World Background Maps

[BenganJ]

@ShirBlackspots

So, there's a chance this is a matter of a mod conflict then!
I'll see if I can pin down what is causing it then!

[ShirBlackspots]

Ok, now I don't get it at all. I downloaded the ProMods specific map background, the one with the old way of handling the map_data.sii. On first load of the profile, it rotated around North, until I clicked "drive" then it was flat behavior.

--EDIT--
I think I found the issue. I created a new profile with the Ultimate BG and just ProMods. No more background rotating around North when ProMods is added.

--EDIT 2--
It even causes the default SCS map background to behave as if the setting is "flat" instead of "north locked" or "always north"

[BenganJ]

@ShirBlackspots

That's what I suspected. The reason I think is, that Promods have that Norwegian island Svalbard
so damn near the North Pole that it impact those feature settings. The video I showed you, where
it all worked splendidly, was with SCS Vanilla as base map, but quite a big combo. Thanks for your
testing, much appreciated. As you also noted, it is hardly my problem, might be that SCS has a
bad formula computing that Always North movement, I also told you about the flipping when you
approach the North Pole.

EDIT: BTW, I wonder if it would work if Promods moved that map data for the island to it's proper
location. Now it's damn too far to the north. One of the many areas Promods has dislocated.

[Hex_526f62657274]

Sorry for small
This in real background map - now live -

[BenganJ]

@Hex_526f62657274

Almost the same perspective that I have in my BGs!

ETS2:


ATS(upcoming):

[Vinnie Terranova]

Unbelievable, this background map mods is so frustrating and confusing. Reading the first post with all color of the rainbow is not gonna make it easy... :(

I read something in purple 'Ultimate BGs' about placing it above the 'main BG mod'. When I scroll down I see in purple 'Universal BGs'. I guess I need one of those Universal BGs; I don't want a Ultimate BG, as I understood from Wombat Trucker, that the Ultimate BGs are just addons for the Universal BGs.

But here comes the problem: when I want to download one of the Universal BGs, there is this text "Use the Ultimate Satellite background mod above instead! [New Aug. 30th 2020]" and "Use the Ultimate Thin border line SCS style background mod above instead! [New Aug. 30th 2020]". But in order to use an Ultimate BG, I first have to download a Universal BG. Nut now it says that I have to download an Ultimate BG?? And that's not all, because there is no Ultimate BG from Aug. 30th...??

Congratulations, this is by far the most confusing post I've ever seen. Can somebody give me a simple explanation what BG (thin line) I have to download?

[BenganJ]

@Vinnie Terranova

There's nothing confusing really! The Ultimate BGs are replacements of the Universal ones, as the difference
are mainly that the Ultimate ones covers a bigger are. Just read the coverage info. The Ultimate BGs are NOT
addons, they are on their own! For HUGE map combos, you might have to use the Crash Fix mod you will find
in every BG of the Ultimate kind! That fix is to be placed right above the BG mod! And please, read ALL info!

[Vinnie Terranova]

The problem is not that I didn't read all info. I know that the Ultimate BGs cover a bigger area than the Universal ones. That's not the point. The point is, that at each Ultimate BG there is this text "Place this mod right above the main BG mod!" So what is the main BG mod? I thought the main BG mod is actually one of the Universal BG mods... The text "Place this mod right above the main BG mod!" suggests that the Ultimate BGs are some kind of addon (or even better: extension) for the main BG mod, whatever the main BG mod actually is.
So that was really confusing. Ofcourse I could just try the various BG mods and wait and see what happens, but the problem with large map combos is that the loading process takes a lot of time with each mod change. So therefore I wanted to be sure which BG mod I had to use, before I would start ETS2.

I see that the first post has been changed: the Universal BGs are removed, and thanks to this it's all a bit less confusing now!

One last question though: what exactly do you mean with "HUGE combo maps"? Untill a few months ago I used the Global Map Combo from Wombat Trucker, but EAA became too big, and also there was this problem with a shifted map. So now I use the EurAsia Map Combo, again from Wombat Trucker. But what exactly is considered as 'HUGE'?

[BenganJ]

@Vinnie Terranova

The main BG mod is the mod you choose as World Map view background
and the mod that should be put right above it is a Crash Fix mod, that is
needed to avoid a crash when using HUGE combo maps, which is best to
illustrate with Wombat's Global combo maps, containing both EAA and ROS
on top of his Eurasia combo!

EDIT: Yes, I removed the now NOT AVAILABLE Universal BGs, due to them
having been replaced by the Ultimate ones. I will also re-write the rest
so that it might be easier to choose what you want to download. Thanks
for raising this question about the too much info, but I had already said
in a post that I should remove the Universal BGs from the first post after
some time, but forgot about it due to being busy with other things!

[Vinnie Terranova]

Thanks for your clarification, and also for your hard work with all these BGs. Take your time, some things just are way more important.