and importing a model from the game, like the d series or honestly whatever is your favorite, this will give you something to mess with and familiarize yourself with blender, {to get a model from the game just go to C:\Program Files\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\BeamNG.drive\content\vehicles or whatever your game drive is on, just replace the C if its on a D drive or whatever, and open one of those packs, you should also get winrar, but windows zip program works the same, either extract the entire zip to your desktop, (dont put it in the vehicles folder) or just open the zip with winrar and extract the DAE to your desktop, and then import the DAE file to blender.}

[quiet rune]

ill try that

[balmy gorge]

Any flowgraph wizards in the Discord tonight?

I have two questions hopefully I can get answered. 1) What's the best way to detect if a player has both put the car in reverse and then given it gas i.e. travelled in reverse? 2) If I'm setting up a scenario where players can't hit a physics enabled cone or barrel, what's the best way to detect it?

[brittle warren]

#438994639484354561 message

anyone having this issue?

[neon ember]

Hello I noticed that some .pc files have parts with the same nodes. Do they coexist together or are they just overwritten in the game?

as far as I know nodes cannot have the same ID name

[tight shuttle]

the nodes further in the tree overwrite the earlier-occurring nodes

[neon ember]

thanks alot for the clarication!

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @tight shuttle (current: #248 - 14)

[neon ember]

Hello as far as I know I have assembled all nodes, beams, triangles from my .pc files. here's example "adventure.pc" under "vehicles/atv" but the wheels arent assembled even though im sure i have assembled all the parts that are defined in the .pc file. Any idea if BeamNG handles the wheels separately? i made sure i assembled everything also from the common folder. are there any developers here that can help me with my addon?

[indigo ermine]

Hi everyone. I would like to change some sounds that work with FMOD, like the skid sounds. However, after looking at the documentation, I have no information on the events that trigger the sound, or even the names of the sounds. Apparently it is technically possible.
Can anyone help me? Thanks

[tidal summit]

Am I correct in thinking there only needs to be 1 set of nodes and beams ? I don't need 1 set for the chassis, 1 for the body, 1 for the collision mesh?

Also, do the nodes need to be vertexes from blender or can i use x,y,z coordinates that line up better with frame rails or body lines, but aren't a physical point in the model ?

[rotund star]

This sounds rather challenging I believe that sound effect would be somewhere within the game itself. An inefficient yet effective method would be to move all game files to music or videos. Then you can scroll through all options. Find the one that you’re looking for.

[indigo ermine]

The sound effect is included in a proprietary FMOD sound bank that BeamNG owns, and it's impossible to extract. The only possible way would be to create a mod that tells the event that plays the skid sound to play a different sound... ty for the reply btw

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @rotund star (current: #1505 - 1)

[winged lava]

how do I reset the current vehicle in lua

there we go finally found it digging through the game code
spawn.safeTeleport(getPlayerVehicle(0), getPlayerVehicle(0):getPosition(), quatFromDir(getPlayerVehicle(0):getDirectionVector(), getPlayerVehicle(0):getDirectionVectorUp()), nil, nil, nil, nil, true)

nvm it works but after a while it fucked up I guess

[rotund star]

Never hurts to go into steam click on the game and click verify game files.

[gusty tinsel]

Hey, is there a mod to add a jet engine to the flyigeon (pigeon) mod?

[rotund star]

Yes

[gusty tinsel]

Can you send it to me?

[desert dagger]

Is there any F3 mod that doesnt require to move it from files to the game but where you can just click Subscribe? Ive had one before but i want it again can someone help me?

[topaz spade]

so i have a mod that replaces the default tow hooks with 85kg ones i made how would i go about making that j beam file its own mod

[zenith pond]

Does anybody know of a MD series mod that adds a rollback, or if anybody is working on one? I find it odd that the devs never added one in, even though the d series, t series, and the van all have rollback configs

[crystal wraith]

It has one

Doesn’t it?

If not CDC makes one

[zenith pond]

If it does, I’ve completely missed it. It has a flatbed config but not a rollback

[topaz iron]

nope, at least not in vanilla if there's one

[zenith pond]

Ayeee you’re in the wrong discord lol, made me look and make sure I didn’t accidentally type this in RLS

[compact pelican]

Hello people, i have a question, im making a license plate pack for BeamNG and i think the texture looks a bit odd sometimes, they tend to look to look really plain bright (not shiny metallic) when im on a iluminated scenario, i would like to know if theres any way to make it more shiny or theres any PBR texture for the license plates and how can i add them?

for example

the design loses a lot of color when they are supossed to look

like this

[empty flame]

How do i play Beamng multiplayer?

[ebon tangle]

BeamMP

[empty flame]

ja

i launch beammp but it just loads vanilla beamng

nbm im just stupid

[bold epoch]

Can someone please help me whenever I download more than 20 mods my game deletes its own files and breaks the game completely making me have to delete all the game files uninstall the game itself and re download everything

[brittle warren]

well are you downlo9ading the same 20 mods evrytime

[feral falcon]

I'm tryina make an epic sprint car mod, I've made the chassis and bumpers and had it spawn in-game before but it won't even show up on the vehicle selector now 😭 anyone know how to fix this?

[neon ember]

downloadable at https://github.com/hkunz/dev-tools-blender-addon/ still beta version can export only refnodes, nodes, beams, triangles and their scope modifiers. please let me know what you think.

[rotund bison]

How can i install 2 sirens at the same moment without Beacon Light or Beacon Light Bar? I've tried to do it thought config file, but it didn't work.

[fallow sundial]

Help me

[distant pendant]

https://tenor.com/view/excusemyself-excuseme-awkward-imjustgonnaleave-leave-gif-23115521

[cosmic spear]

are there any runaway diesel mods for beam?

[crystal wraith]

💀

[ebon tangle]

Damn this is way better then the old system

[distant pendant]

have you tried the updated version tom did?

[ebon tangle]

Tom?

[distant pendant]

toms been updating the blender jbeam plugin

[ebon tangle]

No ive been using the addon that was posted on the beamng github or whatever

[distant pendant]

https://www.beamng.com/threads/blender-jbeam-editor.94204/page-18

Check the previous 3 pages for toms updates to see

[tidal summit]

How do I search the content files to find a specific .dae model ? I swear I've seen it in a fillman video but cannot remember

[distant pendant]

vanilla content?

[tidal summit]

yes

[neon ember]

thank you for sharing. it doesn't show up in the N-panel when I tried to install it in 4.3 and 4.4

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @distant pendant (current: #54 - 67)

[ebon nimbus]

anyone know these 2?

a bit weird for accounts only created less than 6 months ask me do i want to commision them stuff

they also in beamng discord but i didnt find their records

[crystal wraith]

Who cares, it’s not like they could scam you

Just get payment before giving them the mod

[ebon nimbus]

Lol I already blocked them, imma find how to unblock

[distant pendant]

It's scams

don't bother with it

[ebon nimbus]

ok

hmmm they evolved

[distant pendant]

yeah i get like 10 of these a days, "hello I am experienced mod maker, i seen you "qoute a post from 1 year ago" and I think I can help you, then sends me generic blender stuff and never answers questions correctl.y

[ebon nimbus]

lol

scammer turns from egirl to modders🤣

[crystal wraith]

I get this a lot too

[ebon nimbus]

here comes another

[distant pendant]

Whats going on?

[ebon nimbus]

Scammers

Use beamng modding as cover

[hollow plover]

Why can’t I send messages in the 900 thread

[dry cargo]

im going to say something

I want to commission a beamng map mod

[distant pendant]

idt your ready for that tbh

[dry cargo]

im never doing commissions for stuff

too much work.

and I wouldnt really care to make it. it would be for money not for enjoyment really

[distant pendant]

yeah but do you think you can produce quality right now thats worth $$?

[dry cargo]

if I spent time on it. yes. but also I dont have time.

[distant pendant]

time isn't real man

[proud solstice]

discord is dumb and has a limit of 1000 members per thread

the thread hit that limit

[hollow plover]

Oh damn

I thought I got muted or something 😭

[strong epoch]

my first time using blender (soliad grille for a rebadged legran im working on)

based off a buick century grille

[strong epoch]

well uhh

not sure what i expected

[shut pollen]

forgot to apply mirror? otherwise check normals. also apply transforms

[crystal wraith]

Definitely normals

[tacit halo]

You are the third guy I've seen with this issue now, don't worry

[spark inlet]

does anyone know of any good modern engines for the t series

like a cummins x15 or detroit dd15

[hearty oak]

I get the error "vehicle is not compatible with decal editor". How can I make a car compatible with the editor?

