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Rallysimfans.hu plugin news |
| 2025.03.23 | Plugin update:
Plugin version NGP7: 0.60.5061
v1.54.0 (2025-03-23)
What's new in RallySimFans (RSF):
- New: NGP7 7.5.779 and PaceNote 2.0.779 plugins by WorkerBee. See below for more details.
- New: RBRHUD 0.3.4.18 plugin by Towerbrah. See below for more details.
- New: OpenRBRVR 2.0.4 by Detegr/TorttuP. See below for more details.
- New: OpenRBRTriples 0.3.1 by Detegr/TorttuP. See below for more details.
- New: The default carparts and skin pack with support for new cars and additional carparts. See below for more details.
- New: RBR DirectX modded by Towerbrah to use DX shader model 3.0 version (originally RBR uses very old shader model 1.0). This gives more possibilities to improve RBR graphics quality and improves FPS. Please read below for more details about RBRHUD updates.
- New: Vulkan dxvk graphics driver updated to a new version. This new version should improve Vulkan FPS in some NVidia and AMD gpu graphics cards. Make sure you have the latest NVidia/AMD GPU drivers installed. See github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/wiki for more details.
- New: VNM Direct Drive Xtreme wheelbase is now supported with RSFLauncher.Controls.AdjustSteeringWheelRangePerCar feature. Big thanks to VNM Simulation (www.vnmsimulation.com) for their cooperation while implementing this new support and Wykster for beta testing VNM wheelbase in RBR.
- Improved: RSFLauncher.Controls.AdjustSteeringWheelRangePerCar feature now knows how to restore the default steering wheel rotation range when RBR is closed. This works with SimuCube, VNM, Moza, Simagic, Asetek and MMOS wheelbases.
- Improved: New carID.PNG screenshot filename option in RSFLauncher.Screen&Graphics.Screenshot.
- Improved: New HD quality "broken windshield" textures (by AleksiP). We recommend you to tick this option in the Rallysimfans Installer app if this is not selected by default.
- Improved: Minor RBRControls plugin compatibility tweaks.
- Improved: RSFLauncher dashboard style improvements when setting up a default RBR profile in a new installation. RBR digidash, RBR race clock in the top left corner, GaugerPlugin and RBRCountdown are automatically disabled if RBRHUD plugin is installed because RBRHUD does the same better and a lot more.
- In an existing RSF installation we highly recommend you to disable RBR digidash and RBR race clock options in RSFLauncher.Screen&Graphics page and disable GaugerPlugin and RBRCountdown plugins in RSFLauncher.Plugins page. RBRHUD plugin does those same things better and more efficiently.
- Fixed: RBR digidash was sometimes shown even when a digidash was disabled in RSFLauncher options.
- Fixed: Under certain conditions a stage specific custom RBR marshal animation scripts and textures didn't work.
- Other tweaks and bug fixes here and there as usual.
RBRHUD 0.3.4.18 plugin by Towerbrah:
- Added supported for emissive masks.
- Added controllable windscreen opacity (credits: Detegr/TorttuP).
- Added support for exporting and importing delta times. You can share times with your friends and let them try to beat your best times. Remember that optionally you can share GhostCars recording files also to let others to chase your ghost pacecar.
- Fixed car affecting car interior in the internal cameras.
- Fixed car texture reloading (F5 key press) not working on certain graphic modes. Skin authors love this feature because live preview of a new skin while a car is on stage has never been this easy.
- New features for render objects. Texture objects with no telemetry, combining of conditional effects.
- Updated overlay element selection menu and folder structure.
- Crash fix on game launch.
- New telemetry and telemetry fixes.
RBRHUD Asset updates:
- Added emissive masks to the following cars: C3_r5, Citroen_C3_WRC17, ESCORT_COSWORTH_GRA, Fiesta_rally3, HONDA_Civic_R3, PORSCHE911_SCRS_GrpB, PORSCHE_GT3_RGT, TOYOTA_CELICA_TA64_GrpB, Volvo242LE, bmw_m3_e36, ds3_WRC, fabia_rs_rally2, favorit, fiesta_rally2_23, i20_rally2, impreza95, impreza_2003_kazhol, p306maxi, porsche_911sc, yaris_rally2, vw_golf_86, BMW_M1, AstonMartin_Vantage_RGT.
- New MoTeC inspired overlay element.
- Small fixes and tweaks to existing overlay elements.
- Special thanks to RSWATS, Mint Lynx, XMALMX, AleksiP for testing and contributing emissive masks for the cars.
- Remember to tick RBRHUD Plugin, RBRHUD Overlays, RBRHUD Assets and RBR mud textures components in RallySimFans Installer app if those are not selected by default.
NGP7 7.5.779 2025-03-05 plugin by WorkerBee:
- fixed FFB issues with some wheels.
- pause physics when main game loop fails to execute.
- updated FMOD to version 2.03.06.
- ARM 64-bit FMOD integration.
- ARM 64-bit telemetry recorder (also used by PaceNote plugin 2.x).
PaceNote 2.0.779 2025-03-05 plugin by WorkerBee:
- updated to NGP revision 779.
OpenRBRVR 2.0.4 by Detegr/TorttuP:
- Fix a bug in DXVK that caused BTB stages to render black.
- Fix a bug where menuScene = false did not work properly.
- Update DXVK version to 2.6. This should fix issues where the game failed to start with new AMD GPUs.
- Add support for OpenXR-Layer-OBSMirror (https://github.com/Jabbah/OpenXR-Layer-OBSMirror).
- Improve compatibility with other plugins doing shader modifications.
- Fix 'Online rally' menu disappearing for some users.
OpenRBRTriples 0.3.1 by Detegr/TorttuP:
- Fix F6 menu receiving inputs even if it wasn't open. This caused all kinds of bugs with it.
- Fix FoV adjustment not taking z-near value into account. This might have caused distortion to the side monitor(s).
- Implement adjustable horizon to allow configuring screens for different eye height. The horizon adjustment is per-camera and per-car.
Carparts updated by AleksiP:
- Renault Twingo Rally1 roof scoop carpart.
- Skoda Fabia RS Rally2 carparts.
- Toyota Yaris Rally2 carparts.
- Ford Fiesta Rally2 (2023) carparts.
- Opel Manta 400 bonnet option removed.
New maps:
- 533 Wythop II (by Edd Hartley). The previous release had a wonderful Wythop stage and double Wythop means double fun. This is the reverse version of Wythop.
- 544 Oskola 2023 (by M. Virtanen). M Virtanen has been busy and now he releases not just one but three new gravel stages in Finland. The grand theme is the legendary history of "The rally of 1000 lakes" (aka nowadays Rally Finland). Pick an old car and you can live those legendary times in RBR. High speed jumps, blind corners and a loose gravel surface makes everyone humble.
- 545 Toikkala (by M. Virtanen). See above.
- 550 Sirkkamäki (by M. Virtanen). See above.
- 553 Passauna (by NaroGugul). NaroGugul really knows how to push the boundaries of RBR graphics engine and Blender tools. Passauna and Passauna II are beautiful gravel stages and really fun to drive.
- 554 Passauna II (by NaroGugul). See above.
- 556 Cote de Cauterets Slalom (by MonkeyZy). We already have 555 Cote de Cauterets stage as a traditional rally stage with pacenotes. MonkeyZy created this interesting slalom version where we don't have pacenotes. Hillclimb slalom version has small changes to make it more safe stage to be driven without a co-driver. You know how to use a handbrake? This stage is for you.
Updated maps:
- 501 Myhinpää 2023 (by M. Virtanen). Guardrail, shadow, weather and other improvements here and there.
- 534 Ubunapa Kabula. Updated. Original by Esko Kytömäki/TangoTeam (conversion by PeterB). Texture scaling, collision, watersplash and grass effects implemented and improved, weather settings updated. FPS performance boost.
- 535 Ubunapa Kabula II. Updated. Original by Esko Kytomaki/TangoTeam (conversion by PeterB). (see comments above)
- 549 Makkola (by M. Virtanen. Replaces the BTB version of the same map). Improved collisions, textures, replays, FPS boost.
- 555 Cote de Cauterets (by MonkeyZy. A complete re-made from scratch and replaces the BTB version of the same map). Improved collisions, textures, replays, FPS boost.
