Beta HiStakes 0.1.8

Beta v0.1.8 (30/10/26)

• Expanded: Drag app
  • Standing and rolling practice runs, staging lights and a practice tree, timeslips, and a map review of your recent runs with speed colours and gate deltas.
  • Drag racing on BeamMP: Race another HiStakes driver from the Drag page. Nearby HiStakes drivers show up in a lobby; invite one, line up, and both cars get the same green and a settled margin. A race called near an official drag strip uses that...

Beta v0.1.7d (20/10/26)

• Upgrading from v0.1.7x
  • My Files now keeps fonts in settings/HiStakes/files/fonts and chimes in settings/HiStakes/files/chimes. Fonts and chimes the game can still see are moved over automatically, and files already in the new folders are not overwritten.
  • If the 0.40 update already moved your old fonts or chimes into an update archive, copy them into the new folders by hand. Settings backups save which fonts and chimes you...

Beta v0.1.7c (19/10/26)

• Expanded: Stock app replacement settings
  • Replacement gauges now keep their settings across layouts, support layout presets, and include their settings in Backup, Restore, and Reset.

• Optimized/Fixed:
  • Gauge units: Power and Torque needles/readouts now follow the selected units. Solo and Combo analog speed dials follow the widget’s Speed unit too.
  • Gauge behaviour:...

Beta v0.1.7b (16/10/26)

• Added: Compact rim map markers
  • Small dots on the round map’s rim instead of badges; the focused location keeps its badge. Rim badges are now drawn whole.
• Optimized/Fixed:
  • Smoother filled arcs - Vanilla+, Vanilla Mini+, and other filled-arc dials draw their arc as one smooth stroke, and the fill, ticks, and needle line up exactly with the face.
  • Better font handling - Malformed...

Beta v0.1.7a (12/10/26)

• Expanded: Additional Stock Apps replacements
  • Indicated Airspeed and Speedometer/Tachometer bar can now be replaced by HiStakes gauges
• Expanded: Gauge customization options
  • Additional Peak witness mark shape options and animated decay.
  • Bar options - Readouts inside bar/Outline
  • Hide zero label / Hide zero tick now work on any dial, including the Combo tachometer.
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Beta v0.1.7 (9/10/26)

• Expanded: Themed Gauges
  • Most Wanted [MW] eleven themes for Solo and Basic Combo, with digital speed, gear and boost readouts.
    
    
  • Underground 2 [UG2] redrawn vector faces and needles, original-game colours, twelve quick paints and glow controls.
    
• Expanded: MFD Displays
  • Information adapts to the available...

Beta v0.1.6a (2/10/26)

• Expanded: Gauge options
  • Arc and needle options expansion; various options added
  • Tick marks shape options
  • Art-based needles
  • Background up-res - additional UG2 backgrounds
• Expanded: Palette options
  
  • Additional palette slots for Arc options
• Added:
  • Digital - LCD option (originally made for CJK-based languages - now selectable for most surfaces that...

Beta v0.1.6 (22/9/26)

• Expanded: Palette system - Now includes MFD/Pre-rendered maps/navigation
  • The Palette workbench has been moved to the Data Management Utility.
  • Snazzy Maps styles JSON import support.
• Added: Performance monitor - a floating window showing game and HiStakes drawing costs, to help compare settings.

Fixes:

• Terrain and road...

Beta v0.1.5a (22/9/26)

• Added: Terrain detail: a setting (Automatic, Balanced, High or Maximum) on the map card controls how finely a map is scanned. The Terrain tab in Data Management can upgrade a prepared map to a finer scan in the background; the levels you already have are kept and the map stays usable while it upgrades.
• Added: Virtual Mirror (experimental): a floating, resizable rear-view...

Beta v0.1.5 (18/9/26)

• Minimap/Radar overhaul
  • Added: World map terrain background - The Navigation apps now draw a map prepared from the level itself: terrain relief and ground colours, water, forests, rocks and cliffs, buildings, and optional contour lines. A map is prepared once in the background and reused on every later visit; a coarse version shows within a...