project cars Community Assisted Race Simulator (CARS) WAS in Development

[superhyper]

It's going to be released in 2014 and it's gonna cost as much as a normal game does.

[Ryzza5]

Expected release date is November 2014 on PC, PS4, XBOX ONE, WII U, and Steam OS

[The Compensator]

That late? How many time has it been delayed already?

[Fear Deer]

That late? How many time has it been delayed already?

 

Tree fiddy

[Ryzza5]

erm, missed a few, but here you go

 

WMD has been as busy as always during the past few days. You missed some of it? Then catch up on the most important developments below!

 

 

Development News

 

Our Creative Director Andy Tudor is making rapid progress on Project CARS' user interface as shown in new progress reports - Click Here

 

A brand new car has been added to the development builds as the 2012 Ruf CTR3 is now available to drive - Click Here

 

Steve Dunn has been working on a major new feature, the dynamic persistent session grip that allows tracks to rubber in during the cause of race weekend - Click Here

 

Stephen Viljoen has outlined the design of the career contracts that will be a key aspect of Project CARS' career mode - Click Here

 

Furthermore, Andy Tudor has also outlined the design concept behind the accolades & inbox system that are part of the career mode - Click Here

 

The planned design for the console time trial leader boards have been outlined by Stepan Vondrak - Click Here

 

The Project CARS milestones list has been updated to include the latest progress made by our development team - Click Here

 

Nicolas Hamilton, our very own Handling Consultant, has written up new & very extensive feedback blogs you don't want to miss out on - Click Here

 

Two new painting templates have been released as the Ford Mustang Boss 302R1 and the Ruf CTR3 are now paintable! - Click Here

 

WMD members are now asked to provide their real name if they want to appear as an AI driver in Project CARS - Click Here

 

You Want More Progress Reports?

 

For daily progress reports from our busy development team, make sure to check out the all-new progress threads linked below!

 

Base Coding | Render Coding | App/Gameplay Coding | Online Coding | Tools Coding | Audio | Characters/Animation | AI | Physics | UI | Tracks | Vehicles |

 

Content Previews

 

Work on the 2012 BMW M1 Coupe has kicked off as a first progress shot of the LODX model shows - Click Here

 

Another brand-new car that has recently been started is the 1997 Ford Mustang Cobra SCCA Trans-Am - Click Here

 

Perran Truran has started working on the 2013 McLaren P1, sharing some amazing preview renders - Click Here

 

The 2012 BMW 320TC WTCC is making great progress in the skilled hands of Matt Clark - Click Here

 

Martin Franek has been working on some great-looking trackside objects such as ambulances & tv trucks - Click Here

 

Loire 24 is making rapid progress as several of our talented track artists are focusing on the French endurance racing venue - Click Here

 

JF Bouchard continues to plug away on the Mercedes Benz A45 AMG - Click Here

 

LODX modeling on the PM06a LMPrototype has commenced as a first version of the car has been exported - Click Here

 

Jaroslav Turna has been working on the 1972 Ford Escort RS1600 - Click Here

 

Work continues on Eifelwald GP as plenty of improved textures & new details have been added - Click Here

 

Ralph Hummerich has been working his texturing magic on the 2009 Pagani Zonda Cinque Roadster - Click Here

 

The laser-scanned Oulton Park is evolving as Luis Barata continues to make progress on the British track - Click Here

 

James Kett is focusing his attention on Besos, giving the Spanish track a comprehensive overhaul - Click Here

 

Meanwhile, Daniel Karlsson has completed his work on the cockpit of the 1989 Sauber Mercedes C9 - Click Here

 

Daniel has now moved on to the interior of the 2013 Mercedes Benz AMG C-Class Coupe DTM - Click Here

 

First liveries are being added for the 2013 Ford Mustang Boss 302R1 - Click Here

 

Ales Ogrinc is focused on the 1998 Merces Benz CLK LM as shown in new progress shots - Click Here

 

Jan Pavelko is working on Eifelwald as various issues have been addressed - Click Here

 

