Benelux Development

[cocool2001]

Amazing work. I love it. Do you have more photos ? .

[Truckydude]

I've been quite quiet about the development of this project for weeks. But I have made some great progress in Belgium the past few weeks behind the scenes, putting in many hours of work.

This weekend I have completed with landscaping one of the biggest hurdles of the Benelux project: Brussels. The city is a true centerpiece of the Benelux Project. It has recieved a complete rebuild, and the surrounding road network is all new as well. The city includes the complete R0 ringway around the cities. The city itself is an urban complex with tunnels and modern and old architecture mixed in a not to fashoinably good manner, just like in real life. There is even a term for it: "Brusselization" . The More You Know...

And of course we have something to show you! The pictures below give you an impression of how Brussels will look like in ProMods 2.1:

Brussels is not completely finished, so what's still left to do in Brussels? Well, we have to add pedestrians and navigation signs in Brussels, along with some additional optimisation and assigning traffic areas and company DEFs. Most of this is quite trivial, but as far as signage goes...


... Brussels is making things quite challenging.

So stay tuned! We are making crackin' progress here!

Wow: great picks!...

[TAZZMAN]

thank you for all your work looks fantastic

[M4rkus]

The shots look really outstanding. Looks like the road network is very dense. I'd be certainly interested in seeing the map of the rebuilt Benelux

[wallyaus]

Wow! Looks fantastic! I've only just installed Promods and I can't believe I didn't do it sooner.

Kudos to all you developers who are working on projects enhancing the experience for many many people from all over the world!

Can't wait to drive it!

[cocool2001]

I adore how you made Brussels, in more I who live in Brussels. It is hyper realistic.

[Superdavecan]

Recently, while I wait for some of the rebuilding projects/expansions to be finished, I've been keeping myself busy playing different games, and I haven't followed the development as closely as I usually do. But I finally got round to looking at the pics of the Brussels rebuild... and MandelSoft you have done a fantastic job of it! Great rendition of Brussels!

One question though about the signs... Brussels is, of course, surrounded by Flanders, where the signs are in Dutch only. If there are any signs within the Brussels Capital Region (and I understand that in real life there's a shortage of signs, possibly on purpose to avoid printing both languages )... but yeah, if you made any signs within Brussels itself, were they bilingual?

[ScuL]

We placed Dutch signs in the Dutch speaking areas and French in the French speaking areas. There are some signs that are bilingual too.

[Superdavecan]

OK thanks for the info ScuL. I just read what MandelSoft wrote earlier and at the time he said he still needed to put signs within Brussels itself. I guess that's been done now, as you said... good to know that the languages on the signs are accurate (Dutch only in Flanders, French only in Wallonia, and bilingual in the Brussels Capital Region.)

[SturmZebra]

Hey guys, first I know it's called BeNeLUX Rebuilding, but do you even got enough space in Luxemburg to rebuild it as a good quality? - Probably yes, you guys can do everything

Anyways, would you do a (half) ringroad for Luxemburg (city) because it has very nice interchanges and exits like:

"Croix de Cessange":
https://www.google.de/maps/@49.5846075, ... a=!3m1!1e3

"Croix de Gasperich" and "Hesperange":
https://www.google.de/maps/@49.5783149, ... a=!3m1!1e3

"Strassen":
https://www.google.de/maps/@49.6200362, ... a=!3m1!1e3

I know it might not fit at all but it would be pretty nice