Part Highlighting

Updated part highlighting so that you can use it multiple parts at once

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Now that does look pretty cool it will allow more in depth look at the parts as they move around while driving

 

This is even cooler than I initially thought! I thought you'd only be able to do this while in the parts menu but now that it applies outside of it, I can do so many cool things!

Suggestion: Add a keyboard shortcut to reset sticky selection while you aren't in the parts menu.

 

Looks awesome! im just scared about part selector lags

 

Reminds me of this thread from a while ago: https://www.beamng.com/threads/wheels-camera.29227/
@Speedy Von Gofast

 

Ditto. The part selector is very laggy atm. Laggier than the game itself.

 

Im really excited to see that ingame now

 

That's a great feature cause we will understand much better how a car works

 

I'm wondering how this might eventually work in tandem with the replay system, especially once the latter is spruced up - having the ability to stage a crash on a WIP mod, and then replay it with only certain parts visible would be a huge aid in debugging.

Heck, it'd also be a huge aid for the development team when constructing new official vehicles.

 

will it show nodes and beams from selected parts only too?

 

dang... this is going to make for some GREAT video and screenshot opportunities!

side note is a sort of in-game filter system like the one in gtav possible, in the camera application? (like after you take a picture its an editable menu?)

 

I detect "hovercars" in the near future...

 

Wow, that will actually be very helpful for content creation

One suggestion I might add though, would it be possible to have a similar system for the jbeam? When working on parts such as suspension and body panels the body jbeam makes it hard to see, would be cool of you could hide just the beams of the body ect...

 

Agreed; I could definitely use this to track down oddities in suspension components and overall suspension geometry, and also could use this to take a look at how official suspension designs are on the official vehicles, so I can better see how they work in real time.

Not to mention this could be very useful with the debug JBeam modes, where you could isolate part of the JBeam and isolate instabilities a bit quicker in some cases.

This will be a wonderful thing in mod creation; I'm excited to see this, even if it's at first only a visible mesh highlight.

0.12 will be a very, very interesting and exciting update if all of what's being talked about makes it in

 

This is VERY useful for people creating mods

+1

 

Now that is cool. Finally able to see the chassis and parts moving without the body. Although I think it'd be cool to have the body be transparent as an option as well, but nonetheless this is some seriously nifty stuff. 10/10

 

Very cool indeed. Nice work!

 

YES, I have wanted this forever!

 

It will be useful if you wanna say crash a car and watch the bodywork crumple or watch the driveshaft snap