Traffic should spawn farther away

The vehicles visibly pop in and it doesn't help that they spawn stationary. On open highways like those on East Coast it's more noticeable.

 

Take a look at Barbent’s Homerange map here in the forums and on repo. He did some lua code in his map to spawn the traffic farther away.

 

That's fine, but I was hoping for an eventual update from the devs that would apply to all maps.

 

in the meantime, you could probably do some LUA tweaking of your own, to adjust the global spawn distance for traffic vehicles.

 

Here's how:
Reducing the variable called "spawnValue" leads to a greater spawn distance although the name doesn't suggest that.
Code snippet:

Code:

gameplay_traffic.setTrafficVars({spawnValue = 0.5})

In my map LUA I call this once on the "onTrafficStarted" event.

 

Why not set the global value, or this is not possible?

 

That is also possible. I just wanted to show how I made it automatic for a map. Setting this variable with the traffic app or through the console has the same effect, imo.