Assetto Corsa PC Mods General DiscussionPC

[alexlockout]

skins lotus type 23 cosworth in low resolution and weight, for a real driver .
resolution - 2048x2048.
dds compression - bc3.
the weight of the entire folder (34 skins) was - 837 MB, became - 245 MB.
skins for standard models (without aerokit).
not a conversion, made from the source (psd), so the quality is quite decent.

Assetto Corsa PC Mods General Discussion

Maybe one day we'll have a good version of present-day Jerez for AC... God I'm so jealous of the RF2 guys. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1229688469 It looks much, much better than alexmeyer's cartoonish version. Did you check the @Breathe track listings because there...

www.gtplanet.net

 

[Jezza819]

Not yet! Will try it today!

I was on ver. 1.1 when I posted. Doesn't feel any different than 1.0.

 

[LAFAYET47]

skins lotus type 23 cosworth in low resolution and weight, for a real driver .
resolution - 2048x2048.
dds compression - bc3.
the weight of the entire folder (34 skins) was - 837 MB, became - 245 MB.
skins for standard models (without aerokit).
not a conversion, made from the source (psd), so the quality is quite decent.

Assetto Corsa PC Mods General Discussion

Maybe one day we'll have a good version of present-day Jerez for AC... God I'm so jealous of the RF2 guys. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1229688469 It looks much, much better than alexmeyer's cartoonish version. Did you check the @Breathe track listings because there...

www.gtplanet.net

Hello, thank you for your work. If I understood correctly, the compressed skins are for the Mk.X Cosworth model, right?

 

[alexlockout]

If I understood correctly, the compressed skins are for the Mk.X Cosworth model, right?

Hello, this fits all versions of Lotus Type 23, except Lotus Type 23B V8 Climax FWMV which has aero kit. Lightweight skins for it will be later.

 

[Shokeus]

I did not succeed but the logo of the lights can’t be seen too much, so its advance, more than one to update ..

so much work for as many things as you can ...

 

[sml44]

Hello everyone, since the CSP update to 0.2.8, I've been getting headaches and nausea all the time. I don't play in VR, just a simple screen. I don't know if something has been added to the CSP, but before, I didn't feel this way.
Can someone tell me how to completely disable the neck FX, because there are two buttons in the CSP, or tell me how I can reduce this urge to vomit?
Maybe someone has a setting they can give me that works like a realistic neck FX, a bit like in Raceroom, which suits me very well.
Thanks

 

[MasterFocus]

Hello everyone, since the CSP update to 0.2.8, I've been getting headaches and nausea all the time. I don't play in VR, just a simple screen. I don't know if something has been added to the CSP, but before, I didn't feel this way.
Can someone tell me how to completely disable the neck FX, because there are two buttons in the CSP, or tell me how I can reduce this urge to vomit?
Maybe someone has a setting they can give me that works like a realistic neck FX, a bit like in Raceroom, which suits me very well.
Thanks

Deselect "Replace Original CSP Implementation with custom script"

 

[Breathe]

I feel exactly the same! No feeling at all in the front tyres. I'm using Simucube 2 Pro with the "AC Kunos Default" profile within the Simucube Tuner.

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Try this profile (delete the .txt extension)

 

[Rivanov]

Try this profile (delete the .txt extension)

Thanks! Can you also share your CM FFB settings?

 

[racinjoe013]

Don't usually do things like this, but I just spent the better part of the last two days wasting my time re-sizing and re-saving car skins and i'm a bit frustrated.

Do car skin makers understand the concept of files sizes and GPU memory?

I noticed in MSI Afterburner that I was pushing past my 8gb of GPU memory and thought it was something I did when modding a track. Turns out it was the car skins and I wasn't even using that big of a field. Only about 25-30 cars. I started to look through the skins folders and noticed some really huge file sizes for the textures used in most of the skins. Some of it was due to larger than needed texture resolutions for silly things like chasis AO's, tyre blur textures, NM files, etc. Most of it was due to choosing the wrong dds format when saving. There were files saved in a dds format that made the file size 4 times bigger than it should be. Thankfully after a massive amount of time spent, i'm back down to 5-6gb of GPU memory for a field of 30-32 cars.

OK, rant over.....

