New preview build & CM Workshop progress report
First of all, I have to apologize for such a long delay, it has been a really tough month… Thankfully, now things seem to get somewhat better, so everything is slowly getting back on track.
On a brighter side, there was a lot of progress with CM Workshop, I believe it might be ready for early launch (mainly for testing) in a week or two. Still a lot of work left to do, but now server core is properly sorted out and finalized, allowing to add things like comments, likes or reports in the matter of minutes (client-side is another story, but that part is getting better too). You can keep track of its progress here.
As usual, here is a new build Rain FX. Main changes:
Now, rain intensity is driven by Weather FX;
Tweaked and readjusted spray generation;
Improved windscreen raindrops shading, to make it feel a bit more intense;
Compatibility between Rain FX and Windscreen FX;
Various fixes for things like tyres or drops shading.
With Weather FX compatibility, now you would either use default Weather FX controller or wait for the next Sol update which will set rain intensity accordingly. Weather FX debug option is still available as well.
Also, now you can use Rain FX online: add “For testing, rain is active with intensity N%.” to server’s welcome message, replacing N with a number from 1 to 100, and that should activate rain for all connected drivers. Please avoid running any serious races like that, rain physics is still not entirely ready, and it doesn’t have any integrity verification at the moment.
Speaking of which, another not-so-public-at-the-moment change (included with 0.1.67 update) is that now CSP would try to prevent speed hack from Cheat Engine, so if you want to make sure your server would not allow people to use it, set minimum required version to 1255.
Thank you for all the incredible support!
UPD: As always, I couldn’t pass an opportunity to mess it up, sorry. Here is a build with Rain FX properly working online.
Comments (169)
It doesn't work with Shader Patch 0.1.75
i cant seem to get rain to work. all the weather options seem to work, i.e. stomy, cloudy etc etc but no rain at all. i have all everything up to date. any ideas?? much appreciated :0)
any update on this? using 1.77
no matter what I do I always get a black sky, any ideas? try every ppfilter, with graphic adjustment on and off, old and new Sol conrtoller and wheater script...
with this csp my colours are messed up
where can i enable smooth flame ??
I think the flame animation should be a little faster.
Max Schrappe, we Have the same fuc....ng problem with all versions os CSP and SOL... no WIPERS CLEAN, move but NO CLEAN.... SOMEBODY HAVE THE SAME FRUSTRATING PROBLEM??????
Love the work that is put in to this, amazing how good its looking. I have spent some time trying to find the best setting for my system with 1.69 to fight jaggies. I like the crisp look with post procession AA Fidelity Cas by AMD but got some flickering in reflections. What I found out is that static high resolution reflections almost get rid of all my flickering. With that setting I dont see any differens in fps, between .69 and .70, in rain. Static reflections could be worth trying for them struggling with fps. With high resolution reflections it still looks good. With .70 I have some stuttering going on that I need to figure out though. Another thing I noticed is that I get a massive stutter using a weather plan when the weather is about to change. https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/assetto-corsa-pc-mods-general-discussion.307899/page-2104 and search for [WIPERS_TRACE_...] includng brackets
In my case the wipers are not cleaning the windscreen when activated. In debug the wipers base and mask are not set. How can I fix that
just an heads up ..not all cars ...
I get black screen when switching to 1st person cam, any ideas?
i had the same.. but all ok now ... i think it was the pp filter change it to sol extra
Ive noticed that when you drive a GT car the divers helmet has the rain FX on it, surly it should be dry ? Other than that fantastic mod loving it. Can you please make the effect for open cockpit so that the FX is on the camera please, so that it looks like you are looking through rain effected helmet.
I Can't Get content manager? Itch.io says my pledge is too low? So i can't use 1.69
on one of the cars i use the FFB is completely messed up in the new builds of CSP, is there a way to fix that?
You need to enable FFB tweaks and MacPherson strut adjustment to have the car working properly.
Everyone keeps mentions rain FX but I literary can't find it anywhere in the CSP options. What am I missing lol??
Between Particle FX and Reflections FX you´ll see RAIN FX...
Hello ! Amazing work ! it's really something, i was wondering if there is a way to tweak the water smoke trail behind cars in wet conditions :) thanks !
