modding-general

[unique zealot]

That should say enough, a trusted mod site wouldn’t be filtered

[polar igloo]

then what mod site should i use

[unique zealot]

Of which its in the pins of #mods-discussion

[echo bolt]

the forums

[unique zealot]

And #mods-faq

[buoyant arch]

Hello,does anyone know how to modify the wait time for delivery car? Mine crashed and I gotta wait 1.28 hours for it💀

[crystal wraith]

It’s not even that bad lol

[urban warren]

Hey, just got this game and super new trying to figure things out. I downloaded the Vehicle Parts Painting mod, and can't figure out how to use it. Should it fire up in the interface automatically? If it is not, is that particular mod not working currently?

[chrome timber]

<@&710084482031550547> 1371561066336747583 DM advertising might be a scam

[red flax]

are there any more mod websites other than modlands thats reliable?

[tranquil acorn]

modland isnt reliable

[waxen latch]

sadly all websites with mods for beamng are bad, including modland

[steel monolith]

Does anyone know how vanilla cars do brake glow? Is it a built-in feature now? Is there a "brake" material that takes car of everything or does it just use a glowMap?

[ebon quail]

it uses a glowmap with the scale factor of the break temperature i think

[steel monolith]

Ok, so I don't have to change anything in my modded vehicle given I was using a glowMap too, correct?

[unique zealot]

modland isnt reliable, the forums and the repository are

[restive falcon]

Why did I get ghost pinged

[normal bay]

alr

so

can anyone please help me wth html

im tryna add an actual animated bootscreen, not just the image fading to nav
and ik, with gifs, its like.. sorta possible. but id need the gif to not loop

or instead have a video with autoplay but not looping somehow

idk

[graceful blade]

anyone know of some reaLLLY GOOD FREE MODS ARE?

[outer nimbus]

Sup. Where can I safely download some cool irl cars?

[tranquil acorn]

forums

[tranquil acorn]

pretty much anything new and popular on the forums

[ember wagon]

video channel doesnt allow text

[strange carbon]

Where would that be im a little slow

[tranquil acorn]

there is definitely a reason for why you are so slow

[strange carbon]

Wow judging me for playing a game i like wow

[tacit halo]

thats just mean man

its

a game

[tranquil acorn]

yeh

[tacit halo]

https://www.beamng.com/resources/ https://www.beamng.com/forums/land.44/
@strange carbon this is the forums

you can also filter by released

[tranquil acorn]

you could also search ”beamng forums”

on google

[tranquil acorn]

tuff 🥶🥶🥀🥶🥶🥀🥶🥶🥀🥶🥀🥶🥶🥀🥶🥶🥀🥶🥶🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🫒

[tacit halo]

seriously can you get a life or something? he just asked a question

[tranquil acorn]

yeah im done now

[obsidian bobcat]

Does anyone know if royal rendering is good? Lowkey tempted

[silver shuttle]

In the early days. Nope, he was definitely a 'stay away from'. Recently however, some of his creations do feel pretty good

[tacit halo]

his m2 and m4 that he recently released are a etk K series meshslap, so bad that he has forgotten to change the names of some jbeam files, i would not buy, these mods are mainly just gimmics to distract you away from the real lack of care

[silver shuttle]

^^^^

[opaque magnet]

Hey, I'm hoping some one can help. I'm trying to increase the number of large parcels that spawn, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what to modify.

I've been digging around the warehouses.deliveryParcels.json but everything I try either breaks it, or does nothing. Despite copying values from an item that spawns tons, I get none.

Any help would be really appreciated. I'm kinda frustrated at this point.

[thick sky]

can i add my own engines to beamng?

[rustic haven]

i need help with jbeaming, i'm using the jbeam addon for blender for some collision fixing, although, when i move the nodes down onto the mesh (lets say the hood for example), it works but in-game the hood gets deformed. i think it could be self collision? or soemthign else i'm not quite sure

and when i move it away from the hood, (to the point where it's not even close to it), the hood goes back to normal and doesn't deform

[unique zealot]

yes

[thick sky]

how? i searched and i didnt find a way

[unique zealot]

#mods-faq

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JYEFXsiBOY despite the title, this is the same premise

[thick sky]

alrr

[silent tendon]

how do i get traffic on a high way plz help

[thick sky]

this video didnt work

[normal bay]

@unkempt slate rlly sorry for the ping but i thought you may know how to help or someone who would help w animated boot screens

dmd u

[bleak laurel]

Anytips for custom engine or using other engina as a template. ive never made a custom engine

[astral sandal]

bros gonna get spyware malware and ransomware

[astral sandal]

oh I thought you meant the non official ones

mb

[tranquil acorn]

yeah those are up to no good

[untold vine]

do you guys have good steering angle mods for the t series?

[verbal silo]

does any one know were you can buy a dodge charger for like police pursuits

[unique zealot]

https://beamng.com/threads/the-irl-cars-mod-list-for-v0-37-15-10-2025-update.102506/ dont know if they have police configs but absolutely dont pay for a real car mod

ok i dont think they dont seeing as theyre the older ones but same thing applies

[verbal silo]

ok thanks i will check it out

[unique zealot]

https://discord.com/channels/710082165253079061/1373099240808779956 this one too but its not released

[desert panther]

Hi, @steep schooner, can I DM you? It's to reach out regarding something for a mod I'm helping in.

[steep schooner]

Sure

[lavish warren]

I made fully working FPV drone

[lavish warren]

I'm thinking of uploading it to the repository after improvements, but unfortunately, not everyone will be able to fly on the keyboard + mouse on it.
although now I personally control it calmly on the keyboard and mouse.

[tranquil acorn]

Upload it anyways, it’s probably their problem

[sudden pond]

Does a No Texture Land mod exist?

[tranquil acorn]

download anything old

[sudden pond]

Nah

I mean someone actually taking the time to making a place with no texture map with no texture cars

[tranquil acorn]

i could create that, should roads and everything be no texture? and one thing to note is: is no material (orange and black) ok

[sudden pond]

E V E R Y T H I N G A F F E C T E D

[tranquil acorn]

ah ok

[proven granite]

werid request, can anyone make me something

I need an wall

[unique zealot]

be the change you want to see

[proven granite]

what?

[unique zealot]

if you want something made, its best to make it yourself

[proven granite]

I have no clue how to mod

[unique zealot]

learn

[proven granite]

To hard?

[unique zealot]

put your mind to it

[proven granite]

Would I rather wait 15 mins or 5 hours?

[unique zealot]

idk what would you

[proud solstice]

either pay someone or learn

[proven granite]

fuck no

pay someone

15 min job

[proven granite]

I made it, but its not showing up in the selector?

[topaz storm]

I'm planned to make Mitsubishi Mirage mod, but I REALLY DOESN'T KNOW HOW😭 it's confusing for real. Anyone here collab with me? Got the model.

sry for bad eng

[tardy scaffold]

wouldnt do that if I were you

[gaunt crest]

This is all very confusing, I don't blame you, and apparently there's not like a one good video tutorial on an up to date method

[deep arch]

Dm me if you do comissions and have decent skill at them, need something hyper specific done.

[cold oxide]

Lol no way that’s an issue, That must be a feature (Looking at Pig Family mod update log)

Pig causes instability

[true swan]

can anyone give me the filepath to the moonhawk 448 engine's model? i need it to test how big an engine i can fit in a car i'm working on

[graceful folio]

can anyone help me? ive got all these https://www.beamng.com/threads/gavril-t-series-addon.12600/page-32 https://www.beamng.com/threads/0-30-gavril-t-series-and-trailers.95616/ https://www.beamng.com/threads/0-30-gavril-t-series-and-trailers.95616/#post-1667469 , everything looks fine but the trailer doesnt want to connect

do i also need the main mod?

none of the trailers want to connect from this mod

[unique zealot]

that breaks rule 3

[novel hornet]

Damn fr?

[unique zealot]

get a demo version from the repository if ones available

[novel hornet]

Aight.

[novel hornet]

🥀

[little portal]

How can I prevent letting suspension arms mesh disfugure, when theyre essentially just a beam between the chassis and the hub? Currently I have their groups set as hub and chassis, since I couldnt think of another solution

Got it to work for a wishbone, making the nodes on the hub also the nodes of the wishbones, seems to need 3 nodes.

[little portal]

3 spaced nodes

[true swan]

can anyone give me the filepath to the moonhawk 448 engine's model? i need it to test how big an engine i can fit in a car i'm working on

[unique zealot]

is it not in the moonhawk's dae file already?

yes it is

[true swan]

i cant locate it there, what file type is it?

[unique zealot]

Dae, moonhawk.dae

Unless it’s shared with another car but I don’t think it is

[languid iron]

has anyone been trying to add structured races to the online?

[bold forge]

@maiden scaffold Hello, are you the author of the Late Model Stock Car for BeamNG?
If so, could you please give me a permission for me to use that 3D model for a mod in Live for Speed? I would add you as the original mod author in credits

[quaint iron]

can someone help me with the agent traffic mod the menu doesnt open when i press the key for it

[dry cargo]

hi

[little portal]

What is the json bit for normal map strength?

[velvet bramble]

I got a lil too bored...

