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Masscot
OK.
Can somebody please explain in words of one syllable what the FUUUUU the various Smart Shadows settings mean and what they do and how best to adjust the bastards?
I can stop the flickering, but not without introducing horrendous shadow banding on the environment.
CSP is how many years old now?
And STILL the vast majority of settings have no (or next-to-useless) descriptions of what they actually do, and what adjustments have what effect.
It's more than a little bit frustrating at times.
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Maybe this helps: https://github.com/ac-custom-shaders-patch/acc-extension-config/blob/master/config/smart_shadows.ini. At least as a thought.
 
fleskebacon
Very nice, thanks. When using CSP for final render, it's just pitch black though. Regular render works fine. Anyone know if that's fixable?
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Not the same, but close. More or less, that´s the best you can achieve with that setting and CSP preview set to "on".

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racinjoe013
When you have time, can you give this updated spa66_phy file a try and tell me if you still have hole issues in those spots you mentioned. Also, let me know if you notice any difference in how the track feels for better or worse. Like I said above, this was a quick and probably incorrect attempt to fix the holes, but if it works and the track feels the same, i'm good with that. Then I can move on to trying to tone down the road feel.

Thanks for the help...

spa66_phy_update
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Thank you very much for the reply and the work! I only came now to this but I see you have a second link here as a reply to Bazza a bit later so I will give it a test, attempt to recreate the issue and see if this fixes it
 
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Hey @racinjoe013 thanks for this, I didn't find the mentioned road holes with this new file so I think this fixed that.

However watch out with these two surfaces at the s/f straight on the pictures as they are hollow and the car falls through. Although grass terrain besides it is there. Maybe check similar such joining roads/surfaces in other places if they do have terrain.

I found here one extra TV cameras file that I made some time ago if you want it

Btw do you think something can be done with the haybales? I don't know why track makers stick with them but it is annoying to race with them around acting like cinderblocks since they don't move. Would it be possible to make them non-collidable and instead underneath a haybale to put a curb-like bump that would make the car hop when running over it and upset a car just enough? Similar solution was with the buried tires at Bridgehampton or Sergio Loro what he implemented at his 60s Stardust with also buried tires.

Cheers
 

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JohnDoeGER
Update 1.0 for MNBA BMW E91 320d LCI Touring

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-Reworked engine values (correct BHP and NM now)
-Reworked suspension
-Updated interior textures and speedometer (correct for E90 LCI)
-Fully working dash display with a working analog fuel gauge

DOWNLOAD: https://mega.nz/file/zYUlibBT#tNn9bGe_6ROIjxSjJMzVvcGJsTlQP4cc9ztVzH0aUas
(just drag&drop and overwrite the old files)

Unfortunately the car itself is encrypted, so you have to put the new textures into each new skin folder.
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Download link updated!
 
When driving at night at sx_lemans (version 2.9 with Pyyer 2024 3.0 extension), you get these helicopters flying around.
I recently discovered that at night the light beams coming from these is no light beam anymore but instead a white 'smear' on the screen. I'm pretty sure it worked before (I'm tinkering with Pure and CSP as little as needed but do always run latest versions).

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I've already tried rolling back to previous CSP versions, which did not help.
Does anyone know what could be causing this and/or how to fix this?
 
Ken134
I have reset Pure in main Pure config and in PP app as per PB advised. Not tried resetting CSP though. Are you using VR or flat screen. I’m on VR so have tried Pure PP and Pure VR filter.


Has this car ever been ported over to AC. Thanks
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I don't think the 1990/1991 version of the Peugeot 905 is available in AC.
 
Stoempertje
When driving at night at sx_lemans (version 2.9 with Pyyer 2024 3.0 extension), you get these helicopters flying around.
I recently discovered that at night the light beams coming from these is no light beam anymore but instead a white 'smear' on the screen. I'm pretty sure it worked before (I'm tinkering with Pure and CSP as little as needed but do always run latest versions).

