Learning how to jbeam but have a little problem

Hey, so im not a modeler and blender is a nightmare for me to use but im messing around and trying to make something for Beamng

im following this tutorial: Introduction_to_Vehicle_Creation

i downloaded a model and trying to put a jbeam around it, but the problem im having is after i got the model in-game with a basic texture and jbeam the model doesn't line up with the jbeam even though in blender it does



Thanks, any help would be awesome.

~Scott

 

The object's position must be set to origin (0,0,0) or else this happens.

So, essentially you should select the object(s) in blender, and in the toolbar under position, set the x, y, and z position to 0. Perhaps copy down the object's current position, so that you can enter edit mode and transform the object's mesh to the place it currently is.

If this sounds a little technical I'm sorry, I'm not exactly a teacher. If you can't figure it out I may be able to fix it for you.

 

Thanks for the reply and what you said to do fixed one problem but im having another one now

So what i did was go into blender and i selected the body of my model and i moved the mesh back(Note: i didnt move to position of the object just its mesh) i then re-exported everything .dae and the jbeam and after a bit of tweaking i got it so the model lines up with my jbeam.


Now i was pretty happy with it so far and wanted to see what happened when i crashed something into it... but it broke



i also noticed that what i thought was the center of the model didnt seem to follow the center of the jbeam after i crashed into it. so idk

Any ideas?

Thanks ~Scott