- 557 Erken. Original by Mikael 'Jacken' Jakobsson (conversion by PeterB). Improved collisions, snowbanks, camera flashes. Fixed UV mapping issues here and there. FPS boost.
- 558 Erken II. Original by Mikael 'Jacken' Jakobsson (conversion by PeterB). (see comments above)
- 559 Karagita Ruma. Original by Marko Kytömäki/TangoTeam (conversion by PeterB). Collision, replay cam, grass and water effect improvements. FPS boost.
- 560 Nechanice - Presin by izzy.gnr (conversion by hrczka). Improved textures, collisions, weather options, replay cams. FPS boost.
Updated weather settings in various stages:
- Some stages had a bad visibility in heavy fog and night weathers or snow stages had weird colors. PeterB updated and fixed many of those buggy weather settings.
Please visit www.rallysimfans.hu website to download the latest RallySimFans INSTALLER application to update your existing RBR/RSF installation.
This time existing RSF users don't have to download a torrent, all you need to do is to run the latest RallySimFans Installer application and choosing "Update Existing Installation" option. A fresh new RSF installation still needs the torrent download package as a basis to run the installer app.
Please see more detailed instructions in www.rallysimfans.hu Downloads page.
Download: Rallysimfans_Installer_v1.54.0 (4,31Mb)
Lacka, Mika-n and the testing team from RSF |
| | 2025.01.26 | Plugin update:
Plugin version NGP7: 0.60.5060
v1.53.0 (2025-01-26)
What's new in RallySimFans (RSF):
- New: A new RSFLauncher option to "Hide 'Get Ready Mulligatawny' message". This is useful when RBRHUD welcome message is also enabled because then you won't see two similar start welcome messages at a start line.
- New: A handful of new RSF "racing metrics" to be used in RBRHUD overlays.
- New: RBRHUD 0.3.3.8 plugin by Towerbrah with new assets (gauges/mud textures/overlays). Please see below for more information.
- New: RBRHUD. A new dynamic car mud texture feature improves how a car looks when it gets dirty (based on a stage conditions).
- New: RBRHUD. A new RBRHUD delta timer overlay. This is a match made in heaven for all hotlappers.
- New: OpenRBRVR 2.0.0 by Detegr/TorttuP. Several bug fixes and a new multiview VR rendering support to improve FPS performance (improves VR framerate a lot by utilizing an advanced GPU rendering capabilities). Please see below for more information.
- New: Several new and updated maps. And handful of old BTB maps with an improved FPS performance, features and weather options. Please see below for more information.
- Improved: RSFLauncher Portuguese translation updated by Ricardo V. Soares and MiguelBernardo7.
- Improved: RSFLauncher Indonesian translation updated by Mashironn.
- Fixed: Fixed an issue with "Loading HQ" background image and text color in some VR setups.
- Fixed: Other bug fixes here and there as usual.
RBRHUD 0.3.3.8 by Towerbrah:
- Added delta timer collection, storage and telemetry data. Use hotlap overlays to try this out.
- Some extra options are available in the RBRHUD in-game menu (press F4 key when a car is on stage).
- Added Dynamic weather and surface dependent mud textures. Originally RBR used the same mud texture for all weather types and surface types which does not look good, but now it's possible to load these weather and surface condition specific textures for improved visuals.
- Added various new telemetry data types and a new drawable type.
- Added automatic overlay hiding when using Freeze Frame function.
RBRHUD mud textures:
- Added dynamic mud textures by Cubits for: Aston Martin Vantage RGT, BMW M1, BMW M3 E30, Peugeot 106, Porsche 911 GT3RS, Skoda 130RS.
RBRHUD gauges:
- Improved interior textures for Audi 200, Quattro A1, A2 by Bledo22.
- New and converted gauge variants for Impreza 2003 (originally by voc), Porsche RGT 2007 and 2010, 911SC by XMALMX (Can be applied in the F4 menu gauges tab).
RBRHUD overlays:
- New WRC style overlay elements by Mashironn.
- New RallyClean overlays and overlay elements by Ekiso.
- New Hotlap overlays with delta timers for hotlapping.
- New Digidash_RBR overlay element by Mashironn in the original RBR Digidash style. Use RSFLauncher.Cockpit&Dashboard.Digidash=Disabled option to hide the original legacy RBR digidash and use F4 key on a stage to enable the new RBRHUD digidash overlay.
- New BeamNG style damage Overlay Elements.
- Updates and tweaks to default race overlays.
- Press F4 key while a car is on stage to show and hide new custom overlay widgets. You can even use a mouse to move an overlay widget to a specific screen location.
- Please see the RBRHUD overlay tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0oqGOthZsc
OpenRBRVR 2.0.1 by Detegr/TorttuP:
- Implement multiview rendering. Reduces CPU load significantly and fixes some rendering issues like some shadows on BTB stages. Increases the GPU load a little.
- Use 3D scene as background when the main menu is active.
- Make debug button toggle between debug modes.
- Fix a rendering bug where the skybox was rendered in different colors for different eyes.
- Fix a small logic issue when parsing openRBRVR.toml.
- Fix a bug that caused main menu to render in a funny way when the VR desktop view was set to bonnet cam.
- Add configuration parameters to adjust whether the VR view should automatically recenter at the start of a VR session or at the start of each stage.
New maps:
- 515-Nujiang 72 Turns R by Simrally CN Team. The Simrally CN Team made a wondeful debut in the previous Christmas Edition RSF release (make sure to check out Bayanbulak-Pegasus2 stage in RBR and the inspiration source Pegasus2 rally movie in Netflix). Now the group is back with yet another wonderful stage release. If the start of the Bayanbulak-Pegasus2 was a breath taking then the end of and various mountain side twisted turns in Nujiang 72 Turns are even more breath taking, especially in VR if you have agoraphobia and suffer from vertigo. You have been warned!
- 518-Ponteareas 2008 by Zetta. A new name in RBR stage author list. He is another testimony of how the skill set of new RBR map authors is better than ever in RBR. Difficult to believe this is his first RBR stage. Please see https://tracksbuilderspain.wixsite.com/home/zetta web page for more details.
- 532-Wythop by Edd Hartley. Edd is also a new name in RBR map authoring list and he certainly seems to know what all RBR rally fans have been dreaming on all these years. RAC is not just three random letters, it is the first rally Richard Burns himself ever drove. All British and RAC rally fans recognize the name Wythop and now we all can try to experience the same Richard felt when he drove this stage for the first time. See www.youtube.com/@eddhartleysimstuff for more information.
Improved BTB maps to support additional RBR features and FPS performance:
- All these maps now support different weather options, movable collision objects, better framerate performance even in VR, replay cameras and so on.
- The previous Christmas Edition RSF release was the first time we released similar optimized BTB maps. This RSF release pushes out more of these improved BTB maps. People doing these improved BTB conversions does a great job to highlight the vision of the original BTB map authors. Often the non-improved BTB map version is a pain to run in VR, but these improved versions are easy cases for VR headsets.
- A special thanks to aesthetic_sofa. Without his RBR passion, hard work and expertise in RBR and Blender, none of this would have been possible.
- Please note, if you have made custom pacenotes for these stages then you need to copy those MyPacenote map files from "Blyfoten BTB" to "Blyfoten" folder in plugins/ngpcarmenu/MyPacenotes/ folder location.
- 529-Blyfoten. Original by BTBswe (conversion by Thelc).
- 530-TMF A 2021. Original by Ravitoto (conversion by Thelc).
- 531-Aittajarvi. Original by Justup and BTBfin (conversion by Thelc).
- 534-Ubunapa Kabula. Original by Esko Kytomaki/TangoTeam (conversion by PeterB) .
- 535-Ubunapa Kabula II. Original by Esko Kytomaki/TangoTeam (conversion by PeterB) .
- 536-Hacke Pokalen. Original by Linus Noren (conversion by PeterB).
- 537-Vennivaara. Original by Justup and BTBfin (conversion by PeterB).
- 538-Koirakivi. Original by Esko Kytomaki/TangoTeam (conversion by PeterB).
Updated maps:
- 520-Vesla Shakdown. Original by Esko Kytomaki/Tangoteam (conversion by Thelc).
