Released Central Europe Plates 1.4

Hello, everyone! I'm gladly announcing that one of the features of the next mod version will be a rework of Austrian license plates!
Changes include:

1. Higher quality of characters and coat of arms stickers. Now, their resolution will match the resolution of background, as these textures were upscaled by 2x. Also, the dimensions and placement of elements on coat of arms stickers is more accurate. In the future versions, plates of other countries will also be remade that way.
2. New variants of special license plates: since 2024, plates with wide font aren't produced anymore. Therefore, dealer, export and temporary plates, using the same font as standard plates, will be added as new plate designs. Also, in 2025 a small change was made to foreign resident temporary plates: the red field on the right side doesn't extend to the plate border, instead it fills only the internal part of the plate. Also, a pre-2000 version of export plates with green background was included.
3. Possibility to select years displayed on an expiration date sticker on export/transit plates. The example number format is W:98 ABC|12, where 12 is the first year (lowest number) displayed on a sticker - in this example, sticker will display following years: 12, 13 and 14. Their arrangement is automatically chosen, as the order in which these numbers increase had been changed in 2008 and 2016.
4. Separate plate design for vintage cars - plates for historical vehicles have different dimensions than standard plates: 46x12 cm for one-row plates and 25x20 cm (with narrow font) for rear double-row plates.
5. New size for double-row plates: 27x20 cm - it was used for standard two-line plates before 2002. Now, it's still in use for special plates (dealer, export, temporary).
6. Improved random number generator, especially for standard license plates.

All changes can be seen below:

 

Yo this thread's been dead for a while lol, is there any new progress on 38x11 German plates?

 

True I’m asking that myself too

 

Hi! Nothing to worry about, the mod is still in development. I didn't post any progress, because aside from studying for exams, I'm currently upgrading font textures of German license plates. And because I had a chance to do so, I've also added support for 38x11 German plates. This is how they look like:

You can see that text and stickers now use higher quality textures, to match the resolution of the plate's background.
I also found out that this size is used for seasonal plates (I just found out that I forgot to add seasonal 42x11 plates before):

 

Oh this is beautiful, they look awesome. Can't wait haha

 

Hello, everyone!

I'm happy to announce my next significant development progress - this time, it's an update of Romanian plates!



Features:

• Separate design for plates issued between 2007 and 2008. Romanian license plates issued before 2008 used a different character painting method, so letters and digits look bolder. Also, letters G and S, as well as digits 7 and 8 had a slightly different design - this applies to 1992-2007 plates (with Romanian flag) too.

• Manual customization of alternative forms of letters A, M and W - by default, wide forms are used (unless there's not enough space), now if you write these letters in lowercase, a narrow variant of them will be used. Number generators have been updated to reflect every county's preference of using these variants (for example: București and Cluj tend to use narrow variants, while Timișoara and Iași prefer regular-width letters A and M). It will be also possible to use a rare wide version of the letter W.

• Possibility to add small fixed-width space in a selected place by using the slash "/" symbol between characters - it can be used for better customization of character placement, as on some license plates character spacing is a bit different than usual.

• It's now possible to place technical inspection stickers on plates, in a very similar way to German plates. Stickers from years between 1993 and 2030 are supported. They aren't placed by default, you need to use a switch with a letter - uppercase to place stickers on front plate only, or a lowercase if you want to have them on both front and rear plates - select "Rear EU License Plate (CZ, D, H, SK)" or "Rear Yellow EU License Plate" for it to work correctly. If digits are also used in a switch, letter goes before digits. They work the same way as for German plates - month and year depend on time when the plate was generated - 1 second is equivalent to 1 month. Stickers cycle through all colors in 5 years - it takes 60 seconds for the same month/year combination to appear again. A set of stickers can be chosen used for generation of plates will be based on a letter that you chose as a switch (after the pipe "|" symbol at the end of the number in "License plate" field).

• You can also use the above-mentioned switch to add features like horizontal lines for stickers (that were in use until 1996) and a barcode (used since 2025). The full list of letters can be viewed on the image below.

