Patch highlights

Added content & features

• The Arabian horse has been added to the horse breed roster
  
• The Rabicano gene is now available for the Arabian horse
  
• Third-person and first-person view while riding or grounded have been added and can be toggled with Tab
  
• Added saving and loading of the camera mode
  
• Horse refusals have been implemented
  
• Updated and added more leg markings variations
  
• Added lead changes while turning
  
• Added four more show jumping courses and updated show jumping course 3 with a new course
  
• Added a new dressage course and a new dressage training course
  
• Added lead change for slow canter
  
• Added idle and halt animation with transitions from different gaits
  
• Added rein-back (reverse, backing up) on horseback
  
• Added Silver Buckskin and Silver Smoky Black gene combination
  
• Added a hard stop animation for the horse, activate by pressing X
  
• Added walk-to-canter transition
  
• Added look-at IK for third person character view, the character will now look towards where the camera is pointed
  
• New UI that includes gait and speed indicators while mounted on the horse
  

Fixes & adjustments

• Terrain texture has been updated
  
• Water shader has been adjusted
  
• World lighting and shader has been updated and adjusted
  
• Increased the scroll sensitivity range in the controls options
  
• Fixed a multiplayer bug for force animations
  
• Fixed various LODs
  
• The world fog has been adjusted
  
• Reflection probes have been swapped and replaced
  
• Fixed issue with horse jumping delayed because of changing strides before the jump
  
• Splashed white face markings have been updated for better eye textures
  
• Fixed animation looping issues
  
• The horse shader has had some updates and tweaking
  
• Minor fixes of the shadows
  
• Adjusted the horse’s textures to be less shiny
  
• Changed the render order of some materials
  
• Added object shadows
  
• Updated colors and textures for the house and stable buildings
  
• Adjusted arena fence to hide the fence foundation mesh
  
• Reduced sizes of numbers of textures to help with optimization
  
• Pangare textures have been replaced with new ones that do not have visible seams
  
• Some white patterns, such as Tobiano, have increased texture size and quality
  
• The main menu camera angles for the horse have been adjusted
  
• Tweaked the existing dressage training course to have less gait transitions
  
• Updated the transition from idle to turning standstill
  
• Updated the textures inside the stable building
  
• Fixed stirrup placement based on breed
  
• Fixed neck position and deformation on scaled horse heads
  
• Updated control scheme in the escape menu
  
• Added scaling to the scroll sensitivity when playing with a save from an older build
  
• Adjusted the turning of the horse
  
• Made post-processing and shadows change with the quality set in the graphics options
  
• Updated transitions from and to halt and transition between reverse and walk
  
• Updated show jumping training course 2 with a new training layout and exercises
  
• Fixed the transition between piaffe and passage
  
• Fixed issue with transition from piaffe to walk, trot, and canter
  
• General updates and tweaking of the UI, including changing the backdrop with blur and shadows for text
  

Known issues

• The reins sometimes clip through the neck and both reins end up at the same side of the neck
  
• Mane clipping issue with some breeds, especially the Arabian
  
• There are some clipping/skinning issues with tack