- 521-Ahvenus I. Original by Justup and BTBfin (conversion by Thelc).
- 522-Ahvenus II. Original by Justup and BTBfin (conversion by Thelc).
- 527-Antaramanana. Original by Beelabba (conversion by Thelc).
Please visit www.rallysimfans.hu website to download the latest RallySimFans INSTALLER application to update your existing RBR/RSF installation.
This time existing RSF users don't have to download a torrent, all you need to do is to run the latest RallySimFans Installer application and choosing "Update Existing Installation" option.
A fresh new RSF installation still needs the torrent download package as a basis to run the installer app.
Please see more detailed instructions in www.rallysimfans.hu Downloads page.
Download: Rallysimfans_Installer_v1.53.0 (4,18Mb)
Lacka, Mika-n and the testing team from RSF |
| | 2024.12.22 | Plugin update:
Plugin version NGP7: 0.60.5059
v1.52.0 (2024-12-24)
What's new in RallySimFans (RSF):
- New: A new rally season theme (by Dimitris). IRC 2011 rally season theme is a rookie friendly with cars in Super-2000 class, but also exciting alternative for experienced drivers.
- New: Rally HQ load screen with custom splash screen images. When the game returns from a stage back to game menu, the load screen shows one of the images in screenshots/Splash/ folder. You can even drop there your own favorite rally image files (png, jpg, dds).
- New: Re-designed RBRHUD plugin (by Towerbrah) with an improved (features, performance) embeded 3D dashbord gauges. A new user customizable 2D overlay dashboard feature. Eventually overlays will replace the vanilla RBR digidash by providing a lot more features and better overlay graphics (press F4 key when a car is on stage to customize an race dash overlay). Please see below for more information.
- New: A new OpenRBRVR 1.1.0 version (by Detegr/Torttu). Please see below for more information.
- New: A new OpenRBRTriples 0.3.0 version (by Detegr/Torttu). Please see below for more information.
- New: A set of new maps. Please see below for more information.
- New: Fabia RS Rally2 RBRHUD gauges (by Mashironn).
- New: Fiesta Rally 2 RBRHUD gauges (by Mashironn).
- Improved: AleksiP updated and added tons of new cut monitoring rules (too many stages to be listed here).
- Improved: The RBR split time popup notification message shows a more relevant comparison. The current race time is compared to a record time driven with a car from the same car group, instead of compared to an overall record time (not much point comparing WRC record time to a time driven with a GroupR1 car).
- Improved: RSFLauncher.MyReplays starts the selected replay with a double mouse click.
- Improved: RSFLauncher checks certain RBR system file dependencies (Microsoft VCRedist and DX9 file versions) and shows a warning and instructions how to update those up to date. RBR may not start or even crashes if a file dependency is too old or missing.
- Improved: RSF detects if RBR startup crashed. The next startup will automatically revert back to show a vanilla Subaru car in a menu background in case the startup crash was because of an invalid car skin texture or setup file.
- Improved: RSF network communication improved to eliminate lag when crossing a split or finish line and to be even more fault tolerant.
- Improved: RBR startups a bit faster when cars and stages don't have any changes on the server side (improved the logic of a game data updates).
- Improved: Portuguese translation updates (by Ricardo V. Soares and MiguelBernardo7).
- Fixed: Fixed an ancient RBR bug where a stage splash screen sometimes flickered. This was especially annoying in VR. Now the splash screen no longer flicker just before the image fades out.
- Fixed: Fixed a bug where car specific camera settings were not properly saved when changing camera settings in Rally Season gaming mode.
- Fixed: If a hotlap race is retired after crossing a finish line then the time is still properly registered.
- Fixed: The number of call-for-help rally statistics calculation fixed.
RBRHUD 0.3.20 by Towerbrah:
- A complete re-design of a car specific RBRHUD 3D gauge logic. This improves performance, so now even non-gaming laptops can use live gauges.
- A new 2D overlay digidash feature. The overlay can do the same and a lot more than the normal RBR digidash overlay. You can customize overlays live from within the game (press F4 key when a car is on stage), additional race metrics to show on screen (and more to come in the near future).
- In some cars and internal camera views a steering wheel may block 3D live dash gauges. Not a problem anymore. RBRHUD allows you to adjust the steering wheel position, angle and size per car both in 2D and VR. Wonderful.
- Remember, press F4 key on stage to open the new RBRHUD overlay and gauges configuration and editor window. Also, see RSFLauncher.Cockpit&Dashboard page for the new RBRHUD and Overlay options.
- All car skin texture authors will also love this new feature in RBRHUD. F5 key press reloads a car texture from CARS/SomeCarName/Textures/ folder on the fly while a car is on stage! No more tedious stage reloads to see how DDS skin texture modifications would look like in a car. Just remember NOT to install another custom car skin via the RSFLauncher Skin Manager tool without at first making a backup of your custom made skins in CARS/SomeCarName/Textures folder (backups are always important when you modify default RBR game files).
OpenRBRVR 1.1.0 by Detegr/Torttu:
- Update DXVK version to 2.4.1.
- Use Pimax's native quad view rendering over Quad-Views-Foveated if it's enabled.
- Add 32-bit OpenXR runtime validation in initialization.
- Improve OpenXR initialization error messages.
- Fix invalid openRBRVR version number shown inside the game.
- Fix "Could not create VR render target for view 0" by changing the way available depth surface formats are tested.
- Fix a typo in predictionDampening setting.
OpenRBRTriples 0.3.0 by Detegr/Torttu:
- Implement in-game menu for adjusting triple screen settings.
- Implement side view skew using asymmetric frustum.
- Add support for double screen setups.
- Improve robustness of screen configurations.
- RSFLauncher improvements to set triples configuration options.
New maps:
- 511-Kaczyce 2(by Dej Krzysztof). The twisty Kaczyce is a very good looking stage, but the look is not the same as easy to survive. A new challenge to practice your handbrake power turns.
- 514-Santa Lucia II (by Lipe). The long 13km stage in Gran Canaria, but now in reverse order. Those few who completed the first stage can now try to drive a car back to beginning.
- 516-Halenkovice 2018 (by Miro Kurek, Napa RBR Cup and Dan Simek). Many of you may remember this stage name. Yes, not a new stage in RBR but a new in RSF. We all thank Miro and Dan for releasing their excellent stage in RSF online platform also. Thank you Miro and Dan.
- 517-Bayanbulak-Pegasus 2 (by Simrally CN Team). This one is a wonderful surprise for all of you. A debut stage of Simrally CN team and a new needle on a RBR world map, China. Thousands of years of history in China, so it is about time we have a RBR rally stage in China also. A trivia quiz. If you recognize the name "Pegasus 2" from Netflix then it is not a coincident. The Chinese rally movie inspired the CN team to create this stage. You should check out the Pegasus2 movie in Netflix and this stage in RBR. The beginning in both is a classic. Thank you and welcome Simrally CN Team. I hope we will see even more Chinese drivers in RBR/RSF.
- 519-Bois de Bie (by MonkeyZy). Another debut stage author in RBR (or at least in RSF and by this name). Bois de Bie is a beatiful tarmac stage and this time in France. It's been a long time since we had a new stage in France. I'm sure not only French RBR drivers, but everyone else will love this stage in a French country side.
- 299-Kamenak and 300-Kamenak 2 (by Miro Kurek, Napa RBR Cup and Dan Simek). Yet another classic stages in RBR, but new in RSF. We all in RSF development team and in RSF community are more than delighted to drive these in RSF also. Please see Miro's and Dan's web site for more details about Napa RBR Cup rally series.
Updated maps:
- The following BTB maps have been improved in many ways you won't believe even if you read it. You have to drive and see these yourself.
- The FPS performance is a lot better, and I mean a lot better. Even VR drivers with less powerful PCs can now easily drive these stages with a good VR FPS rate or in big triple screen setups.
- Listing just few of the BTB optimizations and improvements here: Varying weather and surface options, movable objects with collision (like a roadside banners), faster map load time, unique per stage replay cameras and so on.
- A special thanks to aesthetic_sofa. Without his RBR passion, hard work and expertise in RBR and Blender, none of this would have been possible.
- Vesala Shakedown (originaly by Esko Kytömäki/Tango Team. Blender conversion by Thelc).
