Renault Clio Cup P2 0.8.3 preview build

Guys, I present to you the first Clio Cup Phase 2 preview build.

This mod is facelifted version of my previous Clio Cup 5 mod, released under the Advanced Simulation Modding Team banner. Based on my information, only visual alterations were made to the car's exterior (front and rear bumper, lights), there were no further modifications to the engine or suspension components. So I kept the physics, sounds and the interior model and reworked the exterior only.

Every facelift or update like this opens the possibility to review the physics of the mod, so I sent the car to actual Clio drivers and, based on their feedback, I made some minor adjustments to the mod.

• Brakes were slightly updated. Now they have more braking power so the car locks and slides more when you smash the brakes to 100%. Now you should be more careful with the brake pedal.

• Power delivery was slightly improved as well, the throttle pedal LUT was updated with more power in lower RPM ranges.

• Another change is reducing the steering range by 20 degrees from each side, so the steering is slightly more sensitive, but since I don't have very accurate data about the steering ratio, this is thing which will probably change soon when I will have more accurate data.

With all this minor changes, the overal handling is very similar to the previous version, sounds are the same, tire model was not touched. I can tell both cars can compete against each other. I even consider updating the Phase 1 version with the recent physics updates, but I still need to gather some more data which are not in the manual or the homologation list.

 For now the car misses LODs and there are only 3 WIP skins available, more of them are in production. I am aiming for end of this month for the final release.

What needs to be done:

• proper B,C,D LODs

• optimization of interior meshes and textures

• more skins :)

Since I am a big fan of this car, I plan to develop the car further and even possibly add some advanced features like the intercooler cooling feature or the extended physics version, but since the main aim of this mod is AC beginners, for now I will keep it simple and vanilla compatible with all the compromises which need to be done to achieve this.

For now I can't claim this car is fully data based, even though it is pretty well documented in the documentation available online, there are still parts of the car which had to be taken from Gen 4 Clio, which was documented slightly better (almost the whole suspension geometry). But luckily it looks like that in upcoming months, I will get direct access to the real car and I will be able to solve some mysteries which still bother me and get the data needed to build proper simulation of Clio Cup car.

This build is available only to my paying Patreon supporters. As an appreciation of your support, you will get the preview builds of all my mods or updates to try and test before the final release. Final releases will be available for everybody for free, so please do not share or reupload the preview builds and keep it private until the final version will be released. If you want to make some cool preview video though, feel free to do it, just don't share any links to download the mod, share link to this Patreon page instead :)