Solved Vehicle material issues

I am having issues with the materials mostly surrounding chrominess.

Code:

singleton Material(Raven_R60_Body)
{
    mapTo = "body";
    diffuseMap[2] = "vehicles/sunburst/sunburst_c.dds";
    specularMap[2] = "vehicles/sunburst/sunburst_s.dds";
    normalMap[2] = "vehicles/sunburst/sunburst_n.dds";
    diffuseMap[1] = "vehicles/sunburst/sunburst_d.dds";
    specularMap[1] = "vehicles/sunburst/sunburst_s.dds";
    normalMap[1] = "vehicles/sunburst/sunburst_n.dds";
    diffuseMap[0] = "vehicles/common/null.dds";
    specularMap[0] = "vehicles/common/null.dds";
    normalMap[0] = "vehicles/sunburst/sunburst_n.dds";
    specular[0] = "0.5 0.5 0.5 0.1";
    specular[1] = "0.5 0.5 0.5 0.1";
    specular[2] = "0.5 0.5 0.5 0.1";
    specularPower[0] = "128";
    pixelSpecular[0] = "1";
    specularPower[1] = "32";
    pixelSpecular[1] = "1";
    specularPower[2] = "128";
    pixelSpecular[2] = "1";
    diffuseColor[0] = "0 0 0 0";
    diffuseColor[1] = "0 0 0 0";
    diffuseColor[2] = "0 0 0 0";
    useAnisotropic[0] = "1";
    useAnisotropic[1] = "1";
    useAnisotropic[2] = "1";
    castShadows = "1";
    translucent = "1";
    translucentBlendOp = "None";
    alphaTest = "0";
    alphaRef = "0";
    dynamicCubemap = true;
    beamngDiffuseColorSlot = 2;
    materialTag0 = "beamng"; materialTag1 = "vehicle";
};

 

Your diffuseColors look odd. They're all black with 0 alpha.
Try setting diffuseColor[0] and diffuseColor[1] to "1 1 1 1". You can leave diffuseColor[2] because it's controlled by the colour picker.

 

Still no change.

I should also add that if you try to load the vehicle with a custom colour the game will refuse to load the vehicle. Meaning the only way to change colour is to using the tuning menu.

 

On the blender file the interior material is called 'Leather' and the exterior is called 'body'. Do the material names assigned within blender not directly correlate with what is being exported?

 

No I haven't, I was gonna wait until the model is finished before I start trying to texture it (im not sure if that is the best way to do it though, I can't say I have experience with them). Is it possible to apply a blank UV map to it?

 

Now that I have added a texture within blender it is (crappily) functioning. Just fiddling with files to get it looking not awful. Thanks

However the vehicle still does not load with a custom colour selected.

Also how do you limit the chrominess to prevent it going into the negative range?

 

When I copy the info.json from another vehicle and fill it in the car no longer appears in the vehicle selector though.

 

I like to set the diffuse texture's alpha (The actual texture, not the diffuseColor) to 128 (HEX: 80).

 

How would you suggest is the best way of doing that?

I am currently trying to set the textures alpha to half using PSE with the nvidia plugin. But it doesn't seem to be making a difference in game so I am not sure I am doing it right.

• I used the colour picker to get the same colour.
• Created a new layer
• filled that layer with the colour at 50% opacity
• deleted the original layer
• Exported to dds (using: DXT3 ARGB 8 bpp | explicit alpha)
• the resulting file is attached.

When I reload the file into photoshop there is no longer any transparency in the file. (If I save as png the transparency is in the saved file but still makes no difference in game if I set the png as the texture).
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That is what I have done. I have attached the info.json file

I also created the other json file just in case that was needed too which I have attached,

 

Turns out I needed to restart the game in order for the car to re appear

 

Save as DXT5. Here's a file that should work:

 

I have replaced the file with that one and rebooted the game and the same issue persists.

 

What does the materials file look like now?