LogLevelActorContainer: Created LevelActorCluster (43) for /Game/Environments/PhotoScenes/Levels/BeamNGExportScene.BeamNGExportScene:PersistentLevel with 36 objects, 2 referenced clusters and 251 mutable objects.

LogStreaming: Warning: IsTimeLimitExceeded: ProcessImportsAndExports Start IO nullptr Load Time 200.21ms Last Step Time 15.44ms LogLevel: ActivateLevel /Game/Levels/Car_Export_Scene 1 1 0 This error “LogFMOD: Warning: Failed to stop event instance” repeats for a good while and then I think the meat and potatoes might be this, “LogLevel: ActivateLevel /Game/Environments/PhotoScenes/Levels/BeamNGExportScene 1 1 0 Copied it over to the other computer to put in BeamNG just to double check that it had no sound. Looking in the zip of the car I saw it still lacked the “engine” folder. I just ran it windowed over here and very quickly made a car with all the trimmings and exported. Lotta games like Mount and Blade do that to on this other computer so that's not important. There is some weirdness about the game not liking running in 1080p on a 4k monitor in the log file but you can ignore that.

I did a fresh install of Automation on the other computer and it did the same thing. All other games work perfectly fine with no problems. They are both on their own separate drives but the save folders are in the default places. Neither Automation, nor BeamNG are installed to C drive because of a lack of space. I do have another computer to test on but, that computer is essentially a complete clone of this computer in hardware and software so I'm not sure how much that will help. It also takes a long time to export a car if that helps. Other mods, (including others made with Automation) from other people's computer work fine but that is because they all have an 'engine' folder under 'sound' so the problem is my exporter.

And yes, I did the usually troubleshooting- verifying game cache, antivirus off, wiping BeamNG caches, checking write permissions for folders, etc. Big disappointment I can't hear that V16 scream like it does in Automation or the farting of my giant I3. Just as the title says cars export just fine and work in BeamNG except that there is no folder 'engine' under the sound folder in the mod archive so the engine is silent.

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