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.
RSC contains a database of 155 developers, 471 software titles, 374 cars, 42 bikes, 242 tracks and more...Originally known as Papyrus Design, the legendary Massachusetts-based software studio developed highly-regarded simulation titles and published with Electronic Arts, Virgin Interactive and Sierra before their shutdown by Vivendi, owners of Sierra, in 2004.
Co-founded by arguably the father of the modern racing simulation, David Kaemmer, the studio created NASCAR and IndyCar titles that consistently pushed the genre forwards.
Their groundbreaking Grand Prix Legends game engine was used in three NASCAR titles between 2001-2003, evolving to become iRacing after Kaemmer re-acquired former Papyrus assets for his new company.
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A new ‘hotfix’ has been released for TrackDayR that includes as many fixes and tweaks as would be expected in a regular patch. Most notable changes include new physics, animations and bugfixes.
Changelog
NEWS
– new physics terrain system
– new physical roll resistance and wheel sway speed damping
– new sinking system based on soil type
– new power delivery system
– new calculating tire contact area to ground (patch) based on dynamic load on wheel
– new experimental tire gyroscopic inertia moment
– new collision system to prevent crashing
– new extra lean crash also in dirt was only present in roads
– new options combined brakes
– new separate brake power adjustment ( front / rear )
– new semi-automatic clutch
– new “HAND SCRAPE” animation (default button D-pad up)IMPROVEMENTS
– improved wheels angular velocity calculation ( hotfix for vibrations on engine delivery )
– improved brake pressure algorithm
– improved stoppie management
– improved body force on whip return
– improved lean speed linkage between normal and wheeling riding
– improved steering management in wheelies
– improved wheelie balance management
– improved wheelie steering algorithm that made landings weird (and flow imo)
– improved transfer load for atv & proto
– improved steering for atv & protoHOTFIX
– bugfix ATV and PROTO
– hotfix on lean straightening in popup/bounce
– hotfix engine on the rise/fall of revs.
– hotfix engine on the limiter
– hotfix CoG ( bouncy? )
– hotfix stoppie
– hotfix bouncy suspension
– hotfix base CoG for rear wheel tireload/spin
