Exporting cars on Linux

[CrimeTime]

I'm playing on Linux using Proton right now and I can't export cars to BeamNG. I can press all the buttons and everything to export the car, it'll load and say it's exported but the car doesn't show up in Beam. Also I can't use mods, I believe I would need to enable them in the launcher but the game only launches without the launcher. In any case this game isn't made for Linux so I can't actually expect it to work, I'm just wondering if there is a way to do it.

[Killrob]

There is no way we know of as we do not have any Linux based systems ourselves to try Automation on. Automation reads the startup.ini in the base BeamNG folder to know where to place mods, if you have something other than the default folder you might need to change that. This is the only thing I can think of if there are no actual errors during export.

[Hard Rooster]

I had no success getting Automation to run on Linux at all, using Wine or Steam Play, so kudos for at least getting it to run.

[Chocolate_Pie698]

Originally posted by Hard Rooster:

I had no success getting Automation to run on Linux at all, using Wine or Steam Play, so kudos for at least getting it to run.

You need to start it with proton if you didn't (4.2) and launch with no launcher. It works fine.

[Xy©]

I figured it out, it's quite simple but rather annoying. Proton makes a different wine prefix for each game. Therefore BeamNG and automation just don't communicate with each other since it's sort of like they're installed on 2 different systems or under 2 different users. You have to go find the wine prefix that proton creates.

So essentially, you want to go to the automation prefix and manually copy the mod files that automation exported to the BeamNG prefix.

So copy your mod files from:
/home/[user]/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/293760/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/BeamNG.drive/mods/

To

/home/[user]/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/284160/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/BeamNG.drive/mods/

If you can't find .steam, make sure you have hidden files checked or just paste the entire thing

Unless they change the way that they manage prefixes and such, I don't think this is going to change anytime soon

[Vausinator]

Hey that's great to know! I double checked, this did indeed work. To automate this, one could use:

sudo mv -R /home/$USER/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/293760/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/BeamNG.drive/mods/* /home/$USER/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/284160/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/BeamNG.drive/mods/

Make an executable script out of this, or a cron-job, and you're done searching and moving manually.

[Clueless]

You could symlink the folders and not have to copy anything at all

[Skepller]

Sorry to bump an old topic, but here's some information if anyone still ends up finding this.

On my machine, the folders were slightly different.

My Automation was exporting to:

/home/$USER/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/293760/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Local Settings/Application Data/BeamNG.drive

My BeamNG mods folder was in a somewhat different path with the addition of a folder with the version (0.22 as of now):

/home/$USER/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/284160/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Local Settings/Application Data/BeamNG.drive/0.22/mods

You could just copy everything everytime you export a new car, I "automated" it by creating a symlink, like @Clueless mentioned before.

[Kibōchen]

I never understood the appeal of using Linux for gaming. You're only making things harder for yourself just getting most games to work. I could be wrong though.

[Swartkin]

Originally posted by Kirito:

I never understood the appeal of using Linux for gaming. You're only making things harder for yourself just getting most games to work. I could be wrong though.

People use linux for 3 reasons: Their pc is pretty bad, They think open source will rule the world and because it's prettier (Which it is), But for gaming using linux is pretty "dumb"

[T3n pounds of flax]

So the export files are in:
/home/$USER/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/293760/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/BeamNG.drive/mods/

Copy them to:
/home/$USER/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/284160/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/BeamNG.drive/0.25/mods/

Change $user to your linux login, and make sure the Beamng dir version is correct.


It's really that easy.