Hello everyone, I would like help on how to start well in car creation for BeamNG. I've seen hundreds of tutorials and stuff, but that didn't help me for a good reason: I don't know where to start. Also I'm a bit confused about modeling the vehicle in Blender for example: How to model the different pieces and make them match (fe: modeling the hood and make it fit well with the car and components) and how many pieces do I need to model (Do I need to model all the pieces, like the official cars?). I'm a bit lost about that. Also for the Jbeaming, it seems pretty complex and I need advice. Do you know where to start well? Can you advice me where to begin and what to do first for less complexity. Thank you.
Copied this from another post Making a car is no easy task (even if it's just the model). It will definitely take a few months to learn the basics of Blender & know how to properly use it to create what you want. For a good start, you should watch a few videos on how to use the basics of Blender in terms of hardsurface modeling & then try to push yourself & make a knife, a racket, glass etc. just to learn how to manipulate the meshes & stuff. After that, you can try to create a boxy-ish car (but not too boxy) which should improve your skills quicker than just learning from tutorials. As for jbeam, well... it's as hard or even harder than modeling, so depending on how motivated & determined you are, you could also learn it
Yeah I know that, but I asked if I would need to model absolutely all the pieces (like the chassis, the brakes, the suspension, the engine, etc) is it imperative?
I have the same problem as you and i found some solutions(i believe).I took the suspension,steering, pedals systems from the civetta bolide, and the motor + de transmission from the autobello. After that, i made suspension linkage, then i joined them together.I used "cubed" shaped "rails" to make the modelisation easier and i used a lot "inset faces" and "merge vertices" to make the perpendicula rail.Excuse me if it's confused.
Well, if you need your car to be realistic, then yes, you have to, unless some of the components are similiar to the ones from ingame, then you can just replace them with the ingame ones to make your life easier
