Beta Navi Drive - GPS with voice, phone access & 3D GPS 2.5.1-beta

Navi Drive turns a UI app into a full in-game phone for BeamNG.drive: touch GPS with voice guidance, taxi and bus jobs, fleet, car theft, police, weather, music, camera, bank... and now Navi Drive liveries, ad posters and a taximeter for the bus and all 8 taxis. English and French.


Presentation video (1:14, English and French subtitles).
New in 2.5.1: fixes from your reviews

• No more "Ouch!" when you floor a powerful car: the crash voice now needs real damage to the car. You can also turn it off (Settings > GPS voice > Shout on crash).
• App opacity setting (100 / 85 / 70 / 50 %) under Settings > Display, so the map can sit over the game like Android Auto.
• Dirt roads and small roads now show on the map.
• Waze voice packs: more file names recognised (Exit, Within, Police, ApproachAccident, plain numbers like 200 / 800 for distances) and a fairer phrase count.
• The GPS voice no longer goes silent when one announcement gets stuck, and late announcements are skipped.

New in 2.5: Navi Drive liveries

• Taxi: two liveries, navy or colors (blue to teal gradient), on all 8 taxis in the game: Gavril Grand Marshal, Gavril Bluebuck, Soliad Lansdale, Bruckell LeGran, Bruckell Nine, Bruckell Bastion, Ibishu Pessima and Burnside Special.
• Each livery is fitted to its car: N logo centred on the hood, "TAXI DRIVE" and the logo on each side of the rear plate, text placed around door handles and wheel arches.
• Wentward DT40L bus: light "Navi Drive Transit" livery and a dark livery, app logo at the front of both sides, and two seat patterns ("Gradient" and "Night").
• Ready-made configurations: "Navi Drive Taxi", "Navi Drive Taxi (Colors)", "Navi Drive Transit" and "Navi Drive Transit (Dark)". The livery is also under Parts > Paint Design.

New: Navi Drive ad posters

• Taxi roof signs, bus sides and bus rear: two poster sets in the app's style ("Ride now. Pay in-app.", "Your bus, live.", and a set showing every feature).
• They come by default on the Navi Drive configurations and can be swapped under Parts > Advertisement.

New: Navi Drive taximeter

• A taximeter sits on the dashboard of every taxi, next to the GPS: fare, distance, time and status (free, hired, paying).
• The GPS keeps its stock size and position so it never pokes through the windscreen; size, position and the taximeter can be tuned under Parts > Tuning.

The app

• Touch GPS: drag to move, mouse wheel to zoom, long press to drop a pin, then "Go" or "Favourite". Voice guidance in English and French, custom voices and Waze voice packs.
• Place search: gas stations, garages, dealerships, missions, named places and favourites, sorted by distance.
• Taxi: pay per km and per second, riders in a hurry or calm, detailed payout window, black market rides.
• Bus: lines on every map (career map included), outside sign and inside screens updated at every stop, editable text.
• Fleet (career): hire drivers for your other vehicles and collect their earnings.
• Also: car theft and resale, police, weather and time, music, camera, bank, speed limit sign, phone access over local Wi-Fi.

Install

1. Put navidrive_fraat.zip in your BeamNG mods folder without unzipping it (or subscribe from the in-game repository), then fully restart the game.
2. In game: Esc > UI Apps > Edit > Add App > "Navi Drive".
3. For the touch screen in the car: vehicle configuration > Navigation unit > "Navi Drive GPS" (the Navi Drive taxi and bus configs already have it).
4. Updating from an older copy called navidrive.zip: delete it so the mod isn't loaded twice.

Thanks to the community
This update was shaped by your reviews and ideas. Big thanks to Pacifistdude123, SBM4, platypus, impactdrive, HeadDesk, TriggeredZN and Sanedish for their feedback, and to Lotnaler, buell and Sanedish for the ideas and code behind the touch screen, taxi and bus sign features. Keep the feedback coming!
Credits
Created by Fraat. Touch screen technique: Lotnaler ("Touchscreen & Navigation", code used with permission). Taxi ideas: buell ("Taxi Career RP"). Bus sign idea: Sanedish ("WayLine" / BusDispCtrl). Voices made with Kokoro-82M (Apache 2.0) via sherpa-onnx and ElevenLabs. QR code generator by Kazuhiko Arase (MIT). Fonts from Google Fonts (OFL).

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Navi Drive (FR) transforme une appli d'interface en vrai téléphone dans BeamNG.drive : GPS tactile avec guidage vocal, métiers taxi et bus, flotte, vol de voiture, police, météo, musique, appareil photo, banque... et maintenant des livrées Navi Drive, des affiches pub et un taximètre pour le bus et les 8 taxis.
Nouveau dans la 2.5.1 (corrections tirées de vos avis) : plus de « Ouch » en accélérant (le cri demande un vrai choc et peut être coupé), réglage d'opacité de l'appli, chemins de terre sur la carte, meilleure prise en charge des packs de voix Waze, voix qui ne reste plus muette. Merci à Pacifistdude123, SBM4, platypus, impactdrive, HeadDesk, TriggeredZN et Sanedish pour leurs retours, et à Lotnaler, buell et Sanedish pour leurs idées.
Nouveau dans la 2.5

• Taxi : deux livrées, bleu nuit ou couleurs (dégradé bleu → turquoise), sur les 8 taxis du jeu, chacune adaptée à son véhicule (logo N centré sur le capot, « TAXI DRIVE » et le logo de part et d'autre de la plaque arrière).
• Bus Wentward DT40L : livrée claire « Navi Drive Transit » et livrée sombre, logo de l'appli à l'avant des deux flancs, deux motifs de sièges (« Dégradé » et « Nuit »).
• Affiches pub aux couleurs de l'appli sur les toits de taxi, les flancs et l'arrière du bus (deux séries, à changer dans Pièces > Advertisement).
• Taximètre sur le tableau de bord de chaque taxi, à côté du GPS : prix, distance, temps et état de la course.
• Le GPS garde la taille et la place d'origine : il ne dépasse plus du pare-brise (réglages dans Pièces > Tuning).
• Configurations prêtes à l'emploi : « Navi Drive Taxi », « Navi Drive Taxi (Colors) », « Navi Drive Transit » et « Navi Drive Transit (Dark) ».

Installation : mets navidrive_fraat.zip dans le dossier mods sans le décompresser, puis redémarre complètement le jeu. En jeu : Échap > UI Apps > Edit > Add App > « Navi Drive ». Mode d'emploi complet en français dans le zip (ui/modules/apps/NaviDrive/docs/).