New preview, 0.1.62-RC

I cannot run this update at all. CM crashes 100% of time, all cars, all tracks all types of weather. Get following message: Error might have something to do with: AC\nodeevent.cpp (23): NodeEvent::render AC\cameramirror.cpp (49): CameraMirror::renderOpaque AC\mirrortexturerenderer.cpp (118): MirrorTextureRenderer::render AC\sim.cpp (2558): Sim::renderScene AC\game.cpp (275): Game::render AC\game.cpp (275): Game::render AC\game.cpp (275): Game::render AC\game.cpp (126): Game::onIdle AC\game.cpp (210): Game::run AC\acs.cpp (477): wWinMain f:\dd\vctools\crt\crtw32\dllstuff\crtexe.c (618): __tmainCRTStartup

wvstarship

Great idea, thank you, I’ll add those options! As for the question, do you mean disabling sun shadows and only using dynamic shadows from dynamic lights? I believe that should work, there is a `main_fs_noshadow` shader set without sun shadows, but with dynamic shadows. Or, if the idea is to replace original sun shadows with those dynamic ones, I don’t think it would work, and not just because sun shadows use cascades. Main issue is the algorithm itself, it’s a very unusual for me solution I’m still trying to wrap my head around (mainly, how could somebody come up with it). If you want, please DM me and I’ll explain in detail, but to put it in a few words, that algorithm used by dynamic shadows, although allows for smoother and more stable shadows and quite a lot faster to apply, can only work on a short range, or it would produce a lot of light leakage. You can see it already with those dynamic shadows here and there, shadows starting not right after an object, but after some extra distance. And that is with shadows with range of about 30m on average. Sun shadows would require the range in kilometers, so unless I’m missing something, that shadow detachment would be massive. Thank you, and very sorry for the late response

Ilja Jusupov aka x4fab

Yes, hopefully it’ll change in the future, but for now reflections rely purely on SSLR, which is a part of Extra FX that doesn’t work with anything other than single screen. I’m going to try and add some simpler alternative solution for triple and VR

Ilja Jusupov aka x4fab

Oh, yes, it’s one of biggest questions we got so far, really strange stuff. While car paint materials look reasonably well during the day, and values make sense, at night, they look really bad. Still can’t figure out why though, one thought I have is that it happens because AC’s rendering is not gamma-corrected the right way. Going to try and fix that a bit later. Light Maker though just makes a regular light source, no difference from the one on a track. Very sorry for the late response.

Ilja Jusupov aka x4fab

In this specific version there is no rain. lights-patch-v0.1.62-preview15-full has rain, lights-patch-v0.1.62-preview19-full does not. Download the new shaders lights patch up above and try that. When you get in game, open up both the SOL weather config and the WeatherFX debug app and play around with forcing rain/rain debug. Also make sure in settings > WeatherFX that it checked active in CM

Well something happened I just don't know what... the rain was static but flashing... still no ext rain app...

thanks, put in the key but that didn't change anything... sadly

Make sure you are putting the shaders light patch downloaded here in your AC mods folder and enabling it in Content Manger in the content > mods section

open content manager > settings > content manager > general > app key

And is there a step by step tutorial available cause I can't for the life of me get it to work... the ACC ext rain app is nowhere to be found, even after 2 complete reinstalls.

What do I do with the app key I got in the mail?

Thomas you need to revert to preview 15 for rain.

Fraser Brown

Ilja, yesterday experimenting with the new shadows I came with the idea to use Light Maker app to fully exploit dynamic shadows for photography but the more I experimented the more I realized that reflections are sorta off. It looks dull like here https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/537727315686326283/738400925852500009/Screenshot_ks_toyota_gt86_spa_30-6-120-16-21-33.png Is that something inherent of night time or is it because of Light Maker?

I noticed that the reflections of the car with a wet track do not work with the triple monitor, instead in single they work well

Yes, that's why i reverted to preview 19 which doesn't work too

Rain was removed for this build, but it will be back.

