modding-general

[olive mantle]

Haven’t thought about that

[eager moss]

What file path are you installing them.

And are they zip files?

Do not extract them

[rotund inlet]

how do i get dodge challenger i cant find it in respritory

[merry sierra]

Can you dm me so you can explain more

[merry sierra]

Some of them are zipped

[eager moss]

Yea ok

[eager moss]

You want them all to be zips

[merry sierra]

How can I find if they are zipped

[eager moss]

Look in dms

[merry sierra]

I saw

[true swan]

what car does BeamNG need the most, i wanna start making vehicle mods for BeamNG (i have some modding experience in other games) but dont know where to start and i want the popular vote

[eager moss]

Modern SUV. Modern pickup. And maybe a newer V8 alternative to the ETK 800? Like a good handling Bastion lol

[true swan]

i might do a couple modern pickups based on the toyota line up (not latest gen that kinda sucks, more like 2010-2018)

[eager moss]

Ok

Nice

[true swan]

sasquatch (tacoma) and yeti (tundra)?

i was already thinking about doing that tbh

[eager moss]

Yeti is a good name

[true swan]

and ibishu is the toyota analog right?

[crystal wraith]

Agriculture and military equipment

[eager moss]

Please do some good Raptor/TRX style configs. Big V8s. Actually, for inspo, theres this guys mod. Sadly abandoned: https://www.beamng.com/threads/bruckell-brute-gen1-gen2-combined-thread.97956/

[true swan]

that would be fun, not rlly in my scope tho, i'm talking about basic car stuff

[eager moss]

Tru tru

[crystal wraith]

Breeks

[eager moss]

Car stuffs not really basic lol, mappings easier. But yk

[true swan]

dog, i'm from the rural american south, big V8s were already on my mind

[crystal wraith]

No this isn’t beamed yet, but it’s a start lol

[eager moss]

You make shit mods

Lol

Jkjk

[eager moss]

Tru ahah

[crystal wraith]

https://tenor.com/view/blick-blick-speaking-gun-talking-sukuna-gun-emo-boy-gun-gif-125654969894335823

[true swan]

basic as in basic for car stuff, not for the whole game, i just dont think im ready for the extra stuff (plows guns etc.)

[eager moss]

https://tenor.com/view/france-jumpscare-france-gif-8859834915651946028

[eager moss]

Yea tru

[crystal wraith]

If you’d ever wanna make a proper sounding I6 for the hopper lmk lol I can provide sounds, but I do however have dual exhaust, is a much needed mod however

The inline 6 for the hopper doesn’t sound like a jeep motor at all, even though the hopper is Japanese I guess lol

[true swan]

i might also do a jeep gladiator (ibishu jumper?)

[eager moss]

Ngl i been thinking about doing a facelift front for the ETK800 to improve my modelling skills

[eager moss]

Oo yea i reckon

Gladiators are mid ngl

[true swan]

idk man i like them my uncle has one and it seems like a capable truck

also the gladiator is kinda obvious and im a little suprised its not done already as its been out for like 5 years now

[eager moss]

Yea its cool. But not really a standout tbh. Just doesn’t interest me much ig

[crystal wraith]

If you ever do really get into vehicle modding definitely do a GMC envoy/Trailblazer, could package them as one mod with different facelifts and badges

[true swan]

fair

[crystal wraith]

Only trailblazer mod is a model from snow runner and it’s bad

[true swan]

eh

[crystal wraith]

If built well they can be nice

[true swan]

i prefer old highlanders

[crystal wraith]

You asked what people wanted, not what you prefer, just letting you know, 😉

[true swan]

IbishuTrucks+ for a mod name?

[true swan]

im trying to do an even mix of what you want and what i want, i appreciate your opinion

[eager moss]

No offence but that shit uuuuugly lol

Xj cool tho

[crystal wraith]

Maybe more an off road theme since they won’t always be trucks

[eager moss]

Ts cool as https://www.4x4australia.com.au/reviews/custom-4x4s/dbor-2021-jeep-gladiator-rubicon

[true swan]

fair

[crystal wraith]

It’s not too bad, but it could be better yea but he’s not done building it

[true swan]

imma start work on the sasquatch/yeti at least

prolly what i'll have at first release

[crystal wraith]

If you make an accurate looking Jeep FC, literally could name it Ibishu FC, I’d pay a fair price for it

[true swan]

imma go beg people for concept art as i have no artistic experience or money

[eager moss]

Those gen GMCs/Chevs/etc in my opinion all look like play-do balls a 5 year olds mashed together. And sooooo much plastic

[crystal wraith]

It was also $300 so you can’t really beat a deal like that

[eager moss]

Too round and fat looking

[eager moss]

Tru tru

Still a plump car

[true swan]

i dont make paid mods, i'm not a monster

[crystal wraith]

😍

[crystal wraith]

If a mod is dev quality, I don’t see an issue

[true swan]

i still like the unimog better

come to think of it i might add that too

[eager moss]

Trust me if you get good and start to understand the effort, itll get tempting

[crystal wraith]

If you wanna do jeep stuff for an ibishu pack, I’m giving you ideas lol

[true swan]

i already understand the effort by modding other games

[crystal wraith]

Unimogs are really cool too, but fcs are just so cool looking

[crystal wraith]

BeamNG is an unreal amount of effort, wait until you get to jbeam

[true swan]

i was more thinking general trucks/offroad

[crystal wraith]

I mean, that’s what the FC is

https://bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1959_willys_overland_jeep_fc170_16293138413ae3d9135FC170-002.jpg?fit=1982%2C1321

[true swan]

i know, your talking to a guy who has hand-crafted entire planetary systems tho

[eager moss]

NO.

WE NEED THE FUCKING UNIMOG IN BEAM

And the Izuzu trucks they get built sick over here in Aus

[true swan]

ik right? i was suprised it wasnt in there when i got the game

[crystal wraith]

Sure we do, but why not an fc

Also idk how the hell that isuzu would get anywhere with those little donuts

[eager moss]

Beam is notorious for being one of the hardest “moddable” games to mod

[true swan]

fc too

[eager moss]

Oki ill find a big cock tire izuzu

[true swan]

fair, just saying im not new to this stuff (i guess im new to BeamNG modding tho)

[crystal wraith]

Wym, do you mean not getting anywhere? The fc is also like 12,000lbs lighter

[true swan]

huh

[crystal wraith]

You said fc too, so I didn’t know what you meant

[true swan]

this is all far-future stuff, idk whats gonna go in next, for now i'm just gonna work on analogs for the tacoma/tundra

[crystal wraith]

I’ve always loved me an isuzu but the unimog is just way more capable

[eager moss]

Seems to be every modded izuzu truck has small cocks tires

[eager moss]

Yeh real.

The builds u see on Fraser n stuff here in Aus are bonkers

[crystal wraith]

Also not to mention unimogs can be used as tractors

Hopefully I get an understanding of jbeam, and props so I can make cool stuff

My issue with jbeam is purely making it, not anything else

[eager moss]

Arguably the coolest unimog out

Ex-military rig turned into a hardcore offroad recovery truck.

[crystal wraith]

A guy near me owns 3 old ones, one is a firetruck

There’s also that one year of really fugly unimog but it’s still cool

[eager moss]

Yea

[crystal wraith]

Yea 2000-2013

[eager moss]

Yea

[crystal wraith]

Fugly but I still love it

[eager moss]

These are the coolest gen 100000%

[crystal wraith]

Yea 1974 or even 2020 is the best

[eager moss]

Yea they look like squashed vegetables lol

Not tough at all.

Like minivans ahah

[crystal wraith]

I’m glad they realized and went back to the box design

[eager moss]

Yea

[vagrant rock]

How do i join rp with beamng mdos

Mods

[tame shell]

does anyone have a good baja trophy truck with redbull/monster liverys (willing to sub to patreon)

[eager moss]

Possibly @silk tide

[tame shell]

Awesome, thank you!

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @eager moss (current: #614 - 5)

[ebon tangle]

ur model or from FS?

