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[Rodger Davies]

Same here... After messing two days with both packs, with various result, I ended up keeping most of my original cars. Quite some of the 'new' versions looked worse than before and had multiple issues (for me).
E.g. the Ferrari 250 LM. The GADU Boyz/ F40 LM Lover had a great instrument panel, AC Legends used a simplified one that looked quite bad..
For some cars the skins of the old versions became incompatible...etc...

On the other hand, there were some nice additions

The previous WSC pack used this same 250LM, they've always been separate conversions. Gadu's conversion is fantastic if course, and somewhat heavier in textures - the WSC one is meant for bigger grids and is a bit more simplified.

Fortunately, Gadu's worked with Bazza & Co on the latest set, hence some beautiful polish on cars like the Dino and the T33/2 (on Overtake).

There shouldn't be any examples of the old skins not working on the new cars, but note the 911 model is a completely different one (I kept the older 'R' model for the 1968-1971 cars and the new SWB for the 65-67 ones personally).

Something is not working correctly for me, with the latest Alfa TZ2 from the GTCLegends pack. The gaduboyz TZ2(s) are installed as prescribed, but attempts to drive the GTC TZ2 get me the error:
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I re-downloaded and re-installed both the GTC60s V1.2 TZ2 and the Gaduboyz TZ2, to no avail.

Notable that the other cars using this refer-to-another-car technique work correctly (ferrari 250 GTO and the Alfa 33).

Anyone else? I guess I'll just use the Gadu boyz instead.

(Also notable that when attempting to view (in the CM Showroom) the TC60s TZ2 (and the Alfa 33 Stradale, but not the Ferrrari 250 GTO) results in using the showroom LITE instead of the regular showroom.)

This is an issue caused by different versions of CSP; it works on 2.2 and older but not newer ones. A fix is in the pipeline but give it a week or so for a patch to address a few issues, just ignore the TZ2 for now.

so i can do it for each car listed there but put instead of the example tvr mod (non ac legends) lod names the names of the cars i wanna use instead?

Maybe I misunderstood, but for these three you can copy the KN5 files to the ACL cars, update lods.ini to refer to them, and delete the original cars, if you want to save a few MBs.

@racinjoe013 @Felix789
Awesome that you try to fix the mesh problems at Old Spa.

I remember a deadly one on the far left side of the Holowel Straight.
If I remember correctly it is at around the 100 Meter Sign before Stavelot.

View attachment 1419080

I guess you found it already. If not and if needed a can make a picture when I am back at my PC.





Onto the haybales. I agree with Felix.
It would be great for online racing to have them passthrough or better slightly touchable, like they behave at 60s Zeltweg (https://www.overtake.gg/downloads/zeltweg-1966.67840/).
The reason is that the haybales are often the last thing drivers see before they end their race in a fatal crash, when they only touch them a bit while passing them fast.

To cover both (AI and Online), two different layouts might be and idea.

Many thanks for your effort @racinjoe013

Agree this is a great way to do hay bales, they're inconvenient but not fatal. This is also the reason for the incredible Tulln being a 99/100 rather than the full 100 for me. Maybe 999/1000 is closer.

 

[RMi_wood]

re haybales and embeded tires:

I have been using a technique for several years now, (first?) realized in my Keimola release with its infamous burried tires.
Another track to feature my softbales style is Paramount Ranch among others.

These were achieved by surfaces manipulation without implimenting CSP custom collision parameters (which is still quite buggy imho).

 

[Rodger Davies]

re haybales and embeded tires:

I have been using a technique for several years now, (first?) realized in my Keimola release with its infamous burried tires.
Another track to feature my softbales style is Paramount Ranch among others.

These were achieved by surfaces manipulation without implimenting CSP custom collision parameters (which is still quite buggy imho).

I know sod all about track edits, so sorry if this is a daft question, but is there a way to apply that to tracks with solid bales if those aren't mentioned in the surfaces.ini file?

