0.1.47

• Version ID: 975
• Size: 52.74 MB
• Published: 2020-03-06

Changelog

New features, options and improvements

• New smoke:
  • Look, shape and behaviour adjusted;
  • Shadows and ambient shadows reworked a bit;
  • Additional smoke-car collision check based on collision box rather than sphere;
  • Exhaust smoke;
  • Smoke from flames;
  • Smoke from the engine if damaged;
  • Smoke from overheated brake discs (all of that might need adjustments);
• New input for track conditions: SPECTATORS (1 or smaller if amount of spectators is reduced);
• New option for additional track audio events: BOUND_TO_SPECTATORS;
• New TRANSPARENT_AS_BLACK blend mode: no blending, but transparent areas are drawn as black (for fixing existing models via configs; like Ruf Yellowbird);
• Major update for PBR shaders, mainly thanks to docs for Filament by Google:
  • New and updated PBR textures;
  • Improved PBR textures application;
  • Metalness taken from alpha-channel of txDetail;
  • Improved energy conservation;
  • Fixed overly intense reflections;
  • Separate PBR cloth shader with sheen and subsurface color;
  • Simplified and more accurate clear coat;
  • Improved interaction with dynamic lights and vertex AO application;
  • Fix for blending normals;
  • Fix for DXT1/5 artifacts on gray textures;
  • Option to blur out txDetail to only use color, not pattern (and use pattern from PBR textures);
• Interior masking mapping and brightness fixed;
• Object Inspector app updated:
  • New layout;
  • Scrolling, sorting and filtering for material properties;
  • Copyable areas instead of copy buttons;
  • Texture viewer helping with setting up custom emissive areas;
• Pushing force of extended tracing for tyres now uses a bit better formula;
• Wipers animation works on cars other than focused;
• Default wear speed for both Brake Disc FX and Tyres FX slowed down;
• Temporal antialiasing making windscreens blurry from inside fixed;
• SSLR being way too greedy fixed, now interior view on wet track should be more reasonable;
• Grass FX:
  • Lazier updating to slightly improve performance;
  • Ambient shadows from cars fixed;
• Refracting headlights mark surface as non-transparent and work with forced reflections for inside meshes;
• Line light: diffuse concentration option works;
• Car animations now work in distance;
• Stencil for TAA improved, making it work per-object rather than per-material, should reduce TAA artifacts in interiors;
• Improved light positioning for license plate lights (new parameters, MESH_FILTER_DIRECTION and MESH_FILTER_OFFSET);
• Speculars for all shaders now reduce with grazing angles to get rid of certain artifacts;
• New NormalizeAO parameter for car paints, set to 1 to improve the way AO from txDiffuse is applied (mainly for cars with AO in txDiffuse);
• New CustomEmissive_AreaMask template for using four areas as a mask;
• Few small optimizations and fixes.