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[Ant78]

I have a question

I have a collection of about 200 amazing cars, and I really enjoy driving them in vr. I have an issue at night though, a good majority of them are undriveable due to really bad headlights? I have turned the brightness up to 200% and it helped a little, but still is a challenge.

It's strange, as some cars have amazing headlights.

Is it because the original game didn't have night time?

I feel bad for moaning as it's so freaking amazing this game thanks to the incredible mods

 

[Peter Boese]

I have a question

I have a collection of about 200 amazing cars, and I really enjoy driving them in vr. I have an issue at night though, a good majority of them are undriveable due to really bad headlights? I have turned the brightness up to 200% and it helped a little, but still is a challenge.

It's strange, as some cars have amazing headlights.

Is it because the original game didn't have night time?

I feel bad for moaning as it's so freaking amazing this game thanks to the incredible mods

Those headlights comes with CSP and they actually need to be configured in light configs. Some of those configs are default settings comming with CSP already, some of them are made by other people and they will be downloaded automatically by CM. Some light configs are made by the creators of the car and put into the car's folder and have then a higher priority to be used.
There is no real base to do those lights. Its always dependent on what weather script and ppfilter is used. If the ppfilter is gaining the exposure too much, then the people settings those lights to weak.
I try to bring a little bit of a standard to AC in terms of nighttimes and exposure levels.
But it relay misses a standard of light intensities, which needs to be set.
And then there is also another part, that some people don't know what to set in those light configs.
F.e. the people set RGB levels like this 255,240,128,1 . But the base is 1 and the 4th value is the multiplier. (1,0.94,0.5,10)
So there are many fluctuations why those configs are different.
It would need a standard, but some people don't realy care about and doing just stuff which looks good on their own pcs.

 

[sab001]

Those headlights comes with CSP and they actually need to be configured in light configs. Some of those configs are default settings comming with CSP already, some of them are made by other people and they will be downloaded automatically by CM. Some light configs are made by the creators of the car and put into the car's folder and have then a higher priority to be used.
There is no real base to do those lights. Its always dependent on what weather script and ppfilter is used. If the ppfilter is gaining the exposure too much, then the people settings those lights to weak.
I try to bring a little bit of a standard to AC in terms of nighttimes and exposure levels.
But it relay misses a standard of light intensities, which needs to be set.
And then there is also another part, that some people don't know what to set in those light configs.
F.e. the people set RGB levels like this 255,240,128,1 . But the base is 1 and the 4th value is the multiplier. (1,0.94,0.5,10)
So there are many fluctuations why those configs are different.
It would need a standard, but some people don't realy care about and doing just stuff which looks good on their own pcs.

Learn something every day (with the base 1). Thanks! I'd love to see everyone chime in when they have (or can bestow) a lightbulb moment... (What did YOU learn today?)

 

[sab001]

I need a little insight (alot really) on uv mapping and such... I'm working on changing the Lola B2k10 Porsche body to the airbox (instead of air nacelles) version. When I export the .kn5 from CM to .fbx, I can load and look at it in Blender no prob. But even if I do absolutely nothing to it and export that .fbx out of Blender to .kn5 severely breaks it, texture wise (for example the center headlight and headlights loses its transparency), and otherwise (the steering wheel flips side to side when steered instead of rotating around its axis). The export also shows many errors for missing textures (but still exports ok), this could be fixed I guess.
Is this common when using Blender on the-files-of-others? Is there a better route (through other export formats) that can avoid these problems?

So now I'm trying to leave the original model .kn5 un-touched, and add the airbox with ext-config, but man, some hoop jumpin going on to develop it. I already did a detailed version that altered the original .kn5 but abandoned it for now. I suppose just normal when learning new software (Blender) but if anyone has any insights into the above I'd be grateful!

 

[Short_Circut]

I need a little insight (alot really) on uv mapping and such... I'm working on changing the Lola B2k10 Porsche body to the airbox (instead of air nacelles) version. When I export the .kn5 from CM to .fbx, I can load and look at it in Blender no prob. But even if I do absolutely nothing to it and export that .fbx out of Blender to .kn5 severely breaks it, texture wise (for example the center headlight and headlights loses its transparency), and otherwise (the steering wheel flips side to side when steered instead of rotating around its axis). The export also shows many errors for missing textures (but still exports ok), this could be fixed I guess.
Is this common when using Blender on the-files-of-others? Is there a better route (through other export formats) that can avoid these problems?