[rancid wedge]

Never worked with it, but I know that vanilla cars have a decal folder, maybe look in there and copy what they are doing

[feral falcon]

pretty please if anyone who is epic pro jbeam gamer even know what maybe wrong i need help 😭

[rancid wedge]

You most likely messed up the formating somewhere, search the lines you recently worked on for missing brackets or commas

[wild chasm]

yall awake

[mellow halo]

yo chat

yall know any good mod websites?

ive been trying to download mods but every site i try doesnt work

[topaz iron]

the official forum https://www.beamng.com/categories/mods.23/ and the repository (what's also ingame) https://www.beamng.com/resources/

[mellow halo]

well uh...

thats the problem, most of them are mods of the ingame cars

i want some real ines yk?

ones*

[topaz iron]

then use the forums

[humble jackal]

forums are your friend

[mellow halo]

oh alright

thanks

[solemn venture]

anyone know burnout paradise? Someone should make a mod which recreates the camera during driving/crashing

[lost star]

hi, anyone have the last version of the beamng exporter??

[ebon tangle]

wdym beamng exporter?

[lost star]

Beamng Exporter for the latest version of Blender

[ebon tangle]

that still tells me nothing

are you talking about the jbeam editor?

[lost star]

Yes, this

[ebon tangle]

...ur looking at it

[lost star]

That one didn't work for me, I thought it wasn't the updated one.

I'm going to try to reinstall it

[grim osprey]

woops wrong chat

[distant pendant]

use the one on the forum and look for the last version tom posted

[dense jay]

anyone know how to fix this? e36 by @eternal karma cleared cache and deleted old configs and version of mod. My friend don't have this problem i tried even unpack and nothing works here

[stoic wadi]

Dynamic Decals isnt work. I did everything the same way as the developers, there are both UV layers, but Dynamic Decals isnt work correctly. For example, default skin from K-Series work correctly

When adding an object to Dynamic Decals it does not display correctly and "goes crazy" as in the photo

[tacit halo]

isnt dynamic decals still in development? i would leave a few updates since you arent the only one to encounter issues with them

[stoic wadi]

Do you think it's not worth adding Dynamic Decals support to the mod?

In that case, I'll put it off until a brighter future.

[tacit halo]

nah i dont think many ppl use it anyways

[stoic wadi]

I just recently saw a video on TT where a guy was complaining that the lore-friendly Honda Civic doesn't support him

[tacit halo]

you can find things to complain about in anything

[stoic wadi]

I'll leave it like this anyway. It works very strangely even though I did everything right

[tacit halo]

i would wait until theres actual docs about it

[brittle warren]

https://www.beamng.com/threads/dynamic-decals-doesnt-work.98036/
try this

[stoic wadi]

It didn't help, but never mind. I won't be adding this feature for now

[tired cradle]

Is there a method to adding custom parts right now without modifying main game files so it can be uploaded to the repo? Can I just add to the exhaust/intake torque tables somehow?

[tight shuttle]

copy the jbeam to make a new part with the modified values

[fossil slate]

Where did you get that mod from?

[twin geyser]

This is a mod I'm developing, you can find it in #1102973298222051358

[tired cradle]

I mean to make new parts with individual torque tables that stack

[fossil slate]

Nice

[fossil slate]

can i download it though?

[twin geyser]

not yet, it's still in development

[rose raven]

I found some broken textures on TrackPadUser’s Trackfab brawler, how could I/could someone let them know? On their own time, not trying to be one of those people who are really needy or annoying

[tight shuttle]

depending on the part, you can use one of three modifier tables (intake, exhaust, and multiplier for internals), but there can only be one instance of each table in a given part tree - otherwise subpart tables will completely overwrite parent part tables

for anything more detailed, you'd probably need to define a copy of the base torque table that has a variable or component defined for each rpm/torque point in the table

[tired cradle]

Thank you

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @tight shuttle (current: #240 - 15)

[tired cradle]

Do you know how to extend the torque curve beyond what it ends at? I’m looking at the long performance blocks and it adds a lot of HP to the end, it would drop at 7000 for example and with a stage 2 block it’ll drop at like 8500 for example

Because messing around with my own curves I can’t seem to get it act the same

[rotund ginkgo]

Hello, how are you? What equipment is needed to learn how to make mods for BeamNG?

[strong epoch]

Anyone know why this would be happening?

[ember wagon]

legran is fire

[tight shuttle]

i think you'd need a replacement base table to extend the torque curve beyond what's defined

[hot pond]

Hello! I'm making Rivian R1S, I've installed Vivace differentials with simulated locks (drivingDynamics/actuators/electronicDiffLock), but I don't understand how to register lock control in dse_drivemodes, I want the differentials to be unlocked in COMFORT mode, and completely locked in OFF-ROAD mode, I'd be extremely grateful for your help!

[tired cradle]

Thanks again 🙏

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @tight shuttle (current: #230 - 16)

[tired cradle]

It was actually maxRPM holding me back, I couldn’t figure out why the tables didn’t line up lol. I just had to increase it

[wild chasm]

how do i save this

[wild chasm]

why wont it show up

[quartz tendon]

Has anyone used aitchgarage mods?

[slender ravine]

??????????

[jaunty panther]

what is this?

[slender ravine]

v12 200bx

whhy didnt the main engine move

[jaunty panther]

can you give me a bigger blender screenshot?

[slender ravine]

hold on

[jaunty panther]

CTRL+A and "All transforms"

it should set the world pos to 0, 0, 0

beamng doesnt handle anything else

thats why it didnt move

[slender ravine]

do you know any ideas for engine swaps

still not working

i cleared the temp

[ebon nimbus]

bruh

[slender ravine]

is work now

[ebon nimbus]

the engine is backwards?

[ebon nimbus]

you know what imma send you a better model

[slender ravine]

bro its in the right way i checked

the spinny stuff is in the front and the manifold faces the right way

[ebon nimbus]

ya i saw that

and i know you put 2 engines back to back

[slender ravine]

i just got filmans v12 and riced it

[ebon nimbus]

ok

its nice for beginner btw

[slender ravine]

thx

[ebon nimbus]

this is mine

also based on pessima v6

also going to be put into the bx

[slender ravine]

oki

[native hull]

What is closer to Toyota in game between Ibishu and Hirochi? Specifically for a truck

I know Gavril has shades of Toyota there but that does not sound quite right

[ebon nimbus]

both

for truck i think none

[thick wraith]

Hi guys

[fallen crow]

Helloo, im new to modding and i wanted to ask if it is possible to remove engine creep while still choosing the automatic gearbox selection in the jbeam transmission file and not change it to dctgearbox mode

[tacit halo]

the tire clipping😭

[slender ravine]

ik

[exotic ruin]

hey lichi

[tacit halo]

hi

[slender ravine]

how do i avoid it

[exotic ruin]

hru

[tacit halo]

smaller wheels tires or higher suspension

[slender ravine]

hold on i was making a acustom hood in blender how is there a bend but no vertice

[slender ravine]

io give up can someone just teach me how to make a hood with material-

[timid iris]

thats a different part

[slender ravine]

oh okay

why is my hood messed up

[timid iris]

which part of it?

[slender ravine]

the whole hood

no material

and theres a weird bulge

[brazen totem]

Hello all,

I have been thinking about making a fiber glass body for the BX so wall taps in drifts are a little more realistic/recoverable.

For example whenever I wall tap with the grand marshal the rear quarter panel takes a significant amount of damage while I can continue to drift.

Any help on how to edit values of the vehicle body’s or making a separate destructible body would help as I am new to modding beamng.

[tender barn]

["handbrakeDisengaged","event:>Vehicle>Interior>Handbrake_Electric>Electric_01_Unlock"],
["handbrakeEngaging","event:>Vehicle>Interior>Handbrake_Electric>Electric_01_Lock"],

Where can i find the sound clips or audio?

[warm moth]

wip

[exotic ruin]

New Skin addon?

[warm moth]

full config pack

like dpmp

[exotic ruin]

oh, interesting

[exotic ruin]

Nice

[warm moth]

@exotic ruin this lol

[exotic ruin]

Oh

Doesn't look bad at all

[warm moth]

but its will make you ear broke lol

[exotic ruin]

really? Lol

[warm moth]

ye

[exotic ruin]

looks like it has crazy power behind it

[exotic ruin]

nice tires

[exotic ruin]

anything more planned for this?

[warm moth]

why not?

ill make more

[exotic ruin]

can I dm you some paint scheme ideas?