Meanwhile, Sven Moll has been working on the roadloft of Brands Hatch - Click Here

 

A full set of liveries for the 1971 Mercedes Benz 300SEL 6.8 AMG has been checked in - Click Here

 

Work on the 2014 version of the Renault Megane RS has started - Click Here

 

Fixes & Updates

 

Doug Arnao has updated several AIW files on various tracks - Click Here

 

Ivo Franic is busy doing the LOD work on the 2012 Mercedes Benz SLS AMG GT3 - Click Here

 

Meanwhile, Martin Olivera is tackling the LOD work on the 2013 Ruf RGT-8 - Click Here

 

New tire scrub & skid sounds have been checked in - Click Here

 

Ricardo Machuca is working on the LODs of the Ginetta G55 GT3 - Click Here

 

Camber has been added to the suspension animations of various cars - Click Here, Here, Here & Here

 

Our Render Coder Martin Griffiths has archived a substantial performance improvement in DirectX 11 with his recent work - Click Here

 

Plenty of physics changes have been checked in various cars, including the implementation of the brake fade & improved turbo model tech - Click Here

 

Driver animations for four recently-added cars are being worked on now - Click Here

 

Test & Report Feedback

 

The Ginetta G40 Series, a brand new event in the career calendar, is now available to be tested - Click Here

 

Make sure to regularly check out the newest Car Physics Focus Testing Events and report your feedback! - Click Here

 

Other

 

Jussi Karjalainen has released a new version of his very helpful car setup tool - Click Here

 

Our talented members keep on creating amazing Project CARS schreeshots, mak sure to check them out - Click Here

[Ozzmcom]

typical wmd member when they see any mod post

[Ryzza5]

Beats "s**n"

[Ryzza5]

First draft of TrackIR and 'Virtual Reality mode' have been added. Starting to build the SP career mode now as well.

 

They're soon to start improving the AI. Audi licence has been announced too.

 

[Eudemon]

So much has been announced for this game that it annoys me that I am working on other things and unable to post about them at the moment. If only I could split myself into two or clone myself or find some other way to post these things... :hmmm:

[Ryzza5]

Yes and I'm sort of 'not allowed' to post too much about pCARS it seems going by community reactions in the chatbox :hmmm: (plus I also don't have the time; I'm barely keeping up with the Dev posts on the WMD forum)

[Dan G]

I don't even have the time to get my G25 out these days, I tend to stick to a quick go of next car game when possible

 

It's nice when you DO post stuff up, good to know how they're getting on.

[Ryzza5]

Gotta say it's all coming together. I'm finding the physics are quite challenging but enjoyable. In previous sims you'd find them a little too predictable, if I had to use one word to compare pCARS handling with other sims, I'd say "livelier". Of course that depends on what vehicle you choose as they're still working on them, as well as the tyre model.

[Ryzza5]

Newsynews time:

 

WMD has been exceptionally busy recently as Project CARS' development is buzzing on all fronts.

 

You missed some of it? Then catch up on the most important topics below!

 

Development News

 

Plenty of new cars have been announced as seven Audis and the 2015 Ford Mustang GT join Project CARS - Click Here & Here

 

Project CARS is the first Playstation 4 title to support Sony's Project Morpheus virtual reality headset - Click Here

 

Several new track licenses have been finalized - Click Here

 

Support for head tracking devices like TrackIR has been added - Click Here

 

Lukas Mensik is currently busy improving Project CARS' particle system for improved smoke and other effects - Click Here

 

Plenty of changes & improvements have been introduced to the shadow system as well - Click Here

 

Kevin Boland is currently working on overhauling the camera system, paving the way for user-creatable camera sets - Click Here

 

Our Art Director Darren White has checked in new climate settings for various tracks, further refining Project CARS dynamic time of day system - Click Here

 

Stuart Hunt has completed plenty of work on Project CARS career mode functionality as outlined in several detailed status reports - Click Here

 

Our physics coders have recently added lots of cool new features, including active aerodynamic devices, boost & KERS - Click Here

 

