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While developing Euro Truck Simulator 2 and specifically the physics
simulation in the game, we have been putting a lot of effort into
improving our vehicle physics model. Our goal is to make it as close to
reality as possible. We have come a long way, but we would like to go
even further of course.

Complexity of the physical model is
growing - small change of one parameter in the system can often have
hard to predict consequences. There are more and more combinations of
parameters or configurations which need to be properly tested. Just to
mention a few, there are at the moment three different axle
configurations, engines with different hp, surfaces with different
friction coefficients, we test both acceleration and braking at varying
slopes, with or without the trailer which may be of different weight...

If
you count all the combinations which should be tested, you arrive to
hundreds of thousands, and it has become impossible to test everything
traditionally at the hands (and steering wheels) of human testers. Such
testing would be too time consuming and hard to organize systematically.
Since we want to deliver maximum possible quality, we had to come up
with automatic testing.

Vehicle is given prepared instructions
and it is placed on a testing map with specific terrain profile. All
possible combinations are tested automatically overnight and the results
are processed afterwords using Perl scripts. This way we can often
catch problems hiding among the many combinations. Although human
testers are indispensable, we can conclude that the energy invested into
building this test procedure has already paid off.

Seeing the initial success of Euro Truck Simulator 2 on the market, we
are more and more ambitious in our plans to improve the game in the long
term.

We are working on many improvements for the upcoming game updates, and
today we'd like to show you a glimpse of some user interface touches
that you can look forward to in the next patch: using other currencies
when listing expenses and general company accounting than just Euro, and
making the information supplied through Route Advisor a bit richer.






Zu Deutsch: Sie arbeiten nach dem großen Erfolg an Verbeserungen in der Menüführung. Mehr Hinweise im Routenprogramm, Änderungen im Modbereich , mehr Details in der Unternehmensführung. Das gibt es alles demnächst in einem Patch.

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