Mack Trucks Discussion Thread

[automaton]

Mack is unveiling two new trucks on March 2nd. One appears to be the new Granite, and the other appears to be an indirect Pinnacle successor a Volvo VNX analogue.

https://xcancel.com/MackTrucks/status/2 ... 7033553380

[JoeAlex23]

Interesting that Mack is getting a heavy duty/vocational "new" truck before Volvo, although, maybe because Mack's are more common in that market than the VNX.

[ib261973]

I assume that they will do the same with Granite and Pinnacle that they have already done with Anthem, and put Volvo cabs there....

[parasaurolophus67]

I'm gonna assume they will look like the Pioneer Aren't they?

[gt379]

I saw my first Pionner in action today on I-94 in Wisconsin,

was not bad at all....

[jdwarfer]

It looks good but the Mack visual identity is fading off.

[Hagen25]

Given that they blocked a report from a colleague on the forum:

viewtopic.php?t=348379

I would like to discuss why SCS forcibly links a chassis to a specific color. It has been reported thousands of times in the past that paintjobs were not rendered correctly on the Black Anthem skirts. Now, if you want to use the chassis with step, you cannot have a single truck color. The “normal” chassis has wings that cannot be removed


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In any way, and the black chassis has steps, but you must use black skirts. Why does SCS hate the Anthem so much?

[ScaniaMANIveco]

You can have it in any color as long as it's black.

[automaton]

I did provide a workaround. Guess they found it easier to edit the model than add a line to every single paint job accessory file the Anthem uses. I can't say I don't understand why they did that, as the paint job system the games have right now is a legitimate pain to deal with.

[AntonioMart]

I wonder why the extended fairings to the Anthem haven't added yet? Although they have been installed since 2019:

https://www.macktrucks.com/mack-news/20 ... ack-anthem

UPD I made a topic with suggestions:

viewtopic.php?p=2112563#p2112563