Glowy brakes!!This mod is a pretty simple and rather "Rudimentary" one. It just adds 3 stages of glow to every vehicle with disc brakes.
I'm not sure why this isn't already a feature in BeamNG but here it is.
As you may notice, the code for this is borrowed from another mod of mine, the Gavril Vertex
How it works:
The brake glow has 3 "stages". Stage 1 currently starts at 400°C and is a slightly red glow. Stage 2 is at 500°C and adds some orange to the glow. Stage 3 starts at 600°C and adds more orange and yellow.
I adjusted the temps a bit downward to make the brake glow more noticable, so it's not that rare occasion that you can sometimes see when looking at it in the right moment. However, not that low that its always there. Heavy braking may lead to a short moment of red glow. Proceeding to do so will obviously heat-soak the brakes etc.
Stage 1-3 look like this on normal brakes. Race brakes glow more.
Race brakes look like this
Here some more images of the glowinessA bit of technical stuff:
If you know a thing or two about modding, this section here moght also be interesting. Basically, the brake temperature gets accessed by a lua program that I have written. It converts the electrics value of the wheels into a value that can be used in a glowmap. The mod works by switching the material of a glowmap between "invis" and the brake glow texture. There are actually 3 extra meshes on the brake now. Each mesh is one stage. That is essentially how this whole thing works!
Currently Supported base-game vehicles: (all vehicles are supported)
All base game vehicles that have Disc Brakes are supported in this mod.
- Autobello Piccolina
- Bruckell LeGran
- Bruckell Moonhawk
- Civetta Bolide
- Cherrier Vivace/Tograc
- ETK I-Series
- ETK K-Series
- ETK 800-Series
- Hirochi SBR4
- Hirochi Sunburst
- Gavril D-Series
- Gavril Roamer
- Gavril H-Series
- Gavril Barstow
- Gavril Bluebuck
- Gavril Grand-Marshal
- Ibishu Pigeon
- Ibishu Miramar
- Ibishu Pessima (old)
- Ibishu Pessima (new)
- Ibishu Hopper
- Ibishu Covet
- Ibishu 200BX
- Solaid Wendover
Anyways, that's all there is to this little mod, have fun!
Feel free to leave a review ^^
If you have any issues, please DM me or write into the Discussion Thread of this mod!
Also feel free to implement the glow into your own mod vehicle(s)
Message me so I can add your mod to the supported mods list in the thread about this mod
Experimental Brake Glow Mod 1.1
Ah that's hot! The brakes can now glow on all default game cars
Recent Updates
- Added support for the Wendover, Added new LeGran brakes Apr 6, 2021 at 10:24 AM
- Fixed missing brake calipers on Ibishu Covet Mar 19, 2021
- Bugfix regarding Vivace rally brakes Feb 19, 2021
