Automation: The Car Company Tycoon Game

Gameplay Changes

• Added turbo presets (needs a finished engine before they can be applied)
  
• Taught the AI (in car generation) how to build turbo engines
  
• Added valve float dependence on boost for FI engines
  
• Tweaked cam & springs sliders' effects on valvetrain friction
  
• Extended effective range for springs slider, allowing for lower and higher values
  
• Implemented springs and cam profile sliders effect on loudness
  
• Implemented springs and cam profile slider effect on reliability
  
• Implemented springs effect on operational smoothness
  
• Limited availability of twin-scroll turbos to certain configurations
  
• Fixed sportiness calcs using old body drag values instead of the new dynamic ones

Art Fixes

• Fixed MFI on V engines is missing meshes
  
• Fixed rod sticking out of turbo internals, and wobbly compressor wheel
  
• Fixed rear wheel solid disks missing rotors
  
• Fixed timing belts and chains
  
• Fixed default steel wheels looking wack in 80's photo scene
  
• Fixed some grill materials that warped badly
  
• Fixed RTX Ambient Occlusion not handling indented fixtures correctly with some settings
  
• Fixed twinscrolls not glowing as bright as the rest of the exhaust assembly
  
• Removed 60sSedan03 because it sucked and there are plenty of other period options
  
• Fixed turbo race headers missing on Inline 5 engines

UI & Tech

• Fixed fixture favourites not rendering correctly in fixture UI
  
• Improved fixture paint UI performance
  
• Added fixture material name system. More fixtures will be named later.
  
• Fixed 3D transform widget showing only 0 for rotation / position in photo scene on props or cars
  
• Fixed fixture material previews being borked
  
• Photo manager now changes tabs when switching between cars / props with tab or mouse
  
• Fixed updating of engine thumbnail images
  
• Fixed 'fixture highlighting' toggle in fixture menu not persisting selecting fixtures on a car
  
• Fixed fixtures not selecting if they only contain a skeletal mesh
  
• Fixed mirrored fixtures not hiding when chosen to be hidden in photoscenes and the designers
  
• Engine manager now remembers sorting to fix ordering
  
• Fixed memory issues with Active Mod viewer causing crashes
  
• Fixed drag is not being shown correctly / calculated for car body stats
  
• Fixed fixtures always ticking, even if you're in the main menu
  
• Fixed turbo graphs not being removed from graph switcher when an NA engine is selected
  
• Fixed fixture paints becoming disconnected to the slot they're tied to

BeamNG Exporter Improvements

• Introduced new fully-revamped aerodynamics model [WIP]
  
• Added various new tuning menu sliders:
  - Front and rear brake power multipliers
  - Ride height offset
  - Camber (double wishbone, multilink, pushrod suspension only)
  - Afterfire modifier
  - Particulates modifier
  - Front and rear suspension offsets
  - Front and rear wing angle
  - Max steering angle multiplier
  
• Cars with Launch Control now export with a Two-Step controller
  
• Added basic suspension spring compression sound
  
• Engine sound now comes from the exhaust
  
• Transmissions now get generated names
  
• Fixed wheel hubs breaking too easily
  
• Renamed wheel hub nodes to match the BeamNG convention
  
• Fixed chrome and potentially other materials exporting with max dirtiness/scratching

Modding

• Added the ability to add custom paint materials to fixture material lists
  
• Added duplicate-UID check to rim preview generation

General Fixes

• Fixed various issues with undo / redo system
  
• Fixed fixture UI not clearing when displaying rim category
  
• Fixed issues with switching between fixtures with < and >
  
• Fixed a few fixture materials being identical
  
• Fixed fixture reflectors being turned on by default
  
• Fixed invisible headers on V6 transverse engines
  
• Fixed taillight fixtures having names
  
• Optimized car saving times

BeamNG Exporter Changes

• Added ability to export all fixtures as unbreakable (will break wings until the new model is added)
  
• Added "Additional Modification" slot for better mod support
  
• Changed wheel / suspension hierarchy
  
• Changed fuel tanks to spawn full
  
• Fixed ESC options not exporting
  
• Fixed 4x4 toggle not working
  
• Fixed some metal materials missing their export parameters

General Fixes & Improvements

• Implemented a completely new undo / redo stack system which has much better performance
  
• Implemented an Active Mods overview in the main menu of the game
  
• Added front and rear wheelbase offsets to move axles via advanced trim settings
  
• Improved fixture UI speed & switching fixture speed on high-fixture count cars
  
• Improved performance of fixture saving to lua, especially on high-fixture cars
  
• Improved loading logic for bodies / fixtures to not get stuck when Steam doesn't report back
  
