Alpha · v0.5.0 BeamNG.drive mod
Dynamic dirt, scratches & cracks for every vehicle.
Grit is a free BeamNG.drive mod that gives every car a history. Scrape along a guardrail and the paint shows it. Drive off-road and mud piles up behind the wheels, in the color of the ground you drive on.
Fully playable alpha: install it and drive. If something looks off, let us know in the forum thread.
- Vanilla & modded cars
- Keeps your paint and liveries
- Free · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
CleanWith Grit
Drag to compare. Same truck, same spot, before and after an off-road run.
Not a preset. Not a skin.
Unlike a static dirt skin, this dirt and scratch mod reacts to what actually happens to your car. It works on every vehicle, finds the painted parts on its own and puts everything on its own texture layer, so your paint, liveries and paint designs stay untouched.
- 01
Scratches
Exactly where the body hit, in the direction of the slide.
- 02
Dirt & mud
Wheel spray and body contact, colored by the surface.
- 03
Dust & washing
Dust settles at speed. Water washes it off again.
- 04
Cracks
Hairline and spiderweb cracks in dented plastic.
- Scrapes against walls, guardrails, rocks and other hard surfaces leave scratches exactly where the contact happened.
- Three depths: light clear-coat scuff, primer, bare metal. A longer or harder slide cuts deeper.
- Scratches follow the direction of the slide. Bushes, fabric and water never scratch.
CleanWith Grit
- Wheel spray: dirt, mud, sand, gravel, grass or snow lands on the body behind each wheel and on the rear.
- Contact dirt: roll into a ditch or slide along an embankment and the dirt stays right at that spot.
- Color by surface: mud is dark brown, sand is light, snow is white.
- Dirt lies on top of scratches and cracks.
- Dust: at speed on dusty ground a fine layer settles on the rear, the lower sides and the top.
- Washing: drive into water and everything below the waterline gets cleaner step by step. A splash through a ford removes a little, standing in water cleans fully.
- Wet dirt & drying: fresh mud goes on dark and wet and dries lighter in about a minute and a half, faster at speed.
- Scratches and cracks stay when you wash.
Damage
Cracks
When a painted plastic part like a bumper gets dented or breaks, hairline or spiderweb cracks appear right at that spot. Bigger dents give bigger cracks. Unpainted black plastic and glass stay vanilla, and cracks survive washing just like scratches.
In-game app
Your car, your rules
Add the Grit app from the UI apps menu. It sits as a small “Grit ▾” tab and folds out on click.
- Dirt, scratches and cracks on or off
- Dirt strength 0.25–2, drying speed 0.25–4
- Wash (damage stays) and Clear all
- Saved in
settings/grit.json
Performance
Measured in game, not estimated.
New decals are mostly computed instead of projected, so a frame in which Grit adds dirt takes as long as a normal one. No stutter while you plough through mud.
- ≈1 ms
- to bake one new decal
- <1 ms
- per frame when nothing happens
- 500
- dirt & scratch layers per car
- 0
- game files changed
Installation
Three steps, then drive.
Download
Get
grit_v0.5.0.zipfrom the BeamNG.com repository page.Drop it in
Put the zip into
%LOCALAPPDATA%\BeamNG\BeamNG.drive\current\mods\. Do not unpack it.Enable & drive
Enable Grit in the mod manager and spawn a car. It respawns once at the start, then Grit runs on its own.
Built and tested on BeamNG.drive 0.40.5.0 with the ETK I-Series, Gavril D-Series, Ibishu Covet and the modded Gavril Vertex NA2.
FAQ · Alpha known issues
Questions & answers
What is Grit?
Grit is a free mod for BeamNG.drive that adds dynamic dirt, mud, dust, scratches and plastic cracks to your car based on what actually happens while you drive. Scrapes leave scratches where the body hit, wheels throw mud in the color of the ground, and water washes the dirt off again.
Does Grit work with modded cars?
Yes. Grit works on every vehicle, vanilla and modded. It finds the painted parts of a car on its own, so no per-vehicle setup is needed.
Is Grit free?
Yes. Grit is free and licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. You download it from its BeamNG.com repository page.
Does Grit change my paint or livery?
No. Grit draws dirt and damage on its own texture layer on top of the paint, so your paint, liveries and paint designs stay untouched. It also changes no game files.
Does Grit hurt FPS?
Barely. Baking a new decal takes about 1 ms and an idle frame costs less than 1 ms. Most new dirt is computed instead of projected, so frames in which Grit adds dirt are no slower than normal frames.
Which BeamNG.drive version does Grit support?
Grit 0.5.0 is built and tested on BeamNG.drive 0.40.5.0 with the ETK I-Series, Gavril D-Series, Ibishu Covet and the modded Gavril Vertex NA2.
How do I clean my car?
Drive into water: everything below the waterline gets cleaner step by step. You can also press Wash in the Grit app (scratches and cracks stay) or Clear all, and a vehicle reset removes everything.
Why are scratches hard to see on white or chrome?
They are light on light. On dark paint they show up clearly.
Why does my car only get scratches low on the body?
Some vehicles only have collision points near the sills and bumper corners, so guardrail scratches stay down there.
Why does a scratch show up on two parts at once?
Some models reuse the same spot of their decal texture (UV1) for several parts. On the Ibishu Covet both bumpers share one stretched area, so a scratch there can show up on both. grit_main.uvCheck() in the Lua console shows the layout of any car, grit_main.clear() removes it.
Does Grit work on AI traffic, and is dirt saved?
Not yet. Grit currently runs on the player car only, and dirt and damage are gone after a reset, a repair or a restart. Other dirt or scratch mods may conflict, so use one at a time.
What's planned for Grit?
Rain that slowly washes the car, and optional dirt and scratches on AI traffic.
· Grit v0.5.0