- Ahvenus I and Ahvenus II (originally by Justup and BTBfin. Blender conversion by Thelc).
- Fintele (originally by Rodrigo Rodriguez. Blender conversion by Thelc).
- Hassi (originally by Esko Kytömäki/Tango Team. Blender conversion by Thelc).
- Piren Tarmac and Piren Gravel (originally by Mikael Jakobsson aka Jacken. Blender conversion by PeterB).
- Antaramanana I (originally by Beelabba. Blender conversion by Thelc).
- Other people also helped to work on this map pack (Thelc, PeterB, AleksiP, Towerbrah, Misterarek, WorkerBee, Tom Smalley, mika-n, Joona Karimaa, PowerPunch, Shakey Deal and rest of the RSF map testing team).
- This map pack release has been a good example of several people working together to release something not many believed would be even possible.
Please visit www.rallysimfans.hu website to download the latest RallySimFans INSTALLER application to update your existing RBR/RSF installation. This time existing RSF users don't have to download a torrent, all you need to do is to run the latest RallySimFans Installer application and choosing "Update Existing Installation" option.
A fresh new RSF installation still needs the torrent download package as a basis to run the installer app. Please see more detailed instructions in www.rallysimfans.hu Downloads page.
Download: Rallysimfans_Installer_v1.52.0 (4,15Mb)
Lacka, Mika-n and the testing team from RSF
Update video: RBR RallySimFans | UPDATE Dec 2024
The RSF team wishes you all Merry Christmas and a happy new year and happy holiday season! |
| | 2024.10.07 | Plugin update:
Plugin version NGP7: 0.60.5056
v1.51.0 (2024-10-05)
What's new in RallySimFans (RSF):
- New: Major overhaul of maps to minimize diskspace usage and fixing lighting bugs (flickering car interior) in old Wallaby created stages. See below for more details.
- New: NGP7 and RSF integrated RBR Rally Season with custom season themes (WRC-2019 and GroupB-1985 with real team, driver and car competence attributes and theme specific AI par times) and user adjustable difficulty level. See in-game RSF plugin and Rally Season racing menu. Now you can drive offline rally series against AI drivers. See below for more details.
- New: MoTeC telemetry analyzer support. A new ngp2MoTeC installation package to make it possible to use NGP generated telemetry files in MoTeC telemetry analyzer tool. Many real life drivers and race engineers use MoTeC and now it is possible to use it even with RBR/NGP telemetry files. NGP2MoTeC conversion tool created by Detegr and a ready-to-use MoTeC analyzer workspace created by Bisto. See ngp2MoTeC game folder after installing the NGP2MoTeC component. See below for more details.
- New: NGP7 plugin version (by WorkerBee). Now all you who like to crash can finally hear all kind of impact sound effects properly (this new version of NGP fixes several ancient RBR sound effect bugs). See below for more details.
- New: PaceNote plugin version (by WorkerBee). Make sure to check out the new telemetry saving option in PaceNote plugin in case you want to change on the fly what data is saved in telemetry data files. See below for more details.
- New: A new version of openRBRTriples (by Detegr/TorttuP). See below for more details.
- New: A new version of openRBRVR (by Detegr/TorttuP). See below for more details.
- New: A new or fixed RBRHUD gauges. See below for more details.
- New: RSFLauncher.Screen&Graphics has new OpenRBRVR options.
- New: RSFLauncher.Telemetry has new MoTeC compatibilty options.
- New and updated maps: Neubuz-Slusovice (by Marek Nesvadba), Kaczyce (by Dej Krzysztof), Vilaplana 2007 (by Trasky), Santa Lucia (by Lipe), Valstagna Gravel (by RALLY Guru), The Legend (David Hradil), Bikernieki SSS1 (Einars Berze).
- Improved: A stage and car randomization improved. Now you can see the randomized result before choosing the "Start Stage" menu command. Use left/right arrow key in "Start Stage" menu line in Practice racing.
- Improved: New improved stage load screen images for vanilla RBR stages (new splash images created by AestheticSofa).
- Improved: RSFLauncher has a new option "Minimize RSFLauncher on RBR bootup" option. When enabled RSFLauncher application is auto-hidden when RBR bootup is finished and the game shows a game menu.
- Improved: RallySimFans_Installer app knows how to cleanup old obsolete RSF installation files you no longer need after an update. If you still want to keep those unsupported obsolete installation package file versions then backup rsf_installer_files folder content in the RBR game folder. Most people don't need those obsolete file versions.
- Fixed: When all cars or stages had been randomized at least once then randomization no longer worked. This is now fixed.
- Fixed: MyPacenote auto-saving improvements. Under certain rare cases pacenote changes were not auto-saved. This is now fixed.
- Fixed: Fixes and improvements in RSFLauncher.PreventRepeatedShiftEvents behavior.
- Other bug fixes here and there as usual.
Map overhaul:
- Many of the old stages created using Wallaby tool have an annoying lighting bug causing a car interior to flash (shadows flickering). This flickering bug is now minimized in all old stages.
- Some stages have several versions (normal, reverse, long version, short version, tarmac, gravel), but all these different versions usually have several identical texture files. A new "map subgroup" now makes it possible to share identical textures between these stages to minimize diskspace usage.
- One major flaw in BTB maps was diskspace usage and writing-reading hundreds of temporary disk files while loading a BTB stage. Now RSF supports zip compressed BTB Objects and Textures to minimize diskspace usage and improved BTB stage load time by eliminating the use of temporary files.
- Some maps had almost fatal "invisble collision" bugs (ie. a collision without any visible objects in the middle of the road line). Several of these map specific bugs have been now fixed.
- Reviewed and improved cutting rules in 400+ stages. AleksiP and rest of the team did fantastic job there. But, this is not the end. Please report cutting shortcuts in RSF Discord channel. This is a community effort to close as much of these unfair shortcuts.
- This map overhaul drops the map diskspace usage by almost 50% while improving a map quality or map loading time. Nice!
- The overhaul was a massive work and does require updates in almost all maps. But, we think this one big bang is good for the future and had to be done at some point. This does mean you need the latest RSF Torrent to update even an existing RSF installation. Torrent is the fastest way to download several big files while hundreds of people are doing it at the same time.
Rally Season integration in RSF:
- Have you ever wanted to drive a real rally season in offline mode against AI drivers? RBR has always had Rally Season feature, but not many people used it because it was created using vanilla RBR cars and a stage par times set by vanilla physics.
- Finally in RSF this wonderful Rally Season racing mode is more easily available using NGP7 cars and real life season themes and a stage par times (user adjustable difficulty level) are carefully chosen to be realistic for a specific NGP7 car group.
- At the moment you can choose WRC2019 and GroupB1985 seasons and experience those classic historical seasons with AI drivers and cars from the era.
- Stay tuned for more news in the future. At some point Rally Season is extended to support any custom stages also.
MoTeC telemetry analyzer support (by Detegr/TorttuP and Bisto):
- NGP7 plugin has a feature to send a racing telemetry data to 3rd party applications over UDP network traffic or to save a telemetry data as an offline file.
- In real life many drivers and racing engineers use MoTeC tool (www.motec.com.au) to analyze their real life racing telemetry data. MoTeC is The Real Thing for racing analyzing.
- Now you can use the professional grade "MoTeC i2 Pro 64" tool to analyze RBR/NGP telemetry files by using the new NGP2MoTeC tool and a pre-made MoTeC workspace. Detegr, Bisto and rest of the RSF team worked together to make RBR compatible with MoTeC telemetry analyzer.
- See RSFLauncher.Telemetry and "Record Telemetry data in a file" and "MoTeC telemetry files" options and "NGP2MoTeC/RSF Telemetry with MoTeC i2Pro.txt" document in the RBR game foldr how to install and get started with the MoTeC analyzer.
- Bisto has also created an easy-to-follow video tutorial how to get started with MoTeC and RBR. Please visit https://youtu.be/kTwcp7_kXkY to see the video.
NGP7 7.4.778 2024-09-15 plugin (by WorkerBee):
- Fixed rally yard and stage trial in pre Rally Season mode.
- Fixed playing of impact speech sounds.
- Reduced memory footprint of FMOD and telemetry recording.