• Changed AWD power split default settings to be more usable out of the box
  
• Rebalanced engine family head vs. top end tab option costs ET, PU, M$
  
• Fixed top end tab quality being for free when VVT None was selected
  
• Fixed seat body filters allowing over-scroll with mouse wheel
  
• Fixed an occasional crash coming from turbos producing NaN data
  
• Fixed a hard crash related to market calcs when dragging family capacity sliders for a bit
  
• Fixed reverting a held car after changing the body resulting in a scrunched car body
  
• Fixed mirrored text fixtures not exporting to BeamNG

Turbo Fixes

• Fixed turbo failure states not working correctly
  
• Fixed twin-scroll turbo performance typo giving it magic powers
  
• Fixed issue in calculations handling massively mismatched flow vs. turbo flow
  
• Fixed smart boost functionality producing weird, non-optimal results in early spool
  
• Added fuel system (pressure) and headers (temperature and pressure) curves to graphs
  
• Minor adjustments to turbo tooltip texts

Content & Art

• New 1993 unlock car bodies
  
• New 1988 unlock car bodies
  
• Many, many new rims, former JohnDoe1974 mod
  
• Touch-up/remake of the Mako car bodies
  
• Deleted name labels from most recent headlight and indicator additions
  
• Added intercooler and intercooler pipe connector fixtures
  
• Fixed issues with Boxer configuration intakes
  
• Fixed non muffled V and Boxer engines not connect their exhaust pipes in single exhaust config
  
• Fixed some adapters not getting painted if they are not part of engine head
  
• Fixed fixture stamping issues on 65_XMB_Hatch

Modding

• Fixed generating car thumbnails generates red rims
  
• Fixed not being able to create rim preview files

Improvements & Additions

• Cleaned up, remade, improved, or otherwise fixed, all custom paints
  
• Implemented header and fuel system flow dependencies into the turbo calculations
  
• Implemented separated turbo and header temperature resistances
  
• Added header melting failure state
  
• Added calculation (turbos) for how fuel evaporation cools of the intake charge
  
• Tweaked VGT turbo range to be shifted a bit towards higher flows
  
• Improved graph data loading performance

General Fixes

• Fixed cross-car fixture merging
  
• Fixed rapidly saving .car files causing fixture nuking
  
• Fixed fuel selections not updating engine results when changed
  
• Fixed AKI fuel view showing tuned fuel octane to be -5 by default
  
• Fixed catalytic converters being able to run with leaded fuel
  
• Fixed held engine not showing previous engine config in power & torque graphs
  
• Fixed fender morphs on all 08_us_ body style variants
  
• Fixed 70sCoupe02Convertible being hidden inside it's model and multiple issues with it

LCV4.2.7 General Fixes & Improvements

• Added art for turbo race tubular manifolds [WIP]
  
• Added options to custom paints for relative and global texture scaling
  
• Remade the V60 MPFI / DI manifolds
  
• DRLs now have a toggle button and brightness slider in light controls UI
  
• Fixed issues with material / paint selection menus
  
• Fixed highlights on top of shiny objects in photoscenes with the overcast time of day
  
• Fixed photo scene having excessive bloom by default
  
• Fixed balance shaft setting being sticky on changing of engine configurations
  
• Fixed the model year not updating the stored engine year which resulted in weird engine years
  
• Fixed scaling fixtures along the car axis resulting in a snap to center
  
• Fixed car light sliders defaulting to 0, they initialize with a value of 50

General Fixes

• Game engine got updated to its second patch version, UE4.27.2
  
• Decreased game launcher height so it fits on smaller resolution screens
  
• Fixed possible way to fixture nuke two cars simultaneously with undo and cause "jello cars"
  
• Turned off the export cars button from the pause menu as it is a suspected source of car nukings
  
• Fixed fixture state that can result in destroying fixture positions on body morphs
  
• Fixed fixture conforming to the car while it is being dragged around costing lots of performance
  
• Fixed fixture text not respecting the 3D mode non-conforming
  
• Fixtures no longer cut out seams that they are placed over
  
• Fixed cases of extreme bloom when using minimal bloom settings
  
• Fixed not being able to turn off motion blur in settings
  
• Fixed engine family quality slider not updating engine stats if the engine is in a car
  
• Fixed every engine supposedly needing Magnesium Works
  
• Optimized competitor lookup performance
  
• Added some logging to help debug a start up crash
  
• Big performance increase for high-fixture-count cars

Gameplay

• Fully fleshed out stats for the various intake options
  
• Tweaked intake flow limits and made compact intake more viable
  
• Tweaked cam progression tfor more usable range, cam 0 is now = 15, 100 still is = 120
  
• Reduced quality effects on baseline NA torque to make more realistic Nm/L figures
  
• Fixed entertainment weights being way too high
  
• Tweaked all fuel system prices
  
• Added a dashed "base NA equivalent" line to the power torque graph for turbocharged engines
  
• Tweaked flow reductions of all muffler types and catalytic converters
  
• Fixed loudness inconsistency in intake options

Turbos

• Added twin-scroll turbos
  
• Added race tubular turbo headers option (graphics not in yet, but next patch!)
  