[crystal wraith]

It’s off sketchfab so it’ll be a private mod I’m just doing it for fun, getting models from fs is such a pain in the ass

Models from fs don’t export with materials and don’t export to scale either

[ebon tangle]

yeah def a processed FS rip then

no shot someone on sketchfab would post a full bigbud they scratch modeled for the love of the game

[crystal wraith]

It is, the interior is very limited and the drivetrain is lacking

Not super detailed, and most fs models tend to have detail, even if it isn’t good or functional

[brisk iris]

Is this safe , its from modland https://youtu.be/WNXAZ2wu_38?si=UNoOYZJSdXekfs1L

[west stump]

"Safe" and "modland" in the same sentence

[brisk iris]

😭

The official beamng site dosent have these bmws tho

The ones it has are old

Theres no like bmw competitions or smth

@west stump

[west stump]

?

[west stump]

If you'd rather risk getting a virus instead of just using forum mods then go for it

[brisk iris]

Is there any cars like this in the official site

[west stump]

modern irl cars are pretty rare but u should try the Audi A6 Mod

[brisk iris]

I already have it xd

[west stump]

oh how abour rsq8

[brisk iris]

Have it aswell 😭

[west stump]

bruh

idk then sry

[brisk iris]

All good

[opal dust]

anyone got any mods

good truck mod

i need some slammed cars or truck

yo guys how do u get in vids that ur tire flies off ur car?

[sterile field]

Hi, any recommendations to maps under 1gb?

[eager moss]

Thats not free yk, Modlands just promoting @pseudo tartan paid m4

[tacit halo]

(which is shit and you should 100% not buy)

[feral falcon]

Would someone on this server be awesome sauce enough to assist me in troubleshooting my Holden mod (hint I havent done jbeam before but i can kind of almost understand basics) It shows up in the mods section and so does the picture in the vehicle select menu but it doesnt spawn and says broken mod )): (not awesome) And this seems to be stopping me from making progress on hit GTR XU1 mod.

Coollapse picture

[crystal wraith]

You need atleast a jbeam for it to spawn

Atleast a box

[ebon tangle]

that node naming is uh

interesting

[feral falcon]

Yhea it pretty awsome lol

do you need like a reference to the different jbeam files locations anywhere?

[dry cargo]

is there a lore friendly mercedes mod?

[eager moss]

FUCK YES A HOLDEN

Looks sick sorry wouldn’t be able to help lol

[feral falcon]

oh man

[tacit halo]

personally before getting to jbeam it i would like
have a chasis modeled since thats the first part youd jbeam

do you have your base.jbeam, info.json and base_body.jbeam?

since if you try to spawn a vehicle with no body the game will freak out because there are no nodes to spawn

[feral falcon]

I have these

[tacit halo]

does the slot type of the xu1_body match up with the stuff in the xu1.jbeam file

[feral falcon]

According to my calculations

[tacit halo]

remove that slots section on the body just incase
also is the part name of the body jbeam also XU1_body?

[feral falcon]

yuep with a capital b if that matters

[ebon tangle]

Yes that matters

Jbeam is case sensitive

[winged jacinth]

guys is it possible to put a car compatible to a mod? I'm talking about the hybrid mod ( arcanox core ) and i would like to put the etk k compatible

[brisk iris]

Oh okay

[marble garnet]

Who has the gavril scout? Is it worth the price?

[silver ginkgo]

is there a mod that lets u remove any part from a vehicle that u can normally not remove cause im trying to remove the oil pan from a car but i cant

[pale mural]

id say its worth it, dev quality mod indeed

[marble garnet]

thank you

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @pale mural (current: #346 - 11)

[ebon tangle]

why tf would you want to remove the oil pan

[dapper quarry]

why is my terrain import crashing the game?

[silver ginkgo]

dont ask

[silver ginkgo]

experiments

[tacit halo]

wouldnt work

it would reset itself to default values

youd need to create a part thats "missing" that has 0 values for everything oilpan related, and this doesnt exist

[silver ginkgo]

ok

[minor rampart]

may sound like a stupid question but im new to beamng modding just learnt how to get new slots how do i get license plates to show up in this new slots?

[cosmic robin]

f i l e s

[narrow venture]

Unfortunately the engine will malfunction very quickly if the oilpan is removed

Yo the word unfortunately has tuna in it

[limpid flare]

anybody tryna play together

[cerulean kindle]

step by step! now a few asthetics and its mostly ready for release! (dont mind the delta time going crazy)

[dry cargo]

someone help

im less worried abt the texture than i am abt the steering wheel working under the cab

closer

[feral falcon]

this actually worked thx

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @ebon tangle (current: #546 - 6)

[brittle warren]

This is'nt what the modding channels are for

[cosmic robin]

what

[tulip dome]

Does anyone have a tip to how to get the beams smaller to match the tire?

I edited the scale in the jbeam to get this size and have the tire radius at : 0.001 and this is the size currently.

Any help is appreciated 🙂 I’ve been at it like 3-4 hours and I’m stuck at this phase

[tacit halo]

Can you check if it's correct without a tire?

Like your issue might be that the rim is too big not that the tire is too big

[tulip dome]

you would be correct! I found that I had missed the hub radius part of the jbeam.. Fixed that down some and now its perfect

[ebon moat]

anyone has a tutorial for how to make digital gauge or can teach me how to make them?

[hollow hinge]

is this topo density good for deformation

shading doesnt matter rn

[unique zealot]

id say this is too dense but i do get its for the shape

[narrow venture]

I'd say the whole thing is too sparse

[fiery ember]

quick question to all the modders out there that model vehicles in beamng (fictional or from scratch. Do you guys take the chassis/ frame of another car or model one yourself?

[lost shadow]

Hello community, I'm not familiar with modding, but I found two mods that are outdated and therefore don't work. I also found a new truck, but the skin doesn't work. Is there anyone who could help me get the new truck running with the skin pack?

If you know anything about it, please DM me.

[strong wyvern]

Hi guys I am modding a e92 bmw right and now I have clutch slipping issue how can I make rk's transmission mod work with the e92 mod?

[hollow hinge]

yeah, gonna try n make it as low poly as possible so my computer can actually breathe while running beamng🙏

let normal maps do all the detail

[runic stratus]

So, I want to add some logic in the game via mod, so there is actually a punishment system when you cross a red light or go in the wrong direction and such. Is there any guideline about how to go by? All the tutorials for modding I saw were either making skins, vehicles or maps, but didn't find much in terms of how to get logic in the game, so your car is affected by things like cross with red light or do illegal things on the road.

[narrow venture]

I don't think you know the meaning of sparse. Also, you need a high poly model to bake onto the normal map. It doesn't just spawn out of thin air

[hollow hinge]

I already have a high poly

[narrow venture]

Ohhhhh okay

[hollow hinge]

ill try and see if i can add more tris since it is defo a bit too low poly thanks

[narrow venture]

If it's too low poly then the normal map may appear jagged

[south nova]

does anyone know why it downloads opera gx setup when trying to download mods from mod base

[brittle warren]

Not a question to ask in this channel but it's because your using crappy third party websites that host viruses and stolen mods

[south nova]

where do i ask then

[brittle warren]

Don't use the website at all use the repo in game or the forums.

[south nova]

how do i find realistic cars in repo

[brittle warren]

This channel is for making mods bro. You just search the repo there are categories and stuff

[rotund moon]

hello are you working on the vibrations on the subwoofer mod

[unique zealot]

#mods-faq says to not download mods from 3rd party sites, and you can get real cars on the forums

also #mods-discussion, but your question is why you stick to the repo and the forums

[thin hare]

why is my frame not moving

[lunar lance]

Something doesnt seem right to me about this part, dont you normally have to use a transfercase to split the power? Why is it showing an opened diff inbetween the axle and the driveshaft

[thin hare]

oh cuz thats how i thought it works

unless it isnt

[lunar lance]

Is it how it shows up on the T/md series? Admittedly i havent messed with duallies yet

[thin hare]

also this isnt 4wd/awd

[lunar lance]

I would have imagined the driveshaft would link directly to the axle’s diff since its rwd, and if it was 4wd itd have a transfercase before the driveshaft

Beamng really doesnt like it when power is split like that from my testing

[tired mason]

My gut feeling is that the open diff + driveshaft to nowhere probably sucked up all the torque.
As for diff as tcase, I had pretty ok success using an "LSD" with zero lock and 99% torque split to fake a clutch pack for an attesa implementation (via preload value abuse from Lia side).

