Virtual Rides 3 - Funfair Simulator
by Pixelsplit Simulations · 16 Mar, 2017
77 downloads
About the Game
The most extensive Funfair Ride Simulation ever!
Virtual Rides III is here! Set foot in an even bigger, more colorful, and more impressive fairground than ever before! Let your imagination be your guide! Design, control, and ride more than 15 unique attractions!
You are the carnival barker! Grab a microphone and fire up your guests with your own calls!
The atmospheric lighting doesn't really come into effect until sunset – but that's no problem! Simply change the time and even the weather!
Take your place in the control booth and use the 3D panel to control the ride just as you like!
There are more than 15 attractions available! Start them up and give your guests the ride of their lives!
Now it's your turn! Climb in, buckle up, hold on tight – and ride your fairground ride!
Need a bigger kick? Then grab you HTC Vive or Oculus Rift for an even more realistic nerve-tingling wild ride!
Virtual Rides III turns you into a showman! Whether you change the color of the components, the components themselves, or the decoration – it's all in your hands!
Use lighting, effect equipment, fog machines, and stroboscopes to perfectly stage your fairground attractions! Give your visitors a ride they'll never forget!
When night falls, the lighting system immerses the funfair in a very special light! From laser shows to color changes – everything is possible!
12 acres of fairground full of breathtaking attractions and more than 100 stands whose offerings will make your mouth water. Enjoy your visit to the funfair and encounter huge crowds that react to their environment.
Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
We have been spending some time over the last few weeks fixing problems with new and old rides.
Changes
- Fixed: VR Experience not showing up in main menu
- Improved: Follower camera limits on several rides
- Improved: "Upside Down" Hub is now slider-controllable (instead of toggle)
- Fixed: "Glider" gondolas not in correct rotation when parked
- Improved: Increased Light range on "Upside Down" ride
- Fixed: "Northstar" - Seat Bucket and Seat Cover customization flipped
- Improved: "Northstar" activation trigger now bigger
- Fixed: "Roundtrip" ride camera clipping in visitor
- Improved: Parking Speeds for Glider, Astronaut and Upside Down
- Fixed: "Glider" Seat entering from behind
- Fixed: "Giant Mill" ride gondolas different rotation speeds
- Potentially improved: "Haunted Spin" gondolas not doing flips
- Fixed: "Forge" ride jittering (especially if gondola engine oposing main engine direction)
- Fixed: Cross on "Glider" was a bit offset to arm
- Fixed: "Prism" ride visitors entering only slugishly
- Changed: "Glider" damper and weight box
- Fixed: "Tentacle" - Crosses drifting away from arm
- Fixed: "Rising Sun" - Cover bar for running lights in mid section were not colorable
- Fixed: Border / warning textures (e.g. on Hurricane), reworked 2 textures to match better
- Fixed: Missing seat on "Upside Down" ride,
- Fixed: Wrong polygons on "Krake" ride arm
- Fixed: "Upside Down" rotation and position of some podium light caps
- Fixed: For a few users MyDocuments / Personal Folder could not be found. If so -> We fall back to VR3_Data/../VR3 (so besides .exe)
It took us a little longer because we were busy with REVEIL in the meantime. Have a look at it:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/809060/REVEIL/
Thank you for your continued support, your bug reports and your commitment to the community! Feel free to join our Discord server or use the Bug Report Form.
- Your VR3 Team
we just released a minor patch.
Changes
- Fixed: Ride logos not centered
- Fixed: Visitors moving slowly when entering "The Kraken" ride
- Fixed: Custom themes unloading when game looses focus and ride is not selected
- Fixed: Sometimes scenes were loaded multiple times
- Fixed: Positioning of snowman
- Your VR3 Team
yesterday evening we released a small hotfix to the new update. Here are the changes:
- Fixed: custom fonts not working
- Fixed: setting panel not opening when no microphone available
- Fixed: fog machine material
- Fixed: "Flipping Disc" hub lift animation
- Your VR3 Team
Hi,
we just finished version 1.6 for you!
MP3 streaming
We know you waited quite some time for this. You can now throw in MP3 files in your custom jingle and music folder. We hope this makes customizing the game a bit easier for you.
Two more virtual reality rides
We implemented the "Discus" and "Danger Zone" rides as virtual reality rides.
New ride: Salsa
We added the "Salsa" ride on the latest fairground tile. It is part of the "Salsa" DLC.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1113140/Virtual_Rides_3__Salsa
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/27454822/04e6083f13553407b2ae3dc6de38c09b50482c2a.jpg
Here's another tip: You'll get a good additional discount if you buy the Ultimate Edition.
