Although the Nissan GT500 finally saw the day of light at the end of 2016 on rFactor 2, it did so with some rough edges. Enter stage left is v1.2 of the car, which isn’t much short of a complete overhaul. New sounds, tire compounds, rims, shaders, graphics, 3D shape, icons, reflections and lens flares.
Lions, tigers, bears, oh my!
Beyond the proverbial kitchen sink treatment of the GT500, Build 1108 update 2 has also been released with far less, “OMG!” bullet points. The build is procedural, allowing modders to tweak body roll to prevent tires from popping through the fenders on AI cars – hate when that happens – and a simpler way for distributing car templates for painting. That’s it.
Poor over the release notes for both the Nissan GT500 v1.2 and Build 1108 update 2 to your heart’s content below.
Sounds
- Added a completely new pack of sounds that should be a lot closer to the way the original car sounded.
Graphics
- Added additional tyre compounds, the car now has soft, medium, hard, intermediates and full wet compounds.
- Added additional rim types to reflect the ones used by the different teams.
- Added fluorescent shader for digits on the dashboard.
- Added backfire graphics.
- Fixed a gap between the driver helmet and the body.
- Fixed tyres going through the fenders when under load.
- Updated body 3D shape, adding a missing floor, correcting the front fender shape and some smaller tweaks.
- Updated icons.
- Improved cockpit textures on the fans, door handles and several other small details.
- Improved body reflections.
- Improved level of detail (LOD) models.
- Improved exhaust model and textures.
- Improved windows in cockpit view and added the missing side windows.
- Improved liveries.
- Improved headlights, now with lens flares.
Physics
- Added new tyre compounds to match those added to the graphics.
- Updated a few garage settings.
- Slightly tweaked the AI physics.
Code (Build 1108 update 2)
- Added code that allows car modellers to tweak the body roll for AI physics to ensure tyres don’t go through fenders graphically.
- Introduced a simple mechanism for distributing templates with cars (which will end up in a “Templates” folder until the new UI is released).
- Fixed a problem where the launcher accidentally URL encoded passwords, making it impossible to join servers with certain characters in the password.