0.1.78-preview1

• Version ID: 1938
• Size: 67.44 MB
• Published: 2022-02-28

Changelog

New features, options and improvements

• New server options:
  • New method to calculate wheel positions for remote cars, should be somewhat better if remote car has jumped or flipped (optional);
  • Also with that new method, server can optionally let clients exchange data on toe and camber for more accurate wheels positioning;
  • And also, new method might reduce CPU load for clients;
  • Make disconnected cars visible;
  • Adjust amount of those spectating 2D people in stands;
  • Limit controls lock time;
  • Force headlights for all cars without making server CSP-only;
  • Stop some pitlanes from counting towards serving drivethrough penalty (for example, secondary pitlane on Spa);
  • Configure collisions between cars (make them softer, stiffer, bouncier, etc.; depends on what the server might need);
  • Enable lap invalidation for laps with car going through pits;
  • Verify integrity of miscellaneous Assetto Corsa files;
  • Force specific CSP modules to be active;
  • To extended previously added NO_BACK_TO_PITS: now possible to allow to use pits for cars that are already in their pit position (for accessing setups);
• GamepadFX:
  • New module altering gamepad inputs with a Lua script implementing new control schemes or simply acting like an assist;
  • New script Custom by Dmitrii A. which uses forces acting on steering wheel;
• GUI:
  • New look for pause menu with built-in photo mode (for now disabled by default);
  • Option to use controllers (such as wheels or gamepads) to move mouse cursor and select things;
• Loading screen:
  • Animations that don’t cover the whole screen no longer move, with an option to fill empty areas with blurred version;
  • Better compatibility with custom screenshot names (strict search now disabled by default, names checking improved);
  • Recursive screenshots search if strict search is disabled;
  • Fading for optional slideshow;
• Keyboard input method:
  • Smooth transition for toggling mouse steering to make sure suspension would not get damaged;
  • Mouse steering: options to shift with 4th and 5th buttons or mouse wheel, pause if window is not in focus now applies to acceleration and braking as well;
• Graphics Adjustments:
  • VHS filter has been replaced with new scriptable filters system allowing to create dynamic post-processing filters with Lua;
  • New Tunnel Effect filter adding a bit of radial blur with speed and B&W effect for crashes;
  • New vintage filter trying to recreate style of old footage;
• TyresFX:
  • Extra visual effect for wear showing up with driven distance;
  • New look for blown tyres;
• WeatherFX:
  • Seasonal adjustments (that winter look) are disabled by default, can be re-enabled in WeatherFX settings;
  • Updated sky texture and stars brightness computation in default WeatherFX script;
  • Overcast and light pollution in default WeatherFX script are updated;
  • Weather scripts now can control sun specular intensity separately and use masks to cover moon and stars when using cloud domes;
• Custom car physics:
  • Link engine torque and malfunction chance to engine damage with a LUT;
  • Add physics Lua script with read and write access to car inputs and few other things (can be used for creating various automatic gearboxes, launch controls, different ways to control a car, etc.);
• Custom track physics:
  • Define new faster custom colliders in surfaces.ini, such as capsules, cylinders, boxes, spheres and planes;
  • For configuring time, use live reload for collision parameters and new custom colliders;
• New SkidmarksFX implementation (fully reworked to improve visuals and performance):
  • Cars leave traces in dirt and sand (outside of track);
  • Blown tyres leave scratches;
  • Dynamically extending elements to make sure traces would not get detached from their wheels;
  • Optional advanced blending (forcing new marks to wipe out previous ones instead of adding up);
  • Option to save skidmarks between races;
  • Car configs can adjust skidmarks opacity and tint;
• When blown, tyres release a bit of dust particles;
• Updated look for sparks, simpler and more consistent to try and prevent sparks from looking mad;
• ExtraFX: TAA update, now with a new option to increase resulting sharpness without relying on sharpening in post-process;
• Hotkeys to adjust Real Mirror mirrors (with extra options in Small Tweaks settings);
• Hotkeys to move onboard camera around during the race (with extra options in Small Tweaks settings);
• Alter yaw of onboard camera as well (currently, by using either hotkeys or a Lua app);
• Cache for computed meshes metadata (bounding spheres and more) to speed up loading;
• Faster loading for DXT1/3/5 and RGBA8888 DDS textures (experimental, disabled by default);
• Clicking on meshes now works in VR (option to choose which eye to use, or use middle point of both of them);
• Built-in script recreating some sort of Android Auto OS, can be easily added to car configs (with support for additional custom apps);
• Mesh data compression now uses LZ4 compression to speed up loading;
• Custom physics: alternative option for worn tyres to pop;
• Dust particles change color with seasonal adjustments (if set in track config);
• New rendering method for spectators (with shadows and faster), with an option for spectators to use camera flashes;
• Option to control font scale with new name tags;
• Option for angle of looking back for Neck FX;
• Option for loading information to show on middle screen only with triple screen;
• Option for chromatic aberrations to apply in all views but first person one (by default it’s only active with track cameras);
• Fix for crashing Discord overlay (can be disabled in General settings just in case);
• Small Tweaks: option to hide standind spectators;
• Sun position for sun rays now computed differently, with better support for VR and triple;
• Graphics Adjustments: accessible options for clip planes in VR, default far clip plane value fixed;
• Splitscreen mode: support for two separate mouse devices if both control presets use keyboard input method, working mirrors;
• New accurate moon texture;
• Nearest car now casts highly detailed dynamic shadows (number of cars can be increase in settings);
• NeckFX now works for other cars online and in replays;
• Option to disable Ctrl+P hotkey (enabled by default);
• Option to get AIs to drive faster with some three-wheelers with short rear axle;
• Few tweaks for new smoke dynamics and shading.

