Hey everyone,

New update, the main things in the update is the re-shaped vintage hull. The current paintjobs still need to be fixed to work properly. The new template will be up in the forum in a couple days.

The other update is I decided to add the 3 mile version of Mission Bay. Although, there never really was a 3 mile version of the course in real life. It should add a little variation to the races.

Sorry I was so late posting this up here. Here's video of the Final Heat. Big thanks to Craig and Steve Montgomery.

Hey everyone,

This update includes a few things, an update to the clock plugin dll to hopefully cure some crashing problems and the Horizon Air boat was added to the 2007 Hydroplanes.

The bigger update, the first release of the Vintage 1950-1970's Hydroplanes was released. I would like that everyone please posts their comments on the physics in the forum.

Bardahl 3D Model by Tom Mihelich.

Boat paintjobs included:
Bardahl: Tom Mihelich
Short Circuit: Scott Przybylski
Miss Wahoo: Craig Montgomery
Miss Exide: Joe Street

plenty more to come...

If you're new to the mod, you can download HERE

Scott Przybylski wins the final heat in the 3rd round of the 2008 Season. After having some scary moments in the preliminary heats, Scott managed to snag lane 1 and eventually the win. In 2nd was David Jaques (Season High Points leader), 3rd Craig Montgomery, 4th Greg Adams with an impressive finish from trailer, 5th Brian Montgomery, 6th Jean Philippe Poulin, and 7th Chris Denslow. Both Jean and Chris unfortunately got into a roostertail and went over.

Video of race hopefully coming soon.

In other news, there will be some vintage hydroplane action in the future!

This update includes:

1. Early version of Cockpit view. There are a few things that are not working correctly at the moment. Mirrors are showing the wrong direction and fuel indicator is not showing up on LCD Display.

Still planning to add many more details to the cockpit, including the steering wheel/rack, floor escape hatch, various buttons/switchs/lights.

I just wanted to get the cockpit out there for some of you guys to try out, let me know if you think it shakes around too much, or have any other suggestions.

2. I made some slight changes to the damage model in an attempt to help fix some of the low FPS issues that still occur when crashing.

3. Updated the U-61, U-64, and U-69.

I just barely started working on the cockpit for the Unlimited Hydroplanes. This is very early WIP screenshot. I will probably need to re-work the shape of the cockpit to make the windshield a bit larger and get rid of all that empty space above it.

I added some new functionality to the Installer/Updater to be able to remove folders and files when installing updates.

Please Install this update by downloading the installer and running it to ensure the Bardahl boat doesn't cause any conflicts online.

If you have already automatically installed the update. Goto rFactor\Plugins\Hydroplane and remove the file version.txt

Then re-run the installer/updater.

Download Installer Here

New Unlimited Hydroplane Mod Installer/Updater released.

Download Unlimited Hydroplane Mod Installer
Download .NET 2.0 Framwork (Necessary to run the installer, download if you don't already have it)

How To Use:

Save Installer anywhere (ie Desktop).
Run Installer.
Select your rFactor Directory by either typing it in or Clicking Browse.
Click Start to begin downloading/installing the mod or any updates.

Once installed the mod will check for updates when starting rFactor if the mod is currently selected. If an update is found, rFactor will exit and the Updater will be launched.

If running rFactor Dedicated.exe or you just want to bypass the in game auto-updater use the command line parameter "+noupdate". You can set up a shortcut to the exe to do this by setting the target to the following.

Target: "C:\Program Files\rFactor\rFactor Dedicated.exe" +noupdate

David made an outstanding run in the winner take all final with the Miss Canada at last weeks event. He pulled away from the rest of the field over the 5 lap heat beating Jeff Yeager (2nd) in the Miss Starbucks, Brian Montgomery (3rd) in the Sum Mo' Records, Scott Przybylski (4th) in the Spirit of Freedom Racing, Chris Porten (5th) in the Miss Valvoline, Craig Montgomery (6th), and Chris Denslow (DNF) in the Lakeridge Paving.

Watch the video of the final heat below!

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The Second race of the season will be run tomorrow at 9AM PST.

We will be running on Mission Bay again with a slightly updated version of the mod (Contains a few more boats) available in the Beta Mod Builds section of the forum.

I'm currently trying to think of a good way to create an auto-update system for the mod. So hopefully that will be implemented to make it easier in the future.