The "What Are You Working On?" Thread

[Ben O'Bro]

I'll gladly release the beta version but I still need custom sounds for the 2L NA diesel. Other than that it's pretty much finished.

the whole french population thank you for the service to the country

sincerely,
France

 

[Kostakop_]

Hi everyone, been following this thread for a while now and I absolutely love it! Today I got my hands 3ds Max for the first and started making a car by merging 2 cars together, the interior from the ks huracan and the exterior from a Super trofeo mod I downloaded, I got the car working in the game but there is a problem with the windscreen and windows when being viewed from inside where they just freeze to one image when I switch to that camera, If anyone could help me that would be greatly appreciated

 

[Matthew327]

Hi everyone, been following this thread for a while now and I absolutely love it! Today I got my hands 3ds Max for the first and started making a car by merging 2 cars together, the interior from the ks huracan and the exterior from a Super trofeo mod I downloaded, I got the car working in the game but there is a problem with the windscreen and windows when being viewed from inside where they just freeze to one image when I switch to that camera, If anyone could help me that would be greatly appreciated View attachment 510203
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Don't use content from other people.

 

[Kostakop_]

Don't use content from other people.

Not even for my own use?

 

[Matthew327]

Not even for my own use?

Most content creators would be rather unhappy. If you have to, make sure not to share/upload it.

 

[Kyuubeey]

Well, the main reason not to use others' work is because nobody does it right.

 

[Sergio Loro]

Not even for my own use?

yes!! for your own and to learn how stuff is done, but dont load it and says "i did this", we all modders start learning from other people work, nobody was born with absolute knowlodge!!

 

[aphidgod]

Not even for my own use?

For your own use as a teaching tool? No problem at all.

Releasing it and/or claiming it as your own is a different story, of course.

 

[Kostakop_]

Thanks for the clarity on if I can use the mod, can anyone help me with my windscreen problem? It also seems like the windows have x-ray on any part that wasn't on the original car

 

[Trava]

setTransparent = 1 on any mesh using AlphaBlend mode.
also node priority, if you have multiple layers of AlphaBlend meshes the further inside it is the higher priority it needs to render correctly.

Also, RTFM.
assettocorsa/dev/car_pipeline_2.0.pdf

 

[x0t]

For that good countryside feeling.
If only Assetto supported PBR texturing.

 

[Kyuubeey]

If only Assetto supported PBR texturing.

Do I have some news for you...

 

[x0t]

Do I have some news for you...

Tell me ? I've been using the CSP PBR Car paint sparingly but I can't input a roughness map, can I ? Any link ?

 

[Trava]

Tell me ? I've been using the CSP PBR Car paint sparingly but I can't input a roughness map, can I ? Any link ?

Roughness is stored in alpha channel of TxDetail normal map IIRC. (CSP uses smoothness because **** you, invert your roughness map). For ""optimization"" x4fab opted to store different maps as channels inside other textures (TxMap, TxDetailNM) which in turn makes it a cluster**** to work with but hey, it's old news that he can't do anything right and/or in a sane, logical way.

And it's not documented anywhere because why would it be?

 

[KittX]

Roughness is stored in alpha channel of TxDetail normal map IIRC. (CSP uses smoothness because **** you, invert your roughness map). For ""optimization"" x4fab opted to store different maps as channels inside other textures (TxMap, TxDetailNM) which in turn makes it a cluster**** to work with but hey, it's old news that he can't do anything right and/or in a sane, logical way.

And it's not documented anywhere because why would it be?

And with such an attitude you're going into my ignore list as well.
Things like that are done for saving drawcalls and tex memory, you may say it's better to have each texture separate in 4K, no difference if it's just grayscale, and if you got alpha of another tex coincidently empty, so you can fill it up with something useful. But nope, let's just think of how it's easy to work with, and ignore that user may want to fill the grid with some big number of cars.