A little follow up to this rant. After going through most of my car folders and re-sizing\re-saving the skins, I knocked off almost 38gb of space from my cars folder. I know no one really cares, but I was amazed at how much space I got back. I think it's safe to say that some of the skins were oversized.

 

[monza17]

Does anybody have the CART 1998 from simdream? it is an old mod.

 

[Fall Guy]

working on a new set of preview settings in cooperation with @Fall Guy
sorry for the bad quality, but the forum upload reduces the quality a lot


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Some update / alternative.

 

[gavkiwi]

Does anybody have the CART 1998 from simdream? it is an old mod.

VRC is better, the SD one handling is poor, lots of snap over steer

 

[PTYVince]

Some update / alternative.

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Is posible one with a black back showroom but with the same lighting?

 

[MrLonguinha17]

Here is the link to the two spec Matra 650 Shorttail 70/71.

Download Matra ms650shorttail 2specs 20250408

Download File Matra ms650shorttail 2specs 20250408

sharemods.com

It's still not as we would like (the original 3D model by Evolution Modding GTR2 is not very good for Assetto Corsa).
But now with the help of "Pierre Antoine-Petit" the mirrors work, in addition to updates to the physics made by him.

The Brands Hatch version was the one I used in the 1000km simulation.
You will notice that this version, in the showroom (a black ring appears in the driver's position).
There is no way to remove it because it is part of the black protection file (on the car).

The other one was used by

• Beltoise/Pescarolo (1000km Paris 1970)
• Pescarolo/Gavin (Sebring 1970)
• Gurney/Cevert/Brabham (Sebring 1970)

IMPORTANT: If you have old versions, please delete them to avoid conflicts (bugs)


PACK SKINS BOAC - 1000km Brands Hatch 1970

Here is the link to the Skins pack (BOAC - 1000km Brands Hatch 1970).

Download Pack Skins BOAC 1000km 1970

Download File Pack Skins BOAC 1000km 1970

sharemods.com

You will have to manually place them on the cars I used, which are the following:

• Alfa Romeo T33.3 (by simdr) I used an Alfa adapted from Coda Corta
• Chevron B8.BMW (WSC60 Legends Chevron GT)
• Chevron B16 Ford (by Legion)
• Ferrari 512s (by Legion, the Spyder version I adapted in a file specific to the car). In this car, the driver3d used by me ( driver_70_fe ), but there are also files for ( driver_70 )

• Lola T70 Mk3 GT ( WSC60 Legends )
• Porsche 908.02 ( by Legion )
• Porsche 908.02 Flunder Kurtz ( by simdr )
• Porsche 910 ( WSC60 Legends )
• Porsche 917k ( by Legion ). In this car, there are driver3d files (for both "driver_60" and "driver_70".
• Matra MS650 (already available for download, which I partially converted by Group Evolution-GTR2 )

I just adapted many of them (according to the colors that were on the car, because I couldn't find any images).

The McLaren M8C Ford could be added (but I couldn't find any (and I also didn't adapt a model) with headlights.

 

[RacingManiac]

Have you updated to the 1.1 version of the RSS 296? I think something about the FFB was mentioned in the changelog.

Doesn't seem like it....

 

[Lele]

A little follow up to this rant. After going through most of my car folders and re-sizing\re-saving the skins, I knocked off almost 38gb of space from my cars folder. I know no one really cares, but I was amazed at how much space I got back. I think it's safe to say that some of the skins were oversized.

Can you tell me how you resized the skins?
I'm almost without space in my PC and I'm thinking about doing the same.
Thanks

 

[racinjoe013]

Can you tell me how you resized the skins?
I'm almost without space in my PC and I'm thinking about doing the same.
Thanks

Kind of a tough question to answer and you better have a lot of free time if you have a lot of cars and skins. I used a combination of two programs, mostly Photoshop. Some textures however only open as black images in Photoshop. For those I used paint.net. Don't ask me why, but paint.net read those ones properly.

I then went through every car skin folder I have, turned on detail view setting in Windows and looked for files with extremely large file sizes. It will be obvious which ones they are. Another way is to hover over a skin's folder. If the folder size is above 100mb (I saw a few over 300mb), there's a file or two in there that's too big. I got most of my skin folder sizes down to 50mb or less. Most skins I only had to do the paint scheme file, but a lot of them had other files that had no business being as large as they were. I saw ao and map files that were 4k and 8k in size, helmet textures that were 4k, etc. Seriously, who needs a 4k helmet file.

