Maluch JBeam rebuild

ayy! nice!

 

Jbeamed floor mats. wow.

 

I see what I can do to floormats, also that Custom interior looks interesting, I have some ideas how to get it done, but need to learn bit more of this wonderfully crashy software

I attach black fur type with floormats after I get them done.

Might try that cooking thing if it goes easier on this end, but there is quite lot that I need to learn on that too, but I guess I just would need to place textures in folder and it should make dds automatically, or then not?

Also learned how to make stiching, only problem with that is my hand which is refusing to make smooth arches, straight lines kinda work as there is tool for that, but I think arcs must be done on freehand or then there is more for me to learn.

Well, there is always more to learn and we learn by doing I guess, I'm happy that carpet texture is working so nice, that is way nicer than I ever imagined being able to create in my life

Door cards are something that I want to do together with seats, but there is few things to learn until I can get them to be nice.

Also what if we swap seats in from Autobello? Modifying those might actually get better result than doing them by hand again and jbeam of old seats should still be good for them?

 

not sure if its a good idea ;-;
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i dont think that autobello seats would look good in this thing ;-;

 

You have not seen them re-textured yet
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It is surprisingly similar to real car seats, but scale is off.

Problem with current seats is that they have those grooves modeled in and I think flat seat surface with some texture and normal map work would do much better than just putting texture to it, similar way that dashboard with normal map changed to something completely different.

Jbeam for seats might work despite what 3D model there is as it is quite simple?

Idk really, it just kinda difficult to get any of those different patterns on current seats, imo.

 

holy crap those wheels look nice. 20/10 Vapordude

 

New dashboard is probably not going to be ready until tomorrow or day after, not sure if I get floormats ready today, there is other life things like always.

Technically dashboard part with padding would be different part from rest, also ashtray probably new model needed for that. But if gauge cluster needs to be together with dashboard, then I need to do textures with new gauges and modify what is with that dashboard, far easier than trying to merge part of old and new textures I guess.

Radio and anything with detail like switches, gauges etc, I think put different texture map than rest of dashboard, anything that needs to be colored in dashboard in own texture as it is far easier to manage colors then, imo.

 

yea they do!
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i dont think that autobello seats would look good in this thing

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omg idk what i just posted xd

 

I must say, this is probably my favorite project on the forums. The sheer amount of documentation blows my mind, I could read it all for hours. Seeing other people help aswell really warms my heart. Seems to be that there is some good left in this community.

 

I'm just grumpy old man who sees world quite negative place, but I guess community is what one makes it to be after end of the day and overall I guess BeamNG community has nicer nice parts than many other communities nice part

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Now reason why I can't get floormats out today is not only my realworld duties, but amount of learning I need to do as I want to do these aftermarket types and skills I learn from these should help to do factory types that has rubber and fabric together.

But as you can see I still have way to go, haven't figured out how to keep lines lining up other but manually pointing mouse enough accurately way, I'm sure there can be better way doing it:


Also for Agent_Y, I did fix mesh of these mats, but I also changed polycount, but I guess it should not matter for jbeam as jbeam is probably just few nodes anyway.

It's like this in Blender now, but probably material name Rubber needs to be changed to floormat_rubber and floormat_fabric, maybe needs even third one so all variants can be assigned?:

Haven't gone trough all variants yet that needs to be done, but I try to figure out some material names for them, or then I'm doing bit more complex than I should

 

probably has, Carpet, the crappy felt/velvet type mat, cloth mat, and plastic/rubber mats i guess.


rolls royce type mat? very fluffy one?

 

So this is what I think I'm okay with regarding aftermarket rubber floormats:


So I put my layer setup there in screenshot and here is my brush settings, in case someone someday wants to try to make better ones, maybe works as a starting point, I'm quite beginner myself, so I'm sure they can be improved. Rubber material is plastic rubber smart material with default settings really.
Then I do heightmap painting with alpha brush to get that nice 3d look, it is shift clicking then to get straight lines, kinda easy and real artist probably can do much better, but for free mod by hobbyist I think this is working out fine


What is cool thing is that this same technique can be used to create dashboard and door carpet shapes, also seat shapes, which is why I want to have more flat seat surface as I think this method can work better than 3d modeling of shapes, after all straight lines I just need to shift click so it is somewhat quick.

Stiching of seats is also possible to do this way, just needs different shape brush and painting in color in addition to painting in heightmap.

Now to do some research, then fabric versions and colors, might find something needs to be changed too as haven't tested ingame yet, so it all takes bit time.

edit: Oh yes, can't forget backsides, everyone always forgets backside, but these fly off the car and you want to have non slip spikes on backside obviously...:

 

Please tell me they dont have texture and it is just a no texture

 

That is cool info!

I get lot of bugging out ingame, for example dds texture are randomly not made and when switching to dds file normals look wrong at times, like if opengl / directx version would be wrong, but it really does not matter how I set it up.

Anyway I think tweaking AO should help with the issue where indention down is reversed when looked from certain angles, but tweaking that has to wait until tomorrow, haven't got more time right now.

There is so much to learn when everything is new and doing practically first time, so these troubles of course are normal.