New Deferred Shading Renderer

Improved Light Source Rendering

• Engine scales much better with high number of light sources
  
• Scales much better with high end graphics cards by reducing driver load (less draw calls)
  
• Even light sources that are very far away will be rendered
  
• Improved computation using linear color space for more realistic visuals
  

New Graphics Effects

• Custom implementation of Screen-space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO) greatly improving visuals
  
• Bloom effect
  
• Sun shafts effect
  
• High Dynamic Range lighting with adaptive iris effect (works great together with bloom effect)
  
• New underwater caustics effect
  

Smarter Engine

• New automatic occlusion detection system (manual occluders are rarely needed anymore)
  
• Improved light shafts with higher quality and performance (allows much cooler light effects, such as lasers)
  
• SMAA anti-aliasing (Copyright (C) 2011 by Jorge Jimenez, Jose I. Echevarria, Tiago Sousa, Belen Masia, Fernando Navarro and Diego Gutierrez.) for best trade-off between performance and quality
  

New Park Objects

• New park lamp set (over 20 new scene objects)
  
• New fence set (over 13 new fence types, each coming with multiple variations)
  
• New bench set (over 15 new scene objects)
  
• New trash can set (5 new scene objects)
  
• High Definition foliage set (10 new scene objects)
  

Improved Sound Effects

• Various coaster styles have received brake sound updates
  
• Moveable magnetic brakes sound added
  
• Gate sound added
  

• The main menu will now be displayed in 3D space in VR mode.
  
• Pressing R will recenter the VR view inside main menu and play mode.
  
• Experimental OpenVR support was added, too. We do not own any HTC Vive, so we cannot test properly. We will fix issues as soon as we get feedback from our users.
  
• The application will automatically detect and use when an Oculus devce is attached using Runtime 1.3. When that is not the case, it will try to detect a device using the OpenVR API.
  
• VR controllers are not supported, yet. Mouse and keyboard are still required for interaction.
  

• New Enterprise Flat Ride
  
• New Pirate Ship Flat Ride
  
• Stereo 3D TV Mode
  
• High DPI Aware (Retina) GUI Mode
  
• New Mouse Cursors and Icons in Editor
  

• Added Direct3D 11 renderer for improved performance and compatibility
  
• Added SLI/CrossFire detection and multi-GPU optimizations
  
• Added telemetry server
  
• Added high frame rate options (48Hz, 50Hz, 60Hz) for video export (professional license upgrade only)
  
• Added automatic key frame playback option
  
• Added methods for controlling key frame animation
  
• Added loading and assigning second UV map
  
• Added Fake Water Sort Option to NL2MAT Editor
  
• Added Pre-Multiply-Alpha option
  
• Added option to turn off lens flare effect
  
• Added chromatic abberation post effect
  
• Added 4 new prefab supports with track default connector
  
• Added crosstie spacing option
  
• Added dim option for supports and prefabs, can be used for indoor coasters
  
• Added new default physics model v2.2
  
• New coaster style Gerstlauer Infinity Coaster
  
• New coaster style Gerstlauer Infinity 2 Coaster
  
• New park Storm Valley with Gerstlauer Infinity coasters
  
• New park Venom with Gerstlauer Infinity coaster
  
• Improved motion blur video capturing
  
• Improved dynamic sky
  
• Improved depth-of-field effect
  
• Improved soft sprites on water surfaces
  
• Improved crosstie spacing on Hyper and Rocket coaster styles
  
• Improved fading of rail support connectors and track hardware in tunnels
  
• Updated Oculus Runtime (using SDK 0.6)
  
• Bug fixes and optimizations
  

• Professionally modeled with multiple LODs for high performance.
  
• Drop in and play! All rides are scripted with animation and sound effects ready to go. Just add to your park like any other pre-built scenery object.
  
• All rides can be ridden! Approach the ride and press E when prompted to board the ride.