Big rewrite

Thank you so much for your patience! After the last update, I finally decided to upgrade my hardware, and after that, I discovered that I can finally do things like recompile the entire project in just a couple of minutes (right now, Custom Shaders Patch is around 500k lines of code, so on my old laptop it was quite an undertaking). Finally, I could rewrite things properly! Unfortunately, however, I kept digging deeper and deeper, so it took quite a bit longer than I anticipated. And even this build is not quite ready: there are definitely some bugs still, and I’m still working on getting things to run smoother and more reliable. However, it seems to run pretty decently in most cases, so please give it a test and let us know what you think!

While most of the changes are under the hood, there are still a bunch of new changes I’d like to highlight. One such change is fully rearranged settings. With version bump to 0.3, I thought I can be a bit less strict on keeping things the same, so I took the liberty of moving some things around. Now, all the settings are arranged in groups, so it should be easier to find the thing you’re looking for (also, the new CM update should be able to search in CSP settings as well).

If you often use hotlap, especially with ghost enabled, check out the new “Multiple ghosts” option (it’s enabled by default). With it, you’ll be able to see all the recent and best laps in-game and choose between them, filtering them by tires and car (it allows to load ghosts set in different cars as well). It’ll load performance delta data, lap and sector times and more.

Or, if you ever wanted a ghost, for example, for pair drifting, there is a new feature now too, a new mode called “Revenant” (as in, ghostier ghost). Select it, choose a race, load a race a bind a button: once pressed, it’ll start recording all of your actions and then, when pressed again, it’ll materialize a car recreating it, but unlike an old ghost, it’ll be an actual car, with all the visual effects, collisions and such. It’ll even show up in a replay as a proper car. It actually uses replay data to mirror one car onto another, so make sure to set replay recording duration to something reasonable.

In other notable changes, the new main menu is now active by default, there is a new option for a fancier looking UI, default Weather FX style got a big update for its clouds, exclusive fullscreen have been replaced with a better modern alternative, and VR got a bunch of fixes as well. Here is the full changelog. And, according to both our’s and Peter Boese’s (creator of the wonderful Pure weather system) measurements, it should run noticeably faster, even on Linux.

Please try the new update and let us know what you think! And I’ll work on fixing the remaining issues and getting this thing ready for the public update. Thank you for the incredible support!