Content Manager - Discussion Thread

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Content Manager - Discussion Thread

napocapo69

x4fab Hi. I've a Skype account look for "napocapo69".

76561198059640427

x4fab No problem thanks for giving it a go

jamespoly86

I'm new on Content Manager… is there a guide? i want to know how use ai settings in a single race… in custom grid or in manual? In manual there is a bug… content manager loads two times one pilot… thus i use custom grid… but times are not realistics… thanks in advance for your answer… jamespoly86

x4fab

jamespoly86 unfortunately, no, I didn’t even finished documentation for Paint Shop, license plates generator or neural tyres… I do have a problem with making those, to be honest, but I’m working on it.

Manual mode, as any other mode in Random category, is the mode in which you list not your opponents, but only candidates. Then, you select a number of opponents you need, and CM will generate a racing grid using candidates randomly, either in shuffle or random mode.

With custom mode, on the other hand, slider with the number of opponents becomes disabled — in that mode, you fill the grid car by car, and without any randomization. You can also pick all the details you might need to specify, such as AI level per car, skin per car, custom driver names/nationalities or AI limitations.

What do you mean by times not being realistic?

jamespoly86

I use custom mode but AI levels are not respected: I have ten pilots for example ai level: Hamilton 90, Vettel 88, Alonso 86, Verstappen 84, Eriksson 82. The first and the last times in qualifying session are Hamilton and Erikson, in the middle I can find Verstappen ahead Vettel and Alonso. It seems random times.

x4fab

jamespoly86 please go to Documents\Assetto Corsa\cfg and check race.ini, or just send it to me and I’ll check (you can use pastebin.com for that).

XM_THUNDERBOLT

I remember there being a feature where you could see number values hovering over the power graph. Is that not coming back?

Also, the app crashes on occasion when attempting to update a track map from surfaces? I have 16GB RAM and an i7 so I'm not sure what causes it to happen. Will there be a feature to bulk select tracks similar to the cars in CM?

Lastly, is it possible to take a career series in Kunos format and change it to a user Championship in CM?

Thanks for your hard work!

x4fab

XM_THUNDERBOLT

I remember there being a feature where you could see number values hovering over the power graph. Is that not coming back?

Hmm, interesting, it’s broken again. Hold Shift and use mouse, then it’ll work. I’ll try to fix it later, and especially sort out how it works in car selection dialog.

Also, the app crashes on occasion when attempting to update a track map from surfaces?

Can you please send me logs, from %LOCALAPPDATA%\AcTools Content Manager\Logs (just copy-paste this path to Windows Explorer)?

Will there be a feature to bulk select tracks similar to the cars in CM?

Yes, as soon as I’ll think of a way to sort out Content/Tracks section, that part is a mess.

Lastly, is it possible to take a career series in Kunos format and change it to a user Championship in CM?

Not sure about it, to be honest, but I’ll think about it. Would be much easier if I wouldn’t try to keep user championships compatible with the stock launcher, now it’s quite a pain to add new stuff there or experiment with format in any way.

Thank you for the feedback!

XM_THUNDERBOLT

x4fab I am getting this popup as well when I attempt to save a user championship in CM

Can’t save extra data:

Self referencing loop detected for property 'FileAcManager' with type 'AcManager.Tools.Managers.WeatherManager'. Path '[0].WeatherObject.FileAcManager[0]'.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=14thcRjR6qIseYT_Xs_n9esUSGQepsVNH

a link to one of my logs where I attempted to load a track from surfaces as well as the inability to save a user championship

x4fab

XM_THUNDERBOLT

Thanks, I’m already working on a fix, will be released soon! Sorry about it.

76561198030188166

Hi,

Thanks for all the work, I have a couple of questions regarding user championships:

-When I create a custom grid for the AI, if I input the nationality of the drivers, it does not show up correctly in the race, I can fix this by manually editing the .champ file in Documents/Assetto Corsa/champs. Not a big deal, but I was wondering if there is a fix.
-This is more of a general question regarding how the Content Manager, works with AI Levels, when creating a championship I can set manually the single level of each AI in the detailed settings of the opponents but when I start the championship there is also an AI slider there, which is great to set the level of the AI In general, my only issue is that if I set it lower then 100% is a range, for example I have it at 92%-98% and I cannot just set it to a fixed number, which means the AI skills seems to change a lot from race to race, is that intended or am I using it wrong?

Sorry for the wall of text, and thanks a lot for your help!

x4fab

76561198030188166 Hi, thanks for the report, I’ll check and fix the issue with nationalities! I think AI slider is meant to scale levels set in race grid editor, I think it kind of makes sense. Changing AI in Content section is meant for event creators, and that slider in Drive is for participants, that was the logic.

76561198030188166

I think I answered my second question myself, by looking at the race.ini in Documents/Assetto Corsa/cfg
In the Championship page, the slider with the AI Level, is already the lowest and the highest levels I have set in the Grid, so that clears it up, It was just a bit confusing as there is 3 different "places" where one can change the AI level.

Still not sure about the Nationality for the drivers though, I am wondering if I am setting anything wrong when I do it with Content Manager.

76561198030188166

Thanks a lot, yep once I figured out it makes sense how the slider works

Fat-Alfie

I'm not sure if anyone else has suggested this (there is a LOT to read!) but how about enabling the user to disable the camera_facing spectators on tracks? Tracks mostly use 2 textures, "people_stand.dds" and "people_sit.dds". These are either located in the track's data folder, or in C:...\assettocorsa\content\texture. If you were to replace these with 2 null textures the spectators would be rendered invisibly. It wouldn't help FPS but a checkbox to switch people on/off might be nice in CM

x4fab

Fat-Alfie oh, right, it was somewhere in some TODO list. Thanks for reminding!

By the way, could you please check, could you do it with track skin (without replacing files in content/texture, but instead putting them in a skin)?

Fat-Alfie

I can test that, sure. But also, Kunos tracks use the texture from "content/texture/people_sit.dds" rather than the track's data folder.

x4fab

Fat-Alfie I just think, maybe it switches to content/texture/people_sit.dds only when texture has not been found in KN5 file or in track skin?

TreaHok

Is there any chance for some VR features in the already brilliant CM? The biggest for me is the VR replay system. AC VR replays are fully stereo 3D - like gameplay, but have no zoom and TV and spectator cams are all but useless, especially with the current gen resolution problems - cars are too far away and hardly legible.

The suggestion is to make replays like in rFactor2 VR where replays are rendered in 2d on a massive VR cinema screen. So you do not need to take the headset off and still enjoy replays in lots of detail.
Alternative is to add zoom functionality to trackside cameras to current AC VR replays. It will probably make people who are new to VR sick a bit, but those who are already to used to it should

x4fab

TreaHok interesting idea… Maybe something like Virtual Desktop and AC running in windowed mode and not in VR mode would work like that? I’m not really familiar with VR at the moment, unfortunately, sorry.

Kavoriken I must say, I don’t know where to fit it, but I like the idea! Might be interesting to see it in action, those brake points truly ridiculous sometimes.

Kavoriken

I'd love to see a random Ballast and Restrictor slider in addition to the AI Strength and Aggressiveness ones in the Drive section for SP races. All AI strength does is move the brake points, which can reach quite ridiculous levels. Random Ballast and Restrictor values would do a much better job at simulating AI drivers having different kind of setups without compromising on the AI driver's skill to brake at the right time.