Blender UNOFFICIAL Jbeam-Tools Addon

for BeamNG Modding

I was pretty unhappy with the official Jbeam editor for Blender so I'm making a simpler one with the tools i really need, unlike the official, this one supports Ctrl-Z as it works along with a standard blender mesh

any mesh can be non-destructively turned into a Jbeam-data-holder, it stores te JBeam data as vertex/edge attributes, currently the features are:

• Change selected nodes side (+left, +right, clear)
• Change selected nodes numbers (recount, replace, invert, increment, decrement), (use selection order when available)
• Change selected nodes prefix
• Assign node name directly on mesh vertices
• Copy selected vertex / edges as Nodes / Beams respectively in a Jbeam-ready text format so you can paste them there directly, (+ respecting selection order!)
• Ability to sort the selection before copying it to clipboard in 8 different modes: (node names must follow BeamNG node naming convention for automatic sorting to work)

  L>R-Asc: Ascending numeral, blocks from Left to Right
  L>R-Desc: Descending numeral, blocks from Left to Right
  R>L-Asc: Ascending numeral, blocks from Right to Left
  R>L-Desc: Descending numeral, blocks from Right to Left
  
  Asc-L>R: Blocks from ascending numeral, Left to Right
  Desc-L>R: Blocks from descending numeral, Left to Right
  Asc-L>R: Blocks from ascending numeral, Right to Left
  Desc-L>R: Blocks from descending numeral, Right to Left
  

• 3 real-time visualization modes for nodes in all 3D views: Normal, Names, Normal+Names
• 1 real-time visualization mode for beams in all 3D views
• Customizable real-time visualization settings such as colors, sizes and xray

someday (maybe):

• duplicate node name / beam warning
• load existent .jbeam files

NOT planned:

• collision tris