modding-general

[toxic ridge]

Idk

[carmine oak]

je fai deja sa

[tacit halo]

you arent speaking english

just use google translate

[carmine oak]

mes elle est bien qua même mon idée (mod oxydation beamng par exemple tu le laisse trop longtemps il rouille exetera)

[tacit halo]

parla ingles manito

[carmine oak]

ok

My idea is still good (for example, if you leave it too long it will rust, etc.)

[tacit halo]

leave what to rust?

[carmine oak]

cars

[tacit halo]

cars take years to rust in really bad conditions, are you going to let your game open for years?

[carmine oak]

yes

[blazing harbor]

It should rust in 5 minutes to properly simulate 80's cars

[carmine oak]

I agree

[rain lark]

Anyone can help ? i remember playing a modded version of utah that had a huge crawling course just outside of the gaz station area it was going uphill , anyone know which map im talking about lol

[carmine oak]

I don't know

[rain lark]

i cant remember for god's sake what that map was , it was so nice to do crawling

what

I FOUND IT AREA BFE OMG

[cerulean hollow]

is there a mod that adds a version of the rally tires without the lettering?

[carmine oak]

My idea is still good (for example, if you leave it too long it will rust, etc.)

[wanton sinew]

Does anyone have the mazda lantis (323f BA ) mod

[gilded schooner]

better idea is to incorporate UI or something in the tuning menu to simulate "years untouched" or something like that

simple idea is to weaken certain nodes that might be a rust magnet, for example on the D series the frame where the bed and cab meet, thats a major load bearing rust spot

[surreal gust]

can someone help me get a dodge charger hellcat?

[carmine oak]

👍

[crystal ice]

made a bot for anyone that plays on beamMP and owns or wants to find a server
https://youtube.com/shorts/ffRGCl6HbZA?si=B4117ExeFC0J2ri0
https://top.gg/bot/1488418392439394344

[jovial mica]

Detomaso pantera mentioned

[ember wagon]

Yep same 351C

[jovial mica]

Low rev rumbly V8 me beloved

[visual flame]

@steep schooner may i ask will this be able to fling parets everywhere ingame if thats possible when it explodes

(discord sometimes 💔 )

[steep schooner]

Nope

[hazy sapphire]

Hi! I’m looking for an Omsk 1:1 map for BeamNG.
Does anyone have access or know where to get it?

[tacit halo]

doesnt exist probably

[hazy sapphire]

Ok

[weary tangle]

its not perfect and will have many flaws, but mapNG , if that will work for russia, is your best bet

[storm bay]

Working on BeamRT again today.

[smoky cobalt]

сделай сам

[hazy sapphire]

Я незн как я сегодня ток бимку купил

[smoky cobalt]

через редактор, но это очень сложно

я второй день пытаюсь делать карту, но пока что только разметку получилось сделать

[hazy sapphire]

Пон

[tacit halo]

is that an ai generated image?

[smoky cobalt]

yes

[tacit halo]

and you are trying to use that as a heightmap?

[smoky cobalt]

no, just roadmap to recreate in beamng

[storm bay]

Guh

[weary tangle]

thats kinda the opposite way of doing it. realistically you should build POI (Points of interest) in key locations, and connecting those locations you get the roads. That way you will get much more realistic roads that make sense.

[smoky cobalt]

thanks, i'll try it

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @weary tangle (current: #33 - 132)

[smoky cobalt]

how much you think it'll take for me to make this full map?

[weary tangle]

depends on how in depth you go, and how much you will bother with the cities / towns or whatever

if you have a estimate, i recommend doubling or tripling that number to get a better estimate

[smoky cobalt]

theres 1 big city in center, drag strip on the left, couple offroad tracks, couple drift tracks and mount with touge

[weary tangle]

the city itself can take anywhere from 1 week to 3 months... Will really depend on the size and the details you want to put into it

[smoky cobalt]

i wont make so much details in first ver, just make it playable

[vapid ether]

yo i wanna do what forgotten mustard did but he hasnt responded to me so heres what i said to him:

"Hi there! I'm a guy who would love to do engine swapping as a hobby but do not know how. I don't want to be limited by the games content and other mods. My main goal right now is to stuff a 9.2 liter V62 engine into the nine suggested by my friend for shits and giggles. Mainly i want to know how you make the engines in the first place, what programs you use and how to stretch the engine bay of cars like you did with the T-series or straight up cut out shapes of existing parts like you did with the triple compound turbo T-series."

would anyone be able to answer any of these questions or nah 🙏

[smoky cobalt]

how to tilt road to the left?

[misty urchin]

just got beamng what are must have mods before i start playing

[weary tangle]

its probably good to play without mods for some time. As the game has quite a bit of content even without mods.

But BeamMP might be a good mod if you are looking for a multiplayer experience.
Or RLS career overhaul mod if you plan to play the career mode

[misty urchin]

thank you, are any graphic mods recommended or should i just play without any

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @weary tangle (current: #32 - 133)

[weary tangle]

There aren't that many. maybe CK dynamic skybox. Or volumetric clouds mod (paid.)
There are also some mods that enable you to change shadow settings or LOD distances (Zeit graphics, Teon graphics tweaks, GFX Suite).

But these mods might cause some issues or bugs, so be warned of that

[misty urchin]

alright thanks again

[unborn flax]

[golden cargo]

Im looking to make a new gauge cluster for the vivace but wondering how to change change it

[broken stratus]

<@&710084482031550547>

[storm bay]

Forgot I have been posting progress in modding discussion

Map's there. Kinda. Stuff's out of place

[gray heath]

someone have a build of car off road?

[crystal wraith]

so are you enabling ray tracing or something, im confused

[storm bay]

That is path tracing, yes.

[heavy kiln]

anybody have any good map suggestions?

[little cedar]

The cabinFilterCoef variable, is it possible to decrease the value when adding a part?

I've tried changing it to a negative value
$+cabinFilterCoef": -0.5

And also changing the plus to a minus
$-cabinFilterCoef": -0.5

and none of them work

[tawdry solstice]

does anyone know of any good hydraulics or lowrider mods that work? or trust worthy places to search?

[quaint bridge]

BeamMP is not recommended as it was recently hacked and people's information got leaked.

[frank mason]

Yeah use KissMP. Beammp is still not fully back online after its been over a months of them fixing that hack

[eager moss]

BeamMP is perfectly fine to use at the moment

you just need to play as a guest

[visual axle]

beammp is fine huh? U just need to play as guest and wether or not u use it now wont harm any of ur information. only thing that was compromised was i.p and theres no evidence that shows that its been leaked.
also they literally wont do nothing with ur ip, its essentilly the same thing as putting in random locations on google maps, they dont benefit from it

also ip doesnt show ur adrdress, only ur region

[quaint bridge]

Regardless, I don't trust it, And I won't go around recommending it either.

[visual axle]

nothing wrong with it lol

[quaint bridge]

Then go have fun with it, Thats all you bro (have fun getting hacked)

[visual axle]

not sure why ur spreading false info about it then

[lethal dagger]

Guys the Cherrier Émoussé mod has just become outdated… which means it’s dead again…

[lethal dagger]

My school has a small keyboard which means it doesn’t have a print screen button and well…

[visual axle]

bro thinks having an email compromised means ill get hacked lmfao

[quaint bridge]

What a yapper you are

[visual axle]

either way i used a secondary email im not an idiot

[quaint bridge]

Are you done yet, I care about my info, You can do what you want

[visual axle]

bro idc what u do with ur game i couldnt care less if u have a mod downloaded, im just saying to stop spreading false info about it...

[quaint bridge]

Ok dylan, Go get some food and a blanket and relax

[visual axle]

i will

only bc u play burnout paradise and i fw that

[frank mason]

Your the one spreading misinformation here LOL 🤦‍♀️
They leaked all your private information. Ip history, emails, password, private messages and any linked account like your discord.

Just use KissMP. Doesnt require you to give up any of your info and it takes your security very much into consideration. Bemp doesnt even encrypt your traffic

KissMP is developed by former game devs as well as by modding legends btw

[visual axle]

ip yes emails yes passwords no they were hashed messages dont rlly gaf lol

and they weren't leaked lmao they were compromised

and also if u dont want to risk ur information then literally just play as guest

either way i promise u that information isn't important to the hackers lol. i have screenshots of why they did it

it was targeted to towards the beammp devs

and security breaches happen all the time, its nothing new lol

[frank mason]

Mind sharing the screenshots?

[visual axle]

dms

[umbral widget]

kissmp is clearly so much better then beammp and way more secure
if the devs care that much, why is their domain expired

[frank mason]

Granted thats funny

[tacit halo]

The person who originally made it abandoned it

The GitHub for the project got updated like 1 week ago

[weary tangle]

there is the github and beamng forum for it tho. Does it really need its own website?

