Assetto Corsa Manual or used guide

I have done the searches for the above and found nothing.

If there is no manual or guide, is there at least an explanation for the ideal driving line guide? I get that the greed arrows mean accelerate. I thought the red would mean brake but that doesn't explain why there are several short sections of red in a long straight, nor why there are red,green,red on turns.

I have attached no log as it is irrelevant.

Many thanks for any help provided.

Manfred

 

Driving line is a pretty basic assist for people that dont understand how to find their own ideal line and brake points. It wont be perfect and it actually will hurt your development as you need to learn tracks by memorising sections, brake points, turn in points, apexes and exits. Following the line on track will normally take your focus away from the actual track objects you need to use for markers and so if you use the line then turn it off you likely wont even know the basic layout of the track.

In general the line will be green for throttle red for brake, its not dynamic and depends I think on the AI line. This means on mod tracks especially it may be very bad and even official tracks it likely wont be the best line for any particular car just a basic line for those that really need this. If you turn it off you will improve much quicker then you will keeping the line on so best to just disable it.

Someone that understands lines and brake points can learn a brand new track in 10-30 laps to a fairly good level. To be able to get the most out of a combo you will likely need more laps then that and every lap you do you will likely learn something.

 

It's not AC related, but this website could be helpful to you, to learn the basis of race driving
https://driver61.com/uni/

 

Watch this video and when you finish watching it, watch it again.

 

I highly recommend "Going nowhere fast in Assetto Corsa" by Amen Zwa. Computer setup information, track guides. Lots of info regarding vehicle dynamics, physics, etc. Chock full of info and its updated frequently.

 

An easy and useful resource is the iRacing driving school videos. Beneath not being AC related, you can learn the basics and more in an easy way.
Link to the playlist on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE6A9290582C69827
Have fun!

 

I wouldn't rely on the racing line the game indicates. That might be helpful to learn your way around a track, but for racing it's rather distracting and you should learn to get along without.
It's not really that hard, once you understood how to analyze corners.

Do you buy chance own Grand Prix 2 by Geoff Crammond?
That game came with a very lengthy and cool manual (like games used to do back then, it's one of the manuals I kept even though I don't play the game anymore, memories …). On page 118 to 120 you'll find explanations on the typical corners and how to take them.
Once you've understood that part, you can find the ideal racing line yourself (although sometimes you will have to experiment a bit) and don't need any more help.

(If you don't have that one, sorry I can't make pictures or scans of the manual right now and it wouldn't be allowed on the forum anyway since it's copyrighted material.)

 

The driving line is NOT dynamic. In most games the line is green, and if you are going too fast the line will go orange then red, to tell you to slow down And then when you are slow enough it will go green again. That is a dynamic racing line, IT changes colour to tell you where to brake and speed up. Assetto does NOT have this. Assetto has a Static racing line. Which means all it is showing is where the AC devs sped up and slowed down. It is not so much telling you where you need to brake, its just more of telling you where they braked..
But it may not have even been in the same car as you are using, which means the brake points and speed up points would be totally different for you. a fiat 500 doesnt need to brake and speed up on a corner at the same spot as a F1 car and as the line colour doesn't change based on your speed the line will by lying to you..
Best way to use the line ive found (and this is from an amature) is.. Use the line to show you where all the apex points are on corners for sure, that helps a lot. But in regards to speed just use the "suggested " braking points as a guide for the first 5 or so laps. The devs braked for a reason, probably a corner coming up, but as you will be i na different car those red section are just more of a "watch out something is here" marker than a " do exactly as we did" marker..

Also the line is used to tell the AI where to go. When we make mod tracks and we want to record the AI line, we are basically just recording the racing line... Whe do a lap of the track to record the path, but it also records what our pedals are doing.. If we are speeding up the line will be displayed green, if we cruise at a set speed or just coast along it will be yellow and if we hit the brake pedal it will record red on the line. Which means if we are going along a big straight recording our racing line and we hit the brake pedal Every other user who sees that racing line will also see a red " brake point" in the middle of a long straight.. But you will clearly be able to see it's a long straight and you don't need to brake.. So REALLY the Racing line is nothing more than just a visual recording of what the person did when they were actually recording the racing line..If the dev was a scaredy cat on the track and didn't drive to the best of his potential then the racing line isn't even gonna be 100% accurate .. So hopefully you can now see why relying on the racing line so heavily is a bad thing.. Use it to get familiar with the track and where the rough braking points are, but after that leave it well alone, you will learn the tracks much quicker that way.

Hope that helps,
Nobby

 

I want to thank each and every one of you for the great comments and advice.

Marty and others, you reminded me of a time I did some real race car driving where a pro sat next to me and they had witches hats set up to show the line and brake sighs to tell you where to brake. I was so busy trying not to hit the witches hats that I never got to focus on the track at all. When the pro then took me for a ride, they ignored the brake signs and the line they drove just meant to witches hats were run over.

Rudski, there is so much to take in from that video, I doubt twice will be enough for me. Thanks for the link.

Orne, I bought that ebook and some others that were suggested afterwards. Cheers.

Roberto, I may have seen some of those iRacing videos, but will check them out again. Thank you.

For me, trying to get the right driving line, right brake and turn points as well as gearing is all very difficult to even just get fair at. My skills are only sightly better than an old house brick

Thanks again everyone!
Manfred