Automobilista 2 Ultimate Modding Guide - UPDATE: How To Custom AI

Shovas · Jan 11, 2024

Wait what about details about how to actually do the modding as opposed to finding and installing mods?

dreamer al · Jan 11, 2024

I now use AMS2 Content Manager. One click and its done. Much better than trying to manually install Mods.
Just one thing though, I wish there was a way to just upload one specific Mod, rather than having to do them all at the one time.

DC WOLF · Jan 11, 2024

this is not a guid, it's an appetizer

Deleted member 197115 · Jan 11, 2024

Is it officially endorsed by Reiza? Also featured mods are all legal, not rips from other titles are assume.

TeddyBearx · Jan 12, 2024

what is not from project cars 2 please

?

ShuntingStar · Jan 12, 2024

Modding and installing / using mods are quite difference things....

But thank you for article, its good

CorvusCoraxUK · Jan 12, 2024

@Timo Dick I don't believe that manually creating the mods directory is required if you are using AMS2CM.

I tried out AMS2 mods for the first time two days ago and I didn't manually create it - and the created timestamp on it matches when I first used AMS2CM, so it must have done it for me automatically

CorvusCoraxUK · Jan 12, 2024

kpduke said:
I feel this webpage is being paid by automobilista 2... too many articles on the game compared to how many people actually play it. most of the mods are not very good, they are just skins. i still have this game installed, and try it now and then, but the feedback to the steering wheel this game gives is hopeless compared to better racing titles.

(On the text I've bolded above) I think that's a fairly silly claim to make.

AMS2 has been getting more positive (generally - clearly you are not a fan and I know you are not alone

) attention lately, more people are playing it than ever before - and other sims have been relatively quiet recently. So it is natural that you'd see an uptick of stories relating to AMS2 on a site like this under those sorts of circumstances.

Timo Dick · Jan 12, 2024

Shovas said:
Wait what about details about how to actually do the modding as opposed to finding and installing mods?

That would be something for an updated or separate article ... See the "Notes". There will be updates.

Timo Dick · Jan 12, 2024

ShuntingStar said:
Modding and installing / using mods are quite difference things....

But thank you for article, its good

Right. That's why I tried to clarify it in the subheader. "Modding" is used synonymously for both creating and installing mods. Like "Mod your game" usually means 'get mods to work'. Yet it can also mean 'create your own mods'. As I wrote in the "Notes", this article is WIP by nature and I am going to update it with further and new contents.

MrBraindown · Jan 12, 2024

I know all my skin packs routinely get ignored in articles like this, but you could at least add my GT4 one as an alternative in your listing? Some might enjoy it.

mcroshaw · Jan 12, 2024

CorvusCoraxUK said:
(On the text I've bolded above) I think that's a fairly silly claim to make.

AMS2 has been getting more positive (generally - clearly you are not a fan and I know you are not alone ) attention lately, more people are playing it than ever before - and other sims have been relatively quiet recently. So it is natural that you'd see an uptick of stories relating to AMS2 on a site like this under those sorts of circumstances.

There was a survey recently on which games members of this site play the most and I think AMS2 was quite high, although AC was in front by a big margin. iRacing was low down the list. So they are just catering to that survey as far as I can see, which seems reasonable?

Johnny-S · Jan 12, 2024

Whilst content managers seem to be the way of things these days, I suppose I am 'old school' and prefer to do the installing myself. That way I know exactly what is going where and can make any appropriate changes I wish to (removing UI altering mod content in rFactor is a good example). I was hoping the article would tell me if this was possible as a simple operation in AMS2, rather than simply telling me of a CM that will do it.
It's like posting an article on how to change your car's brake pads and then just writing "take it to a service centre"!

Yannik Haustein · Jan 12, 2024

Johnny-S said:
It's like posting an article on how to change your car's brake pads and then just writing "take it to a service centre"!

That would be more like "ask someone who knows to do it for you". The more accurate comparison for this guide would be "here's a tool you can use to make the job as easy as possible for you"

For the manual way, there's still this video - maybe that could also be implemented into the guide, @Timo Dick?

gamer19 · Jan 12, 2024

seems to me this is a more of Automobilista 2 Content Manager guide

blueferrari · Jan 12, 2024

I've never used mods. Is it safe to do so and which ones are the most reputable? I kind of like many of the Project Cars 2 tracks and would love to add them!

olenstr23 · Jan 12, 2024

I remember seeing a similar article some while ago in here. Honestly I was hoping this new one would be any different, but turns out this new one is actually just a rehash with a bit more advert for the popular mods (which is good for the modders too).

