On The Road - Truck Simulator News

Gameplay

• player owned vehicles visible in the world
  
• trailers must be coupled and uncoupled by leaving the truck
  
• change to other vehicles by just boarding them instead of chosing them in the menu
  
• vehicles are delivered to the truck service of the city you chose
  
• trailers without a truck can be added to your route planning
  
• your headquarter can be added to the route planning
  
• unified loading positions for each company type
  

Optimizations

• optimized several array materials
  
• reflection calculation in highest settings optimized
  
• vegetation billboards cull better now
  
• renderperformance of cornfields improved
  
• terrain distance rendering optimized
  
• massively improved performance at dusk and dawn
  
• optimized Ambient Occlusion performance
  
• optimized rain performance
  
• optimized shadow performance

Graphics

• less saturated more natural colors

Map

• prepared the connecting A3 between Cologne and Frankfurt
  
• prepared the connecting A45 between Dortmund and Frankfurt
  
• prepared the connecting A7 between Hanover and Cassel
  
• prepared the connecting A38 between Drammetal and Leipzig
  
• prepared the connecting A44 between Dortmund and Cassel
  
• prepared the connecting A14 between Magdeburg and Leipzig
  
• prepared roads of Munich and Nuremberg

Fixes

• fixed a doubled building type and activated the planned appearance
  
• fixed doubled Logistics Hub logo on GPS device in Bremen
  
• fixed more material issues at the roads
  
• fixed city limit signs at west Hanover
  
• fixed some areas were grass was on the road
  
• fixed AI crashing into traffic lights at t-cross near WWS Magdeburg
  
• fixed more buildings standing too close to the road in Bremen, Magdeburg and Berlin
  
• fixed dissapearing AI at t-cross in south west Berlin
  
• fixed missing physical materials in sectors where neccessary
  
• fixed that the random car spawner could spawn parked cars at your position after loading a savegame
  
• fixed wrong road collision at exit Bremen Brinkum
  
• fixed wrong materials at LOD stages of one building type
  

Gameplay

• TGX 6x2 rigid box chassis
  
• Scania R 6x2 rigid box chassis
  
• Steered rear axle for 6x2 chassis

Graphics

• new images in the vehicles menus
  
• reworked worldmap background proportions
  
• added road preview for upcoming cities Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Leipzig to the worldmap

Fixes:

• removed unneccessary objects from TGX rigid
  
• fixed the light material of the drawbar trailer
  
• fixed another building standing to close to the road in Duisburg
  
• fixed misbehaviour of several trailer axles
  
• removed the player ability to poke the truck around after climbing out

Engine:

• migrated from Unity 2018.2.8 to 2018.2.20
  

Gameplay:

• Truck driver spawns near the truck door
  
• added gps markings for delivery positions, roadhouses, gas stations and companies
  
• added a tutorial message for the gear selection
  

Optimizations

• added missing LOD stages to several signs
  
• added LOD stages to the gas stations and switched to array materials
  

Graphics

• improved visuals of the Nav Device paths
  
• modified TGX Cabin making it fit better to the real one
  

Fixes:

• fixed the slider and caption for the view distance setting
  
• fixed constantly lighting indicators for all player vehicles
  
• fixed the missing button textures of the TGX
  
• fixed several wrong collision layers at Food Imp, WWS and TomOil
  
• fixed object and cornfield chaos at cross Lubeck
  
• fixed object and cornfield chaos at Magdeburg
  
• fixed dissapeared roadhouse Wietzenbruch (A7)
  
• fixed light overshoots at windmills and repositioned light sources
  
• fixed dissapearing e-box near Brutto Hanover
  
• added missing gras near TomOil Duisburg
  
• repositioned building blocking road in Duisburg
  
• repositioned buildings blocking road in Hamburg
  
• removed gras from highway north of intersection Wittstock
  
• added missing gras and fixed a sign at intersection Havelland
  
• fixed a sign at cross Hamburg Ost
  
• fixed the missing mat issue of the attention sign
  
• reduced AI speed north of Wittstock
  
• fixed despawning AI at barricaded t-cross in north Cologne
  
• fixed the warning hints being cut off at some aspect ratios
  
• fixed the signature area being panned at some aspect ratios
  
• fixed the console text being cut off at some aspect ratios
  
• fixed dissapearing road markings near EasyTank Haldensleben (B71)
  
• fixed unwanted banking offset north of EasyTank Haldensleben (B71)
  
• repositioned a building being to close to EasyTank Dortmund
  
• fixed wrong fence material near EasyTank Munster
  
• fixed the front mirror of the TGX
  
• fixed height positions of several gas stations
  

Engine

• migrated from Unity 5.5.6 to 2018.2.8
  

AI

• dynamic turn speed added

Gameplay

• Freight papers including signature added
  
• added dynamic tutorial messages (can be disabled in Game options)
  
• added warning messages about the vehicle status (can be disabled in Game options)
  

Optimizations

• distance based light culling for traffic lights, ai headlights and lanterns added
  
• reworked every single building to create more efficient meshes
  
• switched every single building from multimaterial to array material approach saving hundreds of draw and setpass calls
  
• optimized object structure to drastically reduce the amount of subobjects
  

Graphics

• Graphics menu options added for anti aliasing, view distance light details and image effects
  

Fixes

• engine ignition fixed
  
• engine shutdown fixed
  
• fixed wrong gear showing up at first ignition
  
• indicator reset fixed
  
• fixed several company positions
  

• Repaints are encrypted now making it harder to steal and reupload your work
  
• Messagebox warning you that you are in offline mode added

Internal console (new! Enable/disable with alt gr key)

• internal console added with two prompts
  - „reset_AI“ respawn ai vehicles
  - „settime h“ eg.: settime 12 = 12am

• reworked spawner for optimization (details in Optimizations section

• new company (roadhouse) at A19
  
• Changelog Window in main menu added
  
• GPS device shows only the current route and not all of them

• Fixed the CPU spikes caused by the BlockLOD system
  
• Switched font texture settings to prevent Font.CacheFontForText CPU spikes
  
• Switched all debugging informations and windows to EditorOnly to remove corresponding CPU spikes
  
• AI vehicle spawner pools vehicles to reduce allocation garbage
  
• The following changes apply to all areas of the map:
  - Removed unneccessary collisions from buildings
  - Removed build in tree colliders and added simple capsule colliders where neccessary
  - Removed unneccessary scripts from scenes
  - Removed unused tree prefabs from terrains
  - Bush row collisions replaced with fast and simple boxcollisions
  - Traffic lights splitted into technical and visual part and later one integrated into BlockLOD system

Finished updating all eastern sectors
Roadhouse added to A19

• Reworked post processing

• Fixed a bug that could prevent unlocking employees
  
• Fixed the not unlocking vehicles unless you switch to the overview menu first
  
• Fixed missing collision of carparks
  
• Fixed wrong Api Compatability Level
  
• Fixed several minor issues in Berlin
  
• Moved benches in several cities to their correct render layer (increases performance)
  
• Fixed advanced direction signs at cloverleaf Schwerin
  
• Fixed missing collider of one market stand type
  
• Fixed the not loading default repaint when there is no savegame at first start