Yes go to Documents/Assetto Corsa/cfg/Extension/particles.ini and reduce Smoke Dev Limit.. I use 2500 and is perfect.
I just Love it!, but when would it be possible to use on online servers? I would love to be abble to add this to my server!... any ideas?
Thank you! Just add this to server’s welcome message: https://gist.github.com/gro-ove/c5012d4fd778a6b8563209d86d4d091a
have you tried changing . the pp filter under settings / assetto/video/ sol-extra
Great Mod! Though I am experiencing a weird bug, where each car has two small green lights emitting from them. Don't know if others have it aswell. Is there a way to fix it? I run an AMD GPU and CPU just as a sidenote
It does not occur when I install any older Shader Patches than 0.1.66
hi, i installed rain fx, but the physics don't work, it's like driving in dry conditions,please help.thanks
on the drive screen in content manager make sure you tick the use extended physics... PS. keep of the kurbs in the wet..
I am absolutely blown away by the looks of the rain. It was the same wow effect as it used to be with the new smoke (while doing some drift tandems). Racing on the nords in the rain is just really intense, youre absolutely not able to see anything behind another car, I love it. Are there any performance optimizations possible for the new rain? I would love to use it, but my FPS are dropping from fixed 90 to around 65 on a Pimax 5k+ (large FOV), RTX 3080@2,1ghz, 9700k@5ghz.
Try this. Go to settings-Assetto Corsa- video under reflection change Rendering Frequency to static.
Merry Christmas everyone, Ilja is it possible to add drops on camera for VR? Driving an f1 car without the spray in your face just isn't the same.
Merry Christmas
when i come back from rain i was using clear but the lightning effects and sounds are still on. anyone know the fix ?
make sure you have rain on in csp settings.. then when you are in the car just add each weather to the plan then save it.. quit custom manager then go back in and it should be there to pick.
Thanks, Jelly - Spot on! Happy Holidays
Am I missing something? Using a random weather plan with Sol 2 can I link it to the Rain FX preview so that it rains outside the car and on the circuit/road when the Weather plan Rain/Thunderstorm kicks in - Any help gratefully received and Happy Holidays
okey i got the new preview, but rainfx doesnt seem to work properly, even follwing that youtube video. have very basic looks and no sound
I have noticed that the new flames are not showing up online as everything looks ok in a single player race. Has anyone tried?
I have also tried to run rain in online server with welcome message but didnt worked at all. Not even the night working . Anybody could start to work as intended ?Also sometimes the rain sfx sound is changing too loud and then its going back to normal which is still loud in my opinion . Otherwise its an amazing work ,almost unbelievable those raindrops on windshield
Make sure you add . after the % , example= 100%.
After many trials with this release i see these issues : 1 - Performance issue when i enable lightning_fx (but we need it for rain track surface) 2 - Rain drop on windshield stay there when you change sol (2.0) weather from rain to clear for example. !!!! But impressive job made for this CSP release 1.69 !!!!
Was anybody able to get a rainFX online server to run? I used the command in several variations in the CM welcome message when setting up the server and have also made sure rain weather was selected. I just cannot get rain to work on the server - in single player rain works great.
I really like the new rain, but can there be an option to turn the old (lightweight) rain like it was in 1.60 back on again? It was good enough for me when in VR, where the more performance the better.
Sweet ! Runs like a charm, I'm in AC Heaven !!! THANK YOU Ilja and your team !!!
anyone able to tell me where i can get sound bank file to put in rain sfx as im not getting any rain sound or w wiper sound tia
same question than you.
Everything works perfect with the new SOL 2.0. Any plans on trying to help the AI handling with the wet tracks? I know it's a hard task but would be cool if they could react to the wet weather too, right now they just sbinalla around the track on high speed corners.
on the new content manager / on the drive screen tick ,, use extended physics. you and AI will slip on wet tracks.....
Try to download the Content Manager and run the update then install the light patch 1.69 preview. Within content manager.
