colorMap vs diffuseMap (materials.cs)

Do you mean your materials file has duplicate materials with different properties? If that's the case then the material listed lowest in the hiearchy will be used. Does the name of your mateiral match the name in the materials file?

For example if the name of the material in your 3D program is "Ruby_Red" then the material file should look like this:

Code:

singleton Material(Ruby_Red)
{
   mapTo = "Ruby_Red";
    diffuseColor[0] = "1 0 0 1";
    useAnisotropic[0] = "1";;
    castShadows = "1";
    translucent = "1";
    translucentBlendOp = "None";
    alphaTest = "0";
    alphaRef = "0";
    dynamicCubemap = true; //cubemap = "BNG_Sky_02_cubemap";
    instanceDiffuse[0] = true;
    materialTag0 = "beamng"; materialTag1 = "vehicle";
};

Note that the name "Ruby_Red" is listed as the singleton Material and as mapTo. (the first 2 lines of code)

The difference between a diffuseMap (a.k.a colorMap) and diffuseColor is that a colorMap is going to look for a UV map with colors added to it, a diffuseColor is going to use the color specified in the materials.cs file.

a practical example of a diffuseMap (a.k.a colorMap) is putting a 10x10 picture of a cat onto a a 10x10 plane of wood, that picture is mapped to the wood.

a diffuseColor is changing the color of the actual wood itself to whatever color you want

 

Oh ok good you found it, yeah BeamNG caches alot of stuff

 

I'll ask the devs If I can but I dont know enough yet to build a wiki page, for example I still dont know how to make breakable glass or what the levels of materials mean