RC Simulation 2.0 Is now FULL RELEASE!
Thanks to all of the wonderful supporters of RC Sim 2.0 Early Access! I have been cranking away on the core game for about 3-4 years now and am VERY happy to be bringing the game out of early access. Dont worry the updates or development is not finished....:) I just felt that all
Thanks to all of the wonderful supporters of RC Sim 2.0 Early Access!
I have been cranking away on the core game for about 3-4 years now and am VERY happy to be bringing the game out of early access. Dont worry the updates or development is not finished....:) I just felt that all the boxes have been ticked from the early access plan and have been moving the game toward Full Release for a couple months now.
I am still building the "Race Weekend" feature and a couple new simple leader boards for the default tracks. This is taking me a bit more time then I had planned. As a one man band it takes me a lot of time to add features. I will keep everyone updated throughout the process and prob be looking for some more beta testers in the future so look out for it in the discussion area.
But mainly I just wanted to say a HUGE Thank you to all the folks who have helped, tested, reviewed and supported me and my wonderful wife Jacqueline over the last few years.... We are forever grateful and will be working hard everyday to bring you the best possible game we can.
devotid
Update June 5th, 2018 (Build # .906) AI_Bots for Practice, Proving Grounds Default Track
AI BOTS:
- Added Version 0.88 AI bots to all the Default Tracks for the Practice Mode. This will give the practice mode a little more action. For now you can select 1-9 bots and also the ability to change their speed from 20%-100%. (this will change in the future as I am still building the race weekend system which will use a little different method of calculating the speed of your opponents.)
- AI Opponents in the practice mode will load a random Paint scheme from that vehicles available paints and it will also choose a random wheel color to match the paint scheme of the vehicle. This will also give painters a nice way to see their designs in action. So If you want to see some paint variations make sure to try out the Paint booth. Any of the Paints that you save for each vehicle will be randomly chosen for the AI bots.
NEW OPTIMIZED MARSHALS:
- Added new optimized marshals for folks having trouble with FPS. This will replace the animated marshals on all the tracks with a 2D version of Larry to help you out when you crash. He will work the same way that Larry currently works but should save about 30% on FPS across most computers. Go to video settings to turn this feature on and off.
TRACKS:
- New Default Track: Proving Grounds Raceway in Grand Rapids, MI. The "Big Kahuna" Race was a race a couple years back to honor a great man in the Michigan RC Area. I still have some of the infield blue paint on some of my old chassis parts laying around my RC room. This indoor Private facility is a racers paradise. AC, Great clay, AAA Driverstand with Wheelchair access.... You name it PG has it.
- Added all new baked lighting to all the indoor default tracks. You can no longer adjust the time of day lighting on the INDOOR Default tracks. This was done to create a much better frame rate on all the default tracks.
- Also added new light probes to all the indoor default tracks. This will increase the frame rate on all the indoor defaults tracks as the lighting for dynamic objects and the static objects are now separate.
VEHICLE PAINTER:
- Fixed the painter save menu so you can ONLY enter Alphanumeric characters when saving a paint scheme in the vehicle painter. This will stop some of the paints not being able to be saved.
- Fixed a bug in the vehicle painter menu when you could not click on some of the vehicles paint schemes in the list of your personal paints. There was another invisible menu on top of it.
NOTES:
- If your paint jobs or setups don't show up in the painter area be sure to "verify integrity of game files" in the Steam Client. This will add or replace any files that are wrong or not used in the new version. You should only have to do this if having a problem loading your paints or workshop tracks.
Thanks again for all of you support and I look forward to the next update!
devotid
I have been working hard on the new default track layouts and the new AI racing bots. So I just wanted to take a break to show all of the users what is coming to RC Sim in 2018.
Here is a quick teaser video showing 9 AI bots cruising around the some of the new default tracks. Each AI Racing Bot will have around 5-6 different "driver traits" to adjust. This should make the AI racing adjustable for all levels of drivers. These AI Bots are driving the same car that you are with the same physics. No cooked animations. They will react and race each other for position depending on their driver traits.
https://youtu.be/3QO4wuyrYHQ
The next game update will contain a new practice system that will allow users to turn some laps with some general traffic and make the default tracks not feel so alone. For now whatever land vehicle that you load, you will have the option to practice alone or with up to 9 AI Bots. After the game knows how many bots that you are going to load it will look into the users custom paints folder of said vehicle and it will pick a random paint scheme for the vehicle. The accent color and wheel colors of the AI bots will also be generated from the paint scheme color of the AI Vehicle. This should make the bots appear more life like and also gives painters a way to see their creations in action.
After the release of the practice bots and the new lighting system for all default tracks I will then be mainly working on the new racing system with practice, qualifiers and main events.
I have also been playing with a new camera system as I am still not happy with the way it works now. I am still deciding on changing or removing the ability to walk around the track and see in the FPV camera (the one that shows your hands) as it can be confusing for new users on how to use the current camera system.
As always, Thank you for all the support of RC Sim!
devotid