So now I'm trying to leave the original model .kn5 un-touched, and add the airbox with ext-config, but man, some hoop jumpin going on to develop it. I already did a detailed version that altered the original .kn5 but abandoned it for now. I suppose just normal when learning new software (Blender) but if anyone has any insights into the above I'd be grateful!

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the transparency issue seems to be a random thing when exporting from blender where the transparency doesn't read from the persistence file for whatever reason. Simple fix tho, can just mark everything back to their original transparency in kseditor/showroom

Steering wheel sounds like an issue with the steering animation (though idk how blender would cause that) or the steer_HR dummy is not centered on the steering wheel for whatever reason. Never had that issue

Materials thing it could be a case of different materials having the same name, so blender organizes them like material.00x which kseditor recognizes as a completely new material with no info in persistence hence why textures would be missing. but again never encountered this problem normally

what settings are you importing/exporting with? seems like an issue is happening there

 

[Cla01]

Ou I didn't know that is not possible to share it My bad

 

[sab001]

the transparency issue seems to be a random thing when exporting from blender where the transparency doesn't read from the persistence file for whatever reason. Simple fix tho, can just mark everything back to their original transparency in kseditor/showroom

Steering wheel sounds like an issue with the steering animation (though idk how blender would cause that) or the steer_HR dummy is not centered on the steering wheel for whatever reason. Never had that issue

Materials thing it could be a case of different materials having the same name, so blender organizes them like material.00x which kseditor recognizes as a completely new material with no info in persistence hence why textures would be missing. but again never encountered this problem normally

what settings are you importing/exporting with? seems like an issue is happening there

Exporting to .kn5 doesn't seem to have any setting/options. Is that what you meant? I noticed that .fbx exports have options to save by...
I'll check this steer HR dummy to see if that's affecting it. Thanks!

 

[Short_Circut]

Exporting to .kn5 doesn't seem to have any setting/options. Is that what you meant? I noticed that .fbx exports have options to save by...
I'll check this steer HR dummy to see if that's affecting it. Thanks!

i mean importing/exporting from blender. I assume you're just unpacking kn5 from cm showroom and importing straight to blender?

 

[Rodger Davies]

Your combined feedback is of great interest regarding this model... Whilst working on another livery, I recalled VCR's Chevette had glasscovers on their model... I've no experience in 3D modelling (but keenly interested) and thought, how complex could it be to do something like VCR's mod???

If anyone out there (a 3D modeller preferably) could jump in to assist with doing some work on the headlights (not like the PC3 mod), but rather, like the VCR mod - that would be awesome...

Headlight Covers ON:
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Headlight Covers OFF:
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@Greg_ST - if and where possible (time dependent & no rush) you could plan to work on the wipers at your leisure...

If you look at the Kunos Porsche 908 you'll find the combo to use for making the covers paintable. Need to be mapped though.

 

[Lele]

Does someone know how to fix a problem with bonny's mercedes amg gt3 evo that show the liveries with blancpain sponsors all over tha way ?
sorry if that's been question before.
Thanks

 

[Fanapryde]

Does someone know how to fix a problem with bonny's mercedes amg gt3 evo that show the liveries with blancpain sponsors all over tha way ?
sorry if that's been question before.
Thanks

Yes, here: https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/assetto-corsa-pc-mods-general-discussion.307899/post-13618933

 

[Lele]

Yes, here: https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/assetto-corsa-pc-mods-general-discussion.307899/post-13618933

Thanks for the reply.

 

[Pfalzdriver]

Wing is now fixed, seriously why would they put forza aero on this beautiful machine.

Drove this car yesterday and tbh it needs a lot of fixing!

• Folder name too long
• A lot of understeer with stock setup, not very DTMish
• No Cockpit_HR, no LODs, no AO
• Skin as PNG not DDS
• No wiper, no inner windshield, no broken glass, nor damage or dirt textures, no extended physics
• Some very odd shader settings

So I'd say the wing was the least problem of this car.

 

[sab001]

i mean importing/exporting from blender. I assume you're just unpacking kn5 from cm showroom and importing straight to blender?

