Tracks Cesana Sestriere Historic Hillclimb 0.6.1

[vibbuz]

vibbuz submitted a new resource:

Cesana Sestriere Historic Hillclimb - Italian historic hillclimb

Cesana Sestriere Historic Hillclimb​

** Link to part 2 belows description **​

Hello everyone, this is my first public track.
This is a very early release, I have lots to do and will keep working as hard as I can.
The track is an historical uphill race near Torino linking up Cesana to Sestriere, home of the winter olympic games back in 2006, a very fast unforgiving 10km road. Hope...

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[vibbuz]

vibbuz updated Cesana Sestriere Historic Hillclimb with a new update entry:

textures

took away repeated textures, gained 190mb in file size

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[VidPatriot]

No Kamera TV1 and even better Kamera TV2 ?
Pity...

 

[ai driver]

Good job. Perhaps you can look into reducing the size of googlemap.png. It is 506 MB.

 

[CobraCat]

Good job. Perhaps you can look into reducing the size of googlemap.png. It is 506 MB.

I couldnt even load the track, ACS.exe stopped responding.

 

[Epistolarius]

Seems like a nice recreation even in this early stage but there's definitely some issues for me. Loading takes very long (well, the track is 1.12GB in size), there's constant stutter even though DIPS is fine, and in practice mode you spawn facing an invisible wall towards an unfinished bit of the level.

 

[vibbuz]

thank you for your replys and ratings! I have problems with terrain mask and googlemap.png, if I scale them I'm not anymore able to reapply them correctly again. I should scale and split googlemap.png and I should be losing more than half terrain file size, resulting in a big performance boost.
About cameras, I never even looked how to set them up yet, since I'm still working on other stuff.. If anybody wanna do a first set is welcome to do it, otherwise I should get to that part by the end of the month/early september.

Edit: solved googlemap.png problems, uploading new version with smaller file, thank you for pointing that out

 

[vibbuz]

vibbuz updated Cesana Sestriere Historic Hillclimb with a new update entry:

File Size

Scaled googlemap.png, gained a lot in track total size. Now track in a single file.

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[LilSki]

Shouldn't even be a png. Never use png textures ever. There is a reason png textures show up red in the editor.

 

[vibbuz]

Shouldn't even be a png. Never use png textures ever. There is a reason png textures show up red in the editor.

now is a dds, I forgot to say that!
LilSki if you will just try my track I'd be grateful, you're like the messiah for track modder, I can't say how many problems I solved or hints I got by reading your posts over the net.

 

[Ayrlewis]

Ciao, complimenti per l'ottimo lavoro, anch'io vorrei realizzare un tracciato hillclimb di una nota manifestazione qui in Sardegna. Vorrei sapere che tipo di software hai utilizzato per creare Cesana. Ho provato ad utilizzare Racetrackbuilder ma ottengo in continuazione l'errore 403 nel momento in cui apro l'interfaccia di google maps...

 

[vibbuz]

vibbuz updated Cesana Sestriere Historic Hillclimb with a new update entry:

performance!

performance issues should be solved, I can finally focus on trees and closing the track with the missing buildings and stuff
added camera.ini and a new AI has been done

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[DrLimerep]

Loading time is still very long but I'd say most of the stuttering is gone and fps remain constant over the course. That's a great improvement.

 

[Phoenix77]

Hi @vibbuz If you don't have MIP MAPS on your dds textures... Assetto creates them while loading.... hence very long loading times while it does this.
4 - 6 Mips is usually good for trees... any large textures... maybe just use 1 mip.
Another reason for long loading times is the length (and edge resolution) of AI lines.

MIPS also helps keep textures sharper over distance.

I hope this helps a little

 

[vibbuz]

Hi @Phoenix77 , thank you for the reply. I'll go through my textures again but every single one should already have mips. Gimp by default adds 10 mips, could it be the opposite problem, too many mips to load? I'll be working again on the track from tomorrow, I'll start by checking textures then

 

[Phoenix77]

Hi @Phoenix77 , thank you for the reply. I'll go through my textures again but every single one should already have mips. Gimp by default adds 10 mips, could it be the opposite problem, too many mips to load? I'll be working again on the track from tomorrow, I'll start by checking textures then

Hey, no worries... yeah 10 Mips on some of the bigger textures might be a little high... especially if you have any really large textures for terrain diffuse. And if there is even one png or jpg that can really mess things up... You can also quickly test if it's the AI line that adds massively to load time... by temporarily renaming / deleting it... and try a practice session. Not much you can do about a large AI file... apart from trim back the resolution of the track edges.

 

[vibbuz]

Working on new updates, all starting point buildings are done, and I'm adding 3d grass. Here's a screenshots folder, it'll take a while to finish planting and testing but I'm all on it these days.

https://imgur.com/a/ibDjKjj

 

[AccAkut]

what a journey it is, great work

 

[vibbuz]

why, are there any differences?
thank you!

 

[vibbuz]

Testing the new updates, added 3d grass and new buildings midway and to the endpoint, working on 4 more. Added a second road mesh, and some minor fixes.