[formal vine]

yo if I just want to have custom configs on a server do I even need a mod_info folder if I zip up the configs

[tight shuttle]

no, mod_info is just for stuff from the repo

[rancid wedge]

The folder and everything in it gets generated when you upload any mod to the repo. It's not needed but contains stuff like mod description and thumbnail, which you upload there seperatly

[old vault]

anyone know why it behave like this?

i only got two beams connect to front subframe from body shell

[little portal]

Beamdeform

And beamstrength

[old vault]

thank you, i will try it tomorrow

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @little portal (current: #728 - 5)

[old vault]

But the subframe falling apart caused by this? im not sure

[ebon quail]

also maybe breakGroup leak

[shy veldt]

i’m really new to beamng can anyone explain why when i try to use mods such as the segra it puts my camera into free mode and my car is left speeding off uncontrolled

[quaint bridge]

Broken/Outdated mod.

[shy veldt]

is there no way to resolve this

[quaint bridge]

Not if the modder doesn't want to fix it.

[shy veldt]

alright thanks

[unique zealot]

youve downloaded a config for the mod that you dont have, its not a broken mod

[tranquil acorn]

prolly got it from a leak

[unique zealot]

theres a thread about the segra in particular #1121909184837988423

[unique zealot]

im going off of the assumption he got a parts mod for it off the repo

but thats a possibility

[tranquil acorn]

yes

[shy veldt]

how do you buy it then?

[unique zealot]

theres a link in the thread above

[shy veldt]

oh right

[quaint bridge]

I was assuming they already had the mod installed, But hilarious to see people don't know the difference from a config and the actual car mod.

[languid iron]

How many mods is too many in a server?

[tranquil acorn]

30 maybe

[languid iron]

my buddy said about 35 so i thought i'd gauge by asking the community. i was in a server last night that had 80 and it was shiting itself

[little portal]

Is it possible to use the transmission directly as the torque output to the wheels instead of a diff?

[unique zealot]

only one way to find out

[little portal]

Yea fuck thay

Ill just put a 1:1 locked dif within the transmission

[daring maple]

do you guys have plane mods?

i already have some

[old vault]

thank you also

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @ebon quail (current: #1287 - 2)

[little portal]

Is anybody else experiencing some textures turning red in the material editor or beam in general?

[prime compass]

Has anyone seen a (decent) Volvo 240/245 mod? There's a legran meshslap but I'm looking for a good one

[dusk cipher]

does anyone know how to show the thermal brakes

[deep dirge]

I can find my mod file for beamng, what do I do

[lament tree]

It's in the "current" folder

[thin stirrup]

does anyone know how ti get the beamng multyplayer mod

[proven granite]

b\

[little portal]

Is anyone experienced with the jbeam of the steering systems? I currently have a node on my front hub, and the outer part of my steering rack as a node on the chassis (for both sides ofcourse), but I have no clue how to make the steering work properly, and vanilla vehicles arent helping either

I tried setting up rails between the steering chassis nodes, and have 2 nodes connected to the hub glide over those, but couldnt get it to work. Probably skill issue

[ember wagon]

Bluebuck 426 Hemi.

[proven panther]

theres plenty of videos showing how

on youtube

[lunar lance]

Heavily depends on what kind of steering linkage your car has, do any of the vanilla cars use a similar setup? Torsion hydros are what are used to actually control the steering of the car, dont think ive seen sliding rails ever get used for this

Difficult to give specific advice with no pictures of the actual linkage setup + examples of whats not working

[little portal]

Yea i tried to use the hydros but couldnt get it to work. Ill have a look at what the bolide does

Thing is they all have subframes

[lunar lance]

the bruckell nine has a very straight-forward easy to understand steering system, though i doubt your vehicle is solid axle so it cant just be copied over

useful for figuring out the torsion hydros at least

[little portal]

yea I think I got a plan, the problem was that I made the initial nodes the most outer part of the rack, but I see that its the outer nodes actually moving

Its a start, still janky but it works ish

[broken stratus]

Does anyone know how to contact Haiiiiiiiiiiiiii/Afaux (author of the different European parts mods, the LeGran by Civetta mod...)? Can't seem to start a conversation with them in the forums/repo (yes, I'm logged in), and I would like permission to use some parts from the LeGran by Civetta mod in my LeGran Sportcharger

[upper veldt]

anyone have any idea why some modmaps have a problem where if you do burnout (or in any way create smoke) it instantly starts to lag a ton, like goes from 100 to 10 fps. Clip for refrence, would be awesome if someone knew if its a problem with the map and would be fixable

https://medal.tv/games/beamng/clips/lts2uj7zoPMrG_FhL?invite=cr-MSxTWGosMzM4ODQ4Njg

[jaunty panther]

are there any vue tutorials/templates/mods?

[tranquil acorn]

vue?

[jaunty panther]

beamng ui-vue

[grand arch]

Is it possible to set up spotlights to match one of the three colors from the tuning menu? I have my glow maps set up to be changeable on the third slot, now I would like the actual color emitted to match as well

[fickle moat]

Where can i find the json file that contains ffb settings?

[compact forge]

hmmmm

[west stump]

How would I make my steering wheels automatically change color or material depending on which interior option is selected?

[tight shuttle]

skin system (make copies of the steering wheel material, suffixed with .skin.skinname)

[west stump]

alright?

[compact forge]

ok?

[west stump]

ok

[jaunty panther]

how to make text appear on screen using vue when you call it with lua, i dont want an ui app if tahts possible

[little portal]

Whats that

[brittle warren]

looks like a really complicated way to edit engine jbeams

[languid iron]

yo, anyone know how i can use my own downloaded mod while i'm in a server? i'm trynna use the dsx mod

[tropic sail]

Many of the vanilla apps are ported to vue, you can use them as a template

Last i checked they all had their css in one massive file tho so i assume its very much WIP. i think you can make your own tho

[low cape]

Hi guys, my goal is to make a mod that implements a calculation of the electric drivetrain using actual currents and voltages. I think currently the electric drivetrain is based on a given torque-rpm table that is provided in the vehicles electricMotor jbeam file (correct me if im wrong).
Im pretty new to this game, but im familiar with coding. Does any one of you know if a lua extension is the right way to approach this? or do you have a better method that i havent explored yet? 🙂

[jaunty panther]

you could just make your own powertrain part

[low cape]

ok so a new powertrain part would be in e.g. "sbr_electric_motor.jbeam"? just so that im on the right track. I thought I'd have to go lower level for that. Don't the files like electricMotor.lua grab the torque table from the jbeam files? And is there a page on the BeamNG docs highlighting all variables that I can use in that engine context?

[little portal]

Yea, under [powertrain]

Havent found docs on it but you can open the lua files and find variables in there

The jbeam variables are I believe at or near the end in the lua files

[flat aurora]

is there any way i can make the lighting material stronger? from lighting properties...

[tight shuttle]

increase the emissive values beyond 1

[flat aurora]

where do i find it? lighting properties in game?

[tight shuttle]

material json

[tacit halo]

in the materials.json file of your mod

not exactly that same filename

[flat aurora]

sadly nothing there says emissive, every json seems to have about 4-5 lines

[vale mango]

Hypothetically, how hard would it be to create a drivable (as in, details aren’t going to matter here, as long as it roughly represents the area) version of my hometown in BeamNG?

[tacit halo]

what country are you from

[vale mango]

USA. Specifically NH so lots of trees to probably make this harder

[tacit halo]

see if you can find a version without trees, those exist

[vale mango]

A version of what, the topographic data?

[vale mango]

Also probably important to mention I have no modding experience lol

[tacit halo]

uh then probably not

[vale mango]

Aw

My towns back roads are kinda awesome ngl

[tacit halo]

you can probably learn but i cant give pointers i only know how ot make vehicles

[vale mango]

Ah ok

[flat aurora]

how do i increase the emissive lighting of an object (dae)?

[mystic trail]

does anybody know how to use the CDC trailers? I'm having a bit of trouble trying to hook a vehicle to the trailer

[cursive tartan]

just gave the bx a hood exit

[jaunty panther]

how do i reload js? F5 only reloads html, but not js or css

[little portal]

ctrl r

[formal vine]

Hey guys, there's one value I wanna change on a car. particularly on a sway bar. So I need to make my own part that doesn't overwrite the default part but goes in the same slot. What else do I need but the actual part? As far as I can see on the suspension that it goes onto it is referenced at "slots" and anything that would go on a "bx_swaybar_R" slot would be visible. But I added a swaybar jbeam with only name and the changed value but it's not visible.

Nevermind, solved it, it needed to go in the common folder

[formal vine]

uhh guys y the slider now longer but max value still same 😅

temporary glitch it seems lol

[deep wren]

Hi guys someone knows how to import the . Dts to blender I understand that the dts is an optimized version of the collada dae

[tight shuttle]

there is none, dts files aren't editable by any program

[deep dirge]

thasnk you very much!\

[brittle warren]

It's a dts so you dont edit the file. Not for any optimization.

[nova lark]

any good f1 mods

[little portal]

You can always export parts of it to gltf with the beamng app

[brittle warren]

Telling people specifically how to steal models isnt cool.