[warm moth]

OK

[slender ravine]

guys give me ideas for engine swaps

[glacial forum]

Transversely mounted bastion v8 in covet

[warm sphinx]

In the showcase your mods forum; when I re activate a post to showcase an update, does it still appear for everyone or does it go into a sort of pseudo ghosted state?

I just notice allot less engagement now than I used to get and I was wondering if that is maybe why?

The forum I am referring to is #1137647283207426098

[shut pollen]

yeah it pops up pretty much as it was, even keeps the follow order for the post. discord isnt flawless though, sometimes it screws up and chucks the user further up or down the post than they should be when they check a reactivated post. that might affect engagement a little, but not terribly

[warm sphinx]

Gotcha. Most of the engagement has probably migrated to my personal discord then 👌

Might still repost to get new pictures at the front but idk maybe once the update is closer or out

Thanks 🙂

[blazing plume]

I'm working on a Lua mod.
Does anyone know if Engine.Audio.playOnce('AudioGui', wav) should work? wav is a path to a .wav file, and I know my mod can write to this folder.
Do I need to do anything special to use Engine?

Goal: play a .wav in game, as simply as possible. I can covert to a different format too if easier.

[slender ravine]

how can i import the pessima partition or whatever veicles into the bx series

i make a rear engined v12 swap but it looks weird that the v12 is just behind you

[tight shuttle]

if you're referring to the police partition, that ain't gonna cut it
you're gonna need to modify the chassis model in the dae to add a firewall

[slender ravine]

i just need it so that the engine is not weirdly behind you

[tight shuttle]

yeah, that's still a blender job i'm afraid

[slender ravine]

ik

i can use blender

just teach me please

[tight shuttle]

i'm assuming this is the '88 pessima? can't quite tell from that photo

[slender ravine]

thats the bx series

[tight shuttle]

oh right oops, misread

sorry, one sec while i throw a pic together

a) starting with this section of the stripped interior mesh (bx_intcarpet_stripped_coupe)
b) using knife tool to cut where the firewall should be
c) delete faces (but leave the section where the windowsill is)
d) clean up diagonal edges by dissolving vertices and the two diagonal edge loops on the window sill

[slender ravine]

im gonna try im a begginer i started 3 days ago

if you can try dm'ing me the fae

dae

how do i use knife tool

what next im done

[tight shuttle]

oh

here's a mesh you can add as a flexbody to the regular bx chassis

mesh name same as filename

[slender ravine]

the covet mid engine thing fits snug in the 200bx

oh

thx

thanks @tight shuttle

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Gave +1 Reputation to @tight shuttle (current: #217 - 17)

[slender ravine]

how do i make my custom slot type? im new at jbeams

[tight shuttle]

you'll likely need to make a copy of the stripped interior part, with the only difference (other than the names) being an additional flexbody

[slender ravine]

thanks

praying that there will be textures

where do i select it its not in interior or any part inside'

[tight shuttle]

oh, did you give the actual part different names? (like bx_interior_stripped_coupe_mid and "Stripped Mid Engine Interior")

[slender ravine]

oh wait yeah thanks

[tight shuttle]

lol np

yeah, if two parts have the same backend name, they'll conflict and neither will show up
and the frontend name is just for telling them apart

[slender ravine]

ohhhhh thats why i just deleted a part my accident

whenever i edit something do i have to delete the temp"

YOOOOOO THANKS BRO

thanks @tight shuttle

can i just edit the firewall however i want?

[tight shuttle]

sorry, which temp?

[slender ravine]

like make it taller

[tight shuttle]

yeah go ahead it's your mod 😛

[slender ravine]

thanks man

[ebon nimbus]

there is a simplier solution

rollcage

fill this holl then you got yourself the simplify firewall

[smoky galleon]

Hey! Im modding a version of eastcoast but have one problem. When i use terrain paint the material is green etc. Because of the Base texture. Searched of it but did not find anything that really helped med.

[wild chasm]

rate my car

[hoary badge]

im having issue with skinning currently, i was able to do my dashes/interior, actual skins even nitrous bottles but im having trouble with my trim. I want to add a blackout option and i have it setup to what i think is correct but its not working was wonder if anyone could point out a issue! thank you

the material name in blender is
cutlass_body_trim

[distant pendant]

I always just make seperate trim jbeams instead of it being a skin

[hoary badge]

then i would have to make the fender trim selectable, the trim on the front selectable. makes more sense for a skin instead of switching 10 parts the blackout and separating trims on parts thanks for input though, i sometimes do it if its like one item

[distant pendant]

I understand, thats how vanilla beam cars are so thats the way i always did ot

[brittle warren]

I mean that's how real life is too lol they are separate pieces of trim

[hoary badge]

have fun with gaps then 👍

[brittle warren]

What?

[hoary badge]

the trim if removed will make a huge gap, why im trying to make it a skin

[brittle warren]

So don't remove it make it a core slot so something always is there

Or use material override instead of skins

[hoary badge]

way too much work too double every mesh that is chrome. the same thing is achieved one is simpler for the user as its a one click solution

[gusty escarp]

Absolutely not

[brittle warren]

Bro u don't have to make double meshes with material override override

[gusty escarp]

Material override is far more work than just using a skin

Simpler = Better on beam

[hoary badge]

i don't think your understanding that there are like 20 different trim pieces. i need help on the skin. not a alternative way to do it

[brittle warren]

No it's not lol thats why beam uses it for parts and not whole bodies

[gusty escarp]

Beam also doesn't have interchangeable trim for every vehicle

[hoary badge]

the alternative i need to copy and pasting like 9 jbeams that is more clutter and you would have to select each one individually

[brittle warren]

Not if u use material override like i said

[hoary badge]

dude to do material overide you need a new jbeam section

[gusty escarp]

What if I told you RORO did the exact same thing clippers is doing

[hoary badge]

you have to select each individual trim pieces color

[brittle warren]

Idgaf about roro lol no one here does

[gusty escarp]

Why are you in his server?

[brittle warren]

Cause I used to join random servers lol and using skins for trim colors is a dumb way to do it when beams gives you a system that is extremely simple to change a material when the part is selected

[gusty escarp]

It aint dumb its easy and it works fine

[brittle warren]

Yes let me change skins just to change a trim color lol

[proud solstice]

wait how is materialOverride harder to use than the skin system

[hoary badge]

i have the skin stuff setup

[gusty escarp]

Mb let me go to 50 different parts and select a the color I want on each of them

[hoary badge]

it works no issue with other stuff. i just want to know what i did wrong in my scenario. not a alternative

[brittle warren]

U don't know how to use material override then

[proud solstice]

materialOverride is way simpler to use

I use components here but still

[brittle warren]

Roro does it guys it's the right way to do It and nothing else even the system made by beam is right

[proud solstice]

aren't his mods like quite highpoly

[brittle warren]

Idk lol I don't use his mods anymore and def don't want to know if bro uses skins to change trim colors lol

[hoary badge]

well you have multiple skins and what not. i have what i want to change all separated by a material which i would like to change with one press of a button. instead of going to each trim and selecting the blackout part each time. i could join them all in one jbeam but then thats more work for me to go in do instead of just finding my issue on my skin. i have my skin stuff already setup like every other thing. i just want to know what my issue is on why my skin is not working.

i really want to know why because i always have issues with skinning i either get it or i don't and i'd to learn instead of having to ask people everytime

also thank you for opening my eyes to material override, nice to know that is a thing

[brittle warren]

Don't use a skin for non body parts and it will work you can make all the parts one jbeam and just assign each mesh to the right group in the flexbody sections so there are still attached to the right parts but you can change the color by just changing the one part

I will send a screenshot soon of what I mean so maybe you can take some inspi from it

[hoary badge]

what is so bad about doing the skin though. they seem like they would do the exact same thing

[proud solstice]

materialOverride isn't as problematic as skins

nowhere near as much

[hoary badge]

fair. but i have only one issue out of the 10 skins i've done

[proud solstice]

and you could avoid these kinda issues in the first place using materialOverride

[hoary badge]

i still don't know what i did wrong

how would i learn to skin on bodys then?

can you just like tell me what is wrong with the skin? so i know

[brittle warren]

Yea material override is so easy it's not funny your very rarely gonna have any issues making it work cause all it does is tell the game to swap from this to this and dont need any color pallete maps or anything special or a second uv

[brittle warren]

Well what's wrong with the body skin?