Timo and/or whoever editors at RD/OverTake, even if you can't include the actual full on modding stuff (which is totally not easy and not really mod friendly, unlike your statement above "Thus, Automobilista 2 is much more mod-friendly than its engine predecessor"), I do hope you guys could give more insight about how to do mods that at least "approved" by reiza, such as liveries and custom bot.

If this is a truly "ultimate" guide you could've delve deeper with insights on:
- How to creating your own liveries and suits?
- Mix and match liveries from car packs and individual car liveries (because not every modder create car packs)?
- Playing with Materials to make your livery show some shiny gold or silver?
- Making your own custom bot names, and mess with the parameters to make your custom bot performs like their actual IRL driver counterpart?

Also I've already seen some misconceptions amongst AMS2 modding. There are car mods that aren't just model ports from PC2, such as the Indycar Mod (available here in RD) and the VRC paid mods. Maybe more to come, but as I said the engine is quite painful to work with for modders, not to mention they have to play catch up with Reiza almost whenever every big updates come (just like recently when cars suddenly have no sound).

On that last matter I guess you should also put some disclaimer that some mods (especially cars and tracks, but sometimes livery could be affected too) may not work properly after a big update and people should wait for the modders to update (therefore you have to download again), or unless they know how to fix it themselves.

TomLehockySVK · Jan 12, 2024

MrBraindown said:
I know all my skin packs routinely get ignored in articles like this, but you could at least add my GT4 one as an alternative in your listing? Some might enjoy it.

Hey at least you didn't get just a name mention in an article about oval racing when i have 7 different packs with Nascar liveries and they decided to just fill it all with IndyCar and nothing else

. RD has just an open-wheel / GT bias.

TMSRace · Jan 12, 2024

With the help of PCarsTools, the physics files of the tracks can be unpacked. AIW files are stored in these physics files (AIW controls the driving line and behavior of the AI opponents).

With a simple text editor you can set downforce, gearing and later braking for the AI opponents in the AIW file. With the good old RF_AIW_CAM_422 editor you can even change the driving line for the AI.

With the help of the AMS-Content-Manager you can now instruct Automobilista to use these modified AIW files without overwriting the original files. (For Monza 2020 I set 33% later braking for the AI opponents, and now I have really exciting races in Monza. No more easy overtackes after the long straights)

Darko Jovanoski · Jan 12, 2024

Also worth mentioning that we can't have unique sounds, all mods must use sound from other car from Reiza or Pc2, at least for now...

Name	Series	Year	Download
INDYCAR IR18 2023	IndyCar	2023	INDYCAR IR18 2023
V8 Supercars 2003	Supercars Championship	2003	V8 Supercars 2003

Reiza Class	Series	Year	Livery Set	Alternative 1	Alternative 2
			F1 2024
			F1 2023	Fantasy 2026
F-Ultimate Gen1	F1	2022	F1 2022	F1 2022	F1 2022
			F1 2021
			F1 2020
F-Ultimate Gen1	F1	2019
			F1 2012
F-Reiza	F1	2011
			F1 2001 (TC on)	F1 2001 AI	F1 2007 (TC on)
F-V10 Gen2 *	F1	2000	F1 2000 (TC off)
F-V10 Gen1	F1	1997	F1 1997	F1 1997 AI	F1 1997 AI
F-V12	F1	1995	F1 1995	F1 1990 (F-V12)
			1980-93 (F-V12)
F-HiTech Gen2	F1	1993
F-HiTech Gen1	F1	1992
F-Classic Gen4	F1	1991	F1 1991	NASCAR
F-Classic Gen3	F1	1990	F1 1990
			F1 1989	F1 1989 AI
F-Classic Gen2	F1	1988	F1 1988

F-Classic Gen1	F1	1986	F1 1986
			F1 1985
F-Retro Gen3	F1	1983	F1 1983
F-Retro Gen2	F1	1978-79	F1 1978
			F1 1975
F-Retro Gen1	F1	1974	F1 1974
F-Vintage Gen2	F1	1969-70	F1 1969
F-Vintage Gen1	F1	1967	F1 1967	Wipeout

Reiza Class	Series	Year	Livery Set	Alternative
F-USA 2023	IndyCar	2023	IndyCar 2023	Fictional
				CART 2003
F-USA Gen 3	CART	2000	CART 2000	CART 2000 AI
F-USA Gen 2	CART	1998	CART 1998	CART 1998 AI
	CART	1997	CART 1997
F-USA Gen 1	Indy Car	1995	Indy Car 1995	Indy Car 1995 AI
			Indy Car 1994

