Ormai sono ogni giorno di più i mods e gli addons di qualità per Assetto Corsa: da non perdere certamente questa mattina è la nuova versione aggiornata 1.0 della pista del Nurburgring Nordschleife convertita da Snoopy, decisamente ottima per aspettare la versione ufficiale del tracciato in laser scan che sarà creata dalla Kunos Simulazioni. Se siete alla ricerca di vetture o circuiti extra per il sim di Casillo, potete fare riferimento al comodo topic riepilogativo !

Nordschleife v1.0

- Better performance

- mesh and textures fixes

- you can turn off details via the world detail option

- A.I. file included

- no cams file yet

iRacing member Nick Thissen introduces the first official version of “iRacing Setup Sync (iRSS)” This is an application dedicated to iRacing setup sharing and downloading.

iRacing Setup Sync (or iRSS for short) is a Windows application that attempts to automate most of the tedious work around storing and managing your setups. It operates on a large database of setups, which is synced to most of the popular Setup Shops on the forum and therefore always contains the latest setups, even those shared on the forums. It allows you to browse setups by car, track or team and automates downloading the setups into the correct folder, and it can even automatically download setups for the car / track you are driving right now!

iRacing members can follow the development of Sync Setup or provide feedback to Nick at the iRacing forum thread.

Download -> http://iracingsetups.nickthissen.nl/Client/iRacingSetupSync_installer.zip

This version contains a normal installer which will install an iRacing Setup Sync Launcher application. The Launcher application will automatically update to the latest version and then launch iRacing Setup Sync. You can just use the Launcher application to start the application, if there is no update available it will just launch iRacing Setup Sync.

Official iRacing Setup Sync website - http://iracingsetups.nickthissen.nl/

Important features:

• Automatically download recent setups for your current car / track, as soon as you start iRacing. Similar to Trading Paints – except for setups!
  
• Search setups by car, track or team and download the ones you don’t have yet.
  
• Compares your local setups with the online database setups to determine which setups you already own – there is no point in downloading duplicates!
  
• Subscribe to cars, tracks and teams and quickly search setups that match any of your subscribed items.
  
• Completely customizable directory and setup naming convention with macros like the setup author, car, track, season and many more.
  
• Operates on a vast database of over 1,000 setups which is continuously updated by setups added to the various Setup Shops around the forums, and by user uploads.
  
• (Soon) Upload the setups you used in a recent session (if you want to share them) with the click of a button.
  

Setup database website & account

The setups in the application come from an online database that can also be accessed via : http://iracingsetups.nickthissen.nl/

You will need to create an account on this website and use that to login to iRacing Setup Sync.

Do not login with your iRacing credentials, you need to login with the iRacing Setups website credentials. I will make that more clear in the next version.

Where do the setups come from and how up to date is the database?

The setups come from the online database also available at http://iracingsetups.nickthissen.nl/. You will need an account to use iRacing Setup Sync, which you can create by registering at the website. You don’t need an account to download setups from the website however.

The database also contains setups manually uploaded by many different users, but mostly consists of all the setups available in the Setup Shops in the iRacing forums. Since a few months ago, most of these setup shops are being generated with another application I wrote, which automatically syncs the setup shops with the online database. That means that (at least for the cars that have an active setup shop thread) the database will always immediately contain every setup shared on the forum!

How does it work?

iRacing Setup Sync takes a snapshot of the setups on your computer. When you search for setups, the setups in the online database are quickly compared to your local setups (this is done by hashing their contents – I cannot read your setups), and you will see which setups you are still missing.

Automatically downloading setups when you are racing

If enabled in the options, iRacing Setup Sync will monitor for iRacing activity. When you start iRacing while iRacing Setup Sync is active (either visible or minimized to the background as a system tray application) it will detect which car and track you are driving and automatically search (and download) matching setups from the current season. As soon as you are connected you can go to your Garage and find the most recent setups in your download folder, ready to go.

The application only very briefly checks for iRacing activity every 5 seconds so that it has a negligible impact on your racing experience. You can turn it off by closing it from the system tray when you start racing to be absolutely sure, but it should not be necessary. In a future update I will add automatic support for this.

