YuutaTsubasa/Free-Riders-Recompiled v0.8.0

v0.8.0 — Ultrawide displays

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Changes

Ultrawide displays

Mostly from knuckleslee (#112, #113, #114). Thank you!

• Races fill a wider display: 21:9, 32:9 and beyond.
  • The 3D view gets wider (hor+).
  • The HUD's left and right groups move to the screen edges. Graphics > UI Alignment Mode > Center keeps them in the middle instead.
• Menus stay centred over a backdrop that fills the whole width.
• Movies keep 16:9 with black bars.
• Two-player screens keep the original 16:9 picture, with black at the sides: the split race, a Tag Race while the two hold hands, and their On your Gear screen. A wide two-player view is planned for a later version.
• Graphics > Aspect Ratio:
  • Auto is the default on Windows and Linux.
  • 16:9 keeps the original picture everywhere. Android uses 16:9 by default, because a wider picture costs a phone frame rate.

Launcher graphics settings (#112)

• Display Mode: Borderless (the default) or Windowed.
• Window size:
  • The list holds the sizes your display reports and the common sizes.
  • Custom takes any width and height.
  • New windows start at the desktop size.
• Render Size:
  • Original is the default and draws the game's own 720 lines, exactly as before.
  • The other steps run from 0.25x to 3.0x of the window or display.
  • An older Render Size setting is converted to the nearest step.

Controls like the No Kinect Patch (#109)

• Tag Race: both players holding LT now hold hands.
• Relay Race: BACK swaps in the next racer, as A already does.
• Yes/no dialogs: X confirms, as A does.

Kinect v2 (#97)

• A normal jump with both feet now jumps. Before, it took a shift from foot to foot.
• The display no longer turns off while you play on a Kinect or webcam.

Validation

• Unit tests: CTest passed on Windows (151) and Linux (143). GitHub Actions builds passed on Windows, Linux, macOS and Android.
• Scripted races at 2560x1080 (21:9) and 2560x720 (32:9):
  • A one-player Free Race through the finish and the results.
  • A two-controller Tag Race: split screen, holding hands, On your Gear and the pause menu.
• Windows package:
  • Race checks on D3D12, Vulkan, and D3D12 in a 21:9 window.
  • Every pipeline was prepared, no shader was left untranslated, and the save was left unchanged.
• Linux package: Vulkan start-up smoke test in WSL, with all 455 pipelines prepared.
• Android: this release's Android 10+ APK on an AYN Thor prepared all 455 Vulkan pipelines and ran a race without errors at 59.9 fps (0.7.3: 59.4). The APKs keep the existing signing certificate.
• Shaders: the shader ABI moved to 12. shaders.pack was rebuilt: 476 shaders, each with DXIL and SPIR-V.
• Not tested:
  • a real ultrawide monitor (only windows of that shape);
  • online play on an ultrawide display;
  • the Kinect v2 jump on real hardware (reports are welcome).

Downloads

• Windows x64: download and extract the Windows ZIP; run FreeRidersRecompiled.exe.
• Linux x64: download and extract the Linux archive; run FreeRidersRecompiled.
• Android 10 or later: prefer android10-arm64.apk.
• Android 9: use android-arm64.apk.
• Android version code: 41. The companion licence archive applies to both APKs.
• Checksums: SHA256SUMS.txt.

Use your own game disc image. No game data, private saves or test overrides are included.

Known limitations

• Two-player screens: stay 16:9 on a wider display.
• Android: the notification bar can cover the top of the picture on some phones (#118).
• Physical Kinect input and window title statistics: Windows only.
• Online play: everyone should use the same version.
• Being investigated:
  • the start-up crash on Vulkan 1.1 phones (#88);
  • a crash at start on a Galaxy Tab A9 (Mali-G57, #1);
  • a race crash on 4-core PCs (#64).
• Relay Race: 2P vs 2P is not supported yet.
• From v0.5.0:
  • lighting has not been compared with the Xbox 360;
  • no camera motion inference on Linux or Android;
  • performance varies by device.