Thumbnail for car parts

Discussion in 'Ideas and Suggestions' started by xnx1985, Jun 18, 2023.

  1. xnx1985

    xnx1985
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    It would be very helpful if you can add thumbnails for some car parts.
    especially for wheels so we can see the styles before the selection
    Thanks :)
    example:
    BeamNGdrivex642023-06-1810-03-25.jpg
     
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  2. Agent_Y

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    I say do it for wheels only and nothing else. Because otherwise it would increase the file size by a lot with all the thumbnails, and make the parts selector ultra laggy.
     
  3. xnx1985

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    if you make it approx 96X96 or 128X128 pixels it's about 20KB per picture
    1000 pictures are about 20MB, it's not that big change.

    also, they can approach this in different ways:
    1. make thumbnails that pop when you hover on the part. (only one picture at a time)
    2. make thumbnails that are part of the GUI itself that are always shown in the part on its side.
    they can add it to the jbeam with a directory to the specific path folder that searches pictures with the same file names.
    they can add it in Lua which will show the picture if it has the same file name in the same directory.

    I believe they have more ideas to make it lite and fast.
    wish I knew code better to try make it myself
     
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