Content Manager - Discussion Thread

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Content Manager - Discussion Thread

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.

TreaHok

x4fab Thanks for the reply Yep, Virtual Desktop or Bigscreen do this already, but you need to exit race, go into settings, change your video output from Oculus to monitor and then launch the saved replay. You can't pause the race and watch the replay or watch the replay immediately after the race and start another race... You always have to exit, change video output, watch replay, change output back again...

If CM had an option that , when ticked, would function like "
if race: rendering mode = Oculus;
if replay: rendering mode = single screen"
Then Virtual Desktop/Bigscreen would take care of the rest and make replays integrated into VR experience.
I think I should have suggested this straight away, but this simple idea has only just occurred to me

76561198030188166

Hey,
Quick question, does the CM after a race generates the race_out file in Documents\Assetto Corsa\out?

I had a issue with a couple of tracks, where if I start a race with CM, despite Assetto Corsa showing the correct laps and gaps at the end of the race, the laps, times and gaps are missing in the race_out file, so all is 0.

If i start the same race on the same track, without using CM race_out is generated correctly, trying to figure out why.

Thanks and have a great week-end!

x4fab

76561198030188166 hmm, and it’s track-related? Never encountered it, so strange. What are those tracks? Thanks, you too!

TreaHok oh, well, I’ll look around, but I must say, it could be way too difficult. Most likely, whole AC rendering pipeline is initialized to render stuff in a specific manner for a special device, and all internals (such as loaded textures) are being initialized just once within that pipeline.

But you don’t mind exiting the race to watch replay, you can already assign a specific video settings preset for replays, I personally use it to raise resolution to 4K (for DSR).

DonutThing

76561198030188166 @x4fab I think I have the same problem too. When I exit out of the race, it shows all of the times as 0 with the usual awards presented normally.

Edit: Seems to be unrelated with tracks also, I don't think I've had any race where it shows the times properly after I end a race

76561198030188166

x4fab

Kinda strange indeed, I do not remember the first track I had it with, but I can replicate it with this one:
https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/donington-park-grand-prix-circuit-1938.17313/

I tested the previous version of that track, and with that one no issue, if you just want to try a quick race to see if you the same issue, otherwise it may be conflicting with something else, but if is just with this one I would not lose my time around it.
Have a good one!
Franco