A collection of Blender add-ons to assist in Rigs of Rods mod development.
Updated versions of the RoR Truck (.truck) Import/Export add-ons created by ulteq.
- Drag and drop & multi-file import
- Textured submesh (
texcoords) support with material import andbackmeshpreservation, based on Thomas' Blender 2.49 addonsVehicle: Submeshed Polonez Caro
nodes2support, a first for any editorVehicle: 1982 DI Sportster 390C
- Automatic import of all node comment lines as vertex groups
Vehicle: Burnside Sedan
- Compatibility with Blender 4.2.x LTS
- Files exporting without an extension
detacher_grouppreventing beam import- Greatly improved beam export, beams are now correctly assigned to their appropriate
set_beam_defaultsanddetacher_group
To import a Truck file, click File -> Import -> Truck (.truck) CM and select your file. You can also drag & drop the file into the 3D viewport. The file should successfully import and (if applicable) display the submesh texture.
When importing a submesh mod, ensure the material file and texture are in the same directory as the Truck file.
Once you're ready to export, click File -> Export -> Truck (.truck) CM and select the file to export to.
By default the exporter appends .export to the file extension to prevent overwriting. The intended use case is to copy the new sections from the output file and paste them into the original file.
If you prefer, Overwrite file can be enabled prior to exporting. This is not recommended as no exporter has ever been capable of perfectly preserving the majority of Truck files.
Simple add-on that generates beams between selected nodes. Originally part of an old BeamNG JBeam exporter, it has been separated into its own add-on & updated for Blender 4.2.
- Download this repository as a ZIP (green Code button)
- Open the ZIP, drag and drop the
ror_*_cmfolders into
"%appdata%\Blender Foundation\Blender\4.2\scripts\addons"
(Paste into Run dialog to get there quickly)
- Launch Blender and go to
Edit->Preferences->Add-ons - Enable all
CM RoR Toolsadd-ons.
- Only Blender 4.2.x LTS is currently supported. Newer Blender versions along with Linux compatibility is untested.
- Importing submesh faces may result in additional unwanted beams. This behavior is also present in all previous importers.
- When exporting a
nodes2N/B, new nodes will be numbered. This works OK asnodes2is backwards compatible with numbered nodes.
These updates have been made possible thanks to GitHub Copilot, 99.5% of the new code was written by it.
As a result these will not replace the existing add-ons, I don't want to submit AI-generated code to any of the official repositories.
The current add-ons haven't seen a major update since ulteq ended development in 2019, this started as an experiment to see how far I could get (answer: quite far) with improving these add-ons as someone with little knowledge with Python.