UK scale

[IvanKuz]

It is a well known fact that the UK is done in a larger scale than the rest of the game. However, I've discovered that SCS actually hides this fact by making it smaller on the map. So that if you open the map in vanilla, the UK will look consistent with the rest of Europe, even though it is actually bigger in the game. And if you freecam from England to the continent, you can notice the map scale change and your position jump.

This is not the case with ProMods, however. The UK in PM is shown on the map as it is, with no tricks to hide its real size. I was wondering, why is that? Were the scaling tricks a recent SCS addition that PM haven't caught up with yet? And would it be possible for the PM team to do this thing like SCS did?

[ScuL]

Were the scaling tricks a recent SCS addition that PM haven't caught up with yet?

Yes indeed, they did it a few versions ago and it's not easy to change this because of the way we have expanded the UK (in Scotland etc)

[IvanKuz]

I see. Thanks for explaining!

[bengt.jensie]

@Scul

If I force the inbuilt re-scale of UK area, the whole of Promods UK and Ireland will fit nicely to the SCS original
Map View background image and to reality, if compared to Google Maps. The only odd things left is the Faroe
Islands and Iceland, which is located totally wrong. Would it be that hard to just tick in Map Editor the flag that
makes the game engine re-scale the UK area and then also move Faroe Islands and Iceland to it's correct location?
They are both islands without connection to other areas roadwise, so the move ought to be quite easy to do.

[penguinaz]

That's something I am thinking of doing.

However our bug tracker is based on coordinates so moving Iceland could cause annoyances unless all bugs are fixed first

[bengt.jensie]

@penguinaz

Thanks for fast response, looking forward to it!

[emilio_uk]

My Question is are they ever going to make the scale Any bigger of Europa?

[ScuL]

No that would be way too much work

[Truckingfun9810]

Except for a bit strange-looking world map, the fact that UK and Ireland are scaled larger than the rest of map does not affect gameplay. The only issue I am concerned about is the probable UK reskin/rework done by SCS that will come one day. I am wondering how will promods deal with that, considering the fact that the same area is done at different scales.

[citelis730]

We are probably nowhere near an SCS rebuild of UK and it's not sure that when SCS decides to do it they will also rescale it.