 

[MrLonguinha17]

Hoping in the near future that some of these versions of the

Matra, Ligier JS2 and Ford GT40 (partially converted from GTR2) and with the possible improvements in the textures made (by MrHunt) ....

and some WM and Mirage (in the same way but with improvements by Aleroy), can be made ( in the standard by Bazza or another simulator that comes to make them).

For now we will use these to compose the historical grids.

 

[Atty312]

Hoping in the near future that some of these versions of the

Matra, Ligier J2 and Ford GT40 (partially converted from GTR2) and with the possible improvements in the textures made (by MrHunt) ....

and some WM and Mirage (in the same way but with improvements by Aleroy), can be made ( in the standard by Bazza or another simulator that comes to make them).

For now we will use these to compose the historical grids.

Looks great. Will you be publishing them on Discord?

 

[MrLonguinha17]

Looks great. Will you be publishing them on Discord?

Some models still need to be tested with other cars on the tracks (for a BoP that approximates the reality of the time)...

 

[Masscot]

Starting to wonder if the last CSP update has borked the shadows. I can't seem to get rid of quite vivid tramline shadow banding on the track and adboards etc.
Changing the time of day with the Pure slider has the tramlines changing direction as the sun position changes.
The effect gets worse at low sun angles.
Increasing shadow resolution lessens the effect, but does not eliminate it.
I've tried all sorts of Smart Shadow settings, different splits etc etc.
Looks pretty awful.

 

[maximeerkat]

File for changing the blue seat to a dark grey.


Dont forget to change the "txt" to a "dds"

 

[I_R_Brainiac]

That does kind of help to deconstruct things. I think.
From this text...

; 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.

I think I tried upping the first split from 1.3 to like 15.It made the transition to the next split very stark.

Starting to wonder if the last CSP update has borked the shadows. I can't seem to get rid of quite vivid tramline shadow banding on the track and adboards etc.
Changing the time of day with the Pure slider has the tramlines changing direction as the sun position changes.
The effect gets worse at low sun angles.
Increasing shadow resolution lessens the effect, but does not eliminate it.
I've tried all sorts of Smart Shadow settings, different splits etc etc.
Looks pretty awful.

Yes,I am seeing lots of self shadowing bands on all the tracks.

 

[Fanapryde]

File for changing the blue seat to a dark grey.


Dont forget to change the "txt" to a "dds"






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I guess you don't like the bright blue seat...

But the real one is (partly) blue too, be it a bit on the darker side:

 

[Twisteddrift]

Is it possible for this to be in AC now since FM is on steam?

 

[MrLonguinha17]

I decided to create two Corvette skins (DX Sunray Oil Co.) in a simple way.
The version of the Corvette (by Bazza) for the 1968 24 Hours of Daytona (it's 1967 for car number 31).

The cars (29 and 30) are from the (1969 C3) version.

It will do for now. I hope someone does it better.

 

[MasterFocus]

 

[Kurt Woods]

Any chance someone can identify this decal or logo for me? I haven't had any success finding it. Thanks.

 

[MasterFocus]

Whats the easiest way to adjust seabelt to driver?
Can I import the driver into Blender then adjust it?
As of now its quite painstaking to adjust - save - check in CM...

 

[mrtomcat66]

Is it possible for this to be in AC now since FM is on steam?

Sunset Peninsula (fictional track from Forza Motorsport 4) is available for Assetto Corsa for many years now. Unfortunately it is just a freeroam track:

 

[MrLonguinha17]

I hope everyone has this version of the Ford p68 (different from the Legion version with spoiler).

Skins from the 1968 BOAC 6h race (Team Alan Mann) to compose the grid.

Download Ford p68 skinsBOAC 1968

Download File Ford p68 skinsBOAC 1968

sharemods.com

 

[gtrNL]

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Any chance someone can identify this decal or logo for me? I haven't had any success finding it. Thanks.

