Progress on The Land Down Under

Hi everyone!

I hope all of you have been doing well, and are still waiting around for The Land Down Under on ETS2. (Previously Australian Outback Map on ATS)

For the last couple of months the progress goes pretty well, a massive amount of ATS assets have been replaced with ETS2 assets, and for some objects I even made complete new ones.

Charleville is now also extended with new roads, company and improvements.

Progress is taking bit longer than I hoped and wanted too.
It's the most complex and complicated thing I have ever done, porting over an entire custom map from one game to the other is quite a feat, the fact that it already fully works without crashing is amazing. Also thanks to SaltyLeob, he was and is a massive help in this for getting this map started in ETS2 map editor.

Sometimes it's fingers crossed, for example the lines of grass I use besides some roads had a count of 15000+ objects, replacing those in one click makes the pc take of like an airplane.

I personally cannot wait to push it into your hand, and to start the extension race to Adavale and Quilpie as shown on the picture below.

After all those locations on the picture, I'd love to go east of Charleville, and getting to more green mountainous areas. I really love those narrow mountain logging roads and the challenge that brings.

Why am I porting it to ETS2 now and not starting on that years ago instead of ATS?
ATS had some great fitting Australian assets, but I didn't thought of the RHD support that ATS has less support of than ETS2.
In ETS2, at least all vanilla trucks have fantastic RHD interiors, and the game also support RHD AI traffic. Which also makes random road event spawn now.

I hope everyone has a bit more patience for me to release this map. I cannot distribute the map with a lot of ATS assets in the files. Though a few is fine, but even that makes me a bit uneasy, because I'd love to work without worry on this map for years to come. So I likely have to make more custom models, and that takes a bit more time. And I want to keep the map as close to it's original look as I possibly can.

Want to keep a closer eye to the progression?
Please join the discord https://discord.gg/6NCwnrVYGu
I share screenshots of progress in the Progress channel, and I would love to have activity and conversations in the server.

Thanks to everyone that is still here! I appreciate every one of you, and I cannot wait to show you the return of this passion of a map to ETS2.

Regards,

Rob.V