Fraser Brown

Hi! If we can give suggestions, here I go - it would be nice to have the option to open the car doors and turn on/off the windshield wipers in the new photo mode, too. I use the Shaders extension dubbug to do it... works, but... you know :D Also, a question was made in a forum that I am a subscriber of and it sounded relevant: "could we turn off the "original" shadows and run the CSP ones alone"? Thanks.

Alex Zuotoski

Hey when I'm in the weather fx python ap and go in the rain section and into debug drops, I don't get any sliders have I installed it wrong? How do i get the sliders to actually make it rain work? My linked option is also missing.

I’ll try to add that a bit later, might take some time though (since it’s not just about hiding the model, but also, lights attached to it and so on)

Ilja Jusupov aka x4fab

Hmm, unfortunately I can’t reproduce it here yet

Ilja Jusupov aka x4fab

Hey, unfortunately not, they’re pretty hardcoded to speed things up, with atlases and everything. I see that seven flags are missing, including placeholder one, I’ll add them, thank you :)

Ilja Jusupov aka x4fab

It’s in CSP apps section, at the bottom

Ilja Jusupov aka x4fab

Hey, thank you! What about prebaked vertex AO? New bakery taking into account bounced light is coming soon :)

Ilja Jusupov aka x4fab

Yeah, spot lights on most of them are too wide for shadows to work properly, so they would require to adjust configs. Or range is too short for shadows to get enabled automatically. I'll adjust those default values

Ilja Jusupov aka x4fab

Ilja, can you add an option to hide "player car" or/and "opponents' cars" to the new photo app, please? Thanks!

xoxo

review the comments on the July 15 preview

guys, how can i try physics on a wet track? thank you

me too.......

contemax0

Read the post carefully... Ilja said that Preview19 has NO rain, it is a testing ground for other things.

Nice job ! But Preview 19 give me just statics water particules, no rain and no wipers are working. Used the preview 15, wipers worked but no more water particules or rain whaterever used weather. Using lastest Sol 1.6.2 realease. Any idea ?

By the way... x4, this is something that I noticed it happens on certain cars. https://youtu.be/oVu1U7I5jDM

New flames please they look ugly thx, XD Seriously, new flames also would be a great deal since the current vanilla flames are... bad(trash)

With this update not work galre , headlights bloom etc

Hey Ilja, Lovely work on Driver Tags, I'm currently running a league and would like to use it in our broadcasts but not all the flags from AC are present. Could I add these on my own? How?

where can i find the light maker app?

Hey Ilja. This is an incredible feature. It reminds me of something else I thought this game would really benefit from. Is it possible to add some sort of ambient occlusion to the game? A stronger AO effect so that building and props look more connected. Sorry if this is a stupid question. You're doing an incredible job, thanks :)

Thank you for this!

The dynamic shadows don't seem to work with most tracks, even Kunos ones like Zandvoort, Monza, and Imola

Zip Zap

where can we get some sample config or parameters for new features like SIDE_NET? :)

Roman Fusaty

Hi Ilja. With this build (and the previous previews with rain), app settings such as FFB levels won't save new values after being altered. If I roll back to 0.1.61, everything works as expected. Cheers :-)

xez

I think so. If you want rain back reinstall the previous build

Fraser Brown

i cant find the rain fx mods anymore did this replace it?

snewpy3434

Track displays not working for me still, looking at Vallelunga's example, just a black screen

Just try a car like Abarth 500 with new car stereo or GT86 with navigator and Spotify desktop client running in background, and change a track or something like that, it should show that. I’d use API to monitor currently playing track so it would work with web player, but unfortunately they have rate limits which are way too strict for that. Apparently there is some API they added for Discord, but it’s not for public use. So, yeah, it just looks for the name of the window as many similar apps do :D

Ilja Jusupov aka x4fab

Hey Ilja! How can i try the spotify thing? Thanks for the update =)

I'll be trying it as soon as I get back home!

Bruno Ventura

really excited to try, thanks for this