Patch update #25: Trailers

What's New

• Added car trailers

• Added new truck trailers

• Added trailer selection to the vehicle card

Performance

• Reduced UI overhead

• Optimised the Lakeside Hill map

• Fixed HUD unnecessary memory allocation

• Fixed log stack trace overhead

Vehicle Physics

• Improved wheel lateral friction forces

• Improved Ackermann steering angles

• Adjusted the torque converter capacity for cars

Maps

• Improved lighting and reflections on all maps

• Added vibration on a cobble stone surface

• Improved road textures on the Lakeside Hill map

• Improved road geometry here and there

Vehicles

• Set interior camera as default

• Improved car paint materials

Input

• Removed keyboard and gamepad steering capping depending on vehicle speed

• Adjusted the dead zone of a gamepad

• Extended DirectInput device support

• Improved Logitech G29 support

• Added custom actions for special scenarios

UI

• Improved vehicle preview images

• Added power and torque plot to the engine card

• Removed unused tabs in the menu

• Improved the loading screen

Artificial Intelligence

• Extended the AI system by adding special behaviours and goals (work in progress - new AI features will be added in the next updates)

Other

• The VR mode is now launched after loading a map

• Improved error handling

• Added vehicle input data to the plugin SDK