Body offset

Hello, so I am swapping body from bastion to a roamer, it works fine ( I believe ) but I need to move my body up so it will not pause my game immediately, my question is, on what line should I find the node offset?

 

I don’t really know if there’s a way to include a node offset in a part. Maybe you could make a copy of the Roamer’s frame with a different name like „Bastion Compatible Frame” and then apply a node offset to the body like this:
"slots": {
["roamer_body", "bastion_body", "Body", {"pos": x, y, z}], <- this is a showcase of how to apply offset to a slot
[other stuff],
},
Of course replacing the x, y and z with the actual offset coordinates.
Again, I dunno if there’s a way to offset the body inside of the body jbeam, but if you need any help with the method I explained, let me know.

 

Hello

Hello, when I get back to home I will check what you send, but maybe you will check out video that I am getting idea from
Its called ,, I want to win gambler 500 competition" by fillman86 maybe this would help too, but I really apreciate that

 

Alright! I’ll watch that and see what he did. Thanks!

 

PS
I am already at 8 minute of the video

 

Okay!
So what he does, is he makes a part in the roamer_body slot type, and that part has nothing except a bluebuck_body slot with a node offset applied.
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Hope this helps! If you have any questions, let me know.
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He does this at about 9:30

 

Okay, so the thing that I have to do to move it is paste code that you send me, in the place where is shown in the video ( of course without examples etc. )

 

As in, the code is a previous method. This one is good if you don’t want to have different identical frames for the roamer. I can tell you exactly what to write, but I have to go somewhere, I’ll be back in a few minutes.

 

Think this will be best way to make that becouse I am still learning coding, I can wait as long as you need to go back

 

Alrighty!
So, paste this after the first curly bracket ( { ) in the bastion_body.jbeam file:

„offset_part”: {
„information”: {
„authors”: ”SSRG”,
„name”: ”Bastion Body On Frame Setup”,
„value”: 69,
},
„slotType”: ”roamer_body”,
„slots”: [
[„type”, „default”, „description”],
[„bastion_setup”, „bastion_body”, „Bastion Body”, {„pos”: {„x”: 0, „y”: 0, „z”: 0}}],
],
},

You can change the author to your name, I just put my own there because I can. You need to change the slotType for the Bastion body to bastion_setup so that it works with this. And also, change the x, y and z values as these decide the offset.
Then in the parts selector, in Body, you should have „Bastion body on frame setup”, choose that and then inside of that is where the body part will be (it should be already selected by default)
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Also, I can’t use the Tab key on the forums (pasting it from somewhere else doesn’t work either), but you can use it for better readability.
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If you need any more help regarding the mod, you can let me know in a private conversation or here.
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Here’s what it looks like in Fillman’s video:

 

Okay, I am jumping on pc and check it out

 

In case it doesn’t work, try changing „pos” to „nodeOffset” or „nodeMove”.
Also, my quotations are „” instead of "", but that’s because it’s very tedious to include these ones since my device automatically makes all quotations „”.
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Using this kind of method, you can do a lot of stuff. As example, add a common parts library to a car, like (what I did in one of my mods) putting the modern ETK engines into the I-Series, the only ETK that doesn’t use that same engine library and instead has its own set of engines.

 

Okay so I paste it in two places ((screenshots) its propably wrong) but it causing that the body option doesnt come up, I mean, there is no mine body. With what should I play? quatations?
mark on the screenshot place where do I have to paste it, it would be better.
PS
I will type here so maybe some fellow will get some help from this.

 

You need to copy this (this time correct):


"offset_part": {
"information": {
"authors": "SSRG",
"name": "Bastion Body On Frame Setup",
"value": 69,
},
"slotType": "roamer_body",
"slots": [
["type", "default", "description"],
["bastion_setup", "bastion_body", "Bastion Body", {"pos”: {"x": 0, "y": 0, "z": 0}}],
],
},

Then put 2 enters after the first curly bracket and paste it into the empty space,

{
——————————————————-<- Right here.
„bastion_body”:

Once again, if anything doesn’t work, let me know. Also, remember to change the slotType of the bastion body to bastion_setup which is the slot I referenced in what I sent you.
Edit: completely rewrote the message so it’s easier to understand and fix the issue.

 

okay, sorry for the late respond but I was busy for a moment, below is the screenshot of how I did that, and what I can see in the game, unfortunetly, I cant see any difference, but its good to see that its still in the game, becouse before, after placing the code, my part disapear

 

Also, Remembe

There’s one thing still missing,

Once you make this change, it should all work.

 

So I changed it but now my part disapear, this is what happend after changing it to bastion_setup, and another screenshot is with roamer_body

 

Hmm…

 

I dont know why, but everytime I try to mod something, everything is going well, but until hahahah

 

Did you change things while the game was open?
If so, to refresh the vehicle and all the changes, press Ctrl+R.
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Don’t worry, I had to post 2 updates before my first mod was verified lol
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Also, there’s a debug log accesible by pressing ~ on your keyboard, so maybe an error there can help identify the problem.