[dry cargo]

making a tool for automatically making screens

if yall r interested @ me or dm me with suggestions for dials, features etc

[west stump]

Sounds interesting, wdym by this exactly?

[dry cargo]

i dont have picperms here

but essentially a tool to make dials and digital screens, specifically for automation cars (cos i am tired of making dials with the description system)

basically am using the beamng electrics and making ui dials that work with them

[west stump]

Oh that's cool

[dry cargo]

yup

i can code so why not

[west stump]

Yeah that would help everyone

[dry cargo]

yup

this is the gauge i am working on rn

womp womp no attatchments

[west stump]

You can assign roles through #roles to get access

[dry cargo]

staying simple for now

not the best designer so i will keep it open sourced 💀

[nimble tulip]

I'm so excited for simple ng. it realeses in my bday month!

[safe oriole]

can anyone help me i am making an opel meriva just the raw thing just to drive around for fun but it doesnt show up in the vehicles tab i have all the needed files

[hushed monolith]

is there a mod where it allows you to put any wheels on the MD-Series?

[dusty parcel]

would anyone happen to know if there was a mod for a reach truck?

[grim venture]

im having an issue im trying to make a mod thats kinda like a radar detector it will go off when a cop is nearby but i can not for the life of me get the ui app to show in the ui editor add app area

[brittle warren]

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

Read through this and make sureyou have a basic setup right

[grim venture]

thats the guide i followed to a tea

is it possible for someone to look at what coding i have done and help me figure it out that would be greatly helpful

[cerulean kindle]

Does beamng learn by time? or why is my mod getting faster on each run?

[tulip dome]

So I’ve got a question.

For making a new body part (my example is a bed) I exported the blender dae as “dually bed”

What all in the base game vehicle j beam do I need to edit to get it to load that model I made?

I was under the assumption it was just the name, creator, and file name to the same name in my mod.

But when I select it the entire bed disappears. The beams are still there as I copied the original bed jbeam but the model is gone.

I’m stumped to what I’m missing

[ebon tangle]

check console by pressing ~

[tulip dome]

What error should I be looking for exactly)

[ebon tangle]

flexmesh error

usually caused by the mesh not having the right name in the jbeam

[grim venture]

im having a problem where im trying to put a part into a slot but it wont go what should i put the catagory and sot type to if im trying to add something to the beam navigator area of parts

"slotType": ""

"category": ""

[visual harbor]

what is the best place to get real life car mods from most of the things on modland and similar places are junk?

[tight shuttle]

forums

[rocky topaz]

yo im making a car and im having a problem where i can spawn it, it doesn't explode but its invisible, the beams are still there though i cant move them because they just refuse to move

[rocky topaz]

actually it appears that now even if i spawn another car they refuse to move and the UI for the car thingies doesnt show up

[tulip dome]

Do I name the flex mesh the same as the part in blender or as the file name of the dae?

[tulip dome]

All I’m getting is a “unable to create flexmesh” error in regarded to flex mesh. Others are duplicate parts errors retaining to the transmission and such.

[native jackal]

Question: who here would like to try make a BeamNG mod out of just STL files?

Found this while surfing around on CGTrader an hour ago.

https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-print-models/hobby-diy/automotive/pontiac-lemans-4-door

JBeaming and coding required, AFAIK…

Besides making the gauges, headlights, taillights, gearbox, engine and other items that have to be made.

[crystal wraith]

You got it

[native jackal]

Now to wait and see who will want to take that plunge and make it a reality…

Also found other models made by that guy on the site, including for the likes of the Ford Torino sedan, even the 1973 Chevy Chevelle Malibu.

[tacit halo]

You want people to purchase models to make what you want? Yea no

If you want you purchase it and you make it a mod

[radiant ravine]

Does anybody know if there is a american roads remaster planned?

[west stump]

Doesn't that already exist?

[slim swallow]

我的狗有大球

[grim venture]

is it possible for someone to help me set up my part mod to actually show in the parts list

this is what i have the slot as

im not sure if this is the problem or not

[tight shuttle]

default is where the name of the default part goes 😭

if the slot's empty by default, use ""

[grim venture]

this is the first mod ive made

[tight shuttle]

sorry

[grim venture]

no worries

[tight shuttle]

but here, this should help: https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/vehicle/sections/slots/

[hushed monolith]

can anyone help me with somethin?

[grim venture]

just to make sure so where it says default and it should be empty right?

or am i just understaing this wrong

[tight shuttle]

it depends
plenty of times you may want there to be a default fallback part in case configs miss it (such as coilovers or glass, you usually want those parts to be there without having to save them in a config)

the bx, for example - only the auxiliary part slots don't have defaults

[grim venture]

hmmm

okay ill try something

i have this correct tho right?

part still not there 💔

[tight shuttle]

hmm, never seen those arguments before

(dependencies and below)

[grim venture]

hmmm

maybe i just did this whole thing wrong

could i dm you and show you what i have?

[tight shuttle]

can't hurt to pick apart a vanilla car for reference (they should be in <Steam install>\steamapps\common\BeamNG.drive\content\vehicles)

[grim venture]

ahh ill try that

[ebon tangle]

how are you writing this jbeam

[grim venture]

notepad

[grim venture]

thats now they look in there place

[native jackal]

I'm sure someone else would want that particular vehicle in the game…

And no rush. ||(I don't have the skills for the complex process that is mod making.)||

[ebon tangle]

No like are you writing it by hand copying from base game jbeam or using AI

[grim venture]

i was using a mix of my wrtiting and i tried to use ai to fix what i was doing wrong but it didnt help at all

[grim venture]

i gave up on it imma try make an app that will do what i want it to

[winter arrow]

do any people do map commissions here? not a map from scratch just 1 building on a vanilla map

[merry sierra]

I have a question about textures in beamNG drive

Hello

[grim venture]

hmmm how do i fix this

al it says is true

[next widget]

it onl appears once people get close to you i think

[grim venture]

possibly

[tacit halo]

Nope

As If modding was already hard enough making people use channel packed textures would be hell

And the way the images are compressed I don't think you get much savings

[tacit halo]

But I think using DDS format means that the performance usage doesn't mean much

Thing is most things for beam can't just be exported and forgot

I have to adjust most of the textures I make in a picture editing program and most people don't use Photoshop which can do fancy shit with color channels

JSON is pretty simple at least for cars

But not everyone uses substance

And people that use substance don't use it for everything

Channel packed textures work when it's just developers using them but when amateur modders have to use them it just complicates things

I mean textures get processed by the engine themselves

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

Most modders use .PNG then it gets converted to DDS internally, then when the mod is done you can use the converted textures so that each user doesn't have to convert them

It's the easiest

Easily modifiable, you don't have to worry about saving as whatever format and every program can work with it

But isn't exr for 3d environment textures

I don't even know what any of that means

Beam only has base color, black and white and normals

PNG works fine for Beam

Any other format is just making things more complicated

The game internally uses DDS but PNG is used because its easy to use for Normal people

Especially for skins and the sort

Most skin makers don't even know blender or anything related

[tulip dome]

https://youtu.be/HixCnh89axs?si=xPFw14dlzTQWvR0f

anyone have any idea what I’m doing wrong here 🥲

[rancid wedge]

only things I can see is that your center point is not in the true center on the dually bed (maybe that throws things off?), and that when you replaced the file, it had like twice as much file size, so maybe after you export it like that, try to then load the renamed bed from the beginning again to check if maybe the whole file is not read by the game

[tulip dome]

Got it. I have tried to move the center point (didn’t know that mattered 😅) but I am realizing the bed that works has a note that’s it’s a “plane” under it in blender.

