Il team Sector3 ha appena rilasciato per il suo RaceRoom Racing Experience il nuovo tracciato ufficiale del Paul Ricard. Il circuito francese, molto noto ed apprezzato soprattutto per il test delle vetture da competizione (F1 comprese), è disponibile in 4 diverse configurazioni: 1A (F1 Test), 1C-2V (campionati BES, WEC), 3C (WTCC) e 2A-short.

Changelog:
Implemented RealRoad Shader and reworked/remapped roads
Added RealRoad to curbs
Mapped RaceGroove for GP and GT Layouts
Remapped access roads
Remapped painted lines
Smoothed out the excessive road bumps for the most part
Lowered sawtooth curbs
Remapped curbs and adjusted texture to match the sawtooth profile (has some small UV glitches)
Cut Astroturf into terrain meshes
Implemented new Terrain Shader and reworked/remapped terrain
Cut in new gravel trap edges for use with Terrain Shader
New road, curb and terrain texture set
Terrain Radiosity pass
Added grass verges
Added high poly inner embankments inside T1-T4
Added high poly outer embankment between T6-T7
Added terrain shadow casters
Added vegetation shadow casters
Added new grid + new texture
Vertex Blended tyre colours
Added normal and spec maps to armco posts
Cut in transparent glass with cheap interior for key buildings
Repopulated RefMap0, ReflectedEnv and Static01 reflection maps with performance in mind
Implemented Digital Flags technology
Applied super precise inertia for movable tyre stacks based on rF2’s tyre model calculations
Updated TDF to latest set of grip values
Added telehandlers
Added new and updated cams
Added new loading screens
Added Test Team RealRoad Preset Pack
Removed one particularly nasty tyre wall on GP Layout
Removed HDR Profiles
Fixed small building proportion inaccuracy
Re-conformed painted stripes to smoothed surface
Fixed tyre wall smoothing
Fixed some access road T verts
Remapped start lights to match reality
Fixed many but probably not all popups
Re-exported XSectors to fix 32 bit issues
Re-exported the handful of GMTs that weren’t touched to 2.52 format using gJED
Slightly reduced z-fighting of vegetation, also resulting in a tiny performance gain
Renamed Grand Prix of Portugal to GP Layout for the sake of consistency
Replaced all trackside vehicles with higher detail ones (Team Trucks, Rescue Vehicles, Cars)
Replaced all modular grandstands with higher detail ones
Replaced apex tyre stacks to GT Layout with higher detail ones
Replaced outhouses with much better ones
Replaced tyre walls with higher detail ones
Replaced all cones with much better models
Replaced glass materials
Replaced entire crowd and optimized for smoother performance
Optimized road and terrain objects and materials for better and smoother performance
Optimized access roads for smoother performance
Optimized tyre wall material
Optimized tyre wall objects
Optimized 3D tyre objects
Optimized fence textures and materials for better performance
Optimized Armco (aggressive), Armco posts and fence posts
Optimized and improved barriers (Armco, pitwall)
Optimized all vegetation objects for smoother performance
Optimized smaller TrackSide Objects for smoother performance
Optimized shadow casters for armco and tyres for better performance
Optimized small concrete grandstands
Removed some hardly-seen pit objects
Aggressive mirror optimization
Optimized night lighting
Removed unused/obsolete meshes and textures
Cleaned up pit building textures
Cleaned up main grandstand textures
Removed negative mip map bias on all/most materials
Improved and rebalanced all vegetation textures
Remapped and optimized marshal huts
Improved road and curb textures
Randomized vegetation a bit
Remapped tyre wall canvas and revamped its texture
Improved tyre textures
Slightly improved distance markers
Updated crowd textures
Improved vegetation textures
Cut in red bricks on old ruin house
Rescaled T3 flags
Tweaked fog
Condensed this changelog (yes, it was much larger)!
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Tim Wheatley
Image Space Incorporated | rFactor | rFactor 2

Dopo il corposo update rilasciato l'altro ieri, oggi il team Sector3 ci mette finalmente a disposizione il nuovo Touring Classics pack: il pacchetto porta nel box del nostro RaceRoom Racing Experience le nuove Nissan Skyline GTR R32, Volvo 240 Turbo, BMW 635 CSI e BMW M3 E30 Gr.A, con ben 39 livree, inoltre porta con sè anche notevoli migliorie ed aggiornamenti alla fisica delle vetture.

You can download v1.3 here (446MB).
Track profile page here.

IMS v1.3 Changelog (from v1.03):
New additions
– Added “Brickyard 400″ layout for Stock Cars
– Added road (micro)bump for 2007 layout
– Added road (micro)bump for 2013 layout
– Added road (micro)bump for 2014 layout
– Added 2007/2013 and 2014 curb texture variations
– Added service pitlane fence posts for 400/500/2014
– Added Pit In cone for 400/Stock Cars
– Added dashed line on pitlane for 400 and 500 layouts
– Removed pitwall fences for 400/500/2014 layouts
– Enhanced AIWs for Speedways — less extreme Block Path
– Tweaked dashed painted stripe length
– Replaced loading screens for all layouts

Fixes
– Fixed various terrain gaps on drivable surfaces
– Fixed missing piece of road/terrain for 2007 and 2013 layouts
– Fixed gap in S1/T3 road for 2007/2013 layouts
– Fixed curbs gaps for 2007
– Fixed various painted stripe glitches
– Fixed and tweaked various GDB entries
– Fixed garage back door colliders on F1 pit garages
– Fixed UV mapping glitches on Gift Shops
– Fixed pit entry line for 400 and 500 layouts
– Fixed minor errors in all AIWs
– Fixed and improved various trackside cameras

Specific AIW tweaks for 2007 layout
– Stopped AI hitting garages when leaving
– Reduced false positive cut track warnings
– Improved AI speed in some corners
– Made LEFT Path to pit entry transition smoother

Sector3 ha rilasciato come promesso per il suo RaceRoom Racing Experience il nuovo ed insidiosissimo circuito di Macau, che potete acquistare direttamente a questo link.

