This section lists changes not yet released, but committed to repositories stuntrally3 and tracks3.
WIP means work in progress, unfinished, still being developed.
- 3 New tracks
- Sounds🔊
- New vehicle sounds for: cars (combustion engines), hovercrafts, drones, hovercars
- New turbo sound and gear shift
- WIP ambient track sound (rain, etc)
- WIP dynamic objects hit sounds
- Effects, all require (Water) Refractions on, to work
- SSAO (ambient occlusion, on Effects tab)
- lens flare (sun glow in camera)
- sunbeams🌄 (rays), most visible on sunset tracks
- Compositor rewrite, created in code
- SplitScreen uses RTTs, smaller Hud fonts
- Refractions work, SSAO too
- Apply buttons work for Shadows and Reflections
- WIP try, not useful, no effect on terrain issue
Global Illumination (GI methods: IFD+VCT), on new Gui tab Advanced after Effects, has also debug visuals.
- SplitScreen uses RTTs, smaller Hud fonts
- Game
- Setup - Paints tab new filter slider, to show paints only from filter rating and above.
But editing paints list must be done w/o filter, on highest value. Pressing Random (or Space) sets random from visible list. - Statistics window with list of completed game tutorials, championships, challenges, collections
- restored tire trails, but still 1 color, meh
- Setup - Paints tab new filter slider, to show paints only from filter rating and above.
- Editor
- Split Edit window to Objects (in main menu) own with: Objects, Fluids, Particles, etc
- 3D model preview on top of Gui
- Added Effects, same as in game, also in preview camera, renewed track views
- Gui comboboxes open on click (whole, not just on down arrow)
- Game
- fixed Multiplayer on Windows, bug was present since SR 3.0
- Collection💎 - new game mode, in menu
- Collect all gems located on track, for completion or quicker time
- Hud shows 3D arrows on vehicle, pointing to closest 3 gems
- More Lights💡 - with toggable Options
- for vehicle: brakes, boost, reverse, under glow and for collection gems
- Both
- New Vegetation🌴🌳 - over half of tracks renewed
- New Bushes, separate multiplier and distance options
- New models: Palms, Jungle trees, mushrooms
- Vegetation on Horizon, new tab in options
- Limit (total count) option
- Tree wind animation, WIP, not yet varied by model
- grass and bushes deform under vehicle
- Water Refraction🌊, depth color, soft border, WIP
*does not work in Split Screen - will disable, and won't restore
*antialiasing / FSAA does not work with refraction - New horizons on more tracks, almost all have it
- New Vegetation🌴🌳 - over half of tracks renewed
- Gui
- New tab on Setup - Paints - Adjust - Under glow for color H,S,V
- under glow color is auto set by picking paint
- Main menu 3rd level for Game Types. Separate for Splitscreen and Multiplayer
- 3D win cups🏆 shown on game end
- Gui shows small track previews for game track / series
- Gui Tracks view, new mode: gallery
- Added Changes tab in game Help with this Changelog
- New tab on Setup - Paints - Adjust - Under glow for color H,S,V
- Editor
- Road: wall type, for decoration walls, rectangular
- pipe parameter changes it from wide at 0, to square at 0.5 to tall at 1.0
- New tab Sun - Wind 🌪️
- unified params, affecting: trees, grass, water, weather particles
- Vegetation materials, possible in presets
- Edit mode for Collection, key Y
- Insert/remove gems, move, scale
- change type (for look, at end of presets.xml)
- change group (for more sets on 1 track)
- Edit mode for Fields 🎆
- key H toggles, examples on TestC14-Fields
- Field is a box area, which will act as force fields on vehicle types:
acceleration, anti-gravity, damping - - have factor value, acceleration has also direction
- teleporter - instantly places vehicle in destination, Enter - toggle edit
- Particles have direction yaw, pitch angles
- Road: wall type, for decoration walls, rectangular
- Other
- split all.material.json to many files
- in data dir, added subdirs: models, textures etc
- Game
- 8 New vehicles (Sci-Fi)🚗
- New speed sensitive steering tab and settings for Hover type vehicles on tab Setup - Steering
- Steering range multiplier(s) for Surface affect graph and whole group
- Tracks
- 1 New: Wnt19-Downhill
- New skies⛅. Replaced all old 4k with new 8k ones on all tracks
- Many updated with new horizons, few with objects etc
- Editor
- WIP 4 New video tutorials, on Editor page, in playlist
- Changing object material, sets defined in presets.xml
- Toggle static for dynamic object, no
*_static.mesh - Fix alt-J crash, shortcuts
- Fix New/duplicate track. Was having garbage for horizons, no other roads. Delete track too
- Export track to Rigs of Rods added, using SR 2.x meshes
- New tabs, settings, converters, info here
- Both
- New tab Options - Screen - GUI with scales for font size and windows margin size, all need restart
- Screen and Video tabs with render system options, WIP few not done
- Vsync works immediately, but Resolution, Fullscreen, Antialiasing need restart
- Added Japanese font and quick, basic translation (could be wrong)
- Linux binary release
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Stunt Rally 3 is continuing last SR 2.x.
