0.1.37

• Version ID: 919
• Size: 44.62 MB
• Published: 2020-01-26

Changelog

New features, options and improvements

• Weather FX update:
  • Second version clouds shader with volumetric noise and low-res mask to speed things up;
  • Secondary ambient lighting ignoring vertex AO, to lit things up inside (should not depend on time of day or weather);
  • Clouds shadows;
  • Clouds sorting based on user-set factor;
  • Clouds covering sun fixed;
  • Shadows disabling fixed;
  • Per-cloud fog multiplier;
  • New functions for WeatherFX implementation:
    • Sample camera AO;
    • Set overall brightness;
    • Adjust sky brightness separately;
    • Check if bounced light in Extra FX is enabled;
    • Alternative versions of existing functions to reduce GC load;
• Default Weather FX implementation is available (might still need some work though);
• YEBIS extension (Yebisest):
  • Now with settings;
  • Disable anamorphic glare or ghost glare in first person view;
  • New values for PP filters:
    • Custom color grading intensity;
    • Alternative glare shape for first person view;
    • A few extra options for anamorphic glare for color and shape;
• New GUI extension:
  • Various GUI tweaks moved from general settings in there (sorry for the inconvenience);
  • New look for PP filter selector app:
    • Dropdown list with grouping;
    • Context menus for management;
    • Built-in editor (in context menu for selected filter or filters in the list);
  • Better highlight for objects inspector, plus it shows the position and click point properly;
• Fake Shadows FX:
  • Depth bias improved;
  • Shadows regeneration during loading, with better settings;
  • Shadows change shape depending on lighting;
  • Only with Extra FX:
    • Same thing soft particles use, for smoother blending;
    • Proper geometry-aware shadow mapping;
    • Extended rendering to make sure affected area is properly covered;
• Lighting FX:
  • Dynamic ambient disabled for good;
  • Cars won’t use full range headlights if free camera is padding by;
  • Annoying merging if car is seen from behind is fixed;
  • Extra limits to speed things up a bit more;
• Grass FX (complete rework, now third attempt):
  • Textures are back;
  • Base configuration, with up to four extra configurations selected via local adjusments;
  • Set size, width, tidyness, how cut the grass is;
  • Four parameters for color-based spawning which was also rewritten;
  • New per-mesh adjustments with optional custom localized areas within;
  • Texture-based adjustments are also available;
  • Custom textures;
  • Extra sprites from custom textures, with custom probabilities, size and behaviour modifiers;
  • Optional offset for day-based trim period;
  • If needed, use conditions as inputs;
  • Five different presets;
  • Optional advanced blending (alpha-to-coverage);
• Particles FX:
  • Option to control fireworks;
  • Few tweaks for dirty dust on grass;
  • Behaviour around car causing smoke to fly asymmetrically fixed;
• Extra FX:
  • Bounced light fixed, now it’s proper HDR;
  • SSLR optimized a bit;
  • Motion blur will ignore spinning wheels instead of messing them up better than before;
  • Fog is taken into account as it should;
• Reflections FX:
  • Interior masking fixed (with some cars, it wasn’t masking enough because of mistake with materials);
  • New option for interior masking: discard spherical areas from meshes names or position with radius (with discarding rear view mirror by default);
• Nice Screenshots extension:
  • Resolution multiplier now works with accumulation motion blur;
  • Problem with messed up brightness fixed by replacing old approach with mixing of HDR data;
• Python extension:
  • New ac.ext_markLapAsSpoiled() function;
  • Functions ac.ext_debugWiperSoundState() and ac.ext_mirrorDebug() are removed;
• New car paints (common/material_carpaint.ini):
  • Clear coat specular (aka sun specular) is not affected by custom specular color;
  • Option for localizing special effects like chameleon paint or rainbow reflections with txDiffuse alpha channel;
  • Transparency based on txMaps’s alpha channel;
  • Rainbow car paints updated and fixed;
• Option for track configs to completely ignore default auto-loaded config;
• New ksMultilayer_fresnel_nm4 shader with four normal maps;
• New ksPerPixel_horizon shader for those horizon meshes looking like a tube around the track for fixing some existing tracks, with complex color adjusments;
• Smooth transition between shadow cascades;
• Custom emissive: subtraction of next fixed;
• Speculars on water shader adjusted;
• Initial support for chat-based commands from server (for something like dynamic weather online);
• New DXGI flip model now works again, only on Windows 10;
• Texture mapping optimized;
• Constant buffers mapping optimized;
• Use more than 10 model adjustments for cars if needed;
• That bug with INI parser mistreating \ fixed;
• No more SSAO outlines with lower level of details;
• Applying track config via Python app fixed;
• Extended tyres raytracing fixed;
• Regular expressions for mesh or material filters in configs fixed;
• Wind speed for visuals (like smoke or water) fixed;
• Live reload for shader replacements for shader changes fixed;
• Smaller fixes and optimizations.