[storm bay]

Another update. All the static meshes are lined up and working.

[weary tangle]

someone made a pedestrian mod, we are getting RTX. Great year for BeamNG mods

[jovial mica]

Pardon me for not following your project in this channel, but whats the kind of project you working here again?

[storm bay]

BeamRT. BeamNG with path tracing.

[jovial mica]

Ah i see

[jovial mica]

Oso what is it with the green looking screen at the right side (I don't know jack shit about ts lmao)

[storm bay]

That's the window with the ray tracing. The left screen is the regular game.

[jovial mica]

Well I see

Pretty interested with it, good luck on your project cro

[little mango]

Yes the AI follows DecalRoad drivability, so if both roads overlap it will still consider the default one unless you disable it.
You have a few options:
Option 1 (best): disable the default road for AI

• Select the default decal road
• Set drivability = -1 (or 0)
  This keeps it visible but AI will ignore it.
  Option 2: give your custom road higher priority
• Set your custom decal road drivability = 1 (or higher like 0.9–1)
• Make sure the default road is lower (0.1 or 0)
  Option 3: remove AI from default completely
• Duplicate the default road
• Use one copy for visuals only (drivability -1)
• Use your custom decal road for AI pathing
  Also check:
• Your road is continuous (no spline gaps)
• Width isn't too small
• Direction is correct if using oneWay
  AI always chooses the highest drivability spline when they overlap.

Try this.

[little mango]

a few good places to check:
BeamNG official repo – safest option, search “lowrider” or “hydraulics”
BeamNG forums (Mods & WIP) – some working hydraulic systems get posted there first
ModLand – has lowrider mods, but quality varies so download carefully
2Fast Racing / Royal Renderings (if still updated) – some older but decent lowrider-style configs
If you're mainly after working hydraulics, try searching for:
“Hydraulic suspension”
“Adjustable suspension”
“Lowrider hopper”
“Hydro config”

[unique zealot]

Don’t recommend modland

Royal renderings too, their mods are garbage

[quaint bridge]

RR is garbage and modland is virus city

[floral mortar]

Does anyone know of a good Lamborghini mod?

[crystal wraith]

Holy gpt

[ashen shale]

Does anyone know a good police chase mod?

[storm bay]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1361554673739501609/1498361331953307707/NVIDIA_Overlay_Fhk2873AOC.mp4?ex=69f0e13b&is=69ef8fbb&hm=017dbb162e47826f60e3f8c35e983f0fc2dd4bc97354d5cc8b810f38fcd8cd20&

BeamRT improved performance and nord

[weary tangle]

am i tripping or the sun / shadow direction is different

[ebon quail]

What is the difference between these two/the reason why you're doing this?

[storm bay]

It is

[storm bay]

One is regular game. Oter is ray traced

[ebon quail]

Yea yea but whz

[storm bay]

Better grapics?

[ebon quail]

Oh well

[storm bay]

lmao

i don't know wy else you'd need ray tracing

I guess you could use it to warm your room

[ebon quail]

Nono I rhought it would be smarter to implement in game instead of a whole new programm

But that's probably not possible right

[storm bay]

That's going to be EXTREMELY difficult

[balmy harbor]

I'm not sure if it's impossible, it would be a pain though

[storm bay]

I'd have to gutt out te whole renderer and reimplement every single thing from scratch

Aint nobody paying me for that yet

kek

[balmy harbor]

BeamNG's post procesing stack does give you access to custom render textures of arbitrary scales on-demand, which could be used as storage. As for getting scene geometry? That's another beast.

[storm bay]

Yeah hell no. Instead, I'm building a bridge between the game and the external renderer

[balmy harbor]

Imagine detecting and manually parsing model data in realtime for a one-click repo mod 💀

That wouldn't even work due to the flexbodies

[ebon quail]

Okey yea that dows look really good

[storm bay]

mmm

pixel perfect shadows

gonna try to get rid of the glass

[balmy harbor]

🤤

[storm bay]

one sec

[balmy harbor]

I'm working on these today

[storm bay]

Cloud mod?

[balmy harbor]

yeah

[storm bay]

mmm

I used to have atmosperic sky support at one poit

[balmy harbor]

I plan on eventually adding volumetric atmosphere

Ideally I'd like to be able to leave the atmosphere and go into space lol

[storm bay]

Very old video

[storm bay]

Is this your mod? I wonder if I can somehow wrangle this into compatibility with mine

[balmy harbor]

yeah it is

i've been working on it since i think february of 2024 lol

#1210698849543266304

[storm bay]

Ah

Think I might have seen it before

Here's interior with global illuimination

I should switch the car. Race stripped interiors are so uninteresting.

[lean coyote]

I have an 3d model of rims and I want to put it in bemang can anyone help me

[storm bay]

Oh baby, what a beauty

[storm bay]

You know... looking back at this, I'm actually having to patch the game to disable the lua sandbox. That and I have my own custom cdae parser for the static map objects. So uhm... yeah.

[balmy harbor]

that's sick

[storm bay]

That's kinda dumb because disabling the sandbox would be a big nono

For a repo mod

[storm bay]

Here's a long writeup on the details of this mod. This was written before I implemented maps.

[balmy harbor]

Really cool stuff! I look forward to seeing more on this

[storm bay]

That is if I have the money to keep paying for the reverse engineering stuff lmao. We'll see. I'm out of usage right now so I literally can't continue work. Maps are being stubborn. The large dae files refuse to load from the cache for some reason. Maps like gridmap do work fine. I'll do the textures next. Should be as easy as checking beam's materials and recreating them at runtime.
Then I'll try to figure out the car materials. Those are a bit more complicated but I have ideas on that. Thanks.

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[static python]

Are there any ford taunus gt mods
Also the ika torino and ford falcon if there are

[spare siren]

is it possible if by using a normal map texture on winshields, we can have something such as dirty windshields like in asseto corsa?

[quaint bridge]

Definitely possible.

[ebon tangle]

Yeah, but beamngs lighting engine isnt good enough to make it look like it does in AC

[elfin geyser]

holy shit dude mapng is literally something i was about to start coding, now i just need to figure out how to polish the maps

[unborn flax]

if i wane make a radio mod can i use youtube copyright free live streams or playlist links

[cerulean hollow]

is there a mod that adds rally tire variants without the orange text on the sidewall?

[sand coral]

where a good place to get realistic car mods without getting a virus

[patent jackal]

The forums

the repo

Nowhere else

[neon mango]

I installed RLS and started a new save, but I feel like I'm kinda aimless. What's a good way to start a new career? What jobs should I be starting with?

[unborn flax]

Delivery maybe

[wet island]

is there a modder that knows how to do it? quistion said in the vid.

[unborn flax]

I think you want to make the lightbar have different modes right( I have no audio on phone rn)

[wet island]

No, i was asking how I can do so when pressing on the button it activates the light bar so the user don't have to do Shft+N

[unborn flax]

Ok I have that alr I can send you the mod after work also I made a video of it

https://youtu.be/vABy2jA4Yvk?is=pA2R1gFsJ2ZyqNIk

[wet island]

Awesome! I have searched around but no results😅 which is why I have asked here😊

[unborn flax]

Yeah thx 😊

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @wet island (current: #2300 - 1)

[unborn flax]

Is the values in the electric idk for sure

[wet island]

Not finished just so you know 😄

[unborn flax]

Ok

[storm bay]

BeamRT trying to implement tetures

[storm bay]

We have basic textures

[weary tangle]

what gpu you got?

[storm bay]

Rtx 4090 but it should work well with any rt capable gpu

[pale hare]

ok so my 5070 WILL explode with rt

[storm bay]

Not really. You can see on the performance overlay, I'm using 30-40% of my gpu with the game running at max graphics AND the ray traced version. Using a little over 100w of power

The mod is mostly CPU bottlenecked right now.

[pale hare]

oh alr

<@&710084482031550547>

chat logs exist btw

🤦🏽‍♂️

<@&710084482031550547> do smth abt this guy pls

[pale hare]

dude

[neon crater]

I wish I did not click on that

[pale hare]

<@&710084482031550547> its been 30 min of THESE being there without any of you doing something about it

[pale hare]

i wish i didn't either

[neon crater]

There’s 5 mods online

[weary thorn]

Sry I have a job irl trying to do both

[neon crater]

Thanks Deervo

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @weary thorn (current: #371 - 16)

[wet island]

why is it not doing a pulse/fade? is it a beamng limitation or have I done the code wrong?

[unborn flax]

@wet island here it is

is a ui app just so you know

[wet island]

Thanks!

