Announcing Automation & BeamNG.drive collaboration!

Nothing heavier than an F350 or so.

Nothing smaller than a Kei car.

More old stuff yep (and more new stuff too)

Flat 12s maybe eventually, but no plans. Flat 8 and 10 probably no.

 

Thank you Daffyflyer (and the other Automation devs) for being so active in this forum thread! It really shows how strong the collaboration is between the Automation and BeamNG.drive dev teams, and hopefully is a sign of good things to come in the future!

 

Are there gonna be more body styles like these vehicles (in terms of sport cars)?

 

At this rate, BeamNG may very well join the ranks of Gran Turismo as one of the greatest games ever of the genre once it is finished.

 

Can't forget all those Papyrus Racing games.

 

Well, we've already got a very similar one to the Aston.

Yeah, we'll have more modern supercars, but right now we need to focus on filling gaps in the body range (like we have 0 modern vans right now for example)

 

When you export to BeamNG, will the model of the engine also be there?

 

Car Visuals - The meshes for chassis, body, engine, gearbox, suspension, all fixtures, wheels and brakes are exported. Some fixtures can break off your car, and your car materials and paint find their way into BeamNG as well.

 

Look, I don’t want to be that guy, but a lot... and I mean a LOT of questions being asked here can be simply answered by just taking a look at how Automation plays. There is no real need to inundate this thread with multiple iterations of questions about interiors and body panels and stuff like that. All simple questions... literally all of them... can be answered by just watching the two short videos released. Also, keep in mind, like they both stated, this is just a first release. They are just getting started with fleshing out this idea.

 

im just going to mention the fact this could be useful for base jbeams, as in you create a car as close as you can and just use the generated jbeam on your model/s̶o̶m̶e̶ ̶s̶t̶o̶l̶e̶n̶ ̶m̶o̶d̶e̶l̶
and i assume it'd still be modifiable by using NBE or Notepad++ or whatever the cool guys use

 

Yay more weird car mods coming

 

devs should get really strict with approving automation mods, instead of letting everything slide through like they pretty much currently do

(no hate staffff)

 

All the cool kids use notepad ++.

OT:
I agree, if the repo floods with hundreds of new gavrils and Ibishus then immersion would be somewhat broken for me. I like that these mods are getting their own section, but I do think staff should carefully look over each one before approving them (I know that could be time consuming and therefore cause problems)

 

Absolutely awesome to see these companies coming together to create something I am sure many players have dreamed of for years.
I have owned both games for quite a long time and was ecstatic when I saw the news.

Thank you to all involved in bringing this collaboration to a very lucky community.

 

What is quality?

If I want to take 50's huge sedan with big wings, have it carbon fibre body with tubular frame and screaming V12, who is to say if that is quality choice or not?

Mike might think quality as how well created vehicle replicates some real car, while Ben might think quality as how creative the design is.


Automation has different filtering options for vehicle, body type, year, etc. those might be useful to be in repo.

 

Will aerodynamics work with these cars (like spoilers, front splitters and body drag)

 

Dude, let's not spoil the surprise, please.

 

I have a question: Can cars made using mods in Automation be exported to BeamNG.drive? I couldn't find anyone else asking this question, and it wasn't in the FAQ.

 

How will the parts menu work on these vehicles? like, will there be one at all and how will modifications work, as well as the tuning menu? will we be able to add and replace parts on the suspension, engine, body, wheels ect? (i assume colors menu works by default)

Also, even if there is no interior in the cars can we make the windows window-y (clear glass) instead of matte dark gray, i think it would look much better for both gameplay and screenshots

OH, almost forgot, i saw in the video that the yellow Ford-Explorer-Esque suv had modeled suspension; will all cars have that? same goes for underside and engine bay

(i already understand that they wont have interiors)

-Skin support?