The one I have says “mesh” instead of plane

But when I join them it converts the whole thing to mesh. Which idk why

@rancid wedge

[whole harbor]

rah

[whole harbor]

clean ur screen damn

[tulip dome]

It’s in a warehouse. I clean it, it looks like this the next day. But thanks

[winged lava]

when I'm editing a mod can I just unzip it and delete the old zip then edit the folder

or do I need to rezip it

oh cool edited it now it's completely broken ig

not even showing up

[unique zealot]

unpackage it in the mod menu & package it back when you're finished

[winged lava]

how long is that supposed to take? the loading screen is just sitting here and the game is running in the back

the mod is there the cars aren't though and there's nothing in console

god the mod manager is actually awful on this game

I thought moving mods to disabled would disable them

yeah tried everything guess editing the mod bricked it just cuz

no reason in particular

[burnt topaz]

Is there a mod that ads like a 911 like car?

[cosmic robin]

how about you research

[burnt topaz]

But I don't wanna

[cosmic robin]

why not

its easier then waiting for somebody to help you

[burnt topaz]

I cant acces Beamng at the moment sooo

[cosmic robin]

well

theres this thing called google

you can search things up by typing on your keyboard

[burnt topaz]

Fine I'll try miself

[fickle needle]

https://www.beamng.com/resources/ibishu-chisai.12852 does this have supported version?

[agile gazelle]

i need a reshade thing for fps boost plz

[tacit halo]

🥀 nah

Reahade can't give an fps boost

It's literally just filters on top of your game, it only decreases performance

[astral axle]

I have been wanting to ask this for some time, but, is hard surface modeling with no subsurface absolutely necessary for beamng? Note that all objects in the picture have the subsurface set to 1. The only object in the picture with clean quad topology is the spare wheel in the back. All I have to do is to fix the topology on the other objects.

[cosmic phoenix]

what is the website i can install mods on?

[wheat moth]

beamng.com/resources
That or the repo.

[cosmic phoenix]

repo??

[wheat moth]

In game repository.

[cosmic phoenix]

ok

🙂

[tacit halo]

check vanilla vehicles for reference on polycount, use recently remastered ones as references

you dont need a highpoly for a lot of stuff to bake normals or texturing

with bodies you can just use bevel normals and paint normal details on the chassis

[high torrent]

is it hard to make a triangle license plate?

[ebon tangle]

is that even possible

[high torrent]

maybe not, maybe a skin would be easier

but am sure you can do something in blender and figure it out, though i have no experience in blender

[ebon tangle]

no like idk if its even possible to put custom plate models into the game

[distant pendant]

way to high poly

[astral axle]

that topology is still in wip but i wanna know if the wheel is good optimized

[tacit halo]

the wheel could be a cylinder and the indent be a normalmap

[rocky topaz]

hey im having a problem where im trying to put a new nosecone to the moonhawk, i have set up everything properly in the jbeam but it still wont show up ingame

[slate vault]

yo

i have a request for anybody who makes mods here

[tacit halo]

most modders dont take requests
say it anyway

[slate vault]

dam

i want a 2009 rav4 not limited all stock black

idk how to drop images

[brittle warren]

Yea it's possible

[tacit halo]

car mods take months or years to make, defenately not happening

[cosmic robin]

Whats ur budget is the question

[narrow venture]

Its astonishing the amount of people that come here and ask for people to make their mum's car

[eager sentinel]

Curious is there any Toyota corolla mods?
-# specifically for me atleast 2000’s and above

[sonic wyvern]

What are some cool mod maps that aren’t very demanding

[eager moss]

How is it that i end up checking the mod channels mainly to see what dramas going on not too see what people are modding 😂

[eager moss]

What in the nerdng.drive 😂

[ebon tangle]

what the fuck happened to the material preview

[brittle warren]

Lol making my own app that works with beam to just show info and work as a server that i can pass stuff into beam so i can do cool display things

[tired mason]

The fwd configs of the pre-remaster sunburst was pretty close in my experience. Not sure if anyone tried to mod the old transverse engine back onto the sunburst yet though.

[rancid wedge]

I think I saw a mod on the repo that did that, just a few days after the remaster

But I can't say how good the mod is, or what engine model it uses

[rancid wedge]

Did you consider replicating the 'goldfisch' v16 bmw 7-series?
Since the etk is smaller you could do similar with a v12 or maybe v10 and put the radiator in the back. Would have some potential to be combined with the bodykit

[tacit halo]

Thought of it but it's a bit overkill

[narrow venture]

Please do it bro it would be the coolest thing ever

[eager sentinel]

I see the similarities between them, I like it.

[tired mason]

Tbh I was thinking more the '03-'19 generation.

[eager sentinel]

I was just curious because I now own this toyota corolla irl, I wanna wreck it in game.
-# doesnt cost actual money to hit someone off the road

[tired mason]

As an ex '18 owner, I can confirm that the FWD sunburst drove about equally as bad as the real thing. The lowest spec CVT version was a dead-ringer for my rental-special E170 Corolla.

[tired mason]

For that older gen Corolla, I am kinda torn between Arima Caleo (search this discord/BeamNG forum) and the vanilla "new" pessima.

[thorn jewel]

are working mirrors hard to implement? i see a lot of mods where the mirror is just a picture that maybe turns, its just a chrome texture or its completely black

[topaz iron]

they probably made it a reflexion instead of a proper mirror. You have dynamic reflexion off or really low so that's why they look extra bad for you

[thorn jewel]

i have a few mods installed, on one mod the mirrors work just as intended and the other mode has a reflection

[topaz iron]

how old are they btw? Dynamic mirrors weren't always a thing

[eager moss]

Cool idea

[dry cargo]

#automation w auto mod?

it has working interior and active aero

[thorn jewel]

i dont know tbh

[topaz iron]

it's in the mod description when you click on it

last updated

[tacit halo]

Yeah dynamic mirrors were introduced in the T series remaster which was like a year or less ago

So a lot of mods still don't have this

[thorn jewel]

ahh that would explain it

[narrow venture]

Dynamic mirrors is goated asf

Tanks performance tho

[opal aspen]

how do i bake lights

[ebon tangle]

Put em in the oven

[opaque oracle]

What is the biggest map size within engine limitations?

Thinking about learning mapping and im curious on how big I can go, kinda wanna start a project of mapping maybe an entire county or two or three or maybe 4 even of pennsylvania

[crystal wraith]

You could have an insanely large map, but with very very VERY low detail

[opaque oracle]

I mean

most of PA is trees and mountains

[opaque oracle]

Is it more a file size limit or a square mile/kilometer limit

Im not afraid of making a 10 gig map

[tight shuttle]

mostly graphics i wanna say, but also after several hundred(?) kilometres you run into floating point issues

[regal latch]

johnson valley was so far being considered to be the largest map that fits within the limits of the game engine

[opaque oracle]

I see I see

[regal latch]

I remember there was a blog post somewhere on their website that spoke about the difficulties

[opaque oracle]

I kinda want my gimick to be big and detailed but how well is like culling in beamng or is it non existent

[regal latch]

give the fairhaven map a look

its super big, really heavy on ram but makes use of culling

[opaque oracle]

Im lucky enough I don't have a ram limit

for myself atleast

well I do have a ram limit its just no way beamng would ever be able to hit it in any form

Im on a 120 square kilometer map right now

[opaque oracle]

That is actually a pretty cool map

[crystal wraith]

Afaik there’s no limit but at a certain scale, even 8k there’s little detail

[regal latch]

in previous game versions the game took 32gigs just loading that map under vulkan and crashed at 60%. that got better since then, but yea i think it may contain all the answers you need

[crystal wraith]

Yea but that’s not using BeamNG terrain

[opaque oracle]

Lemme see what prerecentage of ram it takes up for me

[regal latch]

maybe thats the key ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[opaque oracle]

Kinda wanna have my whole point is kinda unplayable more a joke between me and my friends

My ram outweighs the cost of my cpu and gpu combined so

[crystal wraith]

Doesn’t mean it’ll run any better

Should have even components

[opaque oracle]

True just kinda the haha funny

[opaque oracle]

I do alot of video editing and stuff so i was like aight imma need alot of ram and I haven't dented it

[regal latch]

dude hasnt run blender yet

[opaque oracle]

I have

[regal latch]

whats 128gigs of ram lol

it eats

[opaque oracle]

I have 256 gigs of ram

[regal latch]

Thats opens you alot of options

[opaque oracle]

and only a 4060

[regal latch]

Is it ecc ram?

running server tech?