- Updated FMOD to version 2.2.20.
- 64-bit FMOD integration.
- 64-bit telemetry recorder (also used by PaceNote plugin 2.x).
PaceNote 2.0.778 2024-09-15 plugin (by WorkerBee):
- Updated to NGP revision 778.
- NGP telemetry recorder, requires NGP plugin 7.4.x.
OpenRBRTriples 0.2.2 plugin by Detegr/TorttuP:
- Fixed a bug where wiper animations were not working correctly.
OpenRBRVR 1.0.3 plugin by Detegr/TorttuP:
- Changed the OpenXR backend to use D3D11 mode. This mode is more compatible with third party OpenXR layers. The game rendering is still done in Vulkan, this is only the graphics API that OpenXR is using.
- Implemented support for XR_VARJO_quad_views. This in conjunction of Quad-Views-Foveated OpenXR layer enables foveated rendering for openRBRVR when using OpenXR, resulting in a big performance improvement on most of the original format stages.
- The change of the OpenXR backend also enables support for OpenKneeboard.
- Implement support for OpenXR motion compensation layer (OXRMC), contributed by @MatteKarla.
- Improve OpenXR layer detection and error handling at startup.
- Fix a bug where a BTB stage was not detected correctly for disabling quad view rendering.
- Fix a rendering issue with foveated rendering where the peripheral view had white flashes if the frame rate dropped.
- Fix a bug where quad view rendering was enabled by default.
- Ship a build of Quad-Views-Foveated with the plugin and load it explicitly at startup if needed.
- Tweak stage Z-near value to fix the stage clipping in tight places.
- Fix rendering of windscreen effects (water/snow).
- Use reversed Z-buffer in driving mode and replays. This eliminates all track side object Z-fighting issues (flickering signs etc.) from the game. Special thanks to @Retrolux who suggested implementing reverse-z buffer for the plugin.
- Fix a crash caused by reloading the OpenXR session when toggling quad view rendering on and off.
- Improve performance of windscreen particle effects only mode.
- Fix DirectX state block usage with reverse-z buffer to fix a bug where the car was invisible on some BTB stages.
- Improve error messages in OpenXR initialization.
- Implemented prediction dampening for OpenXR.
- Fix white flashes that happened sporadically in OpenXR mode if anti-aliasing was not enabled.
- Fix a rendering bug in co-driver mode.
- Fix Rally School and Rally Season modes not loading the saved seat position correctly.
RBRHUD gauges:
- Hyundai i20 R5 wipers and mirrors fix by AleksiP.
- BMW M3 E36 gauges by PeterB and Metallvm.
- Seat Leon Cupra gauges by Cubits.
- Porsche 911 GT3 R5 (2007) gauges by Cubits.
New maps:
- 486-Neubuz-Slusovice (by Marek Nesvadba). Let's congratulate Marek for his first map release in RSF. A nice new tarmac stage driving through a real world rally village and country side in Czechia. Thanks Marek.
- 509-Santa Lucia (by Lipe). Almost 13km long tarmac stage in beautiful Gran Canaria, Spain. Excellent. Santa Lucia is a classic stage in Gran Canaria and now Lipe has given us all a gift and we can try to survive it in RBR.
- 510-Valstagna Gravel (by RALLY Guru). RALLY Guru had already created Valstagna tarmac stages. This time he jumped back in time and created a historical gravel version of PS Valstagna. Twisty mountain gravel road, what could go wrong?
- 512-The Legend (by David Hradil). Already Romans knew "nomen est omen". A stage with the name "The Legend" was missing in RBR, but now we have the legend here and also a new needle on the RBR world map, San Marino.
- 513-Bikernieki SSS1 (by Einars Berze). We are lucky to have another new map author and a world map needle in RSF. Einars wanted us all to prepare properly for the next year Rally Latvia and super special stage Bikernieki is a perfect stage to do it. What a statement from Einars as a first map in RBR. Thank you.
Updated maps:
- 506-Kaczyce (by Dej Krzysztof). Driveline and pacenote improvements and eliminating couple "cutting opportunities".
- 508-Vilaplana 2007 (by Trasky). Custom fence textures to match the real world rally color theme. Weather improvements.
- plus pretty much all other old RBR and BTB maps optimized also as part of the major map overhaul process.
Please visit www.rallysimfans.hu website to download the latest RSF TORRENT file and RallySimFans INSTALLER application to update your existing RBR/RSF installation.
This time you DO NEED the TORRENT even to update an existing RSF installation because so many maps have been updated and the torrent downloading is the fastest way to download several big files.
After the torrent download has been completed then run the traditional RallySimFans installer app and choose "Update Existing Installation" to complete the update.
www.rallysimfans.hu website has more detailed instructions and a video tutorial if you don't know how to use a torrent to download files.
Download: Rallysimfans_Installer_v1.51.0 (4,00Mb)
Lacka, Mika-n and the testing team from RSF |
| | 2024.06.16 | Plugin update:
Plugin version NGP7: 0.60.5055
v1.50.3
What's new in RallySimFans (RSF):
- New: A road side service park is now more realistic because it allows the driver duo (limited spare parts, tools and skills) to fix only certain damaged car parts when the damage is not too severe. This makes the road side service park to stand out more from the normal service park and gives rally organizers an interesting new possibility.
- Improved: Workaround to couple ancient bugs in GaugerPlugin and RBR_RX plugins.
- Improved: Workaround to a firmware issue in some Moza steering wheels when
RSFLauncher.Controls.AdjustSteeringWheelRotationRange option is set (Moza didn't always accept the new rotation range).
- Fixed: Sometimes FMOD audio file downloading failed. Now it should work.
- Fixed: Profile and controller binding saving logic (didn't always save controller binding changes).
- Fixed: F11 screenshot key with Vulkan mode didn't always save a screenshot in PNG format.
- New: A new "FencePath" option in Tracks1234.ini files. Map authors can now have a map specific fence DDS textures (the default fence textures are in Misc/Fence.dat file).
- New version of OpenRBRTriples plugin by Detegr/TorttuP. See below.
OpenRBRTriples 0.2.1 by Detegr/TorttuP:
- Fix incorrect rendering of the windows with some display configurations.
Please visit www.rallysimfans.hu website to download the latest RallySimFans_Installer application to update your existing RBR/RSF installation. Run the installer app and choose "Update Existing Installation" option.
Download: Rallysimfans_Installer_v1.50.3 (3,97Mb)
Lacka, Mika-n and the testing team from RSF |
| | 2024.06.02 | Plugin update:
Plugin version NGP7: 0.60.5054
v1.50.0
What's new in RallySimFans (RSF):
- New: RSFLauncher.Cockpit&Dashboard "Race clock" option to hide or show the RBR timer in top left corner in racing and replaying.
- New: The "Borgacci profile protection method" to prevent RBR loosing control bindings randomly is now integrated into RBR profile editing logic (pfMulligatawny.acm file is kept in read-only after saving the latest control changes. Thanks to Igor Borgacci to come up with this read-only file trick 10 years ago to workaround an ancient RBR bug with controller bindings. Now this trick is automated in the latest RSF version. Note! Bind controls only when the game is in RBR menus and not while a car is on stage.
- Improved: RBRControls plugin supports new "SoundFilePath" option in RBRControls.ini file to set a folder source for custom HShifter voice-over WAV audio files.
- Improved: F11 RBR screenshot handling in PNG picture format tweaks. No more black screenshots in Vulkan mode and a lot faster PNG file saving in when RBR uses a big monster resolution.
- Improved: F1 "tyre condition" info screen now remembers the selected option between RBR restarts.
- Improved: The auto-update logic of RSF plugin improved (doesn't require RBR reboots anymore).
- Fixed: Restart race menu available even when the finish line has been crossed.
- Fixed: Digidash position in racing and replaying.
- Fixed: "Reuse tyre state" option in Practice racing.
- Fixed: Replay weather setting selection on certain stages.
- Fixed: RSFLauncher.Cockpit&Dashboard hide/show option handling in replays.
- Fixed: MyPacenotes auto-saving (didn't always auto-save pacenote changes).
- Fixed: Various FreezeFrame fixes in replay mode.
- Other bug fixes here and there as usual.
