progress – Multi-DAE, zip support, and lots more

So the last two weeks we worked on the following things:

• Multi-DAE support: it is now possible to load a vehicle from multiple .DAE files – this enables mods for the vehicles without the need to modify the original model 🙂
  For example all the wheels are in one file now:

• File system: Zip support, overlaying of files and folders: We are working on having the mods as simple zip files for easy exchange.

• Greatly improved Heightmap Resolution (and thus physics resolution -> smoother drive) [before/after]:
  
  
  

• Steam Store and Steam integration (i.e. the ingame steam overlay is working):
  
  
  

• JBeam: Coltris can now define a groundmodel (so dynamic surfaces can have other friction parameters than asphalt)

• Terrain block’s groundmodel matching is now case insensitive

• Dynamic Friction improvements:
  
  
  
  

• Stabilized water (When things hit water, they don’t explode that much)

• Increased core’s accuracy

• Core optimizations

• Improved stablility of the wheel weight display (this thing):
  
  
  

• Some tests with Cloth:
  
  
  

User Interface work:

• minor work on the JS
• added version information to the main menu (see bottom right corner):
  
  
  
• improved SimpleEngineDebug, SimpleGears
• added SimplePerfTimers, SimpleTrip:
  
  
  

Lots of Vehicle and Terrain work as well 🙂

We also fixed the following bugs:

• Trippy underwater camera effect never stops (underwater -> mainmenu bug)
• Lowest lighting option breaking water
• DeformGroups not working at all after implementing multi-DAE
• T3D per level resource fixes: Brushes and terrains are now saved with the level instead of globally
• Decals vanishing at certain angles
• ScatterSky missing mieScattering field.
• LOD for decalroad: they fade away now, increasing FPS
• Crash in GFXD3D9OcclusionQuery: improved crash reporting and user message
• Improved Crash reporting: now loaded dynamically to prevent the game not working when some Anti-Virus decides this file is not good enough for him
• Buggy vehicle shadows with multi-dae vehicles

Above changes will get available within the next update [except the steam integration, it will be released later on]