World Background Maps

[punk]

It's ONLY a display anomaly, has NO impact on game play! Promods also get one of these anomalies
in Felixstowe! Same thing there!

I know that it not affects gameplay but for my subjective opinion is better to see mismatches in other minor regions than slide of whole continent:)

[BenganJ]

@punk

Sure mate, I fully understand and that is the only reason the non-universal ones
are still available, so that you can choose!

[punk]

Actually, the most sincere and deep wish I have in the SCS world is for EAA to be ported over to the ATS world
and relocated to it's proper location there. But that will NEVER happen! :fie:

I thought about it but it seems to me that 1st - the map of ATS can also be collapsed in this case if reproduce Central and South America in current scale projection. I'm not mapper it's just assumption. 2nd - not much demand for it from community because ATS less popular in absolute numbers. 3rd - I guess it is not possible to just cut and paste whole map from one game to another without years and years of dependencies alignments . So probably it will not gonna happen as you mentioned.

[punk]

A bit of topic, but EAA and other Brazilian maps should stay on ETS2, because trucks in South America but especially Brazil are more European then US, Scanias are veeeeeery common in Brazil for example

The same brands (Scania, Mercedes, Fiat, VW, Ford) but totally different approach to trucks:)
Sorry for offtopic

[BenganJ]

@punk

Exactly, and it is a pity ETS and ATS wasn't started at the same time. I mean,
trucksimwise, SCS started with quite some US based ones. I ran them all at
the time!

[punk]

@BenganJ

As far as I remember when ATS just started some maps from Europe were converted to ATS (even Mario's story with Hungary, if it is not a myth) but then this practice gone. Also I have no idea what is the reason, but on America very few standalone maps with bigger (smaller) scales than in Europe

[BenganJ]

@punk

Oh, you have quite some in Central America, Honduras e.g., but not as many, no!

[3rik]

@punk

Well, who should we blame for placing EAA in the area which SCS will rescale from 1:15 to 1:19 in the UI display,
NOT THE MAP DATA itself. EAA was placed there long before SCS choose to implement that game engine rescale
of the UK area. It's ONLY a display anomaly, has NO impact on game play! Promods also get one of these anomalies
in Felixstowe! Same thing there!

Actually, the most sincere and deep wish I have in the SCS world is for EAA to be ported over to the ATS world
and relocated to it's proper location there. But that will NEVER happen! :fie:

just imagine
edit: i didnt realise the image was so big oops lol

[BenganJ]

@3rik

Yep, I'm dreaming mate, nice montage though and on spot how I would like it to be!
Then I would extend my ATS SAT BG so that it would include South America too!

[iMarbot]

I'm losing my mind over "map alignment" in settings. I don't know if this mod is the cause of this but I don't know a better place to ask. Prior to v1.4 the "Always North" and "North Locked" would almost never work and it would just show flat except once in a blue moon (but it was correct North in the very few cases it worked). Since v1.4, "Always North" seems to work partially but not really. The map is shown as a round sphere like it is in reality but its not North at the top but North-East (screenshot below). This happens wherever I am on the map, e.g. in London or somewhere in ROS. I don't know what's wrong or how to even work out what it could be :(