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Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Leeloo, Mar 29, 2021.

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  1. Car8john

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    My offer for redoing the Wiki/Documentation still stands....
     
    #101 Car8john, May 15, 2023
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  2. Doge_guy

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    please please please write a section for "Vehicle Modeling Guidelines" called something for fixing the NO MATERIAL issue after exporting collada; I did everything in the right order but ingame the model still appears without material (I haven't edited any names or codes or material.json)
     
    #102 Doge_guy, Jun 27, 2023
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  3. Michaelflat

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    We could do with a powertrain page on the documentation. It looks like it's been "TODO" since 2021.
    Powertrain (beamng.com) (documentation)
    Powertrain - BeamNG (wiki)

    The wiki resource is quite good really. I feel like almost a straight copy/paste would suffice.
     
    #103 Michaelflat, Jul 11, 2023
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  4. Agent_Y

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    Not really, the wiki is outdated in some critical areas and it would be misleading.
     
    #104 Agent_Y, Jul 11, 2023
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  5. trekko727

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    yeah I had to read the scripts in the beamng folders itself to grab something out.
    one of the things that has been rewritten over like 4 updates was the graphical settings dump, the rest however are mostly intact.
     
    #105 trekko727, Jul 14, 2023
  6. emlodnaor

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    Would it be possible to get a full list of all available lua functions? don't even need examples and so on at first, just a full list of what's available, trying to get into it and spending most of my time searching the web for answers to find the correct name of a function, today I'm still looking for the code to spawn a new vehicle...
     
    #106 emlodnaor, Jul 28, 2023
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  7. Preston Elam

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    If you're gonna make lua mods for this game, you have to figure it out.
    `lua/ge/spawn` was it that hard to find????
     
    #107 Preston Elam, Jul 30, 2023
  8. Agent_Y

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    There is such a list made by Angelo234 (although it's not official so it might not be 100% accurate): https://angelo234.github.io/List-of-BeamNG-Functions-And-Fields/
     
    #108 Agent_Y, Jul 30, 2023
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  9. emlodnaor

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    As I'm new to this, when not knowing where to look, yeah, it is a bit hard, but thank for the tip! Let me know if there are any good guides/tutorials to get started that you know of :)
     
    #109 emlodnaor, Jul 30, 2023
  10. angelo234

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    #110 angelo234, Jul 31, 2023
  11. daniel-w

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    That's the best way to do it because you also get exampled on how to use it. I was working on a parser to gather all the globals, I don't feel the need to continue it though because this method works just fine. Then again, I could create a website for it, similar to yours.

    How did you get all the globals? _G doesn't contain everything, including getPlayerVehicle.
     
    #111 daniel-w, Aug 1, 2023
  12. angelo234

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    Yeah I stopped updating the website since it wasn't that useful/efficient for me. And getPlayerVehicle is called with:
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    be:getPlayerVehicle(id)
    And I just got whatever globals were available at the time I recorded down the functions (just loaded into some random freeroam map).
     
    #112 angelo234, Aug 1, 2023
  13. Preston Elam

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    I'm sorry for being mean, It was a long night, no there aren't really any tutorials for lua, you just have to dig or ask the community. Join the BeamNG discord, if that doesn't work there are lots of skilled lua modders in the BeamMP discord aswell.
     
    #113 Preston Elam, Aug 2, 2023
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  14. Leeloo

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    #114 Leeloo, Aug 4, 2023
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  15. SSRG

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    #115 SSRG, Aug 4, 2023
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  16. SSRG

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    I found a minor mistake.
    On this page:
    https://documentation.beamng.com/official_content/vehicles/023-pbr-materials-status/
    Hirochi SBR4 is duplicated.
    I was just looking for the page for the gauge needles and how they work and I noticed it.
    Also, that specific one looks to be slightly outdated (as example the Lansdale is missing), which I don’t mind, I get that there’s a lot already with making a single update :)
     
    #116 SSRG, Sep 1, 2023
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  17. Agent_Y

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    We just got rid of that page, as it was agreed to be way too outdated to maintain and not very useful.
    For the purposese of looking for material references, we now have a page with examples: https://documentation.beamng.com/modding/materials/vehicle/typicalmaterials/
    For gauge needles, use "Emissive Materials" as reference. Make them emissive for the headlights on state and just use the standard properties for the headlights off state.
     
    #117 Agent_Y, Sep 1, 2023
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  18. SSRG

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    #118 SSRG, Sep 16, 2023
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    #119 GearHead1, Oct 4, 2023
  20. DriftinCovet1987

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    The Lansdale is also missing from the vehicle list.
     
    #120 DriftinCovet1987, Oct 4, 2023
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