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 ...
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 people without leaving the game.

We have also been creating a points system that hopefully will be fair to newbies and veterans alike.  This will be undoubtedly be tweaked and added to as we start beta testing

Some of the ranks/stats we have created so far are: -
  • Fastest Laptime
  • Fastest Sector
  • Races Completed
  • Wins / Seconds / Thirds
  • Distance Driven
  • Laps Completed
  • Lap Ranking (World and Country)
  • Points System
  • Points Ranking (World and Country)
  • Lap / Sector records broken today / this week / this month
  • Winning streak
  • Near Drivers List for each rank

 Here are a couple of previews (in-progress)







There are a few more stats/ranks to do yet.  If you have any suggestions just let us know at ashley@siroccoracing.com .  The next step is to start getting the ranks into the game in order that you can be notified when you break that record or gain a position in the ranks!