Left 4 Dead Dam It map by Turtle Rock Studios

The best selling and popular "Left 4 Dead" 4player Co-op game was developed by Turtle Rock Studios. Many years have passed and there is no official info from Valve if they want make new L4D3 game also Valve own the IP license to L4D games it's up to Valve if they want make a sequel but they don't do it.
Official Left 4 Dead Blog here is still up and alive.

Turtle Rock Studios made a campaign that was never finished, along with a couple survival maps that never shipped. Dam It stitches Dead Air and Blood Harvest together. Now you can download this map. You can find more info at pcgamer.com or  here.  Notice it has some bugs but still playable and there is some missing textures. "It's gray box, and some code features are missing, but it's playable from beginning to end," he wrote. "It also includes two standalone survival maps that never shipped."

Download: Install info: unzip .vpk file and copy to Left 4 Dead 'addons' folder. It will show up under Menu Extra addons.
Dam It map for L4D1 is 144MB
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/17529
Dam It map for L4D2 port:
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/17533

There was many map mods you could download for L4D games in the good old days at this mod websites but they are closed:
www.l4dmaps.com  Closed have moved to gamemaps.com
www.l4dmods.com  Closed

One last thing a new car simulator game "City Car Driving" have been released at steam it have got some good reviews see it here

Before the Flood NG Doc

A new documentary "Before the Flood" by National Geographic channels 1hr and 35min is out see it at Youtube Everyone should watch this because it is important many life are at stake and all earth and everything in it is at stake and many will suffer. Before the Flood with Leonardo DiCaprio as he explores the topic of climate change, and discovers what must be done today to prevent catastrophic disruption of life on our planet.

If you want more  National Geographic Climate Change Documentary's:
- Six Degrees Could Change The World 2008
- The Year The Earth Went Wild 2011

BBC Climate Change Documentary's_
- David Attenborough 'Climate Change - Britain Under Threat' - YouTube
- David Attenborough The Truth About Climate Change (BBC)

"and don't forgot the Action  movie "On Deadly Ground (1994)"  by Steven Seagal shows how oil company's destroy earth."

GoldenEye: Source v5.0 Free Mod

GoldenEye: Source is a total conversion modification of Half-Life 2. It is a fan made  recreation, released for free, with a primary goal in mind; To bring the memories and experiences from the original classic N64 GoldenEye64 back to life using Source' Orange Box Technology. GoldenEye: Source is an online multiplayer arena first-person shooter that aims to provide a faithful recreation of the classic N64 title GoldenEye 007’s multiplayer with refined gameplay, high definition graphics and sound.

V5.0 have been released.
Website https://www.geshl2.com/
http://www.moddb.com/mods/goldeneye-source

Installation is easy just download (GoldenEye_Source_v5.0_full.exe) 2GB from it's website and it will install automatic under your Steam folder:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\sourcemods\
"Source SDK Base 2007" will be installed by steam auto.
 Also MS Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable Package  here is needed too.
"This game requires that you own a Source engine game such as Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life 2, or Day of Defeat: Source."

Here is more Free Source mods the top best: (Made with Valve Source Engine by Fans)

• Fistful of Frags on Steam
• No More Room in Hell on Steam
• Zombie Panic! Source on Steam
• Tactical Intervention on Steam

The original classic "GoldenEye 007" for N64 was made in 2007 by dev "Rare Ltd" later "GoldenEye 007 Reloaded" was made by "Eurocom Entertainment"  for Wii in 2010 and in 2011 for PS3 and Xbox360

Real-time-rendered made in Unity engine

The Adam demo is a real-time-rendered short film created with the Unity engine. Very impressive. Looks like the Unity engine is becoming very populate for PC games and developers. More info here Many people have done a lot of work to make this...

Phoenix3D 360° photo-realistic pre render game engine

I did made a list of Most well known game engines here I did forgot to post one of the best old realistic game engines Phoenix3D Phoenix VR middleware, developed by 4X Technologies S.A, for 360° photo-realistic pre render click and point adventure games. Some of the best Dracula games whas made by this. You can buy the old Dracula games at GOG at reduced pries now. The company that made that engine is no longer around and closed maybe this can give some ideas for new game developers.

