Software is supposed to evolve and change, but especially interfaces to external components (ie exporters, shaders, physics, packaging) need to be frozen at one point to allow for third-party devs to get things done and build upon it. That’s alright, however what makes it frustrating is, that even after 10 months it feels like developing against a moving target. We discovered several bugs in export tools and shaders, we have been embracing the new platform and sometimes we had setbacks and wrong decisions. And we can understand this, as CTDP is also experiencing the disadvantages of being cutting edge: sometimes you cut yourself. Very few leagues switch and embrace the new platform, even fewer mod teams. For us it feels like the community has been holding it’s breath since the first release of rF2. This is software, this is normal, however, this has consequences on the community and on the modders in particular. Beta means rFactor2 is not stable and in a constant change. rFactor 2 Beta was released in January and looking back on the past months, we realized, many of our hopes have yet to be fullfiled. We had to adjust and get results with less people, and a smaller mod such as IFM-2009 was just the way to go. To boost morale in the team, we pushed the developed of the IFM-2009 mod forward in favor of F1-1994. As we wrote a couple of months ago, CTDP has had some hard years and we have awaited rFactor2 with high hopes. We feel in a stalemate situation at the moment.
Most of this is not meant as public promotion material. We also like to share some of our experiences we made in the past years of modding. We show our latest work in progress and Making Ofs. In this blog we present the recent progress on our current projects.
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