[little portal]

Takes 2 seconds to find it

There is no point in locking

[brittle warren]

Except the fact the gltf expoter doesnt export anywhere clopse to ht efull file nor does it export in the correct orientation

[little portal]

Why are you telling people about the blender dts importer!!!!!!!

[little portal]

Thats why i said parts of it

All the offset seems to be the same tho when youre in the empty map

[brittle warren]

Never was for me usually since the car spawns with the ref node in the center and some cars ref nodes are off center plus it exports too high because of the suspension on it. At least when i was using it.

[little portal]

Yea now that you say it

Not that useful when youre trying to get the original dts

[tulip sapphire]

hello people, does anyone know how to disable this temporal smoothing and leave only the raw I/O? (this is in combustionEngine.lua, line 1656)

[tulip sapphire]

i want to make it so that the transition from on load and off load sounds are more or less instant

[ebon epoch]

Dm

[tulip sapphire]

sure

[floral mango]

hi guys so apparently i created a v8 engine fully working but its soundless (has no sounds). is there any doctor here 🙂

[minor gull]

i got a question where i coud find some good tire texture?

[minor gull]

i actually got the lettering for it, but not the texture itself and idk how coud i make a custom one

[floral mango]

here is the engine file i need some little help with the sounds

[little portal]

Do you have the blend files named V8_GER_1_exhaust or did chatgpt just come up with it?

[floral mango]

I asked the ai for some help that’s what i gave me lol

[hard flume]

What friend is that ?

[wintry rain]

hey, I need a mod that would make the incoming lights much more blinding, with a wide halo

have you seen anything like this --- to make night driving more difficult (due to getting blinded by incoming cars)?

[hard flume]

sounds like its already my reality

[winged swift]

If anyone's interested, I made a series of tutorial videos for Modding/Setup - mostly geared towards maps and map making, but some useful info. Critique welcome - never done this kinda thing before
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5Lz34r6el3K7t3FLzC1gDhkLlvhDHxDj&si=3FymkjiOszPzIbKy

[topaz ledge]

If anyone can help me make custom parts for BeamNG cars please DM me. I’m trying to learn how to make custom parts for cars that are already in the game because I don’t think I’m ready to start from scratch. And it might take me a while to respond because I don’t have notifications turned on.

[compact forge]

yeah its not for whatever your thinking, its for me to convert all engines to my Ece version without having to go through and edit every single engine

but it is pretty useful for modifying automation or other mods engine parameters without hunting for it. loads all vehicles in the mods folder

[mint sandal]

does anyone know how to fix the glass texture on a car? its not a No Texture but its not showing the glass. I'm assuming its because of the shaders (its a 2 year old mod)

[west stump]

can somebody explain how skin materials work for different interior colors?

like making the materials is easy but how do i make it so my steering wheels change material depending on the car's interior color?

[misty tundra]

do you guys have some good wheel packs?

[odd wave]

Is there way to turn off tire selfcollision? Big tire mod for T-series has rubbing issues.

[covert hedge]

HELP ME SOME YOUTUBERS HAVE SO MANY VERSION OF A CAR LIKE SP DUN... I HAVE 3 BUT THEY HAVE MORE THEN 30?

[tacit halo]

ITS CALLED DOWNLOADING MODS FOR THE SP DUNEKICKER

[covert hedge]

not only that brother

they have many other varient for other cars

[tacit halo]

shockingly, mods exists for all vanilla cars

[covert hedge]

i dont understand sorry?

[tacit halo]

there are mods for all cars that come with the game

see for example
https://www.beamng.com/resources/kljp.22408/
this one adds a lot of special OEM+ variants for nearly all japanese cars in the game

[covert hedge]

wait thnx brotha

[tacit halo]

scroll for a bit here and youll probably find most of what you want
https://www.beamng.com/resources/?order=rating_weighted

[covert hedge]

ok lemme see and thanks for your responce brother

[umbral plover]

why does my mods say active and i can see them in the repo but none of them show up in the car menu

[little portal]

How come the drivers camera node is referred to as dash?

[pseudo birch]

Do a tutorial on how to make openable parts on cars

[sudden hatch]

Hey guys im looking for someone that can make custom build mods thanks.

Im a serious buyer

[brittle warren]

It has dif names per car from my understanding. Sometimes.

[ember wagon]

M156 in ETK-K

[ember wagon]

Bolide V8

[little portal]

Yea i kept searching for the driver node at firsy

[brittle warren]

Somethings in beam are confusing lol for no reason

[fast dawn]

guys, is there a 2018 honda vezel anywhere?

[topaz ledge]

Does anyone have any YouTube videos that would help me learn how to add custom parts onto cars? That is fairly new because all the other tutorials that I’ve tried to follow. Don’t work out.

[quaint bridge]

Fillman86 has a great tutorial on parts swapping/engine swaps, Recommend taking a look at that.

[drowsy hound]

are there any good gta 5 maps?

[tight shuttle]

no

[drowsy hound]

Alright thanks

[topaz ledge]

Thank you

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @quaint bridge (current: #404 - 11)

[bronze needle]

What the dawg doin

I aint buyin anything

[silver widget]

They're scams
Don't ever even respond to "private modders."

Even if they weren't scams I guarantee they are not of quality.

[bronze needle]

Yeah, even if they werent scammers, i'm still not buyin', i'm broke as hell

[brittle warren]

Normal modders dont dm you asking you to buy commisions lol. Noone does for that matter. I dont know why perople would even fall for that shit.

[daring lark]

Guys I need your help on how to make an mod I have recordings

I’m making an 7.3L powerstroke mod

[fast dawn]

Yeah bro it happened to me it’s a scam

He gave me a mod link to download and it was a outdated and bad quality omd

Mod and I lost 15 dollars

[unique zealot]

can you not do a chargeback? if it was recent enough

[safe valve]

does anybody have like race gt3 mods

of real vehicles that arent automation with sponsors

or LPM? all LMP cars ive seen so far suck

[topaz ledge]

does anyone in here know how to get the materials from other maps into my map I’m trying to make a map in auxiliary tutorial map or whatever it’s called and all I have is grass and beach sand and I copied everything from West Coast and everything went black and I tried changing the name from West Coast to my game name, but it still didn’t work. Does anyone have any idea how I can get more materials?

[tranquil acorn]

Importing a 3d model to beamng, how should the xxx.materials.json be layouted

[narrow loom]

So i copied the mesh flexbody text from the game file to a mod file for some tires and the mesh still wont show up

First time ive had this issue actually

Ive had brakes not visible when adding drift brakes to the semi

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[wet basin]

modded beamng in a nutshell: be in a police chase, get fined for "officer misconduct" and "abuse of power" while chasing a dude who just murdered 2 people on the highway, immediately get your car totaled by another AI cop head on, then the game crashes 30 seconds later and you lose the last 15 minutes of your life

[gusty sand]

hello

how do I download @tropic heath 's s10 mod?

[brittle warren]

Seeing as it says no download you cant

[ember wagon]

verdict on this Dodge V8 1970s sound.

[young patio]

i want this in the official game. i want remade audio sounds again

all the cars sound boring. i want this.

[ember wagon]

yea boring thats why i added this in

[tacit halo]

bit too loud?

[crystal wraith]

This would be a better sound for when there’s no exhaust

[safe parrot]

Made a bugged out and jiggly car by corrupting automation's process during the exporting.

[daring lark]

Will there be an 5.7L hemi too?

[ember wagon]

nothing planned but i want to do them all

[daring lark]

Would be nice but should not get greedy lol

W engine sounds

I’m planning on making an 7.3L powerstroke mod with actual realistic sounds but I might be not able to make

[daring lark]

Chat I have acquired an wip mod

[bronze needle]

Speed

[crystal wraith]

This is just literally any automation car

[safe parrot]

My other automation cars don't do that

[unique grotto]

Keep Blender on 4.5LTS, 5.0.0 no longer has dae support

[silent pendant]

damn

[runic quest]

maybe it's just disabled in addons? It was like that with legacy .obj exporter

[unique grotto]

nope its ggs

[runic quest]

hm, well there are definitely ways to convert fbx or obj to dae

[glass ice]

thought i went blind when i didnt see the dae import

its just not there

[next yacht]

so what now go to older version?

[brittle warren]

Yea just search Blender 4.5 on google and install it steam wont auto update it.

That way you keep steam auto updates and have 4.5 permanently. If your worried about having the steram version for auto updates that is

[next yacht]

ok

[hot lintel]

maybe best if I also post that here:
https://www.beamng.com/threads/blender-collada-cdae-dae-plugin.105419/

I spend way to much time on that, so i hope its usefull to some here 😅

[old vault]

hi guys, anyone know why my props act like this?

this is my jbeam

[west stump]

does anybody know how to add new slots to existing slots?
like for example, i'm trying to make new slots for my steering wheels so that i can add variable outer grip materials and steering wheel addons basically

[ebon tangle]

Just add a slots section to the jbeam

[west stump]

I tried replicating exactly this (someone else's mod) but it didn't really work

[ember wagon]

where is the old documentation for frictionclutch

[ember wagon]

drivetrain slack? @exotic plinth

[exotic plinth]

tasty

[stark pulsar]

if I multiply all nodeWeight values with 0.2, do I also have to multiply beamDamp and beamSpring values with the same amount or do I have to do something else?

