How do I get traffic to drive on the left ?

[Lord Haart]

...surely in a game like this the option is inherent and I have just missed it ?


If there is no option for this I will pass and move on.



Thx

[Jimbo_1977]

There is a mod, in the past it tended not to work, but seems ok now.
The real issue is that all road vehicles are always left hand drive, so drive on left bus doors are wrong side...maybe Devs might resolve at some point.

[Lord Haart]

This option should have been native right from the off with a game like this.. Shame

[genemead]

Then every game with vehicles should have that option built in.
Now the question is: left or right. What should be the default of a game that is sold internationally?

[SlimNasty™]

The reason this has not been supported directly is due to the time it would have taken to make vehicle models which doors open on the other side.

They're only a small team and priority has been on bettering performance, apply vulkan API so it could be ported to mac and general bug fixes along the way.

[sergetechone]

If I can recall..... the game Transport Tycoon and Locomotion ( made by the same dev ) did have an option to select : right side drive or left side driving. Bear in mind both game use an dynamic path ( each vehicle as it own path ) instead all vehicles follow the same pre-select path. So part of the coding make it possible for driving on either side of the road for these old games. Just saying ...

[larry_roberts]

Originally posted by sergetechone:

If I can recall..... the game Transport Tycoon and Locomotion ( made by the same dev ) did have an option to select : right side drive or left side driving. Bear in mind both game use an dynamic path ( each vehicle as it own path ) instead all vehicles follow the same pre-select path. So part of the coding make it possible for driving on either side of the road for these old games. Just saying ...

The thing is with those games you never really zoomed in to look at the detail of the vehicles, in the way you do in this game. So the dev could create vehicles for each side of the road, not so easy in this game!.

[lozacenz]

Originally posted by sergetechone:

If I can recall..... the game Transport Tycoon and Locomotion ( made by the same dev ) did have an option to select : right side drive or left side driving. Bear in mind both game use an dynamic path ( each vehicle as it own path ) instead all vehicles follow the same pre-select path. So part of the coding make it possible for driving on either side of the road for these old games. Just saying ...

transport tycoon is a flat out 2D game. the difference between driving on the left and driving on the right is which side of the road sprite rectangle the vehicle sprite rectangle slides along.

in 3D this is a rather more complicated matter.

[uzurpatorex]

Originally posted by SlimNasty™:

The reason this has not been supported directly is due to the time it would have taken to make vehicle models which doors open on the other side.

transf = { 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1 }

20 people worked for 30 days to get this solution to work.

Jokes aside. I do this kind of weirdness in Extended Gameplay to modify some game models to shrink/enlarge them. Mirroring is a similar option and with a different matrix. Not that I would care, but if I were australian or british - I might have.

[Lord Haart]

Not having driving on the left seems ludicrous to me and has obviously limited sales to what otherwise seems to be a rather cool and polished game.

Such a shame.



I will move on.

[genemead]

So you'll pass on every game that doesn't drive on the left? (And there's a bunch of them).

Now that's ludicrous.
Your obstinance is causing you to miss out on a lot of great games, like this one. But then that's your problem, not ours.

[anthony]

There is a left hand drive mod and if you took the trouble to search the workshop you would have found it, just as I did when this began to bother me. It works fine except that the lettering on buses is shown in mirror image because the textures are not reversed. Also, you need to implement it on a new game, not one in progress, because otherwise you will have vehicles facing each other on the same section of road with neither moving until you delete one.

[CunkFeatures]

Originally posted by Lord Haart:

I will move on.

Just turn your monitor up-side-down?

Never works having both. See CIM2, bus mods with doors on the right stopping on the left. The models could be flipped, but the textures wouldn't work.

Devs are Swiss, best to stick with what you know. Wheres Sawyers was Scottish, so both.

Originally posted by genemead:

But then that's your problem, not ours.

You mean yours, as no one spoke to you.

[genemead]

Originally posted by CunkFeatures:

Originally posted by genemead:

But then that's your problem, not ours.

You mean yours, as no one spoke to you.

No one spoke to you, either.

[Vimpster]

It is hard to imagine that this kind of game would have much appeal to you at all if something as trivial as the side of the road vehicles drive on is all it takes to turn you away.

[Lord Haart]

Something I've done for over 30 years is hardly trivial, good sir.