Finding setups by Subscribed items

Once you have subscribed to cars, tracks, teams or groups (see below), visit the Subscribed tab to quickly search for setups that match your subscriptions. Click the ‘Find subscribed setups’ button to start searching. For example: if you are subscribed to the Ford GT – this will find any setups (that you do not yet own) for the Ford GT. Subscribe to your favorite cars and tracks to quickly get all of the new setups available.

Finding setups by car, track, team or group

If you want to look for setups manually by car, track, team or group simply visit the corresponding tab on the left side of the application. Use the dropdown to select your car, track, team or group and the setup list will be refreshed with matching setups. Use the Season dropdown at the top-right to filter by season.

Setups that appear gray have already been detected on your computer, you don’t need to download them again. You can also see their location if you want to find them. You can still check the checkbox for these setups and download them again if you wish.

Downloading the found setups

Once you found some setups via your subscribed items or by searching for cars, tracks, teams or groups, you can hit the ‘Download selected setups’ button to add the selected (checked) setups to your current download list. Visit the Downloads tab to view your download list, and click Start to start automatically downloading the setups in the list.

Options, setup location and naming

Downloaded setups will be placed in the correct directory for each car, possibly under a further sub-directory if specified in the Options, with a name that follows the naming convention you specified in the Options.

You can choose your directory under the Download Options tab, relative to the directory of the car that the setups are for. The default is ‘SetupSync’, so setups for (for example) the BMW Z4 GT3 would be placed under ‘iRacing/setups/bmwz4gt3/SetupSync/…”

The name of the setup can be specified in the Setup Naming tab. You can use many different ‘tags’ or macros like {car}, {track}, {madeby} that will be replaced with the relevant values for each setup. For example, I like to call my setups by the person who made them, then the season and then whether it’s a race or qualify setup (eg “NickThissen_14S2_Q”), and I want a separate directory for each track: so I use the format “{track}/{madeby}_{season}_{type}”. You can select your favorite format from the list, or specify a custom format.

What are teams and groups?

A Team is a private team consisting of members and administrators. You can upload setups for your private team on the http://iracingsetups.nickthissen.nl/ website, those setups will only be visible to your team members. Create and configure your teams on the website.

A Group can be used to group setups together. The setups in a group are publically accessible (if you want to control who has access to them, use a team instead). You can add multiple contributors to a group who can add setups to that group. Group support might be removed in a later update because it is almost never used.

Updates

Version 2.1

- Added support for automatic updates.

- Added donate button by popular request (see Options page).

- Added support for grouping setups.

- Fixed setup naming convention save bug.

Troubleshooting

If there is a crash when running the new launcher, try running it as an administrator. Running as admin should not be required to just run iRacing Setup Sync, but it may be required when it needs to update.

Known issues

- Window shadow remains for a few seconds when you close it (click it to make it disappear).

- Subscribing to teams is broken.

- Nick has a very cheap shared webserver which may not be able to cope with a large demand.

La sezione del nostro forum dedicata alle piste aggiuntive per Assetto Corsa è ormai particolarmente ricca, non solo a livello quantitativo, ma anche qualitativo, come dimostrano ad esempio i circuiti del vecchio Hockenheim (v0.6) e del cittadino di Melbourne (v0.4), che si stanno sviluppando in modo assolutamente notevole.

Il nuovo MaxTM (v1.3 del 14-06-2014) è un completissimo tool dedicato alla telemetria per tutti i simulatori targati PiBoSo, funziona infatti perfettamente con Kart Racing Pro, GPBikes e World Racing Series. Il programma è molto accurato e fornisce dati utilissimi sulle nostre sessioni in pista. Per tutti i dettagli e download fate riferimento a questo link del forum.

MaxTM is a telemetry tool for GPB, WRS and KRP: it allows to display graphs of the telemetry data exposed by GPB/WRS/KRP. It has two main components:

• A GPB/WRS/KRP plugin: in charge to generate the telemetry data files.
  
• A viewer application: in charge of displaying graphically the telemetry files saved by the plugin.
  

Decisamente a sorpresa, il noto modding team Virtua_LM ha rilasciato per rFactor 2 la nuova versione aggiornata 2.0 della spettacolare pista di Mid-Ohio.