Pretty sure it's pogona insurance

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[FrustratedUse]

Is it possible for this to be in AC now since FM is on steam?

Yes, Someone just needs to figure out how to decrypt the track files.

 

[StoffelWaffle]

Is it possible for this to be in AC now since FM is on steam?

Don't even need FM2023 for that one, FM4 would suffice. And there's plenty of tool to extract the tracks (xDelta, XISO, Forza Studios...)

I gave those FM3-4 tracks to rmi last year, maybe something will come out of it, maybe not !

 

[andrevr]

Pretty sure it's pogona insurance

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[RMi_wood]

Sunset Peninsula (fictional track from Forza Motorsport 4) is available for Assetto Corsa for many years now. Unfortunately it is just a freeroam track:

Well... this is one big POS. (I originally downloaded this back in 2021 it seems)
It would need EXTENSIVE UV remaping and a ton of 3d work to even be presentable

Don't even need FM2023 for that one, FM4 would suffice. And there's plenty of tool to extract the tracks (xDelta, XISO, Forza Studios...)

I gave those FM3-4 tracks to rmi last year, maybe something will come out of it, maybe not !

Well, I still have the archive extracted in my dev folder. I could try again to have a look but if I recall the tracks did not look viable to produce anything of quality.

 

[Vintagedriver]

I hope everyone has this version of the Ford p68 (different from the Legion version with spoiler).

Skins from the 1968 BOAC 6h race (Team Alan Mann) to compose the grid.

Download Ford p68 skinsBOAC 1968

Download File Ford p68 skinsBOAC 1968

sharemods.com

If not it can be found at https://www.assetto-fr.com/garage/ford/ scroll down to the bottom.

 

[Junshen Wu]

Kunming Competitors Kartclub(昆明竞速卡丁车俱乐部)
A real kart track in Kunming, Yunnan province, China(中国云南省昆明市).
Made by me.
Grassfx, rainfx and lights added, csp 1.79 or higher needed.
1 layout, 1 camera.

Download link:https://mega.nz/folder/z8Il0KCK#sWqQ4VdeEDJGOVOJmhyJ8w
The track address: No. 8-1, Luolong Road, Chenggong District, Kunming City, Yunnan Province(云南省昆明市呈贡区洛龙路8-1号).
Welcome to our kart club.



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Kunming SK1 Kartclub(昆明SK1卡丁车俱乐部)
A real kart track in Kunming, Yunnan province, China(中国云南省昆明市).
The track has been closed on October 2024 because of legal issues of land use, really a pity.
Made by me.
Grassfx, rainfx and lights added, csp 1.79 or higher needed.
1 layout, 2 camera.

Download link:https://mega.nz/folder/z8Il0KCK#sWqQ4VdeEDJGOVOJmhyJ8w

 

[Twisteddrift]

Thanks guys for responding.

 

[shi]

Piranema Winter Test Track v1.3

https://www.patreon.com/posts/piranema-winter-72139151

View attachment 1228889
Fictional circuit in Brazil.
Conversion from Grand Prix 4.

-CSP recommended
-32 pit/start
-AI, cam

Credits & Thanks;
Original Track by Gildoorf Rozencrantz, Ruboy, PrBlanco, Ricardo Lampert
-Thank you for gave me permission (Gildoorf)

AC Converted by @shi (shin956)
AI, sidelines and ai_hints.ini by IMEAN
.lua and font base by @gunnar333
ext_config by @slider666
logo.png by @Fanapryde
Crowds texture by Kniker97
some objects and textures by kunos
Test and Feedback by @Fanapryde , @slider666 , @Breathe , @Mike08, @twobegreen, @Masscot

Enjoy.
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v1.01 changelog;

-Added new church building. https://www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/exterior/historic-exterior/old-little-church
(Thanks for the report by @twobegreen .)
-Smoothed edges of road surface and kerb.
-Fixed floating buildings.
(Thanks for the report by @Masscot .)
-The AI line was broken, so it was re-created.
-Other minor fixes.

v1.1 changelog;
-Extended pit lane entrance. (Thanks to Meatfraiche for the report.)
-Some textures were upscaled with AI.
-Fixed tree wall mapping.
-Changed background.
3D mountains from Chuck_CG's Landscape pack.

