rFactor 2 – Portugal International (Estoril) V2.0 released

Image Space Incorporated admitted that their Portugal International track (Estoril) for rFactor 2 was plagued with unusually bad performance and heavy stuttering.

The ISI development team decided to tackle the performance problems and at the same time give the track a full face-lift resulting in the 2.0 version of the track. After some hard work, racing on the updated rFactor 2 Estoril circuit will result in a very smooth experience compared to the earlier versions.

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Changelog:

• Implemented RealRoad Shader and reworked/remapped roads
• Added RealRoad to curbs
• Mapped RaceGroove for GP and GT Layouts
• Remapped access roads
• Remapped painted lines
• Smoothed out the excessive road bumps for the most part
• Lowered sawtooth curbs
• Remapped curbs and adjusted texture to match the sawtooth profile (has some small UV glitches)
• Cut Astroturf into terrain meshes
• Implemented new Terrain Shader and reworked/remapped terrain
• Cut in new gravel trap edges for use with Terrain Shader
• New road, curb and terrain texture set
• Terrain Radiosity pass
• Added grass verges
• Added high poly inner embankments inside T1-T4
• Added high poly outer embankment between T6-T7
• Added terrain shadow casters
• Added vegetation shadow casters
• Added new grid + new texture
• Vertex Blended tyre colours
• Added normal and spec maps to armco posts
• Cut in transparent glass with cheap interior for key buildings
• Repopulated RefMap0, ReflectedEnv and Static01 reflection maps with performance in mind
• Implemented Digital Flags technology
• Applied super precise inertia for movable tyre stacks based on rF2’s tyre model calculations
• Updated TDF to latest set of grip values
• Added telehandlers
• Added new loading screens
• Added Test Team RealRoad Preset Pack
• Removed one particularly nasty tyre wall on GP Layout
• Removed HDR Profiles
• Fixed small building proportion inaccuracy
• Re-conformed painted stripes to smoothed surface
• Fixed tire wall smoothing
• Fixed some access road T verts
• Remapped start lights to match reality
• Fixed many but probably not all popups
• Re-exported XSectors to fix 32 bit issues
• Re-exported the handful of GMTs that weren’t touched to 2.52 format using gJED
• Slightly reduced z-fighting of vegetation, also resulting in a tiny performance gainR
• renamed Grand Prix of Portugal to GP Layout for the sake of consistencyRepla
• ced all trackside vehicles with higher detail ones (Team Trucks, Rescue Vehicles, Cars)
• Replaced all modular grandstands with higher detail ones
• Replaced apex tyre stacks to GT Layout with higher detail ones
• Replaced outhouses with much better ones
• Replaced tyre walls with higher detail ones
• Replaced all cones with much better models
• Replaced glass materials
• Replaced entire crowd and optimized for smoother performance
• Optimized road and terrain objects and materials for better and smoother performance
• Optimized access roads for smoother performance
• Optimized tyre wall material
• Optimized tyre wall objects
• Optimized 3D tyre objects
• Optimized fence textures and materials for better performance
• Optimized Armco (aggressive), Armco posts and fence posts
• Optimized and improved barriers (Armco, pitwall)
• Optimized all vegetation objects for smoother performance
• Optimized smaller TrackSide Objects for smoother performance
• Optimized shadow casters for armco and tyres for better performance
• Optimized small concrete grandstands
• Removed some hardly-seen pit objects
• Aggressive mirror optimization
• Optimized night lighting
• Removed unused/obsolete meshes and textures
• Cleaned up pit building textures
• Cleaned up main grandstand textures
• Removed negative mip map bias on all/most materials
• Improved and rebalanced all vegetation textures
• Remapped and optimized marshal huts
• Improved road and curb textures
• Randomized vegetation a bit
• Remapped tire wall canvas and revamped its texture
• Improved tire textures
• Slightly improved distance markers
• Updated crowd textures
• Improved vegetation textures
• Cut in red bricks on old ruin house
• Re-scaled T3 flags
• Tweaked fog
• Condensed this changelog (yes, it was much larger)!

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