Nevada Mods Exposed

I came accross a mod: https://www.modland.net/beamng.drive-mods/cars/bugatti-chiron-mansory-centuria.html 

Right away, one thing catched my eye: 

- "All rights to this mod belong to Nevada Mods" 

Which is unusual, as a mostly a lot of different people are involved, who create different parts of the mod, like 3d model, sounds, textures, etc...

There is a free Bugatti mod on the official forums, what are the chances that the paid one is built on top of that? So I decided to write a little script to compare the "Nevada Mods" paid Bugatti with a well-known forum mod - https://www.beamng.com/threads/2016-2022-bugatti-chiron.88889/ 

The results - suspicion is strongly supported: the paid mod substantially reuses code and assets present in the forum mod.

Here are some images of findings:

1. The chassis author field was replaced in jbeams/Chiron_chassis.jbeam - everything else remains the same.

2. The original author notice is still present in lua/sequentialIndicators.lua

3. Only the vehicle identifier changed in lua/sequentialIndicators.lua

4. The filename changed. The texture bytes match.

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