temp discussion thread for AA Roadservice Truck skin

Discussion in 'Mods and Skins' started by torsion, Jul 26, 2018.

  1. torsion

    torsion
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    Since automatic discussion thread generation is broken for the moment, here's this from @ckulsen ...

    In-Game Roadservice Truck:

    https://www.beamng.com/resources/aa-roadservice-truck.4555/

    and my thoughts on it:
    1. AA is obviously partial to big, ostentatious wording. This is reflected in both the angled and cropped lettering in their previous wrap design as well as the large slightly cropped lettering in their newer design. Both ends of the word "Roadservice" are impinged on by the wheelwells in the current design IRL. This isn't reflected in the skin, so I'd recommend re-visiting that aspect. IMO this is the biggest problem with the skin, followed by #3.
    2. Another member mentioned font issues, but to me it seems more like a kerning issue. Your font choice seems decent unless someone points out a specific problem which I didn't notice. I'd recommend manually adjusting letter spacing rather than looking for a different font. With that said, Core Sans C also looks close... https://www.fontspring.com/fonts/s-core/core-sans-c If you really want to identify the font you could use the highest resolution image you can find, remove all perspective (using 'distort' or similar), and then feed it to a service such as Font Squirrel.
    3. See attached for a reference photo showing more of the front of the truck. The stripes should go all the way across the vehicle from one side to the other. Alternatively some older vehicles seem to have stripes that meet in a chevron pattern. In the case of the (new looking?) Battery Service van at least some of the stripes terminate in a more-or-less-square endcap. We can see in the picture showing the front of the Toyota Hilux that the stripe going across the front driver's side window actually continues across the windshield/windscreen and up onto the roof.

    Attached are a few more images to reference via these pages:
    https://www.aa.co.nz/membership/
    https://www.aa.co.nz/cars/owning-a-car/batteries/
    https://www.aa.co.nz/home-services/
     

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    • aa-membership.jpg
    • SetWidth900-Batteries.jpg
    • Header-1.jpg
    • Header-4.jpg
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