Making that Blender Cube again as a Mod/ Jbeam - Files Included in Video
6For BeamNG
Dynamic errors along the way that will help guide you when you make the same mistakes :D
Basic Mod( bare minimum stuff needed for new mod )
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AoPEwcmh86n1zx2GErR5AN2OdZ-6?e=ld9qtN
Jbeam exporter For Blender
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AoPEwcmh86n1qWGLVHwXAsgAYEmr?e=TXB1eQ
Notepad++
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/
Basically a basic mod.jbeam is everything you need except the nodes beams and triangles. Where an exported jbeam from blender is the nodes beams and triangles, without the other things needed. Specifically the flexbody is not exported and added, so that manually needs to be added. Reference nodes also are not automatically added to name a couple things.
Think of it like this,. a grocery store is blender. You go to but some flour and a bottle of water. You can buy that stuff but the cashier that puts it in the bag for you can not tell you what to make with it, she has no idea what you want to make. The exported Jbeam is like a receipt of bought items. And what you do with them is up to you. In many ways making mods is like cooking. There are many ways you can explain to one how to cook the same thing. Some ways are better or faster than others, but not necessarily wrong. For example, some people like to manually type out beams, nodes and triangles and where each one is in X,Y,Z coordinates rather than buy those items at the grocery store. I do not like math like that.. haha, I rather export the stuff from Blender and let it do all the bagging. I choose not to explain that way of doing it manually because videos explaining this sort of thing already takes long enough. And I was one of those people who those extra steps caused more confusion. But not a bad idea for those who want a deeper understanding of why what is and why is is. Check out @morzbng74 for some of his tutorials on mod making. At the time I started learning things, only his tutorials helped me get past the parts I did not understand in mod making.