[tight shuttle]

that only really applies if you're reducing node weight (to avoid instabilities)

[brittle warren]

Also applies when adding weight

[ember wagon]

too much?

[exotic plinth]

LOL

[little portal]

Do you know if it is possible to strengthen an already existing beam with another part?

Maybe something like making the first beam optional

[brittle warren]

Should be able to if you make the beam optional yea

[little portal]

And having a stiffer beam in said part

[little portal]

Thanks

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @brittle warren (current: #7 - 263)

[brittle warren]

That way you dont get console errors if jt cant connect

[radiant basin]

why tf will my livery not work

ive tried over and over i cant get it to show up

is liveries different for the diana???

like wtf

[radiant basin]

help ;3

[tulip dome]

So I’ve been messing around putting other suspension on other cars.

I cannot for the life of me get this to move forward to align with the wheel wells of this cyber truck.

What type of offset am I meant to do and where in the suspension mods jbeam?

I’ve tried multiple offsets on the slot types and the flex bodies and when I add them it just disappears that part

[ebon tangle]

i think its a sign bro

[tulip dome]

Thanks for the help 👍🏻

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @ebon tangle (current: #405 - 11)

[molten beacon]

Im a masters studetns trying to create a virtual driving school on Beam NG for my research but im a civilo engineering so no idea of programing does anyone is interest in the project or know about a mod thats already created for a driving school, I tried to creat it by my self or to modify existing mods but everytime I try the mod appear on beamNG but dont work no UI no mission IDK what I do wrong even when I try to put an exisitng mod manually on BeamNG it dont work

[quaint bridge]

Oh hell nah

[quaint bridge]

Ill be waiting on it, Preach

[tulip dome]

I’ll make sure to include you 🙂 legal name?

[quaint bridge]

Yesterday Official.

[timber flax]

I still have 4.0 lol

[limber galleon]

tesla cybertrash🥀

[tender orbit]

is this work in progress or can it be downloaded?

[hallow jacinth]

Any lua wizards able to advise? i want to create another version of the standard games 2 step, except making it on a bind of my choice, and apply a percentage of the "load" metric to the engine to simulate the timing unadvance (it wont let me say the other thing) and boost building of the real thing, just want to know if this is even possible and i assume once i understand it i could do it myself fairly easily

[summer lichen]

is there a stunt motor mod that works anymore?

[tawny venture]

anyone willing to make a mod pls? im willing to pay(less than 30€?)

[quaint bridge]

(Blender 4.3)

[loud aspen]

how do i get BeamMP?

[crystal wraith]

Wonderful search engine of your choice

[little portal]

You could probably vibecode it

Or atleast a working prototype

[hallow jacinth]

i like those odds

[weary carbon]

I made my first thing ever in blender

I made an old Ford wheel with one of my friend's wides

[tacit halo]

good job

[weary carbon]

These are the real ones

[weary carbon]

Thanks

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @tacit halo (current: #34 - 111)

[crystal wraith]

If you want something to do or a challenge, you could do these hubcaps, as far as I know they’ve never been made ingame ever or atleast not publicly

What you made looks good though

[tacit halo]

brands will do anything but make alloy hubcap looking hubcaps

those look like alloys 100%

[crystal wraith]

They most definitely are but at the same time idk but they’re hot I love em lmao

[tacit halo]

try any base model euro car with wide 5 spoke wheels

[weary carbon]

2002 Ford Econoline hubcaps

I could try making those

[crystal wraith]

Well they were used for like 2 decades but yeah they were on the vans a lot

[weary carbon]

Yeah

[surreal sage]

idk which to do next

[halcyon gorge]

yo

[ember wagon]

Nascar

[stoic wadi]

You cant even imagine how much you saved me just now. Thank you

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @hot lintel (current: #1912 - 1)

[tacit halo]

pro tip
you dont need to update to blender 5 anyways lol

[stoic wadi]

Yes i know, i wanted to go back to 4.2 but i found this add-on

nvm im going back to 4.2

[west stump]

I went back to 4.1

I don't think steam has 4.2

[crystal wraith]

Yeah right lol

Can’t imagine 5.0 being super revolutionary or something

I stay on 4.5 and another version of 3.6

[crystal wraith]

I think it does I swear that’s a version I used to use a bit

[west stump]

version 4.2 did exist, I just couldn't find it in the properties menu

I've used 4.2 before as well

[tacit halo]

im probably going to keep 4.5.5 LTS

[tacit halo]

unlike 4.5 im pretty sure theres barely any improvements that apply to beamng modding

some uv stuff but its not very big iirc

[crystal wraith]

Yea

[hot lintel]

Im curios, is something with my addon not working for you or other reasons?

[stoic wadi]

dae model exported wrong

the file weighs 1kb

[hot lintel]

well, this shouldn't happen... 😅
mind telling me what settings you used, and what you selected in the scene?
if its a bug it needs fixing, if its user error it need more documentation and saveguards to avoid it.

[stoic wadi]

Unfortunately, I already reverted to 4.5 and cant repeat this

I guess this is a problem on my side

[hot lintel]

on my end it works and is pretty stable.
probably just a small mistake that isnt obvius if you didnt develop the damm thing xD

[stoic wadi]

lol

[hot lintel]

do you still have the 1kb dae?

[stoic wadi]

i deleted it but maybe i can find it in the trash

give me second

yes i still have it

i think we need to continue in pm

[hot lintel]

ok, thanks

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @stoic wadi (current: #1912 - 1)

[ember wagon]

is inertia automatically calculated on beams from just the weight alone?

it says 1.85kg so thats enough the rest is automatically calculated?

[cinder ginkgo]

how do i get widefap to work

[tacit halo]

ask in their server

[crystal wraith]

https://tenor.com/view/huh-dog-hug-dog-question-mark-dog-question-mark-gif-14144426802562365039

[fresh crypt]

anyone can dm me a link for fwd slicks or welds

[quaint bridge]

Trash lol

[brittle warren]

https://tenor.com/view/perfetto-yes-gif-26163077

[tardy scaffold]

The car is sad

[flat holly]

Im the first person ever to submit an update a working mod update on mobile

[glad tree]

Hey guys how to add police lights to a random car in beamng

[west stump]

any idea why my steering wheel slot completely disappears when adding new slots to it?

[broken stratus]

I may be wrong, but when I added a new slot, I had to create a new jbeam file for the different parts that would be available on said slot

[west stump]

yeah i tried that too, but the issue is that my steering wheel slot disappears as soon as i add new slots under the steer slotType

[west stump]

oh I just noticed

[broken stratus]

Ah, yeah. It's always the smallest typo, had that happening some times. Glad it's fixed

Also, if I'm reading correctly, you're adding skins for the steering wheel using slots?

[west stump]

yes

[west stump]

I'm not sure if it is fixed, I was on my phone analysing the image and noticed the typo lol

[broken stratus]

Well, hopefully is fixed by adding the missing "

[west stump]

hope so

[radiant basin]

somun please help vro

[hoary ibex]

all these should be renamed to bx_aftermarket.skin.t6_silver as that is what you defined for globalSkin in the jbeam

this should be changed to vehicles/bx/t6/t6.color.png as that is the file path for and name of your skin

[mighty mesa]

Is there a mod to get rid of that tan piece of the fender behind the bumper

[radiant basin]

Thx so much will try ❤️

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @hoary ibex (current: #1912 - 1)

[west stump]

still does not work

[tacit halo]

I've redone the oiling system since it wasn't accurate ( your dry sump should not be on top of your engine), I have also remodeled the oil tank, added a catch can and a whole vacuum system for said oil vapours, along with new headers and an ITB system, the old headers are scrapped, since they don't work with the oil pump placement, so I will also need to touch up the turbo stuff

[left swallow]

since version 5.0, Blender no longer supports DAE import/export. Maybe I'm missing something and the developers have released some kind of add-on for this?

[brittle warren]

Nope just continue to use 4.5

[distant pendant]

soon there will be plugin

[distant pendant]

i feel bad for non pcmr guys lol

[tardy scaffold]

nice engine area work

[shut pollen]

grille already release one, it was posted on a reddit thread 6 days ago. i dont think it has full .dae import support yet though?

[balmy stirrup]

Any moderators around?

Someone could have sent me a message about the wrong link before obliterating the forum and giving me a mute 🥀

[brittle warren]

What happened lol. And your best bet is to get ahold of support on the actual website as the discord is seperate.

[balmy stirrup]

I posted a Toyota j70 but instead I linked another mod that i made which was a rubber duck on wheels

So everyone was confused about getting a rubber duck instead of the Toyota J70 they downloaded

[brittle warren]

Oh lol thats funny. You def shouldn't get a mute for that shit lol. What a joke.

[merry totem]

@wooden crypt where can i get these mods?

[west stump]

😭

#mods-faq

[unique zealot]

bro pinged john beamng

[ebon quail]

someone got this error message before? when trying to spawn traffic

[patent jackal]

Guys I need someone to make me an engine sound. Actually 3 of them lol

[lime spade]

https://github.com/Engine-Simulator/engine-sim-community-edition maybe this would help?

[patent jackal]

That could be a start but I need it to sound like an ls you think this one will be good enough for that?