Fixes

• Windows 7 support is fixed (especially sorry about that one, didn’t mean to do it);
• Stereo mirrors in VR fixed;
• ExtraFX: overly blurred with some configurations (and not really working in general as intended) TAA fixed;
• Overly bright extra lights in and on some modded cars fixed (now light-to-emissive-bounding behaviour automatically switches to an older buggy version for mods that need it);
• Fixed overly bright light cast by sparks with ExtraFX and screen-space lights;
• Failing to load textures from ZIP files fixed;
• Broken in some occasions solid color textures (for example, messing up Toyota GT86) fixed;
• Black windscreen dirt in some combination of settings with some cars fixed;
• Live WeatherFX controller fixed;
• Telltale reset button binding is fixed;
• Drive-through penalties set for speeding up in pits resetting when leaving pits in some circumstances fixed;
• Windscreen wipers shaking with speed fixed (could lead to strange jumping with some configurations before);
• Removing meshes with extension script leading to sometimes AC crashing on launch fixed;
• WeatherFX: reflection brightness and saturation adjustments now apply to SSLR as well, unloading textures fixed;
• ExtraFX: a few issues with SSLR leading to overly dark reflections in fog and similar issues are fixed;
• TyresFX: shading for damaged tyres fixed;
• Dynamic shadows remaining from disconnected cars fixed;
• Dynamic shadows cast from meshes invisible with alpha testing (for example, Santa Monica Mountains) or because of world detail level fixed;
• Dynamic shadows optimized and improved with proper gaussian blur;
• Driver VAO would no longer be applied with custom driver model replaced via an extension config;
• Setting UI scale would no longer mess up navigators and such;
• Issue with track displays sometimes crashing the game during loading fixed;
• Driver hiding before the start of the race fixed (now hiding seatbelt and switching vertex AO set);
• Nice screenshots: ETA text format fixed, quality of rear view mirrors fixed;
• Changing master audio level live fixed;
• Custom physics: ballast fixed;
• Virtual mirror sometimes disappearing (for example, with original smoke particles) fixed;
• Issue with overly bright lights (above 60000 in brightness) producing black artifacts fixed;
• Server option allowing clients to drive in wrong way now works even for clients with New Behaviour module disabled;
• New starting camera trajectories no longer result in messed up visuals with flying grass and such;
• Extended physics turbo not showing up negative pressure properly fixed;
• Bug with some cars with extended physics not driving forward because of unfortunate comment in engine.ini fixed properly (previous fix only worked with cars without packed data);
• Video players now initialize in background to make sure there wouldn’t be a lag;
• Distant emissives not working if mesh was loaded from an additional KN5 fixed;
• Distant emissives area glow now works with origin shift;
• TAA in refracting headlights not always functioning properly (and causing headlights to look dimmer than they should have) fixed;
• Refracting lights generating messed up internal normal map in some cases fixed;
• New UI: simplified transparency fixed;
• VHS filter is compatible with CAS now;
• Partial live reloading for cars and tracks fixed (now working better with generic configs);
• Improved multi-user inputs support (for example, in split-screen mode secondary user now can use CSP keyboard input tweaks and such);
• New Modes crash fixed;
• Teleport destinations fixed: issues with scrolling, crash with too many elements;
• Bug with optional car parts misbehaving with distance fixed;
• New flames: interior audio fixed;
• Triple mode tweaks: driver name tag for nearest car is hidden now;
• Clicking on scene (for example, for auto-focus) in triple fixed;
• Grass culling in triple screen mode fixed;
• Visually adjustable wings are synced online now;
• Splitscreen mode: improved support for multiple wheels, flickering, shadows and few other issues fixed;
• Cars ABS not accessible from setup menu if present but not active by default fixed;
• Smoke, other particle effects and occlusion on tyres for remote cars online fixed;
• Issue with glass meshes getting lit up from the back too much with VAO patches fixed;
• Assetto Corsa no longer crashes when activating AI for main car without preferred tyres set;
• Smoke works properly with disabled soft particles;
• Smoke brightness fixed;
• Bug with AC rarely loading into black screen until PP filter is changed fixed (hopefully);
• Unlinking digits from turbo adjustment now no longer stops other AC functions bound to digits;
• Enabling AI driver when using mouse steering now stops hiding mouse cursor;
• Fixed issue with new chat in start menu if new UI scale is not 100%;
• Car input SPEEDLIMITER now reacts to manually enabled pits speed limiter;
• Escape-to-unpause no longer unpauses AC if there is another window in foreground;
• A few smaller fixes and stability improvements.

