Assetto Corsa PC Mods General DiscussionPC

[Italotracks]

A quick update for you regarding Pescara 1957, it's been a while since I posted, but I'm working full time on it.
Buildings are virtually all done and I have recreated all the stations along the small gauge railway that ran along part of the track.
Check out this photo from 1938, 180mph along a road barely 8 metres wide, with trees, houses, telegraph poles.. they were bonkers!

I have made contact with a friendly local historian who has provided me with some reference photos not to be found anywhere else, allowing me to add a few more houses/businesses that have since disappeared

I've also been planting a fair few trees around the track, thousands of olive trees to start with, seen here near the cemetery at Spoltore

On the home stretch now so I will hopefully be aiming for release this autumn, I'm going flat out.

 

[leopardpete]

It works good for very steady cockpit cameras. But in VR that could kill your experience if you focus too much on YEBIS AE. Even with some headmovement the exp starts to wooble. In the last years we developed much better methods to calculate exposures. Also, if you just been focused on the windshield, you miss important parts of the influence by the illumination of the cockpit. AND every car has a different shape, the users have different FOVs and the seat position can vary with the cars.

The best way is to have just a minor influence of AE for the exposure calculation and take more screen part into account then. So it also take dark places into account.

Thanks Peter. Of course, your understanding of such things is beyond question, and you have brought up some very valid points. Especially the problem of the difference in car windscreen shapes, the effect on the stability of the exposure and not working with VR, which I didn't consider at all.

In a few tests yesterday it seemed to be of benefit to me, but I run with very minimal head movement, and I might be prepared to sacrifice a some interior visual fidelity in order to achieve a little more consistency between driver camera exposure and that of other external camera views, which does seem to be something that a few others have found bothers them.

I need to test with more cars and tracks, and try your suggestion of a lowered influence of the AE.

Thank you for your input.

 

[Peter Boese]

Hi @Peter Boese (I always try to catch you when you're here)
Quick question: why does Pure now take so long to load when first joining a track? There's about ten seconds of stuttery images as various things seem to load in slowly... and half the time it crashes back to CM (but then loads pretty instantly when launching after this).
Pure never used to be so sluggish to initialise, or so fragile and unstable.
Is there something I need to disable?

Also: half the time headlights still get turned on during daylight, which is a major PITA as it affects performance quite a bit in AI races.

Cheers.

Which CSP version do you use, ppfilter and CM version? Does the Lua Debug app posts some errors? Actually its not a normal behavior.

 

[Fall Guy]

Which CSP version do you use, ppfilter and CM version? Does the Lua Debug app posts some errors? Actually its not a normal behavior.

What I figured out @Masscot is that CM only crashes when loading a track for the first initial launch. So I think it´s not related to Pure. Maybe some setting in CSP which is either connected to AI or track setting.

 

[jac0]

for those not yet subscribed to Peter Boese's patreon, see the splendid WIP he's doing on new version of Pure.

YOUTUBE video on upcomming Pure features

(it's the video his patreon received a link to , but it is publicly available on youtube, and published over a week ago,
so I guess it's ok to promote it here - although, who here isn't a patreon of Peter??? I guess not a lot... )

Very well made video that shows off the new features that will come in the next release of Pure.
Nicely done Peter, thanks!


ps: also posting this to make some fun ofcourse... (not to offend you Peter)

watch the video carefully to find the reference!

Spoiler: reference

Spoiler: reference

 

[Peter Boese]

for those not yet subscribed to Peter Boese's patreon, see the splendid WIP he's doing on new version of Pure.

YOUTUBE video on upcomming Pure features

(it's the video his patreon received a link to , but it is publicly available on youtube, and published over a week ago,
so I guess it's ok to promote it here - although, who here isn't a patreon of Peter??? I guess not a lot... )

Very well made video that shows off the new features that will come in the next release of Pure.
Nicely done Peter, thanks!


ps: also posting this to make some fun ofcourse... (not to offend you Peter)

watch the video carefully to find the reference!
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Spoiler: reference

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Spoiler: reference

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yeah, it always sucks if i see such dumb typos after the video is online. But actually there is someone, who read the texts. Maybe i build in further typos to have a reference...