[hoary badge]

.........

nothing is wrong with the body

but i need to learn skins and how to trouble shoot them so i don't have to ask for help

what is wrong with my skin and why is it not working is what i need to know

[brittle warren]

Well skins have to use a specific slot and not just any slot name it has to be global_paint I believe that's why skinning other parts with separate skins people don't usually do plus if you didn't add the skin_trim slot to the trim jbeam it's not gonna show up cause u didn't show that I added that slot

[hoary badge]

i don't really understand to the fullest cause of how it was typed, but this is a skin and this works. are you saying that the skin has to be slotted where the flexbody is?

i did this as a skin. but now know i could use material overide

[brittle warren]

I relooked and make sure your skin names and stuff are exactly right is all I can say cause it looks right but I'm on phone rn and not PC so I can compare to anything

[distant pendant]

i'd do it like vanilla beam does it

1 mesh, material overwrite, core slot.

[hoary badge]

can't find out what i did but i seem to have fixed it, i just redid what i did in like 2 minutes for the jbeam part of the skin and now it works
seems if the skin doesn't switch over its a jbeam issue not material

[brittle warren]

Yea unless it shows no material then it will be a jbeam issue not letting it switch

[grizzled fjord]

anyone have mercedes amg c class mods or like a super fast car?

[brazen totem]

ive got the .dae and the .jbeam in the correct folder now and beamng sees my mod but not in the parts selection.

[marble oxide]

how to get infection for beam ng?

[crystal wraith]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1101594871812325376/1266337272815681558/togif.gif

[slender ravine]

why is my engine wiggly i need to move the engine

engine mount*

[wild chasm]

how do i fix this

yall awake or nah

[civic sundial]

im awake but i dont do any modding since i have no experience

[summer vault]

what is the issue exactly

[wild chasm]

skin wont show up

[summer vault]

hows your skin jbeam looking

[summer vault]

does the console have any errors relating to the skin

[wild chasm]

no

[shut pollen]

missing a comma on line 9 maybe?

[wild chasm]

no

[summer vault]

the material doesnt seem to have the properties section at the bottom, dont think ive ever seen one without that

but also not sure if that makes it invalid

it should say its unable to find the material or something then i guess

[wild chasm]

why wont the textures work

yall awaake

[civic sundial]

yeah i dont think there are many modders online rn

[summer vault]

hows your mod folder set up idk
i mean it looks all fine at a glance but something is clearly broken lol

also are you sure your materials file is even valid

no syntax errors and allat

if it was valid it should at least show the material in the material editor with the vehicle loaded regardless of if the skin itself works or is selected

[dry cargo]

There is one texture without a / at the start. Idk if it fixes it but that's an observation I made

[wild chasm]

doesnt fix it

[summer vault]

put your materials json thru a json validator or something

[wild chasm]

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[dry cargo]

What texture are you trying to apply?

[wild chasm]

uh

why does only the ccf.main.skin work

yall awake

[summer vault]

idk its hard to tell what exactly is the issue im not familiar with the ccf or the vela it could be a few reasons

have you ever used the material editor and saved the material there before you added the vela_RF skin

[wild chasm]

yes

[summer vault]

it could still be looking at that old file then

if youve kept it in the userfolder

[wild chasm]

yeah

how do i make it look at the new file

[summer vault]

just get rid of the old one

[wild chasm]

where

in the mod folder

[summer vault]

no

[wild chasm]

where tho

[summer vault]

if youve used the material editor to save a material itll be in the userfolder

under the vehicles folder

[wild chasm]

i deleted the old file

[summer vault]

reload the game

[wild chasm]

reloaded the game

why ownt it wokr

[summer vault]

incorrect texture paths/names in your material

[neon ember]

can assets only be used in a specific level or can we have assets shared to all levels? currently I have some assets placed in level smallgrid via symbolic link C:\Users\hkunz\AppData\Local\BeamNG.drive\0.35\levels\smallgrid\art to the actual assests in D:\files\beamng\art but then they can only be used in the smallgrid level. In order to use these assets in ANY level, do i have to create a symbolic link in all other levels pointing to those assets or is there a common for all levels? if i directly do a symlink from C:\Users\hkunz\AppData\Local\BeamNG.drive\0.35\art then I can use them in all but the textures will be missing. So it only works if i symlink in each level folder

[late meadow]

hi i need help with ai decal road im trying to add ai road to this crash test map to crash vehicles with ai driving but when they see the crash block, they stop to dont crash how can i make them hit into the crash block without slowing down?

[heavy swift]

The cars have a /common/ folder, I assume there is a similar with maps.

[vestal marsh]

im new to beam ng and want to expand the game what are some high quality mods i should download and play around with i noticed thay there arent as many mods in the game repository vs online or on the website

[tacit halo]

https://www.beamng.com/resources/?order=rating_weighted
best stuff is here

[vestal marsh]

Sick ok

[spare peak]

Kinda stuck and I don't know what I'm doing wrong at this point, trying to do vehicle specific functions & looking over the vehicles like the wentward & existing documentation, I seem to have everything set up correctly, nothing is broken in-game but I just cant seen to get the buttons to show up even though I have the custom inputs set up. I'm pretty sure I've implemented everything correct, so what could I be possibly missing?

tried reloading lua and just restarting my game but this is becoming such a headache and I've probably missed something small but critical

[narrow sky]

Does anyone know if someone here does custom mods? I've been wanting my project car in beam.ng for a while.

[distant pendant]

Lol

[tacit halo]

no not really

[fickle moat]

how do i get rid of interior muffling sounds?

[fickle moat]

lichi help me gang

[sudden bluff]

any skidsteer or any construction mods?

[crystal wraith]

Why would you possibly want a cars interior to not fufill it’s purpose

[neon ember]

yeah i know but putting a "common" in "levels" folder didn't work. it somewhat works when putting an art folder above the levels folder but then the textures are not working because it will try to find them inside /levels/smallgrid/art/props/

[fickle moat]

no im testing something thats why, do you know how to though?

[tight shuttle]

look for cabinFilterCoef

[fickle moat]

yeah I'm trying to find it, I remember seeing it but I think its in the body jbeam?

[gleaming falcon]

convertible? no windows? old shitstain that has about as much sound deadening as a wet fart?

the interior is for seating the driver its purpose isnt muffling noise lmfao

[slow torrent]

Can someone tell me how I can offset flexbodies without changing the nodes 😅 do I just add "pos" argument, nodeoffset or sth completely different?

[tight shuttle]

as an example:
["licenseplate", ["car_nosecone"], [], {"pos":{"x":-0.7, "y":-2.2, "z":0.106}, "rot":{"x":-66.1, "y":47.1, "z":-50.7}, "scale":{"x":1, "y":1, "z":1}}],

you can of course omit the rotation and scale bits

[slow torrent]

bruh, I already had it right and was wondering why it didnt work... Forgot a } 😂😂 thx for the help

[proud sierra]

can beam use shade smooth instead of auto shade smooth?

[vestal marsh]

Anyone have any good quality plane mods that work with controller

[neon ember]

anyone know how to update colors in a main.materials.json. like i have C:\Users\hkunz\AppData\Local\BeamNG.drive\0.35\levels\smallgrid\art\props\myasset\main.materials.json but when i edit the colors in main.materials.json they don't update in the game. i would have to close the game and then re-open the game all the time to get updates refreshed. is that the only way?

[toxic lark]

Maybe it must be cached data idk..

[wild chasm]

how do i move the engine to the front

[wind salmon]

Hi all, first post here. I'm trying to send a few additional powertrain parameters over UDP by creating a custom protocol in lua/vehicle/protocols, based on outgauge.lua. Most of that file pulls from the electrics object, but I want other properties that are not there. So far, I managed to get torque and engineLoad, which I found are properties of the drivetrain object.

But drivetrain.torque remains at 0 for electric vehicles and I need it to work especially with EVs. Does anyone know which property I need to tap into to get motor torque for electric vehicles?

[wooden crypt]

Hey there! 👋
It seems there is no characters on this server yet 😓
Reach out to the owner or the bot masters of this server to invite them here.

Hey there! 👋
It seems there is no characters on this server yet 😓
Reach out to the owner or the bot masters of this server to invite them here.

Hey there! 👋
It seems there is no characters on this server yet 😓
Reach out to the owner or the bot masters of this server to invite them here.

[slow wyvern]

EN: Hi, I have a problem! When making a skin I used UVmap, but it didn't overlap, so I tried to figure out where everything should be. But I found out, it automatically makes a mirror image, which I don't want and I don't know how to remove it. Can someone help? | PL: Cześć mam problem! Podczas robienia skina użyłem UVmap, ale ona się nie nakładała, więc próbowałem sam dojś do tego, gdzie co ma być. Ale odkryłem, automatycznie robi się odbicie lustrzane, którego nie chcę i nie wiem jak je usunąć. Ktoś pomoże?