Configs

• Track configs:
  • Changing of dynamic shadows casting property now applies live;
  • Specify flammable materials (with extra visual effect for burning bales of hay, already added by default to Material_Bale from materials_track);
  • Link dirt, grass and dust color to conditions (or use [BASIC] USE_WINTER_DIRT_COLOR = 1 to apply default seasonal adjustment transition);
  • Apply extra blur to dynamic shadows with SHADOWS_EXTRA_BLUR = 1;
  • Turn flat spectators made with ksPerPixelAT shader and such to regular particle-driven spectators to benefit from new way of rendering spectators;
  • Stop new spectators from using flashes with [SPECTATORS] FLASHES = 0;
• Car configs:
  • Use expressions for car inputs referring to several values at once or outputs of other shared inputs;
  • New way to write extended digital instruments: use [DIGITAL_INSTRUMENT_OVERRIDE_...] with INPUT;
  • Hide specific digital text nodes;
  • Navigators: add map offset if camera should not be centered on the screen;
  • Options to offset generated wheel shadows with Fake Shadows FX;
  • Interior PBR materials now support skinned meshes (for regular and cloth materials);
• New functions for car input and track condition expressions: max(), min(), smoothstep(), remap(), saturate() and few more;
• New option for ksPerPixelMultiMap_AT shader: set extUseDiffuseAlpha to 1 to swap roles for alphas of txDiffuse and txNormal;
• Minimum lights range reduced from 10 cm to 0.5 cm;
• Refracting setup tool works better with origin shift.

