Blender BeamNG CDAE Addon

Addon for Blender 4.5/5.0 adding support for BeamNG’s model and material formats.
This addon mainly targets Blender 5.0.

Wiki (WIP)

Features

• DAE (Collada)

  Export only, produces a .dae optimized for BeamNG.

  	Export	Import
  Mesh	✅ Functional	➖
  Animations	✅ Functional	➖

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• CDAE

  WIP

  	Export	Import
  Mesh	❌ Partial	✅ Functional
  Animations	❌ Planned	➖

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• Materials

  Full support for the export of V1.5 (PBR) Materials. V1 is only usable for very basic materials.
  While the exporter can parse Blender's built-in nodes to some extent, you should use the Nodes provided by this addon for best effect.

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Supported/Tested Blender Versions

• 5.0
• 4.5
• 4.4

Collada Subset

While this addon contains Collada, it’s only the subset used by BeamNG, for other use cases this addon is probably of limited use.

• Nodes
  • Translation & Rotation: Matrix4x4
• Mesh
  • Positions
  • Normals
  • 2 UV Maps (Optional)
  • Int/RGBA Colors maped to Vec4 (Optional)
• Materials
  • Names Only
• Animations
  • Keyframes: Matrix4x4

Resources

• BeamNG.CDAE Specifications
• Torque3D.DTS Specifications