GUI update

[F1CMPM]

We are in the middle of a GUI upgrade.  This should be the final upgrade and thankd for all your help with the updating here.

We are busy bug fixing (thanks to all the discrepancies found by our dedicated Alpha Test team).

The season to season version (hopefully feature complete and functional) will be ready for the Test Team to play and report on by Monday 14th.

This should enable us to move into the BETA final stage - where we expect rapid progress towards full commercial release.

In the mean time you might want to take a peek at the Abu Dhabi track which will be used in the birds eye race viewer in-game.  David (Head of Graphics) has excelled himself (as usual) adding a dusk/night in game feature.  This 1.5 mb few second movie shows the dusk/night effect in rapidly sped up time.

http://www.box.net/shared/1tchq7ntgj

Thoughts?

[ViperMask]

Love it.  It looks very cool.

[ianny1112]

that is so cool.. just makes the whole waiting around thing so much better.. i think a big round of applause is so needed when this is released.. 

[Scheckter]

Couldn't get the vid to work,but Im sure you guys have done a great job as usual.Can't wait to give the season to season version a spin!

[F1CMPM]

If you struggle due to Windows Media Player codec incompatibilities - try downloading this;

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm

It should enable you to start using WMP on things it previously couldn't play - possibly our little movie too

[MJRoberts55]

Box.net seemed to be down for me earlier, which is why you may have had issues getting the movie.

Looks very cool. 

[vdhjeroen]

Well done on those effects!