New to BeamNG

hello all,
can someone please give me a list of the tools of choice the modders use to make their cars, i'd like to have a try at modding a car for this game............ive been involved in modding for 2005 so im not new to it.

cheers

 

I believe most modders start their mods with the “Blender” program

 

What you need is:

• Blender/Maya/3DSMax
• GIMP/Krita/Photoshop/Paint.net
• Notepad++ & BNGeditor
• Coding knowledge in jbeam

That is pretty much required (maybe except the jbeam knowledge if you can find someone else to do it for you) to make a vehicle for BeamNG. If you want to just create UI apps, then you need to know LUA (I think)

 

what if you want to convert rFactor stuff to Beam, are there tools to convert or even a modding tutorial

 

Nah man don't think so, ripping the model and kinda doing the rest yourself may work tho.

 

and what about game folder structure, ive looked at a few mods and they are almost all different in that respect, is there a default structure i need as a minimum

 

Welcome to the forums, Angus94 (nice name and avatar btw)
You're going to have to make yourself confident with how the slots works in the file structure and that is NOT an easy task !
Take it one step at the time, look at vanilla cars and also find a simple prop like a crate or a bollard to see how the simplest things
are spawned in the game. And most important : try to study the wiki, even if it says 'this is deprecated and will be updated' it's still
the best we have for now !

 

Don't use mods to learn from, you're better of deconstructing official vehicles