Reiza Class	Series	Year	Livery Set	Alternative
F-Inter	Fórmula Inter	2017-19		F1 Liveries
F-Vee	Formula Vee Brasil	2018		CART
F3	F3 Brasil	2017	F3 Brasil 2017	F3 Brasil 14-17
				FIA F3 2020
				British F3 1999
				F301 Legends
				F309 Legends
F-Trainer	British Formula Ford	2011		F1 Fantasy
F-Trainer Advanced	Formula Ford EuroCup	2011		F1 Circus
F-Junior	Formula Junior	1962		1966 F2

Reiza Class	Series	Year	Livery Set	Alternative
LMDh	IMSA SportsCar Championship	2023	2023 IMSA GTP
P1Gen2	Império Endurance Brasil	2023
				WEC 2023
DPi	IMSA SportsCar Championship	2018-20	IMSA DPi	DPi
P1	Império Endurance Brasil	2019		Fictional AJR
				Fictional G58
P2	Império Endurance Brasil	2018-20		Fictional P2
P3	Império Endurance Brasil	2019		Fictional P3
P4	Império Endurance Brasil	2017-19		Fictional MRX
				Fictional MCR
Group C	World Sportscar Championship	1987-89	WSC 1988	Group C
	IMSA GTP	1988	Corvette skins	962C Langheck

Reiza Class	Vehicle	Year	Livery Set	Alternative
Hypercar	Brabham BT62	2022
Hypercar	McLaren Senna	2022
Street	Camaro SS	2022		Trans-Am
Supercars	Corvette C8 Z06	2022
620R	Caterham 620R	2013		Variety Pack
Supercars	Ultima GTR	2000
Supercars	McLaren F1 LM	1995

Reiza Class	Series	Year	Livery Set	Alternative 1	Alternative 2
GT3 Gen2	Various International GT3	2023	2023 IMSA GTP
GT5	Ginetta GT5 Challenge	2021
GTE	IMSA GTLM	2018-21		Fictional GTE
GT4	Various International GT4	2019		Fictional GT4	Fictional GT4
GT3	Various International GT3	2017-21		Fictional GT3	GT3 R Pack
				DTM 2022	AMG GT3 Pack
					GT-R GT3 Pack1
					GT-R GT3 Pack2
					GT-R GT3 Pack3
GT Open	Britcar Endurance	2012-14		Fictional GTR
GT1	FIA GT	1997	F1 GTR	GT1 AI	1999 British GT
			GT1-98
			CLK GT1

Reiza Class	Series	Year	Livery Set	Alternative
TSI Cup	Polo Cup SA/India	2020
				V8 Legends AI
Super V8	Australia Supercars	2017	V8 Supercars 2003	V8 Supercars
				SuperV8 2003
Lancer	Lancer Cup Brasil	2015		SuperV8 Legends
				COTF V8
				Larry Perkins
				NASCAR
Group A	DTM	1992	DTM	E30 M3 Pack
TC70S	Historic Porsche	1974	Historic RSR & C3.R	73/74 IROC
	Historic Corvette	1971
TC60S2	Historic BMW	1973
	Historic Corvette	1969
TC60S	Historic Mini	1965
	Historic Lotus	1962	Fictional skins	Fictional skins

Reiza Class	Series	Year	Livery Set	Alternative
Old Stock	Old Stock Race	2021
Copa FL	Copa Classic Força Livre/Gold Classic	2021		Fictional Copa FL
Copa B	Copa Classic B/Gold Classic	2021		Fictional Copa B
Copa Fusca	Copa Fusca RS/Gold Classic	2020
Copa Truck	Copa Truck	2019		NASCAR
Copa Uno	Copa Onix Jeans de Fórmula Uno	1993	Fórmula Uno	Uno Pista
				NASCAR
Hot Cars	Hot Cars/Divisão 3	1983

Reiza Class	Series	Year	Livery Set	Alternative
G55 Supercup	Ginetta GT4 Supercup	2021
MINI Challenge	MINI Challenge UK	2021	2020 MINI Italia	BTCC
ARC Camaro	ARC Super Series	2019		Fantasy ARC
G40Cup	Ginetta G40 Cup	2018		Fictional G40
Carrera Cup *	Porsche Carrera Cup (4.0)	2017-19	Brasil (4.0 & 3.8)	Australia (4.0)
	Porsche Carrera Cup (3.8)	2014-16		991 GT3 Cup (4.0)
Superlight	Caterham Superlight R300	2015		Variety Pack
Supersport	Caterham Supersport	2015		Fictional Supersport
Academy	Caterham Academy	2015
Procar	BMW M1 Procar	1979-80	M1 Procar	M1 Procar AI

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