Set ups

Hitman65 · May 26, 2020

Codemasters F1 has a workshop where you can load all the different setups for all cars and tracks before going into the game. Does AM2 have this anywhere???

UMC 22 · May 26, 2020

Nope, not yet. I don't know if it's something they plan on adding or not. You can probably share the setup files found in My Documents\Automobilista 2 manually though.

BillGuy · May 26, 2020

The thing that has me scratching my head is why on earth would setup files be named like they are if they are just “independent” files being read/parsed as they’re needed?

There's already a 16 character limit for your setup names within the game's GUI, why isn't that just used for the setup file names? It genuinely makes me wonder whether there might be some sort of “database” being maintained for the setups within the game’s internals. Hopefully I’m just being paranoid.

UMC 22 · May 26, 2020

Why make them and nearly everything else, even controller configs, non-human-readable? Who knows... I guess they just don't want people messing about with any files, no matter how innocent.

Jebus · May 27, 2020

Setups are shared via time trial already. Load an entry as a ghost and then click the wrench icon in the "ghost window".
But yeah, you need to be in game to get those.

Hitman65 · May 27, 2020

Try this out....Fantastic. Just copy to documents/automobilista2....

UMC 22 · May 27, 2020

Hitman65 said:
Try this out....Fantastic. Just copy to documents/automobilista2....

That's an FFB profile, not a car setup.

BrunoBæ · May 27, 2020

Jebus said:
Setups are shared via time trial already. Load an entry as a ghost and then click the wrench icon in the "ghost window".
But yeah, you need to be in game to get those.

What?
Are you sure?
I just thought that this wrench thing symbolised if you were using the default setup or your own.

CatsAreTheWorstDogs: Oh man if you are right then I suddenly realise that other people have been able to grab my setups

UMC 22 · May 27, 2020

BrunoB said:
What?
Are you sure?

Yes, he's right. It's been a feature since the TTs were released.

Jebus · May 27, 2020

Yep, what he^ said.

BrunoBæ · May 27, 2020

Oh man this is embarrassing.
I just grabbed the TT setup from the fastest driver of the car I use at the moment - and when I checked it out it was more or less the default with some minor changes.
Among others the wings.
But the strange (and embarrassing) thing was that the guys setup had 56L fuel - while my own setup had very low fuel to squeeze the last 1/100 out of the lap.
But ok when I lowered the fuel I was able to get "close" to my own PB(= +0.3sec).
Which shows that setups doesnt make miracles.

CatsAreTheWorstDogs: I can suddenly remember that this grabbing a setup from TT was also possible in pCars2.

lawsy · May 27, 2020

I've noticed whatever I set the fuel to doesn't matter. It's locked at 5 litres permanently.

UMC 22 · May 27, 2020

lawsy said:
I've noticed whatever I set the fuel to doesn't matter. It's locked at 5 litres permanently.

It would make sense if it locks your fuel to a specific level in TT mode. R3E does the same in Leaderboard mode. They probably just haven't gotten around to disabling to slider, even though it doesn't to anything. (Like the didn't lock the TC/ABS sliders for cars that didn't even have those features until recently.)