- New version of OpenRBRTriples plugin by Detegr/TorttuP. See below.
New maps:
- 508-Vilaplana-2007 (by Trasky). Trasky has been working long hours with this tarmac stage in Spain. In Trasky's own words: "Tight your racing gloves, fasten your seat belt and hold your wheel to enjoy the FFB. You are gonna feel every inch of the road. Enjoy the 6 different weathers and get into a full inmersive experience. Savour the lidar data of WRC Vilaplana 2007 only in RSF RBR". Made with love in Spain by Trasky. Make sure to visit https://tracksbuilderspain.wixsite.com/home/trasky/vilaplana to find out how to support Trasky's work of art.
- 506-Kaczyce (by Dej Krzysztof). Many of you have "Ul Rajdowa" stage as one of their favorite stages. You certainly want to checkout this new stage from Dej. What a beaty, but a monster underneath. Very technical and twisty stage, but it doesn't matter because every now and then you want to stop and just admire how good this stage feels and looks like.
- 507-Jodlownik---Woliborz (by Krzysztof Baran. www.barantracks.blogspot.com). We already have Woliborz---Jodlownik stage and now we have a pleasure to have the reverse version also do to back-to-back driving on this excellent stage.
Updated maps:
- 485-Woliborz---Jodlownik (by Krzysztof Baran. www.barantracks.blogspot.com). Various redscreen and collision improvements and fixes.
- 489-vacarisses-SS1 (by Vicenç Caihuelas). Redscreen and texture improvements and fixes.
- 504-Witoszow---Zloty-Las and 505-Zloty-Las---Witoszow (by Krzysztof Baran. www.barantracks.blogspot.com). Fixed various ground geometries. Improved textures and cutting preventation objects here and there.
OpenRBRTriples 0.2.0-beta2 by Detegr/TorttuP:
- Fix an issue with NVIDIA surround bezel corrected resolutions.
- Make main menu scene look less wonky.
- Fixed Z-buffer issue with near value 0.0 by limiting it to 0.01 internally.
- Got rid of 3 separate windows and using one large one. Should get rid of issues with forced vsync cutting the fps to 1/3 and so on. Also this should now correctly hide the task bar in NVIDIA surround setups I hope. This can also fix issues with different graphics modes not working, we'll see.
Please visit www.rallysimfans.hu website to download the latest RallySimFans_Installer application to update your existing RBR/RSF installation. Run the installer app and choose "Update Existing Installation" option.
Download: Rallysimfans_Installer_v1.50.0 (3,97Mb)
Lacka, Mika-n and the testing team from RSF |
| | 2024.05.10 | Plugin update:
Plugin version NGP7: 0.60.5051
v1.49.0
What's new in RallySimFans (RSF):
- New: A whole new RSF in-game plugin where many under the hood things have been re-designed to improve stability, fault tolerance to random network connection issues and improved FPS. See below for more information.
- New: RSFLauncher.MyCars.RBRHUD option to enable or disable live RBRHUD dashboard gauges per car. Some cars have FPS heavier live gauges than others. If those cars cause FPS issues then you no longer need to disable RBRHUD plugin completely, instead you can disable live dashboard gauges per car.
- New: RSFLauncher.RallySimFans.RacerName option to set a custom driver name in RBR. We all don't have to be MULLIGATAWNYs anymore when RBR welcomes the driver to the startline.
- New: Improved result screen in Practice races to show a comparison to personal records on the same stage, car and the car group.
- New: RSFLauncher.Screen&Graphics.Triples configuration options. Before using the new triples support you have to set triple resolution options here.
- Fixed: Replaying of unofficial BTB replays with a fixed mapID didn't work.
- Fixed: If the telemetry file recording feature in NGP plugin is enabled then "Retire" menu command told NGP plugin to save a telemetry file. However, "Exit to Main Menu" didn't tell NGP plugin to save the telemetry file, so the telemetry of the next stage was appended into the same telemetry data file. Now both ways to leave a stage tells NGP plugin to save a telemetry data file.
- New: RBRControls plugin page (4/4) with VR specific controls like "move a seat position in OpenRBRVR".
- New: OpenRBRTriples plugin by Detegr/TorttuP. The groundbreaking new plugin for RBR. True triple monitor support in RallySimFans with the correct fullscreen side monitor perspective and a bezel width adjustment. See below for more details.
- New: RBR DirectorsCut plugin by Mister Arek. Yet another groundbreaking new plugin for RBR. DirectorsCut plugin makes it possible for all of us to feel what it is to be a rally movie director. Or if you don't feel like to be a movie director then the improved freeCam and BTB roadside replay cameras for sure makes you smile. See below for more details.
- Updated OpenRBRVR 0.8.2 plugin version by Detegr/TorttuP. See below for more details.
- Updated version of DgVoodoo (Dgv) DX11/DX12 graphics driver. Please note that DgV DX11/DX12 graphics mode is not generally recommended. It is mainly for older AMD gpu PCs where the old AMD gpu doesn't support Vulkan 1.3 version and the old AMD gpu with Vulkan 1.2 version has issues with live RBRHUD dashboard gauges.
- Updated RBRHUD package with a new damage visualization (DamageHUD "Full V2") by AleksiP. Use RSFLauncher.Cockpit&Dashboard.DamageHUD option to choose "Full V2" option.
- Updated Czech translation by JordanT.
New maps:
- Sunava Shakedown by Tomas Cere. A new tarmac stage in Slovakia. Tomas has created a replica of the real Sunava Shakedown stage. When you drive this stage and then I say this is the first stage Tomas has ever created for RBR then most of you would not believe it. Thank you Tomas for this wonderful stage, you certainly have the talent.
- Witoszow---Zloty-Las and Zloty-Las---Witoszow by Krzysztof Baran. BaranTracks is already a concept and a synomym to high quality in RBR. These two new stages are a proof of that. Please visit http://www.barantracks.blogspot.com/ to see more details and support his work of art.
- Vacarisses SS1 by Vicenc Caihuelas. We already have Vacarisses SS2 and now Vicenc is back with the reverse version. This new map version has also various upgrades, so make sure to test drive this excellent stage in Spain. Please check the Maps 489-VacarissesSS1 folder also for more info how to support Vicenc's work.
Updated maps:
- As mentioned in RSF Discord announcement, few weeks ago we disabled in online rallies all stages built as a surface conversion versions of vanilla RBR stages (for example snow and tarmac versions of Greenhills).
- The good news is it was just a temporary disablation while we were updating and improving many of those stages (texture improvements and other fixes).
- In this release we are re-releasing following improved old stages (Towerbrah did a massive job to overhaul numerous old buggy textures).
- If your favorite stage is not yet in this list then the stage has some quality issues. Those may be re-released in the future if someone takes the job to fix those texture and surface physics issues.
Bisanne Gravel + Snow
Bisanne II Gravel + Snow
Chirdonhead Snow + Tarmac
Chirdonhead II Snow
Cote D'Arbroz Gravel + Snow,
Cote D'Arbroz II Gravel + Snow
Diamond Creek Tarmac
East-West Snow + Tarmac
East-West II Snow + Tarmac
Falstone Snow + Tarmac
Fraizer Wells Snow
Greenhills Snow + Tarmac
Greenhills II Tarmac
Harwood Forest Snow
Harwood Forest II Snow
Joux Plane Gravel + Snow
Joux Plane II Gravel + Snow
Joux Verte Gravel + Snow
Joux Verte II Gravel + Snow
NewBobs Snow + Tarmac
NewBobs II Snow + Tarmac
Noiker Snow
Noiker II Snow
Pirka Menoko Snow + Tarmac
Prospect Ridge Snow
Rally School Stage Tarmac
Rally School Stage II Tarmac
Sheperds Shield Snow + Tarmac
Sheperds Shield II Snow + Tarmac
Sipirkakim Snow
Sipirkakim II Snow + Tarmac
RSF in-game plugin:
- The RSF in-game plugin in this release went through a major review and many internal parts were re-designed.
- We have been working on this new version for several months already alongside with the "old" version, but now it is time to start using the new version and hear your feedback how it works.
- Most of the improvements are not directly shown on screen, but more like under the hood improvements. Those changes should improve FPS (slightly), fault tolerance to random network issues, better stability and integration with other plugins in RSF.
