World Background Maps

[psychoszoku]

@BenganJ what is the truck at the beginning of the video :)?

[BenganJ]

@psychoszoku

It's a Volvo F88 by XBS with my skin to honor Arayas, who likes Angelina Jolie!

[MG Mike]

But all if all maps should fit on their right place, all mapmakers have do reposition their map, or not ?

Cause actually maps like Great steppe and Southern region doesn´t fit to the background. The rc "most boring road" is leading right through the caspian sea..
And maps like Promods doesn´t fit in parts, like cyprus and Spitzbergen..

it would be a very great thing if this woulf be corrected when the time has come..

[BenganJ]

@MG Mike

That's exactly what is happening! The Great Steppe is under reconstruction, all the Road to Asia
maps I have made Map Editor BG's and also the Mahgreb team has gotten ME BG that is properly
registered to this BIG EURASIA SAT BG. I haven't talked to Sergey about SRMap yet, but I will. :D

Scul at Promods team has said that they will fix what you mention there! What's worse is that they
have screwed up regarding scale of UK and Iceland. In the game engine SCS has built in a re-scale
of UK in Map View and Job View of the area around UK, but Promods has missed that, so that's the
reason why I have to make two versions of the SAT BG's!

[psychoszoku]

That is why I removed Southern Region and Great Steppe from my combo right now, even though I really like them. Because I am too pedantic with having them in wrong place on Bengan's background

As I know that TGS is under reconstruction I am waiting impatiently for new version. But I thought that Southern Region is not possible in nearest future, however if Sergey would know that this is anticipated then it would be good. Morevoer it could reach Arayas's Ukraine then.

[BenganJ]

@psychoszoku

Well, everything will work even if SRMap isn't re-scaled and positioned correctly,
but it would be REALLY nice if the SRMap team could do it. When Arayas is finished
with eastern Ukraine Sergey has promised to make a RC to it from Gukovo and
possibly also SRMap!

[psychoszoku]

I know it will work but with your background it would be more realistic while being in proper place :D

[BenganJ]

Sure, that's why I will contact Sergey and see if he thinks it is a possibility
to re-scale the map!

[MG Mike]

Well that sounds great! Also that Promods will work on it. Yeah GB is that extrapoint..

Do I understand it right, GB has a bigger scale.. And scs has a map view which let it appear in right scale at the BG Map although it is bigger.. And promods has not this changed view on it.. And therefore there are two versions..

And another point, I have several profiles with similar or same combos but at one with Promods the background (pm version) doesn't fit with great Brittain and not with Iceland. The roads are complete in the water.. But at all profiles where your BG map is used it is on top of all mods..
What other mods can take influence on your BGmap?

[BenganJ]

@MG Mike

Without knowing exactly why Promods has screwed up UK AND Iceland, I can only guess.
There's a setting in Map Editor, that if ticked, will make the game engine scale an area
located around UK, the old UKTS area, which was once imported into ETS2, so that it
appears, in Map View and Job View, as if it has the same scale as the rest, 1:19, in spite
of the fact that UK is at 1:15! DAMN, I have to learn NOT making these long sentences!

When Promods made Iceland I think that they got some problem regarding this behavior
of the game engine and had to untick that setting in Map Editor, which also meant that
they had to make their own BG's for the Map View and Job VIew. I showed that in another
post in this topic and it looks like this:
SCS's:


PM's:


I hope you can see why there's, at least now, mandatory to have 2 SAT BG's, one specifically
for the screwed up Promods scaling and another for the rest of the combos.

Why you get a shift of the UK area in ONE of your combos is hard for me to guess, but I've
seen that phenomenon several times. At one point in time I think, that ONE reason that
the RusMap DEF had to be placed below Promods files, with the rest of them above, might
have been such a reason.