Experimental - BeamNG Level Importer + BeamNG Modding Tools V2 for BeamNG 0.32 (2024)

BeamNG Level Importer + BeamNG Modding Tools

BeamNG Level Importer is a Blender addon that allows you to import BeamNG levels with all assets into a Blender scene with the correct location, rotation and scale. Imported assets will have all materials assigned with their texture maps.

BeamNG Modding Tools is a lua extension for BeamNG that allows exporting your level files from game to make them more compatible with Blender
importer as well as convert your material files from TorqueScript (CS) to JSON.
Many features of BeamNG Modding Tools are now available in World Editor -> Window -> Resources Checker.
Features
BeamNG Level Importer
See Also
Jujutsu Legacy Codes [CURSED SPEECH+2x] (June 2024) - Try Hard Guides [OpenWrt Wiki] Arris TR4400 v2 Version lifecycle - MediaWiki Release notes/1.26 - MediaWiki
Default TOD settings as Nish*ta sky
Basic Terrain Materials v1.5 importing (WIP)
Materials V0 support
Materials v1.5 support
BeamNG mod zip content importing
TerrainBlock importing
WaterBlock importing as a cube
SpotLight and PointLight importing
WaterPane importing as flat pane
CameraBookmarks importing
SoundEmitters importing
GroundPane importing
SceneTree folders structure
ForestItems importing and placement
BeamNG Modding Tools
World Editor integration
Standalone mode
Legacy TorqueScript (CS) materials converter to JSON
Cleaning up of TorqueScript (CS) materials
Batch converting
DDS to PNG exporter (opposite tool to Texture Cooker)
Game meshes to COLLADA exporter
Game meshes to Wavefront exporter
BeamNG to Blender Exporting (game side)
Soft Reloading of vehicle materials
Hard Reloading of vehicle materials
Removal of vehicle's temporary files

A complete rewrite of the tool
Added Exporter tab
Added ability to export meshes from the game as COLLADA and Wavefront formats
Added ability to export DDS textures to PNG to improve compatibility with graphics software and Blender
Added ability to export level data to improve compatibility with BeamNG Level Importer Addon
Added option to soft reload (quicker) and hard reload (slower) vehicle materials
Removed Resource Explorer features, those are now available as a part of the World Editor Resources Checker tool
Removed Material Verifier features, those are now available as a part of the World Editor Resources Checker tool
Improved UI
Updated for BeamNG 0.31+

1.1.2 Changelog:
Added Vulkan check (for texture cooker)
Added Linux check
Added game version check
Added Force Reload Materials feature
Added Clear current vehicle cache feature
Added Experimental features
Improved UI
Added tool-tips
Added colored text to show errors
Added Bulk converters for vehicles and levels
Added Material Verifiers
Added verifier for cs / JSON materials, checks also for badly named json materials
Added verifier for V0 / PBR materials
Added duplicate materials verifier (wip)
Added Resource Explorer
Added checker for used TSStatics
Added checker for Forest Items
Added checker for unused TSStatics (wip)
Added checker for unused Forest Items (coming soon)
Improved overall stability
Changes to converter work back-end
Now there is no need to restart game to run converter again
Conversion job will repeat until materials table is empty
UI is now independent from World Editor
Added ability to run from console
Added ability to run using key binding, "=" for now
Added custom theme
Added ability to save files on disk with results of tests
Changelog for V1.0
Removed garbage code
Improvements to level path button backend
Added compatibility with all levels types
Improved code
Added vehicle path button
Code checks which vehicle is seated by player 0
Theoretical compatibility with any vehicles that can load even from the earliest versions of game
Fixed console warnings
Added incorrect path warnings
Added checks so you won't be able to run a faulty job
Cleaned up logs
See Also
Release notes/1.29 - MediaWiki

Plans
BeamNG Level Importer
Add full Terrain Materials v1.5 support
Add Terrain Materials v0 support
Implement assimp importer to import incompatible COLLADA meshes
TorqueScript levels and materials importing
Legacy JSON levels support
In Blender level editing and changes saving support
Particle emitters support
Decal data importing
River objects importing
Groundcover support
Decal road support
Mesh Road support
Lower level of detail meshes importing
More materials features support
BeamNG Modding Tools
Possibly better mesh exporters from GameEngine

Issues
BeamNG Level Importer
Many legacy COLLADA files won't import due to issues with Blender COLLADA importer
Random TerrainBlock placement issues in some corner cases
Missing emissive textures in Blender 4.0+ due to shader changes
Probably a lot more issues that I don't know of
BeamNG Modding Tools
Broken PNG exporting in Vulkan API mode
Crashes when removing old CS materials when loaded into a level
Unexpected results of COLLADA and Wavefront exports from GameEngine

BeamNG Level Importer Requirements
OS: Windows or Linux
Blender: 3.0 or newer (3.6 LTS is targetted, includes a partial implementation for 4.0 and 4.1)

BeamNG Modding Tools Requirements
OS: Windows or Linux or Wine/Proton
BeamNG.drive v0.31 or newer
Direct3D 11 mode (Vulkan API might be buggy when exporting textures)

BeamNG Level Importer Installation
Make sure you met requirements above
Download addon from attachments. Make you download Blender addon not source code or BeamNG extension.
Open Blender to install addon.
Go to preferences, addons, and install addon from zip there.

BeamNG Modding Tools Installation
Make sure you met requirements above
Download addon from attachments. Make you downloaded BeamNG extension not source code or Blender addon.
Copy downloaded zip into your BeamNG mods folder

Usage
BeamNG Level Importer
Importing levels
Load BeamNG.drive
Load level you want to export
Open BeamNG Modding Tools by pressing =
Go to Exporter tab and press Export level to Blender and wait till the process finishes
Close BeamNG and launch Blender
In the Blender sidebar open BeamNG Level Importer
Select the level zip or folder you want to import, make sure to enable Use ZIP Level if you are importing zipped files
In Exporter terrain Path select your level export location which usually is your userfolder /temp/exported/levels/levelname
Press `Import Level Objects`

BeamNG Modding Tools
Generating new materials for old mods
Start the game
Insert a path to the folder of your mod that you want to convert
Press the Convert button
Copy the generated .json files from your userfolder back to your source files and remove all material.cs files, remove the cache of your mod.

Exporting textures or meshes
Start the game
Insert a path to folder of your mod which you want to export
Go to the Exporter tab
Press the button you want to use
Your exports will be available in your userfolder /temp/exported/

FAQ / Troubleshooting
My game crashes when converting CS materials
- Try converting your mod in main menu before you even load any level to avoid issues and leave more RAM space for conversion. Game may hang when converting.
Many meshes from my level are not visible in Blender import, most of them are just empties
- Some COLLADA meshes are unsupported by Blender. You can try converting them yourself in other software first to avoid issues.
I cannot seem to be able to export textures from the game
- Game might fail to export textures and levels when running in Vulkan API mode.
Huge thanks to @thomatoes50 who helped me to clean code. In addition, I want to thanks for the original resource explorer code that was made to help me working on Polish Roads.
Now instead of console, it works in imgui which is much easier for modders.
Additional thanks for testing and giving ideas to: @AgentMooshroom5, @bob.blunderton, @DankMemeBunny, @falefee, @Nekkit.
Github page is here https://github.com/PrzemekWolw/BeamNGLevelImporter
If you like my work support me here!

Experimental - BeamNG Level Importer + BeamNG Modding Tools V2 for BeamNG 0.32 (2024)

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