[patent jackal]

And no I wont pay sorry

[brittle warren]

Noone gonna help you especially when you say no i wont pay before anyone even offers lol. Sounds arent easy and noone teaches how to make them perfect its litterally all up to you.

[patent jackal]

So how did you learn? Or did you not?

[brittle warren]

Looked at how the game does it. You can also look on google and there are some forum posts from a while ago with instructions on how to do them at least the beam side. The beam side is easy. Chopping the audio into usable chunks is the hard part.

[cursive tartan]

how do i access GELua in the vehicle lua (i need core_environment.getTimeOfDay())

[dull mist]

I'm new to map making, does anyone know why the decals on the road architect end even though they are set to go the full length of the road?

[radiant basin]

i tried a bunch of things, still doesnt work idk

[lofty sage]

Hey,
does someone know how can i create vehicule textures ? like police cars from differents dept. is there a way to do it like on photoshop and i import the file to put it on a car?

also, when i change the configuration of a random car why can't i put every type of motors?

for exemple on the roof accessory to the sirens, i ca'nt put the lightbar i want and it's different on every cars some of them have 5 differents lightbars and some like 15

[radiant basin]

liveries?

i thought i did untill i did on the bx and it wont work

i might be able to help a bit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv7aiiTwZuQ

[calm nova]

Ive been having trouble exporting my own models to beamng. mainly that textures are ignored or changed by beamng, i have a dark green material with max specularity in blender. in beamng its almost just black, and another material which is metal gets ignored completely by beamng so it just shows up as blank, any tips? first two images are blender, last one beamng (for some reason the insulators have no texture at all but ik how to fix that)

[twilit wyvern]

Hi can anyone fix this mod I payed for

[unique zealot]

what mod is that?

dfa pack?

[twilit wyvern]

Rhinos 80-97 ford pack

I payed 5 usd for this on patreon

[unique zealot]

ok you definitely got scammed

[twilit wyvern]

Yah

[unique zealot]

when you pay for mods, stick to any from the forums or #1102973298222051358

[twilit wyvern]

Yeah next time I will

[unique zealot]

these ones just ruin the reputation of them

[twilit wyvern]

Can you fix the textures there like corrupt

I had someone look into it and they said this

[unique zealot]

thats the modder's responsibility

[twilit wyvern]

That’s what they said the modder that made it has quit

[unique zealot]

and he still has it up?

jfc

[twilit wyvern]

Yeah

I own a brick nose irl this mod has the best Bricknose ford

[torn ember]

how do i get beammp to work

[hoary ibex]

HI SORRY I GOT BUSY AND FORGOT TO GET BACK TO YOU

wait how do i send files

nvm figured it out

@radiant basin i did it for you drop this into your mods folder and it should work

[minor rampart]

How would i make headlights not pop up.

[dusky stump]

are there people who make simple mods that take commission to make them?

[radiant basin]

Thx lol 🫡 ill use it to make more bx liveries

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @hoary ibex (current: #1301 - 2)

[tawny venture]

you want a server that specialises in that?

[shut dagger]

does anyone know a drift cam mod

[tacit halo]

@proud solstice hadnt you made one?

[proud solstice]

idk what a drift cam is

[dusky stump]

yes please

[brittle warren]

Do not trust bro. They posted the same thing to you and another person looking for commisions they are 100% a scammer. Noone in the beam community willingly tells people they do commisions.

[dusky stump]

ok thanks, why do people in beam not say they do commissions?

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @brittle warren (current: #7 - 264)

[brittle warren]

BEcause mods take a long time and most paid modders wich are the only ones who are actaully going to do commisions either have a way to contact them about commisions or dont do them at all as you have expactations and time frames. Commisions in beam are very very rare and anyone claiming to know a whole server who do commisions is a scammer because that doesnt exist. Its just well known in the modding sphere that anyone offerring commisions is a scammer.

[dusky stump]

ahh i see, thanks so much

[fallen quiver]

is there a way to add license plates to aircraft? i know it sounds kinda silly

but i want to use it to put a dummy inside of a plane using the agenty universal dummy mod which requires a license plate

i just want to know if its possible and how to do it

[tawny venture]

bro i trustt dem and dey make good car mods

i dunno shit about car mods but the server does

its litterally about beamng mods asseto corsa mods and other stuff

[tawny venture]

bro

its litterally an entire server\

[tawny venture]

bro i posted saying who can trust and now im in the modding server

[golden gulch]

so for some reason the pickup doesn't have a suspension front or back JBEAM

[tight shuttle]

those should be in common.zip since other gavrils use them too

same for the engine

[golden gulch]

thank you so much 😭

[tight shuttle]

np

[golden gulch]

where would i reposition the suspension

[tight shuttle]

nodeOffset argument in the suspension slot

[golden gulch]

i dont see it

[tight shuttle]

it's something you have to add

should be available in the documentation

[golden gulch]

where is that (sorry im new to this whole thing)

[tight shuttle]

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

oh right, forgot, the hubs already use nodeOffset so you'll need to use nodeMove instead

[golden gulch]

every time i add it it breaks the truck

[hoary ibex]

find the main jbeam file (usually the same name as the vehicle) and add the following line under "slots": ["licenseplate_design_2_1","","License Plate Design"],

(example)

[brittle cliff]

anybody have any idea what I could do here? I'm attempting to fix a map and I'm going in damn near blind

[potent portal]

is there any way to fix textures on an old mod?

those are the only 2 missing textures

[crystal wraith]

So goto it’s material editor

[quaint bridge]

Press F11, Go into the material editor, And just remove the texture that shows "no texture", It'll take a good minute to find the part but I think this should put you on the right track.

Oh and make sure to select the car once youre in the material editor

[potent portal]

alr

wait if it has no texture and i remove that texture what happens?

[west stump]

it should just default to a white colour

[quaint bridge]

It will default to "none" so it won't show the "no texture" anymore

Its most likely a missing normals or something else since you can see the regular texture under it

[potent portal]

where to find normals?

[tranquil acorn]

depends if you created the model or downloaded it

[potent portal]

Download

And textures came in a seperate thing

[tranquil acorn]

should be like texture_normalmap.png pr similar

you should br able to see

[brittle warren]

Well if they are baked with beam ng standards they will be .dds files and the normal will usually be something_nm.png/dds as they are converted to dds when baking

[tranquil acorn]

I use pngs and it works

Maybe i shouldnt

[brittle warren]

No shit pngs work im saying if the mod was made right they wont be pngs and will be formatted for the texture cooker ie something_nm.png/dds. The repo also just changed the rules and all mods uploaded have to be texture cooked.

[potent portal]

yeah its a forum mod

an old one, this one

-# https://www.beamng.com/threads/the-hoonicorn-v2-1-hotfix-rip-kb43ver.91220/

[lunar onyx]

can i have help making a car i bought less powerful its engine sound also isnt great and the steerings a lil loose

[tiny portal]

can anyone suggest some good firetruck mods for me?

[spiral pond]

I do not know what category to post this, but I made a tool for batch converting PNGs or JPEGS to DDS.
It detects the nomenclature, and applies proper compression.
_b : diffuse maps
_n: Normal Maps
_m: Metallic
_r: Roughness

I uploaded it to my patreon, but it is a FREE download, in case you are interested. 🙂

[tacit halo]

the game already does this tho

go to Userfolder \current\temp\vehicles\your_vehicle\ and youll have the cooked dds formats in there

[spiral pond]

Ah, a lot of people have been sending me PNGs so I did it. How do I do it in game, please?
I am relatively new to BeamNG Modding.

Does it also happens with environment props? I was seeing my CPU using some resources converting textures between frames.

[tacit halo]

if you use the correct format (.color) (.data) and (.normal) it does

[spiral pond]

Noice.

[tacit halo]

thats why it says "importing" when you put a new texture

see here are all the textures for my tuning mod

you just replace the pngs with the .dds files (dont even change the materials.json file)

[spiral pond]

Thanks! I did not know.

[hot panther]

License plate I modded into the game, idk how to put in custom letters and numbers but I don't mind

[visual cobalt]

does anybody have a zip with alot of good car trucks and non ui/game grahpics etc mods for beamng that could share with me?

[umbral falcon]

Nope.

[umbral falcon]

This is an easy way to get a zip bomb, though.

[visual cobalt]

ill scan it

[unique zealot]

modpacks really arent a thing outside of the sketchy mod sites and they dont ever have a mix of types, they only stick to one type of mod like vehicles

[thorny oyster]

does anyone know how to read conflict? like, see exactly whats breaking my game

[gray sage]

Can anyone help me with passing breakgroup states through outguage data? I've modified to include breakgroup states for windshield, fr and fl window but it doesn't seem to transmit the data, it's modified to send yaw, pitch and roll data which does work fine however...

