Development on version 1.x (Finland - Project Napapiiri)

[Superdavecan]

Nico wrote:
Hopefully you saw the first post with a picture of the new finish modulair signs.

The traffic light idea is very interesting and tempting. Haven't noticed that yet, is this specific for any regions or?


Let's see what is possible

Yeah I did see the new signs I just hope that the print turns out to be large enough in-game to read while driving. Seems a little bit bigger though.

For the horizontal traffic lights, I saw a fair number of them in Tampere, and a few in Turku and Helsinki (although most of the Helsinki ones are either vertical on poles, or just on posts like in Norway. Most of the Turku ones seem to just be on posts too.) I haven't been to that many other places in Finland myself though... but these days we have Google Street View and Finland is very well-covered, so you can always look around and see. I don't think they're specific to any particular area but just found quite commonly all over Finland. A Finnish person could probably shed more light on horizontal traffic lights there though (generally black with a white border).

[Nico]

Looked at two junctions so far. Helsinki had vertical, Porvoo had horizontal.

Hoepfully some Finnish ppl will comment soon on this

[Ranchester]

Most traffic lights are vertical. There are some horizontal aswell but they are not that common.

[MandelSoft]

Yeah I did see the new signs I just hope that the print turns out to be large enough in-game to read while driving. Seems a little bit bigger though.

Oh, they are bigger. The printing size has increased by 60% to improve readability

[Muge]

Can't wait to drive around the new cities

[Dannu]

Hello Platypus
This project of yours is amazing - to build almost the whole Finland - high quality will be for sure
The reconstruction of Helsinki could be possible?

+1 For that.

[Platypus]

Hello,

Thanks again for comments

- I need yet to make more researches about this, but I had scheduled not to set swedish-finnish panels in all regions. I found today an interesting article on Wikipedia about this. By example, I need indeed to change this in Tampere where I set bilingual panels by mistake.
- Also the size of characters as been increased so they will be more legible
- Helsinki will receive a lot of small changes in the first version, but I don't scheduled a total rebuild at this time. However, many details will be added with new panels, vegetation, objects, ... and the cathedral as you can see on the first picture). I will post some photos of changes in the next days. Later, other changes could be done ...

[Dannu]

OK, thanks for information. Do you need trafic signs pictures?

[Vladzz-G]

In my opinion, Turku needs a total rebuilding. This city is very similar to Bratislava + no islands near ferry port.
And Helsinki looks very good. Don't need to rebuild this city in all. (Maybe just some small improvements)

[Platypus]

Hi everybody,

As promised, some additional images from Helsinki and Turku after upgrade
Many details were added in both cities to improve them

Helsinki center

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West end of Keha Ring III

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Turku upgraded

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Turku upgraded

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Turku upgraded

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