Video game development is full of names that have made groundbreaking steps you’ve never even heard about. Shawn Nash is a behind-the-scenes pioneer responsible for SODA Off Road Racing’s incredible physics, Papyrus’ graphical advancements and iRacing’s use of laser scan data for the physical track surfaces.
This interview with RSC, published in 2021, details his early life and career, through both his own company, Papyrus, Electronic Arts, to his time at iRacing.
As a direct ancestor of iRacing, the ‘Grand Prix Legends engine’ had multiple stock car racing false starts, before eventually releasing as NASCAR Racing 4. The original NASCAR 3, cancelled and replaced by one that used NASCAR 2’s engine, is barely remembered.
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Sector3 deployed a 1-gig update to their sim racing service that I only saw mentioned in their Discord. The update has a number of fixes that you can see in the changelog below.
Update details:
Download size = 315 MB
Client version = 0.9.2.38
Client BuildID = 6680013
Dedicated version = 74.0.1295
Dedicated BuildID = 6680156
Changelog:
Fixed an issue where the checkered flag could sometimes show up one lap early in multiclass races
Upon serving a slowdown penalty, the lift of throttle coming with the sequential shifting is no longer counted as slowing down
Shared Memory block: added engineState int for all drivers; -1 unavailable, 0 = ign off, 1 = ign on but not running, 2 = ign on and running
Shared Memory block: added lap_valid_state for player; -1 = N/A, 0 = this and next lap valid, 1 = this lap invalid, 2 = this and next lap invalid
Shared Memory block: added traction_control_percent for player; -1.0 unavailable, 0.0 -> 100.0 percent
Shared Memory Block: Attempt at improving Lap distance calculations where values could sometimes be seen jumping and going backwards
Shared Memory block: upped minor version to 10
For Shared Memory API, refer to our github repo
Physics: When starting a Hillclimb run, the tyres will now always be pre-heated.
Spectator: Fixed cars falling through the ground at the very end of races.
Spectator: Fixed an issue where the wrong car is shown upon switching to another type of TV cameras.
Dedicated Server: Banning a user still required a server restart to take effect. Fixed that now so that if a player is kicked, the dedicated server will also prevent it from immediately rejoining the server.
Content – Added CUPRA esport liveries for the upcoming CUPRA series.
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