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I've already tried rolling back to previous CSP versions, which did not help.
Does anyone know what could be causing this and/or how to fix this?
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Have you tried to disable the heli kn5 file?
 
Felix789
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Hey @racinjoe013 thanks for this, I didn't find the mentioned road holes with this new file so I think this fixed that.

However watch out with these two surfaces at the s/f straight on the pictures as they are hollow and the car falls through. Although grass terrain besides it is there. Maybe check similar such joining roads/surfaces in other places if they do have terrain.

I found here one extra TV cameras file that I made some time ago if you want it

Btw do you think something can be done with the haybales? I don't know why track makers stick with them but it is annoying to race with them around acting like cinderblocks since they don't move. Would it be possible to make them non-collidable and instead underneath a haybale to put a curb-like bump that would make the car hop when running over it and upset a car just enough? Similar solution was with the buried tires at Bridgehampton or Sergio Loro what he implemented at his 60s Stardust with also buried tires.

Cheers
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Try it now. I added a second version with a tiny bit of road noise in some areas to at least give the road a little more feel in your hands. The straights felt lifeless to me on my weaker wheel. If it's too much, just delete the spa66_phy.kn5 file and rename the spa66_phy_no_noise.kn5 file to spa66_phy.kn5.

spa66_phy_update

As for the haybales, not sure I want to make them passthrough because of the ai issues that would cause and how unrealistic that would be. I'll see if there is a better way to do it so the impact is not so harsh.

Thanks for the cam. I'll add it too the track for the next update when I feel like the road is fixed.
 
racinjoe013
Try it now. I added a second version with a tiny bit of road noise in some areas to at least give the road a little more feel in your hands. The straights felt lifeless to me on my weaker wheel. If it's too much, just delete the spa66_phy.kn5 file and rename the spa66_phy_no_noise.kn5 file to spa66_phy.kn5.

spa66_phy_update

As for the haybales, not sure I want to make them passthrough because of the ai issues that would cause and how unrealistic that would be. I'll see if there is a better way to do it so the impact is not so harsh.

Thanks for the cam. I'll add it too the track for the next update when I feel like the road is fixed.
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OK great stuff! Honestly I got used to all the rumble and I only have a G27 and not a DD wheel. But trying out this 'no noise' feels actually nicer and yet again with enough of the dips and road undulations so the car's steering is still quite lively around the track. I think I like personally that one more. Maybe just this last straight section after La Carriere and before the Blanchimont is without any dips at all it seems.

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Don't forget about the missing terrain on the joining roads at the s/f line and pits exit section, the cars fall through there 🙏


Oh and someone a while ago mentioned that they noticed this zeppelin is moving backwards :D maybe just rotating it 180deg
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Felix789
OK great stuff! Honestly I got used to all the rumble and I only have a G27 and not a DD wheel. But trying out this 'no noise' feels actually nicer and yet again with enough of the dips and road undulations so the car's steering is still quite lively around the track. I think I like personally that one more. Maybe just this last straight section after La Carriere and before the Blanchimont is without any dips at all it seems.

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Don't forget about the missing terrain on the joining roads at the s/f line and pits exit section, the cars fall through there 🙏


Oh and someone a while ago mentioned that they noticed this zeppelin is moving backwards :D maybe just rotating it 180deg
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Crap, forgot about that one. Be right back with the fix. Not sure about the Zeppelin. I'm typically not looking up when I race so I never paid attention to how it moves.
 
Stoempertje
When driving at night at sx_lemans (version 2.9 with Pyyer 2024 3.0 extension), you get these helicopters flying around.
I recently discovered that at night the light beams coming from these is no light beam anymore but instead a white 'smear' on the screen. I'm pretty sure it worked before (I'm tinkering with Pure and CSP as little as needed but do always run latest versions).

