Hello there! Seeing as there's no real tutorial to be found on how to do this, I shall share someone's knowledge further with more people by posting a tutorial myself. All this information came from an amazing person on fillman86's server by the name of jeantaylormolly - massive thank you to them for helping me figure this out. The idea is simple - get BeamNG plates on a car from Automation because the ones from Automation kinda.. suck. How do you do that? Let me show you. Step 1 - build a car in Automation. I think this one's self-explanatory. Step 2 - place plate fixtures of your choice LAST on the car. This step also determines what plates you'll be getting on your car when you export it to BeamNG. Choose a US size plate for US size plates in BeamNG and likewise for EU plates. Make sure to choose a vanilla fixture, not a modded one. Repeat for front/rear plate. Step 3 - take the plate texture and make it into a running light. This is also important for export as we will use this to make it into a plate. Repeat this for front/rear plate. Step 4 - export the vehicle to BeamNG. Make sure to uncheck "Zip-Pack Mod" as this will make it easier to work with it. Step 5 - open your BeamNG mods folder and navigate to your "unpacked" folder and locate the car you just exported. Step 6 - find the main jbeam of your car and open it with your preferred text editing software (in my case just normal Notepad works). While it may look intimidating, don't worry! What we're doing is relatively simple and will be easy to repeat in the future. Step 7 - locate the section for "glowmaps". Typically not a long scroll down. Step 8 - add the following line above "glowMap": { - If vehicle has EU plates - "licenseplateFormat": "52-11", - If vehicle has US plates - "licenseplateFormat": "30-15", !!! Don't forget to include the comma after as well! Make sure to also press TAB a few times to line it up with the rest of the text after you paste the line in. In my case, it looks like this: Step 9 - in the "glowMap" section, locate something along the lines of the following: "material_85_mi_numberplate_ukfront_wide_0d9e6":{"simpleFunction":{"running":0.49}, "off":"material_85_mi_numberplate_ukfront_wide_0d9e6_off", "on":"material_85_mi_numberplate_ukfront_wide_0d9e6_on", "on_intense":"material_85_mi_numberplate_ukfront_wide_0d9e6_onIntense"}, You want to change the {"running":0.49}, to {"running":0}, On the same line also change (in this case) "material_85_mi_numberplate_ukfront_wide_0d9e6_off" to "licenseplate" if you have US plates or "licenseplate-52-11" if you have EU plates. If you have two of these "material_XX_mi_numberplate_ukfront_wide_abcdef" lines, repeat the steps for both. In my case, end result should look like this: Bonus step in the same file - scroll down to the "props" section and find the last two "running light" lines, change all RGB and A values to 0 to disable the DRL flare. Step 10 - save the jbeam file and close it. Step 11 - go back to the main folder of your mod and locate the camso_core.jbeam file. Step 12 - add the following line: ["licenseplate_design_2_1","","License Plate Design"], Make sure to line it up with the rest of the text! Step 13 - save file and open up BeamNG for testing! If it's all gone to plan, you should have your plates front and back and ready to use together with your favorite plate designs! Hopefully this helps some other people wishing to do this for a long time as much as I did while trying to do the same thing. If anyone has any further questions or need specifying about something, don't hesitate to ask.