Then I opened them in one of the two programs I mentioned above and re-sized where needed and re-saved them as BC1 (I believe) dds files. I may have lost a little bit of quality, but I much prefer having no stutters from being a gig past my GPU memory limit than seeing perfectly crisp\clear car textures.

As a note and to maybe save you some time, I would stick to newer cars you may have first. Most of the older cars (the ones from Kunos and older car mods) did not have a problem with large skin folders. I think way back then everyone was making 2k skins instead of 4k and 8k skins. Probably because back then no one had 8gb+ video cards. Seems like newer cars and skins made for them have fallen into this trap of larger files sizes.

 

[Lele]

Thank you very much for your explanation.
My vídeo car only have 6gb.
I've seen this kind of stutters when I complete one lap for example in Adelaide with the RSS f1 1990.

 

[MrLonguinha17]

Could someone tell me how to increase the power of the headlights (in the "lights" file in the "DATA" folder)?In some cars, during night races, the brightness seems too low to me.Is there any way to increase it?Thanks in advance.

 

[RicME85]

A little follow up to this rant. After going through most of my car folders and re-sizing\re-saving the skins, I knocked off almost 38gb of space from my cars folder. I know no one really cares, but I was amazed at how much space I got back. I think it's safe to say that some of the skins were oversized.

I find that the large file sizes causes issues when trying to create previews in CM. Such high resolution skins with high file sizes usually end up creating a blank preview where the car is the model without any livery etc. Due to this I have used @jac0's method for converting the skins to smaller files.

 

[exva]

Could someone tell me how to increase the power of the headlights (in the "lights" file in the "DATA" folder)?In some cars, during night races, the brightness seems too low to me.Is there any way to increase it?Thanks in advance.

I do this via ext_config.ini in extension folfer. For example, add:

[LIGHT_HEADLIGHT_0]
COLOR=1.3,1.2,1,9

You can also adjust the brightness and color of the light flux.

 

[Den_88]

Could someone tell me how to increase the power of the headlights (in the "lights" file in the "DATA" folder)?In some cars, during night races, the brightness seems too low to me.Is there any way to increase it?Thanks in advance.

To do this you need to unpack the data.

However, remember that changing data.asd will cause an error online.in this case it is better to adjust the brightness in the extension file ext_config.ini.

 

[fleskebacon]

Kind of a tough question to answer and you better have a lot of free time if you have a lot of cars and skins. I used a combination of two programs, mostly Photoshop. Some textures however only open as black images in Photoshop. For those I used paint.net. Don't ask me why, but paint.net read those ones properly.

I then went through every car skin folder I have, turned on detail view setting in Windows and looked for files with extremely large file sizes. It will be obvious which ones they are. Another way is to hover over a skin's folder. If the folder size is above 100mb (I saw a few over 300mb), there's a file or two in there that's too big. I got most of my skin folder sizes down to 50mb or less. Most skins I only had to do the paint scheme file, but a lot of them had other files that had no business being as large as they were. I saw ao and map files that were 4k and 8k in size, helmet textures that were 4k, etc. Seriously, who needs a 4k helmet file.

Then I opened them in one of the two programs I mentioned above and re-sized where needed and re-saved them as BC1 (I believe) dds files. I may have lost a little bit of quality, but I much prefer having no stutters from being a gig past my GPU memory limit than seeing perfectly crisp\clear car textures.

As a note and to maybe save you some time, I would stick to newer cars you may have first. Most of the older cars (the ones from Kunos and older car mods) did not have a problem with large skin folders. I think way back then everyone was making 2k skins instead of 4k and 8k skins. Probably because back then no one had 8gb+ video cards. Seems like newer cars and skins made for them have fallen into this trap of larger files sizes.

Yep, I agree, this has to be done manually for each skin to get good results. Every car and skin is different, so automating this will usually not yield good results. Tampering with skins that are already correctly sized will only reduce their quality, and batch converting the others is also a pain, because you will still need to identify and decide which textures need to be what size and so on. This varies from car to car, depending on the UV map.