  -- Breakgroup states (0 = intact, 1 = broken) 
  local function getBrokenState(groupName)
    local success, broken = pcall(function()
      return be:getVar(groupName .. ".broken")
    end)
    return (success and broken == true) and 1 or 0
  end
  o.windshieldBroken = getBrokenState("etk800_windshield")
  o.frontLeftBroken = getBrokenState("etk800_doorglass_FL") 
  o.frontRightBroken = getBrokenState("etk800_doorglass_FR") 
  -- Vehicle orientation (in radians)
  o.yaw = electrics.values.yaw or 0
  o.pitch = electrics.values.pitch or 0
  o.roll = electrics.values.roll or 0
end

currently modifiying the game dir/lua/vehicle/protocols/outgauge.lua

import socket
import struct

PORT = 4444  

sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
sock.bind(("", PORT))

print("Listening for one OutGauge packet...")
data, addr = sock.recvfrom(2048)
print(f"Received {len(data)} bytes")

print("Tail of packet (last 20 bytes):")
print(data[-20:].hex())

try:
    w = struct.unpack_from("<I", data, len(data) - 12)[0]
    fl = struct.unpack_from("<I", data, len(data) - 8)[0]
    fr = struct.unpack_from("<I", data, len(data) - 4)[0]
    print("\nAs 32-bit ints:")
    print("Windshield:", w)
    print("Front Left:", fl)
    print("Front Right:", fr)
except Exception as e:
    print("Error reading as 32-bit:", e)

# Try reading as raw bytes
print("\nAs raw bytes:")
print("Windshield byte:", data[-12])
print("Front Left byte:", data[-8])
print("Front Right byte:", data[-4])

[brittle warren]

Hey bro make your own protocol its shown how on the documentation website. Ive noticed sometime when i first started messing with outgauge when editing the main on some things dont work.

[tawny briar]

is there any obvious solution to the problem my friend cant join me just saying failed conection or something?

[gray sage]

Currently trying to get this to work, thank you

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @brittle warren (current: #7 - 265)

[hot panther]

does anybody know how to make a modded license plate customizable

I figured out how to get the picture into the game but I don't know how to remove the numbers and letters and then place my own font

[blazing harbor]

Well idk exactly how it works but first you need to make a plate without the letters. Then you need a font to add the letters

I wanted to make that too but later I saw there is a mod for license plates from my country 😅

[fallen quiver]

so ive been making an a10 in blender, and ive separated the entire model into individual parts

but i have absolutely no idea where to start on jbeams, animations, textures, etc does someone have any tips for me

[unique zealot]

#mods-faq

[fallen quiver]

this is my first mod, at least that im trying to make but i have all my parts and my dae file

[unique zealot]

don't make a full vehicle as a first mod let alone an aircraft

assuming you mean an a10 warthog

[fallen quiver]

what should i make then

to start off

[unique zealot]

any sort of part for an existing car like a bumper or d series upfit

[gray sage]

Should my custom protocol appear under the protocols section in the options?

[lunar onyx]

can i have help modding this engine on a car i got

[uneven bear]

I don’t know if this is the right channel but I found a nice 250 gto model, if anybody wanted to make this car…

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/1962-ferrari-250-gto-0d2a7ee6ace246c0b545280ca5cc4031

[tacit halo]

everyone can find models, but not everyone can have the skill

[uneven bear]

Right, and as I don’t have the skill I wanted to share this

[tacit halo]

people that have the skill find their own models or they make it

and that model is way too highpoly for beamng so its not very useful

[uneven bear]

My bad

[ebon quail]

also this isnt really a good model, no suspension/ engine model

[tranquil acorn]

Also that it doesnt have the right type of textures for beam

[golden gulch]

i we have something in common

[tacit halo]

both your vehicle lights have been stolen and are being currently used in grow houses?

[golden gulch]

yes

cant wait to figure how to move my front suspension back some

[golden gulch]

how would i move the front suspension back

[unique zealot]

node offset

[golden gulch]

i dont have that for my front suspension and when i add it it breaks the truck

[unique zealot]

you need to add it in

[golden gulch]

from where

[unique zealot]

https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/vehicle/sections/slots/#commonly-passed-arguments

[golden gulch]

added it and this happened

[willow torrent]

Noob here but i thought i knew what i was doing. I downloaded a car pack it’s a rar file.
I extracted the rar then convert to a zip then drag that zip into current>mods loc. With the rest of my mods are in zip files But that seems to not work.
It’s car_pack zip in that is
• art
• mod_info
• vehicles

[serene tundra]

You need the folder structure of:

mod folder name > art > <target>
mod folder name > mod_info > <target>
mod folder name > vehicles > <target>

[willow torrent]

That picture is literally amazing I’ll test in a sec thank you

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @serene tundra (current: #475 - 9)

[wintry furnace]

I was making a mod for the vivace and messed up, the mod is no longer in the mod folder but beam cannot find the model for the car. Any ideas?

[queen wagon]

hi how do i add a engine sound mod to a default car as traffic?

would me cool to add RKG mod to a default traffic car when it first spawns

[ebon quail]

check for broken files in steam

[gray sage]

Can someone advise the correct way to send "breakgroups" via protocols? I had this in my lua ```lua

local M = {}

local timer = 0
local interval = 0.1

local dgReady = false -- deform system ready flag

local function init()
log("I", "MCM_SENDER", "Protocol init ok.")
end

local function reset()
timer = 0
dgReady = false
end

local function getAddress() return "127.0.0.1" end
local function getPort() return 6666 end
local function getMaxUpdateRate() return 100 end
local function isPhysicsStepUsed() return false end

local function getStructDefinition()
return [[
unsigned char windshield_break;
unsigned char doorglass_FL_break;
unsigned char doorglass_FR_break;
]]
end

-- SAFE deform check
local function deformBroken(name)
if not dgReady then return 0 end
local dmg = deformGroupDamage[name]
return (dmg ~= nil and dmg > 0) and 1 or 0
end

local function fillStruct(o, dt)
timer = timer + dt
if timer < interval then return nil end
timer = 0

-- Check if deformGroupDamage exists and contains something
if not dgReady and deformGroupDamage then
    if deformGroupDamage["windshield_break"] ~= nil then
        dgReady = true
        log("I", "MCM_SENDER", "DeformGroups ready")
    end
end

o.windshield_break    = deformBroken("windshield_break")
o.doorglass_FL_break  = deformBroken("doorglass_FL_break")
o.doorglass_FR_break  = deformBroken("doorglass_FR_break")

return o

end

M.init = init
M.reset = reset
M.getAddress = getAddress
M.getPort = getPort
M.getMaxUpdateRate = getMaxUpdateRate
M.getStructDefinition = getStructDefinition
M.fillStruct = fillStruct
M.isPhysicsStepUsed = isPhysicsStepUsed

return M

but i keep recieving false values - regardless if they are broken in-game

[gray sage]

on further testing it looks like my protocol is activating on the global end and not vehicle end regardless of the fact it should only be enabled when the "part" is added to the vehicle. Anyone have any ideas?

that's the mod, seems to be sending globally even though it's defined in the part jbeam as a controller, so should only be enabled once the part is on?

[brittle warren]

protocols are loaded at all times

at least from my understanding mine has always been

[lean mountain]

Any good rental karts or electric kart mods about?

[gray sage]

Ayyy camera system

[wintry furnace]

I tried this but it still doesn't show the model. For context I forgot to rename the .Dae file

I also tried reinstalling beam

[serene tundra]

Your function fillStruct doesn't appear to be called anywhere, so nothing would be returned. You need to invoke the function.

[gray sage]

Ah thank you, i shall return to that project tomorrow

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @serene tundra (current: #441 - 10)

[minor rampart]

so uhh no idea why but speedo just white does anyone know how to fix it

[west stump]

ik how to fix it

[minor rampart]

how?

[west stump]

by deleting that third party website mod

[minor rampart]

any way that involved not deleting the mod ...

[west stump]

no

[minor rampart]

helpfull :/

[west stump]

[warm solar]

https://tenor.com/view/what-about-them-girls-at-school-girls-at-school-gif-8995096434281204925

[wraith valley]

Can sombody send me actually decent mods that have a good interiorpls

[quaint bridge]

Yeah so to fix that, You uninstall it, And then learn what a mesh slap is.

[minor rampart]

already fixed it myself

[crystal osprey]

Apologies for the late ping but the backyard kart has some configs that might work for you

[foggy crane]

Hi, is there any mods that immediately cut your screen to black once you crash, or anything similar to that/

[tranquil acorn]

do it yourself

[foggy crane]

-# if i could, i would 🙏

[tranquil acorn]

why cant you do it

[foggy crane]

i am not the smartest out of the bunch 😔

[tranquil acorn]

neither am i, tho im atleast trying

ig

[foggy crane]

-# dont think i havent tried to code already 😔

[tranquil acorn]

lock in

[brittle warren]

https://tenor.com/view/shifu-kung-fu-panda-git-gud-scrub-gif-9908673464158315671
Joke BTW

[lean mountain]

Thanks alot mate will have a play about with it tomorrow

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @crystal osprey (current: #290 - 17)

[crystal osprey]

No problem man

[steep sphinx]

Anyone wanna plau beamng? I mean the beammp mod by that so you might have to download it

[twilit python]

Is anyone here familiar with how textures work? I'm trying to make my dashboard and some body filler panels colour 2 instead of colour 3 which is the rollcage and interior sheet metal.