• Added 2 variants of military plates (with number format A-12345): current variant that has full-white background without EU band and a circled place for sticker above the dash, and previous variant with Romanian flag and post-2008 font (this combination wasn't used for regular plates). Also, you can recreate older military plates by using a number in format "A-12345" when selecting "Romania 1977-1988 Plate Design" - in this case there will be a dash with a circle (sticker spot) above.

• Added a transitional variant of plates issued in București (Bucharest) in 1992 - they used a standard EU size (52x11) and DIN 1451 font, but with old number system (1-B-23456).

Special thanks to @volvo&jagfanro for helping me in development with a lot of knowledge and quality photos of Romanian plates!

My work on German plates is soon to be finished too, I'll publish the change log in a few days. There's a high chance that new version of Central European Plates will be released at the end of next week!

 

I have some great news for you! Next version of the mod will be released most probably at the end of this week, after some testing to ensure that everything works as it should.



Here's a change log for German plates:

• Improved quality of font and stickers, both on DIN 1451 and FE-Schrift plates to match the resolution of background

• Added 38 x 11 cm license plates, they are designed to support 4 characters in Mittelschrift or 5 characters in Engschrift. Support for them has been included in all cars.

• Added more customization options for export license plates.

• For 1995-2000 plates:

• Old-style, shorter hyphen (as used on DIN plates): use the letter A as a switch, e.g. D:1234 E|A1295

• No hyphen: use the letter B as a switch, e.g. D:1234 E|B1299

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• For current plates:

• Hyphen between area code and serial number (used on some plates issued in 2000-2002): use the letter A as a switch, e.g. D:1234 E|A030201

• Full-length red strip on 2-row plates - from top to bottom, not only on upper half (used on some plates from 2000-2003): use the letter B as a switch, e.g. D:1234 E|B040302

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• Added more customization options for 1994-1995 transitional design of license plates. It's possible to use this switch together with a technical inspection sticker selection - digit goes before the letter

• No dash, old design of EU strip: use the digit 1 as a switch, e.g. C:EF 1234|1

• Dash, new design of EU strip: use the digit 2 as a switch, e.g. C:EF 1234|2

• No dash, new design of EU strip: use the digit 3 as a switch, e.g. C:EF 1234|3

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• Added a possibility to change a years displayed on technical inspection stickers - by default it's 2026-2031, but you can choose out of 8 sets. Also, it's possible to optionally display a hexagonal emission control sticker on the front plate. The list of letters that can be used can be found in the picture below. For seasonal and interchangeable plates, letter is placed before digits. For DIN 1451 plates, you can use a lowercase letter to use Engschrift digits. Examples:

• B:CD 123|B0310 - seasonal plate valid from March to October with a sticker from years 2020-2025

• C:EF 234|C3 - interchangeable plate with a digit 3 on the right side and a sticker from years 2014-1029

• D:ef 456|k - DIN 1451 plate with all Engschrift characters aside of area code, with stickers from years 1996-2001 on both front and rear plate

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• Increased a number of cities/districts that can appear on seals (these stickers are chosen automatically based on area code):

• For DIN 1451 plates, 36 new stickers were added for cities above 150.000 inhabitants

• For FE-Schrift plates, additions include 130 new stickers - for all districts above 240.000 inhabitants and for cities above 80.000 inhabitants

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Big thanks to Olav A. Brekke from olavsplates.com for high-quality photos of plates and stickers - this update wouldn't be possible without his help!

 

This is just... amazing!!!!

 

rukatsunderi updated Central Europe Plates with a new update entry:

Big upgrade of Austrian, German & Romanian plates + small additions for Croatia & Slovenia

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

This update is absolutely amazing, putting the 38x11 plates to good use already

 

How are you able to put these plates on mods?

 

Copying the EU Plate jbeam of a mod and adding 330-110/380-110/420-110 (or whatever) for the front plate and the same thing but with 111 (because of the TÜV plaque) for the rear plate and adding that jbeam into the mod folder (or as a seperate zip file if the mod folder doesn't take the jbeam file)

 

Thanks! I'll try your steps as I never went deep into mod files. Let's see how it goes lmao