Australian Roads

Just like in the case of Original Trilogy Title Font, another shoutout to Pipboy900 for the original valiant attempt to make what's Australian Australian - the ResoRep Aussie Road Markings mod.

Mad Max is a treasure of the Australian cinematography, an iconic thing in every aspect, be it the titular character or its dangerous and unforgiving, yet so compelling, setting. So even if everything becomes a wasteland, the Aussieness of the original movies keeps it all convincing and unique. The cities crumbled, old tarmac becomes obscured by sand and ashes of the past - but the land is still the same.

Avalanche, a Swedish company themselves, had a different approach. It also resulted in an interesting situation where almost every major character is an American (Chumbucket, Deep Friah, Gutgash, Hope, Jeet, Pink Eye, Scabrous Scrotus, Stank Gum). Regardless of their performances, which were very good, for example Jason Spisak's Chumbucket.

This approach also resulted in very American, yellow road lane lines, not to mention their length and width is rather questionable. From my testing, seen also in the screenshots: I parked the 1973–1976 Ford Falcon XB GT Hardtop (Interceptor) on a line. The real Interceptor is 4,808 mm (189. 3 inches), let's assume the in-game model is scaled about the same. The line was more than half longer than the car.

There's also an issue of only two textures used for all the in-game bitumen roads, in some places they seem to have been slapped in by the team just to fill the gaps. One can't do more about it without dedicated modding tools, it could use a total road/highway overhaul.

Features:

- very weathered, worn-out white lane lines. Lane lines need to be maintained and in the post-apocalyptic Australia there's no way for that. The highway lane lines are in a better condition, as opposed to less important roads that were often left neglected even before the collapse (Mad Max 1, "Prohibited Areas")

- the lane lines' width and length have been reduced. The original design was rather peculiar

- better spacing between the lines, I did what I could to make it more like 1:3 ratio, an Australian standard

Installation:

Mad Max (the main install folder)

Uninstallation:

Remove from the folder