Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game News

With this patch we're addressing a whole bunch of stability issues that seem to have cropped up with 4.2.31, and also just in general add lots of extra polish and tweaks.

We're approaching the public, main branch release of LCV4.2, and this patch should clear out a fair few hurdles to get there.

[h3]LCV4.2.32 Fixes & Improvements[/h3]

• Improved the campaign hub engine production warnings to be variant specific
  
• Added rear chassis morph slider in advance trim settings
  
• Added mod name to mod body tooltip
  
• Added field to show percentage of preorders lost from adjusting the price in hub forecaster
  
• Added mod animatics
  
• Added Advanced Trim Widgets to allow custom widgets for manipulating fixtures & other data
  
• Tweaked compression progression vs octane requirements for high compression ratios
  
• Tweaked effects of AFR related exhaust gas temperature cooling
  
• Tweaked behavior of morph slider UI
  
• Fixed "Clone models and corresponding trims" button causing issues when deleting cloned cars
  
• Fixed inconsistent desirability based on save reload
  
• Fixed Lua error after deleting a trim in campaign and opening another trim
  
• Fixed Lua errors when changing model body on car with multiple trims
  
• Fixed forecaster button not being disabled for incomplete trims
  
• Fixed model body selection breaking calculations until another setting was changed
  
• Fixed closing the Create a New Car Project popup taking you to a blank screen
  
• Fixed issue with recall tooltip reference being mixed up
  
• Fixed filters for Markets being possible to set to no country
  
• Fixed engine testing not updating the flow bench
  
• Fixed FR cars sometimes showing red engine arrows when selecting an engine
  
• Fixed decimal places being shown for sales numbers
  
• Fixed UI not correctly displaying valve float error in some situations
  
• Fixed potential car sales not being summed but averaged for multiple selected regions
  
• Fixed situation with production forecaster breaking and giving NaNs
  
• Fixed MP_CustomPaint_MaterialExample not having material export settings

We'll continue work on this version with release candidates as we go forward. Your feedback and reports are much appreciated.

Cheers!

A small patch that is focused on the saving, exporting, and importing of cars. Now it is also possible to directly export your cars from your campaign playthrough to the sandbox, making your in-context lore creations easier to preserve.

[h3]LCV4.2.31 Fixes & Improvements[/h3]

• Added export to sandbox button in campaign museum section
  
• Fixed in-production forecaster breaking and giving NaNs
  
• Fixed engines not showing the first time a trim was loaded
  
• Fixed new sandbox variants always defaulting to 2012
  
• Fixed a few lua errors resulting from deleting or opening imported .cars before a game restart
  
• Fixed UI closing when importing .cars and clicking to subscribe to a single car's mods
  
• Fixed photoscene resolution not loading correctly
  
• Fixed animatics not exporting & renamed output mp4 files to include car name
  
• Fixed tire speed letter using gearing top speed instead of calculated top speed in tooltip
  
• Fixed cooling flaps not actually calling their calculations

More fixes and general polish is on its way before we wrap up LCV4.2.
Cheers!

We're continuing to polish up this big update getting closer to release. Here we've added one of the last missing dependencies to the new engine designer calculations which now takes into account the effects of fuel cooling various surfaces inside the combustion chamber and with that a lower chance to pre-ignite the air-fuel mixture. From our ongoing testing of reference engines (comparing IRL engines to them recreated in the game) it does look like we're now really close!

[h3]LCV4.2.30 Changes & Improvements[/h3]

• Implemented AFR dependent combustion chamber cooling effects on octane use / knock
  
• Tweaked carb flows and manifold / header resonance curves
  
• Fixed bug in engine friction calculations
  
• Fixed several issues with cloning a trim or variant in sandbox causing the techpool to reset or break
  
• Fixed hard-crash when clicking delete key before a fixture is placed
  
• Fixed lua error when exporting cars from campaign
  
• Fixed some duplicate piping on MFI Inline Throttle Per Cylinder
  
• Fixed scaled-up text fixtures from appearing low-resolution at times
  
• Improved native resolution animatic export times by an order of magnitude
  
• Added random name generation for engine families
  
• Removed some clattering sounds from V6 exhaust sound
  
• Fixed duplicate nuts on air filters

From here we plan to continue our bug fixing and general polishing until it is ready to put this out on the default branch. It has been a loooong time coming.

Cheers!

A quick fix for the exporter sound issues, as well a few other things - have a look!

[h3]LCV4.2.29 Hotfix[/h3]

• Fixed exporter sound issues
  
• Added unbalanced warning to engines that die at or below idle, previously showing wrong warning
  
• Partially rolled back company value changes but fixed several bugs with the old logic
  
• Fixed changing model bodies in sandbox not updating all trims of that model
  
• Fixed graph loading spinners never closing when an engine fails to produce zero power
  
• Fixed lua error when switching engine position and drive type becomes unavailable
  
• Fixed $0 cash 100x difficulty exploit on new campaigns that have factories
  
• Fixed "Pause Trim Orders" button not working when a trim was in production
  
• Temporarily disabled AI tuning turbo engines & mentioned this on the AI tune button

More coming!
Cheers

The first hotfix for the week, taking care of a lot of little and large issues (missing exporter sounds!) and comes with a lot of updates to the exporter too.

Now possible: copy all fixtures from one car to the other, then scale and move them as a whole.

[h3]Version 4.2.28 Hotfix[/h3]

• Added advance trim settings to allow moving all fixtures or scaling all fixture relative positions to fit different bodies. Allows to copy fixtures between different cars and make them fit.
  
• Added tutorial screen to pause menu & added more video links
  
• Adjusted credit score calculation for loan repayment costs instead of total value
  
• Fixed drive type list allowing selection of drive types that the engine is too large for
  
• Improved AI engine tuning
  
• Fixed colour picker hex text box not culling trailing and leading white spaces
  
• Fixed suspension textboxes acting incorrectly with imperial measurements
  
• Fixed swaybar stiffness text box

[h3]Version 4.2.28 Exporter Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed BeamNG exporter not exporting with sounds after the first export in a session
  
• Implemented clutch LSDs
  
• Implemented reciprocating ball steering
  
• Fixed typo in the front solid axle suspension brake power slider title
  
• Added support for custom gauge light materials
  
• Removed old aerodynamics model
  
• Added camera offset sliders
  
• Added support for digital race screens

Lots more to do this week.
Cheers!