Transport Fever Mods How To Improve The

I am especially interested in learning how the 3D paths work, starting from laying railroads on the 3D terrain to path finding algorithms. Any info on the game engine used and tips for beginner game programmers would also help.

We want to begin with the most important part of Train Fever: The community and how they contribute to the game.

Train Fever and its development profit in a lot of ways from its players.

Transport Fever Mods How To Improve The

On the one hand, we get a lot of feedback and suggestions on how to improve the game (the subject which we will discuss with the next blog post).

On the other hand, and this is the topic which we focus on today, thanks to modding players can directly modify and add content to the game.

An important part of modding is that it is not done by the developers of the game but by the players, so called modders.

They can create their own world without having to give up on the games functionality.

They did not only allow for modding but actively supported it by making it easy for players to access core parts of the game.

Players can change the game to their needs from making it a complete sandbox to ramping up the difficulty, add their own buildings and vehicles as well as change how the game looks.

Players like to actively contribute and add to a game not only by playing it, but by creating content.

Traditional game development prefers to generate more profit by selling bits of content as DLC.

Exposed game functionalities can have critical impacts on the games behavior, allowing mods in the worst case to make the game impossible to play or break certain aspects of the game logic.

For something to be moddable, the relevant functionality must be extracted from the program code and be made accessible via configuration files or script functions.

Interfaces for mods should be generic enough to allow for extensive modding but easy enough for everybody to use.

The decision to go with Lua was based on the fact that Lua is a free, fast and powerful, yet simple tool, and is one of the leading scripting languages used in making games.

Lua is easy to learn and understand due to its solid reference material and needs nothing more than a text editor to edit scripts.

Since then hundreds of great pieces of new content have been created.

There are some mods that utilize the functionalities we have provided and use them in ways we have not foreseen.

On top of that, a lot of new textures, shaders and various script mods change the way Train Fever looks and feels.

But also here help is right around the corner in the form of Mod Managers, also made by people from the community, making it possible to install and activate mods by the matter of a few simple mouse clicks.

If you have any comments or even suggestions what we should write about, we will be happy to read your comments.

This game has the potential of becoming The Best Game ever in the transport genre and, if it doesnt, I hope someone picks whats best from it and translates into a new game.

Speaking of which, I would love to see some behind the scenes when it comes to actually developing such a game.

I am especially interested in learning how the 3D paths work, starting from laying railroads on the 3D terrain to path finding algorithms.

Any info on the game engine used and tips for beginner game programmers would also help.