how to activate the dynamic fuel prices on gas station signs

i heard that there was a feature with the gas stations that makes the signs have dynamic prices (it's not a static texture anymore). does anyone know where the scripts are so i could just play with it? just curious.

 

C:\Steam\steamapps\common\BeamNG.drive\lua\ge\extensions\freeroam\facilities\fuelPrice.lua

No idea if its actually implemented yet or how to go about it. From what I can tell its mostly place holder code. It uses names like "objName" instead of actual object names. And references using "quarter_mile_display" as part of the signage. But I am pretty sure the file above is whats going to be used for dynamic pricing.

 

They are implemented but only on west coast for now. I played around with the displays yesterday and this is what I've been using. Put the below code in a lua script in userfolder/lua/ge/extensions and give it some unique name like gasDisplayUtil.lua, the function calls will assume you're using that name so just change it up if you end up using a different name.

Code:

local M = {}

local function getGasStationByID(id)
local stations = extensions.freeroam_facilities.getFacilities("west_coast_usa").gasStations
local toRet = {}
for k,v in pairs(stations) do
if v.id==id then toRet = v end
end
return toRet
end

local function setGasStationDisplayValue(id, fueltype, value, enabled, ustax)
local station = getGasStationByID(id)
station.prices[fueltype].priceBaseline = value
station.prices[fueltype].priceRandomnessBias = nil
station.prices[fueltype].priceRandomnessGain = nil
station.prices[fueltype].disabled = not enabled
station.prices[fueltype].us_9_10_tax = ustax
if ustax then station.prices[fueltype].priceBaseline = value - 0.01 end --remove 1 cent from actual value for display in US maps
end

local function applyGasStationsDisplays()
extensions.freeroam_facilities_fuelPrice.setDisplayPrices()
end

M.setGasStationDisplayValue = setGasStationDisplayValue
M.applyGasStationsDisplays = applyGasStationsDisplays
M.getGasStationByID = getGasStationByID

return M

First step is to figure out the station ids, you can print them in console with this line:

Code:

for k,v in pairs(extensions.freeroam_facilities.getFacilities("west_coast_usa").gasStations) do print(v.id) end

Next step is to call this function from the script you added to the userfolder:

Code:

extensions.gasDisplayUtil.setGasStationDisplayValue("tyranos_island", "gasoline", 1.24,true,true)

First parameter is the station id found from the above list, next is fuel type, next is fuel value, next is a true or false toggle for the value (replaces price with dashes when false), final parameter is true or false for the US 9/10 cent tax which should be true given this map is based in the US, otherwise the display will show 0/10.

Fuel types are:

• "gasoline" for Regular Unleaded
• "gasoline2" for Mid-Grade Unleaded
• "gasoline3" for Premium Unleaded
• "diesel" for Diesel

For my own use case I added a condition that will remove 1 cent from the value when the US tax is on, since afaik the 9/10 cents is basically rounded up to a cent when you pay for gas. This is for continuity with the prices shown in interactive menus from my mod, just keep this in mind if you want to show 1.23 send the value 1.24. If you want to remove this comment out the line that starts with "if ustax". I also set priceRandomnessBias and priceRandomnessGain to nil to disable the price randomness since my mod handles the random fuel price generation with daily seeded RNG. Like the last line you can comment these out so the randomness comes back, or even set these to different values to see how they affect the price. For this station by default the gain is 0.1 while the bias is 0.2. You can see these values (and all the data related to a particular fuel station) with:

Code:

dump(extensions.gasDisplayUtil.getGasStationByID("tyranos_island"))

Anyway, to get values to show up on displays use this function:

Code:

extensions.gasDisplayUtil.applyGasStationsDisplays()