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @unborn flax (current: #1232 - 3)

[minor moth]

me and my rtx 5050

[storm bay]

Yeah but you have 50 serious so you get 4 fake frames for every real frame

[weary tangle]

or with the dlss 5 every fake frame

[tacit halo]

dlss 6 will use the brain scans of the game developers to attempt to make the game more realistic

[tacit halo]

dlss6 will also allow players to select boob size and make everyone absurdly filled with makeup

future of gaming

[storm bay]

truly incredible tehnology

[weary tangle]

dls5 already adds the "yassify" filter

[tacit halo]

no no, dlss 6 will allow you to tune the yassify filter, even bringing in race swap so everyone can be hot asians or latinas

[weary tangle]

sorry mb

[storm bay]

I'd take that

[meager folio]

How do I get more camber?

oh

[storm bay]

Global illumination

[graceful pecan]

is there anyhow i can make my tires not explode upon reaching 400 mph

[minor moth]

ourple illumination

[storm bay]

opruel

[minor moth]

fr

[storm bay]

I've been waiting for this map to load for 20 minutes straight

god DAMN

[minor moth]

you should add dlss otherwise how can i enjoy my fake ai frames

[storm bay]

way ahead of ya

frame gen causes the game to crash rn. Gotta fix that eventually

[minor moth]

goddamn

[storm bay]

oops

[minor moth]

beamng resents the ai

[storm bay]

since when has dlss been ai?

"dlss"5 excluded

[tacit halo]

dlss4 with the fake frames is AI stuff, i think dlss3 had ai upscaling too

[storm bay]

Incorrect.
Dlss upscaling and frame gen are machine learning models which use frame data like pixel colors and motion vectors to fill in or morph other pixels to create an output

They're not generating stuff out of thin air. They can't really

[tacit halo]

no no
machine learning is AI, just not generative AI

unless im like completly wrong but im pretty sure that machine learning is part of ai

[storm bay]

Good enough.
All I know is that dlaa produces the sharpest results out of any anti aliasing solution so far.
Frame gen is whatever. I keep it off

And yeah, you're right.

[tacit halo]

im not sure if dlss4 used some sort of genai for frame gen, but yeah dlss5 is genai

[storm bay]

Dlss 4 is the same thing as dlss 2 and onwards.

Just a better model

I wish the dlss mod for beam was actually good

[still loom]

What are yall doing

Are you adding dlss to beamng?

[tacit halo]

eating rocks

[still loom]

🙏

[tacit halo]

im pretty sure hes adding rt to beam with nvidia remix

[still loom]

Dang

[storm bay]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/710083442834145280/1499000917255651479/NVIDIA_Overlay_PqFlsVr6aS.mp4?ex=69f334e4&is=69f1e364&hm=9d8db6fb2e1bb1ee1815b95c1d1bdcc77c32e66595a54c168bcce3dce19eaa12&

[still loom]

🔥

[inland frost]

where should I get my mods?

[manic grove]

in-game repo

[manic grove]

^

[jagged sparrow]

beam forum

[inland frost]

Thanks. Any suggestions for any kind of tesla mod? I downloaded one earlier but it did not work.

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @jagged sparrow (current: #2301 - 1)

[jagged sparrow]

i can go get a file, what type of tesla?

[jagged sparrow]

Hey i got a file for a model s i can dm it to you

I sent it by limewire

[eager moss]

the only one there is, is a shit old one by Royal Renderings I believe

paid

Kene may have made one, but quality won't be nice

don't think there's any others

[grave cave]

i dont kno how transfer beamng.drive to my program files 86x can someone please help me

[quaint bridge]

Launch the game, Support tools, Relocate Game Folder

[quick iris]

My mods are invisible, does anyone know how to fix this?

[wet island]

Close enough 😅

[wicked imp]

hey does anyone in here have decent experience with mapng? im trying to get a map of the hills in my city to do some sim drifting on but all the roads are like this

or am i going to have to use road architecht and just go through manually and do the roads

[eager moss]

pretty sure thats just the issue with the available data, its not precise enough for that. I think theres ways of generating flat roads with road architect and mesh roads on the website??? Not sure, I only use MapNG for making terrains, not roads and houses etc but @leaden tinsel is the creator of MapNG so may be able to help

[weary tangle]

use road spline or master spline, skip road architect!

[wicked imp]

oooo okay thank you im very new to doing anything with maps and have a couple of my friends in the city that drive these roads like i do and wanted to make us all somewhere a bit more safe to have fun lolol

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Gave +1 Reputation to @eager moss (current: #248 - 25)

[wicked imp]

road spline...? masterspline? 😭

[eager moss]

yeah haha nice

[next stirrup]

You can find them in the top bar when you're in the world editor

[wicked imp]

gulp i looked at getting someone on fiverr to do it... the person asked for discord and isnt even in the beamng discord i do NOT trust this guy 😭

[weary tangle]

how much did he ask for?

[wicked imp]

170 USD

which is like 300 dollars my currency

[weary tangle]

depending on what you asked for, it isn't super unreasonable, but the chance of it just being a scam is usually way too high...

[wicked imp]

asked for only the roads through the mountains to be fixxed so they arent slanted

[weary tangle]

for 170$, hella naa

[wicked imp]

yea

atp ill just offer a 100 to someone publicly in the forums or smth to do it and add some nature on the mountains and maybe guardrails on portions of the roads </3

[weary tangle]

with the right tool, its pretty easy to do, and not worth the hundo

[wicked imp]

oh

well i have no idea how to do map stuff and trying to rotate any parts of the road crashed my beamng

(i play on laptop)

[weary tangle]

using the stuffi3000 tool pack ( github.com/stuffi3000/beamng-toolpack ), you can terraform around road, but it won't get the best results.

The better option is to use this tool packs other option, decal road into mesh road, And then you can use terrain tools to align the terrain to the mesh roads. You can also widen the mesh roads to get better result, and then you smooth it out

[wicked imp]

ohhhh

so wouldve been better to use the mesh road option on mapng

[weary tangle]

not really

[wicked imp]

instead of architect

[weary tangle]

i show how to terraform using mesh roads in my guide under section "Manually making roads (Inside world editor)". (in this guide i made the mesh roads first then using the tool transformed them into decal, you will do the opposite, as you already have the decal roads)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3664143287

[wicked imp]

ahhhh okay ill have a look at that tomorrow after work

[weary tangle]

decal roads are better overall, and they look better. But you will use meshroads just to teraform

[wicked imp]

oooo okay

im still probably going to hunt for someone to do it for me bc i work 12 hr shifts and do NOT have the time to do this 😭

i will definetely have a read of that tmrw though

i do appreciate the help though

i just want the map done for me and my friends to drift round hills in game instead of risking our lives and others and our cars irl 😂

[tacit halo]

Don't accept dms, there's also a lot of scammers lurking here, ask them to reply in this chat

[wicked imp]

🫡

[quick iris]

My mods are invisible, does anyone know how to fix this?

[quaint bridge]

Invisible as in when you use them they dont spawn in? Or invisible as in they arent able to be enabled/disabled.

[quick iris]

they don't appear

[quaint bridge]

Do you have a screenshot of your mods folder?

[quick iris]

I will take a photo

[quick iris]

I can't send photos here.

[torn stump]

go to #roles, my dumbass just learned this and ive been here a while 💀

[slow pier]

Yo Wsp, I’m new to beamng and don’t know where to start modding cars, can yall help me ?

[eager moss]

Start here, dont skip steps https://www.beamng.com/threads/tutorial-making-a-custom-part-for-a-vanilla-car.82050/

[slow pier]

Thank u

[torpid spruce]

Is there something like this but for code based mods?

I have a lot of Lua experience but I’m new to modding

[brittle warren]

The easiest way to start with a lua mod is to read the docs https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/programming/
And look at beam mp they have a docs that explains some lua also for beam. And its a little more plain english

[torpid spruce]

Thank you

[quiet root]

do you think this ram model is worth the $300 i paid?

[brittle warren]

Why did you pay 300. I garuntee there were cheaper ones that were more game ready

[quiet root]

(it was a joke)

if only i knew were the better models were

[brittle warren]

https://www.standupcomedyclinic.com/how-to-write-a-joke-2/

[quiet root]

i figured it was obv considering the front end

[brittle warren]

Bro There are models taht are way way way worse for more than 300 lol

[quiet root]

i cant find a good 5g with a engine bay

[eager moss]

Yeah most models you can buy are pretty poo tbh

Like they might be visually decent, but not worth the ridiculous price at all considering they usually have bad topo and are relatively high poly. Plus they often are uv mapped, textured, and often don’t have engines, underbodies, interiors

And separation can be pretty meh

Imo just collect the models you can and slowly remodel them

The good models seem to be private

[woven bone]

does anyone have the templates for the og vanillas cars or for atleast the covet to be able to make paint designs?

[woven bone]

thanks!