[eager moss]

He spends his time making shit meshlaps just decent meshlaps so its literally what he does

He pretty much squeezes the last bits of life out of meshlaps that there is

Visually at least

[quaint bridge]

Figures

[little portal]

Visually🫠

[bold forge]

@maiden scaffold Hello, it seems like you are the author of the Late Model Stock Car. Could you please give me a permission for me to use that 3D model for a mod in Live for Speed? I would add you as the original mod author in credits. Thank you

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @maiden scaffold (current: #188 - 28)

[tawdry scroll]

how do i get the 4x4 mods and on the gta map or just 4x4 mods

[maiden scaffold]

The model is not mine, I was only given permission to use it in BeamNG

[distant pendant]

https://tenor.com/view/hello-hi-hy-hey-gif-8520159980767013609

[bold forge]

Ah I see, can I contact the person who gave you the permission?

[crystal wraith]

Could literally probably make it with chatgpt bro

[restive fossil]

tried fixing this thing's paint design slot but it only shows one livery💔

[restive fossil]

success !!!

[elder falcon]

Livery idea

[marble scaffold]

Is there any gun mods for the beamling

[eager moss]

why

[wheat moth]

Aren't there weapons for the player on the repo?

[marble scaffold]

No

[outer heart]

player weapons . on forums

[marble scaffold]

okay thanks

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @outer heart (current: #1303 - 2)

[foggy crane]

chatgpt is shit

[brittle warren]

Thats like saying a calculator is bad cause you put in the wrong numbers lol.

[tacit halo]

If you have no beamng modding knowledge at all, chatgpt is shit

You can use it for code but it often messes up where that code should go , so it's useless

[ebon quail]

average chatgpt jbeam:
["lowbeam", {
"type": "SPOTLIGHT",
"attach": ["fr11r", "fr11l"],

"pos":{"x":0, "y":0, "z":10},
"dir":{"x":0, "y":0, "z":0},
"up":{"x":0, "y":0, "z":0},

"innerAngle": 0,
"outerAngle": 100,
"shadowSoftness": 0,
"shadowBuffer": 1,

"globalTranslation":{"x":0, "y":-0.158, "z":0.545},
"lightRange":50,
"lightBrightness":10,
"lightOuterAngle":30,
"flareScale":1.07,
"deformGroup":"headlightglass_R_break"

}]

[unique zealot]

i tried using it to help debug

never again, it kept spouting out bullshit after bullshit

its good for automating tedious tasks just as long as its tuned properly so it only works with information its given and explicitly told only to sort it but not generate more for example

and i also tried a local llm
never again either

[stuck lava]

Would anyone happen to know how to edit the chrome shiny-ness in PBR textures? Been trying to convert something to PBR and every time I do, chrome parts turn to this grey/silver colour. Tried looking at official documentation and that yielded no help so I am kind of clueless on what's going on. Can upload the textures if needed (or at least attempt to)

[brittle warren]

More mettalic and less roughness i nthe material editor

[stuck lava]

Thanks, just tried it, it appears to add a bit more of a sheen to the material rather than making it chrome so I'm presuming its an issue with the textures themselves but I'm not too sure

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @brittle warren (current: #7 - 270)

[brittle warren]

Does the mod have baked materials or are all parts just a single color?

[stuck lava]

I believe they are baked.. I think? I'm still new to all the material stuff so I don't entirely know what each type looks like. They look like the same as vanilla materials if that helps

[crystal wraith]

Is this a g body or am I tweaking

[stuck lava]

You are most definitely tweaking

[crystal wraith]

Kinda looked like a gbody dash for a sec

[stuck lava]

lol ill give you that one they look very similar, it's actually ADR's old honda legend mod from 2015, I decided to use it as a testbed for PBR material conversions to try and get my bearings on how the whole system works, which hence the conversation topic isn't going too well currently.

[tacit halo]

maybe not for this, but remember to apply world reflections to everything (dynamic reflections)

[stuck lava]

As far as I know everything is applied with world reflections already. I think its just a case of me using the wrong colour shades when converting materials, but it only seems to affect certain materials weirdly. I have converted the interior to PBR and that looks fine using the same method, but I am using GIMP so things may be set up differently in that I have no idea about as well, i'm not sure what to change though

[tacit halo]

Was saying because mod mods aren't known for being properly done and the author might have forgotten in some places

[stuck lava]

Fair, how would I check if a material has it applied out of curiosity? just to double check they have it applied. I'm pretty sure they do because when you enable reflections the material its part of gets reflections applied to it but better safe than sorry

[tacit halo]

If you are doing it via material editor, scroll to the bottom and there should be a selector menu with (no reflections, cubemap select, dynamic cubemap)

Dynamic cubemap/dynamic reflections/world reflections

[brittle warren]

none cubemap and level

[tacit halo]

Yes it's a bit late I'm uh not 100% there

[brittle warren]

Lol same

Also its in advanced all layers

[tacit halo]

@stuck lava best way to make sure everything is up to spec is to check vanilla materials, make sure the roughness and metallic factor are set to 1 (otherwise the texture won't influence correctly) and to check vanilla textures for metallic and roughness values, or to get proper estimates of how they should be

Oh also if you are bored, if you double click one of the sliders that can only do 0-1 you can put any value in it, it generates some interesting results

[brittle warren]

IF yo uwant interesting results do negatives on the emmision values lol

[tacit halo]

Clear coat factor of >20 goes baller too

And opacity factor too

[brittle warren]

Damn havent tried that gonna have to look lol

[tacit halo]

It basically deep fries the shine iirc

[elfin glacier]

hey guys just wondering if anyone can give me a quick run down on to get textures on a part .

[stuck lava]

Yeah it changes colour shades when the reflections are disabled so it is applied. Regarding comparing to vanilla textures, I think that's what the problem is as due to this mod having some pretty strange textures in some files compared to vanilla textures and the fact I'm using GIMP and not photoshop (presuming that's what they use as its what's used in the PBR conversion tutorial) some things seem to be done differently so I can almost never get textures looking exactly like how they look in the tutorial. I tried converting the materials on another old mod and had exactly the same issue which also makes me think its something I've done with the textures rather than something with the original mod itself. I see what you mean by the interesting results also

[tacit halo]

Remember to use the texture cooker

Color you save as .color.png, black and white as .data.png and normals as .normal.png

The game generates them in the proper format and saves them in user folder/temp/vehicles/yourmod

[stuck lava]

I already had all the .color.png etc stuff set up but I decided to try and use the textures it generated, it loads a lot quicker but the issue is still there. I also did a load of different variations of materials to see what that did but that just made it worse. I noticed theirs also an issue of the black plastic pieces looking faded out also. I must have done some part of the conversion very wrong lol

[brittle warren]

They are 8bit srgb pngs correct?

[stuck lava]

yeah

[elfin glacier]

@eager moss hey breeks just wondering if your available to help me with getting textures on

[serene crane]

I need someone to make me a jbeam and put in game a brand new mod i alreadt finished the blender i am offering $

[eager moss]

So

First you gotta make a folder for the substance textures u exported

I like to make it in modfile_vehicles_modvehicle_textures. In there i then put a folder called whatever material i made, and inside that i put the material pngs or whatever

Then

Ingame, go to like gridmap or whatever, and open world editor. Then open a material editor window. In that, press add new material, put in the name for the material, the name of the material in blender, then setup where the material json file will be. I put it in the same folder as the texture pngs

Then, create the material

Then, in the tab for that material, switch it to v1.5 pbr, then go and map all the material pngs. Base colour, metallic, normal, roughness, and ambient occlusion. I think thats all u need. I like to turn metallic up to max for metal. Then, go down to the advanced settings tab or whatever its called, turn on reflections to level, then click receive shadows, and i like to enable double sided too

Then press the save button next to the material selection thingo

[elfin glacier]

I see thank you very sir

[dense lagoon]

it seems to hallucinate a lot about all things beamng

despite the universality of the python language and the really extensive documetation on beamng.py, it can never seem to get that right either

I ended up having to learn another programming language as a result... isn't this what AI is supposed to avoid?

[tacit halo]

if a library isnt insanely known and widely used everywhere, ai cant do anything with it

if you run a custom model that allows you to add extra context, you can probably shove a boatload of documentation and examples and it would probably work better

[dense lagoon]

that's what i've done, but it's something about this library specifically that seems to make it hallucinate lol

it gets so excited thinking about cars and everything that it begins to make up functions that don't apply to beamng 😭

[tacit halo]

also i pressume you are working with .tech, which is even less known about and proprietary

[dense lagoon]

with the way I have set it up, it's supposed to only use the context that I give it (I fed it the whole reference... etc), but maybe I'm not being strict enough in the parameters
I think there must be some other library out there that's really similar and it's still faintly reaching it?

I also might get better results in english, do you think? my IDE language settings are automatic so I never changed them

[tacit halo]

no its probably interpreting othher beamng related stuff and trying to apply that to python, when its not something you can do

[tacit halo]

yes defenately

[finite relic]

Is there any like real car brand in the repository

Not like exact but similar

[unique zealot]

No, real cars aren’t allowed on the repository

[west stump]

Well lore friendly cars are pretty similar to real cars

just better

[outer heart]

theres the yagmur patpat but thats bcuz the manufacturer allowed it

[brittle warren]

And the offroader that was posted is also a real vehicle.

[granite jay]

anyone know this map from jaden williams?

