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Hey everyone! Modslab Hub is a new place for the menus of my BeamNG mods. You install it once, press G, and all my mods that support it show up as tabs in one full-screen menu. So no more separate UI apps and menu keys for every mod.

The hub is free for everyone. By itself it doesn’t add anything to the game, it’s just the menu for my other mods. Right now it works with:

Traffic Reborn 1.7 and newer, both Free and Pro

Random Events from version 2.3 (coming soon)

I’ll be moving more of my mods into it over time.

What’s in it

G opens and closes the menu, F3 works too as a backup key

Every installed mod gets its own tab at the top with its own pages

Pages have different layouts depending on what’s in them: a ring for categories, lists for settings, cards for stats

Favourites: right-click anything to pin it to the list on the left, works across all mods

Search through all mods at once from one box

Status dock: when the menu is closed, a small strip in the corner shows what your mods are doing. It doesn’t block the mouse and hides when the game’s own menu is open

Settings (the gear tab): menu size, close on click outside, close after an action, dock position and your keys

The hub adds itself to your UI layout, you don’t need to set anything up by hand

Keys

G or F3 opens and closes the menu, Esc also closes it. You can rebind both in Options > Controls (search for “Modslab”) or from the hub settings, there’s a button there that takes you straight to the bindings.

Some stock work vehicles already use G for their own stuff: bus kneeling, semi ride height, the dump bed, the loader arm. In those vehicles G stays with the vehicle, and the hub will tell you once to use F3 instead.

Good to know

One copy of the hub works for all my mods. Just keep it in the mods folder next to them and update it separately.

If some other mod still has an old built-in copy of the hub, you’ll see a message on screen with that mod’s name. Update that mod and the message will go away.

Works on BeamNG.drive 0.39.

How to install

Download modslab_hub_1.0.0.0.zip below

Put it in your BeamNG mods folder as it is, don’t unpack it

Start the game, load any map and press G

If something doesn’t work, let me know in the comments.

Version 1.1 changelog here.

BIO page with download link (modsfire), Discord channel and Patreon

Download Modslab's Hub

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Comments

VortexSim

Please upload this somewhere other than Modsfire. Paying subscribers should not have to fight mal/adware on download sites.

Modslab

There are no viruses on Modsfire, it's one of the biggest mod sites out there. Paid subscribers have a Patreon-files section in the Discord, but you're right, I forgot to add Modslab Hub there, I'll fix that now

Modslab

Done, check Discord, please. And sorry for the delay.

Elias

It's a pity one is supposed to navigate trough a bunch of ads, then download a mod manager to actually download this mod manager to download a mod. What a waste of time, have to pass. So unfortunate since it looks like an amazing mod! Next time just give a DL link ...

Modslab

Just 1 ad. You don't need to install the mod manager. Can I ask why you're clicking the auto-install button instead of the Generate Link button? Auto-install goes through AVA Mod Manager, while the regular download does NOT require any money and does NOT require downloading anything except the mod itself)

Elias

Thanks for the quick reply. I was trying that, but the web interface was quite bad and ambiguous. Looked very scamy and my ad-blocker blocked a bunch of ads on there. Generate link wasn't working and at some point looking at all the available options it seemed like only options where sub or ava. Got back and dl worked, will give it a go now, thanks!

Modslab

Well, never met any issues while downloading mods from Modsfire. As I said, I use it since like 2018-2019 for both uploading and downloading mods, so I can say for sure - it's completely free and safe to use. I'm surprised that so many people are installing mods for games and never met Modsfire, it's top 1 mod-related filehost, most of the mod creators on many websites use it for uploading mods.

Elias

never heard of it. Only used nexus, steam workshop, in-game repos and manual installs. Quick question, the hub is completely empty for me and searching for specific mods doesnt find anything. Are there any weird dependancies you are using? I run beam on mac with crossover (usually almost no issues with the game or mods). Not sure if I did something wrong or if the hub is not usable for me.

Modslab

This hub is for my mods with modslab hub support (random events, traffic reborn, etc). It will be empty if you don't have my mods installed

Elias

I am aware of that, I thought I could browse your mods and download free ones (or even mandatory to run your mods ... ) I'm gonna do it manually then.

Modslab

So you have my mods installed but it's still empty?

Elias

No, I thought it was mandatory to download your mods :D Let me stop wasting your time, I should go back to reading first ...

Modslab

You'r not wasting my time, I'm always happy to answer any questions) this mod is required for some of my mods, otherwise you won't be able to change settings. So yes, now you just need to install some of my other mods like random events and the menu will show settings)

Elias

Got it! Everything works like a charm now. I checked out traffic and random events. Both are stunning additions to beam, thank you! Little feedback to Modsfire, though: For both downloads I needed to click 3-4 times on the DL button, was rerouted to at least 6 shady sites and it even downloaded opera instead of your zip once. You should really consider another hoster, your mods are to good to be hidden behind that shady gate. Really uncomfortable using that. While I got you here, I am working on a larger beam project myself and there are still many things I need to figure out, could I contact u some time?

Modslab

I'll contact modsfire team to let them know. If you can share some screens, it'll help a lot. 1 link should contain 1 pop-up ad. It's really a great file-hoster. Yeah, sure, feel free to contact me here or via discord.

Elias

They aren't pop-ups and I don't see the ads due to the hard work of my adblocker. On the page I see a few blank boxes with the ad names but when I click on the DL-Link, I only see my address bar getting rerouted a few times to like alibaba and other shady click revenue sites. After that, it either ends with a broken page contain an error, next try, receiving some sus and random file like "opera.zip" or if I get lucky with this add-roulette, your mod.zip. It happens in a second or two so I can't see what happens or screenshot anything. Thanks for the offer! Will contact u on discord!

Elias

Thats a real 2000s experience haha

Modslab

That's not how it supposed to work. Maybe that's because of adblocker, can say for sure, but I use it every day without issues, and millions of people does)

Elias

Are you able to DM me on patreon? I can't seem to write u a message.

Modslab

no, I can't too, don't know why. if you have discord, add modslab1