Dopo il nuovo circuito di Shanghai, ecco arrivare un'altra gustosa novità da parte del team Sector3 per RaceRoom Racing Experience: il nuovo pacchetto WTCC 2014 ci permette di simulare in ogni dettaglio lo spettacolare e combattutto campionato mondiale turismo, grazie alle licenze, con tutti i teams, piloti e vetture reali, ovvero Citroen WTCC C-Elysee, Honda Civic, Chevrolet Cruze e Lada Granta.

Il team Sector3 annuncia una doppia novità in arrivo per il suo RaceRoom Racing Experience: già domani sarà disponibile il nuovo circuito di Shanghai, mentre entro questa settimana sarà rilasciato anche l'atteso car pack dedicato alla stagione 2014 WTCC. Qui sotto il primo video e screens di anteprima.
P1TV previewed the FIA WTCC 2014 car pack on Shanghai International Circuit. Shanghai will be released tomorrow, with the FIA WTCC 2014 car pack following later this week!

Session Manager

• record, save and load any number of sessions
• real time session timing and plotting as you record
• automatic saving and unloading of recorded sessions
  

Session Info Display

• display details for A, B and selected sessions
• add notes to sessions
  

Client/server

• connect to pCARS locally, or over the LAN or the Internet using the server
• the server supports multiple clients, enabling e.g. a dashboard over LAN and a race engineer over Internet
  

Plotter(s)

• each plotter can display any number of lanes
• each lane can display any number of graphs
• each graph has configurable plotting styles
• drag to size and normal zooming
• AB comparison of any two sessions and any lap ranges
• absolute measurement cursor
• delta measurement cursors
• split cursors for separate measurements per lane
  

Trackmap

• generator to capture 'proper' track maps with several display modes
• A and B driven lines can show two telemetry parameters
• shows absolute and delta cursor positions
• zoom and pan, with follow cursor option
  

Dashboard

• framework for scriptable dashboard design
• multiple dashboards driven by loaded sessions, live sessions or scripts
  

Scripting

• integrated scripting engine using the Lua language
• automate the application
• perform data analysis and processing
• build simple GUIs to for integrated and interactive application extensions
• "micro IDE" for editing and running scripts
• script manager for installing and managing your favourite scripts
  

General

• parameter manager, with user editable parameter color, range etc.
• dockable window interface for custom layouts
• saving and loading of window layouts
• saving and loading of single and all plotter setups
• printing support
• bitmap export
• automatically maintains connection with the sim
  

Planned features

• more to come... community input welcome...
  

Download and installation

The current 64 bit version, 0.12, can be downloaded here.

The current 64 bit version, 0.12, can be downloaded here.

If your virus software throws a warning, fear not, the installer has been scanned and cleared with Avast.

Version 0.12 is the first public release and any installed versions prior to v0.12 must be uninstalled in full before installing v0.12: Please remove the "C:\Users\Documents\pCARS Telemetry" folder, and delete the registry keys "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Leistad Systems Development" and "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Leistad Systems Development".

The minimum OS requirement is Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, 32 or 64 bit.

Support

If the application crashes, please put the files "_crashlog.txt" and "_minidump.dmp" in a zip archive and attach it to a posting describing the circumstances of the crash. These files can be found in your "Documents/pCARS Telemetry" folder.

The distribution comes with some installed scripts which effectively are 'applets' that extend the application. They can be found in the folder "managed_scripts" inside the "pCARS_Telemetry" folder. They can be managed using the Script Manager. The scripts are using the gui library and have registered buttons on the Script Toolbar (the leftmost toolbar at the top of the window). Clicking these buttons will toggle the guis open and closed. The installed scripts are:

• BigNums - showing a variable number of parameters in a row colum layout
• CSV-Export - CSV telemetry data export
• CursorStats - computes statistics for a parameter using the delta cursor pair for the range.
• Dash1 - example instrument panel, speedometer, rev counter and timing
• Dash2 - example instrument panel, speedometer, rev counter, timing and controls
• Dash3 - example instrument panel, gauges for four selectable parameters
• Dash4 - example instrument panel, temperatures, wear and g-forces
• Dash5 - example instrument panel, "minigraphs" of a few parameters
• GraphFilter - plots a graph with a low or high pass filter applied
• Lap2Lap - plots the lap to lap difference for a parameter
• LapHistogram - histogram tool applet
• LapStats - tool for computing statistics for a parameter over a lap range
• LiveaStats - shows live parameters with running averages and maxima
• LiverNumsRecorder - performs ad hoc live recording. Saves to CSV files
• RaceInfo - using dash_module.lua to create an race infor intrument panel
• ScatterStats - tool to perform scatter plot and statistics for two parameters
  

So far the documentation is brief and incomplete - the user manual proper is a WIP. It can be found on the apps Help menu, or in the "Documents/pCARS Telemetry/manual" folder. In the manual folder you will find some additional text files. The file "user_manual.txt" is a general operations manual, the file "scripting_manual.txt" is the beginnings of a reference manual for the scripting, the file "dashboard_manual.txt" is the documentation for the dashboard framework. These are raw text files hacked together while coding, so they're not too friendly. Eventually it will all be reworked and included in UserManaul.pdf.