The Oreca 03 LMP2 prototype has been added and is now ready for a test drive - Click Here

 

Another new addition, the BMW 320 Group 5 will soon be coming to the newest development builds - Click Here

 

The BMW M1 Coupe, Oreca 03 LMP2, Ford Mustang Cobra SCCA Trans Am & Ginetta G40 Junior are now paintable as templates have been released - [/url]

 

Our Handling Consultant Nicolas Hamilton has been extremely busy, providing several very insightful feedback blogs - Click Here, Here & Here

 

Audi works driver Rene Rast has shared some very informative feedback on the Audi R8 LMS - Click Here

 

Based on all the excellent physics feedback, plenty of physics improvements for various cars have been checked in - Click Here

 

You Want More Progress Reports?

 

For daily progress reports from our busy development team, make sure to check out the all-new progress threads linked below!

 

Base Coding | Render Coding | App/Gameplay Coding | Online Coding | Tools Coding | Audio | Characters/Animation | AI | Physics | UI | Tracks | Vehicles |

 

Content Previews

 

Cars

 

Daniel Karlsson is plugging away on the interior of the Ginetta G40 Junior - Click Here

 

AO & body deformations have been added to the 2013 Ford Mustang Boss 302R1 - Click Here

 

Perran Truran is making great progress on the 2013 Mclaren P1 as plenty of great-looking previews show - Click Here

 

The 2013 Mercedes Benz A45 AMG is coming together quickly in the skilled hans of JF Bouchard - Click Here

Jan Frischkorn has finished the UV mapping on the Lotus 72D Formula One car - Click Here

 

Plenty of livery-related work on the 2013 Ruf RGT-8 has been completed as a full set of liveries has been checked in - Click Here

 

Gustavo Olivera is busy on the 2014 Renault Megane RS road car - Click Here

 

Meanwhile, Ricardo Machuca is making plenty of excellent progress on the 2014 Renault Clio IV RS Cup car - Click Here

 

Ralph Hummerich has been busy texturing new rims for the 2013 Audi R8 V10 Plus - Click Here

 

Modeling of the 1972 Ford Escort RS1600 has finished as Jaroslav Turna has handed over the car for further progress - Click Here

 

Tracks

 

Ben Anderton is hard at work refining the foliage around the iconic Nürburgring Nordschleife - Click Here

 

Loire is making great progress in the hands of several track artists - Click Here

 

Luis Barata is making plenty of excellent progress on several layouts of Snetterton - Click Here

 

New features & fixes have been added to California Highway - Click Here

 

Meanwhile, plenty of new trackside objects have been added to Project CARS' other point to point track, Azure Coast - Click Here

 

Michal Jeschke is working on the Summerton Kart Track - Click Here

 

Michal has also been busy on another kart track as the Spa Francorchamps Kart Circuit is receiving plenty of polish as well - Click Here

 

New improvements for Dubai Autodrome based on the latest feedback have been checked in - Click Here

 

James Kett is now working his magic on Lakeville Raceway, adding plenty of visual polish to the American venue - Click Here

 

James has also finished his polishing work on Oschersleben as you can see in plenty of great-looking previews - Click Here

 

New trackside objects are being placed around Moravia - Click Here

 

The wet track setup and plenty of new details & improvements have been added to Besos - Click Here

 

Martin Franek has been working on plenty of great-looking trackside objects that will be placed around various circuits - Click Here

 

Fixes & Updates

 

Doug Arnao has checked in new AIWs for Besos, Dubai & Snetterton - Click Here

 

New sounds for the Lotus 49, Audi R8 LMS and Audi R8 V10 Plus have been checked in - Click Here

 

Martin Olivera is busy with LOD work on the RWD P30 LMPrototype - Click Here

 

LOD work has also started on the 1988 Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth Group A - Click Here

 

Camber animations have been added to the Lotus 78 Formula One car - Click Here

 

The 2011 Gumpert Apollo Sport has gotten his camber animations done as well - Click Here

 

Vicko Hazdovac is working on the LODS of the Ginetta G55 GT3 - Click Here

 

Get Involved!