[fervent wagon]

does anyone have any idea where the light textures for the sunburst are in the files

[ember wagon]

Race LS6 V8

[wet island]

anyone know why the M and R data isn't showing?

[ember wagon]

loudest car in beamng utah

[jovial mica]

gud to be back at that big ahh V8 sound again

[ember wagon]

Yea side pipe race v8

[ember wagon]

lower rpm

[jovial mica]

idle sounds pls🤑

[ember wagon]

its just a race idle not that brap brap we love

[jovial mica]

nah me fine with it

[jovial mica]

idle rpm kind of sitting a little high up isnt it

how about let it screams at its peak rpm

🤑

[ember wagon]

7100 is around the max

[ember wagon]

yea 1360 rpm race car engine idle

[jovial mica]

Ah i see

[jovial mica]

Heavenly sounding

[ember wagon]

f1 idles at 4000 rpm lol

goes to 18k

[wet island]

Anyone? 😅

[jovial mica]

Gyatt dang

[ebon quail]

both need .png ending?

[wet island]

yea i noticed that and fixed it but still not working🥲

[ebon quail]

behind roughness maps theres a " too much

get a highlighter

[wet island]

still not working, I start to think it's not possible

[wet island]

heres the updated ones

[fading flax]

anyone know how to make a mod that doesn't support career work with it?

tried adding values to trims, insurance classes, checking trim types

everything I was able to find online

[ebon quail]

wdym? like not show up in career?

[fading flax]

yea

[ebon quail]

set population in the info.json to 0

i think

[ebon quail]

odd, can you find anything in world editor that looks off?

[fading flax]

there is, in fact, no population bit

thanks for pointing it out, will add it

[wet island]

nope, also tried clearing the cache and all that. it's probably not possible

[ebon quail]

it is possible tho, are there any console errors? like wrong image version?

like 8bc instead of no color

[wet island]

not what I can see but i could be blind

[obtuse gust]

Hey any good bus mods (looking for flatnose busses specifically bc they look better) on the repo?

[tight shuttle]

hirochi aero

[obtuse gust]

Any others?

[tight shuttle]

only an american type d school bus, forget the model name but it's a wentward

[obtuse gust]

S3?

[obtuse gust]

I installed the file and im trying to find where i gotta drag it

[unique zealot]

fusion

[maiden scaffold]

Cause we changed domains, .online is expensive
$44usd ($60cad for me) for something that at the time had no users

[verbal jolt]

any mods that allow me to like slam the d series on its nuts

[tall iris]

I created a map with MapNG... now I need someone to finish it for me... with roads, trees, grass, and so on... unfortunately, I'm not getting along with the editor.

[weary tangle]

is there anything in particular you are stuck with using the world editor? Also have you watched any tutorials or watched any guides to help you understand the basics?

Also doubt anyone will want to work on your map, as modders are usually always too busy with their own mods. Don't take it personally tho

[tall iris]

I've watched a few tutorials but I just can't get it to work... I've been trying for a month now, so I thought I'd ask around.

[weary tangle]

get what too work? is the real question

[tall iris]

What I absolutely can't get to work with is the forest tool... I can manage roads reasonably well, but that's about it.

[outer pine]

does anyone have a trailblazer ss mod that's free

[drowsy roost]

Anyone able to help fix some code? For a ambulance in the traffic

[blazing harbor]

"Slammed D series" on the repository 🙂

[potent marsh]

Can someone help me make a phone from gta 5 in beamng? (ai sucks with this)

[wet island]

(beginner) working on this light ramp thingy, what I don't know:
how to give it a glow map and material
how to hook it up to police flashing stuff
how to make it a selectable accessory for Beamng cars in config

if anyone know good tutorials or documentations for this then please let me know

[round jacinth]

Im fairly new to this, but I was wondering where I could find the Wentward wheels at, I've looked in the common archive and can't seem to find them.

[quiet root]

anyone know how i could use glowmaps on my brakes?

[wet island]

quick little update on the model 😄

[eager moss]

Careful with poly 🫣

A lot of people use 2d textures for that kinda stuff

[wet island]

is it bad? im new to blender haha

[eager moss]

Its pretty high poly for a lightbar tbh.

Hey, i aint a pro or nothing, but personally would try find a good texture for it, or bake in most the details and keep as much of the model simple and plain, keep details to textures

But it sure could be worse

[wet island]

yea I have no idea how to do that if I understood you correctly, I'm so new to this beamng modding and idk how I should code the stuff and add glow map and all that lol. this is my current try:

{
"etk800_bzextraljus": {
"information":{
"authors":"Burzt",
"name":"SE Police Auxiliary Light",
"value":450,
},
"slotType" : "etk800_bumper_F",
"slots": [
["type", "default", "description"],
["etk800_auxiliarylights","", "Auxiliary lights"],
],
}

[eager moss]

yeah looks fine as a normal jbeam file but you're missing the actual jbeam part, and the flexbody part. look at vanilla jbeam files

i've never touched glowmaps, can't help there

for the lightbar, yeah do most the details of small things like that in textures, you can achieve a lot by baking textures and having normal maps etc

[wet island]

I am using textures, I think😅, still learning 🙂

[eager moss]

lol yeah but what I mean is instead of having modelled the little lights, and the divets, have them as 2d textures that with a normal map, look 3d

[wet island]

oh, okay. rn now I am struggling to get the model to show up on the bumper. idk how to code the stuff atm so I asked ai for a temporary solution, and only issue i have is that the actual model isn't showing up when selecting the option

nothing in console

nvm

but why is it blue lol

[eager moss]

Not sure, what material did you use?

[wet island]

these

[eager moss]

Tbh idk, just keep experimenting with textures. Im not on pc so cant look closely

[wet island]

alr

There we go!

Now I just need to fix the positioning, idk how.

Add glow map and other things that should make it work and glow like brighter high beams😅

[radiant arrow]

Someones developing a tornado mod right?

[eager moss]

did you apply all transforms before you exported it in blender?

[wet island]

i think i did, but i solved it with this
{"pos":{"x":0, "y":-2.31, "z":0.40}}],

[wet island]

anyone know how to make the glass show up?

[tight shuttle]

check if the normals are correct (face orientation)

there could be a couple other causes, such as the glass material using alphaTest instead of actual transparency

[wet island]

my glass material 🙂

[tight shuttle]

oh, i meant in beam

via the .materials.json file

[weary tangle]

the material setup in blender doesn't "really" matter, only thing that really matters is the UV and the material name \s the object is using for beamNG

[wet island]

Will share it if issue isn't fixed, was red on the outside when viewing the normals. Out with the dog atm

[wet island]

still not showing🤔

[tight shuttle]

yeah it should be blue on the outside

[wet island]

normals are correct 🙂

[wet island]

well... that is not what glass looks like lol

[ruby goblet]

what is wrong with you.. why are you blue /ref

[wet island]

Lol

[ember wagon]

wip pontiac firebird 305 V8

[neat kernel]

does anyone know how long the repo takes to upload? its been almost a week and i havent gotten any info on it (i know im not supposed to ask here but yea)

[tacit halo]

does your mod have any lua or code?

[neat kernel]

no

just jbeam and configs and a dae

[weary tangle]

not sure for vehicles, but my mods usually took between 2 days to 2 weeks

[neat kernel]

last time i uploaded it (almost two weeks ago) they said the file was empty even though it wasnt and i uploaded a second version thats "fixed" monday and still no info

[neat kernel]

alright

[olive iris]

Is there documentation for the powertrain hydros as used in the vanilla dump truck? Gavril T series ?

[olive iris]

...reading lua files now....

[pale veldt]

might be a dumb question but when i download mods from websites do i just drag the zip file in the mods folder

or do i have to like extract or something

[weary tangle]

yes, put the zip into the mods folder, no extraction

[chilly onyx]

Hello friends. My mod has been under moderation for 20 days now. Is this a normal situation now or should I do something?

[round jacinth]

Was wondering where the "us_semi_common" texture is located, ive noticed some material names in blender arent the same as the actual textures.

[rancid wedge]

it's not the norm, but i saw it happening for the MH-series mod too and it did eventually get done. They said they would prioritize mods that are easy to approve

[drowsy roost]

Can somone PLEASE debug some lua for an ambulance? I have tried doing it myself, ai, nothing works. The ambulance just somtimes gives up on responding to a crash, and doesnt stop once its there, it just rejoins the traffic.

[sonic zenith]

hello

[wet island]

Result of my first mod 😄

[radiant oasis]

i never knew beamng cars had two uv maps
it took me forever to figure out

[broken stratus]

UV Map 1 is used mostly for the skins, although it can also be used for the damaged textures (like the glass on simple traffic cars, for example)

[sage turret]

U know, thanks to talented modders, I love beamng even more

I was wondering if they could make submarine car mods, like the james bond car

[blazing harbor]

Probably lol

[chilly onyx]

Got it, thanks for the answer!