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/10726/Virtual_Rides_3_Ultimate_Edition/
Other changes
- Improved: Model of backwall of "Rising Sun" ride
- Improved: Improved positioning of orbit cameras on "Roundtrip" ride.
- Fixed: Parking on the "Roundtrip" now also moves floor plates.
- Fixed: "Rising Sun" had no light in the control booth
- Fixed: People walking in very small steps when going to pizza or sausage booth
- Fixed: People didn't properly dequeue at the cashbox of roundtrip rides
- Fixed: On some rides it was not possible to use flags anymore
We hope you like the update. Feel free to leave us some feedback!
- Your VR3 team
we just released a hotfix for the navmesh issue on the Krake / Big Spin rides. Sorry for the trouble.
- Your VR3 team
Hi,
today we proudly present you version 1.5!
Extended fairground and new ride
We made the fairground even bigger in this update. You can find our new ride waiting there: The Roundtrip.
ATTENTION to everyone who already has the Bounce Machine DLC. You can get additional 15% off when buying our "Ultimate Edition" bundle.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/27454822/a57bac3035f42f916b882751176c6f6779d532b6.jpg
If you just want to get the "Roundtrip" use this.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1065730/Virtual_Rides_3__Roundtrip/
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/27454822/56cc31e2eb13fe44cceb3665ff2e0ec62367516b.jpg
Start of Modding Support - Custom themes
What you guys already did with VR3 is awesome! We are always speechless of the stuff we see in the screenshot section. Unfortunately we always break your mods when we release an update. We now started opening the game for modding! The first step is that you can load custom themes in your game.
Therefore just open the game and it will create a folder with the custom theming files in Users/Documents/VR3/Custom Themes/Custom Example. You can modify or duplicate this folder and change all the images inside.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/27454822/c2d6860b45a58b31d8903015ac6fcd783c43691d.jpg
Support for aspect ratio 21:9
Some of you said that the game UI doesn’t properly scale with an aspect ratio of 21:9. We adjusted and improved the scaling of the UI accordingly.
Further changes
- Improved: Some minor performance improvements
- Fixed: Rising Sun ride was floating a bit in air
We hope you like the update. We appreciate any feedback you guys have and if there are any questions: we are here for you.
- Your VR3 Team
While we're working on new content for you, we've prepared a more technical update for you based on your feedback - version 1.4.5.
What has changed?
- Added: Two new movement programs for the "Bounce Machine"
- Improved: Visitors and staff should now be less stuttering
- Improved: The brake of the "Bounce Machine" should now grip better
- Fixed: The selection of the last colors did not work correctly with the logo
- Fixed: When certain steering wheels or joysticks are connected, the screen turns black.
- Fixed: Program selection at the "Bounce Machine" didn't work correctly with keyboard
- Fixed: The "Navmesh" of the "Bounce Machine" was too high in some places (visitors a bit in the air)
- Fixed: Occasionally visitors went into the driving area of the "Bounce Machine
- Your "Virtual Rides 3" Team
Hi,
Today is the day. We release version 1.4!
New ride
The "Bounce Machine" is now built up on the fairground. You (and your passengers) will love the hiss. You activate the control and adjustment of the ride with the DLC.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/27454822/014b3d622905e6f68526b3748a21a6d43ab134ac.gif
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1020290/Virtual_Rides_3__Bounce_Machine/
Advanced Logo Editor
We've added a font and color selection to customize the logos to give you even more freedom in designing your rides.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/27454822/2d9e7089da7b2b74746b7c65707eb2fee5da803c.gif
New flags
We have added new flags to give you a little more variety when decorating.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/27454822/aa5008b7ead4426d75b2d562a9e4c8555133054b.jpg
Other changes
- Added: The "Rising Sun" ride can now be experienced in Virtual Reality
- Added: New quadratic barrier texture variations added
- Fixed: People stumble every now and then walking across the fairground
- Fixed: Restraint toggle switch sometimes does not change to green
- Fixed: Crash or wrong status in UI when changing camera by keyboard
- Fixed: Wrong status in the UI when changing light by keyboard
- Fixed: Fog on round rides behaved funny
- Updated: Steamworks Libraries
We are looking forward to your feedback on the update!
- Your VR3 Team
first of all: Happy New Year 2019 to all of you! It is going to be great :)
Today we release update 1.3.5 to you. Here are the changes
Performance
The last patch introduced some performance problems on some systems due to the engine changes and how the UI was handled. We improved that and hope the performance is at least back at the old niveau. It even should be even better now compared to the pre-1.3 update. Please give us feedback about this!