• Added much more cam dependence into turbo spool point
  
• Revised intake & header resonance effects to be more realistic
  
• Revised spool behavior based on turbo size
  
• Tweaked compressor map progression to not require as much quality for modern turbos
  
• Tweaked turbo AR ratio progression with Tune slider

Design, Art, Content

• Added a ruler fixture for all your measuring needs
  
• Fixed engine bay sizes on 11_Eu_Super families which were too small
  
• Fixed body material issues with 10scoupe02large and 10scoup02_large_convH
  
• Fixed 10sCoupe02 Series and 00s_Van_Lowroof that got corrupted for 4.2.4
  
• Fixed custom paints having incorrect sizes when applied to scaled fixtures
  
• Fixed very poor performance of Desert Gas Station photoscene
  
• Fixed extreme light strength in reflections in Modern Studio by default
  
• Fixed a bunch of weird / inconsistent seat row limitations for various car bodies
  
• Fixed cloth paint material scaling incorrectly with different objects

Modding

• Updated SteamWrosk SDK to 1.52 and addressed a startup crash
  
• Fixed numberplate material missing from SDK tools
  
• Added Steam workshop / exporter categories for rocker covers, props, and custom paints

General Fixes

• Imported .car files are now moved to CarSaveImport/Imported instead of being deleted
  
• Improved cam / VVL related engine sound changes
  
• Added unit conversion for temperature
  
• Fixed car exporting being broken due to Y2k22 bugs
  
• Fixed UI issues with trying to select / edit lower paint slot
  
• Fixed paint materials not updating the other material editing mode
  
• Fixed heavy duty conrods missing their art
  
• Fixed soft-top material scaling issues in exported cars
  
• Fixed issue with big performance drops for shadows higher than low setting for some players
  
• Fixed performance issues with modern design room
  
• Fixed issue with car importing to avoid weird designer states
  
• Fixed up missing turbo sounds that were not hooked up
  
• Fixed issue with turbos running off the compressor map towards zero efficiency
  
• Fixed issues caused by the right-most clone button in the car manager
  
• Fixed bug where importing cars can result in cars with no engine and broken engines
  
• Fixed clone family button being disabled when variants are selected in engine manager
  
• Fixed displayed seat rows being confusingly formatted in body choice UI
  
• Fixed the uv scale being incorrectly being calculated for the exporter
  
• Fixed disabling photo scrolling breaking image randomization
  
• Fixed paint tooltip not allowing clicking buttons when over timeline
  
• Fixed quality sliders causing issues when slid too fast
  
• Fixed window tint not exporting to BeamNG
  
• Fixed translation mappings for american spellings of colour
  
• Fixed some text fixtures not exporting their alpha channel

Modding Changes

• An Exporter SDK is now available!
  
• SDK updated to include the numberplate textures

Turbo Fixes & Improvements

• Revised turbo spooling characteristics, giving more realistic spool curves
  
• Implemented granular surge and mechanical stress models to turbos instead of being on/off
  
• Added cumulative surge and mechanical stress info into compressor map
  
• Turbo headers now affect temperature resistance and wastegate flow before boost creep
  
• Turbo quality now affects temperature resistance of turbos
  
• Fixed numeric stability issues in the turbo calculations
  
• Fixed a calculation issue with having an intercooler that is too small for the required flow
  
• Fixed calculation bug with having no intercooler

General Fixes

• Fixed the biggest sources of reported crashes with several fixes
  
• Fixed crash caused by texture fixtures
  
• Fixed game crashing when changing trims too quickly
  
• Potentially fixed instance of "fixture nuking" in connection with changing photoscenes
  
• Fixed cloning a trim not making a trim slot in some instances, causing cars to be broken
  
• Fixed inconsistency with landing position in model selection when reentering the page
  
• Fixed instance of infinite loading icon in the car designer
  
• Fixed changes to settings not applying and resetting to default values
  
• Fixed graphs flickering their data while scrubbing with the mouse
  
• Huge performance improvements to car & engine managers & car body selection UI
  
• Added missing material cost dependency for all quality sliders
  
• Fixed issues with family quality not affecting ET, PU, and M$
  
• Fixed car parts that need a factory addon pointing to engine factory magnesium works
  
