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Vehicle Triggers

How to use vehicle triggers in BeamNG.drive: select on-screen trigger boxes to operate parts of the vehicle, and the default PC bindings.

Vehicle Triggers were introduced in version 0.22 making it possible to interact with certain vehicle actions by directly interacting with the on-screen triggers.

This feature is only available on vehicles that supports it.

 How to

  1. Point the cursor at a vehicle to reveal its trigger boxes
  2. Select a trigger box to operate it.

Vehicle Triggers on the H-45 Flatbed Vehicle Triggers on the H-45 Flatbed

The default mouse bindings on PC are:

Key
Binding
Comments
Key
Left Mouse Button
Binding
Action 1
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The main mode of the trigger
Key
Shift + Left Mouse Button
Binding
Action 2
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Key
Middle Mouse Button
Binding
Action 3
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Usually does the opposite of Action 1

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Last modified: April 16, 2021
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