SCS General Discussion Thread

[xXCARL1992Xx]

you get a bill from Toll Collect for all your trucks, i dont know if it is monthly or yearly, what you have to pay, there is also differentiation between Euro 5/Euro 6 and how many axles you have, but i would be already happy if they would charge at all if they already made the roll bridges over the Autobahn for this

[gaillard]

This is difficult since it's not an immediate deduction from your accounts and as you say, it depends on a lot of individual parameters.
What I'm saying is the toll gates ARE there and that's all we can realistically expect from the game, that's the only visible part of the iceberg.

There is no immediate payment like in France, Scandinavia, Italy.
BUT I have a transceiver in my car, and in France Spain, Portugal, Italy, I pass without paying anything immediately.
And since ETS is on June 20th, that's not the day of payment.... Kidding, for those tired today.

[Optional Features]

I agree... I don't think I've ever seen someone asking for real life billboards , but I understand why they're doing it and until there's an option to turn it off is great.

Because probably no one has. I searched the feature wishlist thread, and billboard didn't come up once. Advertisement was in there once, but if memory serves, it wasn't referring to real ads.

I'm sure you could search every wishlist for SCS ever made and find real ads less than five times. You'd probably find walk mode 50 times on this forum alone.

Brands, including vehicle brands, are not a primary driver of realism in any game. It's physics, weather, feel, etc. Banking all the curves on the highway properly would do far more for realism than a billboard.

[xXCARL1992Xx]

ofc because SCS is not allowed to add anything but only what the community wants, they have made a partnership with a logistics company in the US and use this opportunity to add something dynamic into the game and the usual people are crying again because the game doesnt got in a direction THEY want it to go

[Aziz]

Imagine having the audacity of having their own vision for their own game

[Vinnie Terranova]

Does anybody know how this dynamic billboard feature technically works? Are the images streamed from a server? Are the images loaded directly from the website of Schneider National? Are the images first stored in for instance a file named billboard.scs and loaded from there into the game?

[JoeAlex23]

Imagine having the audacity of having their own vision for their own game

Wild right?!

[xXCARL1992Xx]

Does anybody know how this dynamic billboard feature technically works? Are the images streamed from a server? Are the images loaded directly from the website of Schneider National? Are the images first stored in for instance a file named billboard.scs and loaded from there into the game?

loaded from a server while you play the game, you can look it up in the map editor, if you switch between 2 looks for the billboard the image will always be a different one, so it is randomly chosen, i have counted 8 different images overall

[-MLP-]

They are stored in My Documents\American Truck Simulator\online\billboards_cache and loaded randomly in game.
I have 14 pictures there. https://imgur.com/a/iln1AqA

[Optional Features]

Imagine having the audacity of having their own vision for their own game

Didn't say anything about that. I was replying to the comments that read something like "people always complain about realism, but when they put real ads in the game, they complain."

Players asking for more realism were/are not asking for real ads.