Yes, I'm importing the .fbx generated by CM straight to blender. Everything looks great in blender (all transparencies in place) but exporting back to .kn5 breaks it (with 25+ errors incl. the dang steering wheel). I've decided to go back to altering the original. I'll make it right topographically, then I'll go after the errors. The other way (ext config) didn't allow enough changes to convince me. Airbox ended up looking like a foreign part. And this way I can fix all the niggles elsewhere in the model. Having lots of fun actually Been a long time (decades!) since I've modelled anything. Blender actually can do most of what my old Symbolics system could, just not as elegantly And about $300,000. less (A little look at that software: )

 

[RMi_wood]

Yes, I'm importing the .fbx generated by CM straight to blender. Everything looks great in blender (all transparencies in place) but exporting back to .kn5 breaks it (with 25+ errors incl. the dang steering wheel). I've decided to go back to altering the original. I'll make it right topographically, then I'll go after the errors. The other way (ext config) didn't allow enough changes to convince me. Airbox ended up looking like a foreign part. And this way I can fix all the niggles elsewhere in the model. Having lots of fun actually Been a long time (decades!) since I've modelled anything. Blender actually can do most of what my old Symbolics system could, just not as elegantly And about $300,000. less View attachment 1233455

Why export to kn5 from blender?
(just because there is the option, does not assume it is the only/proper way)

try:
1. export model with CM
2. edit model in blender
3. export as FBX from blender, save file in the folder you extracted with CM (the one with model.fbx and model.fbx.ini)
4. load FBX in ksEditor (persistence model.fx.ini should load if filename matches (preserving all original shaders/values)
5. verify/modify shaders as needed in ksEditor
6. save as kn5 from ksEditor

 

[racealot]

If you look at the Kunos Porsche 908 you'll find the combo to use for making the covers paintable. Need to be mapped though.

Thanks for the heads up... Since we already know the lights don't work, did try to apply paint to the headlight covers for the Gulf livery, and as suggested, they weren't mapped - so the attempt was ineffective.

...thought I had recently read on this thread that lighting could be possible & applied by utilising the 'customs emissive' function via CSP... Might read up some more on that subject.

WIP - Gulf Racing Livery

 

[Greg_ST]

Finally, he opens the eyes

 

[Kitasan-Black]

BMW Z4 Convertible 3.0i 2003 Release!!!!
Download:

bmw_z4_30i_2003_1.0

MediaFire is a simple to use free service that lets you put all your photos, documents, music, and video in a single place so you can access them anywhere and share them everywhere.

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Converted From Gran Turismo 6 By Peter Crill
-AO inside and out done
-Dashboard wip
-CSP Settings
-Physics BY VRDRIVING
-Factory Colors BY VRDRIVING
-Working Wipers
-Self Ligth
-Panoramic session Start config Daniel Nogal
-Beta testing and help ,@takum1,@Mascot,and others

BMW Z4 Convertible 3.0i 2003 | AO Car Mods Assetto By 101creative

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Great... i'll DL it and try to drive it!
By the way, I read that you are converting from GT6, but I wonder if it is possible to convert tracks as well, like the original tracks like Cape Ring, Eiger Nordwand, Matterhorn, etc. or city tracks like Rome, Circuito de Madrid, etc. to Assetto Corsa. I'd like to drive on them as well.

 

[MrHunt]

Finally, he opens the eyesView attachment 1233485

He is probably a Bugatti EB110?

 

[sab001]

Why export to kn5 from blender?
(just because there is the option, does not assume it is the only/proper way)

try:
1. export model with CM
2. edit model in blender
3. export as FBX from blender, save file in the folder you extracted with CM (the one with model.fbx and model.fbx.ini)
4. load FBX in ksEditor (persistence model.fx.ini should load if filename matches (preserving all original shaders/values)
5. verify/modify shaders as needed in ksEditor
6. save as kn5 from ksEditor

Why indeed. This is why I ask questions I'm looking for the proper way. Thanks!

EDIT:
So that works, sort of. No errors on export. The transparency is all good, but now the wheels and steering wheel aren't rotating (locked) as the car is driven around. Something I forgot in the export? RMI? Anyone?

EDIT: Do I need to re-set up the wheel rotation in Blender? (or KSEditor?)

 

[ClaudioWRC74]

please share with me

look your MP

 

[racealot]

Finally, he opens the eyesView attachment 1233485

That's great news @Greg_ST... Who did you have to kill to get the headlights modelled into the car??? Or is that the 'customs emissive' function at work???

Great effort deserves great rewards... Well done!

WIP - Winfield Racing Livery

This is another classic livery from downunder and it looks mean...