- Also, this new version gives us easier way to update essential game components and build more new features in RBR and RSF. Stay tuned...
- There are probably some corner case issues we haven't detected during closed beta testing, so please join the RSF Discord channnel and please report issues there. Thank you. See www.rallysimfans.hu website and the Discord link there.
OpenRBRVR 0.8.2 by Detegr/TorttuP:
- Fixed a crash that occurred if the car's ini file had invalid data.
- Fixed a bug where the seat position was not loaded correctly if a stage was restarted.
- Fixed desktop window and 2D content window size calculation.
- Support for seat movement using a steering wheel or keyboard button via the new RBRControls plugin options.
- Add explanation and troubleshooting tips for "OpenXR error -32" error message.
- Optionally smooth out the camera movement for the feature that rotates the yaw of the horizon locked camera 180 degrees if the car is upside down. This feature is disabled by default.
- Implemented per-stage anti-aliasing (see antiAliasing option in openRBRVR.toml configuration file).
OpenRBRTriples by Detegr/TorttuP:
- Drivers with three or even more monitors have dreamed on a true triple monitor support in RBR for the last 15 years.
- At best some drivers have used post-processing reshader perspective correction applications to twist the perspective in side monitors, but it can never reach the graphics and perspective quality of a true multi-monitor rendering with adjustable view angle and bezel width options.
- Detegr has done it again. The dream is here today in RallySimFans RBR. A true triple monitor support!
- See the new triple monitor configuration options in RSFLauncher.Screen&Graphics before enabling the triple monitor graphics mode.
- Please visit "RBR Rallysimfans.hu" Discord and the announcement channel to see a link to OpenRBRTriples release trailer video or visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rylBdkdlxEk
RBR DirectorsCut by Mister Arek:
- If you have ever wanted to create a cinematic movie clip how you managed to nail perfectly a hairpin and left-right-left corner combination then onscreen video recording from a standard RBR replay is one option, but it is very limited with camera views.
- DC plugin solves all these movie recording limitations by giving easy to use heliCam, droneCam, helmetCam, suspensionCam and lots of other custom and customizable camera views.
- Traditionally BTB maps have been very limited in replays (ie. no roadside replay cameras). DC plugin adds automatical roadside replay cameras to all BTB maps. How cool is that?
- Greatly improved freeCam feature (F9 key toggles freeCam on/off) with smoother movement, gamepad support and so on. The improvement list goes on and on...
- Make sure to watch the in-game tutorial in DC plugin to learn some of the basics of the plugin. Press 'H' key to open the plugin menu.
- Please visit "RBR Rallysimfans.hu" Discord and the announcement channel to see a link to RBR DirectorsCut release trailer video or visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-FiFYOgAks
Please visit www.rallysimfans.hu website to find the latest RallySimFans_Installer application to update your existing RBR/RSF installation.
Download: Rallysimfans_Installer_v1.49.0 (3,95Mb)
Lacka, Mika-n and the testing team from RSF |
| | 2024.03.31 | Plugin update:
Plugin version NGP7: 0.54.5048
v1.48.0
What's new in RallySimFans (RSF):
- New: RSFLauncher.Controls.3-2-1 CountdownPause supports optional Handbrake/Pause/Ignition button options to resume from the countdown pause.
- New: RBRControls plugin has a new binding: IGNITION. Now you can map a secondary button to ignition control.
- New: NGP 7.3.776.500 plugin version (by WorkerBee). See below for more details.
- Improved. Unofficial "test BTB stages" with a fixed mapID value. A btb track.ini file can have MapID option (the unofficial btb MapID value should be >=50000, for example MapID=64100).
- Fix: RBRControls connects to joysticks now faster after RBR bootup (thanks to Detegr for diagnosing this issue on some joysticks).
- Fix: RBRControls recognizes now all buttons in MadCatz ButtonPad (thanks to Durandom for helping to diagnose and fixing the issue).
- Fix: FreezeFrame feature fixed (once again particles are frozen also).
- Fix: RSFLauncher.Controls.FFBDeadzone and FFBDeadzoneThreshold scaling bug fix when RSFLauncher app was re-opened.
- Fix: Other bug fixes here and there as usual.
New maps:
- 502 Savopohja (by Henri Pellinen). Lately we have had many new tarmac and gravel stages, but now when the summer is just around the corner a new snow stage is a cool experience.
- 294 Rozmital 96 I (by Mato22). All of you know the name Mato22. He has been busy creating stages over the years. This time slightly different experience of Zaton stage with another stage name.
- 295 Rozmital 96 II (by Mato22). Reverse of Rozmital 96.
Updated maps:
- 484 Vacarisses SS2 (by Vicenç Caihuelas) Physics and collision tweaks and fixes. See https://tracksbuilderspain.wixsite.com/home for more information how to support Vicenç's work.
- 476-477 La Mussara Shakedown 1 & 2 (by Trasky) tracksettings fixes.
NGP plugin version 7.3.776.500 (by WorkerBee):
- more tolerant starter logic to address faulty hardware causing accidental activation mid-stage.
Please visit www.rallysimfans.hu website to find the latest RallySimFans_Installer application to update your existing RBR/RSF installation.
Download: Rallysimfans_Installer_v1.48.0 (3,69Mb)
Lacka, Mika-n and the testing team from RSF |
| | 2024.03.08 | Plugin update:
Plugin version NGP7: 0.54.5046
v1.47.1
What's new in RallySimFans (RSF):
- This release is mainly a hotfix release to various RBR crash, timer and stuttering issues.
- New: When creating a new RBR profile, any profile name unlocks all vanilla RBR cars and stages (ie. no need to use the MULLIGATAWNY cheat name). If you want to rename an existing RBR profile then you can do it via RBR main menu options/plugins/NGPCarMenu/RenameProfile option.
- Fixed: RSF and OpenRBRVR integration improvements.
- Fixed: A car (RSFLauncher.MyCars override values per car) specific settings are now properly restored after a replay also.
- Fixed: RSFLauncher car SkinManager handles now properly special characters within a car model file (Mitsubish Evo IX, Skoda Fabia S2000 and Renault Twingo had these issues). However, try to avoid special characters in a skin folder and filenames to avoid random issues.
- Fixed: Non-English RBR language and the "IGNITION control key not set" warning message no longer crash RBR. Remember, nowadays you need to bind the IGNITION control key to start an engine.
- Fixed: 3-2-1 Countdown Pause fix in VR mode.
- New NGP 7.3.775.497 version by WorkerBee. See below for more details.
- New OpenRBRVR 0.7.5 version by Detegr/TorttuP. See below for more details.
- Carparts: Trabant and Wartburg (see RSFLauncher.MyCars) car part updates by AleksiP.
- RBRHUD: Huyundai i20 R5 model fixes by AleksiP.
- Updated Portugese translation (by Ricardo V. Soares, MiguelBernardo7).
NGP 7.3.775.497 (2024-03-07) by WorkerBee:
- Fixed race timer issues.
- Fixed shifting issues.
- New data item utcSystemTime in file telemetry.
OpenRBRVR 0.7.5 by Detegr/TorttuP:
- Fix a bug where the plugin would not launch if openRBRVR.ini was missing.
- Add a note for installing OpenXR-Vk-D3D12 if OpenXR initialization failed because it was missing.
Please visit www.rallysimfans.hu website to find the latest RallySimFans_Installer application to update your existing RBR/RSF installation.
Download: Rallysimfans_Installer_v1.47.1 (3,68Mb)
Lacka, Mika-n and the testing team from RSF |
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Plugin version NGP7: 0.54.5045
v1.47.0
What's new in RallySimFans (RSF):
- New: Practice/StartStage menu line has now additional options: Random car, Random stage and Random car+stage options (use left/right arrow keys to select the option).
- New: A brand new "Import skin" in RSFLauncher.MyCars. Installation of a custom RBR car skin pack has never been this easy. Just download your favorite RBR car skins (a zip/rar/7z archive file) from various RBR livery/skin web pages, click the "Import skin" button and select the downloaded zip/rar/7z skinpack file and be surprised.
- New: The in-game Stage and Car menu now remembers the latest selection when you re-open a stage subfolder (ENTER key in Stage and Car menu lines).
