[FREE] Bippu's Japanese License Plates

[honest oriole]

(Pretty Straightforward)
https://www.beamng.com/resources/bippus-japanese-license-plates.29565/

basically, 19 new plates are going to be added to the mod

(there are already 24)

one day ill figure out how to not make it so many plates

but for now its in its very early stages

kei plates are planned even though there arent any kei cars in the repo (besides the chisai)

on the left >2000cc olympics plate and on the right <2000cc plate

[frigid crest]

cool

how do you get Olympics plate

[honest oriole]

you select it

[honest oriole]

i forgot the pigeon and wigeon are kei cars

im so STUPID

[honest oriole]

time to make kei plates

[carmine crater]

proper kei plates would be sick asf

[honest oriole]

i still gotta add the normalmap to the plates

i mean like

the edges

currently we are on 54 plates

[storm prism]

Damn, and I thought my Norwegian pack had a lot

[honest oriole]

ill try to reduce it one day lol

but for now its good

it has most wards that actually mean something

[frigid crest]

no in irl

[honest oriole]

it was issued for a limited time i think it was at shinagawa's dmv

[frigid crest]

ok

[violet mural]

Oofah, this is pretty sweet

[violet mural]

You live and learn, eh? Any other cool Japanese plate facts?

[honest oriole]

i think everybody knows this but japan issues plates that light up

[violet mural]

Everyone but me knows that

Like the letters light up?

[honest oriole]

lol

[honest oriole]

yeah

[violet mural]

Wow

[violet mural]

Anything else I don't know?

[honest oriole]

i wanna know how to get one of these to europe

[honest oriole]

some prefectures issue plates with custom graphics

[violet mural]

Didn't know that but I could've imagined

[honest oriole]

i think it was for a small amount of time not sure

[violet mural]

Now, what are these dots?

Any special meaning?

[honest oriole]

nope, since japanese license plates cant start with 0s, the dots replace it

[violet mural]

Can you choose the numbers?

[honest oriole]

you can get vanity plates yes but idk how that process works

[violet mural]

Okikoki

I have many things to learn regarding license plates

But you're a fellow European then?

[honest oriole]

yeah i live in europe

[violet mural]

Ah, so are you doing the plates of your home country or just interested in Japanese stuff?

[honest oriole]

i like license plates

[violet mural]

So it's neither lol

[honest oriole]

kinda the second one yes

oh and also rear japanese plates have bolt covers with prefecture seals to prevent license plate theft i think

[violet mural]

You, my friend, are an endless source of plate fun-facts

That is very cool

[honest oriole]

my mod wont have them since idk how to do that per car unless i find out a way in the future

[violet mural]

:(

Sad

[honest oriole]

when plates are decomissioned they get cut

[violet mural]

What if you move from one prefecture to the other?

And change plates?

Do they still get cut?

[honest oriole]

that i dont know but you do change plates

[violet mural]

I see

But what's the progress on the mod so far?

[honest oriole]

basically i added 20 or so plates today

[violet mural]

Well done

And, uh, what's an "olympics plate"?

I can see it's a plate, but what's it mean?

[oblique tusk]

holy

plate with lights?

in Beam

damn

[hasty crane]

interesting

[honest oriole]

not confirmed but ill try to make it in the future

[honest oriole]

custom graphic

[trail wasp]

I hope it becomes one of the most downloaded mods for next year.

[hexed urchin]

wgat

[real kestrel]

@honest oriole we need 800

[honest oriole]

oh yeah youre right

wait police plates are 800 too

i got 3 police plates already so yeah

[honest oriole]

doubt itll be because there are other great mods in production

[languid estuary]

I am Japanese. I think it would be more realistic if you could look at real photos and adjust the balance of letters and numbers.

[honest oriole]

what do you mean?

[buoyant cove]

will this have all (at least popular) prefecture plates ?

i can help a bit cuz i live in japan but i'm mainly be around Kansai area or Osaka Kyoto Kobe Nara and around them so i can't really go anywhere outside those areas

[honest oriole]

yes

most of them

because i did popular wards and i took requests from friends too so

we got shinagawa, adachi (both wards in tokyo) sapporo (hokkaido), naniwa (osaka), kyoto, okinawa, tsukuba (ibaraki), yokohama (kanagawa), suzuka (mie), gunma, chiba, fujisan you get the idea

we got most that people might use

if not then i can add it in later updates

[buoyant cove]

i believe なにわ and 大阪 is different even though they both are from Osaka, the Naniwa is mostly in not so popular places in Osaka while Osaka plate is uhh mostly in middle of osaka itself

but do we have 大阪 Ōsaka tho ?

[honest oriole]

no but i can add it!

added the osaka ward

yokohama

osaka

[real kestrel]

https://licenseplatemania.com/landenpaginas/japan.htm

@honest oriole

i ended up finding this site a couple years ago and thought it might be useful

would b cool if we had one of these tho

[honest oriole]

i use platesmania and other sources

[real kestrel]

ah i c

greatest site ever made

[honest oriole]

https://platesmania.com/jp/

[honest oriole]

im not an expert but i will figure it out one day

[languid estuary]

What I'm trying to say is that the characters are unbalanced. If you compare the real photo with your mod, you will notice that the letters are stuck together and there is no space left. I would like you to improve that.