[opaque oracle]

yea

I have a serverboard

Partially because I do run servers

im the tech friend, im the one that you ask to edit videos, make 3d models, use inventor, do cadd, whatever you need

My pc is that work pc with the side of gaming

[regal latch]

Welcome @opaque oracle, nice to meet you. Im the dude that gets plastered with lua questions. Because as it turns out there are many vehicle and map modders here, but not many that create anything lua

[opaque oracle]

I hate lua

My hatred for lua code started with gmod

sorry brain fart

I knew what I meant and then typed the wrong thing lmao I do that very OFTEN

[regal latch]

hahahaha was about to say that i can understand that given that this game has barely any documentation about its lua components

but you can do cool shit with it. this is my current project

[opaque oracle]

rn im honest to god debating making a mod to make the rear window of the D series not implode every 2 seconds

[regal latch]

i believe ive seen mods that increase window stability

[opaque oracle]

I use the D series very often, just a very versatile vehicle, makes me go insane that the rear windshield breaks on every tiny little bump while everything else is either perfect or near perfect

I mean out of my like 400 hours in this game probably 350 of them are spent driving the D series

if the vehicles ingame had a working odometer i'd probably have like 400000 miles on it

and I know they added that stat menu but idk if that counts previously drove miles

Also doesn't help im too lazy to change the default vehicle

[regal latch]

it started when the feature was implemented. all the data is stored in the userfolder and also uploaded to the cloud

tho if you use mp then that data is all wrong

[opaque oracle]

I see I see

alot of mesh

[regal latch]

the culling option is in a imgui menu that you can see when you press ESC in game then

[opaque oracle]

aight aight

imma see how it runs (probably bad) first lol, 4060 doesn't got alot of VRAM

[regal latch]

Oh yeah

[opaque oracle]

uh oh speghettio

[regal latch]

Just wait

[opaque oracle]

might need to up the ram on this VM

[regal latch]

hm? are you passing your gpu into a vm?

[opaque oracle]

ye

might need to boot my native windows install

[regal latch]

The host is a linux and the vm a bindows?

[opaque oracle]

yeah cuz bindows sucks

[regal latch]

Thats awesome! still have to do a dive into that topic, also want to switch to binux and run windows in a vm for the things that dont run in linux

You cant use your gpu on the host right?

[opaque oracle]

its kinda weird, nvidia is very werid about it while AMD kinda doesn't care

[regal latch]

So i assume your host is using the integrated card and the vm then the gpu. not sure the gpu can be given back to the host without a reboot or so i read, but i just havent done the dive yet

[opaque oracle]

I kinda just followed instructions lol

[regal latch]

You mind sharing what you used?

[opaque oracle]

VFIO

[regal latch]

Did you use this guide? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF

In the case of most devices, this can be done on the fly right before the virtual machine starts.

*About the hardware isolation

[opaque oracle]

I do not quite remember

anyways 15 fps, quite playable

[regal latch]

Oki, thank you in any case :D

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[opaque oracle]

Imma put my graphics on the lowest as I had them on high

funilly enough I turned off chunk culling and my fps increased

[regal latch]

haha what

[opaque oracle]

dunno why it did that but I think its now entirely vram

cpu is like chilling at 50% usage, gpus at like 95 with 9/8gb of vram

dipping into the shared memory pool

btw what performance do you get on the map?

[regal latch]

But that shows you how quickly the game reaches its limits

[opaque oracle]

yea i mean need for speed isn't even that big of a map

well not the biggest ive messed around in in games

[regal latch]

Havent run it in a minute. Im running a i5 9th gen with a AMX 7700XT and get 60 fps with maybe 7 traffic vehicles

[opaque oracle]

weird that im getting a bit lower fps

aka 15, might try native bimbows, maybe on other pc

[regal latch]

my gpu is supperior by like 20-30% or sum

are you running directx or vulkan?

i do vulkan, as my cpu is the bottleneck

[opaque oracle]

15.3%

Just weird my fps is SO much lower

[regal latch]

^^

[opaque oracle]

Vulkan

Maybe this is a reason for me to buy a bigger PSU and finally install that 4090

[crystal wraith]

whats going on here

[regal latch]

do it if you got the gpu already :D

[opaque oracle]

thing is ION WANNA REWIRE wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I did PERFECT cable management 1 time and ION wanna redo it all over again

(I won the gpu in a workplace fundraiser so :P)

[regal latch]

Vehicle goes off track and collides with barrier. It then throws dirt around which land on the asphalt. if you now drive over it your wheels will pickup that filth and that reduces grip

[regal latch]

https://tenor.com/view/heavy-tf2-kitty0706-okaycool-chillware-gif-24988460

Ok wow lmao

[opaque oracle]

Money spent on the GPU is 0

[regal latch]

I mean thats the idea of wining so

[opaque oracle]

I might buy a new psu imma be honest I got a helious one in here and its kinda a ticking time bomb

helios

[regal latch]

Have been running bequit for uhh .. actually since ever and even the oldest of psu still runs

[opaque oracle]

helios kinda known for randomly catching fire though

[regal latch]

cant tell anything about their high end stuff tho as i only have mid hardware laying around

[regal latch]

like some graphic adapters hey!

[opaque oracle]

scared of the 4090 plug

I could never go AMD, even though I have no brand loyalty I just kinda care about ray tracing a bit

I know AMD has gotten better in recent years but alot of stuff specificlaly looks for RTX cards

[proven cloak]

Can someone explain to me how to model small ornaments in Blender to put in the game?

[regal latch]

Yeah i believe nvidia does a better job at that and ofc if that is that important then go for it. For me it was easy to pick AMD. The wish to switch to linux has been there for a couple years and there amd does a phenomenal job

[proven cloak]

I wanted to include accessories for some cars that are not present in other models, more for aesthetics

[opaque oracle]

Nvidia when linux

[regal latch]

when in rome

[opaque oracle]

beamng dlss when

(dlss destroys vram)

[regal latch]

bra

alr i head off, gonna enjoy my cats sum

[spring pawn]

I'm completely inexperienced with doing anything in beam or javascript or lua, but I've been looking into making what I thought would be a simple app for myself and I'm so in over my head.
The idea is a graph that shows the torque curve for my current gear at my current wheel speed, as well as the torque curve for the previous and next gears. I wanted to create it to help me determine when it's safe to downshift, and if downshifting or upshifting will (theoretically) gain or lose torque at the wheels. I know how to do the math for all of it, but the code is so beyond me and I have no idea where to start. Like just looking at the code for TorqueCurve-v2, I can't even tell how or where it's getting the torque data. It seems like it's getting it from an index on a list? Maybe?
Anyway, I just need some guidance. Anything would be helpful

[narrow venture]

Every car engine has a torque index which includes the torque value @ rpm for every 500-1000rpm. Exhaust, intake, engine block etc modify the torque figure aswell

[merry sierra]

Has anyone have a mod called dyno where you can see how much hp the car has

[regal latch]

I do not, ubut the game itself features a app that shows you how much hp you have. And if that is all you need then give that a try. app is called Torque Curve

[merry sierra]

Ok is it in the ui apps

@regal latch

[regal latch]

Yes

[merry sierra]

Ok

I found it

Is there any rollers that you can lock the car down to so that you can put the car on it

[burnt turtle]

is it possible to get rate limited on the beam repo

[narrow venture]

Another banger Lost Croydon Street Trends product

[tacit halo]

what

LCST means LichSport lol

[narrow venture]

I know

[tacit halo]

oh its you

holy fuck you change your name and pfp like 2 times a day

[narrow venture]

Ehhh more like once a day

This is the last name change

[thin bobcat]

guys is mod land good

should i use mods from it?

