Tutorial Confusion - Model not showing up?

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So I've made a simple cube jbeam based off of this tutorial here http://wiki.beamng.com/Introduction_to_Vehicle_Creation but I can't seem to get the model to show up in-game. I'm confused about the flexbodies portion of code, and this is what I had put down;

"flexbodies": [
["mesh", "[group]:", "nonFlexMaterials"],
["cube_body", ["cube_body_g"]],
],

See, I'm not sure what each parameter means, as the tutorial confuses me at this point, and says the "first parameter" is the model name, well in every code I see, the first parameter always says "mesh"..... The name of my model is "cube.dae", and I even put just "cube" where "cube_body" is at the moment. From what I understand, "cube_body_g" is the grouping, which I have the grouping down, but I'm just so confused as to why the model won't show up in the different variations I've tried. I also have an issue where when i press the "R" key to reset the cube, it crashes the game sometimes, but not often, but as of now the crashing isn't really my biggest concern, I just wish to get my model over my jbeam in-game.

Thanks!
~Richard

 

I changed it around to the name you had shown, for the parameter before "cube_body_g", and it still didn't show the model.. I tried changing "mesh" to "cube" as well, but that just made it so the jbeam structure wouldn't show up.

"flexbodies": [
["mesh", "[group]:", "nonFlexMaterials"],
["Cube", ["cube_body_g"]],
],

So yeah, still stuck :/

 

The name MUST match the one in the DAE exactly. e.g: If the object in the DAE is called "EXamPLe", then the name in the jbeam must be "EXamPLe" and not "EXAMPLE".

 

I had done so I just can't get it to work.. I guess I'll keep trying randomly throughout time and eventually figure it out

 

Ohhhhh! Thank you so much man that clears everything up, it used to not require such. Thanks again man I'm good now.

 

Oh, well I'm no longer able to add in static shapes to where they're visible without texturing unlike I used to, which is why I assumed it used to not for vehicles as well, because I remember the orange missing texture stuff showing up. Eh, I don't know anymore lol but thanks man.

 

Hello, apologies for "bumping" a somewhat old thread. I have a follow-up question to what you just said, and rather than create a whole new thread, I thought I'd post a reply to this one and try and get it solved here instead; I hope this is okay.

Ok, so I'm using ThreeDTech21's "Putting your car into BeamNG" V2.0 tutorial. Instead of using the fullsize for this project, I'm using the Moonhawk. I've gotten step 4 done (renaming the car parts in Blender), and I've temporarily stopped there. My goal is to take off the Moonhawk body parts, (which I've already done) and keep the interior and chassis. Then I want to create a simple 1970 Dodge Challenger body, not too detailed, but enough to resemble the real car - and put that on the Moonhawk interior/chassis. So far there is a part I don't understand, (this is where my question relates to this thread) which I don't see an explanation of in the tutorial - when creating new meshes which will become the new body parts, how do I make the new body parts have the same material as the original body parts? I'll add screenshots to help visualize what I'm trying to say.

 

Ok, thanks a bunch! That helped, as I currently rank myself as a noob in modmaking.