- New: The Stage and Car menu supports keyboard shortcuts to select a stage or car. If you press "H" then it jumps to stages starting with letter H. If you keep on pressing "A" and "R" keys within few seconds then the menu selection jumps to stages starting with "Har" search keyword. This works both in the Stage and Car main menu selection line and in subfolder views.
- New: NGP 7.3.774.488 (by WorkerBee) physics version with multicore, engine starter and particle effect improvements (see below for more details).
- New: With the latest NGP version you now need to bind the RBR IGNITION control key to start an engine. If IGNITION RBR control key is not set then you'll see a warning message at the start line.
- New: OpenRBRVR 0.7.4 (by TorttuP aka Detegr) with several improvements and fixes (see below for more details).
- New: Various openRBRVR integration improvements in RSFLauncher and RSF in-game plugin.
- New: RBRHUD 0.2.6.4 (by Towerbrah) with rendering and performance fixes (see below for more details).
- New: RBRHUD. Believe it or not, but there are now 95/98 NGP7 cars with a fully working in-car 3D live dashboards! Amazing job from the RBRHUD task force and RBR community knowing few months ago we had none, zero, nada. But, we still need your help to test, comment and improve those RBRHUD gauges or even creating those last missing gauges.
- New: SkinManager.Carparts. 96/98 NGP7 customizable cars in RSFLauncher.MyCars.SkinManager.Carparts! Few months ago it was a single digit number. Amazing if I may say so. You want a safari bumber and lights? Mudflaps? Extra lights on the hood? Now you can unleash your creativity and actually use those components a car modeller spent weeks to create yet no one knew about those until now. It is just fair there is now an easy way to use those carparts a car modeller has created for all of us.
- Improved: Stage and Car menu selection line now uses alphabetical name ordering when using left/right arrow keys to choose the next or previous item (it used to be a map ID numerical ordering, but for a user it was confusing ordering).
- Improved: The car preview image in the in-game RSF plugin is now linked to the selected skin in RSFLauncher.MyCars page.
- Improved: RSFLauncher.MyCars has various improvements in a skin and carpart selections and deletion.
- Improved: RSFLauncher.MyCars.SkinManager and a skin specific metadata.ini file has a new URL option to let people easily find the original download and RBR blog page. If you are a skin author then please see cars\Fiesta_rally3\skins and cars\Peugeot__208_Rally4\skins folders for an example of RSF SkinManager file structure, metadata file content and preview images. You can include this kind of metadata.ini and readme.txt files in a skin zip/rar/7z file and the new "Import Skin" imports those files to show more details about the skin package.
- Improved: RSFLauncher has new options and few other improvements to set OpenRBRVR options.
- Improved: By default legacy RBR gaming modes QuickRally/RallySeason/RallyChallenge are hidden in the RBR main menu because those don't work unless NGP7 cars are installed manually into car slots 0..7. You can set RSF to show these legacy gaming modes by setting rallysimfans.ini [drive"> show_legacy_gamemodes=true option or by unticking "Show RSF in main menu" option in RSFLauncher app. This was done to avoid new people asking why they cannot shift past 1st and reverse gears when they try to use those legacy gaming modes with incompatible cars.
- Improved: DgVDX11/DX12 graphics driver updated to the latest version (DgVoodoo).
- Improved: Certain car models have bugs in the model configuration files. Many of those fixes are already set in car models downloaded by the RSF in-game plugin, but if people use a 3rd party external tools to download car models or install an older car skin then those fixes may not be there. Now RSF detects these outdated car configurations and fixes those on the fly.
- Fixed: Cut monitoring fixes in multilap stages (ie. a stage going over and over again the same route).
- Fixed: Particle crash issue in scenarios where a particle file was not found.
- Fixed: Other smaller fixes here and there as usual.
- Updated RSFLauncher Spanish (by Egoitz Yuste) and Polish (by Król Alfons Kotojad Alf II) translations. Thank you.
New maps:
- Sourkov and Sourkov II (by Montek Motorsport team). Czech and a gravel stage? Montekland proves this combination is possible, at least in Montekland realm. We are sure all drives are very grateful of this parallel realm.
- Jirkovicky and Jirkovicky II (by Montek Motorsport team). Also these classic mixed gravel+tarmac stages are now finally in RSF also.
- Sumburk (by Roman "Pyros" Barta). Another classic tarmac stage finally available for the userbase in RSF also. Big big thanks to Pyros.
- Sosnova and Sosnova 2010 (by Roman "Pyros" Barta). Pyros was busy in 2008-2010 and he created all these wonderful stages.
- Myhinpää 2023 (by M. Virtanen, Mik78). A gravel stage and Finland? It is not a surprise for anyone, but yet this one does surprise us all. First of all, after you drive this one you'll know why so many IRL drivers think this stage is in top5 legendary gravel stages. Another surprise is the track format. Out of blue sky all in a sudden Mik78 re-releases a BTB stage in the superior RBR Blender track format. Now VR drivers can also feel all those jumps with a good framerate. Big thanks to Aesthetic_sofa also for his help with this new version.
Updated maps:
- Lucéram-Col Saint-Roch restructured to improve load time.
NGP 7.3.774 (2024-02-20) by WorkerBee:
- multicore physics.
- fixed starter code (remember to map IGNITION control key in RBR options/Controls/ControlSetup control binding screen!).
- fixed handling of occasionally missed special pace notes (Start, Split, Finish, End Of Track).
- fixed particle system, size of particles.
OpenRBRVR 0.7.4 by Detegr/TorttuP (cumulative fix list since the 0.4.5 version):
- Implement OpenXR support.
- Implement per-stage supersampling.
- Change config file format from ini to toml.
- Add "World scale" setting for OpenXR.
- Allow horizon locking in replays.
- Make the amount of correction that lock to horizon applies adjustable.
- To avoid horizon locked camera pointing backwards, the camera now turns 180 degrees if the car's pitch increases/decreases 90 degrees or more.
- Report more accurate FPS in the FPS debug mode.
- Render the desktop window with the desktop window's aspect ratio.
- Add adjustment menu and settings for the desktop window viewport.
- Add a way to render the desktop view using 2D camera. This can be for example used to set a seat position for a co-driver to play using the desktop window while the driver plays in VR.
- Add overlay adjustment menu. Show overlay borders while driving when debug mode is active for easier adjustment.
- SteamVR: Improve concurrent Vulkan queue usage.
- Change internal GPU synchronization logic.
- Fix a rare rendering issue where certain effects were rendered differently in different eyes. For example Mitterbach Tarmac at night.
- Fix intermittent recentering issues happening with Reverb in OpenXR mode.
- Fix a crash that occurred when running openRBRVR without a VR headset.
- Fix a crash when using SteamVR with Reshade.
- Fix strange floating shadows on BTB stages.
- Fix a bug where the co-driver mode did not work if "Render pre-stage in 3D" option was active.
- Fix Call For Help camera being a wrong one in the co-driver mode.
- Fix replays being always stuck to co-driver camera if the co-driver mode was active.
- Fix incorrect rendering of broken windshield texture.
RBRHUD 0.2.6.4 by Towerbrah:
- Fixed a rendering issue when using cubic env maps in some areas.
- New gauges: Mitsubishi Evo IX by Mashironn.
- Updated gauges:
-- Renault Twingo by Cubits.
-- Citroen DS3 R1/R3 by PeterB/Cubits.
-- Skoda Fabia R5 Evo by KaRally75.
-- And tons of improvements in several cars by AleksiP.
RSFLauncher.MyCars.SkinManager.Carparts:
- AleksiP created dozens and dozens of new metadata definitions for cars with a customizable parts. He created far too many carsparts to be listed here car by car. 98/98 NGP7 cars is the total magic number at the moment and it speaks for itself.
- Mashironn, Cubits, PeterB, Towerbrah, KaRally75, Mohmot, ThePlayerOne, WB and mika-n did help with handful of cars. Thank you.
- Big thanks to Tomsmalley for his help analyzing customizable car parts.
Please visit www.rallysimfans.hu website to find the latest RallySimFans_Installer application to update your existing RBR/RSF installation.
Download: Rallysimfans_Installer_v1.47.0 (3,68Mb)
Lacka, Mika-n and the testing team from RSF |
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