Has been some long time ago I last worked on some objects for Lotus.
No clue if anybody is interested in dutch objects, but I felt in the mood to start making some road markings after finding offical sources regarding sizing.
Started with the arrows.
Long arrows for roads with speeds of 70kph and more:
End of lane and "wrong way" arrow.
Arrows for turbo roundabouts:
Lotus only uses UTM project for WMS stuff. WMTS will be EPSG:3857 for lotus afaik.
Just checked the link again, and it's using a polish EPSG:2177 projection, so that explains why the link won't do it.
Using Qgis and it's xyz export seems to be the only way for now, allthough the tile resolution and max zoom level don't allow anything near the nice sharpness of vector lines. You could try setting xyz export to a tile resolution of 512 (or 1024?) and use "high resoltion center tile" setting in lotus? I think lotus samples it always down to 256 otherwise?
WFS support would be cool too.
What this Z value mean? I exported WMS map from QGIS with zoom 12 and the result is only this tile. The little red dot in the left-down corner is the tram depot from 2 tiles from my previous post. Only exported tiles with zoom above 18 are usable.
For WMTS it runs form z 0 which is a single tile of complete world to z 25 i think. From what I think lotus doesn't go beyond Z 16, which should be sufficient normally.
What Z value other projections use I don't know, polish z12 is clearly way different to z12 in lotus/epsg:3857.
Why would it be a hoax? If so your part of creating it.
After I read your text below last week, I was in the same assumption short spines are a must for good performance. Also the lexicon makes me understand a short is better.
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200 Meter Länge (Trassierungselemente, Gleise, Splines)
Besser wären 100 m.
Noch besser wären 50 m.
Besser, aber aufwändig wären 25 m.
Kurz um, je kleiner desto besser.
Greets
Vague. How the the .jpg/png files you exported look when you open them in an image viewer? Also blurry, if so i think your export setting sin qgis are not quite right. Else it's a lotus thing.
Did you clear the cached ortho images from lotus so it "downloads" a fresh set into the editor.
I think its the .dat files and a temp.png/jpg here: \steamapps\common\LOTUS-Simulator\Cache\
Anyway did you already got it working direct from their WMTS server, does it go better resolution?
Eg: https://gis1.um.wroc.pl/arcgis…Server/tile/9/32015/41004
https://gis1.um.wroc.pl/arcgis…ver/tile/12/256126/328036
Do not put a .jpg or .png behind the url and set it to Jpeg in lotus map editor setting.
Source data is max Z 12. so exporting Qgis anything over that is useless. I think lotus saves 256px so bigger is also useless.
Update to the Street and Road elements. V0.2a available here: Dutch Street Objects - Street and Road Elements
Added 5 new textures for polygons.
Material files lpmtl are available of download here: DSO Polygon Material Presets v0.2a.zip
I find the process of creating polygon textures a bit difficult.
To check the look of the texture in game ligth the map editr needs to be closed and the game started and this after every change.
Maybe it would be nice to have some tool which you can preview the texture/material settings with game lighting.
I tired doing it with a flat poly in the object tool, but someway the results there are very different to ingame lighting.
Little update to the bus signs, now available through the workshop.
V1.1
Now containing 4 more designs:
- Connexxion
- doorZeeland (connexxion)
- Overal (connexxion)
- QBUZ DMG (Drechtsteden, Molenlanden en Gorinchem), including matching decals.
I just think it didn't deserve new topic.
Very nice this feature is now implemented.
One nice addition of it would be if the rotation angles of an attachpoint are copied over to the attaced object.
As an example, the attachpoint it definced with a 5 degree rotation, which even shows in the editor (
). But when i attach the bracket for a traffic light it doens't get this rotation and it need to be rotated manually. (the light itself offcourse can be rotated using the right menu function to copy other obects rotation).
Maybe it would also be nice if an object which get's attached auto copies the rotation of the "parent" object.
I think you can partly already do that if you can export to WMTS tiles using the GIS software.
Afaik, lotus will be able to read those from your HDD liek ti reads them from a real wmts server.
Finally another little update to my Dutch street objects project.
Now available in the worshop: Dutch bus stop signs. Link
Built in a modular way, in various colourschemes.
Place the base sign and attahc decals to add the lines or other info.
English verison on how to instal tools/mapeditor should be updated to show new way this is done in steam. Like how the german version was updated.
I would like to ask this functinality to be added in near future, I think it's needed to give maps that little fine touches of detail currently almost impossible. (only by making it tilted in source files)
It's needed for example to pivot trafic ligths and signs at whip arms. Also the give maps nice details it highly nessecary, otherwise anyone building a map need to go over the whole chaging things after the maps already was (partly) finished.
Also it would be nice if X and Y rotation would work for attachpoints, the Z rotation setting for attachpoints already seems to work fine.
Although not many posts here. Those in the lotus discord will have seen occasional screenshots of parts of this project. Signs, fonts, busstops etc are all still in active development.
In this post I want to introduce the Dutch Traffic lights part of the set.
The pack will contain various masts and trafficlights according dutch standards.
First model to be included will be the nederland-haarlem/vialis Classic model.
The lights themself are non-modular, because in real the variety of options is small and this amke them easier and faster to place.
The poles and mast to place them on will be made modular.
The scripting of the lights also allows for german and other setups, same to the lotus default lights.
Pedestrain lights are red, or green. Where yellow settings make the green light flash.
I'm looking for a few poeple to test them, for some feed back. If you want to try these (for your map) write me a pm.
In the opensource trafficlight files the TrafficLight_Car1.lob is not openable by thrid parties.
Hmm.. well i sort of error saved it when the bitmap font tool wasn't working properly. maybe that allowed my to bypass that check.
ah. it's 54px, with different height it works. Has somthing been changed in this tool? because before i was able to save this exact same image with this settings.
I think this would be a good feature for a traffic simulator. It used everywhere on streets and vehicles. And is not possible to properly mimic with current materials.
Were current reflection more or less works like a mirror. Retro reflection offcourse works by the fact the outgoing ligth is bounced in the same direction as the incoming ligth.
This video show very nice how it differs form normal reflective shaders/materials:
Forexample: signs, lightclusters, warning markers etc.
I think such a material could use the alphachannel to specify the amount of retro reflection similair how normal materials do this. (black is no reflection, white full)
Maybe it would be a nice touch for some future versions.
When entering square brackets [ ] into the contenttool test variable (eg textexture testing) the 3d window freezes and the possibility to change the texttexture.
Also exporting textexture, you can input id, which don't exist.
I wanted to change a existing font.
But i get this error continuously on saving.
1/2 montsh ago I could save the exact same file fine with this settings.
The content tool has options to import or reimport and test a script but no option to remove scripts. I think it would be a handy function. Now it's required to start a new object to get rid of script, but this will also cause a new contentid to be assigned.