• Fixed mid transverse unlocking in 1920 instead of 1962
  
• Fixed ignition timing not updating calculations
  
• Fixed issue with VVL unlocking based on family year instead of variant year
  
• Fixed tire profile calculation inconsistencies
  
• Fixed engine fill factor not showing

Art & Design Changes

• Added brake caliper rotation to advanced trim aesthetics
  
• Added wheel size matching buttons to wheel sections of advanced trim aesthetics
  
• Added mirror / locked icons to spawned fixture UI & improved fixture UI layout
  
• Added option for 1- or 2-wide spawned-fixture list, with optional fixture indexing
  
• Added lock fixture hotkey
  
• Fixed poor performance of 10s design room
  
• Fixed DCOE race heads inconsistently spawning with airbox pieces
  
• Fixed v60 MPFI/DI race throttle per cylinder missing trumpets
  
• Fixed some incorrect airboxes loading when changing from turbo back to non turbo configs
  
• Fixed paintable engine meshes to correctly support anisotropic materials
  
• Fixed fixture glass materials appearing faceted when put on rounded surfaces
  
• Fixed fixture glass materials not working nicely with ray-tracing
  
• Fixed z-fighting and overlapping geometry on Rim 100U
  
• Fixed dirt/wear values for car materials defaulting too high
  
• Fixed exhaust lod material issues that caused header plates to flash between colors
  
• Fixed double intakes spawning on 60 degree blocks with turbos and TpC
  
• Fixed roof not being paintable on Stylish_SUV_09_ELWB_V5 body
  
• Fixed fixture thumbnails sometimes having other fixtures in reflections

Modding Fixes

• Fixed rim mods not appearing in game
  
• Fixed SDK fixture thumbnail generator throwing warnings while simulating
  
• Moved mod tools files that shouldn't be directly editable into a sub-folder
  
• Added fixture preview file naming convention settings to the SDK thumbnail generator
  
• Added an option to skip duplicate GUID checking in the modding SDK

LCV4.2.3 General Fixes

• Fixed default tire sizes not being correctly applied when selecting a trim body
  
• Fixed some missing turbo audio and rebalanced volumes
  
• Fixed engine sound not changing when the engine switches to its VVL cam
  
• Fixed boost / vacuum gauge not behaving as expected on dyno tests
  
• Regenerated body tables for the AI (for when it tries to generate cars)
  
• Fixed wheels not defaulting to linked / matched sizes
  
• Fixed issue with layering when using a car paint on a fixture
  
• Fixed changing between psi and Bar not changing boost values on graphs
  
• Fixed logic in how safety packages fall back when changing years
  
• Fixed twin turbo crossover pipes coming out of the engine bay
  
• Fixed default rim size selection not working correctly
  
• Fixed global paints not saving
  
• Several fixes to the modding SDK
  

LCV4.2.2 General Fixes & Changes

• The game should now automatically fall back to DX11 when DX12 isn't supported
  
• Tweaked idle speeds for all engines
  
• Implemented turbo header selection scaling wastegate flow before boost creep
  
• Fixed issue where the family quality slider would not save/load correctly
  
• Fixed sandbox car & engine managers top bars being unusable
  
• Fixed not being able to place fixtures on soft-tops
  
• Fixed keybinds not being adjustable properly
  
• Fixed V8 flatplane forged and billet cranks having almost no strength
  
• Fixed editing fixture text resetting when clicking to add more text
  
• Fixed weird "anti-spool" behaviour with some VGT setups
  
• Fixed way too small, failing turbos causing massive torque curve jaggedness
  
• Fixed set intercooler power throughput not correctly applying to turbo sim
  
• Fixed turbo graphs not clearing when making an engine naturally aspirated
  
• Fixed the basic chassis mode not updating the chassis
  
• Fixed speed limiter being in km/h even though mph were selected as a unit
  
• Fixed dual exhaust being selectable when using a single turbo setup
  
• Fixed issue with boost graph going negative sometimes while being at 0
  
• Fixed mousing over pies in the market screen changing their size
  
• Fixed twin turbo crossover pipes coming out out the engine bay in export scene
  
• Fixed twin turbo piping issues when switching block type
  
• Fixed opposite side thread on tires
  
• Fixed the light and glass material thumbnails being completely white
  
• Fixed roughness slider on leather material having weird effects
  
• Fixed unusual shading on steel wheels and other metal materials
  
• Fixed the basic car design room having a corrupted light map
  
• Fixed 10s design room lighting which was over-saturated
  
• Fixed missing intakes for single barrel eco carbs
  
• Fixed missing texture on 60 degree V MPFI systems with twin throttle, mid intake
  
• Fixed old intake meshes spawning for inline DI throttle per cylinder
  
• Fixed 90 degree V SPFI compact intake missing
  
• Fixed accidental use of underbody material on variant of 60s_Muntu body
  
• Fixed engine manager list scroll bar having the wrong color
  
• Fixed Car_Roof material missing from modding SDK