[TOOL] Truck Simulator Launcher

[MandelSoft]

Hello, fellow Truckers!

Since 1.36, it's not possible anymore to launch the map editor from the game, and you have to launch it with command line codes. Now this is quite a hassle for people to switch between different game modes. So, I made a tool that helps you to do just that, and much more!

The Truck Simulator Launcher is a tool that sends start-up parameters to Steam. The parameters can be changed in an intuitive, visual way. We have experimented and refine the launcher within the ProMods team to see if it works, but now I want to release it to a bigger audience.

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What can this program do?
The program can do the following things:

• Change your home directory
• Define the location where it needs to dump automatically converted files
• Change the game mode (game, editor, item validation mode)
• Change the rendering device (DirectX 11 or OpenGL)
• Define which map module the editor starts in
• Enable or disable mods
• Enable or disable DLCs
• Enable or disable the intro animation
• Enable or disable unlimited logs
• Force 64-bit mode
• Change memory management options

How do I need to set up this program?
You may have to install MicroSoft's .NET Runtime Library, if you haven't installed it already. You can get this from the MicroSoft website.
Once you get the program up and running, you need to set your Steam folder location. When you set your Steam folder, it will automatically recognise which game(s) you have installed; the buttons and menus for the game it recognises are enabled.

What do I do when my game is in another location?
If you have your games in another location than where Steam is installed, you can add that folder by adding a semicolon ; to the Steam folder line and after that the root folder of where the games are installed. If you do this correctly, the launcher will enable the games it can find at the defined location. Example:

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C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam; D:\My Other Games Folder

So this program doesn't work for non-Steam versions of the game?
That's correct. It will also only work on Windows PCs.

Are the DLCs I have installed automatically recognised
No, they aren't. Due to inconsitencies in the naming of the DLC packages and their actual online name, I couldn't make an automatic recognition algorithm. You can edit the DLCs it can recognise yourself, however.
The lists below will give you an overview of the tags for all map DLCs

ATS:

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 TAG     | NAME       
---------+------------
 nevada  | Nevada     
 arizona | Arizona    
 nm      | New Mexico 
 or      | Oregon     
 wa      | Washington 
 ut      | Utah       
 id      | Idaho
 co      | Colorado

ETS2:

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 TAG     | NAME       
---------+------------
 east    | Going East     
 north   | Scandinavia    
 fr      | France
 it      | Italy     
 balt    | Baltics 
 balkane | Black Sea   
 iberia | Iberia 

I'm interested. Where can I download this program?
Well, right here!:
https://mega.nz/file/2JplgAoI#B9lOCefqy ... 5Khm8Dyxbg

CHANGELOG
1.0.3.0. (2021-03-21)

• Added option to ignore loading the "user_map" folder when loading the map editor. Useful when your map's source files are on a different location (like team projects).
• Added option to force mods without loading workshop mods: "Force Mods (Local only).
• Added Map Sound Editor game mode option, since SCS separated sound editing from the map editing.

1.0.2.0. (2019-11-18)

• Added VR options;
• Added more log management options;
• Memory pool default values adjusted;

1.0.1.1 Initial release. (2019-11-16)

If there are any questions about this Launcher, please feel free to ask on this topic.


Happy Trucking, everyone!

[JuanBonX]

I have tried this tool and it is very good. Only a couple of recommendations. the values ​​-mm_max_resource_size and -mm_max_tmp_buffers_size would be better as in the image. the other would be to add the options "europe and usa" in "Editor starting map"

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Many modifications at once? increase the value -mm_pool_size

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Example (MB): 

-mm_pool_size 1024 (For 2/4GB Ram)
-mm_pool_size 2048 (For 4GB Ram)
-mm_pool_size 4096 (For 6/8GB Ram)
-mm_pool_size 8192 (For 16/32GB Ram)

Thank you for this. regards

[Reef]

Quick question @MandelSoft, I thought that 64bit was standard now and 32bit was unsupported legacy? I've even gone as far as removing -64bit from my launch parameters and it's still launches as a 64bit instance, saying that I'm referring to ATS, is ETS2 still primary 32bit?

I only ask because I see in your screenshot there is a 'Force 64-bit mode' radio button (aka checkbox).

[MandelSoft]

ETS2 still has a 32-bit mode. You can set Steam to launch it in 64-bit mode. The checkbox in the application only makes it absolutely sure that it does run in 64-bit mode.

[xXCARL1992Xx]

if the game is run in 64bit once it will always run 64bit until you change it to 32bit for whatever reason, same as with the graphics SPI

[Reef]

Ahh thanks for the clarification both.

[Soilingcomic]

Can you add an option to make it load into VR mode?

[MandelSoft]

I don't know the command line tag for VR mode and I have no VR equipment, so there wouldn't be any reliable way to test it, sorry

[Todor Alin]

Nice !!!
Only one small addition and will be the perfect solution ...
-nofilelog param to add (disable creation of game log)

Maybe, should shange the "Unlimited log" check box into a ComboBox with the following items:

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Default
Unlimitedlog
Nofilelog

[MandelSoft]

Why would you even want to disable the log file? I don't even think that's even possible.

All this program does is to send a command line with launch options to Steam. This means that it's limited to the tags the game accepts, and the option you're proposing is not one of them...