Explanation Thread for and from everyone

Thread for explaining random stuff in BeamNG for those who don't have the game that long, and/or just want to know some interesting things. Everyone can post here useful things.

I start with

Opening doors, hoods, etc.
If you want this:

It's very simple, just follow these steps
1.- get the Beam Regenerator https://www.beamng.com/resources/beam-regenerator.2627/ and place it in your mods folder
2.- place the App anywhere you want
3.- use nodegrab (press ctrl key and hover with mouse over vehicle, click on a dot from an openable part and hold it) with about 50% force (can be increased with mousewheel) to open the part you want (it breaks the lock and deforms the part)
4.- start "Repair Vehicle" (repairs dented parts and broken windshields, but not broken locks)
5.- use nodegrab with about 10% to open the part and click mousewheel to keep it open

2.
How to let the Piano play some music
Just open the key cover with nodegrab (explained above) and lock it in air with mousewheel

Here a tutorial how it can play your own music (thx to Corvette81, who ever the f*ck that is)
https://www.beamng.com/threads/piano-changing-song-tutorial-with-new-song-to-download.44347/


Hope that was useful.

 

I dunno who he is but he must be an awesome guy.

 

Thx for the first thing (opening door,trunk etc)
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Me i dunno
Wait its u

 

How to make Thumbnails for configs, which look like official ones

The showroom is hidden, so we have to do a few steps to make it white (should be grey by default)

1. spawn on a random map, choose a car with not too much configs in it (i take the satsuma, mine has just 8 selfmade configs), and get the thumbnail generator app


2. don't change anything in the settings (apart from change 1000px to 500px, but that does not work yet as of 0.10.0.1 so leave it as it is) and click on generate thumbnails

3. wait till your default car is replaced with the car you want, lean back and wait till the generator is finished (can take a few minutes)

4. after it is finished it looks like this, but probably with a grey background, we change that now (additional grey thumbnails are now in your beamng vehicles folder, you can delete them)


5. now the background color change! Press F11, click on Mission Group in top right corner window, and then on TSStatic



6. click on material editor on top left corner


7. click at basic texture maps on the color square, a window opens and you can change the color in the window to a light grey (not white), and then click on select


8.then click on this little floppy disk symbol under the grey window with white cube in it to save (or alt-s), press F11 again to leave the editor


9. now you are back at your bright showroom, and you can start making proper bright thumbnails and you don't need to make the first steps everytime if you saved the new color
again: select car, then start generate thumbnails

Let me know if something was not understandable, i'm not good at writing stuff

 

where is generate thubmails ???? Well im working or make every thubmails in white

 

On the App on left side of first picture.

 

Oh ok thx

 

There is an easier way: go into the part selector, and change the keyboard lid to "Empty".

 

Yeah with the new update. Now i think it wasn't possible before when you removed it to play it's music.

 

This is like an unofficial wiki, but idk if it's good to be a thread as threads are for conversations