Tracks Fonteny 1.1

[denissi]

 

[Billy Pilgrim]

A mod for this track (with rain, more grass, seasons and some other bits n bobs) was published on RD recently: https://www.racedepartment.com/down...ons-water-shader-more-lights-and-grass.41984/

Anyone familiar enough with it to say if it's good for this already-amazing track?

 

[Fat-Alfie]

Is that the one with the orangey-looking autumnal pine trees?

 

[Gevatter]

orangey-looking autumnal pine trees?

Dafuq?

 

[Curratum]

For some reason I always crash when loading the track, even in Practice, when the loading screen gets to "Initializing AI spline".

Any ideas?

 

[Fat-Alfie]

Could be an App mod causing issues? I have never experienced that problem myself - sorry.

 

[Curratum]

Nothing to be sorry for, especially given the amount of work you have put in this! I will try getting rid of the few apps I run and try again!

 

[Vintagedriver01]

I will try getting rid of the few apps I run and try again!

Please let us know which app is causing this.

 

[Rodger Davies]

Nothing to be sorry for, especially given the amount of work you have put in this! I will try getting rid of the few apps I run and try again!

Are you able to test it either without CSP or on a different version to (ie 1.60)?

 

[Curratum]

Curiously, I tried everything and got it fixed in a way I did not expect.

I tried disabling apps, downgrading to old versions of CSP, nothing helped.

But I just re-installed the track from the archive, drag-dropping it into CM. First time around, I believe I did not select all layouts when installing. Now I did, and even though the loading screen hiccups for a second or two on AI spline, it loads just fine and I can play!

The location and track are incredible, thank you so much, Alfie!

 

[Assiduous]

Hi David,

Thanks for your great work updating Fontney - i liked the extra FPS i've picked up, but i do have some feedback and a request / suggestion.

Since updating to 1.1 i've noticed the (new?) white square fences (fence-mesh) don't play nice with SOL, tending to heavy pixelation, and to stand out noticeably.

The same fence texture appears to be utilised in Feldbergring in conjunction with the ksPerPixelAT_NM shader. In Feldbergring these fences play nicely with SOL, not demonstrating such 'high contrast' pixelation, and thus blending nicely with the scenery.

Any chance you could bring the Feldbergring fences / method to Fontney in a future update? Maybe this can even be done via the track config file but thats beyond my knowledge.

FYSA I run CSP 0.1.68 & SOL 1.5.5, 1080p, 4x AA, 16x AF

Cheers!

 

[Fat-Alfie]

Thanks for the feedback.

I design my tracks to work with Assetto Corsa, as it comes out of the box. I don't use Sol, and won't be changing my track to make it look 'better' with another, constantly-changing mod.

 

[Ben O'Bro]

we'll be having protest march against ever-changing-csp every thursday starting next week

 

[aphidgod]

I'm sure the 3% of mod users who still run vanilla AC appreciate your dogged determination.

 

[Johnr777]

Hi David,

Thanks for your great work updating Fontney - i liked the extra FPS i've picked up, but i do have some feedback and a request / suggestion.

Since updating to 1.1 i've noticed the (new?) white square fences (fence-mesh) don't play nice with SOL, tending to heavy pixelation, and to stand out noticeably.

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The same fence texture appears to be utilised in Feldbergring in conjunction with the ksPerPixelAT_NM shader. In Feldbergring these fences play nicely with SOL, not demonstrating such 'high contrast' pixelation, and thus blending nicely with the scenery.

Any chance you could bring the Feldbergring fences / method to Fontney in a future update? Maybe this can even be done via the track config file but thats beyond my knowledge.

FYSA I run CSP 0.1.68 & SOL 1.5.5, 1080p, 4x AA, 16x AF

Cheers!

What you are seeing is not pixelation, it’s alpha channel dithering.
Older AMD cards are known for this effect.

The issue is something that’s really more on your end I’m afraid.

 

[Assiduous]

What you are seeing is not pixelation, it’s alpha channel dithering.
Older AMD cards are known for this effect.

The issue is something that’s really more on your end I’m afraid.

Thanks John, that is interesting to know. I came across a great write up on this subject here:

https://bgolus.medium.com/anti-aliased-alpha-test-the-esoteric-alpha-to-coverage-8b177335ae4f

I experimented with changing the blend mode from alpha_test to alpha_blend...

[SHADER_REPLACEMENT_1]
MATERIALS=fence-mesh
BLEND_MODE=ALPHA_BLEND

The checkerboard dithering pattern is gone which is great, but the trade-off is that the visibility of other objects through the fence is effected causing some unacceptable artifacts at certain points along the track.

Alternatively, to get the grey Feldbergring fence wire look i instead added the following to my config file...

[SHADER_REPLACEMENT_1]
MATERIALS=fence-mesh
KEY_1 = ksAmbient
VALUE_1 = 0.2

This greatly suppresses visible dithering without introducing other artifacts.

 

[alexlockout]

Hello Fat-Alfie. I have one question (I apologize right away if it has already been discussed) why is the odometer in the car not working on your Fonteny track? on all Kunos tracks, and on your Deutschlandring and Feldbergring tracks, the odometer in the car works.

 

[Fat-Alfie]

I have no idea

 

[alexlockout]

I have no idea

today I installed version CSP 0.1.78 and the odometer worked. before that, there was version 0.1.76, and the odometer did not work on it on this particular track (it worked on the rest)

 

[Fat-Alfie]

So it was a problem with that version of CSP, then?