Landscape pack

6 Terrains, 5 displacement maps(1k, 2k)4k PBR textures(color, roughness, normal)open with blender 3.3+Increase subdivision levels for more details.in the images below you can see the levels at 5 then at 0My Portfolio https://www.artstation.com/chuckcg

chuckcg.gumroad.com

-Added Summer Mountain Skin.
-Updated preview.

v1.2 changelog;
New AI, sidelines and ai_hints.ini by IMEAN. (Thanks!)
Changed crowd textures by Kniker97. (Thanks)
Added garage doors that open and close.
Added grid and s/f line meshes.
Updated billboard mapping and textures.
Updated ext_config.ini.

v1.3 changelog;
Added white lines to pit lane. (Thanks Perico Lospa for the suggestion.)
Updated kerb texture.
Updated ext_config.ini.
Other minor fixes.

Piranema Winter Test Track v1.3
The link is in the quote.

v1.3 changelog;
Added white lines to pit lane. (Thanks Perico Lospa for the suggestion.)
Updated kerb texture.
Updated ext_config.ini.
Other minor fixes.

 

[sDmD13]

delete

 

[Triplexbee]

That does kind of help to deconstruct things. I think.
From this text...

; 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.

During my long drawn out relationship with custom shadow tweaking, the conclusion about increased resolution was the most revelatory. I have ended up on 4096 but have had trips into the two (not recommended) resolutions with good results.

FWIW, which is very little when it comes to the dark arts of CSP shadows, the splits I have settled on (for now) are 1.3, 90, 250. Fourth cascade active and set to 2500m.

 

[Masscot]

During my long drawn out relationship with custom shadow tweaking, the conclusion about increased resolution was the most revelatory. I have ended up on 4096 but have had trips into the two (not recommended) resolutions with good results.

FWIW, which is very little when it comes to the dark arts of CSP shadows, the splits I have settled on (for now) are 1.3, 90, 250. Fourth cascade active and set to 2500m.

Thanks, I'll try those.
At 4096 or higher?
Also, are all other Smart Shadow tick boxes at defaults?

These shadows have been driving me mad for a few days now. I can get them to a good place EXCEPT for striped shadow banding immediately in front of the car from cockpit view.
I was even starting to get decent results with automatic splits, apart from this one issue.

Edit: those stripes in front of the car are still there with 8k shadows... they're just thinner lines, closer packed. But still very visible.

Here's what I mean. Looks worse in action in the Reverb G2 HMD, and hard to see in a static image.
Seems to get worse the lower the sun angle.

 

[Steve Hayward]

Thanks, I'll try those.
At 4096 or higher?
Also, are all other Smart Shadow tick boxes at defaults?

These shadows have been driving me mad for a few days now. I can get them to a good place EXCEPT for striped shadow banding immediately in front of the car from cockpit view.
I was even starting to get decent results with automatic splits, apart from this one issue.

Edit: those stripes in front of the car are still there with 8k shadows... they're just thinner lines, closer packed. But still very visible.

Here's what I mean. Looks worse in action in the Reverb G2 HMD, and hard to see in a static image.
Seems to get worse the lower the sun angle

I have been having the same issues. Apart from rolling back to the last csp build i have found another setting that improves it for me. It kinda goes the opposite way with shadow res. I reduced the overhang multiplier to minimum 50%. Seems to soften the shadow and smooth things up for me. Lets put it this way, it is not so obvious to me since i did this. Oh and look direction = do not use in VR is helping i feel