About 4X Technologies S.A
"4X Technologies was a French company founded in 1997 by Emmanuel Forsans and Jérôme Larrieu. 4X was located in Paris and employed about 50 people at its peak. It specialized in the creation of middleware tools and is especially known for it Phoenix3D engine, which later became the foundation for Kylotonn Entertainment's Kt engine. Other tools include 4X Movie (movie compression for Windows, Macintosh, Dreamcast and Game Boy Advance games), Phoenix VR (tools package for 360° photo-realistic environments immersion), and the X3D engine.The main company along with the divisions were closed in early 2003."


Games using a version of the Phoenix VR middleware, developed by 4X Technologies S.A, a tools package for 360° photo-realistic environments immersion.

• Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy  GOG 
• Dracula: The Last Sanctuary    GOG
• Dracula: The Resurrection    GOG
• The Omega Stone    GamersGate
• The Messenger   

1978 Mack Cruiseliner Truck

I've found  the 1978 Mack Cruiseliner mod for PTTM. Mack Cruiseliner  was in Convoy Movie that was Driven by Bobby 'Love Machine' 'Pig Pen' . That truck mod is included in 18wos 70's diesel mod for Pttm you can get it: here

Also i have cleaned up some useless blog topics. I should not post too many post for other games.

Flash back mods for old 18 Wos truck games

It was year 2004 that all modding begun for 18 Wos truck games. Time goes fast 12 years has gone since that time. Some of the good old days mods are forgotten. I will post some picture of the special mods to remember them. There is more mods i can not post all here, tt will take a lot of pages. It nice to look back to see and remember this old mods again. Just do not forget that all this mods was not possible without help and plugin from Zmodeler2 program http://www.zmodeler2.com Back in the old days there was no Blender plugins from Scs and was no modding Wiki.

18 Wos Haulin

Optimus Prime pete by VanDeNiggo & evh5150vanhalen made in 2008
It replace the standard p385 truck. It's not standalone. It's based on the real Peterbilt truck in transformers movie. 









Euro Truck Simulator
Toyota LandCruiser 60 (1987) Drivable Off Road Car made in 2008 Converted by Cristinel and 3dartpol. It Replaces Renault Magnum C truck and It has own interior!










18 Wos Convoy
European double trailers combo by 3dartpol. It can pivot in 2 point. It's not a tandem. I did made in 2006-02-07.












18 Wos Pedal to the Metal
Darker Smoke by Ken Worth
It makes the smoke more darker










18 Wos Pedal to the Metal

Showroom mod by hardtruckisthebest made in year 2005 as you see in picture it add grass and tree to background of showroom...










18 Wos Pedal to the Metal 

Fog Storm weather mod for pttm
It did add fog to some area of the map











18 Wos Across America
Mack-R truck by 3dartpol
I was the first to make truck mods for AA game thanks to Zmodeler2 program without it it was not possible.











18 Wos Across America

P379 dumper truck for AA by 3dartpol for 18 Wos Across America game. I got inspiration from the old Atari Driver game has similar truck.













For more mods and download see this blog post:
http://3dartpol.blogspot.se/2015/11/18ws-old-truck-game-mods-downloads-by.html

18wos 70's diesel mod for Pttm

18wos 70's diesel mod for 18 WoS Pedal to the Metal game is forgotten. Maybe this mod can give some inspiration for a new game. With old rusty trucks. ValuSoft need to come back... I wonder what happen to publisher ValuSoft.

I have the old 70's diesel mod download link left for anyone that want it 99MB:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/dkv16qa3wi6r2kr/18+WoS+70%27s.rar

18wos 70's diesel v1.1 is a mod that change the Pttm map and adds many old trucks from 70's some of my old Mack-R trucks are included and also this mod contain a Bus too, and it adds new buttons for main menus and new color and new bg music, etc. Credits are in the rar file. Screenshots:

This rusty_p351 truck was made by me credit goes for Scs Software for the cabin and chassis the rest is made in 3dsmax.  I have tested 18 WoS Pedal to the Metal game under Windows 10 and it works great. The installation of 70's mod is simple just extract all folders to your dir C:\Users\...\Documents\18 WoS Pedal to the Metal\

Most well known game engines

There is many games engine out there for game development and it's not a easy task to make own engine from zero. I will list most well known game engines.
Some people say that Scs Software need to change their game engine but this people or kids don't know anything about programming or optimization.  Scs Software have skilled programmers they have self created own Prism3D game engine that is optimized for truck games now some people say they should use Unreal Engine 4 that is a bad idea because Unreal Engine 4 is best suitable for shooter fps games and not for truck games. Also it is possible to make a truck game in UE4 but they must optimize it well. What Scs need to do is just update their Prism game engine to support DirectX11 & 12 and OpenGL in their recent interview Pavel said they will update their shader for Directx11.