@honest oriole This site allows you to generate images of Japanese license plates. Please try using it.

https://number-plate.nyankobass.net/

This is a Japanese site created by Japanese people.

[honest oriole]

i see i see

okay i will fix this

how is this?

@languid estuary

[languid estuary]

This is real.

[honest oriole]

yeah

[honest oriole]

this is the updated version

[languid estuary]

For example, if it is "大阪 501", you will need some space between "大阪" and "501". But your mod is stuck together with no space. What I'm trying to say is that I want you to be conscious of balance.

[honest oriole]

oooh thats the issue

okay i see

[languid estuary]

A way to understand balance is to put the third number between the last two digits of 02, such as 302, and the 3 of 302 at the hyphen, and enclose it in a square. I think it's easier to understand if you look at them all at once.

[honest oriole]

yeah i see

ill fix this eventually, considering i wont be able to work on the mod from the 1st of january till the 7th

but thanks for telling me this

[languid estuary]

thank you. If there's anything I can do to help your mod, please mention it. thank you. (I am a Japanese resident in Japan.)

[honest oriole]

i will for sure ask for help here and there lol

thanks

[On Hold] [WIP] Bippu's Japanese License Plates

[languid estuary]

Understood lol I will answer as soon as I have time.

[honest oriole]

last pic for now

[honest oriole]

happy new years everyone

[languid estuary]

happy new year!

[buoyant cove]

明けましておめでとうございます

[vague briar]

when does this release (cccf purposes)

[honest oriole]

after i come back from vacation and do some minor fixes

[languid estuary]

A major tsunami warning has now been issued for Ishikawa Prefecture.

[vague briar]

ok

[honest oriole]

i wish them the best

[honest oriole]

<2000cc Shinagawa Plates will be added

[languid estuary]

oh!

[honest oriole]

progress resumes today

[honest oriole]

[WIP] Bippu's Japanese License Plates

[honest oriole]

The plate textures will be fixed today

[queen temple]

Having some form of weathered version of the plates would be nice (if its not too much of a hassle)

[honest oriole]

that involves adding a new texture for every license plate and that does take a while so maybe in the future

[honest oriole]

it actually is alot so i will do that in the future, but some minor fixes will be done

[honest oriole]

does anyone want to see any other kinds of plates?

like other wards and what not?

[languid estuary]

I want to see! Has the problem been fixed?

[honest oriole]

i mean does anyone want to request plates

[honest oriole]

and the problem

[vague briar]

TEST

[languid estuary]

yes

[honest oriole]

go ahead

[languid estuary]

@honest oriole where is it?

[honest oriole]

i mean you can request a plate to be added

[languid estuary]

In that case, I would like the 品川 501 and 品川 301 (general private car version) plates. Do you have any photos of the improvements?

[honest oriole]

yeah those are added already

also its some coding stuff

[languid estuary]

Have the issues I found been fixed? Could you show me a photo if possible?

[honest oriole]

ill fix those later

since its like 50 plates

[languid estuary]

Could you please send me some of them?

[languid estuary]

please!!

@honest oriole

[honest oriole]

the release will be soon dw

[buoyant cove]

yay

[languid estuary]

Hooray!

[honest oriole]

since the repo works now the plates will be released hopefully thursday

[languid estuary]

I'm not sure because there is a time difference between Japan and bippu's area, but is it this Thursday?

[honest oriole]

yes

so tomorrow

[languid estuary]

yay

[steep fiber]

niceeeee

[trail wasp]

Coincidental.
My number plate pack was approved today. Yours will be soon! 😄

[honest oriole]

https://www.beamng.com/resources/bippus-japanese-license-plates.29565/

it out!!!!!

[FREE] Bippu's Japanese License Plates

[queen temple]

Lets goooo

[vague briar]

YESSS NOW TO MAKE A JP SPEC ROAMER

oh wait nvm

[honest oriole]

i will add 3 or maybe more plates today

[honest oriole]

i really wanna learn how to like reduce the amount of plates needed but come ONN why did they make this so difficult like

im html illiterate !!!

(since i really want to know how to generate some characters in various places in the mod)

since i want all of these (in yellow) randomly generated

[buoyant cove]

that 505 serial number should be able to be generated almost the same way as the big normal ones

[honest oriole]

thats what im talking about

i just simply dont know how

i only know how to do the big ones

[languid estuary]

@honest oriole Don't forget to leave a space between the place name and the classification number!

[honest oriole]

im still doing some planning

but for now it has to stay like this

[languid estuary]

I see

[honest oriole]

better normalmap

[honest oriole]

gonna fix the .. positioning

[honest oriole]

doing some fixing

[honest oriole]

new update coming tomorrow