New settings
In the last patch we reduced the distance you can see and added a distance fog to blend out the distant geometry. Not all of you were happy about it so we added options for that (fog and distance).
Other changes
We also changed the following things:
- Improved: Reduced sound volume of “Rising Sun” engine crosses
- Improved: Increased the text size of “time” and “speed” in the time control panel
- Fixed: Freeze at “Crazy Spin”
- Fixed: Black screen on some systems
- Fixed: Moving head and laser random program selection missing
- Fixed: Duplicated color schemes for light change
- Fixed: The automatic program for the “Centrifuge” acted weird
- Fixed: Teleportation point at the krake beeing mid-air
We hope you enjoy the patch and are looking forward to your feedback.
- Your VR3 Team
Hi,
We know you waited so long for this (us too!) - today we release Update 1.3 to you.
At first
Please note that you will probably have to re-adjust your screen resolution, when starting the game.
Furthermore it seems that the save location changed on some systems.
C:/Users/YourUserName/AppData/LocalLow/Zeichenkraftwer Jeutter & Schaller/Virtual Rides 3 maybe changed to C:/Users/DeinBenutzerName/AppData/LocalLow/Zeichenkraftwer Jeutter _ Schaller/Virtual Rides 3. Just copy the folder "Virtual Rides 3" from the old folder to the new one (old with & and new with _ in the path).
New ride and new map tile
We extended the map (to the left of the current city tile) and added a new ride to it. We hope you enjoy it!
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/27454822/00b6d184b044c4e77a2d90adf7da8d7ea3cf98f1.jpg
New customization parts
We also added some new customization parts, several of which are Christmas themed. But more importantly we added a new effect part. We present to you: The Flamethrower.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/27454822/5cfc471d31809a6c797885f586b8e6df9a2c5bf3.gif
Ride automatics (BETA)
To give the fairground a more lively feel we added automatic programs. These are started automatically when you enter a fairground tile. They are interrupted as soon as you take over the ride controls.
Please note that this is a beta feature, so it could have some bugs here and there. Also note that there is no automatic program for the Crazy Spin right now.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/27454822/fed0e3e93ea288fb920611f28046c509c4262441.gif
Other changes
- Upgraded to new engine version which allows future improvements
- Improved: Increased speed of animations in queue
- Improved: Increased microphone volume
- Improved: Performance (due to new engine upgrade)
- Improved: Running lights also have a color during daytime
- Fixed: Adjusted some of the navmeshs so visitors can walk more fluently
- Fixed: Visitors glitching in the lot booth
- Fixed: Graphic issues on some Mac devices
Future outlook
We are definitely not done here! In the next updates we will be working on:
- Customizable logos (font + color)
- Further performance optimizations
- Support for MP3s for your custom music
- More rides!
We are looking forward to your feedback and opinions. Feel free to use the STEAM Discussions. We also created a sub-forum for Bugs there. So if you have any bug reports, please post them there.
Have a nice Christmas!
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/27454822/e4f689b816ff498e73eb7afa9636cceebd2de50b.jpg
If you didn't know yet why it took us so long to create this update, read this:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/515260/announcements/detail/1706195930374952175
- Your VR3-Team
we just released a minor patch to fix some issues that were reported to us.
Changelog:
FIXED
• Tentacle brake sound is now hearable
• Tentacle cashbox running lights now are working properly
• Statusbar activation does not turn gray when you are in operation mode
• Fixed animation on "Centrifuge" ride
- Your VR3 development team
Today we present to you something very exciting – a new update with the title „Release the Tentacle“. Some of you might be able to guess what that means.
In the new version 1.2 we bring you the new ride called „The Tentacle“. A rotatable main engine, from which five tentacle-like arms emerge, which are moved up and down by the eccentric. On each arm is attached a controllable cross with five free-swinging gondolas (if the brake is not activated 😉). The ride is optically garnished with the flashing octopus head on the middle section.
http://zeichenkraftwerk.de/games/vr3/steam/update1_2/2-1_head.jpg
The very brave of you can of course experience the ride in „Virtual Reality“ – a the ride is of course also in "Virtual Reality" mobile – but maybe put a barf bag aside 😉
Besides the new ride, we fixed a few small bugs in this patch and worked slightly on the performance.
Here is the Change-Log:
New content:
• New ride: „The Tentacle“
• Modified map tile for the new ride
• VR Experience for „The Tentacle“
Improvements:
• Visual improvements of the weather system
• Several performance optimizations
Fixes:
• Fixed sound problem for players that had a lot of jingles in their „custom jingles“ folder
• The podest of the „Casino Swing“ ride lowers to the correct position now
We hope you like the new update. Enjoy it!
- Your VR3-Development-Team
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