Trucksimulator24 - Die freundliche Trucksimulator Community rund um den Euro Truck Simulator 2, Euro Trucksimulator, German Truck Simulator, 18 Wheels of Steel Reihe, Extreme Trucker und den ZModeler.

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Another little step in our effort to establish transportation industry
relationships - alpha version of Trucks & Trailers is going to be
shown in playable form at Transport 2011,
major transport exhibition in Denmark. The exhibition is taking place
in the city of Herning, in the middle of Jutland, Denmark, this week
from April 6th till April 9th.

This event is of course visited mostly by transportation professionals,
not by gamers, so industry decision makers will actually be the first to
get a taste of our little sim. The game is going to be shown at the
booth of Dansk Transport og Logistik and
the plan is to have a large screen at the DTL booth with Logitech G27
installed and people invited to come and sit behind the wheel and show
their skill.



We have first configured the G27's buttons on the shifter to work as
splitter on, splitter off, high range, low range, but in the end most
likely for the purpose of the exhibition a simplified shifting scheme
will be used.

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To HDR or not to HDR

One of the benefits of the new renderer used in Euro Truck Simulator 2 is the ability to use High Dynamic Range (HDR) internally - basically work much better with light in the scene.

We are still learning how to use this new technical feature for the
right artistic effect, but the early results are promising. Just check
out this screenshot comparison - it's the same scene, once taken with
forward renderer with the old light method, and once taken in the new
deferred renderer with HDR enabled. We still keep the functionality in
the engine to switch between the various methods simply by changing a
variable value, so it's very easy to do performance and visual quality
comparisons.



The new method screenshot may be a bit over-saturated, but it's still
work in progress, we keep tweaking the parameters. The promising thing
is that we'll be able to portray the "mood" of the weather and time of
day much better - to use high contrast on a sunny noon versus soft
shadows in the evening etc. So the world should feel far more vibrant
and alive through the day and night cycle than with the relatively flat
colors range that we were limited to with our older games.