It’s been a while since we last updated our build and in the mean time we’ve been working on quite a few bugs and improvements to the code base, so we felt it was time to share these in a fresh update. A full overview of all changes can be found below.
Old UI (opt-out)
- Client build ID: 5504070
- Dedicated server build ID: 5504080
New UI (public_beta)
- Client build ID: 5503999
User Interface
- Added key binding for hide cursor. This is useful when running the in-game overlays and doing a broadcast to a capture card that insists on showing your cursor otherwise.
- All replay controls can now be custom assigned in the controller tab. By default all replay controls are mapped to the same defaults unless re-assigned.
- Added first time start up wizard. For now only has name and nickname fields. This will be extended.
- Added player area in the main UI. For now only has name and nickname fields.
- In showroom we now check for upgrades on page load and do not show info if there aren’t any.
- Disabled select button in list layout for category items. When switching from grid or thumbnail layout to the list layout, and having a “category” item selected, the select button would be available and would glitch things when clicked.
- Clear car configuration info when viewing a “category” item.
- Updated the pop-up layout and styling.
- Renamed event screen “Drive” button to “Passenger” when in multiplayer spectator mode.
- Made transitioning to packages area page smoother:
- Get packages after the page has loaded to avoid blocking.
- Show a pop-up message while getting packages.
- Use a dark grey background during switching to the page.
- Enabled a chat message for single player admin commands.
- Fixed a game crash when switching sessions.
- Fix accessing garage data properties if data is not available.
- All controller profiles are updated. This fixes various issues when using ‘Detect’ on first time hardware setup.
- We have new controller profiles for:
- Simucube 2 Sport;
- Simucube 2 Pro;
- Simucube 2 Ultimate;
- Logitech G923 PlayStation 4 and PC;
- Logitech G923 XBox One and PC;
- VRS OSW;
- XBOX One Controller For Windows.
- Added “PlayerFileOverrides” to various profiles to ensure proper driver aids are enabled/disabled on first time wheel detect.
- Added use thread “true” for all profiles.
- Ensured that the “920 workaround” is set to “false” on all non-Logitech profiles.
- Fixed profile naming and removed redundant profiles.
- Fixed stuck ‘look left’ on TS-XW profile.
- Thrustmaster F1 wheel Integral profiles: Fixed all mapping conflicts: T-GT, TS-PC, T500 RS, TS-XW.
- Thrustmaster Racing wheel profiles: Fixed all mapping conflicts: T-GT, TS-PC, T500 RS.
- Thrustmaster F1 wheel Integral profiles: Fixed all mapping conflicts: T-GT, TS-PC, T500 RS, TS-XW.
- Thrustmaster Racing wheel profiles: Fixed all mapping conflicts: T-GT, TS-PC, T500 RS.
- Added correct max torque to Fanatec CSW v1, v2, V2.5 and Direct Drive profiles.
Modding Support
- Published a ton of new information about modding for rFactor 2 on the documentation website.
- Large update to modding documentation, will full documentation on PBR material system, dedicated Development Tools section and more.
- First official release of 3ds Max 2021 Plugins.
- First official release of Material Editor.
- First official release of Maps Converter Tool.
- Added Loch Drummond (PBR Track) to ModDev.
- Added ability to disable auto albedo correction on pre PBR shaders.
- Added ability to choose cube Fresnel default settings on pre PBR car body shader.
- Corrected Deformable Tire shader naming in Max Plugins.
- Exposed Atmospherics section in Wet file to configure Haze and other settings..
- Updated ModDev to use main game HUD.
- Added ability to save preset positions in the Scene Viewer.
Graphics
- Added new pit exit marshal textures, thanks to Alessandro Micali!
- Small refactor of glare settings in PostFX
- Many other minor tweaks to various shaders and settings.
Multiplayer
- Significantly improved logging for multiplayer sessions.
- Fixed race conditions in our low level socket node list.
- Increased the size of an internal array to accommodate all possible cars in a session.
- Fixed an issue where not just the server would send out node reordering messages.
- Changed some very “spammy” log messages.
- Fixed several crashes where some code would reference invalid data.
- Added descriptive names to all threads.
- Improved the handling of an application crash to ensure logs get flushed.
Broadcast Overlays
- Made qualifying box sector colors correspond to best lap sectors instead of absolute best sectors.
- Added fallback for drivers with no last name set.
- Added drop-down in control panel to select overlay configuration.
- Made replay transition follow the configured series color.
- Added an option to show more data in tower field 4 (gap to next, number of pit stops).
- Added an option to automatically enable race update box when timing box is enabled.
- Fixed pit timer getting stuck after leaving pit lane.
- Fixed displaying of gaps to leader/fastest lap time in tower and banner.
- Extended field 2 data with manufacturer and team logo.
- Added turning lap time green or purple in the qualifying box after the lap.
- Added option to minimize boxes in the control panel.
- Fixed starting order not working with multiple events.
- Fixed replay jumping to wrong time.
- Cleaned up the CSS to make it easier to make changes in the
custom.css. - Added a replay marker button to mark replay events.
- Updated team name and car number to use the entries from the
.VEHfile. - Added mixed/overall standings option.
- Added an option to toggle between driver name, team name and description.
- Made b-roll a standalone element.
- Added option to condense tower by hiding field 2 or 3.
- Fixed schedule slide date comparing.
- Added an option to start the overlay in multi-class or single-class mode.
- Updated banner behavior based on the selected car class (or mixed/multi-class mode).
- Rearranged control panel.
- Known issue: tower animation flickers when swapping pages.