[fickle moat]

thanks for backing me g

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @gleaming falcon (current: #37 - 85)

[fresh vector]

Hi

Does anyone here know how to add halogen effects to existing mods?

[hushed turtle]

https://ko-fi.com/s/6e36b15582?published=true#shareNewShopItemModal

@grand creek <@&710084482031550547> Can I have access to showcase-your-mods please ?

[gleaming falcon]

$5 for a fucking car shredder?

[crystal wraith]

Hey man, please stop making mods

A wheel loader bucket with 2 spinning things

[gleaming falcon]

couldnt even bother to use OBS to record the demo video

[topaz iron]

bro wanna make an insane profit

[brittle warren]

Hey bros not lying about it so seems like he just a buisness man

[inner heart]

its not even good as a car shredder😭

[opal steppe]

Hi, I don't know if it's the right place or not, but does anyone have problems with gamers pickup parts? Every time I spawn a trailer or try to buy it on Carrer or even changing the d series frame to the trailer frame it gives me an error saying that the mod is outdated or it has a corrupted file, i already cleared cache and made a clean install of the game

[high sky]

Its probably outdate or doesnt support carreer mode

[high sky]

I know they are already alot of m4 mods out there but i have yet to see a really fleshed out f82, should I try it

then again Ive never made a beamng mod before

[crystal wraith]

Then don’t try to make an entire car, pretty self explanatory

[pastel hull]

How can I post in #1102973298222051358 ?

I don't seem to have permission

[smoky knoll]

what highway map has coolkidfrmbx beeen using

[pastel hull]

TBF
That's 1 of the most used things especially in programming:
"Don't start by making your dream game"

Sure... But no
By making what I like I WANT to learn, I'll learn faster and I'll do what I like,while I understand that... I also don't think it's a good tip,in general

It's 1 of the most overused
Said this,this is a thought,correct me if im wrong

[opal steppe]

They don't work on single player aswell and I've spoke to other people about this and for them it works, I'm only having issues with the trailers, the other configs work fine

[dry cargo]

Let him make them. Don't let him charge extortionate amounts for stuff like that.

But yes that is a just stupidly expensive

[pastel hull]

I can link a discord in the mod page right?

[tired cradle]

ive taken it upon myself to list out every variable for the powertrain (minus a lot controller stuff) so i can see everything that can be adjusted. this was painful to make, if anyone wants to take it upon themselves to fill in the pages for what each variable does, let me know. i prolly wont be doing much of it lol. im still working on a lot of the tables
https://beamng.notion.site/1f2f84bf6fa4800fbf20d423c95940c3?v=1f4f84bf6fa480998b01000ceddbb0f0&pvs=74

[proud sierra]

can anyone give a simple texture tutorial? i forgot how to apply image textures and every youtube tutorial is showing how to apply textures to objects, not cars

[shrewd oyster]

Can someone one help me with fixing a mod ?

[pastel hull]

I don't see anything wrong

[shrewd oyster]

Get the mod

And try using it

[crystal wraith]

A wheel loader bucket with 2 spinning cylinders that are freaking out is stupid, idc

[livid forge]

anybody have a working one of these 2 planes Leduc 0.22
Socata ST-10 Diplomate

[tacit halo]

well unless you have the kind of autism that allows you to fixate in a single thing for at least year and also have motivation for that entire time then its the worst idea ever

[pastel hull]

I got motivation for example
Someone told me to not make a mod (Inspired by RK) cause it was too much for a 1st project

But I did,it ain't too bad it needs work but It works

(RK's engine mod, that's the one I mean by inspired by RK)

[tacit halo]

theres a big difference between that and a full car

[pastel hull]

Still

You can learn by doing

But I do agree

Still,I think anyone can do anything if they want to do it enough (I mean stuff like programming,not flying)

[distant pendant]

How come some objects can turn of rendering and still by physically there while others you cannot adjust the ability for it to be rendered

[zealous orchid]

can someone make a Mercedes CLR

[tacit halo]

yeah, you

[zealous orchid]

BRUH

[sharp pewter]

where i install rims

threre is a common folder idk what and where

[ember wagon]

he is so fking entitled he got offended when you suggested he worked for what he wants xD

[whole hare]

Mod update to Universal Lava Skin coming soon, look out for v3.6

https://youtu.be/dbxT17gls0k

I've added 5 new skins which are animated

[dry cargo]

I can make the new jbeam for you, but the model work is up to you

[shrewd oyster]

Oki Thank you

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @subtle arch (current: #1528 - 1)

[dry cargo]

No problemo

[shrewd oyster]

😁👍

[dry cargo]

Check PM

[shrewd oyster]

I will

[glass loom]

how can i make a custom engine management option? I tried adding one in the engine file, but it doesn't let me use it in game

[tired cradle]

Copy paste one of the premade ones and just rename it, then change your values

Make sure it has the same slotType

[tired cradle]

beamng/content/vehicle/common.zip I think?

[gleaming falcon]

/AppData/Local/BeamNG.drive/0.35/mods

[copper latch]

Can somneone help me replace the default transmission whine with a custom one?

[tired cradle]

wdym custom, from a different mod or u wanna change something

[copper latch]

I have a .wav file (can be converted) that i want to use as the transmission whine sound instead of the one in beamng

[tired cradle]

@full wyvern should know, i know those sound files are encrypted so you cant modify them, but you should be able to make your own i would think

[full wyvern]

Why would you think I would know this, I have no idea

[tacit halo]

because clearly devs are all knowning omnipotent entities

[dry cargo]

Real

[rocky dagger]

@tacit halo I love your mods, especially the etk turbo one 🔥

[strong epoch]

Does anyone know why this is happening? Its using the stock LeGran trunk and all of the same trunk information in the body jbeam

[tacit halo]

the trunk might depend on some roof nodes to properly open, so youll need to include them as optional beams in the body jbeam if you wanna support the vanilla trunk slot

[strong epoch]

Thanks!

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @tacit halo (current: #51 - 71)

[steep shell]

i wish uk busses could be a mod {Enviro 200's etc}

[tacit halo]

ok start working then

[strong epoch]

It doesn't seem to be working still

[copper latch]

I still wish to know this

[tacit halo]

can you even do that
im not sure if you can

[copper latch]

I mean

theres engine mods that replace engine and transmission sounds

[pale night]

hey guys , I wanna make some mods for sun burst , like some carbon fiber or forged carbon fiber mods , interior ambient light etc, how can I learn and how can I get 3d model of sunburst?

also wanna make some more cool interior stuff and aswell as batman styled side mirrors cuz side mirrors on sunburst are kinda meh

[proud sierra]

To find the model, you go to steam-manage-browse local files-content-vehicles-sunburst

[pale night]

Hey thanks man, btw I have made model of sidemirrors , I am gonna make some more too and send yall the final look

thanks @proud sierra

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @proud sierra (current: #368 - 9)

[steep crow]

Hey, I want to add the rectangular lights/auxiliary fog lights to the utility bull-bar for the D-Series, but I can't find the model for the lights. I was able to get the bull-bar imported into Blender, but I can't locate the auxiliary lights anywhere.

[rancid wedge]

The lights aren't specific to any vehicle, they are somewhere in the common.zip

But I'd suggest just moving them with the jbeam, since that is how the vanilla game also does it

Just copy the lights jbeam from the other bumpers or roll bar and go from there

[slender ravine]

how do i use custom engine sounds, i wanna use the fr17 v8 engine sounds onto my f1 v12

[ember grove]

Does anyone knwo of a good audi rsq8 mod? I've been trying to search for a long time now. Thx!

[wind salmon]

I figured out the answer myself. Putting it here for others.
Torque of electric vehicles can be found like this:
local motor1 = powertrain.getDevice(“frontMotor”)
local motor2 = powertrain.getDevice(“rearMotor”)
local myTorque = motor1.outputTorque1 + motor2.outputTorque1

[dry cargo]

im not even sure if its possible but is there a way i can acquire the decal editor asphalt_2lane texture

i need it for something bu tmy brain is smol

talking about this btw

[tired cradle]

Is possible to change the track offset in a jbeam option, I’m trying to make a body kit config

[slender ravine]

how do i mingle with sbeams i wanna make a v12

[dry cargo]

Yeah uhh what map are you currently on?

[crystal wraith]

Shouldn’t matter

[crystal wraith]

Use material editor

Then find its path

[turbid sphinx]

i just accidentally deleted my 137 mods and most are paid

uh

[dry cargo]

download them back..

[dry cargo]

i figure it out but ty for help i just went to a map that already had it as an actual texture look thru mamterial editor and searched it thanks anyway tho

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @crystal wraith (current: #162 - 24)

[crystal wraith]

So why are you saying this here

[livid forge]

anybody have or know where to get the leduc 0.22 for beam ng drive?

