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Assetto Corsa / FaceTrack camera arrived
« on: June 20, 2014, 01:30:48 PM »
Hi,

Today arrived a brand new PS3 camera called funny enough PS3 Eye. It was 19 bucks from Ebay! The one great feature about this camera is the 120 Mhz/FPS lens, yes you heard right, a PC camera over 30FPS for under 20 bucks. Bargain! It is also super sensitive to light and should work OK in very low light.

I haven't had enough time to perfect the setup but I'm already grinning from ear to ear with this technology, sometimes my POV cuts the right mirror of the screen, now with a little head turn to the right I can look at the mirror perfectly.

If anyone doesn't know you can get free facetracking software for Assetto Corsa, what this allows you to do is turn your head left and right and look out the side windows, but you do need a high end camera so that you don't lag when doing so.

If anyone is interested you can find more information here:


http://sourceforge.net/p/facetracknoir/wiki/Home/
http://facetracknoir.sourceforge.net/home/default.htm
http://www.codelaboratories.com/products/eye  - required driver here

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Playstation-3-Eye-Camera-brand-new-bagged-PlayStation-3-BRAND-NEW-/261503147653?pt=AU_Video_Game_Accessories&hash=item3ce2cd5e85


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Assetto Corsa / Re: Driving Manual
« on: June 20, 2014, 09:40:38 AM »
Yeah same for me here I can't slow the car down fast enough and keep over running the first chicane. I need to work on brake balance I think.


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Assetto Corsa / Re: Racer Introductions
« on: June 20, 2014, 08:34:45 AM »
I thought I better introduce myself as well, I'm Phil and I also work in IT. I'm a system administrator and mainly work with Microsoft solutions.
I'm 33 and live on the Gold Coast, a great place where it's summer nearly all year round.

I'm a bit of a gamer and really like my MMO's and sim racing, I started with the commodore 64 and was lucky to have both tape and floppy drives. My first real PC was a 286 8Mhz turbo'd to 10Mhz and I've had every generation of Intel CPU since, well at least all the major versions.

At the moment I'm starting a new business - application for a mobile phone and I also want to go to Uni and attempt a double degree, political science and bachelor of business early next year and hopefully won't be going back to IT once that commences.

I'm always keen for MP online racing so if you see me about and wanna race, just ask.  :)

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Hey what sorta lap times should I be aiming for? I'm in the DTM and atm I can't break 2 minutes.

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Assetto Corsa / Re: Driving Manual
« on: June 19, 2014, 09:10:02 PM »
If the option is available I always use the H-Shifter and clutch. I think it adds to realism and also adds another layer of complexity. I know last race I lost a position down the straight because I missed a gear.

I have pro features turned on and only use the auto blip because I don't know how to do it myself, not sure if that's considered cheating. I have mechanical damage, tyres and fuel turned on.

One thing I don't do is use the race line option, it's OK during practice but during races I don't think you should have the race line enabled.

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Assetto Corsa / Re: Thursday Night Fun Racing
« on: June 18, 2014, 09:12:59 AM »
I'd be keen for more online racing and I can make Thursday! Personally I'd like to race the GT cars like BMW GT2 vs Z4 GT3, maybe it's only because I've spent more time in these cars but I think they are a little more forgiving, the brakes are better as well as the handling.

Either way sign me up please  8)

EDIT: New signature - anyone know how to resize the image a notch, [img=100x50] doesn't seem to work.

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Assetto Corsa / Re: DTM Car G25 Max FFB No Clipping Setup
« on: June 16, 2014, 04:44:02 PM »
Well done Marty very impressive, btw where did you make a mistake?

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Assetto Corsa / Re: DTM Car G25 Max FFB No Clipping Setup
« on: June 16, 2014, 03:49:14 PM »
That's good to hear you found it worthwhile, if you haven't already try Nords in the 599XXX with 125% on each effect, let me know what you think,  These settings seem to be more noticeable on a track that isn't super smooth like Silverstone.

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Assetto Corsa / Re: DTM Car G25 Max FFB No Clipping Setup
« on: June 16, 2014, 02:54:44 PM »
One thing to point out anything under 100% reduces the feeling you "should" be feeling, that's how I interrupt the settings.

I've often heard people say on Nords the first carousel, (i hope i have the right section name) should be super bumpy on the inside line, at 100% on each effect this was the first time this section felt like many had described, using the devs 35/25/5 seemed weak in that section.


Edit: I have a feeling that each car will require a particular setup with regards to FFB setup.    :o


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Assetto Corsa / DTM Car G25 Max FFB No Clipping Setup
« on: June 16, 2014, 10:31:26 AM »
Hi, I thought I'd share some information and a particular setup for the G25 Logitech wheel that I've been working on which I don't think many people have bothered to really nail down. By all means use any particular setup you're comfortable using but I think this is worth the 5 minutes investigation.

As many here know hardware clipping is terrible and extremely hard to setup without reducing other effects. I've changed to non vsync and run around 200-250 frames, so keep that in mind because frames and clipping go hand in hand. Gain is both a friend and an enemy in this case but I've created the "perfect" FFB for the DTM with zero clipping but maximum FFB.

My setup is for the BMW E30 DTM car.

If you check out the AC forums and the Logitech setup wheel you will notice the devs now recommend a new config and that got me thinking about the changes and I think I found the "perfect" setup. Please don't judge the setup by simply looking at it, it does appear wrong but it really isn't. This profile allows you to feel your wheels skip hop and bounce, it's more realistic and the wheel to me feels like it's actually attached to something.

Give it a go in the BMW E30 DTM on silverstone-international, it feels amazing.

In Logitech global device settings use the following config:

Overall Effects: 100
Spring Effects: 100
Damper Effect: 100

Don't tick the tick box, "enable centering spring"
Centering Spring Strength: 0

Degrees of rotation: 900

Make sure to create a specific AC profile and copy the same global settings into "Specific Game Settings"

In-game AC settings

Gain: 72%
Filter 5%
Damping 3%

Kerb 100% - 150%  (adjust to preference, I like 100)
Road Effects 100 - 150% (adjust to preference)
Slip Effects 100 - 150% (adjust to preference)

Steering Settings

Gamma: 1.00
Filter: 0 - 0.15 (adjust to reduce dead zone)
Speed Sensitivity: 0

Brake gamma 1.0  (If you have a load cell use 1.0, recommended by devs)

Let me know what you think   ;)

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Sorry if I missed the information in the thread but what will be the in-game time on the server and what temperature is the track?

Will it be different on some tracks?

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Assetto Corsa / Re: Season 1 BMW M3 Teams
« on: June 10, 2014, 02:12:56 PM »

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Assetto Corsa / Re: Thu June 5: Monza Time Travel
« on: June 05, 2014, 06:59:34 PM »
Hi Wally, I send it via PM

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I'd like to sign up if possible please, I do intend on sticking around for the whole season.

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Assetto Corsa / Re: Thu June 5: Monza Time Travel
« on: June 05, 2014, 05:33:40 PM »
is it too late to sign up, I thought I signed up but I might have replied to another thread  :'(

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