Long Island - Southern State Parkway (Project Info) by NoZ

Long Island - Southern State Parkway Assetto Corsa Map - made by NoZ

In the past 8 months I have been working out a 1:1 recreation of Southern State Parkway (Long Island, New York) for Assetto Corsa simracing game. The map is completely made from scratch, using real geo data and countless photo & video references to get the track as close as possible to real life.

Project Planning

The overall Plan for me was to map out the whole Long Island Highway / Parkway road layout. It took me around 8 months already for the 1:1 recreation of SSP route, so this project might be going on for several years to archive this goal. I cannot promise that i will actually reach this overall goal, however, the SSP road is nearly complete and ready to be released soon.

(Orange: route for the upcoming release - Southern State Parkway (Long Island, NY) by NoZ)

Developement Progress - Southern State Parkway

Road: The road has been made from scratch, using a mix of videos, images, street view and real geo-data to recreate authentic elevation and details. I have made more then 10+ custom road models, each section should visually represent the real road very well, taking in account any detail that I could find.

Advanced Realistic Road Effects: I have been working out a lot of unique features for the road, making up for the most realistic and immersive road feeling possible. The road has cracks, bumps, oil spills, splits, patched splits, and lots of more details, that all make various Force Feedback Effects. Some of those effect even have a physical effect on the player car, meaning you will notice the difference between a patched and un-patched road directly in the wheel.

Buildings: For the Building I have been using real geo data to generate basic building shapes with correct dimensions and locations. Those Buildings are usually very simple, but I also added roof and roof details to most of them. Also made custom night emissive texture for most of them. Some rather big, industrial buildings I have modeled from scratch to meet more realism.

Trees & Vegetation: The Vegetation, Trees and bushes are mostly custom made textures, made from real images, representing the real road vegetation as close as possible. The placement has been handmade, based on Satelite Images and google street view. The more remarkable trees (like huge pinetrees) have been placed in the exact same locations like you see them in real life.

Light / Track Fx: The Track is making use of the latest csp/pure effects. Buildings and streetlamps will turn on lights at night, making the track visually appealing no matter what time it is. There is also Traffic Lights on bridges that turn from red to green, and a lot of blinking lights on closed exits or end of the road. It also includes the red lights above the highway around the Airport area.

Animations & Track Extras: There is around 30+ animations on this track. These include not only flying planes that you can see starting and landing at the airport - it also includes traffic cars driving on bridges. These cars even have emissive lights, which make them visible at night too. You will also spot a train on the bridge around the Republic Airport Area. Besides that, alot of extras like Electric Poles and Highway Signs have been placed accordingly to the real road.

Release Status - COMING SOON

As you can see the development had already gone through the most critical phases, and the first map release is mostly finnished. I just need to fix some more smaller issues, and make some more shader changes for a better look. Visually you can still expect some more changes from those above pictures, the visual adjustments are now my main focus.

I will let you know here as soon as possible when I can give you more insights on the release, I think this already gives you a good picture of what I have been working on the past 8 months.

I really hope you like the overall plan and ideas for my Long Island recreation,

stay excited for more info SSP by NoZ soon ✨