Procyon Centauri bug reporting 1.0.8

Some bugs i´ve found:
-the automatic gear selector doesnt move at all and emits no sound.
-the tailgate suffers too from having no sound effects at all while opening.
-the the V6 as the V8 too have no sound when powering down the engine. it sounds like it comes to a instant stop of mechanical movement the moment you turn it off.
-idk if this is intentional but i find the automatic shiftpoints a little to high especially for such modern transmissions.
i would suggest to lower the shiftpoints to 1800 to 2000 rpm depending on gear, the higher the gear the higher the shift rpm.
Otherwise its the best free vehicle mod out there so far and has the monopol in my opinion. Its truly a great piece of work you have done there.
Congrats!

 

I found if you crash into the police configuration, then it will only exchange insurance data. And if you violate, then he does not pursue you in any way (a good cop) and never turns on his flashing lights. However, when I created my configuration and wrote "police" in the .info configuration file, he chased me according to all the rules, turned on the flashing lights and tried to stop me.
I think this behavior is simply due to an error in the .info file.

And also not all details are "highlighted" when they are selected or "illuminated" by other details that are not related to it in any way (for example, when choosing an interior, you can see the lower engine protection), sometimes it is difficult to navigate in such a large list of parts without lighting the details.

When you spawn the configuration of the American police, there is a California sign by default, although on standard police cars beamng the style of the signs is empty and is set automatically depending on the region or map, and is not preset by default.

In everything else, except for the errors found by many users,mod surprises with its quality and uniqueness, thank you!

 

I found some issues with the skins included in this mod.

- Polizia has weird wheel arches. Also not sure if the colour of the blue used is intentional but its not the same as the blue used on the vanilla Polizia skins (I think it looks better than vanilla tbh)


- Cumbria police has strange artefacts/leftovers on wheel arch and the sides of the rear bumper (very minor issue however I thought I would still include)


- Firewood PD had the same issue as Polizia skin


- Procyon side text has gaps and leftovers (possibly)


- Simple duo tone has an artefact and the 2nd colour palette leaves a tint underneath the 1st (main colour) on the body work


- Sport door strip having a dark colour as the 2nd palette and then adding a bright colour to the 3rd, the 3rd adds a tint to the 2nd palette. (refer to the video included)

- Bowler doesn't add anything

 

Hello dearest Modder,
I am very pleased with this mod, as told in my review.

The only thing that I am currently percieving as missing is something like an electric version.

If you really enjoy working on this, maybe something like an armoured version would make a great edition.

 

The pedals are still visible after the body falls off, which causes them to float above the frame

 

That's actually not a bad idea, somebody (Probably not Finn) could make an armored, gangster spec Centauri. That'd certainly be interesting.

 

My only thing i want to say, is that the front wheel goes into the foot well all the way. I'f you look at beamng cars like the FCV, or a few mods, the wheel often goes out to avoid the footwell (or at least the footwell has a better collision)

Best thing to do is to give the footwell a better collision to make the wheel come in contact and bounce back, rather than going straight into the footwell.

Other than that, amazing mod!!! 11/10

 

An update has been posted adressing the grand majority of reported bugs. Thanks for letting me know about all of this!

 

Hydrualic brake sound plays when the car is literally a bare frame

 

I think this is something that it would take a lot of work to do, and the brake still does function as it should with no body, it just doesn't have any way that it would be realistically controlled. This seems like normal operation to me.

 

All of the interior skins have leather front seat inserts, but the rear seat and third row inserts are lighter colored cloth, rather than the color matched perforated leather used in the front. Does not apply to captain's chairs.










The one exception is the Dark Matter (cloth seats) skin, which has the correct rear seat inserts (but of a much thicker weave?), but the third row seats use the inserts from the regular Dark Matter seats, which are lighter and a different cloth material.



As a suggestion more than a bug report, I'd LOVE the ability to choose the headliner and interior trim separately from the main interior skin, which is certainly possible for the headliner as it's already a different material, and should be easy to do for the interior trim as the same space is used for the interior trim on every interior texture.

Oh a few other nitpicky things:

• There is no steering wheel with paddle shifters or manual / sequential mode for the shifter, both of which are common on modern cars especially in this price range. (also makes the existence of the "manual" mode in the Centauri kinda impossible, since you have no physical way to shift gears. Maybe it's a shitty voice command system? XD)
• No Drive mode selector in the interior. Again, a feature in every modern suv, especially in this price range. Could be a good excuse to add some more triggers as well, maybe even have a dial that rotates as a prop depending on the mode you're in, with a light up icon for each drive mode. (also make changing drive modes realistically impossible unless it's a shitty voice command system again haha)
• Bottom of the cupholders is always white. Not sure why that bothers me.
• A lot of the parts just don't highlight when they're hovered over in the parts selector? it's an odd glitch that i've never seen before.
  