[toxic widget]

Gave +1 Reputation to @rancid wedge (current: #189 - 33)

[static canopy]

Are active differentials and suspension technically possible in beamng?

[tacit halo]

Doesnt the sunburst have an active diff?

[static canopy]

Oh really?

Is it possible to make a port of that for other cars?

[tacit halo]

Yes

[static canopy]

👌

How tho

In my case I want to make an active rear diff for the bolide

ah its only an active middle differential

[viscid gyro]

can anyone make a skin i made for the moonhawk into a mod?
i have as much clue to modding as a dead fly has to flying and would like some help, its just a simple skin based off the General Lee Charger. also if you could make it so that when the skin is applied, the moonhawk is navy blue, thatd be awesome?

[ebon quail]

https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/materials/vehicle/skinsystem/skintutorial/

[viscid gyro]

my bng is on a harddrive

[young gate]

my bng is augmented

[vale moss]

Can anyone help me with this skin I'm making for the Sedan Moonhawk mod?

[vale moss]

This is what the skin looks like in the game.

[vale moss]

@toxic widget Hey, your the only one online right now. I was wondering if you could help me with this, please.

[shut pollen]

...that is a bot

[frank mason]

🤦‍♀️

[vale moss]

Oh...

My brain is just tired.

I have been trying to get the skin to work all night...

[brittle warren]

So if it says no texture then it cant find the image files

[shut pollen]

post the console, contents of your skin file and the folder structure

[vale moss]

I think it has a slightly different name in the files that in the image.

But the car gets slightly darker so idk.

I'll check it out.

[vale moss]

I changed the name in the files but it still will not recognize the texture. Would exiting out of the game and going back in help? The game may not have updated the texture yet.

[broken stratus]

Ctrl + R will reload the car, no need to close and reopen the game

[vale moss]

The skin still will not show... 🙁

If I sent the texture files could someone help me with the code?

[tropic basin]

Coming along, got some smoke shader on GPU pipline now.

There is two smokes, stock Beam smoke is disabled.

the sphere smoke with some hazy alpha are CPU fluid physics render that follow drag, vortex, jbeam interaction, wheelspin, collision etc.. very heavy.

Then just lofty shader smoke. GPU pipe now as working debug on CPU side is complete, for full smoke shader, but from technical point I do not think it is possible to remove CPU draws entirely, and rely on GPU for this solely. Torque3D does not expose much. I might just finish with attaching GPU lobes to CPU spheres and release mod as technical demo.

[regal latch]

That is reallly cool! Keep going with that, this is so needed

[plush folio]

very nice

[lusty mason]

I need help

How do I open a door handle

[unique zealot]

hover your mouse over it

[vale moss]

Can someone please help me with this skin I'm making?

[deft solstice]

Who has a mod for the best exteriour mods like bumpers etcc and for the interior and one for the engine visual turbos etc… so it doesnt look stock

[mortal rivet]

Does anyone know how I can use a school bus for the bus routes mode?

[mortal rivet]

Also anyway I can disable the cinematic camera when picking up passengers? I wish I could use the interior controls without being stuck in the cinematic camera.

[hasty perch]

https://www.tiktok.com/@devwex2/video/7593926146345995527?q=tiv-2&t=1778029993145 idk if i can make a mod recondmendation but i think this (tiv-2) in beam would be cool. (im not a modder at all)

[last fossil]

does anyone know if a good quality GMT800 mod exists?

[loud jacinth]

anyone know which lua file contains the code for the radial menu?

nvm think I found it in lua\vehicle\extensions\core\quickAccess.lua

[simple pivot]

hey

can someone please please help me

[unique zealot]

dont ask to ask

https://dontasktoask.com/

[simple pivot]

soo

i am new, and every mod i am installing , i dont find it in game

wait

i show it in screens

[unique zealot]

uplink role in #roles also this channel is for making mods

[simple pivot]

bro pls just help me on this, i dont understand what you mean

i cant even upload pictures

[unique zealot]

get the uplink role in #roles , the painting emoji, and this channel is for making mods, you want #mods-discussion

[viscid gyro]

just help him bruh

[brittle warren]

https://klipy.com/gifs/shh-secret-6--k01KQZE4AK8HT8W5V78MBZ7PDNF

[winged lava]

how do I increase a modded car's mirror refresh rate and detail

[unique zealot]

i told him how to get the uplink role and he still hasnt done it

twice

[viscid gyro]

maybe help him AND tell him to get the damn tole

role

[unique zealot]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

no

[brittle warren]

https://klipy.com/gifs/stupid-forest-gump--k01KQZS711V3AP87KF39HRDJTPD

[viscid gyro]

are you?

[wet island]

Game graphics settings?

Anyone know if skin modding is possible on the Hirochi HT-55? (The dump truck) Trying to make a working material file for my mod program to use but I can't get it to work🤦‍♂️

[wet island]

U can use BeamSkin Studio, no coding needed. It does all of that for you.

[viscid gyro]

oh awesome

[brittle warren]

The mod will be compatable with pgp engine pack if he allows. Meaning All kinds of engines.

[viscid gyro]

:O
what car iz this
absolute shitbox and i love it

[brittle warren]

1997-2003 Pontiac grand Prix. Hoping to make the coupe version too but will take some time lol

[viscid gyro]

honestly, something you could make is the 1994 Dodge Ram Van B150/B250/B350, the only main difference is wheelbase visually from what i can tell.
also, will it have an awd drivetrain swap? beamng rwd handles shitty and i wanna be able to drive this without spinning out.

[viscid gyro]

argghh its bein pissy n bitchy and not letting me download it :/.
do i need python or what, cause its not downloading python automatically.

[brittle warren]

It currently has the stock GM Series 2 3800 FWD. Then it also has RWD and AWD swaps that arent certian on what engines i will use for those yet

[viscid gyro]

oh FWD is probably good. steering wheels are driven wheels so i CANT spin out, plus weight=traction

[viscid gyro]

probably because i dont wanna be entirely wrong

[wet island]

It isn't? Can u send a Pic of what u are getting from the install.bat in the mod thread for it please

[viscid gyro]

i think its working now?

[wet island]

Oh, what was wrong? 😅

[viscid gyro]

idk
it failed to continue D:

[wet island]

But now it works?

[viscid gyro]

not sure
i still havent installed beamskin

got to 7/7

i sent you a dm of what went wrong

[tropic basin]

so I pretty much finished this, then moved onto looking at all those other terrain deformation mods... I found a way around the lag and constant refreshing by hooking into BeamNG native editor brushing tools.

Can tie into editor brushing directly too via input handlers, but basically just made editor sampled "cursors" that attach to tires.

[viscid gyro]

im curious, what is this for?

[tropic basin]

The terrain deformation or fluid physics smoke?

[viscid gyro]

ohhh its physics smoke

awesome

[brittle warren]

How were you able to create an editor instance. As i made the terrain deformation mod and i cant figure out how to do it. Also when you edit with the terrain editor it still flickers and refreshes no matter what you just dont notice it because your car isnt moving. There will always be the grass flicker and the lag because the terrain needs to update the collisions no matter how you edit it.

[tropic basin]

There is different flicker example. In terrainBlock and updateGrid does not need to refresh entire voxel, reduce bounding box around edits. You can go from one giant big square, to smaller multiple squares, in your video example and then your mod I found is clear difference between the two. As for editor, you are running mouse event and attaching it to wheels with TerrainEditor. It is jank, and essentially forcing brush downward with fake event.

As for lag. We're in Hz/ticks right? So why queue all ticks in batch at once instead of spreading budget. There does not need to be all calls in the same timeframe. Do small updateGrid calls.

I went many different routes today with DLL injection and just lua, but biggest front is updateGrid in terrainBlock. Lua is not really a bottleneck here, just terrain bounds for refresh.

TLDR Don't do giant ones, but many small localized around native wheels, there is some other terrain deformation mod but it is much worse in execution, not sure why I spent $$ on it to understand what they were doing too, but even more egregious in negative profiling.

I think bbcdynamicterrain on repo is most ideal tech showcase

[celest sleet]

Is there some good mod maps

[gilded schooner]

Yes

[twilit python]

Is it possible to make staggered setups? I was fucking with it and it didn't want to work, but IIRC I've done it before but don't have files. Could be misremembering.
I need my right side hubs farther out then the left side (relative to chassis center line) and my rear right tire needs to be wider.

I cant figure the code out but is this even possible?
Or is my best bet for the hub issue to offset the chassis relative to axle and it'll work that way. But that doesn't solve that I need a wider rr tire.
(Yes the cars irl have a wider tire only on the rr. Staggered setups are common for circle track cars)

[tropic basin]

Did you figure this out? I can provide relevant code. Here is video example.

