This is a feed describing progress in the development of Racer. http://www.racer.nl Fixed DirectInput for steering wheels, TrackEd splitter separately splits according to geometry flags. http://www.racer.nl Fixed suspension, 64-bits TrackEd... http://www.racer.nl Tire combined slip improvements, faster rendering, Onyx improvements. http://www.racer.nl Stereo rendering, fixes, Onyx improvements. http://www.racer.nl Per-surface sounds, improvement in scripting and a new combined slip friction model for the tires. http://www.racer.nl Bugfixes, replay improvements and custom envmaps for tracks. http://www.racer.nl Bugfixes, ghost car inside the regular car. http://www.racer.nl Much faster rendering with improved shadowmap generation. http://www.racer.nl Bugfixes, suspension movement, script additions. http://www.racer.nl Bugfixes, new Lambo from Mr Whippy, system for easier tweaks. http://www.racer.nl Bugfixes, explicit physics, replay working again. http://www.racer.nl Bugfixes, traffic enhanced. http://www.racer.nl A version that fixes a major ratio bug in the differentials. http://www.racer.nl Version 0.8.29 is probably the most stable version yet. Get it now! http://www.racer.nl Version 0.8.27 is available at the beta download page (Windows). Important CG physics bugfix, garage etc. http://www.racer.nl Version 0.8.14 is available at the beta download page (Windows). ATI support, improved shaders & bugfixes. http://www.racer.nl Version 0.8.13 is available at the beta download page (Windows). Shadow mapping is improved. http://www.racer.nl Version 0.8.12 is available at the beta download page (Windows). It supports ATI better now hopefully and also improves Cg parameter speed for high FPS. http://www.racer.nl I'm working on making a more dynamic track camera system. Video available. http://www.racer.nl/blog.htm#20100310 Mitch is working on cascaded shadow mapping. Screenshot available. http://www.racer.nl/blog.htm#20100305 Version 0.8.8 is available at the beta download page (Windows). http://www.racer.nl Version 0.8.7 is available at the beta download page (Windows). It fixes CG application to cars, moves wings relative to nullpoint rather than relative to CG. http://www.racer.nl Version 0.8.6 is available at the beta download page (Windows). It has bugfixes (suspension physics/LSD) plus lots of extras (MF5.2 support). http://www.racer.nl Version 0.8.5 is available at the beta download page (Windows). It has an extra car showing off moving suspension, plus HDR live environment maps and some more fixes and improvements. http://www.racer.nl v0.8.5 will have 50 generic models available for each car. A video in the blog shows it in action. http://www.racer.nl/blog.htm#20090903 FBO's now support an older version of motion blur. http://www.racer.nl/blog.htm#20090901 Version 0.8.4 is available at the beta download page (Windows). It has spline bugfixes, improved multiplayer timesync. Known problems: movable track objects are being worked on and non-functional for a while. http://www.racer.nl A new version based on Newton, with ghostcars, movable cones and such. http://www.racer.nl Experiments with the Newton physics engine for movable objects. http://www.racer.nl/blog.htm#20090706 v0.8.3 will add ghost cars to compete with yourself. http://www.racer.nl/blog.htm#20090529 An alternative to blending with all its sorting issues is Alpha-to-coverage. http://www.racer.nl/blog.htm#20090507 New goodies; alternative engine idling method, improved bloom, DDS supports and Cg 2.2. http://www.racer.nl/dl_beta_win.htm A new export format has been created that directly exports to Racer. Probably requires Racer v0.8.2 for DDS support. http://www.bobstrackbuilder.net I've added a DDS loader for images loaded in .shd files. Support for uncompressed, DXT1, DXT3 and DXT5 is now present. Useful for improved mipmapping. http://www.racer.nl/tutorial/development.htm#fileformats I've modified the suspension system to more logically keep the tires within minlen/maxlen and accept precompression without the precompressed spring forces being added to the car. The solution is reboundstops which push the wheel back when it goes beyond maxlen. http://www.racer.nl/tutorial/suspensions.htm#reboundstops To celebrate the rise of the new temporary forum, I've uploaded the latest version. V0.8.0 has HDR, bloom etc, but is targeted for high-end graphics cards. http://www.racer.nl/dl_beta_win.htm Since RaceSimCentral is taking a long time to get their forums backup, a new temporary forum has been opened at RaceDepartment.com. Thanks to Bram Hengeveld for setting it up! http://forum.racedepartment.com/racer/ Brendon Pywell has announced that BTB will soon support Racer as an output format, next to rFactor tracks. This is great news for track modelers! http://forum.racedepartment.com/bobs-track-builder/16324-racer-support-coming.html V0.6.5 still had problems with non-Cg capable cards. v0.6.5.4 may fix that. For people with good video cards are better off using the v0.7.x beta's, which look far nicer. http://www.racer.nl/dl_noncg_win32.htm Adding GPU-based mipmapping can give you the average brightness of a scene fast. http://www.racer.nl/blog.htm#20090312 I've managed to get a 16-bit HDR buffer running, while also adding a bloom filter. http://www.racer.nl/blog.htm#20090311 Other cars can now have their names floating above the car. Also, work was done on motion blur using FBO's and Cg shaders. http://www.racer.nl/blog.htm#20090306