Patch update #25: Trailers

What's New

• Added car trailers
• Added new truck trailers
• Added trailer selection to the vehicle card

Performance

• Reduced UI overhead
• Optimised the Lakeside Hill map
• Fixed HUD unnecessary memory allocation
• Fixed log stack trace overhead

Vehicle Physics

• Improved wheel lateral friction forces
• Improved Ackermann steering angles
• Adjusted the torque converter capacity for cars

Maps

• Improved lighting and reflections on all maps
• Added vibration on a cobble stone surface
• Improved road textures on the Lakeside Hill map
• Improved road geometry here and there

Vehicles

• Set interior camera as default
• Improved car paint materials

Input

• Removed keyboard and gamepad steering capping depending on vehicle speed
• Adjusted the dead zone of a gamepad
• Extended DirectInput device support
• Improved Logitech G29 support
• Added custom actions for special scenarios

UI

• Improved vehicle preview images
• Added power and torque plot to the engine card
• Removed unused tabs in the menu
• Improved the loading screen

Artificial Intelligence

• Extended the AI system by adding special behaviours and goals (work in progress - new AI features will be added in the next updates)

Other

• The VR mode is now launched after loading a map
• Improved error handling
• Added vehicle input data to the plugin SDK