This may be the hardest project of them all. We had to improvise there with completely new landscape. A more specific problem was that Pori had no obvious connection to the north to Vaasa and Oulu. Some cities have already received a makeover, such as Oulu and Vaasa others remain to be done. Furthermore, some of our northern Finland is aging as well, so we have started refreshing our areas with the new assets the DLC brings. Although this eliminated the need to merge many small areas back in, we were still left with many roads to connect, again all with different heights. This makes sense because our southern Finland was comprised of some of the oldest mapping in the mod, so we have retired it while retaining plenty of ProMods content in northern Finland. ProMods Finland is bigger than that of the DLC so we decided to remove our overlapping part. There were similar problems for some of our scenery villages and towns in the Baltic States.įinland was another hard merge. It was a big challenge to facilitate this difference without creating a new (and rather unrealistic) “alpine road”. What also didn’t help was that at the border area near Suwałki there was a height difference of 50 meters between SCS’ and our mapping. We had to compress and sometimes completely rebuild the entire border area. One of the bigger problems is that the border crossings in our map were a kilometer further north than the ones from SCS. This meant that at some points the road alignment made re-connecting the roads very difficult.
Pasting a small area into the map is not a big deal, but connecting it properly can be difficult.įor example, we have previously done massive rebuilds in Elbłąg and Suwałki, such that the road network on the Polish side of the border has undergone many changes. We have many small areas that need merging individually. This DLC is a completely different story. In the previous merges we often could copy-paste large areas very quickly, and connecting them was not hard. With the Germany rebuild and Beyond the Baltic Sea DLC, however, merging has proven to be a much more complicated task. Only France was a bit more challenging, but the rebuilt old map in Northern France provided a bit of a buffer between our map and the DLC, which made things easier. The same goes for the Italy DLC, where most of our mapping was already a few years old and had aged poorly, especially due to the lack of models for the distinctive Italian architecture which SCS did such a good job with. Therefore, creating compatibility with our pack was easy, even though we sadly had to say goodbye to many ProMods v1.0 areas and memories. The Scandinavia DLC only shared one real border with our map. Previously, merging new DLCs with our map was a relatively easy job. To celebrate this milestone we thought we’d give some extra insight into the merging process of the Beyond the Baltic Sea DLC and SCS’ rebuilt northern Germany. If you haven’t already, give us a like – let’s see how quickly we can reach 50k! You can also follow us on Twitter and Instagram. We’re proud to deliver an enhanced experience to so many fans, so we’re always happy to see our community growing even larger.
Our Facebook page recently reached a massive 40,000 likes.
So the same rule applies for voice navigation as in real life: “Don’t trust the satnav blindly!” Unfortunately, there are a small number of issues which we were unable to resolve – at least for now. There were many bugs arising from the newly implemented feature of voice navigation, so we fixed our prefabs so that the player is given the correct instructions. This is only the start of what is to come in this area. And not only did we do merging work, but we also upgraded many assets along the way, such as in Ukraine. For example, Nuremberg is still present as a ProMods city, with the highway system upgraded to the standard from the SCS team. However, we think that we have struck a good balance between SCS and ProMods mapping. Not only did we have to update many models to be able to support DirectX 11, and some of our road elements to support the new voice navigation feature… We also had to merge in the new parts of the SCS Germany rework and since some of these areas were already rebuilt in ProMods, we had to merge various bits and pieces from our work into the work from the SCS developers. It wasn’t easy to get ProMods 2.4 converted for this new version taking a lot of time and practically all our resources. Considering our final testing phase takes 2~3 weeks we have managed to push this large update out in record breaking time. Less than a month ago SCS released the new Euro Truck Simulator 2 1.35 update.
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