Greeting TruckersMP Community!
After the great success of our improved chat system, we have come back with improving your TruckersMP experience even more. This time we have completely reworked the old Scoreboard into a more interactive, modern, and informative interface. Goodbye Scoreboard, hello Player Panel!
We decided to change the name from ‘Scoreboard’ to ‘Player Panel’ because there is no ‘score’ within TruckersMP. The Player Panel is built instead to serve more purposes than just listing the surrounding players by offering interactive features and a modern as well as scalable interface that adapts perfectly to your screen settings. We want to give a special thanks to our Patron supporters for providing their valuable input on the panel.
What’s new?
Our goal has been to create an informative panel with interactive elements and easy navigation. Additionally, we have changed the design of the panel to be more modern, which was a highly requested feature from the community. Let’s check out what’s new!
Functional Scaling
One of the most requested features from the community was to implement functional scaling, which is now implemented. The panel now automatically adjusts its size based on your screen resolution and settings. You can also manually adjust the size of the different HUD elements to suit your preferences better.
Font & Text Render
We have integrated a new font engine, which means you will now see better support for a wide variety of languages and character sets. This way, you can see names and tags that contain special characters correctly. With that change, we’ve also changed the font to look more modern.
Player List
We improved player listing by merging player tag and name columns, which makes the list more compact. The player tags are now highlighted in bold to make them stand out more when players use similar colours.
On top of this we have implemented icons that appear next to player names. There are icons for Steam friends, VTC members (if you are in a VTC), Patrons, and TruckersMP team members. You are also able to see your own icons if that applies to you.
We have furthermore added a new column containing different actions. Through this you are able to easily report, mute, and unmute a player. For now, these are the only options, but we might expand this to cover more features in the future. The context menu (right click on a player), where actions such as ‘Show Steam Profile’ and ‘Show TruckersMP Profile’ are located, remains the same.
Lastly, the panel now opens in the middle of your screen by default, and we have placed the report button at the top for easy access.
Sorting
Players are now automatically grouped, first by friends, followed by other VTC members (if you are on a VTC). You can still change the grouping, for example with sorting manually by ID or Distance. You can now maintain these settings by checking ‘Save Player Panel’s customization’ in your settings under the ‘Interface’ tab.
Searching
Searching is no longer hidden as a toggle option; instead, it is a permanent part of the panel. It works the same way as before, allowing you to query players by their ID, tag, or name.
Needed Removals
Due to technical reasons, two features that were previously part of the Scoreboard had to be removed:
- Custom UI packs no longer apply to the Player Panel. This is due to changes to the current UI skin. In the future, we would love to support the ability to customise the colours, font sizes, and spacing, but at the moment this is not possible with the technology we are using.
- To streamline the overall design of the panel, we have disabled the date/time functionality. Since this information is available on most devices, we simply felt that offering it was redundant and didn’t justify the resources required to keep it maintained.
Your Feedback Matters!
As with any update, your feedback is very valuable to us. We want to ensure that the new Player Panel meets your expectations and works seamlessly. Make sure to contact the Support Team if you find a bug and Community Management for suggestions and feedback. This will help us to refine and improve this release further.
Don’t forget to share your thoughts on our socials by using the hashtag #PlayerPanel!
The new Player Panel is ready for action, and we can't wait for you to try it out. Happy trucking!
-TruckersMP Team
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