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Drone Show v2.0 is out! [Changelog] [Free + Pro] (Patreon)

Published:

2026-10-25 09:58:44

Edited:

2026-10-25 09:59:05

Imported:

2026-10

Content

Hey everyone! Drone Show 2.0 is out. It’s a full rebuild for BeamNG 0.40 with real LED drones that light up the night, and in Pro a complete drone show with a launch pad, 3D shapes and a firework finale.

What’s new (Free and Pro)

LED drones - bright white cores with coloured glow around them. Vivid mode for deep, bright coloured dots. The old look is still there as Classic

The show now lights up the ground under it in its colours

13 shapes and 9 flags, plus outline mode for text and shapes

Text in 10 fonts and any language, emoji in their own colours, and | for a second line

New fly-in “From the sky”, take-off order and soft easing

New shows now flow out of the one that’s already in the sky

New “Above my car” placement. Size, distance and height can be changed while the show is already up

Night for the show: one click for midnight, one more to get your time back

10 palettes and your own custom palette

Own tab in Modslab Hub (press G). Without the hub, the app has all the settings

Radial menu and keys (unbound by default) for show, replay, land, night and settings

What’s new in Pro

Launch pad - take-off in waves, curved flights and landing back on the pad

Hold effects - colour wave, sparkle, pulse, chase

Firework finale - launch it any time or use it as the end of every show

9 3D shapes that spin in the sky

Pictures and playlists now work from both the hub and the app, and playlists are saved

Show spots saved per map

Show camera - orbit, fly-by, front, rise

Fixed for BeamNG 0.40

The Drone Show app didn’t open on 0.40

The glow drones showed red “no material” squares on 0.40 and their colours never changed. They’re replaced with the new LED drones

No more warnings in the log when the game starts

Other fixes

3D formations jumped to a random angle when they finished forming and snapped flat when they left

“Lock to world” didn’t do anything. It’s now “Follow the camera”, and the formation moves with your view

Drones stayed in the sky after changing maps

A picture changed drone size and glow for every show after it

Pictures in a playlist could get skipped

Drones took off from a fixed height instead of from the ground

Settings were forgotten after a restart, now they’re saved

Big shows run much smoother now, only the drones that move are updated every frame

Requirements

BeamNG.drive 0.40

Modslab Hub (free) for the menu: https://www.patreon.com/ML2000/posts/modslab-hub-1-0-172073209

The main page of the mod with download link

Files

My BeamNG Mod Turns Any Word Into a Drone Show

Type a word, and hundreds of glowing drones lift off and write it across the night sky. I rebuilt my Drone Show mod from the ground up for 2.0, so here is everything it can do now. Every drone is a little LED with a white-hot core and its colour glowing around it, so it looks the way a real show looks on camera. You can write two lines in any font you have installed, pick shapes and flags, use one of ten palettes or make your own, and each new show flows straight out of the one already in the sky. All of that is free, and it has its own tab in the Modslab Hub. PRO turns it into the whole show. The drones wait on a launch pad, take off in waves, swing into place on curved paths and come back down to land at the end. While a shape holds you can run a colour wave or a sparkle over it, and there's a firework finale to close it out. PRO also has 3D shapes that turn in the sky (a planet, DNA, a galaxy), pictures rebuilt from drones in their own colours (the pumpkin and the ghost in the video are just two png files), playlists, saved show spots on every map and a camera that flies around the show for you. Free and PRO are both on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/ML2000 0:00 Intro 0:17 Type a Word 0:36 Shapes and Colours 0:54 The Real Show (PRO) 1:26 3D Shapes (PRO) 1:49 Pictures, Playlists and the Finale (PRO) Filmed over the canyon on stock Utah right after sunset. The music is mine. Not affiliated with BeamNG GmbH. #BeamNG #BeamNGdrive #BeamNGmods