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Game on for Scania
Scania's latest generation of trucks are set to roar into the hugely popular Euro Truck Simulator computer game franchiseSome of Scania's latest trucks are set to appear in the hugely popular computer game, Euro Truck Simulator 2.
Team members from SCS Software, makers of the game, recently spent three days at Scania's DemoCentre in Södertälje, Sweden, scrutinising the manufacturer's S- and R-cabs to ensure their gaming counterparts are faithfully reproduced.
Hynek Svatoš, Vehicle Team Leader at SCS Software, says there is still much work to be done to port the road-going reality into a digitised form.
"Normally, a job such as this takes eight to 10 man months and we will divide the work in two, with one artist taking the exterior and another the interior," he says.
"We can therefore look forward to seeing the new-generation trucks in the game by late spring. Our fans have already introduced the new trucks into the game as fan-made modifications. We, however, have very high requirements on accuracy."
Achieving that accuracy requires the utmost dedication, says Svatoš.
"The team spent many painstaking hours marking the trucks for subsequent scanning," he said.
"One might characterise this as reverse engineering. We now use an industrial 3D scanner to register all data and measurements."
The original Euro Truck Simulator and its spin-offs have achieved sales of over four million copies since 2008. The games have a huge following in Europe but also in other countries with strong trucking subcultures, such as Turkey and Latin America.
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