WIP Beta released DARS - Third Person Character and First Person Driver.

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  1. BadmanTru 2

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    DISCLAIMER - THIS IS ALPHA TESTING, MOST ANIMATIONS ARE PLACE HOLDERS
    ONLY POST BEAMNG.LOG IF YOU EXPERIENCE A BUG
    ANY RANTS ABOUT AI WILL BE JUST IGNORED

    DISABLE the new .40 driver occupants.

    NOT COMPATIABLE CURRENTLY WITH RLS CAREER OR DANIELS GUN MOD.
    - will be in the future

    Credits are disclosed for models and animations used
    Copyright is written which protects the ip, not the meshes, animations used in the current production.

    IF YOU POST SOMEWHERE ELSE ABOUT THIS MOD, YOU MUST INCLUDE THE LINK TO THIS THREAD.

    now on to the mod.


    The Autobello, Fullsize, Pigeon, and wigeon currently have preset in car views. The rest of vehicles are not currently setup
    and will need to be setup in order for correct viewing.

    DARSONLINE
    - is a server script to sync characters and must be put in resources/server - ONLINE USE ONLY
    DARSALPHABMT - is the mod itself
    DARSPDF - is a overview of features, settings and disclosures.



    Driver Arms
    A full-body driver at the wheel, the same character on foot, and drivers in every AI car.
    by BadmanTru / Harvey Birdman​

    Overview
    Driver Arms puts one character everywhere: driving your car, walking when you get out, and at the wheel of the AI and traffic cars around you. Everything is set from one HUD app, and four cars come with presets so they're ready to drive straight away.

    In the car
    • Full-body driver camera - its own camera, last in the C cycle and the one you start in. It works like the game's driver camera, with the driver drawn.
    • Steering - finds the wheel by itself, follows its real rotation hand over hand, and locks the hands to the rim so they never slip.
    • Shifting - H-pattern, sequential and automatic. The hand stays on the car's own lever until the lever finishes moving.
    • Handbrake and pedals - throttle, brake and clutch, footrest or left-foot braking, plus heel-toe.
    • Reaching for controls - aim at a switch, stalk or button and the hand goes to it. Key binds press the real control too.
    • Body and crashes - leans in corners and under braking. Hard hits and rollovers throw him about inside his seatbelt.

    On foot
    • Walk as the driver instead of the beamling, in first or third person.
    • Motion-matched walking, jogging and running.
    • Jumps, vaults, climbs, hangs and shimmies.
    • Wall runs, including wall run to wall run.
    • Mid-air ledge grabs, on walls and on props.
    • Camera dives and prone slides, crouching and slides, swimming.
    • Walks on top of containers, barriers and other props at his normal speed. Slopes are walked up, never vaulted.
    • Physics ragdoll with muscles and reactions. He gets up from wherever he lands.
    • Shoes, cap and paint colours, picked in the walker's Vehicle Config.

    Around you
    • Every AI and traffic car gets a driver.
    • They react when you hit them, honk at them or flip them off.
    • Keep bothering them and annoyance builds up to road rage: tailgating, brake-checks, chasing you.
    • BeamMP: with the included server plugin, players on foot see each other move.

    The app
    • Basic and Advanced views, with values in cm, degrees and seconds. Hover a ? for help.
    • Fit to this car gives a rough fit. Finish it with the adjusters, including the ones in Advanced, then Save.
    • Built-in presets for the autobello, Grand Marshal, pigeon and wigeon.
    • Test buttons let you check a setting without driving.

    Install
    1. Put DARSALPHABMT.zip in your mods folder. Don't unpack it.
    2. In game, add the Driver Arms app to your HUD.
    3. Get in a car. For a car without a preset, press Fit to this car, adjust, then Save.
    Key bindings are under Options > Controls (search "Driver Arms").

    Good to know
    • Getting in and out uses the game's instant swap for now. Entry and exit animations are planned.
    • When reporting a problem, please attach your beamng.log.

    Credits
    Sneakers by Arntorius and low-poly cap by DanlyVostok (Sketchfab, CC-BY 4.0). Character animations from Mixamo. Parts based on DeepMind's dm_control (Apache 2.0).

    © 2026 BadmanTru / Harvey Birdman. All rights reserved. Do not reupload, mirror, redistribute or modify this mod without written permission. Please link to this thread instead.
     

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  2. Neon Purple

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    cant wait to get ran over at mach 2
     
  3. BadmanTru 2

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    #3 BadmanTru 2, Oct 14, 2026
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  5. Blenux

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    very cool, always wished they had at least a driver model!
     
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  6. 1Matzh

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    Hey, buddy, I really liked the character's movements outside the car.
    Congratulations ;)

    I'm guessing you're using Root Motion or something like that, right?
     
  7. BadmanTru 2

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    motion matching yeah, the ragdolls was designed in mojuco and then the logic was transfered to lua.
     
  8. mimolli

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    a funny addation would be motion tracking with Xbox 360 kinect
    upload_2026-10-17_1-30-34.png
     
    #8 mimolli, Oct 17, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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  9. BadmanTru 2

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    Confirmed working in multiplayer with emotes, syncing.

    ragdolls are ran locally so may not match what other person sees and you see, then blends into their client pose/ position.

    I have version that runs the ragdoll sync'd but it's a bit of a performance hit and still testing.
     
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  10. mimolli

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    this would be a game changer
    imagain playing with your friends in multiplayer and run over your friend
     
  11. zip_kiev

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    Awesome, but the most important thing is: will it be possible to enter and exit the vehicle?
     
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    it's been coded in but not displayed, right now they just have one place holder for entering and exiting.

    I will have to animate each enterance and exit for beam vehicles.

    the alpha will include many place holders. I am looking for animators to help.
     
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  13. knsksn

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    hello bro its 2026 21 october and when is the mod droping
     
  14. location88600

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    that look so sick
     
  15. BadmanTru 2

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    6pm est, 21st.
     

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  16. ScumBird

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    Cant wait to wake up at 1am
     
  17. knsksn

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    yea oke ty bro
     
  18. BadmanTru 2

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    ALPHA RELEASE, PLEASE POST BEAM LOG FILES IF ANY BUGS.
     
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    How do I install? There's 2 zips and neither of them are called driverArms.zip
     
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    read.
     
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