Cryengine V 
Cryengine new update has been announced more info at https://www.cryengine.com
Best suitable for shooter fps and driving open world games or other stuff can handle large world

Source 2
Valve announced the Source 2 engine, and that it will be free for developers and compatible with the new Vulkan Graphics API. In addition, Valve confirmed that it would be using a new in-house physics engine named Rubikon.

Stingray game engine by Autodesk
Has excellent light and animation support  also it's made by same makers that made 3dsMax and Maya so it should be very good optimized for 3d mesh:
http://www.autodesk.com/products/stingray/overview

Unity 5 
This is low budget game engine best suitable for creating 2D games and for indie dev

OGRE - Open Source 3D Graphics Engine
Rigs of Rods truck simulator game based on an advanced soft-body physics was made with OGRE engine. http://www.ogre3d.org

Unreal Engine 4
Developed by Epic Games since 1998 Excellent high quality engine best for shooter fps games

Frostbite Engine
Is made by DICE is excellent realistic graphic best suitable for shooter fps games
Also it can be used for racing car games. Need for Speed: The Run and Rival was made with Frostbite Engine

Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE)
Used in games Red Dead Redemption and GTA more info Wiki

Phoenix3D 
Phoenix VR middleware, developed by 4X Technologies S.A, for 360° photo-realistic pre render click and point it's a old engine not longer available more info here

Rig'n'Roll Gold Edition on Win10

Some people on Steam posted for Rig'n'Roll game that they had some difficulty to run the game under Windows 8 because of the protection StarForce, the developers do not want to update the protection driver to support Windows 8.1. You have to Go on the Steam Files, Rig N Roll, click on properties in rungame.exe, and take the compability on windows 8. it will run the game.

I have tested "Rig'n'Roll Gold Edition" DVD version 3.05.2726 and it works great under Windows 10 64bit "Rig'n'Roll Gold Edition" was released in 2013 by Polish publisher Cenega and it have not any protection and no StarForce. So if you want stay out of problem do not buy Steam version go for Gold Retail version.

This game could be great but developer ruin it, had some bad design and annoying long cut scene that you can not skip. Also the game map is based on real world distance and it takes very long time to deliver cargo and it make the game very boring and monotonous.


Rig'n'Roll Gold Edition includes Content Monster Cup add-on:
"The „Monster Cup“ is a special add-on to the Rig‘N‘Roll game, providing completely
new routes, vehicles, and allowing you to take part in a major truckers‘ race organized
by the CCWA (California Commercial Warehouse Alliance) In that competition, you not
only need to deliver your cargo - you also have to be the fastest driver! The Monster
Cup race consists of a few different parts and sometimes you just have to win a few
races in order to get to the next stage, but remember that in other cases even being
second won‘t be enough
The add-on is available either after finishing the Rig‘N‘Roll scenario or from the
„Story“ section in main menu, after turning that scenario off" info From Manual page 7

Vulkan (API) is OpenGL2 graphic cards

Vulkan (API) is next generation OpenGL in short you can call it OpenGL2.
The benefits with Vulkan and DirectX12 it will be faster and works closer to hardware.

To make the older graphic cards support Vulkan it is done by driver updates but some older graphic cards  will not be supported by Vulkan (API)
Nvidia and Khronos Group said  "we are not planning to support Geforce 400-500 class GPUs"

For AMD graphic cards to support AMD:s Vulkan (API) it need to be architecture Graphics Core Next (GCN), it means from Radeon HD 7000 and newer that will have support for Vulkan (API)

So in short Nvidia graphic cards from Kepler Geforce GTX 600-series and newer will support Vulkan (API) and if you have older graphic cards then it will not support it.