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I've already tried rolling back to previous CSP versions, which did not help.
Does anyone know what could be causing this and/or how to fix this?
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Pure Gamma/Pure linear PP / latest CSP, this is what I get to see at sx_lemans and Pyyer's 2024 v3.0:

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Fanapryde
Pure Gamma/Pure linear PP / latest CSP, this is what I get to see at sx_lemans and Pyyer's 2024 v3.0:

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That is what I used to see, too.

Fall Guy
Have you tried to disable the heli kn5 file?
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Of course I can try and get rid of the helicopters altogether but that is beside the point. Something somehow changed along the way and made them look like this.
Everyday is an opportunity to learn so I'm trying to figure it out ;)
 
racinjoe013
Corrected...

spa66_phy_update
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EDIT...I had the wrong update.


It feels pretty good on my G923 but I fell off the map just in front of the start line.(left side)


On a related note...my G923 has started chattering when the steering wheel is centered and am going above 125 mph.Its in the game because you can see it onscreen as well.Its on all tracks and some cars are worse than others.
gain 100. Filter and min force 0. Effects all at 33 percent. Post processong 0.

It didnt seem to be this way before.Changing CSP versions dosnt have any affect.Game files verified.
 
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I_R_Brainiac
It feels pretty good on my G923 but I fell off the map just in front of the start line.(left side)


On a related note...my G923 has started chattering when the steering wheel is centered and am going above 125 mph.Its in the game because you can see it onscreen as well.Its on all tracks and some cars are worse than others.
gain 100. Filter and min force 0. Effects all at 33 percent. Post processong 0.

It didnt seem to be this way before.Changing CSP versions dosnt have any affect.Game files verified.
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Really? Damn, guess I have to check it again. I didn't see any holes so i'm not sure why.

EDIT: You're going to have to show me where because i'm not seeing it. Are you sure you got the updated version of the updated version. I originally forgot to do the area left of the s\f line.
 
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racinjoe013
Really? Damn, guess I have to check it again. I didn't see any holes so i'm not sure why.

EDIT: You're going to have to show me where because i'm not seeing it. Are you sure you got the updated version of the updated version. I originally forgot to do the area left of the s\f line.
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OK its good now....sorry,didnt know there was an update of an update. :boggled: Love the track.Thank you very much.(I only crashed 2 times first time around :D )
 
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racinjoe013
Try it now. I added a second version with a tiny bit of road noise in some areas to at least give the road a little more feel in your hands. The straights felt lifeless to me on my weaker wheel. If it's too much, just delete the spa66_phy.kn5 file and rename the spa66_phy_no_noise.kn5 file to spa66_phy.kn5.

spa66_phy_update

As for the haybales, not sure I want to make them passthrough because of the ai issues that would cause and how unrealistic that would be. I'll see if there is a better way to do it so the impact is not so harsh.

Thanks for the cam. I'll add it too the track for the next update when I feel like the road is fixed.
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Erf just so its clear to me, you just did a new road mesh with LESS feeling? Cause if anything i would actually enjoy to have more 🤪. Those old tracks and their bumps are why i stick to AC.
 
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Tetri
After intensive tweaking and for the record, for those like me who went crazy about the car shadows disapearing behind small windshields, it's in CSP Fake shadows, uncheck "properly project shadow on the ground".
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Many thanks! This has been driving me nuts for ages. FYI, it also applies to older versions of CSP (in my case, 0.1.80 preview 9)...
 
Tetri
Erf just so its clear to me, you just did a new road mesh with LESS feeling? Cause if anything i would actually enjoy to have more 🤪. Those old tracks and their bumps are why i stick to AC.
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Sort of. The track is still plenty bumpy, but might not be as bumpy as it originally was. What this was meant for was to fix the holes in the road mesh that apparently caused people some issues. Personally, i've been driving this track for the last two years and never ran across one of the holes, but if they are there, I wanted to fix them. To fix the holes required me to lose some of the bumpiness because I used the visual road mesh as the base for the physical road mesh since it was the easiest way to fix all the gaps. The visual road mesh did not have as much life as the old physical one. So I tried to compensate for that by adding some 'noise' to the new one. For me, where I ended up works well, but its' an easy enough thing to add more for people who would prefer it. At the moment i'm only concerned with the holes. I'll play around with the road feel once I know the holes are gone.

