Devlogs
PolyTrack 0.5.1 - Shadows & Editor undo
Posted July 16, 2025 by Kodub
This update is compatible with 0.5.0, so updating is optional but recommended.
- Added: New shadow system using cascaded shadow maps
- Added: Editor undo/redo
- Added: Speed difference is now also shown at checkpoints
- Added: New community tracks
- Anubis
- Asguardia
- Flying Dreams
- Ghost City
- Joenail Jones
- MOS ESPA
- Natsujō
- Added: Mobile camera view button
- Added: Yellow lines at checkpoints in the time bar while watching replays
- Added: The leaderboard now shows the total players for each track
- Added: Search tracks by author name
- Added: Mobile UI shows checkpoint flag if respawn at checkpoint is available
- Added: Mobile setting for switching the side of the accelerate & steering buttons
- Added: Touch buttons vibration in supported browsers (disabled by default)
- Added: Touch swipe to change categories in the track selection
- Added: Safe areas for display cutouts on mobile
- Added: Warning explaining why the leaderboard cannot be loaded on unofficial versions of the game
- Added: Error screen in case the game encounters an unexpected error
- Added: Admin leaderboard moderation tools
- Changed: Skidmark conditions at low speeds
- Changed: Game toolbar visibility logic
- Changed: The horizontal FOV is now limited to 100 degrees due to the new shadow system
- Changed: Better names for key bindings instead of using raw key codes such as "KeyA"
- Changed: The UI when importing/exporting tracks now uses the full height of the window
- Changed: Game logo and Discord link image are faded in when loaded
- Fixed: Changed the server port to prevent leaderboard access being restricted on certain networks
- Fixed: Inputs being tied to game frame rate
- Fixed: Physics error in old versions of Safari
- Fixed: Physics error in old versions of Chrome
- Fixed: Only camera resetting if resetting after passing unrespawnable checkpoint on mobile
- Fixed: Context menu would open when clicking the editor height selection buttons on touch screens
- Fixed: Editor height selection button effects getting stuck when using touch screen
- Fixed: Car texture disappearing after graphics context was lost
- Fixed: Removed horizontal scroll in track selection on mobile
- Fixed: Leaderboard go to position button scrolling whole web page when the game is embedded
- Fixed: Preload fonts to prevent unstyled font being visible while loading
- Optimized: Skidmark calculation
- Optimized: .ogg & .mp3 formats are now used for audio instead of .flac
Files
PolyTrack-win32-x64.zip 120 MB
PolyTrack-linux-x64.tar.gz 110 MB
PolyTrack-darwin-x64.zip 112 MB