Next intent is removing brushed & painted grass in area of deformation.

[brittle warren]

All teh in game brushes just call the commands im calling. Update grid and stuff so using the cursor and stuff just adds extra things its gotta do. Also Why isnt your grass updating at all? It should be moving down with the terrain

[brittle warren]

And no i never figured out how to get an editor instance to work lol i gave up on that side lol and went with the direct commands

[tropic basin]

Because there is queue and merge with budgets. Two other mods, using bbc as example because it is on repo, uses one large rectangle master bound. This mod changes master bound into per tire contact patch. So there is coordinate domain in the flush, versus full map refresh behavior both other two mods have.

So with this truck example, there are 18 brushes across the 18 wheels lol

if the two mods moved away from the giant rectangle refresh bounds it would remove flicker entirely

[brittle warren]

My mod only updates the grid directly around the tire not anything else thats how you are able to change the settings in the ui it changes the area of effect and loweres or raises the grid points it checks and updates

[tropic basin]

I am not talking about brush edit area, am talking about updateBatchBounds(bounds, minX, minY, maxX, maxY) ... flushBatchUpdate(bounds)

with bbc mod, you have 18 local edits, okay,. but all those 18 local edits do 1 merge refresh in one giant rectangle

= grass flicker

change local brush edits to local refresh rectangles = no grass flicker

it is also more performance happy, but... increases per wheel cost

so will still see frametime jumps as updategrid triggers still, just not refreshing entire master bounds

[brittle warren]

Hmm okay ill look into my mod. I have made a lot of updates to it since the last repo update so a lot has changed especially with the digging and dumping stuff

[tropic basin]

patreon mod works same way, just has an egregious amount of other stuff that is unnecessary, like pushing rut spillage of dirt/whatever ontop of it, and no dirty calls at all so it is much worse in current state

Is your mod bbc mod?

[brittle warren]

Yea

[tropic basin]

BBC... BrokenBrainCells

not sure why I didn't connect those dots lol

[brittle warren]

And the other mod is pretty cool i tried adding the upward dirt to make berms and stuff but couldn't make mine look right and added a bit more lag

[tropic basin]

yeah the rut > berms causes a lot of extra overhead, and even doing queue spreads it doesn't look good. Your mod is ahead in current state, IMO, and QOL

I took examples from yours and that one to fuck with this, but I am confident we will get Torque3D exposures in 0.39/0.40 for ground deformation as a whole/expansion. No way we are going heavy equipment route and will not eventually receive such stuff natively.

technical opportunity exists as a whole, and we're even lua-jank with mods. Just need more engine level exposures.

[brittle warren]

Im hoping we get some more ability to mess with things at least things that are stock torque stuff because its all open source theres not really anything proprietary to the terrain stuff. Also when i did berms mine looked so bad because i was raising and lowering the points at the same time and it was confusing itself

https://github.com/ChrisCalef/T3DTerrainMaster
Like this and a few other projects have terrain paging wich would help us create massive maps. I know its old but if we had a system like that it would be great

[worthy parrot]

They should also add mesh streaming

[tropic basin]

Would need floating origin rebasing. Not sure why it is on basis of map 0,0 origin but... Could be some deeper engine technical reason, rather than attaching it to player camera pos as origin. Engine supports lua API for live procedural streaming already too.

I assume Beam is going to move into an offical coop/multiplayer, so map as floating origin makes sense in my head.

I doubt the transition from 32fp to 64fp would be an ideal undertaking, would require big big engine refactor

[frank rain]

I has question...

by using mapng.com, how hard would it be for someone to make a map of my hometown? I dont mod myself but was wondering if anyone would be up for a small project?

fyi, knowing the scale of details mapng is capable of, I realize the best, quickest quality is probably very low poly and unrefined
however
I figured I might ask

[weary tangle]

People are usually always very busy working on their own projects. And from our point of view, why work on someone elses hometown when we can work on our own that has meaning to us?
Please don't take it personally, its just how it is.

[frank rain]

understandably so, thanks

ill leave it up in case anyone has an interest, can't hurt

[old portal]

could i get help? trying to make a scheme, but i dont know how to make BeamNG accept it as a mod.

[tacit halo]

Trying to make a what

[old portal]

Skin

[tacit halo]

Have you followed any skin tutorial

[wet island]

#1465012119790424095 this could help 😉

asking again :/

Anyone know if skin modding is possible on the Hirochi HT-55? (The dump truck) Trying to make a working material file for my mod program to use but I can't get it to work🤦‍♂️

appreciate any help I can get!

[rancid wedge]

Never tried, but should be just like any other car

Make a copy of the jato skin and go from there

Or what specifically isn't working?

[wet island]

The skin isnt showing, it stays yellow and all that

[dawn flame]

can some one help me make my first mod ?

[rancid wedge]

I'm on phone so I can't open the files, but try replacing lines in the json file with ones from a vanilla skin until you stop having these issues' and then look at what specific texture that skin uses and try to make your's the same file type

[rancid wedge]

It's a bit of a process, so it's best to follow some tutorials and ask here if you get stuck on something. Also start out with smaller projects first or you will hate yourself

Good starting mod for vehicle modding is tuning parts. Think widebody fenders or other body panels

[dawn flame]

none of the tutorials i dont rlly under stand

[rancid wedge]

https://youtu.be/GL51GpcbI6Y?is=Y2m89TKO31JwkK2W
This one helped me a ton, it also shows how to properly do the folders and stuff

But you probably won't find anybody who will guide you every step in person, it's best to ask here for specific things

Also if yoi google "beamng documentation" and anything you are stuck on, you can find official guides on how to do it

[dawn flame]

thank you

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[dawn flame]

i cant find the pessima files

[unique zealot]

its just pessima.zip

[dawn flame]

i dont have the pessima zip

file

[unique zealot]

are you checking the right folder?

[crisp walrus]

Very dumb question - is there a way to have lods for vehicle models in beam?

[silver sparrow]

Does anyone know anything about a good modification associated with buses?

[twilit python]

Be more specific

[silver sparrow]

I'm looking for models of European coaches like Setra 517 HD or Mercedes Tourismo

[twilit python]

No idea

[hard gyro]

Ok problem.
I hit limited dissolve on one of my models to fix some topology issues
Now everything is squares, and they don’t show up in beam

Trying to get these to go away

Nvm.
I’m gonna have to rebuild them entirely as idk why but there’s some spikes and I’m lazy

[woven folio]

question im tryna customize my car and im trya do free cam is there a other way or is there a way when i move my car doesnt move when i hit w and all that

[twilit python]

shade smooth

triangulate faces

[hard gyro]

Is that a tool or?

The shade faces I mean

[twilit python]

one sec, lemme show

Select faces (top left under modelling)

[hard gyro]

I’ll probably have to rebuild them anyway since I screwed up when stretching a certain part of it now it’s full of spikes which I’m too lazy to fix
Plus it’ll let me make the few different versions easier

[twilit python]

Right click on said faces

Shade smooth and triangulate is something you always should do

but try this first

[hard gyro]

Hmm
Ok I will when I get home. Thanks

[twilit python]

👍

[hard gyro]

Last question
Would the model being only squares actually make it not show up in beam?
That’s the ONLY change I made in the model side of things and it just vanished

[twilit python]

No.

[hard gyro]

Hmm

[twilit python]

Check the texture, normals and if it's named correctly.

[hard gyro]

Will do

[twilit python]

Shit can become "texturenamehere.001" or "modelnamehere.001" if you copy/paste

In Blender

Example. (one below selected) because I duplicated something with the same texture

[tacit halo]

No no no

Don't triangulate

[twilit python]

Yes, because squares fuck the textures

[patent jackal]

No
Hasnt happened in my 3 months of modding 😭

[tacit halo]

Hasn't happened to me in 5 years of modding

[twilit python]

Faces should be triangulated though.

[tacit halo]

Use the triangulate modifier with keep normals on and then apply modifiers on export setting

This way you keep the shading intact

[twilit python]

It just adds an edge in the face, doesn't move vertices

I've never had issues with shading if I shade smooth.

[tacit halo]

Triangulation affects shading

[patent jackal]

Its just more work on the modeling

[twilit python]

Yes, that's why you shade smooth.

I've had no issues with doing that personally.

[tacit halo]

Shaded smooth meshes I mean

[twilit python]

I'm talking exclusively of the faces

[tacit halo]

The way shading works, when triangulating, it does change it

[twilit python]

Interesting

[tacit halo]

The normals are slightly altered

[twilit python]

Hm.

