Is it Possible To Change Vehicle Colors yet?

I was looking through the menus but im not sure if you can change vehicle color. Can you?

 

Lol, sorry for asking but what does the A in RGBA stand for? Is it something to do with the saturation of the color or something like that? Just wondering.

 

Alpha (transparency)

 

Thanks man.

 

All-white Police version of the Grand Marshal, here i come!

 

I hope we'll get proper lightbars with correct flash patterns, because otherwise this game would get it's first bad score

 

I played a lot with the colors and if you put 55 well its going to be bright so play around with 0 and one example 0.5

 

Is there a way to reduce the reflectiveness? I played around with soem values, but nothing seemed to have an effect on the streaks the skybox was painting on the side of the car.

 

Is there a way to make a colour darker? (E.G. dark red) I've been fiddling with it for a while, haven't found anything that makes it darker

 

Use Microsoft Paint or any other program that spits out RGB values, and divide the value by 255.

A dark-red value I quickly picked out gave me RGB values of 119,0,3 - now divide each of these by 255 and here's your dark red in the proper format:

0.4666666666666667,0,0.0117647058823529,1

 

I found developer way for this - material editor works fine for editing car paint (Tint) (Editor generally great!)
I tried to describe the process as easy as possible - for everyone to understand


=== So to change the painting of car do the following:
- Backup (Copy\Save) folder of your car (just in case - if all fails you can return original files)
(its mean - just copy folder of car like "Pickup" in "Vehicles" folder..)
- load BeamNG_Drive and some level (for example "Grid") - image
- (important step) move the car forward and stop (On random distance)
- press F11 - this will open the editor - image
- if you hold left mouse button and move it - you will see that it gives the selection (like on your desktop)
Select center of your car - if you do it right - you will see that "1 object is selected" and some information will appear in window
- Now press F4 of click "Material editor" Button - on the right you will see the material editor -
if the car is selected - material editor displays Material settings of this car
- Now select the desired part of the car - for example pickup "body"
- then change "layer" of material - on "Layer 2"
- and finaly - click on color square in "base texture map" section - and choose any color (Tint) you like
kaBOOM Pink Buttstalion style is done - in real-time with visible color selector instead of numbers
* if you want save it - then click save button
(WARNING - if you remove the reflection then return it will be difficult)
* you also can remove or change texture for reflection


=== Tips
- Then you can change camera mode on "player camera" and press F11 for return to game - or restart BeamNG Drive
- material will be saved forever - even after restart BeamNG Drive
- Each car (model) has its own unique material
- Dont change name of material - it loading with car by name
- if you not move car from start point - it can be difficult for select - (you can move car in editor too)
- if you accidentally broke stuff - you can recover files of original car (Remember the first step from the top? "Backup \ copy \ save")
- also i think you can just spawn any car and change any material \
also creat new copy of materials or cars (make your new own set(skin\model) of car)
- and you can change "camera mode" for convenience - but do not forget change the mode back on "player camera" then all done
change camera mode - click on human icon - then click on "free camera" mode - camera will move somewhere like this
do not be afraid - press and hold down right button of the mouse on the screen - and together try to press A \ W \ S \ D buttons
now try hold down right button and move mouse - so you can move the camera free
you also can use mouse wheel fror "zoom" and middle mouse button for "pan"


ps. hope it will be helpful
and I hope in the future appears simple skin-manager for novice users \ players
or just hot-key directly on material-editor with selected player car (it will be awesome in-game without loading editor)

 

Thanks man, that helped me a lot.

 

ScorpyX!
(I forgot to reply with a quote)

This works for me with every other car than the Marshall. For some reason when i respawn it, it just changes back to it's default grey colour. And yes, i did save the material.

 

yes its strange - i dont know why it load from material.cs file but don want save changes on "fullsize" material
"police_decal" for example saved color change

any way - you still can choose some color tint setting in layer 2 of "fullzise"
just copy (RGB) number from color-picker
then open "BeamNG DRIVE 0.3\vehicles\fullsize\materials.cs" materials file on this car
and paste numbers in "fullsize material section - in diffuseColor[2] line" like this
save this file - after this you already can just reset car in game - it will read script file of materials (with your settings)
car will spawn with fresh seved settings - of course it will be.. FOREVEEEER khm khm..

 

Nadeox1: its ok : ]
also reflection cube-map (Textures) make car a little brighter and add some blue tint (if default sky reflection)
for dark tone - possible change reflection preset on something like "gray sky" or "night sky"
it add some nice reflection \ specular \ gloss feel
but if you ever need to return the original preset - it must be replaced manually in script file (marerials.cs)

 

I REGRET NOTHING

 

i think if this is going to be added in as an update there shouldnt be predetermined but you should include a palette somewhat like this: the box area not the other parts

 

I can't even find that. Where is it at?