More info about Vulkan (API) by Khronos Group 1hr 21min video: Link

C.W. McCALL - CONVOY 1975 Video

I've found the very old original C.W. McCALL - CONVOY 1975 (Audio Enhanced) music video at Youtube link
It may be hard to find it's from the good old days 70's from the creator (W. Dale Fries) of Convoy song he both sings and performs. 2 years later the Convoy song was used in the trucking film Convoy (1978).

Note! C.W. McCall is not a real person. “C.W. McCall” isn’t the name of the group that recorded the music.
C. W. McCall is the pseudonym of William Dale Fries, Jr, an American singer, activist and politician known for his truck-themed outlaw country songs.

C.W. McCall’s popularity reached its peak in January 1976, when “Convoy” — from his second album, Black Bear Road — reached the number one position. More info see http://www.cw-mccall.com/legend/

Trucking Country Music Mp3 Pack Download for truck games

One of the most important thing in a truck game is to have a music player and radio. Without it gets very empty. I have collected the best trucking country music in mp3 format that you can download and add it to your truck games.

Download Url 58MB: (Dl link still working but it may get deleted because of Copyright)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5GIm4Qo2T_JYTVZRUREcUY1MXc

Content zip file:
- AC-DC - Highway To Hell.mp3
- Alabama - Roll On Eighteen Wheeler.mp3
- C.W.McCall - Convoy.mp3
- C.W.McCall - Ive Trucked All Over This Land.mp3
- Imagination - Just An llusion 80's.mp3
- Johnny Cash - Ghost Riders In The Sky.mp3
- Johnny Cash - Girl on the billboard.mp3
- Kris Kristofferson - This Old Road.mp3
- Kris Kristofferson & Johnny Cash - Silver Stallion.mp3
- Randy Travis - Highway Junkie (Trucking).mp3
- Runaway Train 1985 - Soundtrack.mp3
- Sawyer Brown - Six Days On The Road.mp3
- Smokey And The Bandit by Jerry Reed.mp3

To install music mp3 for Scs truck games ATS & Euro Truck Simulator or 18ws games, etc:
Just put copy your *.mp3 or *.ogg files to music folder in example:
 ..\My Documents\Euro Truck Simulator\music 
Then in Game hit the "R" button to bring up the music-player to play your mp3 music it in game.
**Windows 10 My Documents folder is here: C:\Users\<Username>\Documents


Rig'n'Roll
To install music mp3 for Rig'n'Roll game:
Add your music files in mp3 format to the My Radios folder which can be found in folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\<Username>\My Documents\My Games\RigNRoll\<Profile Name>

Trucking Films

I made a big list of Trucking films at my website many year ago. I repost some of them here only the best ones. For those that like Trucking films from 70's and 80's. Also visit www.truckerflicks.com if you want more.

The best Trucking film is Convoy 1978 and similar films are only BREAKER! (1977) and Smokey and the Bandit1 to 3 that come close to Convoy.


Trucking films:

• Convoy (1978)
• BREAKER! BREAKER! (1977) Chuck Norris
• DUEL (1971)  Directed by: Steven Spielberg
• MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (1986)
• Over the Top (1987)  Sylvester Stallone
• Silent Thunder (1992)
• Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
• Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
• Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983)

Ghost Riders in the Sky old country music

“(Ghost) Riders in the Sky” music link Performed by Johnny Cash and was written by Stan Jones 1948. This county music performed by Johnny Cash is perfect för trucker county music. It is very well done.

It has same quality as the good old day C.W.McCall Convoy film sound track from 70's. Also Kris Kristofferson has performed some music with Johnny Cash link

Ghost riders in the sky - Johnny Cash - Full Song - YouTube

Stingray game engine by autodesk

Stingray game engine It's excellent for creating 3D games or a design professional creating real-time visualizations. It's fully support integrated with Maya and 3Ds Max. "Warhammer End Times Vermintide" game by Developer Fatshark is was made in Stingray game engine. Stingray have excellent animation support and lighting effect, etc.

Creating a game engine from ground is very hard and takes time.  Some people don't know Stingray engine most popular game engine are Unity 5 and Unreal Engine 4.

More info at it's website:
http://www.autodesk.com/products/stingray/overview