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Beacon color change and animation.

Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 1:28 pm
by teenage modder
Hi, does anybody know how to create custom lightbars and colors. I am working on a truck and would like to add beacon lights and bars .
Any help would be of great assistance.

Edit don_apple: topic moved from "General Discussion" to "Modding", since it is about creating/changing a mod.

Re: Beacon color change and animation.

Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2023 12:28 pm
by Dogface
That is a very general question. What did you need help with?

Re: Beacon color change and animation.

Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2023 4:29 pm
by Dogface
FYI: this is where the game beacons are...

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Farming Simulator 22\data\shared\assets\beaconLights\lizard

Re: Beacon color change and animation.

Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2023 7:47 pm
by teenage modder
Because I’m working on custom light bars with custom flash patterns and colors.

Re: Beacon color change and animation.

Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2023 8:00 pm
by teenage modder
Also I’m only a teenager

Re: Beacon color change and animation.

Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2023 9:43 pm
by Dogface
Do you want to add the beacons from the game onto the truck?
Do you want to create beacons from scratch?
Do you know how to use Blender?
Do you know how to use Giants Editor?

Re: Beacon color change and animation.

Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2023 6:13 pm
by teenage modder
I would like to know how to create custom light bars in blender and put them onto a truck in the giants editor.

Re: Beacon color change and animation.

Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2023 6:14 pm
by teenage modder
I know the basics of blender and giants editor.

Re: Beacon color change and animation.

Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2023 8:13 pm
by Dogface
Okay, good. I would start by looking at the beacons in the game (link above). Look at one of the beacons in GE, and the xml in Notepad++, and get a basic understanding of how they work.

Next, make the models in Blender. I would import the car and one of the game beacons as a size reference.

Re: Beacon color change and animation.

Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2023 12:08 am
by Dogface
Also, if you want the blinky LED type of beacon, the Lindner Lintrac 130 has an example of that.

Re: Beacon color change and animation.

Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2023 6:08 pm
by teenage modder
Also do you know how to add the pressure washing effect onto a truck or trailer.

Re: Beacon color change and animation.

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2023 12:34 am
by teenage modder
Also sometimes I can get a car or tractor into GE but they won’t open in the blender even though they are the right file type and size

Re: Beacon color change and animation.

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 6:55 pm
by Missyb
teenage modder wrote: Thu Oct 12, 2023 12:34 am Also sometimes I can get a car or tractor into GE but they won’t open in the blender even though they are the right file type and size
you need to export from GE as OBJ then in blender file>import>OBJ (legacy) if using blender 3.2

Re: Beacon color change and animation.

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 7:04 pm
by teenage modder
I did that

Re: Beacon color change and animation.

Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:05 pm
by Dogface
You did that, and it worked? Because I have never had an obj GE export fail to import into Blender.