[distant pendant]

don't post this in each thread asking.

[fast panther]

i made my engine manage to go up to 50000 rpm and now i cant accelerate how do i fix it

[fast panther]

i think its something with the ecu, i lowered the idle rpm to 2000 and now it accelerates

i edited the ecu to go to 50000 rpm too why would it do that

[slender ravine]

how can i make custom engine sounds

not like in the jbeam i need a way for it to work with the sbeams

[turbid sphinx]

i dk what to do

i cant get the paid mods again because my subscription ended

[tacit halo]

unless you can get some recovery software to recover it, no luck

shoulda backed up your stuff

[turbid sphinx]

recovery software?

[tacit halo]

yea

like just general file recovery software

[tired cradle]

Anyone good with jbeams wanna help me figure out why my tie rod and half shafts say they aren’t found in the console menu. The car seems to work fine but I can’t tell if something isn’t working

[tight crown]

Does anyone have a Boeing 767 Mod?

[zinc zealot]

Guys i know this is a modding server but does anybody wanna play beammp if they know it

[crystal wraith]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1260632591414071386/1312924893104570399/caption.gif

[ebon tangle]

ask in general not here

[hollow cloak]

anybody know an awd or 4x4 wheel drive mode for the gavrel grand marshal or just some fun mods for it

[zinc zealot]

i cant find it

[ebon tangle]

#game-discussion-1

[gray hollow]

i did custom moza r5 keybind icon overwrites to the beamng :D Dunno how well those work

[slender terrace]

Hello! I have just made my first mod and I am wondering how to take config photos that looks like the vanilla configs

[tacit halo]

https://youtu.be/hIVz0TzEVew 👀

[livid forge]

can anybody fix a mod for me please?

[primal light]

Hey :) Im making a mod that adds painted versions of the ETK 800 Xcsport cladding. I've made the normal side cladding work perfectly fine as it is a seperate part, but I'm having issues with getting the bumper cladding (which is a subpart for the bumper) to show up in game.

I can only find the SlotType (etk800_cladding_bumper_r), and changing the name of this obviously just makes the slot disappear, but I can't find anywhere else in the rear bumper file that mentions the cladding?

[tight shuttle]

if you toggle the console with ~, it should let you know if there are any part naming conflicts or jbeam syntax errors that prevent your mod part from showing up

[primal light]

Ah! The console said the cladding was being overwritten, and as such made it obvious that the bumper cladding (for some reason) is under the cladding file, and not the bumper file. Thank you so much! :)

[misty rampart]

Does anyone know a good f1 mod😭😭

[quick lagoon]

will anyone ever make a kart mod that looks like this. Here are my dream mods, any lmph mod that isnt automation, a realistic f1 mod, a kart mod like this, an indycar mod, and a realistic gt3 mod

[tight shuttle]

https://www.beamng.com/threads/autobello-formula-kart-classic-bodykit-update-2024-02-11.60570/
https://www.beamng.com/resources/scintilla-gt3-racing-parts.23027/

[quick lagoon]

i know that one

[ebon tangle]

just play AC atp 🥀

[quick lagoon]

i do

but i wanna crash

[ebon tangle]

damn

well you better start learning how to mod beamng then

cause noones making that shit for u lmao

[tacit halo]

you

want something? do it yourself

[quick lagoon]

ford

[dry cargo]

?

[placid rover]

is ther anyonye who knows is their a cvt mod that works after the latest update?

[timber bay]

Hi guys, I was wondering if it was possible to just copy & paste old sunburst ESC into bx. I replaced names in code and on the file ( sunburst -> bx), added edited file into bx content but it doesn't come up. any tips? thx

[primal light]

I made a mod that i want to upload to the repo, but obviously right now the mod just shows up as the .zip name and with no description or image in mod manager. am i supposed to add a description and image file to the zip or is this done when uploading to the repo?

[dry cargo]

@regal stirrup this probably not the best place to reach ya but anyway, ur 2.4k config pack is broken, when i use ur configuration sunburst it has an error loading vehicle. I tried this with just your mod installed and still same issue, just wanna let u know

[ebon tangle]

Does the BX even have an ESC slot?

[timber bay]

nope

[ebon tangle]

Yeah, that’s why it’s not working

[timber bay]

i changed bx_ESC from slots to bx_Mod and now it deos as Additional modification but i want it down in a list lol

[timber bay]

do u have any idea how to make it work? I went to Beamng Forums, here on dc search and chatgpt.. no help

(tbh i was hoping it would work, I added bx front diff with same principal and it worked fine)

[regal stirrup]

Sounds like a you issue lol

U prob have mods or need to clear cache

Config pack doesn’t use mods lol

[tight shuttle]

the latter

[glass ice]

how do fix no textures showing up whenever i put a material on a object? and if i dont put a material on a part in this car then it wont even show up

and its not like its missing a texture the textures im using on it is in the same folder as the vehicle

[tired cradle]

Add it as a slot to the ECU management or something, it’s the “slots”:[] code you see in all the jbeam files

[unborn mirage]

yo surely someone has made a mod where you can convert any car to right hand drive or left hand drive, if it hasnt been made i reckon someone should

[zealous leaf]

Hi everyone,
I’m currently working on adding a Manthey Racing kit to the GT3 RS by Twixer. I already have the kit and all necessary files, but I’m having trouble figuring out how to properly integrate the kit with the car.
I’m looking for someone with experience who could assist me in installing the kit and making sure everything fits.
If anyone is interested in helping out or pointing me in the right direction, I’d really appreciate it
Thanks in advance

[deep maple]

WIP💡

[pale mural]

spot the problem

[stuck vault]

not a single problem, its perfect

[dry cargo]

Old gridmap

[olive maple]

Lovely

[pale mural]

wrong

[pale mural]

only eagle eyed people will notice the issue

[dry cargo]

Alright I have a issue, I have some truck mods on the D-series model and the UI won't show up for it, the engine revs but won't drive, (I've checked all mechanical parts and it doesn't drive)

it's like no UI and stuck in clutch

[pale mural]

have you disabled all your mods then tried

[dry cargo]

yes

[pale mural]

have you tried safemode?

[dry cargo]

I've tried the clear cache aswell

Yup

[pale mural]

have you tried reinstalling the game

[dry cargo]

I've tried it

[pale mural]

i used to have a similar issue

with the upfit frame

there was a WHEEL MOD breaking the frame creating that exact issue you have

[dry cargo]

hm, what wheel mod?

[pale mural]

i dont remember but i found out by clicking list broken mods in the mod menu

saw one modified the upfit frame

and deleted it

[dry cargo]

alright I'll take a look at it

thank you 👍

[pale mural]

no problem

[pale mural]

@maiden scaffold can i dm you regarding permission to use some of your assets? sorry to bother you

[wind bane]

does someone have a aston martin dbx mod

[timber bay]

thx, will try now

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @tired cradle (current: #1547 - 1)

[timber bay]

i didnt know which file was including the slots so just used "display names" in game veh config. bx_body_coupe and added slot inside. all worked, thx

[maiden cloud]

how to convert a car from Assetto Corsa or GTA to BeamNG.drive?

[crystal wraith]

https://tenor.com/view/side-eye-dog-gif-22972113

[maiden cloud]

What?😂

[timber bay]

prolly asking about converting 3d models from one to another

some of them might know

i was trying to convert from asseto to gta sa few yrs ago lol

(it worked but not textures..)

[maiden cloud]

Yes, exactly! I’m trying to convert a car from Assetto to BeamNG. Thanks a lot for sharing your experience — even getting it working without textures is impressive 👏 If you remember any tools or tips, I’d really appreciate it!