Hi, it's impossible for me to play! when i open content manager with no lights patch i can play and exit normally. When i use the light patch ( any), i can play but any time i try to exit from the game in order to return to menu, the game stop, the pc too ( impossible to go to task manager ) and i have to disconnect my profile to return on windows. Is there anyone that have the same problem?
fantastic work! but i have a problem. in the mirror only i can see the lights of one car at same time. and other cars i cannot see on mirror. if i put the external view all cars are whit the lights on. is a problem or any option of yout CSP? thanks in advance and congratulations for your job!
anyone help im not getting any rain or w wiper sounds tia
Don't think it is where would I get ut
Is it possible to do an optimization of lighting_fx.ini file for VR usage ? because when i disable this one i have a good frames rate in VR, and if i enable it, whatever feature selected or disable inside, my frames rate is really poor. And we need it to have track rain reflection. So could you add a check box to disable every features or change complex distant value for lights rendering ?
i have a issue when i put it in content manager it says it cant install i?
Close Content Manager and try again. It should work
Amazing amazing amazing..... just genius, and the optimization is top notch.......but since installing the latest sol 2 and Lights patch i keep getting unexpected error CTD.....this is the last line of the error: f:\dd\vctools\crt\crtw32\dllstuff\crtexe.c (618): __tmainCRTStartup
aha, i'm such a noob, i didn't know there was a log file, i'll check it out and do some tests, cheers dude
Okay another little question. Did the weather change live on "Real condition"? Or did they only load the current weather and stay....?
In the future will the physics of rain be activated automatically according to the choice of climate? Well, that would be great!
Hi Ilja congratulations for the unbeliveable work. one question: testing the Rain Fx I am not finding physichs effects on track. I mean that the car grip is ever the same. Is it normal for the current release or I have to select somethjing in CM? thank you anyway for having improved AC at the current unforecastable level.
To make your car have rain effect. Follow this video https://youtu.be/cvga_Pc3kFE
I have some random fps lock at 30fps at full screen (need to restart the game or go windowed mode), not sure if this has been reported before. Great work as usual!
Hello Ilja!! Good to see you are back and safe!! Since a few versions ago, the tyres when on grass they get kind of a mask imitating grass dirt on them. And if you turn your head on VR, this "mask" moves around the tyre. This doesn't happen with normal dirt, only grass. Is this supposed to happen? It breaks immersion a lot in VR. It wasn't like this before.
Now that I was able to test it better, I have to say that this is by far the nicest rain in any Sim. Now I'm a stalker and chase you with PayPal Ilya! Your own fault ^^
So everything is working in RainFX world now (visually speaking), using 1.69 prev1. Wow. Love it. Thanks Ilya :) Looking forward to seamless wet physics...
hi FlavAlfa. after playing around in the graphics_adjustments.ini. if you change the MIRROR line to MIRROR=1, 2, 8, 12 the lights work... no idea what it does.
Hi Shaun, I changed the MIRROR line to MIRROR=1, 2, 8, 12. But the right light still not rendered and stay flat and dark. I'm using Sol 2.0 just came out today from racedepartment. Con. What Sol are you using?
I've seen a few videos online where there is really cool interaction between the wipers and the water on the windscreen. Mine is more a defined edge. Why would that be??
Check to make sure your Rain debug is checked off and play with settings from there, also make sure to check mark the RainFx in the CSP settings
Did you install sol 2.0 RC4?
Uhh I don't seem to have any weather at all?
Hi everyone after a manual clean install of the 1.69 preview 1 and Sol 2.0 RC 4 it's seems all is ok with rain fx ingame (i didn't test it online at all). I have just little problem with the headlights of the cars. The front right headlights is often not rendered at all and stay black but the left is always perfect. Sometimes it's the 2 headlights that are not shining at all staying flat and dark.... Sometimes it's with moded cars but also with Kunos ones... . Anyone of you with an idea or trick ? I've tried many ppfilters changes, disable windscreen fx, dxgi or not, yesebis or fxxa but there's still this bugg... I must said to you that the wipers are now ok with many modded cars ( wasn't with the 1.67 version). Wipers are ok with Guerilla's GT4 beta cars pack and even with ACL Legends Cars 3.0 pack. You can try them. Finally some tracks won't have any water amount and puddles like the original Kunos Nurburgring even forced in debug rain fx menu, but it's ok on the Nordschleife, that's very strange. Thank's again Ilja for your work and good game to all of you racers.