I'm still wondering where the holes came from to begin with and if the original spa66 track had them as well. I never touched the road mesh so if the original doesn't have the same holes then I don't know how what I did caused them to appear.
 
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racinjoe013
Sort of. The track is still plenty bumpy, but might not be as bumpy as it originally was. What this was meant for was to fix the holes in the road mesh that apparently caused people some issues. Personally, i've been driving this track for the last two years and never ran across one of the holes, but if they are there, I wanted to fix them. To fix the holes required me to lose some of the bumpiness because I used the visual road mesh as the base for the physical road mesh since it was the easiest way to fix all the gaps. The visual road mesh did not have as much life as the old physical one. So I tried to compensate for that by adding some 'noise' to the new one. For me, where I ended up works well, but its' an easy enough thing to add more for people who would prefer it. At the moment i'm only concerned with the holes. I'll play around with the road feel once I know the holes are gone.

I'm still wondering where the holes came from to begin with and if the original spa66 track had them as well. I never touched the road mesh so if the original doesn't have the same holes then I don't know how what I did caused them to appear.
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I hate to disagree with peeps that want it bumpier but its plenty bumpy IMO.You will never please everyone so ya gotta please yourself. :cool:
 
Valyul
Maybe this helps: https://github.com/ac-custom-shaders-patch/acc-extension-config/blob/master/config/smart_shadows.ini. At least as a thought.
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That does kind of help to deconstruct things. I think.
From this text...
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; Shadow cascades for interior cameras. unfortunately, with only three splits,
; not much can be done, so if you want to increase quality or distance for shadows
; outside, you can go full Gran Turismo and set it to something like 25, 75, 200
; (that game has incredibly bad interior shadows, but with dark interiors, it’s not
; really noticeable). Also, if needed, original Kunos values are 1.3, 80, 250.
INTERIOR_SPLIT=1.3, 40, 200 ; Distances for interior; text; hidden with AUTOMATIC_SPLITS
... it seems that the first value was the distance in metres that the highest-quality shadow would be rendered (then cascading down to the second mid-quality split then the third lowest-quality split), which Kunos had at 1.3m but Polyphony Digital set at 25m.
So, with a beefy PC you should be able to set the first split distance quite high and get (probably totally unnecessarily) cockpit-quality shadows off into the environment at whatever distance you set. But this only seems to work if you have Custom Shadow Matrices ticked, and even then results aren't great, and cockpit shadows flicker. Seems I also need to have shadow resolution set to 4096x4096 in AC video settings to avoid reduce shadow banding in the environment.
 
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Quark67
  • create a new folder named "data_override" inside "ac_legends_gtc_tvr_griffith_200\extension"
  • create a new text file with notepad and name it "lods.ini"
  • paste the following lines

[COCKPIT_HR]
DISTANCE_SWITCH=8

[DRIVER_HR]
DISTANCE_SWITCH=25

[LOD_0]
FILE=tvr_griffith_200.kn5
IN=0
OUT=20

[LOD_1]
FILE=tvr_griffith_200_LOD_B.kn5
IN=20
OUT=60

[LOD_2]
FILE=tvr_griffith_200_LOD_C.kn5
IN=60
OUT=200

[LOD_3]
FILE=tvr_griffith_200_LOD_D.kn5
IN=200
OUT=1500


You can follow a similar procedure for Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ2.
You have to edit also "hide_plate.ini" in a similar way.
NOTE: this car for now doesn't work. It gives an encryption error.
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for which cars can this work for now aswell?
 
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