 

[Kyuubeey]

And with such an attitude you're going into my ignore list as well.
Things like that are done for saving drawcalls and tex memory, you may say it's better to have each texture separate in 4K, no difference if it's just grayscale, and if you got alpha of another tex coincidently empty, so you can fill it up with something useful. But nope, let's just think of how it's easy to work with, and ignore that user may want to fill the grid with some big number of cars.

Ignore list is for users who harass you, not for users who trigger you, but you do you. RD people are a bit sensitive.

I think the frustration comes from that kind of thinking being applied elsewhere in CSP. To save 0-1FPS, Ilja often opts for extremely unstable, finnicky and difficult to use implementations that end up not being worth using sometimes due to the large compromises made.

 

[Trava]

And with such an attitude you're going into my ignore list as well.

That's crazy but I don't remember asking.

But nope, let's just think of how it's easy to work with, and ignore that user may want to fill the grid with some big number of cars.

But nope, let's just make a feature that's implemented different from any other industry standard, not document it at all and ignore anyone wanting to actually use it.

Oh wait, I forgot, x4fab is the second coming of Christ and you can't say a bad word about his work. Nevermind he keeps adding features to a broken base with tons of monkey patches and uncommented fixes to the point where he has to rewrite things entirely because fixing old bugs creates new bugs.

Straight from his patreon post:

Maybe if you had to figure out his absolute ass backwards implementations with a dozen of broken things in every new feature yourself couple of times you'd think a bit differently.

And what Arch said, he implements stuff in utterly nonsensical ways that no one besides himself understands and then doesn't bother telling anyone how it works so at the end of the day it results in nothing more than bloat - features that nobody uses because nobody has a clue on how to use them.

Then again, I wouldn't expect much from someone who does this and calls it a day.

Year and a half later, still left incomplete.

Or when you DM him about a feature he recently added and he says:

and sends you the raw C++ code instead.

That was on December 31st 2020.
10 MONTHS later there's still not a single line on how to implement it.

Or when bugs take half a year to fix:

Clearcoat on PBR shaders took 6 months to fix and was only fixed after I told him what was wrong with it.

Or when a CSP update randomly breaks something and then 2 months later when you have already implemented a workaround for it he fixes that thing and renders your workaround useless at best and breaking even more things at worst.

/rant

inb4 this post gets deleted for "derailing" or "off-topic" but I'm absolutely sick and tired of people who never had to deal with this themselves telling me how there's nothing wrong with CSP and Ilja is the god coder while the entire thing is held together by hopes and dreams.

 

[Kenny Paton]

I wonder if we should have a thread on modding methodology and tools, there's obviously an interesting debate to be had.
The last few posts would be a good place to start.

 

[Trava]

Honestly? Probably a good idea, would at the very least move all the arguing out of this thread. Plus would allow for directing people to problems/debates that were already solved without having to go through them all over again every time.

 

[AccAkut]

I wonder if we should have a thread on modding methodology and tools, there's obviously an interesting debate to be had.
The last few posts would be a good place to start.

well we do have

AC Modding Questions Thread

Thought I would start a dumb questions thread for my own personal stupidity, but also a place for people to ask the quick questions without starting a new thread (Mostly so I stop flooding the forum with the questions I'm starting to have) So my first 2 questions: 1. How to do you set up the...

www.racedepartment.com

and

How to MOD ! (Links & ref)

Hey there. In my Caterham (& modding) journey to Assetto, i keep going back to useful posts, sometimes savings links as shortcut to be sure to keep that valuable info on how to something in particular. Today i decided it would be nice to do a sticky note where we would edit this post in useful...

www.racedepartment.com

it's probably just that people come up with questions reading this thread here and then post here

@Trava good breakdown on how frustrating trying to interact with Ilja and his work can be lol. Found a bug with his mipmap dithering/rotation not being turned off by DISALLOW_MESH_OPTIMIZATIONS =, because it was like a random hardcoded line outside the normal pipeline.