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There is Highpoly and Highpoly. With a good optimization, you can get a very decent result with not much, especially if you focus on the driving part and ban everything in hidden sight on the model (between doors, under-hood, under-trunk, etc). The vast majority of converted models on AC running around 1.5/2M polys are not "that" detailed, they are simply way too informative on the wrong parts. A good shave and you get the same result with 400/500K on the driving side.
Sorry, but no, you didn't add the new timing.
[SHIFT_ANIMATION]
BLEND_TIME=100
POSITIVE_TIME=220
STATIC_TIME=10
NEGATIVE_TIME=100
PRELOAD_RPM=10500
INVERT_SHIFTING_HANDS=0[SHIFT_ANIMATION]
BLEND_TIME=100
POSITIVE_TIME=330
STATIC_TIME=10
NEGATIVE_TIME=300
PRELOAD_RPM=20500
INVERT_SHIFTING_HANDS=0
1st question: is that part of the car mapped?
Transferring your entire AC setup is easy, especially since your existing hard drive still works. There are only three folders you need to have everything the same on your new drive, unless of course you did any strange customizing to where things are located.
I recently did this
I have done it just this way to transfer AC to my new build High End PC (in preparation for ACE
) 2 weeks ago and AC works without a problem. The only thing you must do, if you transfer AC to a new PC or drive with fresh installed windows, start AC once via steam without Content Manager. Steam will then install some additional stuff, AC needs to run.Oops. I forgot about that step. Better go update my instructions. Thanks for the reminder.I have done it just this way to transfer AC to my new build High End PC (in preparation for ACE
quick question, can i still access the "local appdata" after installing the new harddrive?
yeah why not
Only 1 skin missing and then i release :-)
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Me trying to install that tool on my pc...
I'm not sure to have understood right, but why don't simply use the CompactGUI. As it works for the cars, it works also for the tracks. Which means less space occupied in the SSD without doing anything that requires a lot of work or a irreversible editing of the textures?I've downloaded some of the fantastic track texture updates by ClimaxF1 in the last time.
Resources by ClimaxF1
But as the DDS files are uncompressed, they really need too much disc space and the installation with content manager just doubles the needed disc space. As I see absolutely no difference between uncompressed and compressed track textures in a racing game, so I was looking for an easy way to batch convert these DDS files to DXT5 without mipmaps to save 75% of the disc space. But none of the normal graphics programs like GIMP, PAINT.NET or IRFANVIEW has a function to batch convert DDS files.
After some search a found the tool "ImageMagick", that does a batch conversion of DDS files. But you have to do it with a command line or a BAT-file.
First install the program on your PC, then create a new TXT-file and copy the following text to it and save it.
C:\Programs\ImageMagick-7.1.1-Q16-HDRI\magick mogrify -format dds -define dds:mipmaps=0 -define dds:compression=dtx5 *.dds
(Note: "C:\Programs\ImageMagick-7.1.1-Q16-HDRI" has to be the installation path on your personal PC. Maybe, you have to change it, if you have installed ImageMagick somewhere else)
In the next step you have to rename the TXT-File to something like "convert_dds.bat" (or what you like).
If your TXT-File has no .txt extension, you have to activate "show file extensions for known file types" in Windows Explorer first.
Now you can copy the BAT-file to the folder with the uncompressed DDS-files and start it with a double-click. The conversion process can take some time, if there are a lot of DDS-files in the folder. Of course you can also use the BAT-file in skin folders with large uncompressed car skin DDS-files. (do we really need a single skin folder with more than 300 MB in a racing game like AC? This means 9 GB for a field with 30 cars).
If you want to create the DDS-files with mipmaps, just change "dds:mipmaps=0" to "dds:mipmaps=1" in the BAT-file. This increases the resulting file size by 25% and I don't think, that the game needs mipmaps any more as they are automatically created at the start of a race. But maybe someone else has more information about that. By the way RSS doesn't use mipmaps for their skins anymore.
I hope this helps a little bit to save some of the limited disc space on your SSD and will increase the performance of the game on low end PCs.
Of course you can use CompactGUI on top and you will gain even more disc space.
cool, a good step to save even more space... but I would love to be able to use this on a folder (and finally on the whole content\tracks folder) to have it convert all DDS which aren't already compressed in that folder AND ALL SUBFOLDERS...I've downloaded some of the fantastic track texture updates by ClimaxF1 in the last time.
Resources by ClimaxF1
But as the DDS files are uncompressed, they really need too much disc space and the installation with content manager just doubles the needed disc space. As I see absolutely no difference between uncompressed and compressed track textures in a racing game, so I was looking for an easy way to batch convert these DDS files to DXT5 without mipmaps to save 75% of the disc space. But none of the normal graphics programs like GIMP, PAINT.NET or IRFANVIEW has a function to batch convert DDS files.
After some search a found the tool "ImageMagick", that does a batch conversion of DDS files. But you have to do it with a command line or a BAT-file.
First install the program on your PC, then create a new TXT-file and copy the following text to it and save it.
C:\Programs\ImageMagick-7.1.1-Q16-HDRI\magick mogrify -format dds -define dds:mipmaps=0 -define dds:compression=dtx5 *.dds
(Note: "C:\Programs\ImageMagick-7.1.1-Q16-HDRI" has to be the installation path on your personal PC. Maybe, you have to change it, if you have installed ImageMagick somewhere else)
In the next step you have to rename the TXT-File to something like "convert_dds.bat" (or what you like).
If your TXT-File has no .txt extension, you have to activate "show file extensions for known file types" in Windows Explorer first.
Now you can copy the BAT-file to the folder with the uncompressed DDS-files and start it with a double-click. The conversion process can take some time, if there are a lot of DDS-files in the folder. Of course you can also use the BAT-file in skin folders with large uncompressed car skin DDS-files. (do we really need a single skin folder with more than 300 MB in a racing game like AC? This means 9 GB for a field with 30 cars).
If you want to create the DDS-files with mipmaps, just change "dds:mipmaps=0" to "dds:mipmaps=1" in the BAT-file. This increases the resulting file size by 25% and I don't think, that the game needs mipmaps any more as they are automatically created at the start of a race. But maybe someone else has more information about that. By the way RSS doesn't use mipmaps for their skins anymore.
I hope this helps a little bit to save some of the limited disc space on your SSD and will increase the performance of the game on low end PCs.
hmmm ... compacting an uncompressed DDS with CompactGUI, would it take up as little space as compacted compressed DDS file?
The command line "magick mogrify -format dds -define dds:mipmaps=0 -define dds:compression=dtx5 *.dds" in the BAT-File works without a problem for me. That's how I found it on the ImageMagick homepage. But maybe it also works without "magick".
It would be a bad idea, if the game would not use mipmaps anymore. But that's not the case. If a DDS-file has no mipmaps, the game creates them at the start of a race. So no need to include them in the DDS-files. So you can reduce the DDS file size by 20%. Some weeks ago, there was already a discussion about mipmaps here. Maybe someone else can give us further infos.