 

[Masscot]

Which CSP version do you use, ppfilter and CM version? Does the Lua Debug app posts some errors? Actually its not a normal behavior.

Hi @Peter Boese, thanks for the response.
I won't be at my PC until tomorrow but CSP and CM are the latest versions, and I use the standard Pure PPF.

Ref the video showcasing Pure's new features, it wasn't clear whether wind speed and direction could be randomised. Random wind direction would be particularly useful, as having flags waving in random directions can help to freshen up a oft-used track.
CM's wind direction randomiser currently has no effect in Pure.

 

[racinjoe013]

Goodwood Circuit Update

Track Skins\Shader update for mantasisg's excellent Goodwood Circuit. It's a standalone track because I couldn't figure out a way for people to easily back out of it if they don't care for the changes. There were too many changes in the config, plus a couple of added kn5 files. It will come up as Goodwood Circuit in your track list.

Goodwood Circuit Track Skin\Shader update

Just to be clear, all credit for the track itself goes to mantasisg. I had nothing to do with the track creation nor did I alter any of the original kn5 files. I simply tried to make it look\work better with some CSP additions.

Credits:

Original Mod by @mantasisg
CSP Additions and Track Skins by @racinjoe013
Sound Banks from gt_sainte_croix and @gunnar333
Config help from @pk3r72owns (Nukedrop)
Beta Testing by @Quikslvr , @Perico Lospa and @pk3r72owns (Nukedrop)

Notes:
-- CSP is required.
-- Crowd sounds can be disabled in the ext_config by setting the entry to ACTIVE = 0
-- If you don't care for my shader values for things like the trees and grass, you can find any value I changed from the original track in the ext_config file. Or you can try one of the included brighter or darker alternatives simply by renaming the two included files in the extension folder.
-- Always leave the Trees skin enabled, but you can swap between the two grass skins to see which one you prefer. The Cool one is a little darker and has a tiny bit more blue tint. The Warm one is enabled by default (I think).
-- I redid the original ai to eliminate the crash in the chicane, but if you have an ai file that you already use with the original track, just copy it to this version.

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EDIT: Attached an updated ext_config file. I discovered last night that I missed a set of trees that would render too bright under certain lighting conditions. Doubt anyone would have noticed because you had to be using one specific replay cam and a specific weather condition for it to be visible on one part of the track. Just extract and overwrite when it asks.

Attached an updated config to the original post to correct the lighting on a specific set of trees I somehow missed. Most people probably wouldn't have picked up on them, but I wanted to fix them none the less.

 

[DiemPerdidi]

A quick update for you regarding Pescara 1957, it's been a while since I posted, but I'm working full time on it.
Buildings are virtually all done and I have recreated all the stations along the small gauge railway that ran along part of the track.
Check out this photo from 1938, 180mph along a road barely 8 metres wide, with trees, houses, telegraph poles.. they were bonkers!

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I have made contact with a friendly local historian who has provided me with some reference photos not to be found anywhere else, allowing me to add a few more houses/businesses that have since disappeared

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I've also been planting a fair few trees around the track, thousands of olive trees to start with, seen here near the cemetery at Spoltore
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On the home stretch now so I will hopefully be aiming for release this autumn, I'm going flat out.

I'm so excited for this. I don't suppose AC modding will make you rich, but the return on this project should at least buy you a nice holiday or something. Keep up the great work.

 

[sab001]

Attached an update config to the original post to correct the lighting on a specific set of trees I somehow missed. Most people probably wouldn't have picked up on them, but I wanted to fix them none the less.

Can you post this on a different link please? Google keeps saying it already downloaded it and tries to give me a buffered version...