[tacit halo]

Which is why you should model in quads, use a weighted normals modifier for better shading, and then use the triangulate modifier with keep normals checked

[twilit python]

I've just had no issues, but Ig I've never done stupidly complicated bodies, with one exception and I kept it all the same to not fuck with skins

[twilit python]

Gotcha

[tacit halo]

Then for the dae export settings use the "apply modifiers on export"

[twilit python]

I see

[tacit halo]

Which also means you don't need to apply mirror modifiers and all that jazz

[tacit halo]

I've spent weeks fighting with the shading of a door handle and C pillar

[twilit python]

I see, with this. only because of the hole.

I've only ever really worked with flat, angular bodies ngl

[twilit python]

I see.

[twilit python]

Relatively flat more or less.

[tacit halo]

That is horrifying

[twilit python]

So, how should I do the faces for that?

[twilit python]

IK I can do better, just slapped that to move on with the model for now

[tacit halo]

For flat you don't care ngl

But that circle needs to be lower poly

12 vertices max

Ideally 10

[twilit python]

It's just what it generated at

How can I make the faces for this then?

[twilit python]

For the vertice count

Why should I lower it? It makes it rougher, I'm trying to make this pretty decent ish looking

[tacit halo]

Deformation

[twilit python]

Ahh

The body doesn't deform, it stays flat with the chassis

[twilit python]

Thank you!

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[tacit halo]

Is this made of a magic material that can't be bent?

[twilit python]

The chassis is rigid.

The focus isn't crashing/really good deformation

IRL if these chassis moved, the driver can die

[tacit halo]

Still that's not hard to achieve

[twilit python]

Am aware.

They're SOLID chassis. lemme send some pics rq

They more twist lengthwise but don't really do much else majorly

[tacit halo]

This would deform much much better

[tacit halo]

Well I mean my phone is a solid brick but a hammer can turn it into a banana shaped broken piece of tech

[twilit python]

Slightly bigger version, but same s.hit more or less

[tacit halo]

If a car rams head onto that panel does it just not deform at all ?

[twilit python]

The bodies don't deform with the chassis, they will break off well beforehand.

The chassis don't really do much, they bounce off the obstacle. The car's 900 LB with a driver.

[twilit python]

Noted

Then would I not need a bunch of nodes? Which adds a ton of weight.

A single panel is like 3-6 LB

And nodes freak out when they're too light

[tacit halo]

You can have a panel be 1 million polygons but just have 4 nodes attached

Vertices =/= nodes

[twilit python]

It'll still deform like if you hammered a bunch of dents into a sheet of steel? Like, a bunch of small things?

The nodes are the BeamNG part, verticels Blender part

[tacit halo]

No it will deform like bent metal when the nodes are benthit

[twilit python]

The bodies genuinely stay on pretty well with the chassis. This is after prob a 110-130 MPH crash right head on into a solid wall

[twilit python]

The only really shit they do is crease slightly or small dents and shit, but nothing major.

[tacit halo]

You can make them stronger or less strong, but even for slight deformations proper mesh is ideal

If your mesh is not dense enough, it will seem like the metal is folding in straight jagged lines, not in the way it's meant to deform

[twilit python]

I mean, sure. It's ideal. But my point I'm making, is that deformation isn't the MAIN goal with this.

[tacit halo]

Sure , still deformation will happen, even if it's slightly, and the way you've done it know it will just make it look all weird

[twilit python]

I am fixing it, I am just simply saying, it's not the biggest issue if it's slightly off

Compared to like a fully body car.

[twilit python]

With the vertices in Blender?

[tacit halo]

Wdym

[twilit python]

Do that to the model, not with nodes in Jbeam

[tacit halo]

Yes that's ment to be the mesh in blender

Jbeam wise it's probably just 4 nodes in each corner

[twilit python]

Alrighty

[tacit halo]

I will need to go now to sleep

[twilit python]

That's essentially what I did. But it's 6 total. There's the top piece at the angle, then a piece towards the center to support the nodes.

Ok, goodnight. Sleep good. Thanks for your help

[craggy olive]

We need a good 2nd gen dodge mod

[eager moss]

We dont

[gilded schooner]

we have the d series facelift mod thaty adds something like that but thats probably the best you can do

[crystal wraith]

Called gavril ibex

[jovial mica]

Ts sounds so good my discord just crashed when trying to load it

[ember wagon]

Are we one of few who appreciates this

we are like 4 or 5 people max who want this in beam

[ember wagon]

Mine glitched out too

[jovial mica]

Discord moment

[ember wagon]

No i mean the game

[jovial mica]

oh lmao

[ember wagon]

But yea your discord

[jovial mica]

ye it just crashes whenever it trying to load some pic or video

[tight thunder]

GUYSS anyone know Toyota previa?

[gilded schooner]

hardly know her

[potent minnow]

okay

[gilded schooner]

theres a 11 year old forum post for a minivan like this but its dead

[potent minnow]

ill make it yesterday

[wet island]

I'm guessing this is the closest thing possible to retroreflective decals?

[solemn basalt]

yea probably lol

[wet island]

Dam, it's good enough I guess.

[little dawn]

a question: is there any mod to change a 5th wheel hitch to a gooseneck one on a bare upfit truck? (such as the MD-series 5th wheel configuration)
or, is there any way to add a gooseneck hitch to a bare chassis cab on the D-series like this?

[twilit python]

With modding, for sure. Basegame, I don't think so for D or MD. But for the T series (obiously), yes.

Actually, the MD does I think.

Just look through the parts selector

[little dawn]

ok great thanks!

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[twilit python]

No worries

[little dawn]

i am absolutely clueless on modding so i’ll just take the MD series lol

[twilit python]

Lol, no worries.

I think the MD does, could be wrong.

[patent ivy]

Is there any way to get the piccolina and put a receiver hitch on the roof of small vehicles maybe bolide so i can use that truck trailer that connects to car hitches https://www.motorious.com/content/images/2023/02/vkIraYhb-720.jpg

[brittle sparrow]

i tried making a rebadge on the pessima by duplicating it but badges wont appear someone help me 🥀

[ebon quail]

is the material.json in the wrong place?

[brittle sparrow]

its in the right place

[tacit halo]

not another pessima 😭

[brittle sparrow]

malaysia pessima

[bleak laurel]

whats the most rebadged car? The mk1 pessima! (jk)

[brittle sparrow]

LMFAO

anyways how do I fix this no material issue 💔

[swift crow]

lilk

wqeqew1q

[patent jackal]

The D-series lets be honest

[brittle warren]

NAh the deseires gets mesh slapped not rebadged. The rebadgers are too lazy to mesh slap the real car

[patent jackal]

Thats true

I said yesterday im gonna unretire from beamng

but like I dont wanna

xD

[brittle warren]

Ive said it 100 times lol

never do

[brittle warren]

Lol

[abstract bone]

I got two spicy mods awaiting approval

[obtuse gust]

Is it a problem i have so many mods i dont really use but use and i cant handle deleting any of them

[patent jackal]

goto file folder and delete

[brittle sparrow]

soo any fixes?

[brittle sparrow]

nvm fixed it

[ebon tangle]

anyone know how/if you can change the strength of a gearbox/how much health each gear has? theres a whole section in the t-series transmission jbeam that seems to effect the synchros but its commented out

[ebon tangle]

after doing some more digging it seems like the only place this is used is on the nine, and it only controls the synchros

you can remove or change the synchros but not the health of each gear

this shit is so annoying this was literally a feature before and it just got removed with no documention cause the powertrain part of the wiki is missing

😭

and for some reason even tho it DOESNT HAVE SYNCHROS you can still powershift the nine without toasting the trans too badly

[twilit python]

Oh that's weird, huh.

[eager moss]

I’m making a custom turbo blowoff for the Turbo Everything mod, and I’ve got it working well for petrol engines, but its not working for diesels. Can someone help me out here, why wouldn’t it work on diesels?

[brittle warren]

Ypu have to make it a gas engine internally or it wont work. Most diesels dont have throttle plates so a bov is useless so the devs never added the ability to use one

[steady tendon]

Hi, when I try to install a mod in my game, nothing spawns, not even a car, and I get an error message.

[hoary vault]

Hello, I'm looking for someone who can make a custom texture for police cars for me.

[unique zealot]

you are gonna get dmed with scams

[tight thunder]

Anyone a free modder?

[weary tangle]

bro...

[tacit halo]

stop askingg

[hard gyro]

Without redoing the whole thing, how do I fix this topology on the edge?

[tight shuttle]

mark sharp edges

[hard gyro]

Ok. Explain that as if I’m literally completely new to blender

Wait like
No top face, bottom face, and side? Just top and bottom meeting?

