BeamNG JBeam Editor

This is a lightweight visualizer and tool for working with the physics definition files of BeamNG (called jbeam).

Install via the Visual Studio Code marketplace here

Project contributors, please read contributing.md!

⚠️ Experimental ⚠️

Warning: this plugin is still very experimental and might crash. We are working on bugfixes and stability improvements

Features

• custom syntax for jbeam that ignores missing commas

  

• Outline / Symbol provider: you can jump between parts and sections with the outline window

  

• Custom Json / JBeam parsing that is very close to the actual used parer that provides more useful errors and warnings with ranges

  

  

• Extensive hover information: the parsed object and a clickable breadcrumb

  

  

  

• Documentation integration to lookup the value, key and path of the hovered item in the docs to provide useful information. Currently looks for the breadcrumb: beams > optional, the key of the hovered item beams > id2 or the word itself FLT_MAX

  

• 3D Preview of the JBeam

  

  

  

• Node multi selection

  

• Beam multi selection

  

• Mesh multi selection

  

• Node translation gizmo support

  

• Flexmesh translation / rotation support

  

• Mirror planes and symmetry detection (with error support)

  

  

• Ground smart helper

  

  

• visualize current part or all parts

  

• triangle visualization

  

• Settings shortcut in the top right corner:

  

• Extensive settings, live updating the 3D scene as well:

  

  

• BeamNG Log file syntax highlighter and parser included

  

Known Issues

• Mesh functions are a bit unstable still. Especially if you change tabs, etc while it loads the data.

Wishlist

• JBeam beautifier: clean up the file, format everything nicely

• autocomplete part names in PC files

• make grid and ground plane being as big as the vehicle at least for big vehicles

• mesh opacity user-setable

• implementation of props

• picking flexbodies in 3d space

• working slot system: part chain loading support, part config (PC) loading

• better support for sections: slidenodes, rails, triangles, wheels, refNodes, camera*, torsionbars

• powertrain viz

• trigger viz

• variables debug UI

• specific help for sections using proper error checking and links to documentation

• Robustness and future-proofing: Add exception handling and error mitigation to the code so it will continue working in the future

• zip mod loading?

• convert all JS files to proper JS modules / remove hacks

• implement more providers from here

• use more icons throughout the UI: from here

• multi-line selection of elements also working in 3d space

• direction connection to BeamNG: sync/reload automatically

• highlighting of scopes

• dedicated data view

• dedicated documentation view

• walkthrough: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/contribution-points#contributes.walkthroughs

• getting started page

Requirements

None

Troubleshooting

JBeam file association

If the file association does not work out of the box, pelase configure your setup:

1. Open a jbeam file. On the bottom right corner of the window, click on the language mode:

   

2. In the resulting popup, select Configure File Association for '.jbeam':

   

3. enter jbeam - It should look like this:

   

If all worked, it should show up like this now:

Release Notes

0.4.3

• Bugfixes:
  • Tweaked tooltip size
  • Fixed node positions displayed in wrong coordinate system
  • Fixed visualization status bar being larger than it should be, which was preventing a large portion of the UI from being interactable
  • Rounding node position to 3 decimal places after moving nodes

0.4.2

• Features:
  • Tweaked node visualization tooltip size
  • Tweaked BeamNG connection status bar message

0.4.1

• Features:
  • Added status bar button to toggle connecting with BeamNG

0.4.0

• Features:

  • Node translation gizmo support - now you can translate nodes with a gizmo

    

  • Flexmesh translation / rotation support - now fits the visualization in the simulation

    

  • new 3D view toolbar - quick switches for most commonly used tools

    

  • Mirror planes and symmetry support - highlights nodes across any detected mirror planes

    

  • Symmetry error detection - detects where the symmetry across mirror planes seems to be broken

    

  • JBeam legend pane - shows a legend of the JBeam types and colors

    

  • Hydro and torsion hydro visualization

  • Font changed to Cascadia Code for better readability

0.3.92

• Bugfixes:
  • Duplicate beam detector now works pretty much like in game

0.3.91

• Bugfixes:
  • Duplicate beam detector now works like in game

0.3.9

• Bugfixes:
  • Fixed JBeam file/parts counter
  • Fixed JBeam diagnostics clearing on closing file
  • Tweaked diagnostic message for duplicate beams and degenerate triangles a bit