• Air suspension drops really really fast when the car is turned off.
• Window switches don't light up when the car is on (makes sense as they're on a different material that doesn't have a glowmap as that would require new glowmaps just for these door switches, but worth mentioning.)
• No door cupholders
• Rear Arctic suspension gets very angry and bouncy when you try to use anything besides the Arctic Long Links. (the short links should probably not be an option, and especially not the default part.)
• Missing stitching? (right side has it but left side doesn't, and neither side's stitching actually goes all the way down to the plastic backing)
• Strange black marks on the headrests and texture stretching on the front seat bolsters
• Dent in the center rear bench seat? (also how would you open this lol)
• odd lines coming out of the holes for the headrests in the third row seats (artifact from baking?)
• two different stitching types where the center panels meet the glovebox panels, and where they meet the gauge cluster panels
• What is this
• All of the gauge cluster icons (headlights, traction control) should probably be in the lower white section, or in the upper black section, or in the space inside the gauges, as they become a bit lost inside their current location overlapping the map. Perhaps the black fade could simply start higher up from the bottom, to leave space for the icons?
• Braking from 80mph to 0 mph more than once is enough to elicit the "high brake temperature" warning. Three times from 60mph to 0 mph is also enough.

 

On some configurations, it says its a V6 but the engine sounds like a V8. Is it supposed to be this way or no?

And also, when I crash it, the suspension is bugging out and making noises.

 

the 3rd row seats seems to have trouble deploying when the car is equipped with the 2nd row captains seats . they only go halfway then go back in the floor . issue resolved when switching the 2nd row to bench seat .

 

The mod is great and I love to drive it around in Beam.

I just have one minor nitpick though. (if you would like this to be fully lore friendly)
I don't think the sequential rear turn signal is legal in the US. (and maybe some other countries)
According to regulations and a simple google search, sequential turn lights are not legal, and I suggest doing something like what BMW and Audi did in real life.


BMW and Audi got away with sequential turn signals by adding another turn signal completely, that functions/acts like a normal turn signal, and left the sequential turn signal in it's place.

This minor little nitpick is not enough to affect my overall view on how good this mod is, and I believe it's probably one of the best free mods this year, especially considering that
some creators are now selling their mods (which I respect their decision). I would recommend this mod to anyone who plays beam, and this is just a small suggestion on how to improve your mod a little bit.

Thanks to the creator (and anyone who contributed) for releasing such an awesome mod!

 

Hey I've noticed that AI don't recognize the police livery configurations as police cars which makes the freeroam chases not available

 

First and foremost... amazing mod! I love playing around with this thing, and think I'll be doing it for quite a while.

The only issues I'm having with this mod currently is a huge drop in FPS while playing, as well as the Police Interceptor variant refusing to chase after me, even though the other AI police cars do.

 

I think you are forgetting the fact that the Ford Mustang also has sequential turn signals, at least for those sold primarily in the United States. Shouldn't those be illegal too? Well, not exactly. The reason why Ford got away with having such signals here in America is simply because of the federal regulations concerning how much surface area of the signal must be lit on within the first section of the signals being activated. Each section of the Mustang's signals are large enough according to the regulations, which is why it keeps its distinctive turn signals since the facelift S197 generation (but export markets are a completely different story since S550 Mustangs bound for Europe merely have regular amber turn signals instead).

However, the sequential turn signals found on certain Audi, BMW, and even Lexus vehicles in other markets don't light up enough of the signal within the first section; thus, they don't meet the American federal regulations as you mentioned. You are indeed correct about Audi and BMW getting around this regulation for US-market vehicles. All they did was make the brake lights double as turn signals (thereby satisfying the regulation with a large surface area), with the sequential part lighting up afterwards.

There is another way to have sequential turn signals, and that's by doing the complete opposite. In other words, rather than sequentially turning on each smaller section, the whole portion of the signal lights up, then it sequentially turns off each smaller section. Toyota has done this to the Avalon and more recently the new Tundra; Chevrolet has also applied it to the C8 Corvette. In those cases, the brake lights double as turn signals for that to work, and I have yet to see a vehicle that does it with amber signals instead.

Then again, this regulation comes from a government that allows red turn signals and brake lights doubling as turn signals, mandates not only a third brake light but also side reflectors that light up when the headlights are turned on, and does not allow brake lights on a movable part of the vehicle (see the Ferrari California as an example; the Audi Q7 and Buick Cascada both got around that regulation). Said government also rejects innovative features such as door-mounted cameras in place of the traditional side mirrors. I figured I should at least clarify this, because while sequential turn signals are cool, only a few vehicles sold in the United States have them in one way or another to meet federal regulations.

 

If i dont know about start stop, what other secret features are in this mod?

 

some great message into the dashboard when breaks are over heaating, or flat tire....

 

Finn Wilkinson updated 2022 Procyon Centauri with a new update entry:

Bug fixing according to the reports.

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