1st Jbeam

Is this Jbeam good or do i have to many nodes?

 

Jesus H Christ how many nodes are in that

 

I'm going to say that is not how you make a jbeam. Please study official jbeams and use them for reference, I can't even tell what you are trying to make. Also, I HIGHLY recommend not using the blender exporter for everything, I've heard it doesn't do an amazing job for a number of parts of a jbeam.

 

The nodes have to be like a shell for every part of your model. You don't have to literally copy every vertex and convert them to nodes.
If you load a car or any object in beamng and press ctrl+N and ctrl+M you will see every node and beam, study how they are done and then do something similar.

In short, imagine a box, a box can be very complex, you could do it very detailed, beveled with a good number of vertices, but the jbeam would still only consist of 1 node per corner (only 8 nodes).

 

yea i quickly realized i was doing it wrong it also looks a little worse than it was because i had blender on wireframe
this is what im working with now still too much?