Tracks LA Canyons 1.2

[Ben O'Bro]

The trees looked quite finished from Kenny's images - is an update imminent for general performance testing?

Little things to adjust, but pretty much finished as per density and positions yes.
Still there is a lot of popping (LOD distance) that would need solving.. (adjusting manually all the LOD depending on location, and that's time consuming -_-

 

[Kenny Paton]

And you're a cool dude Kenny..

I'm going to show that to my great grandchildren

 

[Tberg]

Yeah, enjoying the trees version too, little tweeking on the shader settings and it'll be really good. I have pretty good performance overall in VR on an old 970
The rocks look even better than 0.55, they're awesome!

 

[Ben O'Bro]

Google map saying 42minutes 'round the lap, was this recorded with the Transit ? @garyjpaterson

 

[Kenny Paton]

Google map saying 42minutes 'round the lap, was this recorded with the Transit ?

Maybe one of my laps

 

[CobraCat]

Google map saying 42minutes 'round the lap, was this recorded with the Transit ? @garyjpaterson
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Average speed 45mph ? HAHA

Once we get a traffic mod, then we might get lap times closer to the Google map time, hahaha.

 

[Phoenix77]

Google map saying 42minutes 'round the lap, was this recorded with the Transit ? @garyjpaterson
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I could get 4 laps completed in an F1 car in that time lol (If the tyres lasted)
But I guess google maps time wasn't estimated based on the Ferrari SF70H

 

[Tberg]

Google time is based on the speedlimits on route. JIC

 

[Phoenix77]

Google time is based on the speedlimits on route. JIC

Speed limits... what are those? Oh the white signs.... I thought that meant minimum speed

 

[shmafoozius]

Speed limits... what are those? Oh the white signs.... I thought that meant minimum speed

No no no, those are the car limit per section. Unfortunately we never got any of those sections full with cars yet.

 

[Guillaume Francois]

You guys can see these white signs while trying to go as fast as possible ?

 

[CobraCat]

You guys can see these white signs while trying to go as fast as possible ?

I usually see those signs when I'm heading off a cliff!!

 

[shmafoozius]

I usually see those signs when I'm heading off a cliff!!

I usually want to misuse those as a "stop" sign to stop me from going down the cliff but most if not all don't give a f*ck.

 

[davoroni]

wow so impressed- i have been up here a couple of times, this is so cool, can't wait, i woul dlike to familiarize myself better, wrecks in the real world are devastating up there.

 

[Phoenix77]

wow so impressed- i have been up here a couple of times, this is so cool, can't wait, i woul dlike to familiarize myself better, wrecks in the real world are devastating up there.

Thanks @davoroni
Yeah the real roads are incredible I bet... And yes these roads IRL are really really dangerous I'm sure... Always keep any fast driving only to Assetto Corsa

 

[Phoenix77]

High Res... FFB road meshes for the main loop area (including slightly bumpier side roads) are now done.... They come in at 1.8 million polys... and a kn5 size of 250mbs... They're quite subtle in a 'softer' road car... But in something like a GT40... expect to have a bumpier ride!
Racecars will more than likely need a special road setup around here now!

Made from 12 extremely long displacement maps, 360m's long... in an almost random pattern... some of them rotated 180°.
It was so huge... I had to split the area into 11 different scenes.... each scene before optimising back was around 10 million polys... so for 11 scenes, approx 110 million polys were used just for the main loop area.

 

[Ben O'Bro]

y'all busy with ACC and we still busy on the Canyon, planting trees, carving wood and so on
Next update should become a serious competitor for Unreal Engine.

 

[Mascot]

y'all busy with ACC and we still busy on the Canyon, planting trees, carving wood and so on
Next update should become a serious competitor for Unreal Engine.

ACC might interest me much further down the line but I'm staying faithful to OG AC for the foreseeable future - it's never been in a stronger position.

 

[Phoenix77]

Good old Smokey the bear.... A subtle tribute to losing Burt Reynolds (The Bandit) last week, RIP. Considering he stared in 'Smokey and the Bandit' and his career started with Gun'smoke'

There will be various other little easter eggs to find around the track

Release of LA Canyons 0.8 will be coming next Friday
EDIT: That's the 21st September

 

[ALB123]

ACC might interest me much further down the line but I'm staying faithful to OG AC for the foreseeable future - it's never been in a stronger position.

Of course. Anyone who is planning on "giving up" on AC or uninstalling it is a moron, in my opinion. ACC is a GT3 simulator. That's it. Is it destined to be the greatest GT3 simulator this earth has ever known? Maybe. I hope so.

But, if you're going to give up 100+ cars (official content) and 20+ tracks which offer you a tremendous variety of racing formats...I'm sorry, but that's being stupid. ACC should improve in every way compared to AC, although it may not, only time will tell. Still, it's a Blancpain dedicated racing title and offers no variety than racing GT3 cars. I hope it ends up being spectacular, but that is never, ever going to satisfy me more than pushing my Ferrari F40 hard around Nordschleife. Never.