[unique zealot]

no and no

[narrow venture]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/747155073104347288/1304134754949533828/convert.gif

[prisma pine]

any good free bmw x5 mods?

[small imp]

Anyone recommend any classic car mods?

80s 70s 60s? Maybe

[sudden brook]

who got a good jack mod?

[sacred solar]

Looking for an experienced modder for a medium-complexity BeamNG project. Budget up to 350 euros. Please send me a private message (PM) to connect.

[lyric locust]

does anyone know how to use brebs randomizer

[regal wharf]

yall know any good sound mods for beamng that came out recently?

kinda been hoping for something new

[near gorge]

Does the beam wrapper for dear imgui let you use ImDrawList?

Or is it left out?

It not, is there an easier way to draw custom GUI?

[south crow]

got tired of looking at the stock etki turbo

[unique zealot]

https://discord.com/channels/710082165253079061/1394970257864659035

its somewhat recent

[regal wharf]

none of the 4 engines have a non vanilla sound

[unique zealot]

my bad i didnt see sound

[quaint bridge]

Refresh the intake manifold at this point too 😭

[bitter hatch]

does anyone have monster trucks/stanced/or jdm cars then slide?

[willow phoenix]

A lighting fix make headlights brighter
https://www.beamng.com/threads/brighter-ground-under-headlights.105823/

[lyric willow]

anyone know how clutches are modified to never slip and vaporize with modded engines? I cant find the jbeam for it or anything

[regal latch]

Interesting, thanks for sharing

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[tacit halo]

The old bmw intake manifold are on the middle not on the front

[south crow]

It says etki not bmw dummy

And as a fabricator, the intake goes where I want it

[tacit halo]

If you were using the stock intake uh
No

Custom one sure

[south crow]

I made my own stock intake too

Plus I already had that style made for the rotary I made so I just wanted to keep it consistent

[hollow hinge]

what is a meshlap exactly

[south crow]

When you just throw a new mesh on something without making any part of it actually work

[wheat moth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8U_G4WYBSQ

[true quiver]

hi guys followed some tutorials online to try download mods from online moved them into the correct mod folders in 0.36 and they just never show up ingame they have been opened with winrar and moved to mod folder.

[tacit halo]

You looking into custom models and textures? That's a very good way to step up your game

[south crow]

I already make custom models and textures

[tacit halo]

Ooh show

[south crow]

most recent was the aforementioned rotary

these wheels

v12 for the scintilla

wagon pessima

[tacit halo]

Ooh I thought that was the kljp one lol

Cool work

[south crow]

ev pico with car batteries

and other small stuff that I didnt take screenshots of

[south crow]

which one is that?

[tacit halo]

#1116188221005647964

Kueso and LJs Japan Pack (kljp)

(and a few other people's now)

[south crow]

I dont really showcase anything since all my mods are just for one multiplayer server. Im only now branching out

[hardy bough]

will it be pub or priv?

[south crow]

Its live on the carp multi-player server, but no plan to put it on the repo right now

how do you make a colorable texture?

[brittle warren]

2 layers in mat tab and then for base color palette if you add a red green or blue image that will make it colorable red is color 1 green color 2 blue color 3 so if you have a skin and want to make part of it colorable you would make that section red green or blue and it will be paintable

[tacit halo]

Personally I would put it on the repo I'm sure a lot of people would like it :p

[south crow]

I have so many mods that I need to do that with

[flat aurora]

where do i put "art" file. that i downloaded with a mod?

[unique zealot]

you dont extract them

[silver ginkgo]

Yo i was wondering if there is a mod that makes the ai traffic cars go crazy like drive really fast and sometimes crash into each other like in jaden williams videos on beamng

[woeful isle]

A friend of mine is trying to add some flashing lights to an existing mod, but can’t get them bright enough. any ideas?

[true quiver]

thanks man lifesaver

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[gray latch]

I want to make a barstow convertible but I have no clue where to start

[unique grotto]

this is an odd question but how does beamng check for invalid zip files?

[twin plinth]

Im so happy I figured out how to download good mods

[crystal wraith]

Good for you

[little portal]

Is anyone here experienced with custom digital gauges, I made a really nice gauge, but it has been jittery since the 0.35 update

[south crow]

Trying to fix this, I am trying to use the default BX transmissions on a modded motor, the trans is not appearing

[strong wyvern]

What engine mod u using?

Bc that could be the issue

[strong wyvern]

I new to modding so not fully sure tbh

question has anyone here take a kit from one mod and put it on the other lowk struggling because i am trying to put one r32 mod bumper on a 4door r32 mod

[south crow]

im making a mod

[strong wyvern]

Oh

[crystal wraith]

light mode user spotted

https://tenor.com/view/flight-flightreacts-flight-stare-flightreacts-stare-flightreacts-staring-gif-1117002066809253495

[crystal wraith]

https://tenor.com/view/little-big-planet-what-da-hell-little-big-planet-what-ayo-what-gif-13768843195184919620

[tacit halo]

By any chance did you change the name of the node group on the engine nodes?

If you are using the bx trans I think it might expect the nodes to be under the bx_engine node group which if you used find and replace you might have changed

[south crow]

Didn't think about that, ill take a look tomorrow

[rocky topaz]

how can i fix those no textures/materials? i have set up everything properly in the main materials.json

[acoustic panther]

try in the blender materials idk

[unique zealot]

Clearing your cache can fix it at times

[south crow]

im in the carp discord, I am really good with textures. ping me there

[south crow]

this worked, just changed all the engine node groups to bx_engine

[vocal aspen]

I got a Subaru Impreza '04-'06 mod yesterday. It works completely fine, but all the bodypaint parts have no textures. I can't post a picture because Discord won't let me, for some reason.

[tacit halo]

Where did you get it

[vocal aspen]

BeamNG forums.

[tacit halo]

Link?

[vocal aspen]

https://www.beamng.com/threads/2004-2006-subaru-impreza-wrx.84042/

[tacit halo]

Last updated 3 years ago
The sunburst remaster probably broke it

[vocal aspen]

The thing is, though, the only missing textures are on the paint.

All the interior and engine details are still there.

[tacit halo]

Because it probably used the old sunburst textures for the body

[vocal aspen]

Ok, so how do I fix it?

[tacit halo]

Try getting the sunburst legacy mod that has the pre remaster one
If that doesn't fix it then

[vocal aspen]

It works, but how do I switch it to the new Sunburst's paint?

[tacit halo]

What for

[vocal aspen]

The new texture's a bit better-looking.

[tacit halo]

You can't just switch since it's been completely remade

You'd need to adapt the new sunburst chassis to that mod

And it's not easy for a beginner

[south crow]

that isnt easy period tbh

[vocal aspen]

Oh ok.

[ocean dagger]

How can I put modded cars in game ?

[cosmic robin]

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

[ocean dagger]

I didn’t knew that I had to create a folder named mods …

[topaz iron]

there should be one already created?

[west stump]

you don't

[rocky topaz]

already got it all working but thx

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[strong wyvern]

Hi guys I am new to this mod thing and would like to figure what really going on here I am trying to make a gtr bumper work for the r32 sedan mod but I can't figure out the jbeam files.

I alr have it made in blender

[scenic scroll]

anybody know about an em2 civic mod

[kindred wolf]

Anybody knows something about the derby cars mod? One of the cars keeps spawning without rear axles and wheels

[brittle warren]

IF it is the one from the repo then it is outdated and broken. The actual mod that works is paid the RDP on the repo was a demo of the mod from a long time ago

[kindred wolf]

Alright thank you!

