3DSimed V2.6 Released

Dave Noonan · **Posted:** Mon Nov 16, 2009 4:22 pm

Version 2.6 includes support for NFS Shift cars and tracks. There is a new option to render using OpenGL Fragment Programs for those video drivers that do not support OpenGL GLSL, (which includes many netbooks and notebooks).
On top of that, there's a new Edit->Paste Vertices command; more texture channel editing; a Material Report function; import of V8 SuperStars models; and a number of other enhancements and bug fixes.

There's also a new Demo version with a fresh 30 day period even if you have had an earlier demo.

Full details, a patch to update existing users to 2.6, and the new Demo are at http://www.sim-garage.co.uk

Cheers!

Dave Noonan

Aus-RiceEyes · **Posted:** Mon Nov 16, 2009 4:47 pm

Thanks Dave.

TCR_500 · **Joined:** Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:49 pm **Posts:** 549

Nice improvements.

ffsbudman · **Posted:** Mon Nov 16, 2009 10:06 pm

WOW !! Sooner than I expected. THANKS Dave !!

PEACE

Tortue G · **Posted:** Tue Nov 17, 2009 4:35 am

Thanks!, I will try this to see what's new!

Thanks for your work :wink:

!

Tortue G · **Posted:** Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:34 am

markus wrote:

btw, a prob with all 2.x simed versions and some race on tracks (eg. okayama): last texture stage isn't loaded (eg. add/mul/mul). shader setting is displayed correctly in the material editor, but texturename is missing, and there are no mapping values for this channel.

Right, I noticed this on the Okayama track, 3DSimED 2.5 lose values for the last map of the multi-textured materials... I don't know if it's happens on other tracks...

Dave Noonan · **Posted:** Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:28 pm

This is going to be a difficult fix because it would appear that at some tracks in Race On the material parameters have been set to incorrect values. Okayama in Race On has many 'mistakes' but Road America does not. Whatever the reason, I will put together a fix for the next version.

Cheers!

Dave N.

markus wrote:

btw, a prob with all 2.x simed versions and some race on tracks (eg. okayama): last texture stage isn't loaded (eg. add/mul/mul). shader setting is displayed correctly in the material editor, but texturename is missing, and there are no mapping values for this channel.

markus ;-)

Dave Noonan · **Posted:** Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:45 pm

Some are reporting stablility issues with 2.6.

This is so important to sort out that I have moved some posts from this thread to http://thepits.us/board/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=15305. Hopefully, this will help in getting some clarity on the issue.

Cheers!

Dave N.

CodeF1 · **Joined:** Mon Jun 02, 2008 4:09 pm **Posts:** 16

Dave when I try to import a V8 Superstars .bin file the program crashes and close on me. It happens right after I have selected the .bin file and clicked on the "open" button. I am running Vista 32bit, 4GB RAM and Nvidia 9600 GT.

Dave Noonan · **Posted:** Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:19 pm

I've just re-checked and there seems to be no problem here (also Vista 32bit).
Just to be sure do you get any result with Tracks\Tracks\Adria\Adria.bin ??.

Cheers!

Dave

CodeF1 wrote:

Dave when I try to import a V8 Superstars .bin file the program crashes and close on me. It happens right after I have selected the .bin file and clicked on the "open" button. I am running Vista 32bit, 4GB RAM and Nvidia 9600 GT.

CodeF1 · **Joined:** Mon Jun 02, 2008 4:09 pm **Posts:** 16

Sorry Dave was my fault. I had a bad bin file that I copied - worked fine last night. Thanks for adding the V8 Superstars support.

One question though. Why is it that the road surface is not there sometimes on an import? It is just a gap between the grass.

JusTiCe8 · **Posted:** Thu Nov 19, 2009 5:00 am

Hi,

I have not done lots of testing yet but it's works fine for me, I mean I haven't encounter OpenGL issues (win xp sp3 fr on a Acer 8390 laptop with nvidia 9600 MGT). New material report feature looks good, thanks for it.
The only issue I found is about opening 3DSimED by double clicking on an object, 3DSimED is launched but there is a system error (file not found), further drag and drop or double click works as expected.

Regards.

Dave Noonan · **Posted:** Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:13 pm

The code cannot determine the transparency of the materials so, to be safe, the Transparency Blend is set to 'Auto'. For materials such as road surfaces you will have to set them to 'None' by hand.

Cheers!

Dave N.

CodeF1 wrote:

One question though. Why is it that the road surface is not there sometimes on an import? It is just a gap between the grass.

CodeF1 · **Joined:** Mon Jun 02, 2008 4:09 pm **Posts:** 16

Make sense - thanks Dave!

Cheers. :wink:

YODA · **Joined:** Mon Nov 10, 2008 5:22 pm **Posts:** 3

first thing : thanks dave for the add of the bin file

for information ,the .bin import also work fine with sbk09 tracks .
sk08 is not supported but the files formats extracted with the luigi auriema tool remain the same ,.bin, same "problem" with the motogp tracks who is a .bin file too

possible to add this others game to the 3d simed supported game ??

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