WIP Beta released Part Randomizer...?

I would do it if I knew how to but sadly I have no idea about apps

 

I think the best way is to look at other people's UI app mods and the game's own UI apps (that's basically how I learned). This wiki article basically highlights the basic structure of the app: https://wiki.beamng.com/My_First_App

I found some files that deal with vehicle customizing here:

• "BeamNG.drive\ui\modules\vehicleconfig\vehicleconfig.js"
  
• "BeamNG.drive\lua\ge\extensions\core\vehicle\partmgmt.lua"

And I found some functions/variables in them that probably will be helpful to get and set config parts:

Code:

--Gets the current vehicle's config
local config = extensions.core_vehicle_partmgmt.getConfig()

--Contains parts of vehicles
config.parts

--Sets the current vehicle with the new config
extensions.core_vehicle_partmgmt.setPartsConfig(config.parts, true)

Here's an example of getting the parts list of the ETK800, removing the FL door, and applying the new config (you can use GameEngine Lua console to execute these functions):

Code:

--Get current config of ETK 800
config = extensions.core_vehicle_partmgmt.getConfig()

--Sets FL door to empty
config.parts.etk800_door_FL = ""

--Set new config
extensions.core_vehicle_partmgmt.setPartsConfig(config.parts, true)

Good luck!

 

Its not supposed to generate any new config files anyways. Did you run those 3 commands in the GE-Lua (GameEngine Lua) console since it doesn't work in Vehicle Lua console?

Code:

--Gets vehicle's name
be:getPlayerVehicle(0):getJBeamFilename()

--Cycle through each slot
for slot_name, curr_part in pairs(config.parts) do
  print(slot_name)
end

--Get all available parts
local all_parts = require('jbeam/io').getAvailableParts(extensions.core_vehicle_manager.getPlayerVehicleData().ioCtx)

--Get random part
local keyset = {} 
for k in pairs(all_parts) do  
  table.insert(keyset, k)
end
local random_part = all_parts[keyset[math.random(#keyset)]]

 

You can call GameEngine Lua commands with JS using the following (they need to be inserted as a string):

Code:

--This runs game engine lua command
bngApi.engineLua('the game engine lua command')

--This runs game engine lua command and retrieves it returned value
bngApi.engineLua('the game engine lua command', function(data) {
  var val_returned = data
});

 

Well you could create a separate Lua file and do most of the Lua logic there by putting all these Lua commands into larger functions and call those functions from JS so you wouldn't have to make so many bngApi.engineLua JS calls.

So create a folder directory in the mod folder like so: "your_mod_name/scripts/your_mod_name" and create two Lua files in there:

• modScript.lua

Code:

registerCoreModule('scripts/your_mod_name/extension')

• extension.lua

Code:

local M = {}

local function someFunction()
end

M.someFunction = someFunction

return M

And then you would call these Lua functions in JS like so:

Code:

bngApi.engineLua('scripts_your__mod__name_extension.someFunction()')

 

Yeah basically or however you want to structure the code to have more public interfaces (more someFunction functions) to call if you need to or to have more local functions to organize the code.

 

You had some missing ending brackets so it couldn't compile. And I'm not so sure what your whole folder directory looks like so just in case you did something wrong I added a zip file of what it should look like.

 

In the html file, the md-button ng-click part is written wrong so change it to:

Code:

<md-button ng-click="scrambleconfig()" class="md-raised md-primary" flexmd-no-ink>Scramble Config</md-button>

 

I downloaded the zip and it still has the old html code. It worked for me when I used

Code:

<md-button ng-click="scrambleconfig()" class="md-raised md-primary" flexmd-no-ink>Scramble Config</md-button>

instead of

Code:

<md-button ng-click="scramble('scrambleconfig');" class="md-raised md-primary" flexmd-no-ink>Scramble Config</md-button>