Progress report: distant shadows, various optimizations and a lot of fixes (new preview build with RainFX inside)

I'm happy to report that this release has fixed my "unexpected error" crashes and runs pretty well performance wise in VR, however with rain and storm you go from solid 90fps to 60/70 tops. But overall amazing work as always!

I cannot get puddles. I have tried every track but nothing works. What am i doing wrong?

I get weird texture issues in 0.1.73, where certain textures are replaced by other textures. This only happens when the RainFX controller is turned on and off.

I can`t display puddles, what setting am i missing?

just subscribed to your patreon and was super hyped to get rain physics, and whe nI watched a video to install the verison of content manager I viewed iin game and it stated that it was "not available to install" under the about and updates tab, how do I fix this?

I download this one and install it. Visual elements work normally, but I couldn`t hear rainfall sound. How can I do in that case?

Hey guys, how can I get visible rain effects on my visor when driving open wheelers or in 3rd person camera like shown in the video posted at Aug 22? Help much appreciated - thx!

7.3 works well for me

Should i get his or keep 72? 72 works rather good for me

when turn on head light the car reflects the surounding light. It's no longer reflects on car when choose "Enable Lighting in Reflections" after 1.50. Is there a way to make it work again? Thanks

Hi, Enable Lighting in Reflections is no longer working after after 1.5. Is there away to make it work?

There are a few tracks that now have graphics issues with this this version of CSP Mexico67, Barbagallo and Zolder

my game keeps crashing when i have the patch enabled, also my fps are down to half from the fps without patch I have an 5600 xt

The bushes around the track at Monza 66 no longer appear. I had to revert to 1.72preview1

Hi I don't have rain sound in car,why?

Hi,i dont know if its related but i receive an error from after some time spent on a server freezing image and this messsage: Error might have something to do with: AC\game.cpp (261): Game::update AC\game.cpp (261): Game::update AC\game.cpp (261): Game::update AC\game.cpp (112): Game::onIdle AC\game.cpp (210): Game::run AC\acs.cpp (477): wWinMain f:\dd\vctools\crt\crtw32\dllstuff\crtexe.c (618): __tmainCRTStartup

There seems to be a problem in some maps where it's completely broken, you spawn underground and hit invisible walls. I experienced this in cadwell and nordschleife. When I roll back to version <1.72, everything is fine.

I dont always get wipers working, sometimes I dont see the water moved by the wipers, just clean glass ther, I mean I had it like once working fine (then the drops were bigger and looking nice), with the same car sometimes it works sometimes not, do you know what is the reason?

Now have no sound on rain, downgrading and upgrading again does not work

Rainfx getting superb. But if you don't mind my opinion, I feel like the grassfx should be darkened too via any configuration or automatically by some amount. Hope you keep up your inspiring work.

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I have no rain sound yet

Loving the new CSP render stats tool! Just wondering if I am the only one seeing some tire models not visually loading at times as can vaguely see here https://bagels.moe/imgs/Sw9IwGrNvk.png Some vehicles such as the WDTS cars either show no wheels or just rims.

hey when will you fix the track errors?

Hi, Imola not have wet. It’s possible insert?

The new render stats are as amazing as rain!!

I'm getting a navigation failed

Even better than drive club rain!!, now waiting for the snow!! I hope on int in a near future!

It's awasome, very good improvements, and now I can play with rain with the ferrari 458 GT3 and the Mercedes GT3! the wippers are working fine, and now are clining my car windows!

On hail weather (i think) there are strange tire markings left on track. I dont know if those are meant to be there but look really strange. With everything turned on max, before this version i had ~60fps on tripple monitor (1080 x 3) now i have ~30 fps improvments while everything turned on. Great job! Realy nice update.

Night has no rain reflection on the preferred line at Nord the tree color in the water reflection is summertime even in the fall-winter and spring months and the rain sound is too loud but other than that this was AWESOME!

Really nice update, thanks for the hard work. I've been able to crank up a few more settings and keep the same FPS which is great :)

Sup guys! Macau Grand Prix track now have some objects like stairs in the middle of the road, xD any fix?! Thanks

Hi, I do see rain but not on the windscreen - any ideas why? Also instead of snow I see fog.

on 1.73 and 1.72 i start under the ground for some reason on Cadwell Park https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/cadwell-park.11507/ roll back to 1.71 and everything is okay. it's like everything is shifted upwards and to the right for some reason. You can hear the surface is not the same place as where you see the "track"

Hello. I install sol 2.02 and your update 1,73. With thé 1,72 and 1,73 i ve this crash message when i exit. [URL=https://www.casimages.com/i/210209104300883801.jpg.html][IMG]https://nsa40.casimages.com/img/2021/02/09/210209104300883801.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

With the v1.73 build there is a problem on the Baku 2019 track. The asphalt after the pits is transparent, like a mirror. Is there a solution to this?