 

[ClaudioWRC74]

Hello,
This track needs a big update 😏

circuit de Mornay
Country : France
Author : unknown
Version : 2017

REAL

REAL

IN GAME

This track is not finished. No updates for the CSP (GrassFX, TreesFX, .......) and problem with the pits (car at the start in the grass), track preview error, the information in the json file is not complete

A modder interested in making the update ???

No information about the original modder .....

Circuit de Mornay – Pilotage, karting & événements privés

Découvrez le Circuit de Mornay : un lieu unique dédié au pilotage et aux événements automobiles, avec 8 configurations de piste au cœur de la nature.

www.circuit-mornay.fr

THANKS A LOT GUYS !

 

[Greg_ST]

He is probably a Bugatti EB110?

No, it is the Nissan 300zx JGTC, but with headlights now

That's great news @Greg_ST... Who did you have to kill to get the headlights modelled into the car??? Or is that the 'customs emissive' function at work???

Spoiler: spoiler

Great effort deserves great rewards... Well done!

WIP - Winfield Racing Livery

This is another classic livery from downunder and it looks mean...


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Somehow i take the headlights from another 300zx model from Gran Turismo 6, and somehow with my little 3ds knowledge i manage to put the headlights i move the air tube littlest down so they don't mess with the headlights (in good that you can see them) and now it has headlights "open eyes but with little eye gum on it"

 

[Jdramirez]

Great... i'll DL it and try to drive it!
By the way, I read that you are converting from GT6, but I wonder if it is possible to convert tracks as well, like the original tracks like Cape Ring, Eiger Nordwand, Matterhorn, etc. or city tracks like Rome, Circuito de Madrid, etc. to Assetto Corsa. I'd like to drive on them as well.

Its all Japan. & i don't understand it.

Also, the new GT7 update came out with a new Vision GT car called the EXENEO by Italdesign. Im not sure when we'll be seeing this car ported to AC.

Oh & speaking of GT tracks being ported to AC, i would also love to see Grand Valley Highway [AKA: GT7's Grand Valley Speedway] being ported to AC too.

 

[StoffelWaffle]

Its all Japan. & i don't understand it.

Also, the new GT7 update came out with a new Vision GT car called the EXENEO by Italdesign. Im not sure when we'll be seeing this car ported to AC.

Oh & speaking of GT tracks being ported to AC, i would also love to see Grand Valley Highway [AKA: GT7's Grand Valley Speedway] being ported to AC too.

Bruh play GT7.

 

[Peugeot905]

Bruh play GT7.

Can't lie that version of Grand Valley would be really cool in Assetto Corsa.

 

[MikeontheMic]

Has anyone explored adding more pits for VheEth's Interlagos? The track is the best looking Interlagos imo, its a shame the pits are limited to just 23

 

[Electroforce]

Hey guys, the Radical SR3 XXR drop on RD is kind of a strange one. You would think that URD would pass on some info. to
radical_motorsport so they can address peoples problems installing it but nah,

Anyways, if anyone has a solution for someone using CM + base CSP with no SOL or Pure please help.

 

[sab001]

So I have determined that:

• a CM export of the Lola B2k10 .fbx
• loaded into Blender
• exported from blender as .fbx (nothing changed for this test)
• loaded into KSEditorAT V6
• saved to .kn5

When this is opened in AC:

• the wheels are not rotating
• front wheels don't steer
• steering wheel doesn't turn (the car turns when required though)

Inspecting the Lola's wheel hierarchy in Blender shows:

• everything in the wheel hierarchy, from the top, has a Z-forward orientation
• apparently there is no dummy at the top of the wheel hierarchy.

Comparing this to the KS Porsche 908 lh:

• the top of the wheel hierarchy is Z-Forward
• the disc (and other stuff at the first level down) (for example) below it is also Z-Forward (is this a dummy?)
• everything below this (the meshes) are all Z-Upward (the blender orientation)

This obvious difference between the two says to me (low on the learning curve right now!) that the Lola's particular wheel structure isn't surviving this CM-fbx-blender-fbx-kseditor-kn5 process, and that's what's causing the wheel lockups. Does this ring any bells for anyone?
Now I will investigate whether I need to add a dummy layer to each wheel and manually rotate the axes for the bits below it. Sure hope I'm not spinning my wheels here. (haha).

OR, can I just re-orient the existing stuff in KSEditor or CM?

My export settings, in case anyone sees an obvious problem...

In the meantime, the problem with the transparency and missing maps is cured. (Thanks RMI!) Modelling continues... (looks like I'm taking a whole page here... sorry! (pythonesque sorry)