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[frigid zephyr]

Hey there

So I joined the discord because i'm interested in modding

I've started a small and quite simple mod which is a fully adjustable final drive for all vanilla vehicles. Based off of the race adjustable final drive, it expands the slider from 0.1 all the way to a 10:1 ratio

I'm just not sure if my methods are right but i'm basically creating a part for each vehicle using their respectable slot (so no intermediate part/slot)

That's it for now, just wanted to share

[fiery tartan]

Does anyone know how to make a diesel in automation?

[narrow venture]

You can't

[fiery tartan]

Ok thanks @narrow venture

[stray orbit]

Nevermind read the FAQ I’ll be back to this in a few days or so

[strong dove]

Does anyone have a good drift car?

[halcyon bluff]

yah

[upper brook]

Anyone know the map name? Ignore the text pls

[proud solstice]

https://www.beamng.com/resources/grand-canyon.266/

some roads are kinda broken and tend to pop tires last time I checked

[upper brook]

Thanks

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Gave +1 Reputation to @proud solstice (current: #30 - 105)

[proud solstice]

not surprised given the map received its last update about 9 years ago

[upper brook]

Okay I will have a look

Thanks

[tranquil cobalt]

hello, folks. i'm curious how difficult, with zero modding experience, it would be to learn how to make a mod that splits the rangebox and output shaft into different buttons, so that you can have H2, H4, L2, and L4, instead of just the standard H2 H4 L4, if it's even possible. i would especially like to be able to have this just change the keybinds, rather than having to create a whole new transfercase, so that it will hopefully remain compatible across the board with vanilla parts and modded parts, assuming this is a possibility.

[frigid zephyr]

Well I think you can find the transfercase code in the car's jbeam files and go from there. My best guess is that you need to just create a new part for it. It's quite simple really. If you don't know how to do, I can try to explain it to you

[cerulean kindle]

I think my mod is finish, fun fact, also works when you record your run,

[west stump]

anybody know how to add new images to a mod Thread?

[storm depot]

Not sure if this is a bug but does anyone know why the UV coordinates are zero for certain materials (for example interior on d-series) when using

vehMesh = GPUMesh.bng_getGPUMesh(<vehicle_id>)

uv1 = ffi.new('float [?]', vehMesh.uv1Count * 2)

vehMesh:uv1Get(uv1)

The uv2 coordinates are also 0, 0 at these points.

This issue seems to happen on both Vulkan and Dx11

The GLTF exporter app seems to also suffer from this issue.

[storm depot]

I'm pretty sure this is just a bug since a gltf i have from 2022 has the UV coordinates

[storm depot]

I was able to fix this bug by patching the BeamNG executable (see #bug-reports for more info).

[frigid zephyr]

Ghost run ?

That's cool asf

[cerulean kindle]

I posted on redit a longer version showing the settings, acepting suggestions. https://www.reddit.com/r/BeamNG/comments/1mfn7ig/my_first_mod_wip_suggestions/

@frigid zephyr thanks!

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Gave +1 Reputation to @frigid zephyr (current: #1684 - 1)

[frigid zephyr]

Always ^~^

[upper brook]

Pop

[frigid zephyr]

Hehe

[upper brook]

Can I steal that bio

With credits

😅

[frigid zephyr]

I stole it myself lmao

But sure you can

[regal latch]

Awesome! please report it on the forums, cause as far as i know this is the only place anyone tracks issues https://www.beamng.com/forums/troubleshooting-bugs-questions-and-support.5/

[winged tartan]

@wind eagle

might find modding crap here idk

[unreal pewter]

how i fix that my skin does not affect custom bumpers, i hate pessima why it dont work like other cars

[static raft]

Is it possible to track dirt particles and apply them on a vehicles surface?

[burnt turtle]

How simple is it to copy and paste an engine and make it have a ton of torque without making the horsepower higher?

[proud solstice]

you can't affect torque and horsepower independently

[narrow venture]

Less rpm

That's why big diesel engines have a shit ton of torque but not that much hp, because they only rev to like 2.5k rpm

HP = TQ x RPM ÷ 5252

[burnt turtle]

interesting

so i probably don't even need to mod my own engine in then

[narrow venture]

Nope, you could add an ECU to one of the t series engines or the md diesel that makes the turbo very high psi and limits the rpms low

[brittle warren]

Since when is this true in beam because I've been modding a long time and never seen this whatsoever

[burnt turtle]

isn't that the well-known horsepower formula

or does PS have a different formula

wait beam uses nm for torque

[narrow venture]

This is true with everything regarding engines

I'm not sure how exactly beam simulates HP but I can guarantee that this formula is in there somewhere

[brittle warren]

I can bet it's not

[narrow venture]

You'd most likely be wrong

[burnt turtle]

okay SI has a different formula

similar idea but different units

and no division

[narrow venture]

They use Nm for torque in beam so it would be torque (nm) X rpm ÷ (a different number)

[burnt turtle]

doesn't seem that way

[narrow venture]

You'd have to ask a developer about that, I can't give an answer

[burnt turtle]

oh well lmao

it doesn't matter all that much

i'll figure something out

i just want an engine with low power high torque

[narrow venture]

.

theres your solution

[burnt turtle]

k

[narrow venture]

what kind of response is k

[cerulean kindle]

F1 style UI ! 😄 (kindda)

[exotic plinth]

Is there a list of paid/private mods to check out? Don’t mind paying for some high quality stuff

[tight shuttle]

idk if there's a list, but the lore-friendly ones seem worth the money (not that i've tried any of them though, but many have demos)

• ibishu signia/bx (70s japanese coupe)
• hirochi rush (80s japanese ute)
• cherrier picnic (90s french b-seg hatch)
• procyon avior (90s japanese luxury sedan)
• gavril barstow iv (90s american coupe)
• civetta mondello (00s italian supercar)
• gavril scout (10s euro-style compact van)
• segra ultimat (20s european flatnose semi)
  i might've missed one or two, but yeah

[exotic plinth]

Thank you 🙏, haven’t heard of some of those yet

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Gave +1 Reputation to @tight shuttle (current: #166 - 26)

[narrow venture]

Avior is not that good tbh

Well it's decent but there are a few issues

My main issue is the borderline silent engine

Even with the custom exhaust, the engine is very quiet

And the thumbnails aren't even done properly which for a paid mod is not good enough

[tight shuttle]

oof

[narrow venture]

I don't think it's good enough to be a paid mod

Sorry not sorry

[proud solstice]

the engine is meant to be quiet though

it's a luxury car

I also fail to see how any of the thumbnails are not done properly
a bit too zoomed in? sure, but it's also a big car

[narrow venture]

Still too quiet

[narrow venture]

Pixelated

[proud solstice]

do you realize thumbnails have to be 500x281 right?

[narrow venture]

I know that

Do you realise that the thumbnails need to be rendered in 2000x1124 and then downscaled to 500x281 to avoid the pixelated look?

"thumbnail temp" in thumbnail generator

The fact that this PAID mod has thumbnails that aren't up to vanilla standards is my issue

If it was free then who cares but you pay with the expectation that you get something for that money

[proud solstice]

and yet the rest of the damn thing is

[narrow venture]

The one thing I really like about it is the suspension

Has the cool lexus suspension

But other than that it's meh, configs are samey too

[proud solstice]

well no shit?? that's like most cars for you

increase your volume if you think this is too quiet

[narrow venture]

Can't listen rn

The factory configs are too quiet though, even if it's a luxury car it's still too quiet and muffled

[proud solstice]

because it's MEANT to be like that

[narrow venture]

I don't like that, why would you want a car that you can't hear, it may as well be electric at that point

[proud solstice]

I can hear this car just fine

just increase your volume buddy

[narrow venture]

My volume is fine

[proud solstice]

and so is mine

[narrow venture]

Vanilla cars are a LOT louder than the avior

[proud solstice]

I'll give you that

but like saying the avior isn't worth it because of 2 pet peeves is ridiculous

[narrow venture]

Okay you're right

2 minor issues but if I'm paying for a mod then I want 0 minor issues

Maybe my standards are too high

[proud solstice]

yes they're ridiculous

[narrow venture]

Not really

[proud solstice]

this interior alone is far better than some dev cars

[narrow venture]

It's vanilla quality which is good

If paid mods are as good as vanilla cars then I'm happy with that

[proud solstice]

literally unplayable!! too pixelated!!!

