F1 2019 Performance mod question

[KrazyLurt]

Hi, instead of playing career mode, I decided to alter the car performance and do regular Grand Prix.

I adjusted all the cars to the rnd updates values from the Mercedes, except the engine, takes too much time.

I works great and the pole for Austria with 110 was 1:03.006, this years pole was 1:03.003 so pretty spot on,

Anyway, with this higher performance the cars sparks like crazy.

Any idea how to tweak the setting to lower the amount of sparks.
i've tried a few values, but no luck....

 

[KrazyLurt]

I found the value:
<COMY value="0.025" />

I guess it stands for Centre of Mass Y axis.
The higher the value the more bottoming out=sparks
the RND update was +0.03

Now it works flawlessy
Altered the fuel and ESR so I and the AI drive in the same fuel mode and ERS mode all the time.
The games is incredible that way, the ERS and fuel just makes the game gimmicky

 

[MRGreeny74]

Altered the fuel and ESR so I and the AI drive in the same fuel mode and ERS mode all the time.

Yes, same procedure as every year. Before i start a season i spend some time to edit the <FuelECU> Section to 1.0 values, but i had some problems last year doing the same with the ERS Mode. Do you want to describe how you altered the ERS Mode ? What values should i change to get the effect you described ?

 

[KrazyLurt]

Sure, it´s pretty simple, and I think I will release these tweaks as a perfomance mod, because it is so much fun.

Regarding fuel, I edited the values so that lean, normal and rich have the same performance as rich, but still the original fuel drain. I do this so I still can drain or save fuel if I want. I start the race with the default fuel load and choose rich because I think thats what the A.I. does, and it means (in therory) that I and the AI have same amount of weight.

Regarding ERS, I edited the values so harvisting is pretty much instant, I,e, taking away that from the game as close a I could.
Then I edited the values so 0,1,2,3 and 4 have the same performance as 3 i.e. "high". 5 "hotlap" is unchanged.
A.I. only run level 1-4 apart from 1-2 laps from the end where they switch to 5 "hotlap".
This mod works good because 5 is still default so qualifying have the right amount of speed.
And I only use mode 5 1-2 from the end because the a.i. do so.

All in all, much better racing , not so much slipstream/DRS trains anymore. No more a.i. using mode 4 performance only after being overtaken.
A bit less a.i. overtaking other a.i. sadly.

Here are the vaules for ERS:

<Mode name="0">
<Name value="None" />
<FirstGearModifier value="0.0" />
<SecondGearModifier value="0.0" />
<ThirdGearModifier value="0.45" />
<FourthGearModifier value="0.45" />
<FifthGearModifier value="0.45" />
<SixthGearModifier value="0.425" />
<SeventhGearModifier value="0.4" />
<EighthGearModifier value="0.4" />
</Mode>
<Mode name="1">
<Name value="Low" />
<FirstGearModifier value="0.0" />
<SecondGearModifier value="0.0" />
<ThirdGearModifier value="0.45" />
<FourthGearModifier value="0.45" />
<FifthGearModifier value="0.45" />
<SixthGearModifier value="0.425" />
<SeventhGearModifier value="0.4" />
<EighthGearModifier value="0.4" />
</Mode>
<Mode name="2">
<Name value="Medium" />
<FirstGearModifier value="0.0" />
<SecondGearModifier value="0.0" />
<ThirdGearModifier value="0.45" />
<FourthGearModifier value="0.45" />
<FifthGearModifier value="0.45" />
<SixthGearModifier value="0.425" />
<SeventhGearModifier value="0.4" />
<EighthGearModifier value="0.4" />
</Mode>
<Mode name="3">
<Name value="High" />
<FirstGearModifier value="0.0" />
<SecondGearModifier value="0.0" />
<ThirdGearModifier value="0.45" />
<FourthGearModifier value="0.45" />
<FifthGearModifier value="0.45" />
<SixthGearModifier value="0.425" />
<SeventhGearModifier value="0.4" />
<EighthGearModifier value="0.4" />
</Mode>
<Mode name="4">
<Name value="Overtake" />
<FirstGearModifier value="0.0" />
<SecondGearModifier value="0.0" />
<ThirdGearModifier value="0.45" />
<FourthGearModifier value="0.45" />
<FifthGearModifier value="0.45" />
<SixthGearModifier value="0.425" />
<SeventhGearModifier value="0.4" />
<EighthGearModifier value="0.4" />
</Mode>
<Mode name="5">
<Name value="Hotlap" />
<FirstGearModifier value="0" />
<SecondGearModifier value="0.6" />
<ThirdGearModifier value="0.6" />
<FourthGearModifier value="0.6" />
<FifthGearModifier value="0.6" />
<SixthGearModifier value="0.55" />
<SeventhGearModifier value="0.5" />
<EighthGearModifier value="0.5" />
</Mode>
</EnergyRecoverySystem>

And for harvesting:

<EnergyHarvestEfficencyMGUH value="9.6" />
<EnergyHarvestEfficencyMGUK value="9.3" />

The fuel values:

<FuelECU>
<FuelBurnScaleLean value="0.7" />
<FuelBurnScaleStandard value="1.000000" />
<FuelBurnScaleRich value="1.3" />
<FuelBurnScaleMax value="1.2" />
<FuelPowerScaleLean value="1.03" />
<FuelPowerScaleStandard value="1.03" />
<FuelPowerScaleRich value="1.03" />
<FuelPowerScaleMax value="1.075" />
<FuelRevsScaleLean value="1" />
<FuelRevsScaleStandard value="1.000000" />
<FuelRevsScaleRich value="1.000000" />
<FuelRevsScaleMax value="1.000000" />
<TemperatureScaleLean value="1" />
<TemperatureScaleStandard value="1.000000" />
<TemperatureScaleRich value="1" />
<TemperatureScaleMax value="1" />
</FuelECU>


and a bonus tweak of the Mercedes final ratio, works good:
<FinalDriveRatio value="4.925" />

 

[KrazyLurt]

Made a mod of it:

https://www.racedepartment.com/down...od-for-making-fuel-and-ers-a-non-issue.27515/

 

[MRGreeny74]

@KrazyLurt

Thank you for you explanations regarding modding the ERS.

To your Mod : I tested it and i love it, but you´re right the AI has some problems overtaking other AI.
I have found out that increasing the DRS-Effect should solve this issue.

i.e. Ferrari.xml :

<DRSRotationAngleRadians value="0.646" />

Change "0.646" to 0.750 for increasing the DRS-Effect.

0.000 means = No DRS Effect
1.000 means = Max DRS Effect

Thank you very much for your Mod.

 

[vee10]

Very interesting mod if you can get the A.I to be as aggressive overtaking as the vanilla settings I will look forward to giving this a try.

Great job working this out, appreciate yours and @MRGreeny74 efforts