Paint.net reads every dds-file I've ever encountered. Photoshop and Gimp struggle sometimes with some compression formats. I can also recommend IrfanView, don't think that has been mentioned here yet? With the complete plugin package, it also reads pretty much anything. IrfanView is also lightning fast for viewing images, and it has batch conversion and a lot of other useful features, although not always user friendly or intuitive.

 

[Ale2Passos]

Please watch the install video and install it exactly like it is shown there. You must use 7zip app and its Extract button!!!
Don't use any other methods to install Pure!!!

Wow! Using 7zip fixed the problem, I was able to install it correctly. Thank you very much Peter! It's strange, because, as I said before, I've never had any problems using Winrar. Anyway, thank you again.

 

[exva]

Does anyone know, if it is possible to use the new RSS cars on older versions of CSP (0.2.0)? I tried version 0.2.8, it is terrible (imho), I see various visual/sound bugs and fps losses/drops. (pure 2.57)

 

[Masscot]

I really wish Pyyer would learn the basics of z-fighting and glass shaders. 😅
If you're bothered by the holographic glass in his 2025 Melbourne extension (maybe most noticeable for VR users?) then add this to the end of layout_f1_2025/extension/ext_config-pyyer-melbourne-environment-mod-2025.ini

[SHADER_REPLACEMENT_...]
DESCRIPTION= fix holographic building glass
ACTIVE = 1
MATERIALS = MEL_PIT_BUILDING_A_02!4, MEL_PIT_BUILDING_B, MEL_GRANDSTAND_LARGE_A_GLASS, MATERIAL MEL_GRANDSTAND_CANVAS_GAZEBO_A, MEL_PAVILION_BUILDING_A_02, MEL_POWERHOUSE_BUILDING_A_02
MESHES = meshnamewhatever
SHADER = ksPerPixelReflection
IS_TRANSPARENT = 1

Not tested, but it might also work for the other layouts if these same buildings are used?

 

[Junshen Wu]

I hope that a timing fix for Yas Marina is still in the works.


Anyway, any notes on your "jerez_2010" in your Mega repository? Original credits, version history, etc.? What is it? Is it a reworked alex meyer version? Or from a different source?

I caught it on Breathe's list and have had a look, but upon initial inspection I can't tell where it's from.

Cheers.



EDIT: One more note, when you can, please add the tag "circuit" to each of your releases - it's required for major AC features to function.

Thanks for suggesttion.
For Jerez, I don't know the sourse either, a friend send it to me, I just update some buildings and textures.
What's the bug about Yas Marina? I didn't find bugs before.

 

[ninezeroniner]

I really wish Pyyer would learn the basics of z-fighting and glass shaders. 😅
If you're bothered by the holographic glass in his 2025 Melbourne extension (maybe most noticeable for VR users?) then add this to the end of layout_f1_2025/extension/ext_config-pyyer-melbourne-environment-mod-2025.ini

[SHADER_REPLACEMENT_...]
DESCRIPTION= fix holographic building glass
ACTIVE = 1
MATERIALS = MEL_PIT_BUILDING_A_02!4, MEL_PIT_BUILDING_B, MEL_GRANDSTAND_LARGE_A_GLASS, MATERIAL MEL_GRANDSTAND_CANVAS_GAZEBO_A, MEL_PAVILION_BUILDING_A_02, MEL_POWERHOUSE_BUILDING_A_02
MESHES = meshnamewhatever
SHADER = ksPerPixelReflection
IS_TRANSPARENT = 1

Not tested, but it might also work for the other layouts if these same buildings are used?

Thanks every Fenryr track is heavily undermined by Pyyer extensions. Z-fighting is crazy

@Junshen Wu
quoting X90:

"in the straight into the first hairpin after the esses, right before the 150 board, Sector 1 switches to Sector 3. The remaining duration of the lap is seen as Sector 3.

On the pit straight, right at the end of the lap, about ~150 meters before the start/finish line, the track loses position data - and resets the Sector to Sector 1."

 

[Masscot]

Thanks every Fenryr track is heavily undermined by Pyyer extensions. Z-fighting is crazy

They often place new meshes directly on top of old ones then never seem to notice the inevitable texture strobing... or just pretend it isn't happening because fixing it is beyond comprehension. Some tracks are like disco versions.