IIja further testing i've noticed some really strange lights coming from the tyres whilst driving in the rain when on F3 camera mode I'm driving the VRC RENAULT R25 SILVERSTONE (KUNOS). The lights are in various colours and flash, very strange.

IIja whilst testing I've found a small problem I appear to have lost the splashes when the tyre goes through a puddle. I was using a GRAND PRIX LEGENDS HONDA R301 at SPA 66 in Heavy rain for your info. Regards Mark

john cobb 5:02 PM Hi IIja I'd just like to say on behalf of the sim racing community & Assetto Corsa fans, I think what you and the other Modder's do is fantastic work. I did update to the latest version of content manager & custom shader patch V1.73 today after receiving a email over the weekend from yourself notifying me of a new release of CSP. I am also running the latest version of SOL 2.01 Unfortunately now when playing in through career mode within content manager regardless of series being played the weather season is always winter / white without snow. When I revert back to CSP V1.72 it works perfectly. I hope this information helps. Thanks again kind regards John Cobb.

Thank you Ilja. I just try it out and everything works perfect for now. I notice FPS gain! Which is so important for my GPU GTX1660. I made some changes for Camtool 2 (thanks André) just in case.

Now volumetric headlights (extra from CSP with 90 FPS) working perfectly with Fog from the interior cam. Thanks IIja

thanks for the update. love that tiny fps counter. but camtool2 camera stop working when i try to hide it window tool

I'm getting some freezing and stuttering in VR in the latest version, I'll try some troubleshooting to find the exact cause and feed back

Thanks for the new update, Ilja! When I set rain I get stuck at 30fps, 60fps on previous patch. Any tips?! Thanks man

Yay! It's Christmas again ... and Bayram .... and Yom kippur ... and Vesakh ...... aaand birthday .... also called Ilja day! Because of you, I'll have to buy an encyclopedia soon ... I'm running out of compliments.

In this version, after a certain distance it does not rain on the ground and the color and headlights of the vehicle deteriorate at nightfall. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/636616561553047552/808290426033405952/unknown.png

There are tracks now really messed up. With lots of props scattered on the floor.

hey love your work! do you think you could add a feature where the wetness of the track and the "rain trail"/smoke trail behind the car is separated? Some custom mod tracks such as Akina have a wet version, but only looks decent if wetness is turned to 0% .

CSP v0.1.73-preview1-full is amazing! But it presented bug with Camtool 2!

Will Content Manager's Custom Showroom also support CSP's features... like if you make a new skin using BC7 to compress, you'd expect to generate its preview using CM...Also some people mentioned cars with encrypted model, isn't it a good idea to disable the export for those models and let Custom Showroom display those models just like in game🤔

FPS вернулся! Вот это хорошая оптимизация !

So I'm absolutely loving the rain fx, awesome stuff. Just having an issue trying to get it working on a server? All people joining have 1.73 but its only overcast not raining no matter what level of rain I set it to in server cfg (light, rain, heavy SOL). Any chance someone can help out?

Hi Ilja - Great work as usual but several tracks have an issue with textures missing - I believe you're aware already?

Camtool now stops working if you "minimize" it. Edit.: I've found the fix for this: General Patch Settings > CPU optimizations > Pause hidden apps (turn it off)

Sorry i'm new to assetto corsa, i'm running lights-patch-v0.72-preview1 (and Sol-v2.0.1) how do i upgrade to v0.73

thanks my boy you're gave life on assetto corsa. Without you Assetto is a big shit

Thanks Ilja for the update. Have a quick question about the drift track from Kunos tho. It's kinda look washed up or winterish? Could you please look at it?

IIja Brilliant update thank you all my mirror problems have been solved. It all looks fantastic.

When will Rain will be fully integrated so if server changes weather from sunny to rain, it starts to rain and viceversa, instead of having to type the rain command in welcome message? Thanks!

Great!

Thanks for this update and the tremendous work. Have to install and test it myself soon(ish) Edit: first impulsive repsonse: WOW!!! That CSP Render stat app gives very good insight about the FPS/FT 'slurpers'. Also overall FPS improvement with this 1.73p update.

The TireFX bug on VR is still there. But I can confirm weatherfx optimizations are done, I got some more FPS and a less few hickups.

the one of the rendering app is very well accepted, lately I have some blocking problems with my rtx 3060 you who knows that with this new tool I will finally be able to understand what brings in block my card that works at 98% and then suddenly for a second goes to 2% and then works again. thank you very much for your work I will continue as in all these months to support you because you are unique.

Thanks Ilja, wil start testing soon. I hope he seasonal change is back for the track graphics. Was broken the with last SOL en CSP combinations

Love the work on shadows. Thank you! Documentation on the shadow cascades would be appreciated as I have lots of shadow flickering issues. ❤️

Thank You!