Import new cars models, objects, elements in the scenarios? about beamngpy

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I wrote a small example, which includes spawning after scenario creation, though it is not available on the dev branch yet, but you can find it here: examples/spawning.ipynb. You will have to change the rotation specification for it to work in your beamngpy version right now, or you wait for it to be integrated into dev/master :)

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There are two options to generate assets through the BeamNG library BEFORE scenario generation:

1. Using the various available procedural objects (ProceduralCylinder, ProceduralCone, ProceduralCube) for which you can find an example here: examples/procedural_meshes.py
   
2. Using the ScenarioObject class to spawn any asset available in the game. Here is a minimal example:

from beamngpy import BeamNGpy, Vehicle, Scenario, ScenarioObject

beamng = BeamNGpy('localhost', 64256)

scenario = Scenario('east_coast_usa', 'spawn_objects_example')

vehicle_pos = (647.596008,-145.919678,53.4411545)
vehicle_rot = (0.00938976184,-0.00648232969,0.325634241)
vehicle = Vehicle('ego_vehicle', model='pickup', licence='PYTHON')
scenario.add_vehicle(vehicle, pos=vehicle_pos, rot=vehicle_rot)

rb_pos = (640.05011,-156.296127,53.5653763)
rot = (0,0,0)
scenario_obj = ScenarioObject(oid='roadblock', 
                              name='sawhorse',
                              otype='BeamNGVehicle',
                              pos=rb_pos,
                              rot=rot,
                              scale=(1, 1, 1),
                              JBeam = 'sawhorse',
                              datablock="default_vehicle"
                              )
scenario.add_object(scenario_obj)

scenario.make(beamng)

bng = beamng.open()
bng.load_scenario(scenario)
bng.start_scenario()

Concerning the generation of assets AFTER scenario creation, i.e. in-game:
It is possible to spawn assets of type BeamNGVehicle during the simulation with the spawn_vehicle and despawn_vehicle function of the BeamNGpy class. I'll write an example for that as well in the near future :-)

Hope that helps!