Racer v0.8.32 released!

Ruud · Feb 11, 2011

After a small break (where I broke nothing except 1 snowscooter), a new Racer.

Get it at http://www.racer.nl/download/racer0.8.32.zip

Changes:
- The Lambo differential ratio was a bit low (1.75) - reverted to 2.53.
- Differential could become unstable when the 2 wheels got opposite reaction forces.
- Removed obsolete wheel<n>.friction_road values from data/cars/default/car.ini.
- Replay audio (replay.wav) was empty when recorded.
- Multiplayer fixes (billboard nodes/car names)
- Smoke tweaks (soft particles, improved motion)
- Shadowmapping normal dependency improved for shadow acne reduction

Stereo · Apr 19, 2011

Oops, I missed compression=0 in the shader. Hrm. Fixes things up a lot.

Mr Whippy · Apr 19, 2011

QuadCoreMax said:
I know what you mean, I rather prefer Cg tweaking things instead of creating maps variants...

Hmmmm...

Difficulty is you often atlas materials, so the control is via texture. That is where having PS open to the side of Racer and then just reload shaders in the console is handy... possibly with fast time 1000 or something... so you can see the response of the material through the day really quickly

Dave

QuadCoreMax · Apr 19, 2011

'reload shaders' console command is quite buggy here, anyone else ?

Had to quit 'Free Race' & get back in to actually see the updates.

Stereo · Apr 19, 2011

Doesn't work well when the game is paused. And some track shaders will just fail on me when I try to use it.

At Carlswood and the Racer Garage though it works fine.

KS95 · Apr 19, 2011

Same here QCM, wouldn't work right for me.

Mr Whippy · Apr 20, 2011

It's worked fine for me here on all my tracks... hmmm

QuadCoreMax · Apr 20, 2011

You using the 0.8.32 version ? If yes, how did you set your racer.ini file ?

I completely tweaked it for best visuals & best perf on my surround config with no CSM...

I also tried reload gpushaders & reload track....none of them work as I'd expect...too bad !

Alexander Knoll · Apr 20, 2011

Hi all,
one question....
is this a Bug or a bad shader?

Some1 · Apr 20, 2011

Dream Factory said:
Hi all,
one question....
is this a Bug or a bad shader?

Neither. The smoke seems to be one frame behind.

Alexander Knoll · Apr 20, 2011

Ok, THX

AMGfan(BPM) · Apr 22, 2011

For me, racer will be perfect when we play like it..

traffic, working turn signals.. maybe an intelligent AI to do a city race (like in NFSU2)

KS95 · Apr 23, 2011

Any of you seen OMSI - Der omnibussimulator? It's a great bus simulator (OT) but back on topic, it's got great AI system that seems to work well on community made content too. Could be worth a looksies?

camsinny · Apr 23, 2011

From Racer.nl

traffic start <car> Makes the car start driving (if stopped)
traffic stop <car> Stops the traffic car (v0.8.33+)
traffic warp <car> <waypoint> Warps a traffic car (index 0..numberOfTrafficCars) to waypoint number <waypoint> (v0.8.33+)

...Looks like the next version will bring some real traffic!

guillermojuan · Apr 24, 2011

Mind is the definitive expert story

QuadCoreMax · May 3, 2011

First try with animated generics like the Baja suspension system...

It works great & I'm quite happy, still I'd say to normalize the original size of the object (suspension arm etc...) instead of doing a 1m rescale + 90° rotation. There's some 'logical' vertical distortion/stretching with non cylindrical objects (like the suspension arms of some F1 => form of a V)...

1 tip if you want to get it working without doing the same on the 4 sides, align your generic object to ALL 3 planes in 3D, so when you copy & paste one side & then negate just the x value in your car.ini file, you should be OK, from a symmetrical approach.

It's a lot of transfer values going on, but the results are great ! It definitely feels like Dirt 2/F1 2010 visually talking.

boomer541 · May 3, 2011

It is not possible to create a Generic trailing link suspension that works correctly. I poated this a long time ago and hope that Ruud and company fixes the problem.

QuadCoreMax · May 3, 2011

What do you mean exactly ?

I know that at the wheelpos the generics don't rotate accordingly... & that's why Ruud/Mitch added an offset...

Stereo · May 3, 2011

The generics were only rotating around the roll axis, not pitch, so they were just kinda not moving correctly.

boomer541 · May 4, 2011

What Stereo said.

QuadCoreMax · May 5, 2011

Gotta throw my ideas....

What about a racer.ini dev variable which would make all racer files refresh/update X times of ms 'automatically' whenever a modification has occurred...thru a new C++ listener ?

That way, we wouldn't need to do anything like the reload 'scripts/gpushaders' & for sure, it would 'tremendously' boost our debugging process...Imagine for shader/materials, it'd update instantly...like I said whenever an ini/crv/cg value is modded.

I hope you feel me...