New Video: Menu walkthrough


We have created quite a thorough video that walks through the menus showing the features that have been implemented.  It also shows what we hope will be the final design for the menus (barring a ...

Oh Mr. Menu you are hilarious!


Oh ok, well menus aren't actually that fun* and even less fun to code, but they are very important and fairly useful when you get to know them! Just doing a quick update to ensure people ...

Speed, Speed and more Speed


Lots of progress from the ORC team since the last update, mostly concentrating on making things work faster.   Speed! We have tamed the mighty multi-core processors.  This has led to a bi ...

Soft Shadows and Tidy Up


Hello All and a Happy New Year.  We have been working hard after a nice Christmas break.  Most of the work has been boring internal and security work which is very essential, but isn't exact ...

Car Loading and New Menu Designs


Over the past few weeks we have been working on menu designs and efficiently loading cars during a race.   First of all, quickly loading cars during the race is important as we don't want any ...

Race Awards and Motion Blur


 We have been working on quite a few things over the past few weeks.  Lynsay has been working on some designs for the racer stats and achievement pages, it's starting to take shape, but ther ...

Lies, damned lies, and statistics


We have been working hard this week on the ranking and stats system.  We are hoping to make the ranking system an important part of the simulator and to be able to compare easily with other peopl ...

Website Tweaks


We've tweaked the layout of the website slightly and spruced up the graphics a bit with the help of Lynsay McConnell from Lilac Lily .   We have also added a couple of ways that you can k ...

ORC site launch!


We have launched the Online Racing Championship site to give a bit of info about ORC and what you can look forward to when it is released. Below is a video showing the car in action.  More vid ...

Physics Engine Optimization


Gregor has done a lot of work making the Physics engine faster, it is currently 25-30% faster than it had been running.  It now uses SSE to do vector operations in parallel.  It was a hard j ...

What is ORC?

ORC is a realistic racing simulator that is based on real world cars using a physics engine that was developed in partnership with a formula 1 team. This means that the simulator has been tried by a team of formula 1 engineers and tested by a formula 1 driver to ensure maximum realism.

What are the important features of ORC?

Physics

The absolutely most important feature is the accurate, constraint-based Vehicle Dynamics Engine that has been developed by Dr. Gregor Veble.

Networking

The network engine has been developed to reduce the effects of lag in order to ensure close and fun racing

Graphics

An advanced shader based lighting model will bring Tony West's amazing models to life, helping you feel part of the action

Rankings / Achievements

There are a number of goals for your to achieve in your racing career, you will able to view your achievements and how you rank against your friends and rivals.  It will all be available without leaving the game!

How much is it to play ORC?

ORC is currently free to play with all standard cars and tracks. There will be a number of car upgrades that are available to purchase should you wish to.

When will ORC be available?

We are hoping to have an open beta in 2010 to test that everything works correctly on all sensible hardware and weed out those last few (hopefully!) bugs