In short
CarLot & other optimizations, more cheating!
List of changes
Car Lot
- Corrected aspect ratio-dependent placement of a UI element.
- The "RATHERWALK" cheat described in Progress update #36 can now also be activated at the Car Lot! Same disclaimer applies - map was not made for it, not a serious feature, only for a bit of fun, etc, etc...
- Restored a feature to briefly show a "LOADING..." text in the lower left corner as the Car Lot loads new cars while making selection.
- Non-visible cars are no longer rendered through the floor & ceiling - huge FPS improvement with many cars loaded!
- Because of the optimization above, you can no longer see shadows from loaded cars above getting projected onto the lower floors, other than appearing during the floor-switching camera animation. We are looking into ways to fully solve this problem!
- Slightly improved dynamic lighting again.
- Added support for displaying text of what's happening while the area is loading (setting disabled by default).
Misc
- Greatly optimized a part of the reworked vehicle collection process - could add up to whole seconds saved with many mods installed!
- Fixed the main menu background displaying incorrectly on 5:4 aspect ratio.
- Removed a lot of unnecessary horizontal resolution from 'black bar filler' backgrounds, notably improving the load time for the Catalog, and allowing us to use a format supporting much higher quality gradients elsewhere, without having to compromise load times.
- Fixed broken cursor positioning when switching directly between Catalog/CarInfo/ClubInfo using the garage hotkeys while first person mode is active.
- Fixed dialogs getting stuck on-screen if the game section is changed via Console while one is open.
- Started work on the ability to create, save and load careers. Though full-on work for a playable career mode isn't starting yet, these basic functions are already needed for testing some things. :)
- Completed the CarInfo blueprint for the Codrac, and made many improvements to all previous ones! As ever, thanks to Medek for helping with these!
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Who knows what you might find next week!? Maybe another one of these!
Stay tuned! :)