Lots of fixes and new content!

Content:
Hirochi raceway has collision again

More work on Hirochy raceway: barriers, forest, added undergrowth, road and vegetation work, updated signs, texture work

Sunburst: improvements on the suspension, added simple traction control, improved fuel tank and windshield wipers, cvt ratios, increased turbo power, tuning the driving characteristics

Tire stabilization improvements on some vehicles

Fixed hamster wheel ramp and large tilt base having no collision

Reduced shakiness of large crusher (also removed duplicate example crusher)

T75: fixes on the engine and the radiator, improving stability a lot when crashing the front

Less torsional frame rigidity for pickup and van

Tuned shift points for some vehicles

Added cubemap to smallgrid (vehicles now have reflections)

Added vehicle thumbnails for new vehicle selector (press Space)

Parkingbrake hydros added to h45 cargo box

Improved collision mesh for the industrial bridges to prevent tire catching when breaking or sliding

Corrected some path issues for the rock material on gridmap

Bolide collision fixes

Bugs:
Collisions with heavy objects are a lot more stable now

Rebalanced friction calculations, slightly differently now

Cull individual forest item for improved performance of render shadow pass (saves some ms per frame)

Fixed vibrations when changing simulation speed to slow motion

Fixed UI hiding: should hide properly now

Fixed lua split() discarding string parts (be sure to check if your lua script now behaves differently)

Fixed file system notifiers taking too much time: faster startup

Increased precision on ui update rate

Features:
LuaSocket is now completely integrated and always enabled. It has a security sandbox and can only connect to localhost and private IPv4
addresses (the previous command line switch is now obsolete)

The ingame UI now uses local:// instead of file://. That enables it to use the virtual filesystem and i.e. load preview images from inside zips. There might be some stuttering in the main menu which we are working on. (This was a huge undertaking to get working well)


Also, we found a problem with switching steam branches. To make sure the game does not have a broken state, please switch the branch, delete the local game content and then install the game again. The problem is that some files of the default branch cause problems when switching to experimental as steam does not seem to remove them properly.

We also open-sourced two components that we are not working on further due to design decisions: https://github.com/BeamNG/jsflowgraph and https://github.com/BeamNG/luawebserver

Not much on updates, but lots of devnotes about updates TO COME.

Go check out the devblog on the website for more info.

STEAM EXPERIMENTAL BETA ACCESS AVAILABLE NOW!

Update by tdev:
Lots of work on the virtual filesystem integration. It currently looks like this (more info about that in a blogpost later):
http://www.beamng.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=38639&d=1408355275

Game will now start as fullscreen by default

Material switching bugs in comination with multidae: the signals, lights, and breaking glass broke when changing parts on the vehicle

Fixed spotlights teleporting during the first two frames they are visible

Fixed up resources to work with case sensitive filesystems correctly

Improved collison stability

We added the fading to the ends of the roads, that makes merging them much easier. Before/After:
http://www.beamng.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=38637&d=1408355275

Tests with a crushing roller (similar to the one in Next Car Game):
http://www.beamng.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=38646&stc=1&d=1408362124

We have our own IRC server now: irc.beamng.com : 6667
-it is linked to the old IRC server, so you will not notice much changes

We fixed the Collada exporter up, so we could get the terrain 3D mesh to export correctly into a .dae file

Oh, and a hamster wheel :) :
http://www.beamng.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=38647&stc=1&d=1408362124

Worker on a frame limiter: it should cap the FPS so we get a more fluid gameplay experience (addition benefit: we can test and debug low FPS scenarios)

Worked on the new vehicle selector*:
http://www.beamng.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=38636&stc=1&d=1408355193

*Personally I love the look of this new vehicle selector. Especially when images will be in place.

Created proof of concept for new approach to input binding - what do you think?
http://www.beamng.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=38635&stc=1&d=1408354066

Continued improving the input system. Nearly all controllers are well recognized now. We also wrote a little input visualization tool and finished the xinput UI integration:
http://www.beamng.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=38649&d=1408363030&thumb=1
http://www.beamng.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=38650&d=1408363739&thumb=1


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Can't wait for this update to be released so I can use my Logitech G27 to its full ability on this game.

http://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/gid/103582791436080987/announcements/detail/252518998587501808

All aboard the Hype Train!

Sorry, I haven't posted because I've been on vacation.

OTHER NEWS:

Inputs for Logitech wheels, controllers, etc being worked on now!
ALPHA AVAILABLE ON STEAM! (go to the BeamNG.drive website and get yours!)
OTHER FANCIES!

Yay.