Ibishu CrossSport 1.1.5

The ultimate parent's mobile.

Ibishu CrossSport (2006 - 2013)

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Lore
Ibishu CrossSport is a mid-size crossover SUV that focuses on making the experience of driving a 5-seater family car to feel like a sports car. This model was also made to succeed the Ibishu Prodigy that ended production 5 years ago.

The model was first shown at 2004 Belasco City Motor Show and Tokyo Motor Show as a concept with the same name. The feedback was largely positive, leading to the company announcing that they're working on the production versions and release date of 2006. Soon though on the internet, pictures of the prototype CrossSport being tested in US would be leaked on Ibishu fans forums website, confirming that it's actually being tested.

The car was released in 2006 to a mixed reception from the public. Ibishu would offer fleet versions in North America as well as vans in Japan and Europe. 2009 saw the release of the facelifted version of the car, however sales would plummet down as competitors started making similar crossovers as CrossSport more frequently. The car would stop it's production in 2013.

While still being sold, Ibishu experimented with the car by making a Hydrogen experimental prototype, which used a normal combustion engine converted to use hydrogen gas to spark the pistons instead of gasoline or diesel. This was advertised as a much cleaner solution than gasoline or diesel as everything that comes out from the exhaust is water. It would never be sold after the press drove the car and gave it criticism, mostly related to lack of hydrogen re-filling stations and horrible fuel consumption.

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Author's words
I should say this straight away, this is my one of the first mods i have ever published that has a model completely made from scratch. On the model itself it took me about a week or two (maybe even more) and then another 4 months on making it possible in the game.

If you all know me as a creator of the Autron CVP (aka 200 config mod) then you might be surprised or even shocked to know that i have went from that piece of crap to a piece of... crap? But seriously, it shows how much i have learned so far while modding the game for 2 years already.

It's not like modding Teardown or GTA FiveM or any other game to add new cars or weapons or maps which can take a month if not less to master everything, BeamNG is the hardest one to learn modding for, and i tried to learn absolutely everything through out the years. This mod isn't one of the best ever mods to be released, i admit, there are much much better examples than this (Procyon Centauri, Hirochi CCF, Segra Ultimat, etc.), but if you think it's one of the best mods out there, then i'm just glad you liked it, even if the car of choice wasn't great.

Speaking of the car itself, the mod is mainly based on Mazda CX-7, and the reason i chose it is mainly for personal reasons. My parents used to own it from 2008 - 2009 all the way till 2021 when it was swapped for a 2021 Mazda CX-5. I mainly remember the car for the fact it was the first car ever that i drove at the age of 12 in that small village, it was truly memorable, and so to remember the past, i just decided to make this mod. I don't know what my parents were thinking of, but as far as i know, we didn't had anything bad towards it, and i pretty much grew up with it.

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Features
-50 Configurations (Including 2 prototype configurations).
-5 Ibishu branded rims (for 17x7 and 18x8).
-7 Engines (5 Petrol/Gasoline, 1 Diesel, 1 Hydrogen).
-Cargo Boxes for Career Mode.
-Dynamic Mirrors.
-Dynamic Textures (Decal Editor).
-USDM, EUDM and JDM parts.
-Right Hand Drive interiors.
-Interactable interior with working dome lights.
-Animated gauge light test (modified LUA code from @MaxieTheFoxxie 's Crown Victoria with a permission).
-Working digital clock (taken from @Docroswagge 's Arima Caelo / Gaia mod, also with permission)
-Van parts (Panelled rear side windows and interior).
-Police and Taxi parts.
-Support for Universal Dummy/Stuntman Driver & Passengers mod (Agent_Y).
-Support for European License Plates Compilation mod (JorgePinto).

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Known Issues
-Tailgate can randomly break when closing.
-Some stuff can vibrate when deformed.
-Spiking is present in some areas when it's deformed
-Hydrogen is still very experimental so it might not be as realistic as expected.
-Some jbeams are either badly made or have an outsight bug.
-If any MK2 Pessima mod overwrites the materials, this means that this car will also have issues with textures as it shares most of the materials from the MK2 Pessima to save on file size.
-There are no race shifters despite the presence of race transmissions.
-Front bumper lights will still work even if the bumper is detached from the body.

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Credits
Me - Model and everything else.
BeamBot and some of my friends - Early Access.
BeamNG developers - Hirochi Sunburst (Suspension mesh and basis for the entire mod), MK2 Ibishu Pessima (Shared textures and meshes), Documentation, Modding tools included with the game.
People on BeamNG Forums and BeamNG Discord server - Suggestions, feedback, and overall support for the project.

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Pictures

Videos

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Report bugs
If you find a bug or an oversight in the mod, please go to the mod's official thread on BeamNG forums and report all of the issues you have found there. I am not accepting any bug reports through reviews or private messages.

Official CrossSport thread

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"Help! I got invisible car and i only see the wheels!"

(image from Discord)
If you got this issue, it's mostly caused by one of the mods that either hasn't been updated in a while and it causes the conflict to happen between this mod and the other mod. It can also be cache issues which can cause those issues to happen.

1. Try to disable mods.
Go into mods menu and disable every mod except the CrossSport (cxseven) mod, and restart the game. If you will see the model of the car, then the issue is with the mods.

2. Try to unpack and repack the mod.
Sometimes unpacking and repacking the mod helps the model to show up. Go to mods menu and find the CrossSport (cxseven) mod and click on it. Find the button called "Unpack", and wait for it to unpack everything from the ZIP file. After that, press "Pack" and wait for it to repack everything. If you see the model of the car, then the issue was with the ZIP file. If you still have the invisible car, redownload the mod.

3. Clear cache.
Cache can cause problems like these, and there are ways of how to clean cache.

Through Launcher
To clean cache using the launcher, use this official tutorial on how to do it - BeamNG Documentation - Clear Cache
Through User Folder
Go to your launcher and press "Manage User Folder", a new window should show up and there press "Open in Explorer", and this should open game's user folder. Find the folder called "temp" and delete it. This cleans cache of maps and vehicles that you have used. This is a much faster way of cleaning cache of the game.

If the issue is gone, then the problem was with cache.

If you still have the issue, you can go to the thread of the mod to ask anyone for help with the issue. I can't really help with it since i don't know which mod(s) cause this to happen.

Official CrossSport thread

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Skin UV

This template can also be found inside of the mod under the file name "cxseven_skin_UV_template.png"

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