[urban tinsel]

that would be Lake Farsoe

[granite jay]

Thanks

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @urban tinsel (current: #1924 - 1)

[urban tinsel]

np

[patent jackal]

How do I fix this?

It always comes out looking the same with glass on the front left and pure orange on right

[drowsy vault]

is there a way to edit triggers like in a live viewer cuz ive been tryna get a trigger aligned for 30mins and it just aint doing it

[daring lark]

What mod?

[thick hawk]

Very random, but does anyone know if the Base Detail Map on a material can have transparency? I'm trying to add a logo to a wheel, it has proper alpha and everything, but it works like a multiply blend mode thing, disregarding white and darkening the mat where it's black (because the transparent part is technically black). The logo itself is white.

The documentation states that the base detail map is RGBA, but it doesn't seem to be the case

[golden gulch]

looks like DFA

[eager moss]

DFAs always fucked

It seems to break every mini update

[brittle warren]

It supposedly just updated so if yall dont have the dfa update maybe update it

[golden gulch]

this is true

[tacit halo]

custom engine lua and custom lua in general and relying on a lot of vanilla content just does that

but it got an update like 3 days ago

[ebon tangle]

If its anything like RRPP its overriding a ton of base game shit with breaks things

Cause retro is too lazy to rename anything

[tacit halo]

a bunch of stuff is probably just having a custom engine lua

since most mods with custom engine lua break most updates

[crystal wraith]

it was literally just updated lol

[eager moss]

Well

It needs to be updated like every second day lol

[patent jackal]

One im making

[eager moss]

well in that case you need to add glass textures for them

[daring lark]

Oh Chevy mod?

[daring lark]

D series?

Will the d series have the 5.7L hemi too?

[daring lark]

I lowk wanna see the d series in action with the 5.7 hemi

[ember wagon]

trying to work it

[oblique dust]

do yall have any good mod recomendations? im new to the game and just looking for a fun mod. TIA

[patent jackal]

Ya was just gonna do little 1 by 1 sessions try to make a catye. You can tell?

[daring lark]

I can tell your making an cateye but the light textures didnt wanna cooperate

[patent jackal]

Pretty much and ive tried many thing for it to work

If got any help send in dms I can get to it when im available

[daring lark]

Maybe use the d series textures?

[patent jackal]

I tried that

Im like completely lost

[daring lark]

Maybe join modding for dummies

[patent jackal]

Got it

And thats not nice lol

[daring lark]

I’m not trying to me mean but that’s the server name

[patent jackal]

Ik lol im just joking but ive tried the pickup texture/material the pickup_headlightsglass texture/material

[daring lark]

Dang

I have an mod but the textures on it are broken

[patent jackal]

Ive cleared cache

[daring lark]

(It’s my wip mod too btw)

[patent jackal]

What I did before for it to work was shift+n in editing

that worked before but not now

Ima clear cache 1 more time

[patent jackal]

Thats new. Almost looks cool

[daring lark]

Do the lights work?

[patent jackal]

Lights work with orange one

[daring lark]

Show me

[patent jackal]

still moving em but here is lows

Almost like the game is confusing headlights with brake lights

this is pickup_headlightsglass

I didnt even make a broken model lmao

Its just already so broke it ended up looking broken

Forgot I have this problem to

Its always slightly diffrent color

oh the hood is slightly diffrent to 😭

[brittle warren]

<@&710084482031550547> In multiple channels

[patent jackal]

? This about me?

[brittle warren]

NAh a scammer posted some shit

[patent jackal]

ahh ic

[viscid plinth]

how do i use a map mod?

[patent jackal]

just throw it in the mod folder

[viscid plinth]

what abt the ones in game

like i dont see any of my maps i want in my free roam

i want most wanted

@patent jackal

[patent jackal]

Ohhh ic ya Idk about that one https://discord.com/channels/710082165253079061/1348605284578496613 try here

[viscid plinth]

@patent jackal can we call i wanna talk to somone im bpred

[patent jackal]

No mic

[viscid plinth]

Oh

[rough quarry]

put your map zip files into either the mods folder if they dont show like that than place that zip into your repo folder directly this should fix your maps not showing up

[brittle warren]

Putting a zip in repo changes litterally nothing lol. IF it doesnt work in the regular mod folder it wont work in repo either.

[orchid wave]

Can anyone dm me and help me with my mod?? I got the 3D modeling part and texture part done just need help with the Jbeam and get it in game parts! I will add you as a creator of the mod

[finite relic]

Is there already a trophy truck in Beamng without mods

[bitter cradle]

yes

[finite relic]

Thanks❤️‍🩹🫰

[bitter cradle]

does anyone know how to make custom liveries in 0.37? i have tried almost every tutorial i can find and none of them work

[violet inlet]

Is it possible to gather data from built-in UI Apps?

[west stump]

<@&710084482031550547> make him british food

[ember wagon]

British food is not that bad innit

[west stump]

https://tenor.com/view/jmk-gif-22808446

[tough hull]

can someone show me how to make a license plate mod because all the tutorials are confusing to me

[wraith kelp]

Anyone know a good solution to anchoring cars in place for maps so they dont move if they get hit

[round saffron]

does anyone know hot to set a default plate for a map?

[quaint bridge]

https://tenor.com/view/shut-the-fuck-up-dave-chappelle-shut-up-stfu-gif-5518509

[slow tartan]

are there any mods that add a shorter rear subframe for the bolide?

[devout elm]

yall

how do i put a v12 in a vw golf 4?

@stark briar help pls

[golden surge]

m*dland is bad

[stark briar]

uhh probably go to there where you change your parts for the car, and go to engine and there probably gonna be a v12 engine

[devout elm]

nope

[stark briar]

True, very true.

[devout elm]

only a 2.3

[stark briar]

you can't really do that, only idk if you do this tutorial on automation if you have the gamehttps://www.beamng.com/resources/automation-engine-swaps-for-every-vehicle.25782/

[devout elm]

alr have it

but anyways

what should i pick

adjustable race ecu

or

sport rs ecu

?

[golden gulch]

can someone please help

[unique zealot]

apply transforms in blender and export

[golden gulch]

well uh

[unique zealot]

show it in blender?

[unique zealot]

does it have any node offsets in the jbeam or anything like that

[ebon tangle]

u dont apply transforms for props iirc

[west stump]

use the base rotation and translation to position it correctly

[elfin glacier]

thank you so much breeks

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @eager moss (current: #587 - 7)

[eager moss]

Alg

[elfin glacier]

i just have one inquiry

if i were to yk make it change paint via the colour editor

how would one do that?

[eager moss]

I think turn on the instance checkbox?

Or something like that

Doing secondary and tertiary colours are harder

[elfin glacier]

alright i will check

it worked thanks mate

[eager moss]

If it doesn’t immediately work, maybe restart the game.

[eager moss]

Oh sweet ok

[elfin glacier]

hey breeks really silly question here but how do i get it to save?

like i clicked the save button but whenever i reload its gone?

[elfin glacier]

Nevermind my friend

i have fixed it.

[queen dragon]

does anyone have a pre 80-90s truck mod with a jbeam you can edit?? woud like to slam a truck but for some reason theres no good truck mods

[lunar lance]

Its easiest to have the model at a basic 90 degree angle with the center exactly at 0, 0, 0, then use the rotation/translation in the props section to move it where its actually supposed to be

Its what vanilla cars mostly do

The model will attempt to rotate from its center point, which is probably 0, 0, 0 if you applied transforms, which is why it goes so far away from the car in the screenshot

[ornate jungle]

https://youtube.com/shorts/U59EddjKCIU?si=DAjYPNkhzcSADC15

[errant sable]

Anybody know what makes Satsuma 100 mods windows go black so that you can`t see outside from inside?

[hard flume]

Do you have the updated version ?

[errant sable]

i got it fixed with clearing cache i think

[bitter cradle]

does anyone know how to make liveries for cars? or know where theres an up to date tutorial?

[hard flume]

Yes.

There are many tutorials, but I recommend Top Tier Studios.

[bitter cradle]

i have tried almost every tutorial i could find and they are all outdated in some way or jsut dont work

is it a yt channel?

[hard flume]

Yes.

[bitter cradle]

i may be slow but i dont see any videos newer then like 5 years lol

[hard flume]

You are not slow.

But you are correct ; there are only some older tutorials because nothing much has changed with the game files in that sense.

[bitter cradle]

oh alright ill give it another go lol

[bitter cradle]

i have gotten way further then ever before but i think i messed something up in the materials file because its not at all showing what its supposed to lol

[hard flume]

Make sure you read and replace all of the blanks.

[bitter cradle]

blanks....? i couldnt find the tutorial from the guy u were talkin abt and tried another one i tried before and got it into the game this time its just not showing what its supposed to at all the materials file is "stolen" from the vivace files and even the "json checker" says its fine im literally clueless lol

[hard flume]

I have no clue where you got your information. There should be blank called SKINNNAME in the files.

https://www.beamng.com/resources/skin-helper.15037/

Download this and watch the video, please.

[bitter cradle]

oh... i didnt fint that... ill try that lol sorry abt that

[hard flume]

It's okay find time is always difficult !

[bitter cradle]

IT WORKED OMG THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!

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[hard flume]

Happy to help !!!