[narrow venture]

Cherrier Picnic as well has weird textures

[proud solstice]

might as well refund beamng because the aa is shit

[narrow venture]

I love the cherrier picnic but the interior looks like Borderlands

[proud solstice]

and what about the lansdale's 2.5 td's turbo being the wrong way around? gonna say the game isn't worth it because of that?

or the 7 missing coils in the bastion's v8 engine?

or the inconsistent scale in beamng's 20x9 wheels? the jbeam offset being wrong in the 18x10 clockwise 533s?

[narrow venture]

The things you're pointing out are way less noticeable than the engine being 15 decibels too quiet

[narrow venture]

Okay that's annoying

[proud solstice]

literally unplayable, refunding game

[narrow venture]

Yeah I will

BeamNG is not up to BeamNG quality

The CCF has an awful engine sound but it's fine since it's free

[proud solstice]

it literally uses beamng sounds

[narrow venture]

Well the creator has fucked something up then

[proud solstice]

might as well call the legran shit because of the v6 too

yeah just call all the v6 cars shit because of the sound

[narrow venture]

Because the CCF sounds like engine simulator

[proud solstice]

shit game, refunding because of that too, beamng is not worth it :(

[narrow venture]

What are you yapping about bro

[proud solstice]

I'm mocking your pet peeves

[narrow venture]

You're making a mockery of genuine feedback, which you wouldn't know anything about since you love to glaze

[proud solstice]

"CCF has an awful sound" is truly genuine feedback

[narrow venture]

Yes

Very genuine

[proud solstice]

and do what about it? sound shit start over?

[narrow venture]

Nah fix the sound

[proud solstice]

might as well say that to tdev given the stuff I've pointed out about the game itself

"fix" how exactly?

[narrow venture]

Don't bring John BeamNG into this

[narrow venture]

Exhaust or header or engine jbeam or all of those, depends what he changed to make the sound so bad

SoundConfig

Bro take it for a drive and listen to the high revs

[proud solstice]

as if beamng sounds were any better lol

literally the v6 sound

[narrow venture]

BeamNG sounds are way better, except for the etk I6

[proud solstice]

actually no, half custom half vanilla

[narrow venture]

Yeah

[proud solstice]

plus most modern cars sound ass anyways, it's realistic

[narrow venture]

Cars do not sound like that at all

Using a beverage can to make a car sound is more realistic than the CCF sound

[proud solstice]

yeah you're right they sound more like angry blenders

[narrow venture]

Yeah

[proud solstice]

which is a different type of shit

[narrow venture]

True

[proud solstice]

also... where does anyone say that?

did you just discover it and then said yep this is standard

seems like a new thing

I don't remember that being a thing in like 0.35

changelogs don't mention it either, at least for the big updates

[distant pendant]

good thing sound modding is a thing 😄

[proud solstice]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spb_LGGWy60 very quiet if you ask me

[narrow venture]

Just admit you're a noob bro 😂

I'm jk

Afaik this is what is done for the vanilla cars, if not then explain why the vanilla cars don't have pixelated thumbnails

[proud solstice]

multires?

[narrow venture]

What's that

[proud solstice]

multiply the... resolution

[narrow venture]

Yeah that's what I mean

[proud solstice]

but I genuinely do not recall the thumbnail temp ever existing

until now

[narrow venture]

That just multires to 4x

And then downscaler gets it down to 500x281 so it's same resolution but not pixely

Looks a lot nicer

[proud solstice]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk80-3qjfEw very quiet too

[narrow venture]

As I said I can't listen atm

[proud solstice]

yeah I'm just proving one of your points wrong

[narrow venture]

Well it's not being proven wrong since I can't hear it

[proud solstice]

too bad

[narrow venture]

So I'm right I guess

And you're not

[proud solstice]

I am right actually

the volume is more or less correct

[narrow venture]

Nah

[proud solstice]

prove it

[narrow venture]

Sure

In fact I already have proven it

[proud solstice]

besides, finn worked with a ls400 owner, I'm pretty sure the sound volume is correct

[narrow venture]

Cool

I didn't ask though

[proud solstice]

who the fuck cares

[narrow venture]

Not me

[proud solstice]

you were never asked to be born yet you're here

[narrow venture]

Actually I was

[proud solstice]

yeah sure

[narrow venture]

You took that very personally

[proud solstice]

if you say so

[narrow venture]

You're very hurt because I didn't ask 😞

Awww

[proud solstice]

uh huh

[narrow venture]

It's okay, we all go through rough times. I'm sure you'll recover one day

[proud solstice]

rough times?? I'm living my best time buddy

[narrow venture]

I didn't ask

[proud solstice]

and?

[narrow venture]

🤷

[proud solstice]

then?

[narrow venture]

So?

[proud solstice]

no clue buddy

[narrow venture]

Me neither

[lethal wadi]

Hey i need help with smth

Does anyone know where i can get a arkansas state police mod

[kind crystal]

im brand new to beam i have seen videos if someone is own to private call and teach me everything i need to know that would be sick

[umbral falcon]

Please tell me you're jokin'.

[burnt turtle]

bro crossposted that too

[kind crystal]

bros a furry too

[cerulean kindle]

Anyone have a general idea how you can spawn on a different collision group? making them not interact?

I can make a copy of player car, change the colour, etc, but not collisions, I'm stuck with my pigeon general ghostcar as a custom 3dmodel? Is this a limitation of beamng? anyoneknows? It would be really cool if you see your actual best time car as a ghost instead of a general car

[cerulean kindle]

local spawnOptions = {
autoEnterVehicle = false,
vehName = "GhostCar",
disableDamage = true,
disableCrashes = true,
hasInvulnerability = true,
spawnedByMod = true
} im trying options but nothing seems to work

[regal latch]

If you are spawning the ghost as a full vehicle then just disable the collisions of it with other vehicles. if im not mistaken its justobj:setGhostEnabled(true/false) in its lua vm

[cerulean kindle]

yeah! @regal latch many thanks! its laggy as fck but ahahaha

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @regal latch (current: #155 - 28)

[cerulean kindle]

I'm guessing it has the physics to him its just not collideable by the player but it still has physics haha

I will leave the pigeon as standard 3D model, no engine no wheels no interior, I think it's fine for now

[tacit halo]

Proven what?

It's too loud because you think so?

It's your opinion against videos with sound and a person that owns an ls400

You've only proven yourself wrong

I also think beaming cars are a bit too loud in general

At least the base models of some modern cars

[cosmic robin]

furry hating in the big 25

cornball

[fast pendant]

does anyone now is theres a mod for beamng that you can go to other maps in the career mode?

[kind crystal]

furry loving in the big 25

your literally acting like an animal

god birthed you as a human he knows your purpose is to be human if god wanted you to be a wolf he would of made you one you are turning yourself away from god by acting as one you where not meant to be

[exotic plinth]

https://tenor.com/view/jerry-meme-tom-and-jerry-meme-jerry-points-get-a-load-of-this-guy-this-guy-gif-11384860625931393733

[proud solstice]

fighting because of an imaginary being and losing is crazy

[kind crystal]

god is real and you will see that hwen you end up in hell 🙏

[proud solstice]

go spread religious propaganda somewhere else

[kind crystal]

you do not go to hell for being ba you go to hell for not choosing to follow

[kind crystal]

its not propaganda

[proud solstice]

whatever it is, it doesn't belong here

[cosmic robin]

those are therians

also nun wrong w that

[cosmic robin]

what bad parenting does w kids 💔

[proud solstice]

or sniffing religious "beliefs" like it applies for everyone

[cosmic robin]

yeah