WIP Apple X BMW iCar (Apple Car 2)

Driver1084 · Oct 6, 2023

SmokeyDokey said: ↑

It's still an automation car, but with extra features. It would take what was done to the Vertex (basically redoing the whole thing from scratch and everything in the post above) to make it a normal car.
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i guess so, but the bumpers and other removable would be a step in the right direction

charge_1 · Oct 6, 2023

Car8john said: ↑

Ok yeah no, "changing the type from automation to car in the main info.json" doesn't make it a real car, it just doesn't display as an Automation vehicle despite being an Automation vehicle. Additionally, it already makes an info.json so Im not sure why you said you would add an info.json for it. The Automation exporter will also automatically make configs for the car when you export it if you export all of them with the same vehicle and variant name (and make sure they export as unzipped), they will automatically be grouped together in the file with all of the configs set up. Custom thumbnails also don't change it from being an automation car, its just swapping one jpeg for another. Changing the paint materials in both BeamNG and Automation is still rather vague but even assuming the most that can be done with it, it still wouldn't be a real mod and remain as an Automation mod.

Here is a list of things you can do to make it a Non-Automation mod, however:
-Full vehicle retexturing + UV mapping
-Body model rework to lower polycount of model and improve polyflow
-Tweak JBeam structure for better performance and deformation
-Engine and Interior models redone completely to improve polycount and minimize unnecessary detail
-Add functional doors/hood/trunk/etc (Doesn't need to be openable, just to at least have hinges)
-Redo lighting to perform better in game
-Redo suspension/transmission/engine performance to better reflect the vehicle and remove the garbage the Automation exporter usually chucks out
-Functional vehicle parts selector, for things like individual body panels, doors, interior pieces, suspension and wheel assembly pieces, etc. as Automation exports usually lack in this field

Once you do these it will undisputedly be a Non-Automation mod in all regards. Until then, however, it is Automation, no matter what you change the info.json to say
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I have a process I like to do and if you don’t like it you don’t like it but it’s my mod and I can do what I want with it

SmokeyDokey said: ↑

It's still an automation car, but with extra features. It would take what was done to the Vertex (basically redoing the whole thing from scratch and everything in the post above) to make it a normal car.
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That’s exactly what I’m going for

Car8john · Oct 6, 2023

charge_1 said: ↑

I have a process I like to do and if you don’t like it you don’t like it but it’s my mod and I can do what I want with it
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Im not saying your process is bad, I'm just saying it doesn't make it "Non-Automation" and continuing down the path of calling it that is just going to make more trouble for yourself.

charge_1 said: ↑

That’s exactly what I’m going for
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So wait, what are you going for? The person you replied to here literally referenced the list of things I wrote that would need to be done, the things you never mentioned and weren't going to do, but you reply with "That's exactly what I'm going for" despite it being exactly what you aren't going for?

charge_1 · Oct 6, 2023

Car8john said: ↑

Im not saying your process is bad, I'm just saying it doesn't make it "Non-Automation" and continuing down the path of calling it that is just going to make more trouble for yourself.

So wait, what are you going for? The person you replied to here literally referenced the list of things I wrote that would need to be done, the things you never mentioned and weren't going to do, but you reply with "That's exactly what I'm going for" despite it being exactly what you aren't going for?
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well fine, its automation then

i meant the part with it having extra features

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