News rFactor 2 Build 125 adds new car, track and Resume from Replay

UPDATE 9 (Build 124) Changelog (November 30, 2012):

GRAPHICS:

Improved lighting in car paint shaders

Leaf wind now working again in shaders

HDR profiles can be loaded from the Settings menu in the real-time monitor

Added support for loading user shaders

Re-enabled transparency AA setting

GAMEPLAY:

Fixed/changed behavior where we wouldn’t use weather settings unless you had actually visited the weather settings page; this was confusing so we always use your saved weather settings now.

PHYSICS:

Fixed some RealRoad setting issue and uninitialized data if file couldn’t be read. Note that we had to add a checksum to RealRoad files so the format has changed slightly.

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fixed issue of AI cars constantly trying to pit for tires if the only tire compound available is a wet road compound.

hopefully improved AI trainer tendency to spin on high speed corners by lengthening distance we look ahead for disappearing road and slowing rate of lateral movement based on how much lower than 1.0 new RCD parameter “UnderSteerEffectOnLineMulti” is.

UI / HUD:

added code that hopefully prevents un-selectable (according to the veh file) cars being selectable

fixed bug in HUD editor that had mismatched global parameters.

fixed extra character being drawn for newlines in the garage notes

Added a new Options Button to select “All Tracks & Cars”. Also removed “All Track & Cars” mod from the spinner.

Fix for showroom not loading first time through

made the “leave track” gizmo from the maximized monior page into a new gizmo type that hides itself if no in the dedicated replay mode.

BUG FIXES:

Fixed problem where upgrades didn’t work first time after installation

Fixed a bug to allow mas’d sounds to be loaded in moddev mode

MULTIPLAYER:

Fixed it so client gets message if they are being kicked out due to vehicle upgrades changing their class to a disallowed type. Also added to the message what the allowed classes are.

CONTROLLER/FFB:

Now also resetting steering wheel range whenever ‘Reset FFB’ is pressed.

Added logging and potential fix for problem where people sometimes lose keyboard input.

PLUGINS:

We continue to recommend not releasing plugins based on V05 of the interface until it is considered final.

REPLAYS:

Added ability to resume a session from a replay, which acts like a continuous save file. You can choose any car at any point in the session. While you can use a replay of a multiplayer session, you can currently only resume it as a single-player session. Note that the replay is not and will never be a “perfect” save file, and currently there are some vehicle states that are not properly restored, in particular the state of your tires. Note also that this feature changes the replay format and is not backwards compatible.

MODDING / PUBLIC DEV

Fixed a bug in Mas2 with crashing during mod install

Removed confirm dialogs from Mas2 for mas’ing and packaging components and mods

Minor changes made to improve meshmender tangent basis generation

gMaterial plugin now only requires .GFX (shader description) files, complete shader code is no longer necessary to get shader list

gMaterial plugin now searches all MAS files in the GFX file location for shader desc files

Added fix for loading mas’d sounds in mod mode

fixed corner cutting corridor manipulation to match regular corridor manipulation (moves 10 times faster and left alt to slow it down)
made changes so that you can adjust Message center and chat fonts on the fly from HUD editor.