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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.
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rFactor 2 September, 2021 Roadmap Details Upcoming Developments
Tim Wheatley - Game News | Sep 30, 2021
0 CommentsStudio 397 published their roadmap today. I’ve summed up the details within below, but be sure to read their post for more information.
– New windscreen rain effects coming (see screenshot below).
– Tatuus cars (other than the new MSV F3-020) are all getting a round of updates.
– New release candidate will be published to the beta tab in Steam soon (see release notes for it below). A change of note is work on simulation loading times.
New release candidate release notes:
Game Loading
Optimizations to Game Loading and Series switching.
Optimizations to Texture Loading.
Added the ability to load cached track files from the component to improve loading times.
Improved shader loading and added pre-built shader cache to improve loading times.UI
Fixed an issue where Exaggerate Yaw would default to -80%
GFX
Minor pass on cloud texture balancing.
Adjusted PFX settings to allow for more exposure in low light conditions.Audio
Updated minimum number of audio effects to 32.
Modding
Updated ModDev to save and load CBASH and RRSHD files into track folders so that they can be packaged with content.
Detect if VisGroups affect collision and log this occurrence and in ModDev only show a pop up.
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