Virtua_LM is proud to introduce you with Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for rFactor 2. Converted from our fromscratch creation on rFactor, this track has been modified to take advantage of new rFactor 2 capabilities. Proposed with 3 layouts, Mid-Ohio is generally appreciated to offer close racing along this 3.5 km long track.

What is new

• New grass shader
  
• Tweaked shadows
  
• New real road shader
  
• Some texture corrections (saturation mainly)
  
• New fitting layout: Miller 200 (based on the “no chicane” layout)
  
• New AIW
  
• New Cams
  
• Some smaller corrections
  

Hey guys, Well…. good news and bad news….

Good news is, I managed to finish up the long awaited update, and I’m currently almost finished uploading… will probably be done by the end of my post.

A lot of things changed, you can find out all about it in the component description. I also reworked all the tatoos yesterday, since after redoing them and setting them to 0.001 as mentioned, I didnt noticed that most of them were still actually hidden. The large clip plane require more than 0.001 in most cases.

I found out that splitting my objects that need to be set to decals, into smaller pieces, helped reduce/remove the flickers, and allow to use smaller values like 0.003-4…

So all tatoos are now visible.

The bad news is, things are stirring up a bit over here, and I dunno how long I’ll be able to work on Nord… not sure how things will end up over here, so I might have to take an unwanted break.

The download is much larger because of the new road textures… each are 5mb in size, but not all are used… I will clean up after I’m totally done with adding variety to the road. I havent found much on the state of the tarmac in the guide, for the section after the karussel, it was mentioned in lots of corners the tarmac was rather in good condition at the time of the guide, so I let the light tarmac (medium age) there.. with the new patch that was already there.

So right now, there is three variety of tarmac, old, medium, and new. You will easily find out which are which as each as visually distinct and feels distinct as well.

Pleclair

You can see specifications of the new car here: http://www.worldseriesbyrenault.com/Formula-Renault-3-5-Series-3208.html?lang=fr

Note that the images at the bottom of the page are click-able for more information on that area of the car.

Tim Wheatley

Dopo la conversione del primo e divertente tracciato di cronoscalata di Joux Plane, sono ormai disponibili per Assetto Corsa numerosi nuovi tracciati aggiuntivi, alcuni convertiti da precedenti versioni, altri rilasciati ancora in versione beta ed incompleta. In questo topic riepilogativo sul forum potete trovare la lista costantemente aggiornata, mentre da questa sezione potete scaricare i vari files. Le ultime arrivate, sono le piste di Willow Springs Raceway e Laguna Seca.

Il team Virtua_LM ha finalmente rilasciato per rFactor 2 la conversione, in versione 1.0, della stupenda pista di Le Mans degli anni 1991 - 1996 ! Per tutti i dettagli e commenti del caso fate riferimento all'apposito topic sul forum, mentre per scaricare il file correte a questo link.

Basic info:

- This is a greatly improved version of the previous release. The most refined area is the guardrails and the specularity levels of the objects. A lot more objects are reflected on the cars or during rain. AI has been refined and the AI-does-not-pit bug has been fixed. Oh and there's also pit perches now.

- Originally the track was started for rF1 by Sylvain Glapa, who has done an incredible job with most of which you still see today. The largest ones (in my opinion) would be the trees (look out for the distinct types in the right areas), the road surface modelling and the grandstands/pit buildings. The shaders and some textures have evolved but without his basis we would not have such a track today, let alone one this great.

- The shoulders down the Hunaudières straight are not for driving. We could not find any hard info but racing cars generally do not use it outside cases of emergency. We implemented this by making them uncomfortably bumpy.

- If you find something that should not be please leave a kind note. Few things are worse than you having a point that we don't read because it was presented in an unkind manner.

Dopo molte settimane di silenzio, il bravissimo pleclair è ritornato per la gioia degli appassionati di rFactor 2: è infatti disponibile per il sim made in ISI la nuovissima versione aggiornata 1.5 beta dell'imperdibile circuito tedesco del Nurburgring Nordschleife Tourist ! Come potete notare dal video qui sotto, si tratta di un download imperdibile.