Patch update #26: City Driving

What's New

• Added traffic offence detection
• Added country-specific traffic rules and road signs
• Added many performance optimisations
• Expanded the AI traffic system

Artificial Intelligence

• Improved AI vehicle goal selection and path generation
• Ensured that AI vehicles select a correct lane on an intersection
• Enabled AI vehicles outside the city centre (Lakeside Hill map)
• Reduced the probability of deadlocks
• Increased AI vehicle speed

Vehicle Physics

• Added gear P for the PRND gearbox
• Improved automatic gear change logic
• Improved the torque curves of selected engines

Vehicles

• Added a new Volvo coach bus
• Added a new tandem trailer
• Added complete sets of mirrors to trucks
• Improved body and suspension parameters of several vehicles

Maps

• Extended AI space in the Windridge City map
• Improved roads and buildings on the Lakeside Hill map
• Added Polish, French, and British road signs
• Enabled left-handed traffic

Visuals

• Improved materials and reflections
• Improved post-process rendering
• Improved resolution scaling (sharpening)
• Improved Temporal Antialiasing quality

Performance

• Reduced CPU use of the AI system
• Optimised rendering of far objects
• Optimised mirror rendering
• Optimised building geometry
• Optimised forests and grass rendering

Input

• Redesigned the controls panel
• Added input signal filtering
• Added Stream Deck integration
• Improved steering wheels compatibility

UI

• Added vehicle trailer load settings (in the vehicle selection panel)
• Added mirror calibration panel (during runtime)
• Added vehicle parameter panel (during runtime)
• Improved translations

Fixes

• Fixed light flashes
• Fixed destructible object state in replays
• Small sound effect adjustments

Other

• Added D-Box motion platform integration
• Added DynaSim motion platform integration
• Added TrackIR head tracking integration
• Added support for multiple DLL plugins
• Updated plugin SDK