SCS Blog Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 We are working hard on addressing the remaining known issues before we can start the Open Beta process for the next major updates for both Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator. We thought that you may be interested in learning about one little visual improvement that we are planning to introduce as a part of the update...We have never been quite been happy with the way vehicle lights look, doing something about it was on our wishlist since the launch of Euro Truck Simulator 2. Our coders have actually improved the underlying system a while ago already, but finally, we have caught up with them and tweaked the "sprite" graphics, which in fact involved painstaking re-adjustment of a ton of various numerical constants that define light flare behavior.The light flares in our games have always been growing too big at a short distance, masking out the entire headlight and any interesting shape and detail. Our goal for the change was to make sure that the lamp mask can be seen during both day and night without the excessive glare. At longer distances, the new system adjusting the flare intensity still had to make sure that lights do not disappear. The eye is very good at catching the photons coming in even from a tiny source in the distance, and our system has to emulate it.You can see the results of our effort on today's comparative series of screenshots. Related articles: Doubles View the full article 2 Hurr durr I'm a bot *beep* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Good to see so many regular improvements. However I just feel that the new headlights shown here are too dim to look at. Normally at night you get blinded looking at a trucks headlights but you don't get the same effect seeing those examples Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creatured Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 looks meh if you ask me. In Game Status: || || Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.Rucker Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 In my opinion the daytime pictures look way better than the old version. However, i can just agree on the previous comment that the lights don't seem to be intense enough in the darkness. That rather looks like the parking lights and not like your normal low beams in my opinion... Visit us on stvtc.co.uk or join our Discord-channel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smalley Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Finallly! improvement on the lights. I've never even liked the light flares currently so I am really happy that this is an improvement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrax737 Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 I like how this will look during the day but during the night this is step back, there should be more flare during the night... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loonwerker Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Verry nice but Renault T please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killua // Ireland ^_^ Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Hate it Prefer them the way they are now Old looks 100 times better at night then this new Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trucking Gekco Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 The night time lights need to be much brighter... Those who drive IRL know that headlights during the night are very bright, not detailed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerAmpelmann Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 It's hard to say too much about the update looking at the pictures, but I think they have done the math to make the lights work more realistically at different distances and in different lightning. I won't judge the new lights before I really see them in-game. 1 Ready to go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trucking Gekco Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 ^ True, I just hope they will have fixed the high beams so they don't make the road so darn bright. Still, the lights at night should be brighter maybe SCS will see some comments on their site and fix it before the update comes out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniellus Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 Pls Do what guys from realistic graphix mod done. It looks incredible. Traffic jam, many cars, red lights slowly turn into red wave. Amazing. Yours screenshoots looks similar so im very happy Good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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