Beta Ford Engines 2024.12.28

Yes. I am planning to make all 3 of those engine families, but haven't gotten to them because of other requested engines. I'll make sure to move those up in priority.

Thank you for the review. I have also noticed that the engines produce a lot of smoke and are really loud (especially the GT90 V12 engine). I'm thinking it's related to what engine exhaust settings I do in Automation. Automation has options for catalytic converters and different levels of airflow for engine headers, intakes, exhaust pipes, etc. I try to choose settings that are accurate to the real-life engines, but I think that when exporting these to BeamNG.Drive, their effects are more extreme. When testing the engines in Automation, they sound a lot better and more realistic, so there must be a difference in how BeamNG.drive does its sounds. Those issues are something I have been looking into.

As for the diesel engines, I currently can't make them since Automation doesn't support them right now. If/When Automation supports it, I plan to add Ford's diesel engines. Would there be a certain engine family you want?

Sure! I'll add it to the list.

It depends on the engine because I only added each Ford engine to the BeamNG.Drive vehicle(s) that most closely match the Ford vehicles in the corresponding engine was used in. If you click on the link under "Content of the Mod", it will bring you to an Excel document that includes a list of the BeamNG.Drive vehicles each engine was added to.

Don't worry. I'll add that engine.

It's not possible to export just the engine from Automation. I have to create an entire vehicle in Automation in order to export it (which is inefficient when I only want the engine). All I use from the Automation export is the code from the camso_engine.jbeam file, so I wish Automation had an option to just export engines.

Sure. I think the 1.0 and 1.6 CHT engines have been requested already. I'll make sure to add the Cologne V6 to the list.

Okay, will do.

Thanks for a detailed review. I'll plan to add the Barra, however, I won't be able to add the Miami Coyote until Automation has an update to support superchargers, but I'll make sure to add it once they do. Sorry for the incorrect information on the Zetec Rocam, I'll make sure to fix that.

Sure! I might as well.

I can add it to my list. I don't think I've heard of that Ford engine before, but I'll see what I can do.

Sure, I can those engines to my planned list. Is there a particular year and/or vehicle you're looking for?

Sorry, but I don't plan to any other brands besides Ford and Shelby.

If I understand you correctly, are you referring to the starter motor? I haven't messed around with anything like that, so I'm assuming my engines are just using the default starter that BeamNG.Drive has. If you know how to change that, I would be interested in fixing that.

I can add it for you. I need to redo the Flathead V8 since Automation had an update/change in their exporting recently, but expect it to be added to the burnside in the next update (hopefully within <1 week).

I don't have plans to make the engine models. I think it would be cool, but unfortunately, I don't have the 3D modeling skills or the time to do so. What I did to make this mod was basically just copied and pasted code from Automation exports into existing BeamNG.Drive files.

If somebody wants to team up with me to do the 3D engines models and corresponding jbeam files, I would be interested in that.

Thank you!