Hard Rooster's Vanilla Fixtures Thread

[Quotex]

I’m going to limit myself to the 5 6 things i’m really missing the most from a design standpoint. Personally I think the amount of light fixtures is already very decent, even more so when the above 80s stuff gets added. What i’m really missing is other ways to make our vehicles look more realistic.

License plate inserts (basically filled grille elements that have a license plate inside of them, but ones that don’t look awkwardly deep or make the plate stick out very far.), they really make or break a rear end design for me sometimes, and the current simple license plates don’t look well when you just slap them onto the back. These could fit well on either the trunk or bumper of vehicles. I have made a collage of a few of them:

It would be nice to have these in certain variants (rounded, angular, narrow, wide, with chrome/painted strip, without)

License plate brackets
Basically the opposite of the above-mentioned inserts, these should be simpler to do from a modelling standpoint, it’s basically a plastic block fitted with a license plate that always sticks out of the bumper and keeps the front plate readable, as it is right now, the front license plate either takes a chunk out of the bumper or curves with it. Which isn’t very realistic.

If possible, I’d like to see a deeper version that could stick back into the body of the car.

Windshield wipers
These should be pretty self explainatory, a few types (modern, classic, for headlights or rear hatches) would be really cool to have, i know it’s not going to be possible to make them functional, or to place them properly on the front window, but versions that can be placed infront or just below of the cars windows and lights would be really nice.

Parking Sensors
Another misc fixture, currently you can use fuel caps to imitate the look, but they never quite do the thing right.

Random trunk stuff
Keyholes with grips and random plastic blocks for the rear end, I wasn’t sure what the name of those were but i like the look of them.

And for this last one, I don’t really have a picture. But I’d like keyhole-less variants of the current ingame door handles. Having a Sedan or wagon with 2 pairs of key holes on each side is kind of weird to have.

Sorry for the long, picture intensive post, I tried to keep it limited to the things I was missing the most. Hopefully other people will agree with these ideas.

[Elizipeazie]

I would like to request some other licence plate formats for countries other than New Zealand.

This would make designing cars with equally sized, and correctly porportioned plates soo much easier.

[HardRooster]

I like all these suggestions. The rear plate frame idea is one I’ve thought about, it could be done in a similar fashion to headlamps, with bones and a skinned mesh so the plate stays flat and upright, you’ll notice the vanilla plates do that, they’re always flat, they don’t conform to bodies.

The stick out plate frames are a challenge I’d also like to tackle, but it’ll require me figuring out pod-light magic. I’ve made a plate frame before, but without any bones and it just looks like crap as it conforms to the shape of the body. Bent plates aren’t right, so you need the bones, the skinned mesh…then you need it to stick out from the body…and that’s the hard part that I’ve yet to decipher. So far, only thecarlover has figured that one out. But I’ll still give it a go assuming your post gets all the likes

Thumb buttons are easy, that’s not a problem. Same with backup sensors. I think I could even do the back up sensors in an array, so you don’t have to place them individually too.

Wipers would be an interesting challenge as well, I’d think you’d have to make them so the pivot and the blade are designed to morph to the body surface, but overlapping them on windows is not a likely option. Could possibly do a jankey tab or something, I dunno, but it would take some serious fiddling. It’s likely going to end up a limitation of specific bodies more than anything, since we can’t place fixtures on glass.

To everyone else:

I intend to get started on the next round of goodies on Tuesday, so get those ideas in to me soon!

[KA24DE]

The 9th gen Mitsubishi Galant Ralliart had some really cool looking head and tail lights.





The tail lights should probably be modeled without that integrated spoiler though… or with it, and then add the spoiler as a fixture… but that would probably never line up correctly on most bodies.

Galant headlights can have plenty of variants, since every trim level seemed to have different ones


The non-Ralliart version of the tail-lights didn’t have the integrated spoiler, so it may be a better base to start with.

[asami]

Maybe more 2010s supercar fixtures? Like side vents, taillights, and headlights.

[asami]

Oh, and modern style lights and grilles like these:

[Mikonp7]

1. Some less ricey wings would be sweet:

2. Some hood fixtures would be also nut worthy

And for the memes:

[HardRooster]

OMG yes, a blower intake. That would be all of the fun.

[goblin95]

1. I think the spindle grille fixture have to come up in the suggestion sooner or later.

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2. What I actually need are more lettering/typefaces for decals and badges, maybe something like:

• Script font.
  For example, this one’s called ‘lamacchina’, otherwise known as the Lamborghini font:
  

  
  
  And Alfaowners Script:
  
  

• 50s-esque badge typeface.
  This one is called Raceway Medium:
  

  
  
  And the famous Magneto:
  
  

• Bold and italic typefaces. I don’t put any specifics for this because, well, just anything bold and/or italic makes me a happy.

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3. Additionally, small accessories could be useful for the aftermarket look.

Front tow hook:

Hood pins:

Decorative wheelie bars and parachute (I say decorative because I’m 99% sure it’ll fall off in BeamNG lol):

Or maybe go crazy and downright bosozoku exhausts:

[Mythrin]

An Aventador style vent would be nice to have.

Edit: This Volvo S60 vent would be nice aswell.

[asami]

But it wouldn’t fit any of the bodies…

[Mythrin]

No it doesn’t directly fit but it’s useful for people that want to obscure part of it or just have some different shapes to play around with.

[Dansoncars]

The infamous Lexus spindle grill, would help get some really unique shapes going!

[Chickenbiscuit]

Here’s a smaller practical type fixture that hopefully wouldn’t be too much trouble to get working. The shape-carving fixtures in the workshop could be expanded on with more shallow and/or more rounded versions. They could be used as concave trim pieces, “fake” panel gaps, and could probably find other uses combined with other fixtures.

Something like the lines down the sides of an F50.

[captain_bacon]

we need diffusers

these splitter suspension arms

also some duck tail spoilers would be nice

[MrChips]

You can make all of that stuff pretty easily out of existing fixtures though.

[Chickenbiscuit]

I think as far as diffusers and stuff goes, we could use something like a rounded version of the mudflaps with no logo and/or mudflap like fixtures that sit farther into the body. We could also really use basic trim pieces with some depth so you can place the over grills/vents without it looking like its floating over them.

[HardRooster]

@Knugcab @Quotex

I’ll be tackling your suggestions first. I’ve already done some experimenting with license plate frames and indeed I can make them work. Wipers TBD… Stay tuned.

@Mikonp7 @Chickenbiscuit

Your suggestions got as many,or almost as many votes, but they’ll have to wait for the first set of fixtures to be completed. But at this point they look like the next ones up.

Everyone else, keep submitting new ideas and voting with the like button.

Edit: I already have a proof of concept prototype, utilizing pod-light technology, for a front license plate bracket;

[ramthecowy]

Also to address what others have been suggesting: IMO there’s no point making discrete fixtures out of modern lights because they’re characterized by a housing with many components inside that make it up. If you take all of that and make a light out of that then it ends up having a very specific look and a very limited use, rather it’s better that we have a wider variety of generic shapes and parts to combine to make modern styling possible, it’s totally doable and I think it’s pretty much the only real way to do it at all…

[Ivan_the_Lawfull]

Rond popup head lights like the ones that porsche and miata had