Lua & Python

• Server scripts:
  • Physics API is available without extended track physics now;
  • Scripts can access files for selected cars and track (can be used to change car skins live, for example);
  • Add new extras to that list with lightbulb in chat app for extra online features (either with popup dialogs or working as tools);
  • Add new extras for admins;
  • Get Steam ID for current player;
  • Set additional post-processing color corrections;
  • Access cars KN5 textures (to revert changes when switching skins);
  • Access some gameplay API (move camera around, toggle drivers, open car doors, set track conditions, switch car camera is focusing at and more);
  • For live reload, server scripts now loaded from extension/lua/online rather than track folder (server scripts got a separate library);
  • Listen to events of somebody connecting and disconnecting;
• Error messages in callbacks getting cut fixed;
• Storage messing up values with commas fixed;
• Several online events in one script not working properly fixed;
• Transparent and tool windows always having that non-disableable padding fixed;
• Car and track script configs now can refer to scripts in extension/lua/cars and extension/lua/tracks accordingly;
• API to control particle emitters (smoke, flames, sparks) and detractors;
• Information about car metadata like year or special features with functions to access car brand name and country;
• Access information about currently playing music track, its cover and peak levels, play/pause and switch to the next or previous track;
• Function to draw a race flag of a custom color with fullscreen HUDs;
• Fullscreen HUDs no longer need to create transparent windows to draw things (but can still do it for simplifying general operation);
• Online events now can set namespaces (so that Lua app can exchange data with an online script, for example);
• Scriptable displays: functions to access dimensions of a screen and the texture, a function to move driver eyes position (for moving the seat?);
• Web API:
  • Upload binary files;
  • Limit for simultaneous requests no longer creates an error, instead following requests are queued up;
• Scene API:
  • Use live textures with ref:setMaterialTexture() (videos, currently playing album cover);
  • Use asynchronous textures with ref:setMaterialTexture() (textures loaded from web or set with ui.setAsynchronousImagesLoading(true));
  • Quickly apply a skin to a node, or reset a skin;
  • Access world transformation of child nodes;
  • Access texture slots and material properties (number of, names, values);
  • Apply shader replacements from INIpp format configs;
  • Load and apply KsAnim animations;
  • Load and use remote KN5s and KsAnims;
  • Project textures onto models with optional masking and other options (or even custom shaders);
  • Make a shot of some 3D meshes or nodes and use it as a texture or an image to draw in UI;
• Physics API:
  • Apply penalties;
  • Add forces to cars (invalidates laps);
  • Set tyres temperature and/or blankets, set car damage and fuel;
  • Override racing flag (including access to new flag types like ambulance or slippery warning);
  • Disable user controls;
  • Access state of user controls directly;
  • Change driver name and/or team during the race (for hot driver swaps);
  • Set engine RPM, activate and deactivate stalling;
• UI API:
  • Create separate canvases (render targets), draw things into them and then use them as textures, access their pixel colors, store data as images, backup and restore their state, apply anti-aliasing and more;
  • Apply blurring effect to drawn images;
  • New universal ui.icon() function which can draw 24×24 icons, flags, any other icons and custom icons (any other API method expecting icon now can take other ones too);
  • Add icons to previously drawn elements with ui.addIcon();
  • Function ui.atlasIcons() to easily load compatible icons from atlases;
  • New functions to get image size and mouse wheel offset;
  • Store values and flags associated with UI elements;
  • DWrite fonts: load system fonts using @System for the path;
  • Media players: link playback rate to simulation speed, generate mips (great for setting videos as textures without dynamic textures);
  • Create custom tooltips with more than just text;
  • Create modal popup dialogs (the ones with blurred background);
  • Render textures with masks, custom blending mode and more using ui.renderTexture();
  • Render custom shaders with bound textures and parameters using ui.renderShader() (shaders are compiled on-fly);
  • Pushing clipping rects fixed (now affects inputs as well);
• Lua apps:
  • Windows restoration on reloading fixed;
  • Window IDs are ensured to be unique now to avoid conflicts;
  • Special flag for app to work in lazy mode: no scripts would be loaded until app is opened, in full lazy mode scripts will get unloaded completely when app is closed;
  • New APIs to check window visibility, toggle windows, change window title, unload apps in background;
  • APIs to move onboard camera, change FOV, pitch and yaw (alters same values as that default onboard camera editor app allowing to create custom alternatives);
  • API to reload control settings live (only limitation is that input method can’t be changed);
  • Missing scrollbars are fixed now;
  • Monitor file system changes;
  • Control state of AI spline recorder: start and stop recording (allows to create AI splines without crossing finishing line);
• General API:
  • A few functions for strings with binary data (compression, struct-to-binary and binary-to-struct, base64, UTF-8-16 conversion);
  • Some functions, such as io.save() and web.post(), now work properly with binary strings (strings that contain zero bytes in them);
  • Strings passed back from C++ in callbacks now work properly with zero bytes as well (strings returned synchronously were working before);
  • Calculate checksum of a file (SHA-256, works asynchronously) or binary data (either XXH3 or SHA-256);
  • Encode and decode halfs (with support in ac.StructItem as well);
  • Create transforming matrices (translation, rotation, scaling);
  • Ray/plane raycasting;
  • Get list of files in a ZIP array;
  • Load and save files asynchronously;
  • Events shared between all running scripts;
  • Additional functions to access state of controls and gamepads, as well as number of connected controls, their names and capabilities;
  • Get pen pressure with Windows Ink API;
  • Functions to parse and serialize INI files in AC or CSP compatible formats;
• Default extension in UI dialogs fixed;
• VS extension updated to support auto-detect of car physics scripts;
• Unless specifically configured, display scripts for other cars will not get loaded at all until needed;
• VS Code plugin updated, now increases preloadFileSize setting automatically (in workspace only);
• Remote images now cached in accordance with HTTP rules (Last-Modified, ETag, Cache-Control, etc.).