Help wanted: JBeam Toolchain

No idea how to do any of that, sorry. I would help if I could though.

PS: so are you guys.

 

This community wouldn't exist without you amazing Devs and artists working on this game

 

What language is it in

 

The Jbeam editor for VSC in Javascript. The Blender one in python.

 

I've created a fork to work on it and add a few things here and there

 

Im looking at the beautifier you added in your fork atm and im asking myself what the point of it is to remove comments of jbeams? Comments are used to make jbeams readable on a quick glance, why remove it?

Also you likely rather want to use the inbuilt sjson parser, as jbeams are leniant json of the sjson format https://github.com/TheHawk09/vscode-jbeam-editor/blob/master/src/beautifier.js#L18

 

Quick jbeam scaling both overall size as well as just width, length, height would make modding alot nicer as you could quickly fix jbeam sizes. Also have the ability to do scale weight jbeam code on individual jbeam files and parts so when you want to for example only make engine, chassis, gearbox heavier or lighter you can select which jbeam files or parts are affected in weight editing process because most often tires, brakes and other rotating parts like wheels dont need weight changing unless in rare cases.

 

Open source things is really cool, we need more open sourse tools or parts of this game. Of course I will help you.

Is there any todo list about these projects, except wishlist section?

 

Aside from this, it would be extremely helpful if there's a debugger to determine the jbeam (nodes and beams) of the openable part (door, hood, trunk) that the prop angle had to adjust or it is fine.

 

Thanks. Yeah because for example the chassis or body jbeam contains so many "nodeweight" and having one "scalenodeweight" for all would be handy. Ofcourse for the 8 nodes on the engine this would be less useful but still.

 

Yeah, sorry, my brain has been like this for the past week. I genuinely don't understand why I did it, will have to give it another try

 

A New feature to select 4 nodes in the JBeam editor and then push a button to make a beam crossing between these four nodes would be great!


In the same way, It's a dream come true if there's an option to automatically fill in the beams between multiple longitudinally/vertically(or in any direction) selected nodes!

So that would look like something like this!
If you select nodes in JBeam Editor like this:
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(represents only selected nodes)

Then you press a button to automatically connect each of these nodes with beams:
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(each of the beams is connected between 2 of the nearest selected nodes without overlap between other selected nodes, excluding unselected nodes, meaning you can still make rigidifier beams by spacing out the node selection)

Maybe an option to predetermine the beamSpring, beamDamp, Deform, etc.. values of the beams that are going to be placed would be extremely good as well!

When I was making a moose dummy(a bit heavy element count) to test the structural deformation characteristics of cars I'm working on,
I thought these features would come in extremely handy whether you're making a car or just making a deformable object!

 

Hello! I'm interested in contributing to the VS code extension. I've been working as a backend dev for 4 years and want to gain more experience outside of my day job.

 

Was this implented in 0.34?