Waiting in traffic jams or lights have never been this entertaining!
This mod takes the BeamNavigator GPS, but instead of making it more practical or something, I turned it into a premium digital picture frame, with the amazing transitions and low framerates that you expect! *bad viewing angles not included
It is compatible in (almost) any official car that can be equipped with the BeamNavigator, and might be compatible with other mods.
A list of the features included:
- Loading PNG and JPG pictures from a folder in your BeamNG.drive directory (GIF files might work).
- Playing WebM video files (other formats didn't work)
- Vivace center screen photo frame
- Support for loading extra pictures from mods
- 4 different types of transition effects, which are randomly chosen and sometimes combined: sliding, scaling, 360 rotation, and a spring effect
- Configurable frame rate of the screen
- Adjustable delay, to change how fast it changes pictures, in the Tuning tab
- Shuffling/random order, can be turned on in the Tuning tab
- 5 built-in cat and dog pictures (optional)
- Instructions shown on the GPS in case no pictures have been detected
To add pictures or videos, go to your BeamNG.drive directory. There should be folders for the cache, mods, screenshots, and many others. Create a new folder named "gps_pictures". Finally, copy your PNG, JPG and WebM files in that new folder, to load them into the photo frame. Make sure to do a full vehicle reload with CTRL+R!
To make a mod that adds pictures, create the following hierarchy in your zip file: vehicles/common/gps_pictures_pack, and put the files in it the same way as above. You might be able to have one folder gps_pictures instead of the whole path.
The Beam Navigator's resolution is 256 x 128 pixels, and the Vivace screen's is 512 x 256 pixels. However, any image or video resolution is supported.
Here's how the GPS photo frame looks:
The photo below displays pictures from @Hawkins's Doudoune superpack resource:
Known bug: The GPS Photo Frame doesn't work in the SBR, and I'm not sure how to fix it.
Thanks to the following people for their help:
Special thanks to @Hawkins who convinced me to publish this mod despite the fact that it is quite ridiculous.
- BeamNG for the BeamNavigator model and Vivace interior JBeam
- oldman22 for the white dog picture dog1.jpg inside the mod (shown above)
- @Hawkins for the Doudoune superpack and the built-in Doudoune cat picture cat1.jpg
- All of the pet owners who have donated the 3 other pictures, but didn't wish to be mentionned here
Please do not reupload this mod.
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GPS Photo Frame 2.1
It's a BeamNavigator, but it shows pictures (and videos!) instead of a map
Recent Updates
- Bug fixes for version 2.0 Aug 6, 2021
- Videos and Vivace GPS support Jul 30, 2021
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I have updated the instructions to make it more clear to which BeamNG.drive folder I'm referring to. After creating the folder, you should have something like "Documents\BeamNG.drive\gps_pictures". As for the crash, I don't really know why, but try to downscale the pictures to a lower resolution. Thanks for the review!
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