[ebon quail]

what?

what are you even trying to achieve

and show wireframe

[hard gyro]

I want those areas to not have visual issues when I bring it into beam

As it stands, there’s shadows

[ebon quail]

try: a => Alt N => reset vectors

[hard gyro]

Alt n doesn’t do anything

[ebon quail]

in edit mode

[hard gyro]

Ok that didn’t fix them

I’m gonna actually SEE if they show up in game tho

They do

[young gate]

ngl this is just bad topologyu all around

i recomend redoing it with better workflow

[hard gyro]

No

I am not redoing this whole goddamn thing this took almost three hours

All I did was edit the existing blender file.

And add/delete points where necessary

How can I just fix it
Without redoing the whole thing

[tacit halo]

you need to like

convert to quads and mark sharps

[hard gyro]

Again
I don’t know what that means

I know how to mirror parts, move points

Add faces

[young gate]

you can make this in like 10 minutes

[hard gyro]

Cool

It took 2 hours because I also had to widen the fender, make it taller, remove the lip on the edge, and close the gap that removing the lip left

It’s not that simple. Maybe for you, but not for someone like me who has a whole 6 hours MAYBE in blender

[tacit halo]

google exists

i told you what you need to do

[young gate]

its as simple as making an outline of the object then use Grid Fill

[tacit halo]

you also probably need to clear custom splits normal data

[young gate]

its a vaguely rectangular shape, this will work

[tacit halo]

it doesnt need remodeling

[young gate]

wait, this isnt modelled from scratch but rather from a vanilla mesh?

no wonder it took you 2 hours lmfao

save yourself the headache and make the fender yourself

[tacit halo]

no its just hes new at blender

[young gate]

its literally this easy

[tacit halo]

modifying vanilla parts takes like 5 seconds when you know what you are doing

[young gate]

ye that's because youre also not new to blender, ofc it'll only take you 5 seconds

also i wouldnt recommend modifying vanilla parts

[tacit halo]

yeah hes new to blender hes got no clue of anything

[young gate]

cuz it has depth and shit

especially body panels

better to make a flat shape then use solidify

[tacit halo]

his model is already modeled he just needs to triangulate and mark sharps so the shading doesnt kill itself

[young gate]

can i see how it looks from underneath?

[tacit halo]

bro IT DOESNT MATTER

[young gate]

i cant tell if this has any volume at all

[hard gyro]

Tbh I ragequit and I’m restarting

The bottom side I did neglect to edit when I initially made the movements

Except at the edges*

[obtuse gust]

Anyone know of any Land Cruiser and/or Land Rover mods that still work?

[obtuse gust]

Why did someone react with a TR flag

[devout hamlet]

anyone have any good drag race serevers like legit ones or any mudding communities?

[eager moss]

Yeah I heard

[eager moss]

Willing to pay or no?

[quaint jacinth]

does anyone know how to allow the Universal Monster Frame to use other/modded radiator supports?

[obtuse gust]

No

[eager moss]

Only options are the ones listed here then really https://www.beamng.com/threads/the-irl-cars-mod-list-for-v0-37-22-11-2025-update.102506/

@native arch has free ones in his server too actually

[little portal]

Topology is fine, just needs a weighted normal and sharp edges

[hard gyro]

Ok so I redid them
No issues, now I have 3 different versions lol

BUT I am too lazy to close up the gap between the outer and inner surfaces so I’m not gonna do that
Doesn’t show up anyway in game unless you use an electron microscope

[quaint jacinth]

does anyone know how to allow the Universal Monster Frame to use other/modded radiator supports?

[winged lava]

why isn't the JS in my UI app reloading when I reload UI

only html changes

[cedar zinc]

so with the automation addition
is there a way to see which cars have interiors?

[hard gyro]

Ok.
Something is broken
Is there already a flexbody in vanilla beamng called nine_fender_LF_wrcut?

I can easily swap the OTHER fenders flexbody but for some reason this one will NOT change

I know very well I have it correctly entered
The other one works and can be swapped no problem

But the left front fender won’t change for ANYTHING

[tight shuttle]

check the console in-game (~ key)

[hard gyro]

Nvm.
Turns out I made a second jbeam file that had the same names in it without realizing and it was prioritizing that version instead of the one I was actively working on

[copper pilot]

anyone here also got the same no exhaust issue on the cherrier emmouse mod?

[mental raven]

yo anyone know good stance car wheel packs besides W x K and JSD?

[midnight basalt]

I’m missing the fuel tank on the vivace

[haughty mango]

I downloaded several mods from the forums, and it went up to the little download queue thing in the top corner and finished downloading, but none of them appear in my modlist, even after clearing the game cache and restarting the game. What can I do? One of these mods is paid and I don't want to lose the money for nothing

[hexed perch]

hello im new to beam modding and trying to make a mod i load in game and my vehicle says no material but ive added textures in blender that are for beam can someone help?

[tacit halo]

I'm not

[young gate]

Im not either

[neon fern]

why cant i install mods into beamng drive anymore i dont have the mod folder how to fix?

[tacit halo]

Simply just
Create it

[gilded schooner]

Either create a folder named “mods” or just go in beam and click “open mod folder” then it should create one for you

[shrewd scarab]

If you downloaded them from your browser youll probably have to put them from the downloads to the mods folder

[tacit halo]

Small tidbit, but paid mods can be redowloaded from wherever you get them from

[neon fern]

alr thnx

[quaint jacinth]

anyone know how to make it so the Universal Monster frame supports the default radiator support slots

i wanna put dfa fascias on it

[eternal stone]

is there a way to have a looping gif as a texture

because i have a looping animation for this radio screen but idk if its possible to make it a texture

[brittle warren]

you can make it an html screen that just plays the gif on loop. I think the vivage gauges use the genericgauges lua controller so look at it

[plain bolt]

Anybody got some all terrain tires black, mods?

[eager moss]

Blkfxx and BDR tires are the best free ones

[wise ore]

Are there any mods that can save all the spawned object locations on a map? I’m getting kinda tired of having to move junky Bruckles and Gavrils into place in order to be able to crush them in a monster truck

[weary tangle]

maybe this is what you are looking for? [paid]
https://www.reddit.com/r/BeamNG/comments/1t1a3ck/after_3500_hours_i_built_the_one_thing_i_felt_was/

[wise ore]

Sad that it’s paid but yeah kinda.

[bleak acorn]

Ohhh yeaaaa. Sad it’s paid

[glossy crest]

i mean its 2 bucks

thats a good mod for 2 bucks

[regal latch]

Its incredibly simple to restore vehicles and their position. i could not imagine asking money for that

The ui is cool though

[glossy crest]

simple yet no one else is doing it

theres a demand and they have the supply

[crystal wraith]

Sounds like you’d buy a $2 scam

Chatgpt could probably make it lmao

[crystal wraith]

mod is absolutley a scam

so simple

sometimes i regret not making stuff of mine paid, because people will buy ANYTHING

yea

im still not very pleased with it

thats why i havent worked much on it

the main area need SO MUCH more work

ugh

[regal latch]

Open world editor. Select cars, save as prefab, save map. Next time you load in, it be there. Didnt test, but i believe nothing else must be done just using game own functionality

The game does it with scenarios. These systems are used everywhere. I use them to populate a map with stuff whenever i need in mp. Its present everywhere

[void lantern]

should be free though, it saves time though and i like that

[blazing rune]

is there a police mortorcycle?

[glossy crest]

sounds like you cant fathom someone thinking 2 dollars is literal pocket change

it saves time, has a ui, works for me

it should be free but 2 bucks is nothing lmao

[weary tangle]

in some countries, 2 dollas is quite a lot of money for a mod

[astral birch]

no

[crystal wraith]

Pocket change I’d rather go buy a drink with lmao

2 for a simple script probably written by ai

Or something that takes half a second to do manually

It stupid stop defending scams

[glossy crest]

no one is forcing anyone to buy it 🤷

[weary tangle]

i don't mind paid mods, but a big issue is majority of new mods are becoming paid, usually on patreon (not a one time purchase!).
And i like to "own" things and not have to have a "subscription" (i know that i can only buy one month, but each update will cost me).

And just because they are paid, it doesn't mean lot of effort went into them. I'm seeing more and more less effort mods become paid. That would otherwise never be paid. And before you say, i know how much effort usually goes into mods, but that doesnt mean they always have to be paid.

Its kinda ruining the modding community, all these cool new mods that add feature are becoming paid, and you can easily end up with 20$+ for some QoL mods, even if lot of them are quite small. Oh they are also all patreon, so if they start receiving updates, or become broken by updates, good luck...

[glossy crest]

if that mod is vibecoded then ill take it back

but if it genuinely works and save time then its fine

[crystal wraith]

saves what time

30 seconds?

[glossy crest]

you sound so heated over something that doesnt affect you in the slightest

are you losing money to this

[crystal wraith]

because its ruining the community ??

[glossy crest]

dude if it was like RR and shit like that then yea sure