 

[racinjoe013]

Can you post this on a different link please? Google keeps saying it already downloaded it and tries to give me a buffered version...

Sure thing. I'll put it on Google Drive or maybe try out the GT Planet Downloads. Be back in a few with a link. Just to be sure, are you talking about the track link or the updated configs?

 

[jacquespote77]

Hello, does somebody have "circuit de Chimay" track pls?

 

[JV82]

F1 1996 SUZUKA TRACKSKIN BY JV82

For Suzuka 1992 by @Rainmaker87

A great season is coming back!

Thanks

JV82

https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/f1-1996-suzuka-trackskin-by-jv82.63326/

 

[ApexVGear]

I finally get to drive my local track, MSR Houston, in AC! Thanks Tyrone/Nukedrop, @pk3r72owns for the first release!

The track is close, though there is more camber on some turns, and with more details, it could be really good.

You need to be a Patreon to download this early release. Nukedrop-MSR Houson on Patreon

Here's my photos of the track I shot after a 24-hour race, after my team and everyone else had left.

I actually walked the track, starting around image 196. MSRH Photos (557 images)

I've been away from my simulator and racing a little while, so I'm a little sloppy at the moment.

 

[sab001]

Sure thing. I'll put it on Google Drive or maybe try out the GT Planet Downloads. Be back in a few with a link. Just to be sure, are you talking about the track link or the updated configs?

Updated configs... (and the track ) Thanks! (GTP might be better in this case, since it's google that's buffering it...)

 

[Vintagedriver]

Hello, does somebody have "circuit de Chimay" track pls?

Are you talking about the Gilles75 Chimay track?

 

[andrevr]

yeah, it always sucks if i see such dumb typos after the video is online. But actually there is someone, who read the texts. Maybe i build in further typos to have a reference...

Like oyster eggs?

 

[JV82]

Question for @Rainmaker87 :
in your latest update for Anneau du Rhin the RainFX of WT233 is needed?
Thanks.

 

[Perico Lospa]

I quote myself to respond...

... Some idea why the AI cars of this sidesplitting hilarious mod (Abarth 595 Hellspec by D1ablO) are hovering while the one that I drive is touching the asphalt as it should be?...

Well, while here the bosses share big things, others like me only can offer little humble achievements (and some bufoonery from time to time). As no one answered my question, I started to tinker with the Abarth Hellspec files and ended solving the problem, by the trial and error method. I tell here for future references of rookie people like me in the dark science of (gasp) modding, since sometimes is complicated to find solutions in the web for these little inconveniences.

It turns out that this mod have two options for tyres: "street" (which were the ones that carried all the AI cars, that didn't touch the ground) and "hellspec track" (the ones my car had by default). Despite be graphycally similars in diameter, in the file "tyres.ini" that is inside the "data" folder, the sections "WIDTH", "RADIUS" and "RIM_RADIUS" of each of the tire options had different measurements.

Simply copying the values of these three sections of the tire option that displayed correctly in game in the tyre option that made the cars float in the air, solved the problem.

What I haven't discovered yet is how to change the default tires with which I start my sesions, without having to go through the pits or having to make a configuration for each track, nor do I understand what the AI is based on to choose tyres...

I hope this nonsense I wrote helps someone sometime.




By the way... @Paulo Ribeiro, someone is asking for you... 😙

At least he says hello and pls... 😜

 

[racinjoe013]

Updated configs... (and the track ) Thanks! (GTP might be better in this case, since it's google that's buffering it...)

I posted it to the GTPlanet Downloads section. I even changed the file name in case that was the issue for you. It already has the updated configs so no need to add those. Let me know if you still have issues getting it. I can try another way.

 

[Rainmaker87]

Question for @Rainmaker87 :
in your latest update for Anneau du Rhin the RainFX of WT233 is needed?
Thanks.

Track has it's own RainFX like all.

 

[JV82]

Track has it's own RainFX like all.

