World Background Maps

[psychoszoku]

I only wonder if the background goes in circles when you have more maps?
Because in my combo I didnt notice that and I am wobdering whether I applied it wrong :roll:

[MG Mike]

Wow,

Your background map is worldwide now..

So here an input to SCS software: unite ets2 and ATS to one game, of course let be space for mods and next input to all mapmakers, unite your maps for the ultimate world combo..
So we have Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, North America from ATS and South America from EAA and then we call the whole construction "World Truck Simulator" or WTS

Or let's screw things up and include busses as well as cars as drivable vehicles and call it "World Traffic Simulator" In the Busses you have passengers of course and drive cars for your own or as Taxi or a little transporter bus as package carrier..

[BenganJ]

@psychoszoku

In the game options you have Gameplay and in there you can choose Map alignment as one of three.

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Flat
North locked
Always north

Flat gives you what it says, a flat map.
North locked means that the point where you are with your truck will be aligned towards the North.
Always north will keep the center screenpoint of the map kept aligned to the North. This is what I
have in the video and makes it look like I'm turning a globe.

@MG Mike

No, sadly it's NOT a worldmap, but almost. I'll fight the limits later to add also New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand, but
it will be hard. I didn't add the biggest wish up there, but I think it would be better if EAA could be moved over to ATS instead,
then I could make a SAT BG of all America, south as well as north, including Canada.

If you want a REAL World Truck Simulator and also for ETS2/ATS too, I have suggested SCS the following, which you can read about
in the linked post below. Sadly not many read that thread I think. Mandelsoft at Promods team did and obviously he didn't like it.
Check out the video in my post and think you're in the ETS2 or ATS Map View. Pretty good response, in spite of the fact that it is an
online connection to Google Maps. You have to think also that the usual road data network would be displayed on top of it.

https://forum.scssoft.com/viewtopic.php ... 3#p1217073

[MG Mike]

Ah so this is an suggestion from you to use a a background for mappers if I understood right..

Fine thing.
Mandelsoft wrote about to choose what to have in the map or what noty but you was talking about to have a background in generell.. What to have in the map or not could be decided later..

Mhm.. If that works and Can be used to know how big or what area you have for each country y do why not.


To my idea of "World Truck simulator" that was just a funny idea.. More a joke. SCS would probably not combine their ets2 with ATS to a whole new game.
And at next consider what a big amount of map data has to be there..
Your background to Japan looks already really big..
Do you really mean that all can be a driveable map in the game without blowing it totally up??

In such a big background there could be ROS total within (If someone rescale it to 1 to 19) and also Siberia, yakutsk.. Far east.. Where the river "Lena" runs and you can reach some settlements only at winter if the river is frozen.. Russian ice roads...

And also you can place ROC map there... What a huge combo that would be...
By the way I thing I will never be able to explore all roads there. I play since middle of 2017 now and have a combo based on Wombat's Europe edition, plus PmMe, Afromap, and great steppe and road to Aral..

And at this combo I "Only" made 42 percent untill now..

[BenganJ]

@MG Mike

Oh, that post on the SCS forum wasn't really ONLY for Map Editor. As you might have seen
there, there's a lot of such services to use, not only from Google either, but as it is a fast
service and you can position the view where ever you like, it would be GREAT to have in
the editor, in the type of Google Maps native, and in the game you could use the satellite
service to get a BG like the static one I have made. Instead you just zoom and pan where
ever you like on the globe, with possibly limits for ETS2 resp. ATS. I don't think this will
happen any time, but it's a nice idea. What I meant with moving EAA to ATS and making
an America oriented SAT BG, is NOT to extend the one I have now, but make one other
specifically for ATS. And mind you, in both Editor and Map View in game, you have an
almost infinite level of zoom at your disposal.

[BenganJ]

To illustrate what it could look like in the Map View of the game using
Google Satellite service. Just think that the map view in QGIS3 is SCS
Map View instead.

[MG Mike]

Ah it could be used by both as well as mapper as well as player.. Now.. I got it..

Yes. It is a nice idea. But this would probably up to SCS to implement such a thing.

Putting EAA to ATS would a nice idea what I would support. Nothing against EAA. I Iike to play it too..

But if I play it, then I use the delete Europe mod in order to have EAA as a stand alone map. It is anyway that huge, I don't need a ferry over the Atlantic Ocean to have a haul from germany to the Amazonas or from Peru to Stockholm.. For that distances there are Freight planes or container ships..

I am the one who takes the container from the Harbour to your shop ;) that is my job in ETS2.. Not to jet around all over the world..

[BenganJ]

@MG Mike

Are you using mine and dOOmERdaZe's EEA SAT BG for standalone map as BG then?

[Stilgar]

Holy Bulshit :shock: :shock:

Thanks for this awesome work !!!!!!!

[BenganJ]

@Stilgar

Thanks, the HUGE SAT BG will soon be released, must create the Promods version first!