Not that I am an expert on this, But I think I can answer you question on some tracks not showing puddles... That has to be configured in the extensions. I looked at lilski's road America and figured out how to make it work on my summit point track. Probably some Kunos tracks have the extension config done and others don't.
como se cuales lo tienen y cuales no?
no me aparecen los charcos en algunas pistas
No todas lo tienen implementado por el momento
How do I increase track wetness? for some reason i don't have rain debug
I know but for me weather debug doesn't show the rain debug for some reason.
I had to reinstall sol and the latest lights patch but now I don't have external rain. I have had external rain previously so not sure what I've done??
use SOL 2.0 RC4 and make sure to click on Auto rain
hi all anyone else having problems with fps not going above 60 im using latest csp update and sol weather 2.0rc4 tia
Do you guys know what "use screen drops" in Rain FX does? I unchecked and checked and I can't see any difference. Thanks
screen drips are for the cam replays i think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9n1e-GSxWM&t=145s you doesn't need to change anything. All works just fine with the latest CM, this preview of CSP and latest SOL 2.0 beta 18.
Yes mee too :) but wipers go only with original cars, not with mods (I've tried with 20 mod cars but nothing)
Hello Ilja! Is it only me or all internal windscreen/dashboard reflections dissapeared? Could anybody check it?
Turning off Windscreen FX makes reflections visible again.
I noticed that by changing the parameter "[_EXTENSION] RAIN_DEV=1" in the file .dat the wipers doesn't work, so work or the physics or the wipers.............
yes dad he his really sorry about that papa he will fix it asap for you .. jesus relax its work in progress not the nices way to ask for help ... i wich they banned you lol
I understand why wipers doesn't work................
hi Antonio Nadile, do how to fix the wipers don't clear water?
after updated to new new shaders i have noticed im not getting any fog on the windsheild? any ideas on how to get that back? my mates one seems to have it??
any ideas guys?
I want know how to modify cars to make wipers work too. Any ideas?
only some modded cars will have it bro its an extra animation done do cars.
Does anyone know how to modify cars so that the wipers work?
Anyone have any idea how to solve the problem with dirt spray from tires ? In previous version of CSP and SOL 2.0 beta 12 there was no problem for me. Now I'm using newest CSP and SOL 2.0 RC4 I noticed too some strange shadows on the road. I don't know how to explain it. Like shadows of the clouds are moving super fast and shadows on the road are moving really fast : D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl8Jpf5MgsY
hi you most probably have but if not try turning off new smoke & dust in particles fx and also check your time multiplier in a quick drive
RAIN FX ONLINE !! problem solved I changed the file name welcome message.txt to welcome.txt and paste it with those "". “For testing, rain is active with intensity 100%.”. and then changed into server cfg WELCOME_MESSAGE = welcome.txt pa
can u use it at any server or it need to be done in server config ? / mozesz tego uzywac na serwerach czy tylko dziala jak zmienisz w konfigu na swoim serwerze ?
It looks like thunderstorm doesn't work at it should be. I have no visual wetness at the road and no smoke on the mirrors.
i can see the rain but i cant see the puddles on the ground
same, nor i have the physics.
I can no longer see AI headlights in the real mirrors, i see one set of headlights and the rest turn off, also their headlights are no longer lighting up the inside of the car, it's like there is no one behind me at all at night....i was using volumetric, so i changed back same thing, only one set of headlights in the mirrors, and the interior doesn't light up, so i gone back to volumetric, also there is no emissive glare from that one set of headlights, it's just two white squares, it was perfect in the last update, all the lights lit me up inside and the glare was awesome, phototrealisitc, but now it's just broke for some reason, i got the Sol 2 installed as well, is there new settings somewhere i am missing?
Same problems with headlights for me.
I have a problem with the wipers. They work, but they don't clean up the window, so I can't see anything outside.... Can anyone help me? Tried with different cars (those with working wipers of course), but it's always the same...