Thank You!!!

And...

[WIP] F1 1996 SILVERSTONE TRACKSKIN
For Silverstone 2005 by Kniker97

My favourite layout!

 

[FeGabriel]

Hello everybody,

I updated my melbourne22 with the (amazing) 2023 extension by pyyer but the AI is really slow even @ 100% (1'23, it should be more 1'19)

Is there a way to have a faster AI ? (i'm not a super fast...)

Thanks in advance :-) !

 

[maximeerkat]

Hi people. This is going to be slow painful and tedious however it is time for me to get my head down and learn a thing or 2.

first thing to learn: skinning

i am following a very basic tutorial and his files are not the same as mine so i need to check to make sure i am starting from the correct place.

what is this file that i have highlighted in the picture? what is it for? if i open it in paint.net its just a small yellow square..........is it the base colour of the car or something?

i have noticed that there is no AO layer on this car, how do i get that on the car? and is it really needed?.

the last computer i had and used was in i think 1998 it was called a "tiny pc" (any lads here from the uk remember the brand "tiny pc"?) so i really am starting from ground zero, only been using a pc now for a year and just delving into programmes very recently

i just want to get a really basic skin done first and slowly build up. For me this is all a confidence thing

thanks

i

 

[SpiteFuL]

Hi people. This is going to be slow painful and tedious however it is time for me to get my head down and learn a thing or 2.

first thing to learn: skinning

i am following a very basic tutorial and his files are not the same as mine so i need to check to make sure i am starting from the correct place.

what is this file that i have highlighted in the picture? what is it for? if i open it in paint.net its just a small yellow square..........is it the base colour of the car or something?

i have noticed that there is no AO layer on this car, how do i get that on the car? and is it really needed?.

the last computer i had and used was in i think 1998 it was called a "tiny pc" (any lads here from the uk remember the brand "tiny pc"?) so i really am starting from ground zero, only been using a pc now for a year and just delving into programmes very recently

i just want to get a really basic skin done first and slowly build up. For me this is all a confidence thing

thanks


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Some cars do utilise a base paint layer (as your clio does), whereas others don't - I'm not exactly sure why that is.

As for generating the AO you can do so by using Content manager's custom showroom feature. When the car has loaded into the showroom left-click the main part of the car that shares the name of the paint file in the skin folder (car_paint.psd in your case)(names can vary quite a bit); then, using the pop-up menu click the three dots to the right of the txDiffuse file. From there you can generate the map or AO in different resolutions or simply export the file.

Hope this helps!

 

[maximeerkat]

@SpiteFuL yes this helps alot thankyou . i totally forgot you can use CM for the AO. And there was me thinking i needed some 3d rendering software (which i can't use right now).

i need someone who i can pm because i have far to many questions i will be clogging up this place. everything i seem to try and do just does not work the way i am seeing in the tutorial.

if anyone can spare the time please let me no.

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update: 5 hours later i have something that is no where near finished, BUT i now have skin in the game . bad joke i no but it is 4.30 a.m

if anybody can tell me why the remus decal dissapears in the sun in game that would be great, maybe thats normal?

i am using paint.net and just found the decals on google

thanks

 

[chas1723]

Here is the 4th car from the LMP pack. I have reworked the Cadillac with CSP textures, added pit lights and exhaust glow. This car could really use some new skins as most of the logos are very low resolution. Any feedback is welcome

Updated Cadillac with CSP | Chas1723

Get more from Chas1723 on Patreon

www.patreon.com

 

[MikeontheMic]

I've downloaded this multiple times and can't seem to figure it out. The MSC Alfa Romeo 156 STW never loads the textures in race for some reason. In the CM Showroom, looks great and works fine.

Any suggestions on how to make this? I keep running into it with BTCC/STW skins and I'm a sucker for complete historic grids lol

 

[24H]

anyone interested?

 

[Projekt EDEN]

anyone interested?
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Absotively!! Yup!!