Changelog

Note

The following abbreviations are used herein:

ADD = added

CHG = changed/modified

COR = corrected

FIX = something that was wrong has been fixed

2023-10-24

CHG Formatting of legacy contents completed for now.

2023-10-23

CHG Increased the touch threshold for opening and closing the side menu in mobile view.

CHG Formatting of legacy contents improved (started).

CHG Moved UI Editor information into the S397 Legacy Documentation section.

2023-10-22

ADD Studio-397 legacy documentation added from the Developer Guide into section Archive / Legacy Documentation / S397 Legacy Documentation

CHG Some minor formatting corrections. Started to format links to external resources so that they open a new window/tab instead of opening in the same window.

ADD Supporting touch gestures to open or closing the menu by wiping from left to right and vice-versa. Made header sticky so that it stays visible on small screens for easier navigation.

2022-12-10

ADD Content added to pages “Damage” and “Sounds”.

CHG Sorted section “Effects” alphabetically as there is no true order.

2022-12-03

CHG Finally created a new favicon for the manual.

CHG Again changed the structure of the Vehicle Modding section; It does now have two new sections Effects (renamed Sounds section) and Other, with the order slightly modified (hopefully that’s actually a logical order).

ADD Empty pages added for: Graphics/Cameras, Effects/Sounds, Effects/Damage, Vehicle Creation/Genstrings, Other/Track Configuration, Other Default Setups.

COR Some minor formatting corrections done to Vehicle Generation, VEH - Vehicle File, and HDV page.

ADD Added table of contents to the Vehicle Generation and VEH - Vehicle File pages.

CHG Altered the structure of RCD - AI Talent Files page a little so it allows for a table of contents. Also the Skip Barber RCD example was included as a new sub-section.

2022-11-29

CHG Title of chapter in “High-Detail Vehicle - HDV” was “Sections of the HDV File” and is changed to “HDV File Sections”.

ADD Added a reminder to the beginning of the “High-Detail Vehicle - HDV” sub-section “Suspension - [SUSPENSION]” that explains the relation between HDV, PM, and graphical position of the wheels.

2022-09-17

ADD Added Cockpitinfo page to Vehicle/Graphics section.

ADD Added Upgrades page to new subsection Vehicle/Other.

2022-05-21

COR Some formatting corrections in the vehicle creation pages.

ADD Introduction text added to the vehicles modding introduction page.

2022-05-06

CHG In prep for a first publication the Handbook’s logo was changed to a neutral rF2 logo (no permission granted for the official logo yet), minor updates were done to the index and other pages to give proper credits and information on the source.

CHG Minor design refinements of some elements in the theme.

2022-04-10

CHG Dev Mode page was renamed and amended with additional information.

CHG The disclaimer page received a minor update.

CHG Tips & Tricks page moved to Other category.

CHG Title of legacy rFactor modding documentation changed.

FIX Couple of references and build errors fixed.

CHG Added more information to the vehicle generation page. Also changed the structure and completed the included information.

2022-03-27

ADD Started with adding information to the vehicle graphics section, starting with the vehicle generation in-game.

2022-03-26

CHG Merged license into copyright for more clarity. ADD Disclaimer content was added.

2022-03-23

ADD Added a “WIP” warning to many other WIP pages.

ADD Added “CC BY-NC 4.0” to the License page.

CHG Section Other/Software is again emptied for now.

ADD Copyright page was amended with a introduction that also links to the license of the handbook.

2022-03-22

ADD Added a “WIP” warning to many WIP pages.

CHG Started layout of the introduction page of vehicle modding.

2022-03-20

CHG Engine section finalized

ADD HDV section created, formatting started, and content amendment begun.

2022-03-19

ADD First version of the engine description included in physics section.

2022-02-21

ADD VEH file and RCD files created first time.

ADD Vehicle creation section added.

2022-02-12

CHG “autosectionlabel_prefix_document” switch was set to true, so that references become unique and I can use multiple sections of the same title.

2022-02-10

ADD All main sections now have an introduction chapter.

ADD Vehicle modding and location modding sections now have main chapters added (e.g., Graphics & Art, Physics, Sounds, Real Road, etc.).

CHG Changed the TOC theme again; section captions colored red again without background color. Also section texts are now white and red on hover. The whole thing is now much more pleasant to the eye, especially with more text visible.

2022-02-06

COR Resolved all current warnings or errors in the html build by renaming duplicated labels and references.

ADD All sections now have an index file.

CHG TOC theme was slightly modified (changed the headline background to grey)

ADD New category “Archive” introduced.

CHG “ISI rFactor Modding Tutorial” moved to new category “Archive”.

ADD Section “General” to include “Introduction” and “Getting Started” pages.

2022-01-31

CHG Page “Copyright Information” renamed to “Copyright”.

CHG Page “Track Structure” renamed to “Location Structure”.

CHG Page “Glossary” renamed to “Modding Handbook Glossary”.

ADD Section “About” was added to the menu and shows the pages “License”, “Disclaimer”, “Copyright”, and “Changelog”.

CHG Section “Car Modding” renamed to “Vehicle Modding”.

CHG Section “Track Modding” renamed to “Location Modding”.

2022-01-30

ADD Screenshot of the folder structure added to “Track Structure” page.

2022-01-29

ADD “Track Structure” page to the “Track Modding” section.

COR “rFactor2 Developer Mode” header format in source corrected.