Mods Studio v.2023.01 released (Patreon)

Before we cover the release, let's take a moment to celebrate... 🎉🎉🎉

300!!! Is this Sparta??? 💯💯💯

Dear friends, Thank you so much for this amazing achievement! Yes, we have reached 300 patrons! A number that I never dreamed of! I remember being amazed when we only had 30 patrons, and now we have ten times that. Thank you all for being here, for sticking around, and for creating this wonderful community with us.

I've said this many times, and I'll say it again: We couldn't have done this without you. This project keeps going because of you all! I'm starting to believe, that one day, I could leave my day job and work on Mods Studio full-time. In fact, we might be half way there now. :)

About that MS2 release... Trailers anyone? 

For this release, a significant focus was put onto trailers. Both standalone and traffic trailers. We have added many new trailers, and extra options for existing trailers. A special treat for you - our Patrons is the ability to use Aero chassis on your standalone trailers. Also, you can now match your standalone traffic trailers with your traffic trucks, the same way you would match regular traffic trailers.

One super cool change comes "under the hood". We have added code that will prevent duplicating of the same model files, no matter how many templates or looks you add into your mod. Older versions of MS2 have simply added new model files each time you added a template. This has huge impacts on the sizes of exported traffic mods, for example.

Changelog

Pro features:

Aero sideskirts for standalone trailers

Connect standalone traffic trailers to traffic trucks

New mod templates:

AI Traffic Vehicle template (ATS)

New content and content updates:

Mod size optimization when using same 3D models

New standalone trailer: Dry Van (ETS2)

New standalone trailer: Chemtank (ETS2)

New AI vehicle: Temsa Opalin (ETS2)

New AI vehicle: Fiat Ducato Box (ETS2)

New AI vehicle: Isuzu NPR Reefer (ETS2)

New AI vehicle: Volkswagen Crafter (ETS2)

New AI vehicle: Citroën 2CV (ETS2)

New AI vehicle: Renault Clio (ETS2)

New AI vehicle: Peugeot 208 (ETS2)

New traffic trailer: Dry van (ETS2)

New traffic trailer: Dry van Double (ETS2)

New traffic trailer: Curtain sider Double (ETS2)

New traffic trailer: Reefer Double (ETS2)

New traffic trailer: Dry van B-Double (ETS2)

New traffic trailer: Curtain sider B-Double (ETS2)

New traffic trailer: Reefer B-Double (ETS2)

New traffic trailer: SCS Food tank (ETS2)

New traffic trailer: SCS Chem tank (ETS2)

New traffic trailer: SCS Dumper (ETS2)

New traffic trailer: SCS Livestock (ETS2)

Added support for new ATS Gas Cistern trailers

Added support for new ETS2 Gas Cistern trailers

Added support for new ETS2 Livestock trailers

Added support for Western Star 5700XE (with images)

Added support for latest Kenworth W900 truck update (ATS)

Added missing traffic trailer templates (ATS and ETS2)

Updated i9900 naming to reduce confusion

Reduced number of ATS mudflaps templates to reduce confusion

UI and quality of life improvements:

Dark theme got polished a bit more

Improved uninstall information in Windows "Apps & features" dialogue

Trailer matching dialog can be resized now

Bugfixes:

Fixed 3D previewer shutdown bug when saving/exporting skins

Fixed Iveco HiWay mapping

Fixed Tourliner AI bus bugs

Removed obsolete automat files from ATS truck mudflaps

Removed obsolete automat files from ATS trailer mudflaps (front and back)

Removed obsolete automat files from ETS2 trailer mudflaps

Fixed ETS2 truck lightbox (Volvo FH12 paint)

Fixed inconsistent foodtank name in ETS2 Trailer mudflaps template

ATS Traffic trailer type limited to 12 characters

Thank you to everyone that submited requests on our Issue Board. A lot of changes from the above list were submitted by you guys! 👍

New team member

I'm super happy to announce that our team has grown - we've gotten a new developer! You can all greet him on our Discord server under the nick @AdamLabrosse. In fact, he's responsible for majority of updates in this release, doing an absolutely amazing job!

It still leaves me speechless when people want to join our little team and help with development of Mods Studio 2.

Next releases

We're already very busy developing the new release material. For mods studio, we're sure there will be new AI trucks added.

For our Stream Deck plugin, we are looking into the bugs that were introduced by the Stream Deck software update. We're also developing support for the new Stream Deck Plus. 

A few bigger experiments are happening on the side... First one is a new Pro version of our 3D previewer, with ability to load full vehicles with all parts.

Second one is looking into the possibility to expand MS2 onto a new game, and at this moment we're experimenting with Farming Simulator 22... (let me tell you a secret: It's looking very promising! 🐄🤠) 

Mods Studio 2 v.2023.01 Download

Here are direct download links from our own server:

Mods Studio 2 v.2023.01 Installer (286 Mb)Mods Studio 2 v.2023.01 Standalone (414 Mb) 

These links are hosted on our own server. If your download doesn't start,  please try using a different browser. We'll also upload these to our regular download hosts in a couple of days when we release publicly.Thank you all for your amazing support!

Marin (aka. WerewolfCustoms)