Hello here ! I try to release my asset mod but i have somes issues with materials.json. Textures working properly in my \levels\smallgrid folder, but when I move my \vehicles location I have missing texture. In \levels\smallgrid\art\shapes folder my texture works fine. But in \vehicles i have missing texture, my material name mysteriously changed. "_mat" after the name. I try to research my previous material "circleDriftA_mat" in material editor, but is not here. Any idea ? I see most people work with materials.cs. But when I create my material in editor, beamng create automatically the materials.json. So I start from here. Plus I read it was the new format. But i don't see any mod work with materials.json so i have no comparison point. And i don't see a lot of documentation about it. Maybe it's more easier with .cs ? I upload my work folder so you can check if you want to. Thanks in advance, I’m struggling with this, a little help would be great
when you use .cs file, Torque script knows which script you are executing so it does have a context (which path it is). This is why you can use keywords like "./" or just the filename to say look in the current folder. With Json file, The engine will decode the json but it does not have any context. You NEED to put full filepath (eg: /vehicles/circleDriftA/circleDriftA_****.dds ) Then there is one bug that is our fault. In levels, "material.json" are loaded but no when it's a vehicle. You simply need to rename your file and add "main." in front, then it will work with both. Please note that your mesh is using the structure for a TSStatic, it won't display for vehicle flexbodies. For vehicle flexbodies, you don't need the structure base00>start01> lods You can just put all the meshes at the root level.