[timber bay]

I can't really help u much as that's not what I was doing. the way I learned to convert stuff from asseto to GTA SA was to look for specific tools. go to google and search something like "Asseto corsa 3d modelling", use keywords like: modelling, editing, export/import etc. just follow videos and try their ways, might not at first but u'll figure it out.

try this:

1. asseto to blender

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOjwAORSYnY&ab_channel=Verfassen

2. blender to beamng

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLozcVaaHTc&ab_channel=Spealer

note: this is not exact or guaranteed guide

[tacit halo]

that second tutorial is to make map props not drivable vehicles

there is no video tutorial on how to properly make beamng car mods

[timber bay]

havent watched it ngl, quickly searched for random 3d related video from blender to beamng and linked it.

point is to export/import 3d models

[tacit halo]

you should make sure that what you are saying makes some sort of sense before sending it

[tacit halo]

no the point is you cant do that in beamng

you cant import a car mod

beamng is a very specific game with very specific needs that require very specific assets

[timber bay]

my point to him was to do research first, I mentioned that I haven't done it myself too

[tacit halo]

many times asseto mods are ultra high detailed and not optimized meaning beamngs deformation phisics wont play well and they will deform like a spike ball, so you generally cant even use asseto corsa models for beamng

[dry cargo]

Yk how blender has a subdivide tool, is there an 'un-subdivide' tool or something like that or is it all manual

[tacit halo]

that destroys the polyflow and makes the shading awful

[dry cargo]

Ah

[tacit halo]

you generally need to retopo the models or manually reduce polycount

[dry cargo]

Yeah. Can you add more nodes to off-set the high poly count or does that just make it as bad and kill framerste

[tacit halo]

handling a higher node strucutre is generally much much more complicated, more unstable and generally deforms worse

[dry cargo]

Ok.
I've got no idea with jbeam stuff because I've never tried to do it.

[distant pendant]

the decimate/ unsub method is only usable when models are used w/ sub division

other wise it'll create tears/ holes/ artifacts/ and other general model errors

[ebon tangle]

Also AC models need to be split into separate parts

Ive never tried porting AC shit but for GT7 bases processing the model to get it ready for beamng takes a while

Its not a drag and drop affair

[tacit halo]

that too

[silver sluice]

can someone help me remove this red stuff on the trueno mod

[wet needle]

what is a safe 350z mod

[lost mountain]

are there any mods that add dirt/mud/sand to vehicles when you are going off-roading? i’ve looked but i can’t find anything

[crystal wraith]

no

[proud sierra]

not yet

[balmy pilot]

@olive mantle can you check your DMs for me please? :)

[scarlet cedar]

coming soon

[mossy bane]

Does anyone have a working Fox sprinter for beamng? so that every bus works and doesn't crash

[twin furnace]

Somebody should make a ram rho

[mellow turtle]

i want to start this message by saying i just bought beamng not long ago so im very lost right now. im trying to use the crazy contraptions mod and im having an issue where when i try to get a random vehicle i get a fatal lua error any fixes i can do

[dapper maple]

https://medal.tv/games/beamng/clips/knEAC97k1JziXNQXW?invite=cr-MSx1RkYsMzQ0MTg2NTAy is there a mod orc hange that can fix the ai cars or at least make them better

[flint hornet]

does anyone have a good video on how to UV map vanilla vehicles my mod is pretty much done but its on a full halt due to the uv not working.

underside of the uv is wrecked over side is wrecked.

[ebon tangle]

import one of the textures and work off of that

if the UV is truly fucked ur gonna have to remap it urself

[foggy jungle]

Is there a soft limiter mod for beam.ng so I put it on a car and it limits it to 4k rpm in p or n

[quaint bridge]

Since no one replied, A fatal Lua error is usually because the mod itself is outdated or broken, There's nothing you can really do about it unless the modder fixes it.

[quaint bridge]

Look up how to UV in Blender, Im sure you'll get the gist of it, Its better to just remap and make your own UV, Especially if you've modified/made new body parts.

[flint hornet]

cool lol im literally learning from nothing. i had like maybe 2 hours modeling in blender before i started work on this. D:

its working out though.

[golden niche]

can i please get help in removing the smoke from the engine while keeping the smoke from the exhaust? ive been trying for nearly 3 hours and have gotten nowhere, and its pissing me off

[mellow turtle]

ok that makes sense thanks for the help

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @quaint bridge (current: #448 - 7)

[summer vault]

it probably just uses the default headgasket broken override or whatever it was which will also make it belch out steam from the engine
so im not sure you really can without coming up with some kind of custom override that makes steam only come out of the exhaust

[golden niche]

figured as much, sadly not skilled enough to try that myself
ill jsut use the diesel or smack a hole in the oil filter

wont be nearly as much smoke but it'll be something

[idle sonnet]

Did exists a Treadmill mod for Beam NG?

[twin furnace]

Somebody needs to make a ram rho😭

[fast hazel]

hey, is there any channels filled with mods that i could download? 😁

[signal shell]

there was a .dox somewhere yea

@fast hazel

i do not know how up to date that is but yea

[fast hazel]

alright, thanks 👍

[golden niche]

no idea what imm doing but i think i found what was causing my exhaust steam yesterday
now i jsut gotta figure out how to emit just exhaust steam without emitting from both ends

[golden niche]

is tehre a way to add some sort of function to trigger the exshaust steam specifically without having to modify the base game's lua?

[brittle warren]

Not really unless you made your own controller that says like if the engine is running make these particles appear at node end pairs

[dry cargo]

can anyone help me? i am trying to learn how modding works and i have changed the name of the engine and duplicated it so it should have 3 engines instead of 2 but it remains as 2 engines and i cant seem to find the engine i am looking for can anyone help with that?

[timid raven]

im having the same issue did you ever find a fix to this?

[flint hornet]

is the point of remapping to make the new part fit the built in texture? or do i make a new texture in blender & import that to beamng somehow. it's only the one part that needs uv remap so not sure if that's different from re-texturing the whole car.

also what's the difference between materials and textures in beamng? kinda missing the basics

[ebon tangle]

materials assign a texture to a mesh

[pale mural]

anyone know how to get custom loading screens to appear from a modpack?

[regal kayak]

Can anyone tell me how to download a mod...

[olive maple]

repo or manual download from the beamng forms

[dry cargo]

One moment

[dry cargo]

Use the guide above

[brisk bloom]

I have downloaded mods from modland before... I feel I've just downloaded virues

[dry cargo]

There's a chance you have.
Delete all those mods
Clear cache
Verify file integrity
Do a virus scan if you want to be safe

[ebon tangle]

God the virus fearmongering is so irritating

The mods themselves cannot contain viruses, the only known exploit has been patched already

Also doing a virus scan would solve literally nothing because I can’t think of any antivirus software that is able to scan lua files

[brisk bloom]

Did they ever have viruses that could hack your internet or something?

I am never downloading from modland again ig

[dry cargo]

In theory it could do lots of damage (disney was supposedly hacked by one of these mods) but I don't have any examples to give of that much damage to you. But better to be safe than sorry

[dry cargo]

Remove the mod gets rid of the lua file. And the virus scan removes any other files downloaded by the mod (since the American roads map downloaded a 3rd party file)

[ebon tangle]

Yeah there was a virus that utilized a Lua exploit to deliver an infostealer payload. The bug was subsequently patched after a major attack on Disney.

[ember wagon]

New Moonhawk V8 noise.

[mystic scarab]

Materials keep driving me crazy
Why they are so non-intuitive ffs

[tulip sapphire]

hello chat
i want to modify this mod so that when i change it to LED headlights, the material of the headlights/glass turns into another specified material (e.g with a more blue-white tint), any idea on how i would do that?
(please tell me if i'm not being descriptive enough)

[sick tiger]

Is it possible to render the image on a window in a skin?

[ebon tangle]

no

at least not just a skin

[sick tiger]

rip

[summer vault]

it is possible

with just a skin

since you can override basically any material with a skin

[sick tiger]

wait so I just ignore the window and slap it on there:

[summer vault]

no

youll have to put it on the glass texture

then just make a skin material for the glass

using the same skin name as the paint material and itll work ez clep

[thin hare]

anyone wanna help me try to get 6.8L Triton V10 engine samples?

[vapid quail]

Racing stripes that make your car go faster?

[topaz lintel]

This gen of the Saab 900 would be cool to have as a mod

Especially in the coupe/fastback body style

[warm steppe]

How do people make realistic engine sounds for mods?

[brittle warren]

Lots and lots of tiny samples that are blended just right
https://www.beamng.com/threads/tutorial-creating-sounds-using-the-new-system.52789/

[ember wagon]

You first and foremost need high quality sound files i am talking anything above 170kb per 1sec. Then you need to know how to install and remix them into beam.

If GT7 still recorded the cars like this how does the mustang not sound like a mustang ingame hehe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8t845NWPHk&ab_channel=MOREMotoGamesTV

[ember wagon]

https://youtube.com/shorts/OzmTFKYmBgQ?si=B9gVEKRPtT9iQq-t

[mystic scarab]

Small wheels gang here?

[silver sluice]

hello, is there a solution to this issue on the ae6 mod

*ae86

[cunning scarab]

Does anybody know and good free tow truck mods?

i have 1 but its not enough

im looking for maybe a truck like this

[lofty rivet]

Hi enyone know where to get a free chevy sqare body? im new

Hey cash go to modland and type (tow truck) or (tow)

[alpine musk]

Is there any mod for the 1990 Mazda MX5 Miata?

