Fairly minor update coming out of Studio 397 this evening. The Dutch developers have fixed a number of bugs, some of which are related to it’s new competition platform which became live this month. The release of the competition platform coincided with the game making it’s new UI the default skin.
If you’re the average user, there’s not much that you’re going to notice between this release and the last. Perhaps you’ll notice a slight improvement in the cloud rendering as the patch notes claim they have “significantly improved the way we render our clouds, resulting in much better-looking skies.” There are some other minor graphical fixes too – fixes for issues with blurred reflections and auto-exposure tweaks.
Some of the other fixes should improve life for modders of the game. There’s now a greater number of scene paths and the camera editor in dev mode has been improved.
Although the update is minor, Studio 397 have suggested that dedicated servers are updated. If you’re a regular user, the update should be pushed automatically through Steam.
Changelog
– Added back-end support for detecting the state of the Steam overlay so we can advise people to turn it on when trying to show them a shopping cart.
– Fixed a possible deadlock.
– Changed the lighting at dusk to gradually transition the fog color, preventing a sudden light change.
– Improved the shutdown of a dedi so it no longer exits with a non-zero return code.
– Fixed an issue where if we failed to load a custom skin we would not correctly fall back to the default skin.
– Fixed an issue where blurred reflections did not show up.
– Made the material editor port configurable in the scene viewer and changed it to 5396 by default so it won’t conflict with the default port that rFactor 2 uses.
– Allow up to 128 scene paths in the scene viewer.
– Fixed an issue where upgrades did not correctly show in the showroom when selected.
– Enforced loading the correct upgrades before we initialize physics online.
– Added a few missing control options in the menus so they can be assigned again in the UI.
– Significantly improved the way we render our clouds, resulting in much better looking skies.
– Server will now kick a client using a custom team if file transfers are disabled because that client would be kicked when a race starts anyway.
– Various auto exposure tweaks were done, also to the cockpit view.
– Only pause the first session now if the setting is enabled on a dedicated server.
– Fixed UI mouse click control.
– Converted old FSAA values to new MSAA ones.
– Corrected some inconsistencies between the viewer and rFactor 2.
– Fixed some compound rendering issues in the showroom.
– Improved the camera editor in dev mode by fixing some assets for it.
You can find the full thread detailing changes from the rFactor 2 developers here if you want more information.
Want to keep up-to-date with the latest rFactor 2 news? You can find it all at traxion.gg.
