New Mexico: New Prefabs
We are excited about our progress on New Mexico map DLC expansion for American Truck Simulator.
It is still going to take us some time to wrap the work up and polish it for release,
but we feel that we are ready to gradually start showing you new cool stuff from New Mexico.
An important part of the in-game economy are the prefabs representing local industries.
They should be visually recognizable and believable for gameplay to be fun.
Prefabs are often represented by a typical building, special-purpose installation, or even a whole industrial complex.
We focus on their realistic appearance and adjust them to fit perfectly into the surroundings.
The team is doing their homework on research to make sure we take proper inspirations from
relevant real industrial facilities as the basis for our work.
Stone by stone, we piled gravel deposits to represent the location for the transport of bulk materials.
It's made up of tons of raw materials, loaders, conveyors and other heavy machinery.
The Intermodal Train Depot is a typical US transport hub for loading and unloading of entire trailers.
These are then further transported by rail to save both fuel costs and fuel emissions to another
node in the transportation network, before they reach their final destination by road again.
Within the prefab intended for the food industry, we may have gotten a little carried away.
We designed and implemented unique depots that will surprise you by their size.
We were inspired by actual existing industrial facilities for production of cereals and dairy products.
An important feature of those two objects represents separated locations for loading and unloading.
The rear wing is used for supply of raw materials, the front one for distribution of finished products.
This solution is designed according to the regulations for the transport of foodstuffs.
Source: http://blog.scssoft.com