Link to Sol 2.0 RC4 https://www.mediafire.com/file/aacyrpah6uwhji3/Sol_2.0_RC4.7z/file
I tried but removed, all become dark, at 11 in the morning look like evening. I use vr
Hi Ilja, not a complaint since I understand it's just at early stage, but since we are here to test, I'll report my findings. Using weather plan from no rainy condition to rainy. - there is a micro lag when the first rain drops appear on the windshield - raindrops should appear more gradually on the windshield - with 3 monitors in some condition there are some dark "lines" around the car on the track. I think something we had already in the past. I think something related to the wheel traces that are messed up with 3 monitors Any way tested more deeply and all that I can say is: STUNNING!
"I am Racing in the Rain...i am singing in the Rain! ."
does anyone have problems with the wipers? only a few cars go to me
Only some cars have working wipers bro
awesome work agaain. have been waiting for online rain for ages haha but idk how to get it to work on my server im sure im just being a fool. but is someone able to screen shot where i need to make the changes or what settings to adjust as i couldnt figure out what this means "you can use Rain FX online: add “For testing, rain is active with intensity N%.” to server’s welcome message, replacing N with a number from 1 to 100" Found part of it for you o/
you have to write in "welcome.txt" server file ONLY “For testing, rain is active with intensity 100%.” and this work online !!!
I have no Rain or Wiper sound effects. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Hi, I have the same problem as you ... were you able to solve it?
is it possible to play mp w rain ?
Yes, just read the post for instructions o/
i have installed SOL 2.0 RC4 but my apps still dont appear in taskbar
This happened to me as well. I manually installed SOL instead of allowing CM to install it and it fixed the issue.
Is there any timetable for getting extra FX working with triple screens?
On 1.69 preview 1 (With SOL beta18): Rain looks great. Still can't get wipers to function at all. (I don't mean they won't wipe, I mean they won't turn on at all.) The last version that my wipers turn on was 1.60... Tried BLM Car, tried SOL auto-manual rain, tried various mappings for Fanatec 2.5/Formula wheel,. Wipers work in CM showroom and regular Showroom, but not in-game. Anyone have suggestions?
Try going to "Sol plan selcetor" app and making sure its not set to off. You can set it to Manual or Auto here.
one question. I don't see "use extended physics experimental" appeared in drive session. What do I need to do to enable it? Thanks
Settings/Content Manager/Drive, option is here: https://files.acstuff.ru/shared/RfEV/20201209-215151.png. After checking that, in drive session "use extended physics experimental" will appear.
Hi ilja, this is an incredible work. The rain feels and acts like real rain with amazing rain physics. One heck of the job man. It' working well so far with Sole 2.0 beta 18. I will need to do some more testing . Bu t so far so goo.d. Now I only want to drive in the rain. Thanks man!
In order this preview to work, it needs Sol 2.0 Beta 18. Great work Ilja! Now it looks even more gorgeous! Question: Checking "Allow to use patch car's data to activate extended physics" a checkbox "use extendeed physics experimental" appeared in drive session. Checking this box, obviously activate the physics for wet road. But, for dry road it needs to uncheck this parameter?
No, it just allows rain physics to work if activated. I leave activated all the time no matter the condition I run. Although, I have found that very few cars actually won't even be drivable if you have extended physics on, so if you find you can't drive out of your pit box in a certain car, then turn it off, at least for that car.
hallo ilja, great work! i installed csp 0.1.69 and SOL 2.0 and now my sol weather apps and others dont show up in the taskbar anymore. but all apps are actvated. did i miss a hidden button?
Rain is not working for me. Is there an specific version of Content manager that I should be using?
Most recent one. You can find it here, in one of the previous posts.
