The "What Are You Working On?" Thread

Tr0nic · Apr 2, 2022

Nothing impressive, still working on curves...

Tracks curves are basically finished, now going for all road marks, i guess 80% of them are done as well. Then some more measuring, fine tuning and i should be happy with the basic layout.
To keep me motivated i will keep posting something from time to time...

Pasta2000 · Apr 2, 2022

Some renders of the Toyota 415S short nose:

Car 3 is also very much on the way model wise, a small clue for those who want to go for a hunt:
The car weighs only 510kg, and has a 1.3L engine producing 140hp! Also, it was the first Japanese race car to be designed with the aid of a wind-tunnel.
Happy hunting!

AccAkut · Apr 3, 2022

So after working on the track for the last year I actually visited the track in real life yesterday for the first time since ...2016? First time since 2019 it opened for the general public. I took hundreds of pictures but literally none of the cars present or on track

despite there being a rather diverse field of trackday cars and vintage race cars. One 20 minute grid was "anything open wheel", from GDR 2-stroke Melkus' through Caterhams to some older F3s on the track at the same time.

Given I was working of the LiDAR clound and whatever photos, maps and videos I could find online I did surprisingly well on at least the main pit building. This is my model with the photo (taken from the grandstand opposite) put behind it in Blender. It's not perfect but a lot better than expected.

edit: and ofc I'm correcting it. Model is still in a form (non applied modifiers) that makes this easy

Deleted member 223075 · Apr 3, 2022

Slow progress but still working on it

Fat-Alfie · Apr 6, 2022

Just a new on-board lap of my Battenbergring circuit, now that the visuals are almost complete.

Looking for cars to use for the video has made me realise just how few good quality 1950s cars we have for AC

(Battenbergring was used between 1953-1956, although never for car races). A big thank you to @JeezyCreezy / @aphidgod for their fantastic D-Type, though

Gevatter · Apr 6, 2022

G O R G E O U S

Fat-Alfie said:
Looking for cars to use for the video has made me realise just how few good quality 1950s cars we have for AC

The only thing that comes to mind apart from the Kunos Maseratis is @Pessio's Maserati Tipo 61 which launched just on the tail end of the 1950's. Everthing else is of dubious quality.

Fat-Alfie · Apr 6, 2022

Yeah, I tried a race last night using that car. Four Birdcages, 4x D-Types, 4x 356a, 4x 550s and 4x 718RS60 (which is too new, I know). It was a lot of fun, but made me realise how few 1950s cars we have

Ryno917 · Apr 6, 2022

Lookin' amazing @Fat-Alfie ! As always, of course

Rodger Davies · Apr 6, 2022

Fat-Alfie said:
Just a new on-board lap of my Battenbergring circuit, now that the visuals are almost complete.

Looking for cars to use for the video has made me realise just how few good quality 1950s cars we have for AC (Battenbergring was used between 1953-1956, although never for car races). A big thank you to @JeezyCreezy / @aphidgod for their fantastic D-Type, though

As always, love your version numbers. And tracks. I could complement the gorgeous track but, because superlatives are repetitive...

I know there's a couple of spins in the video but it's an excellent advert for how much fun the AC AI can be with the right attention paid to the car and track - your driving is brilliant but their behaviour is very believable too, so thanks for making this aspect so enjoyable.

Fat-Alfie said:
made me realise how few 1950s cars we have

Agreed, but these '50s tracks make a wonderful "what if Le Mans '55 never happened?" in my mind, so I thoroughly enjoy them with the various '60s (and '20s!) cars we have been gifted with.

Davide Nativo · Apr 6, 2022

Fat-Alfie said:
made me realise just how few good quality 1950s cars we have for AC

I second that

MrRacer11 · Apr 6, 2022

Is it illegal if someone converted cars from DiRT Rally 2.0 to Assetto Corsa? Genuine question.

aphidgod · Apr 6, 2022

I have physics ready for a 1954 300SL if anyone has a model.

MrRacer11 · Apr 6, 2022

I'll just let Codemasters know.

Rodger Davies · Apr 6, 2022

MrRacer11 said:
Is it illegal if someone converted cars from DiRT Rally 2.0 to Assetto Corsa? Genuine question.

It's against RD rules for sure.

As for the legalities of it, I suspect it's not illegal to do it, but it would be illegal to upload Codemasters' models/IP for others to access. Don't take that as gospel though. But they're well aware people do it in shadier corners of the web, they don't need to be told - ultimately is it worth their time and expense doing anything about it?

Not the thread for discussing that though, I'd opine.

aphidgod · Apr 7, 2022

Fat-Alfie said:
Just a new on-board lap of my Battenbergring circuit, now that the visuals are almost complete.

Looking for cars to use for the video has made me realise just how few good quality 1950s cars we have for AC (Battenbergring was used between 1953-1956, although never for car races). A big thank you to @JeezyCreezy / @aphidgod for their fantastic D-Type, though

Don't forget stereo's C1 Corvette, just snuck in with a '59.

NightEye87 · Apr 7, 2022

The amount of small little details, the scenery, the lush greenery, the patches of dirt. Yet another masterpiece. I could ask myself why this is a v0.2 and not v0.9, but that's Fat-Alfie-standards

Is it YT compression that makes the telephone/power cables nearly disappear? I heard CSP had some function for this, no idea if and how that works.

Fat-Alfie · Apr 7, 2022

It's only v0.2.1 because on my first track (Thomson Road) I ran out of version numbers, ending up with v0.9.9.5, v0.9.9.6, etc

These days, I tend to start lower and go from v0.3 -> v1.0

The phone cables might be down to YouTube, yes. They are quite clear in-game (even in VR). They are textures on flat planes, rather than modelled, so if needed I could simply beef up the alpha channel to make the cables 'thicker'.