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Graphics - moved to Ogre-Next 3.0
- A lot smoother and higher Fps📈, also in split screen
- No vegetation lags. Auto HW instancing. Good Fps with many objects/buildings, and road points in editor
- Vegetation models - no impostors, now using meshes with LODs
- Graphics Detail tab has new setting - for far Vegetation/Objects geometry reduction, aka LOD bias
- Horizons🏞️ - far terrains on many tracks, great landscape views
- PBS materials - with roughness and fresnel/metalness. WIP, can be improved
- New vehicle materials - with more parameters and new look
- Color changing paints🎨, 3 colors (on Gui) at once depending on view angle
- New paints - Big set, over 450 total
- Materials in new .json format with more posibilities e.g. detail maps
- New syntax and new (more complicated) HLMS shaders, comparison and details in Developing🛠️
- Better glass pipes - sorted, no random blinking
- Vehicle front lights💡 - new tab Lights in Graphics options, toggle key, WIP grass is not lit
- A lot smoother and higher Fps📈, also in split screen
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Game
- Up to 6 players in Splitscreen or Multiplayer
- Splitscreen 3D Hud available for each player: checkpoint arrow, beam, pacenotes, racing line
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Gui
- Game Setup - Paints tab with more sliders and
- Dynamic list with groups - Add,Delete,Load,Save buttons - saved in paints.ini
- Tracks list: 3rd view
- New columns with user's track rating (slider) and bookmark (checkbox) for better orientation
- Game window title showing mode and players count, changing color
- More info on Fps bar (F11), colors from values (orange and red are very high), info on Gui
- Settings for using cache and shaders debug, mouse capture and ogre dialog show.
- Game Setup - Paints tab with more sliders and
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New Material Editor
- Alt-F both in game and editor. Can save json, needs adjusting after, info
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Moved translations to Weblate
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Editor
- Many terrains - new Gui buttons: < Previous, > Next, + Add, X Delete, top right (same for Roads)
- Enter - goes to next terrain, while editing with brushes (outside Gui)
- Terrain Brushes - new set, 169 total
- Dynamic list with groups - Add,Delete,Load,Save buttons - saved in brushes.ini and png (but slow)
- Brush parameters - New tab with sliders and Random buttons. Colored values
- Grid brushes, 3×3, 5×5 etc - can repeat N-gon type, repeat in OfsY parameter
- Bigger terrain heightmaps - available, with good Fps. File size shown (2k is 16MB, 4k is 67MB!)
- New tabs Fluids and Particles with lists (Alt-X) for easier picking, colored names
- Focus camera on current (object, fluid, road point, anything) - key \
- Fluids quality (diffuse, refract (not done yet), reflect) keys 1,2 - to reduce rendering when many on track
- Update now saves terrain heightmaps, so F5 won't undo after
- Particles scale - new parameter for size e.g. for bigger clouds in distance (keys K,L)
- Terrain circle cursor - same size far/near, animated
- Grass layer color - can pick any, no ColorMap combo
- Sky preview map shown on Sky tab
- Hud hide and Trail show checkboxes. New tab View, split from Settings
- Many terrains - new Gui buttons: < Previous, > Next, + Add, X Delete, top right (same for Roads)
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Sources
- Require building latest Ogre-Next and MyGui-Next fork from sources. Info in git Building file
- Reworked base class and new AppGui class, common for game and editor
- Added emojis, for better code orientation in key sections and methods. Quick guide in emojis file
- Only tinyxml2 used now, no tinyxml
- Game and Editor tools can be started passing command line argument(s)
- cfg or config forces showing Ogre dialog with screen and rendering options
- Starting with ? shows help for all. In code search for Tool or references to MainEntryPoints::args
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Bugs and notable missing features from SR 2.8, not yet present in SR 3.0:
- broken multiplayer on Windows
- Video options: Resolution, Vsync, Antialiasing, etc are not on Gui, but in Ogre dialog before start. No Limit Fps
- Can't change them without quit. Also possibly alt-tab could require track reload on Windows.
- Terrain shadowmap, Fluids: depth color, Refraction, smooth border. Grass deform, Trees wind.
- HUD: minimap terrain or border, bad other position markers, bad in splitscreen: gauges, minimaps, digits etc
- Editor
- Slower road editing (~20 Fps not 60), added skip. Full Rebuild (B) takes quite long, columns need it
- Bad reflection in editor F7 camera, less Fps (minimap RTTs don't skip, no terrain+road mode)
- Object pick errors, moved Terrains bad edit cursor pos
- On older PCs: slower track loading (e.g. 5 sec not 1) and few lags due to long shaders compilation etc
- Generally lighting changed due to sRGB colors (also using gamma to fix 1.15)
- Every color in e.g. sun, particles, materials etc needs adjusting when converting from SR 2.x (make it darker, more saturated)
- Grass not lit by vehicle lights, particles are unlit
Old SR 2.x changelog here