Slovakia Ring 1.7 update preview
Added 2024-09-01 17:57:46 +0000 UTCHi all. I've been quiet for a while, mostly because I was busy moving my modding PC and my simracing rig back to my old flat in Slovakia after spending 3 years in Poland. I am back home, everything is set to normal operation mode and I am ready do to some modding again :)
Couple of weeks before I left Poland, I saw an onboard video from this year from my favourite track - Slovakia Ring and I noticed that the kerbs were repainted again. This time it is white-blue-red combination, which resembles Slovak national colors. I wanted to keep my track up to date so I contacted my friend at Slovakia Ring and asked some documents or pictures where I could see what was changed. I was given quite detailed photos from a drone, high res, good quality, so I checked the model and realised that it won't be as easy as the repaint from 2023. My UV mapping was done in a way where different colors were in pair, like blue-yellow-blue-yellow. But this time it was different. It was something like white-blue-white-red... so totally different pattern. I realized that it will be quite difficult to change it, but I did it. Manually. Had to check every kerb cluster and manually adjust the UV mapping to match new pattern. It took a while but I managed to do it. But lost the option to do old paint schemes as skins in the process...
When I finished the kerbs, I had to rework some textures and adjust some materials, but when I finished, I saw another video - an onboard video from a Rally event at Slovakia Ring from 2023. This track is multi-purpose track and a lot of different motosport events are held here, like drift, rally, hillclimb... even a bicycle race... And I planned to do some rally stages basically since the beginning so I checked the video again, realised it is doable and started to play...
Original rally video which was my inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qcfVoRrWME
Recent CSP update brought rally copilot app and special rally mode to the sim, so you can try this track in this mode. Since this rally stage is almost fully on asphalt, you dont need any special rally car, normal tyres or slicks will do fine.
When I finished with this, I was still thinking about adding one more thing - karting track. It was quite requested feature when my first version of the track came out, but I was too busy to focus on it and I was not into karting anyway so I asked my friend Tomas "Momo" Valent whether he would be interested in doing the karting layout. He said yes and he prepared some initial version of the karting layout but then he gave up a little on this project and it was sitting unfinished in my PC for months. So I talked to him and he agreed that I will finish at least Variant 1 which is most commonly used. So it took a while and I prepared something which in my opinion will be nice addition to go-karting in AC.
Couple of days ago I was personally at Slovak Karting Center and drove rental cars around, so I tried to make the karting track as accurate as possible. Big thanks to Momo for doing the hard work and modeling the karting track, I just did some tweaks here and there and added some stuff which was missing in Momos version. I hope you guys will enjoy it.
Full changelog for v. 1.7:
fixed wrong surface definitions (removed dust and vibrations where it was incorrectly assigned)
reworked kerbs and some track parts to 2024 visuals
reworked water barriers in variant 3 (T1) and variant 4 (T3) to be physical objects instead of static (concrete) barriers
reworked some textures and track mesh to utilize new layouts
added borders to asphalt roads (thx Digga)
added 2023 Rally layout
added Karting arena variant 1 layout
There were a lot of small tweaks here and there which I don't even remember, maybe you guys will notice :D
This update is not 100% finished yet, I need to do some more testing, maybe some AI tweaks will be needed, I just need a little more time. But I decided to give you guys the preview version of this update, to try it before full release. If you will find something worth fixing, let me know :)
I suggest to delete old track and do clean install for this update to get rid of all clutter. I prefer doing manual installation, CM is not very reliable...
Download the track here >> https://cloud.zalohuj.eu/index.php/s/8otrdfPyEGb6dQp/download
Alternate link (MEGA): https://mega.nz/file/0Mdhhbpb#pyBwNSU_DlR-Vtxxc4A0iGQRRF6ywOaQQIoHUipB1Cs
Comments
After having tried it, the Rally and Hillclimb versions are very cool. A bit of a mess at first but once you've done the co-pilot notes and done a couple of laps it's a lot of fun. I guess you already know it, but looking for more videos I saw that there are even rallycross ones (https://youtu.be/W6xy6JnduCI?si=I7isBHZf36qFeVsA). They certainly don't get bored haha Later I'll upload the co-pilot notes to RD I guess. Thanks again for sharing the circuit ♥️
JF2
2024-09-04 11:42:57 +0000 UTCREG karts fine tuned by me. By far best in terms of feeling and AI. Tested a lot during the years. Will send you in private :)
Maciej Magnuszewski
2024-09-03 06:53:10 +0000 UTCthat karting layout is pretty fun, especially when I have real life experience from there :) Sure, I will add some more grid slots to final release, shouldnt be a problem. I wonder, which go-kart mod do you use?
Roman Fusaty
2024-09-03 05:52:04 +0000 UTCPlease extend the grid for karting layout. Can't stop driving on it :) Rally is also super fun. So much variety now. Generally one of the best tracks in AC
Maciej Magnuszewski
2024-09-03 05:08:07 +0000 UTCThanks for the new link! Awesome job as always!
Bruno Pinheiro
2024-09-02 16:56:07 +0000 UTCUpdated post with Mega link, my cloud is still down :)
Roman Fusaty
2024-09-02 16:39:57 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0zWOfo5r2I Nuzzi posted the app on patreon. I'll link you a video so you can see it well. Nuzzi's app forces the AI to perform a movement towards the pit stop. It's not a real pitstop, the real pitstop starts after a time interval in the real pit area of the track. In simulating the maneuver related to the forced stop, those located at the beginning of the pitlane end up against this wall.
Marco Ferrigno
2024-09-02 14:13:14 +0000 UTCThanks very much for all the work. You and all your co-conspirators :)
Andre
2024-09-02 09:29:40 +0000 UTCYessir. cloud.zalohuj.eu itself is down.
Andre
2024-09-02 09:28:38 +0000 UTCmaybe the cloud is temporarily down, try again later. I will reupload it to mega or something else when I get back from work.
Roman Fusaty
2024-09-02 09:21:19 +0000 UTCAnyone else having problems with the download link?
Bruno Pinheiro
2024-09-02 07:59:01 +0000 UTCThx so much for sharing all this work. Looking forward to try the rally stage with a Fabia Rally2 😎
JF2
2024-09-01 22:06:51 +0000 UTCSpectacular work. Great to have kart variant. So much fun there !
Maciej
2024-09-01 20:16:50 +0000 UTCcan you give me some details? Which wall causes AI to crash? Where can I get that app? it looks like it was deleted from Overtake.gg...
Roman Fusaty
2024-09-01 19:53:23 +0000 UTCa great job. Unfortunately it is not compatible with the pit app of nuzzi because of a wall at the beginning of the pit lane that causes cars to crash during the stop. For the rest, legendary level work.
Marco Ferrigno
2024-09-01 18:28:16 +0000 UTCWoooow un trabajo realmente increible, muchisimas gracias por tanto!
Felipe Rojaz
2024-09-01 18:04:06 +0000 UTC