0.3.8

• Bugfixes:
  • Fixed bug where "tableSchema" processing didn't happen due to even just JSON warnings existing, which isn't a problem to process.
• Features:
  • added duplicate beam detection for current file
  • added degenerate triangle detection

0.3.7

• Bugfixes:
  • fixed jbeam being hidden under z=0 plane
  • fixed node label resizing in perspective mode when rotating camera
  • no longer rendering "virtual" jbeam objects as it can be confusing
• Features:
  • added torsion bar visualization
  • added a setting "Show Node IDs" to show node ids regardless of where your cursor is in the jbeam file
  • "focus Selected JBeam" enabled by default and works with other JBeam objects

0.3.6

• Bugfixes:
  • tweaked node sizing
  • tweaked node label sizing in orthographic mode

0.3.5

• Bugfixes:
  • fixed plugin not working under Linux
• Features:
  • now mouse double click in order to select nodes
  • added ability toggle focusing on selected nodes (off by default)

0.3.4

• Bugfixes:
  • fixed bug with duplicate diagnoses, when the archivar processes all jbeam files, and then you open a jbeam file, and you modify it
  • fixed showing nodes in 3D view from a different vehicle
  • ignore processing "slotType" with "processTableWithSchemaDestructive"
  • in 3D scene view, virtual nodes colored blue and have "(v)" appended to the node name
  • fixed JBeam files parsed counter
  • fixed parsing jbeam/sjson files that don't have an outer object
  • more parsing bugs fixed
  • fixed/updated jbeam/part config file icons thanks to Sopze92

0.3.3

• Bugfixes:
  • fixed syntax checker not working in some cases
  • fixed displaying duplicate diagnostics
  • fixed JBeam file/part counter
• Features:
  • added ability to detect duplicate dictionary keys

0.3.2

• Bugfixes:
  • fixed tooltip textures not updating correctly
  • improved label scaling
  • improved error handling on sim sync
  • fixed CTRL + SHIFT + P : "Sync with simulation"
  • improved simconnection protocol to have message identifiers and lengths

0.3.1

• Bugfixes:
  • fixed node selection scrolling the viewport when leaving and re-entering the 3D view

0.3.0

• Bugfixes:
  • improved groundplane size for large models
  • improved stability
  • nodes are picked in 2d space for better accurancy
  • exchanged left/right mouse button for pan/rotate
  • fixed node sizes in orthographic view
  • fixed json number parsing for numbers with a leading plus sign
• Features:
  • completely new json parser with better and improved metadata support and improved error diagnostics
  • added 3D line to mark the origin 0,0,0
  • beamng.log parser
  • triangles are not visible unless editing that section
  • only show 3d meshes if in flexbodies section
  • support for floating 3D labels. Used to display node names right now
  • added simconnection: will connect to the simulation and interact with it (if running)
  • added knowledge of all existing jbeam files for part finding reasons
  • added partconfig parsing and completion basics - experimental

0.2.5

• Bugfixes:

  • fixed empty sections crashing the parser
  • improved error handling sjson/table parsing
  • improved stability with multiple webviews open
  • improved stability with changing documents
  • fixed memory leaks due to improper geometry/material management
  • Fixed meshes disappearing: fixed normal and bounds calculation

• Features:

  • Added extension settings. Open with Open Settings on top right corner
  • Added new settings
    • Enable/Disable hover
    • Enable/Disable hover highlight with the breadCrumb
    • Enable/Disable hover documentation
    • Enable/Disable hover data
    • Enable/Disable mesh default loading
    • FPS Limit
    • Load common folder

0.2.4

• fixed leaking options in the table parser
• removed ground floor for now
• implemented triangles section visualizer

0.2.3

• Improved readme a bit

0.2.2

• Remove icon theme to not overwrite any user themes

0.2.1

• Fixed Mesh loading crashing when the opened file is outside the workspace. Enforcing a workspace now and showing an error message.

0.2

• fixed documentation a bit up

0.1

Initial release :)