[sinful fog]

Does anyone have any fun maps to play on?

[silent pendant]

they are paid but crazy dale creations make ones sorta like that

https://www.beamng.com/resources/repo-tow-truck-kit-d-md-series.31907/

thats a free one but it dont look like the one in that picture

[steady plinth]

sorry no

[modest oracle]

like if they are gonna execute someone for stealings someones mod LOL

[dry cargo]

It's illegal. They wouldn't execute someone tho obviously.

By any chance do you pirate mods too

[modest oracle]

I dont but i download them from third party sites

but never got any virus tbf

and ive always checked them with virus total

[dry cargo]

For free? You download those paid mods for free?

[modest oracle]

yh

[dry cargo]

That doesn't work for beamng mods.

[modest oracle]

ah

my pc isnt tweaking

[dry cargo]

<@&710084482031550547> mod piracy alert

[modest oracle]

bruh i download them of beamng forum

💀

and patreon

[dry cargo]

You litterally just said you download paid mods for free.

[thorn jewel]

🤨

Dont steal content, kthx and have a good day

[modest oracle]

i dont steal content

[modest oracle]

do i have to smell if it was a paid mod?

[ebon tangle]

What?

If its a paid mod and you dont pay for it thats piracy

Simple as

[dry cargo]

lmfao

[distant pendant]

must be changin everyone to being a complete moron

[worn fable]

anyone here know how to work with reshade long exposure addon?

[regal kayak]

Can someone DM me the best formula one or formula 2 ect mod

[lusty torrent]

Whichever developer put these ducks into the west coast villa area just know that they've been noticed

[pale dirge]

is there a better way to setup a trigger's position? (The blue/green box that makes a door open/close)

[rancid wedge]

So far I've always done mine manually, just keep reloading tge vehicle with each change until it is in the right place

It also saves time if the nodes you align it to are on a flat surface

[green thunder]

anyone know where can i get mods for realistic traffic? like licensed cars :)

[pale dirge]

oh no... my computer hates reloading the car. so each makes the game unresponsive and takes 25 seconds to reload.

This happens to all cars, not this car's fault

[winged ice]

dose anyone know how to convert an assetto corsa map into beamng?

[shy magnet]

anyone know where the upfit for this comes from?

[distant pendant]

plenty of youtube videos for that, but hardest part is setting up terrain and collisions

[winged ice]

Ya I’m currently working on that rn found I guy that has a 4 part series on it and it’s brilliant I’m gonna do the whole drift masters calendar

[neon oxide]

anyone interested by a blown headgasket mod for the Subaru Sunburst

[topaz iron]

I think there's one in the Joe's Junk mod, but sure!

[winged ice]

Also dose anyone know how to make body panels and rear tubes react more like carbon Kevlar like for pro spec drift cars I’m sick of sending it into walls and then the car gets yeeted

[neon oxide]

reduce beamspring

[winged ice]

Is that in the body jbeam?

[neon oxide]

depends

if its a car with quarter panels then its in quarter panels

in the beams section there should be a beamspring value, and the higher the value the stiffer it is

[winged ice]

Thanks man gonna convert a few tracks just to get my feet wet I’m new to blender and modding in general

[neon oxide]

ofc

[night wren]

yo does anyone here know how to make cars (like mods on modland)

[summer vault]

mass rename every part in notpead 👍

[proud solstice]

fr

[lilac river]

Hello guys, so i wantet to mod some cars to the max with max turbo and a 8L v12 in a fiat 500 (ofc with mods) can anyone tell me how to do that? (It woild be great if there is an option so the car in unbreakable)

[copper latch]

question

how would i show/hide an image in the ui

[copper latch]

any ui devs? i want to make a ui app go over the entire screen

[modest briar]

can someone help me with something?

[upbeat robin]

how do i do realistic light textures like this? do i bake them in blender?

[ebon tangle]

yeah

[regal kayak]

Anyone?

[near echo]

in blender you put a physical light object and then bake a diffuse map
then whatever part of the mesh is lit up will be displayed on the texture in whatever color you made the light

given that you properly uv mapped the mesh

[upbeat robin]

Ive tried that once and i remember the texture always coming out black, im not sure what i did wrong

And i need to learn how to make headlights materials too

[near echo]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iTdIKLwNEfl_KyneXGBAUi8Sh3YUN5d3/view?usp=sharing
try this video

or you could try paintint it manually

but that wouldnt give good results

[deep maple]

https://www.beamng.com/resources/gavril-grand-marshal-classic.34797/

[crystal wraith]

Buick road master mentioned

[olive maple]

Hey, the wagon seems to be broken rn.

[upbeat robin]

Thanksss thats exactly what i was looking for

[twilit python]

What's the purpose and use for "slots2" anyone know?

What benefits does it serve?

[tacit halo]

https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/vehicle/sections/slots/slots2/

[twilit python]

Thanks.

[tacit halo]

probably in order to update the functionality of slots further without breaking compatibility with older mods that dont have those optional things added

[twilit python]

Ok.

[wheat copper]

so I made a road in blender, but when I drive on it my tires blew and I get stuck into it after driving at any kind of real speed over like 30mph, it doesn’t do this for my land texture I have, what could fix this?

[feral cove]

can anyone help me make sure i installed mods in user folder

[fierce surge]

i cant find any good beamnp serves

[proud snow]

What do you mean

[deep maple]

Have you download a wagon mod from RyanCookie?

https://www.beamng.com/resources/gavril-grand-marshal-wagon.30865/

[feral cove]

I installed mods from the forum page into a folder called mods, then they dont open in game

[crystal wraith]

Let me guess, you unpacked the zip file

[compact furnace]

Hey, whats the best way to import modded cars into blender?
And to hopefully keep the textures onto it?

[tacit halo]

you have to do it manually

[mystic scarab]

You will have quite some fun time doing that.

[compact furnace]

Is there at least a easy-ish way to know what texture goes where?

[twilit python]

Anyone know where the driver cam node is defined in the Bruckell Nine? I've looked in every single file and genuinely can't find it.

[mystic scarab]

You just got me very interested here.
Investigating

[twilit python]

Awesome, thank you.

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @mystic scarab (current: #308 - 12)

[mystic scarab]

I was ready to throw generic answers in you but it's really not there

[twilit python]

I'm making a body drop for the chopped coupe body.

I need to drop the driver cam to fit. It sticks inside the roof.

[mystic scarab]

Chop tops are sick

[twilit python]

Same body, but about 5" lower.

[twilit python]

For real.I

I'm making a Canadian Vintage Modified.

These guys.

[mystic scarab]

I'm making wheel pack 🙂

[twilit python]

Hell yeah.

[mystic scarab]

Got a wallpaper worthy material in one

[twilit python]

Nice.

[feral cove]

Idk tf i did bro im not indian texh support

[twilit python]

Just found its in the seat. I made a race seat, which removed the driver cam. Thus, me figuring out it's in the seat.

[mystic scarab]

It is kinda

But it is not defined in any jbeam in nine.zip

[twilit python]

Kind of?

I see.

[mystic scarab]

There are "dash" and "hood" definitions but not the "driver"

I am confused 😄

[twilit python]

Yes, exactly.

The driver cam is in the seat Jbeam. Which is in the common folder.

[mystic scarab]

Aaaaaalright

I'm happy that mystery solved
Jbeams work in nonlinear ways...

[twilit python]

I just looked at the code, and the camera node still isn't in there.

[visual cobalt]

imagine a mod that adds safety features like airbags etc, and call it [car name] SafetyFirst edition

[lunar ridge]

There have been...attempts at airbags

[shut pollen]

they deploy too fast for the engine to handle their collisions well, amongst other things

[visual cobalt]

oh

[proud solstice]

and the public ones are just airbag meshes with deformgroups triggered whenever the windshield breaks
which is absolutely

[visual cobalt]

what if there was a mod that just spawned a lil inflated from the wheel

[crystal wraith]

That’s what he literally just said

Some mods include it but it’d be hard to have universal

[hollow sundial]

i tried copy pasting the entire file for a steering wheel not included in the parts, but it didnt work. how do i do so(for ex:trying to put a bastion steering wheel into another car)

[tacit halo]

Yeah but that looks ugly af, and they are never properly done so they just inflate and never deflate

And unlike other realistic things in beam, airbags really don't do anything

In free roam of you use 1st person camera they'd just be more annoying than anything else

[proud solstice]

fr

[desert dagger]

Is there any Formula E mod?

[twilit python]

Thoughts on the high rise intake?