Hello, awesome job! All works correctly for me, more test needed, but I have a problem with wipers, It is not cleaning the windscreen, and if I stoped the rain it continue with drops all time. Any solution or missed configuration??
same problem here.. i tried heavy thinderstorm was so much rain and i tried all the speed of wipers but they are just moving but nothing happen to the rain.. not remove so can't see nothing when drive
if i have dxgi turned on i get this error when i try to start a race: AC\kglrendertarget.cpp (77): KGLRenderTarget::KGLRenderTarget AC\kgl.cpp (1005): kglCreateRenderTarget AC\rendertarget.cpp (52): RenderTarget::RenderTarget AC\cameraforwardyebis.cpp (725): CameraForwardYebis::CameraForwardYebis AC\sim.cpp (2710): Sim::createCamera AC\sim.cpp (229): Sim::Sim AC\splashscreen.cpp (319): SplashScreen::postRender AC\game.cpp (181): Game::onIdle AC\game.cpp (210): Game::run AC\acs.cpp (477): wWinMain f:\dd\vctools\crt\crtw32\dllstuff\crtexe.c (618): __tmainCRTStartup
Sol 2 beta 18 and CSP 1.69 tested. Selected debug working well regardless of the selected weather. Without selecting Debug the rain accompanies the selected weather. The intensities work well according to the weather. Dynamic weather works well with Rain FX too
thank you so much for this. Sorry if this question sound very noob but what controlled by weather FX means? When i go to race option there are only sol related rain options. Also do you plan to release a build without sol? It confusing imho. Thank you
Ilja incredible. GREAT WORK. Still have to test in deep driving, so I'm really curious about rain physic, even if at early stage. In offline, practice mode. Assuming to enable extended physic for the car, if I use a weather plan I can see start raining, tracks wetting and viceversa when drying. Is also rain physic working in sync with track condition or still to be implemented? If it's working is this also working online? Thank you
Sol 2.0 RC4 + lights-patch-v0.1.69-preview1-full crash when start race.
After reinstall app windows open and it´s necessary to reset Sol config for PPfilter. Now ok
Sorry Ilja, with the 1.67 offline the wipers worked perfectly, now with the same car the rain works offline and also online (yeahhhhh) but the wipers no work offline or online.... can u help me?
Try going to "Sol Plan Selector" app. Make sure its not turned Off. You can set it to Manual or Auto here.
GREAT WORK AS USUALLY :)
Can´t see the rain in any way at all. Weatherfx or sol controller has the same result. The rainfx is activated and rain (sol) selected.
you can use Rain FX online: add “For testing, rain is active with intensity N%.” to server’s welcome message, replacing N with a number from 1 to 100
Amazing work, kunos will hire you for sure
excited to see!
Thank you Ilja for this new preview. I'll test it tomorrow and more With the 1.67 preview 1 i had problem of too much smoke particules with rain effect. The smoke is very large and his color is always brown or very dark. The particules debug fx menu (smoke) didn't help me. Changing amount of wetness in the rain debug fx didn't too even linked. Either switching the amount of particules at minimum inside the custom shader patch (particules fx) made no change. Even switching my severals pp filtrer setups not changed this. I saw problems of whipers that don't interact with the raindrops on the windscreen of cars that are non Kunos (or moded) but it's always very realistic with originals Kunos models. I will tell you if it's better with this new preview as soon as possible. Thank's agqin for your hard work for all of us.
Thank you! I believe issue with spray/smoke should be sorted out now, there were quite a few of fixes of all sorts. As for not working wipers, we’re working on configs too.
Thanks 🙏
Quick Q? Just overwrite previous (v1.67) with newer version, or remove it first?
Overwriting should work just as well
Wow thanks a lot great job
Yeah nice early Christmas present. I'll check it out later.
Thanks
Oh boy early Christmas! Thanks Ilja!
looking forward to the new CM Workshop. Let me know if you need help to testdrive things.
Thank you, will do.
Fantastic as always, Ilja. Glad to hear from you and look forward to checking this update out as well as continued progression.
Been missing you! Thanks!
Thank you Ilja! Great Job
Olè
Thank you, as always great job
Ilja, I did not try this version yet but is "extended physics built in? in 1.67 I can't find the "extended physics" checkbox anymore. Ty
Sorry about that, you need to enable it in Settings/Drive, option is here: https://files.acstuff.ru/shared/RfEV/20201209-215151.png
I'm sure it will be worth the wait. Thanks Ilja!
Thanks, look forward to checking this out.
All hail the Assetto Corsa whisperer
Just read the post and I hope you and you're families health and wellbeing are okay Ilja. All the best. And thanks for your amazing updates as usual.