 

Help to collect vehicle descriptions for audio car introductions - Click Here

 

Submit your best track screenshots to be used as track loading screens - Click Here

 

Make sure to regularly check out the newest Car Physics Focus Testing Events and report your feedback! - Click Here

 

Help test the career mode's first touring discipline, the Megane EuroCup - Click Here

 

Submit your Top 3 screenshots into our Project CARS Screenshot Portfolio - Click Here

 

Other

 

Timo Koskela has written up an extensive tutorial on how to edit cameras using the Tweak-It tool - Click Here

 

Jussi Karjalainen has released a new version of his Simple Setup Tool, including a neat instruction video - Click Here

 

Dan Blamey has put together some recommended settings for those using a gamepad to play Project CARS - Click Here

[Camel]

Are they going to fix the game for people who use gamepads? It wasn't too bad a while ago but I went on it recently and it's horrible. Seemed more like Project Jelly with how much the cars wobbled.

[Ozzmcom]

Are they going to fix the game for people who use gamepads? It wasn't too bad a while ago but I went on it recently and it's horrible. Seemed more like Project Jelly with how much the cars wobbled.

 

it was like that with the wheel too. I turned on stability control on and physics turned to normal.

[Ryzza5]

Did you click the last link there Camel?

Given 95% of the target players won't have a wheel I'm sure they'll eventually take a look at gamepads ;)

[Loz]

With the last few updates that i've tried, pCars seems to be comming into its own now. Force Feedback seems to be a lot better than what I played last too.

[Ryzza5]

Read something interesting today. In the Video Settings there is an option for Render Frames Ahead which defaults to 2. If you have a powerful PC you can sacrifice ~10% of performance to further reduce any perceived wheel input lag to make things nice and sharp'n'snappy. I haven't tried it yet though.

[Ryzza5]

 

We'll save double rainbows and moonbows for pcars 2 :) For now here's a screen drops update.

 

Still need to:

- Add high speed drop shake

- Add to all cams on open top cars

- Increase drop amount when behind other cars or at rumble points

- Add UI hook so we can make on/offable for different cams (trackside, external, internal)

- Possibly add a size curve to exaggerate the initial impact

- Drops hitting sound?

 

 

First pass (draft) of Oculus Rift support is now in

 

 

 

 

SMS are looking for WMD help with making the icons (graphics) for career mode: WMD Forum

[Ryzza5]

Cool GIF

 

[Ryzza5]

^No likes? :(

 

 

If anyone has an X360 pad they want to test:

 

May I kindly ask all of you to test:

 

filtering: 0

deadzone: 0

sensitivity: 60

speed sensitivity: 5

 

it will still feel a bit jerky, as smoothing and the countersteer effect still has to be implemented (in fact it already is implemented for local tests and results are very promising .. but there is one more thing before it may go public), but it is very responsive, you only need to push the stick a little bit, whilst it is still precise.

 

Reasonable ranges for changes are:

Sensitivity: 40 - 70

Speed sensitivity: 0 -20

 

PLEASE APPLY CHANGES ONLY IF ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.

In this case I'm really interested in your opinion about THESE SETTINGS.

Please give it some time and start with very gentle pressure on the stick.

It is best to spend some time just standing and getting the feel of steering.

 

Edit: I see settings by F31Y4 fit into range ... except deadzone ... nice!

 

And pass your feedback here: WMD Forum

 

The best settings found (that work for all cars) can then be made default in the game. Don't forget to delete your profile folder and start afresh with new builds.

[superhyper]

I should probs get on and test it :hmmm:

[Ozzmcom]

whatever happened to our leaderboard challenges?

[Ryzza5]

pyrre kept winning.

 

Feel free to start it back up. Just remember there are ghosts now so we can see you cheat :D

[Ozzmcom]

pyrre kept winning.

 

Feel free to start it back up. Just remember there are ghosts now so we can see you cheat :D

we can create classes like lemans

like pyrre and rest of turboduck