Creating your own career - step by step

Creating your own career - Step by Step

EDIT : Correction of the commentary on AI setup in CAREER_event.ini.

1 - What career do you want to create ?

There are two types of career mode in AC
A - One serie with multiple events (championship like)
B - Multiple series with multiple events in each serie (it's like the default career of the RC)

Let's go simple and take "A" type for this tutorial, the "B" type is in fact multiple "A"

2 - Folders structure

Where are those damn career files?!
Your career is here :
Program Files (x86)/Steam/SteamApps/common/assettocorsa/content/career

First of all I would suggest that you make a backup of the default "career" folder.
Then in the newly created "career" folder create a folder named "series[_what_you_want or a number]", ie.: series1
Inside this folder you need to create as many folders as events, using the following names : event1, event2, ...

It should look like that :
| career|

| series1|
| event1
| event2
| ...
| eventX​

3 - Configuration files

Here I will discuss of the .ini files that are needed and where to put them but not what's in them.
For the content, you have all the files attached to the post (in the zip) with explanations inside.
At least when I understood what was the use of the parameter and the values it could take, in that way I need your help to add what is missing
I suggest that you edit the .ini files with a real editor (ie.: Notepad++) in order to see what is text and what is parameter.
So let's take a closer look.

3.1 - "career" folder
In this folder you can have three .png images

• start.png => image of the beginning of the career, best size : 751x246
• end.png => image of the end of the career, best size : 751x246
• careerend.png => another image of the end of the career, best size : 1240x560

3.2 - "series" folder
In this folder you can have two .ini files and two .png images :

• opponents.ini => simple as it gets, it's the list of the opponents of your career with car, level, skin, name, ... ie:

[AI1]
MODEL=[CAR_NAME]
SETUP=[TRACK_NAME]
AI_LEVEL=95 ; percentage like in the GUI
SKIN=[SKIN_NAME]
DRIVER_NAME=[PILOT_NAME]
NATIONALITY=[COUNTRY]

• series.ini => this is the description of the series with name and goals, take a look at the "CAREER-series.ini" file
• start.png => image of the beginning of the serie, best size : 1240x560
• preview.png => preview image of the serie when you have more than one serie, best size : 206x206

3.3 - "event" folder
For each event folder you need to have one .ini file and one .png image :

• event.ini => it contains the description of the event and all is variables like track, time of day, temperature, ... Take a look at the "CAREER-event.ini" file.
• preview.png => preview image of the event, best size : 250x125

About the png files, you can make your own, or I suppose you can pick the one in the RC folders if they suits you and Kunos lets you do it (as long as it's not for sale...)

4 - List of track, car and skin parameters

To help you with these parameters, you have the file "AC_params_list.txt" containing most of the parameters value for cars, tracks and skins.
I still miss a few, I think...

Voila!!
Hope this helps, any feedback would and will be appreciated!
If it's for flaming because this or that is missing or I made a mistake that will certainly having me and my family doomed for the next 8 generations I only have three answers:
1 - It is still a WIP (and it is nothing official)
2 - Instead of flaming, if you know what is missing/wrong and how it works I'll be glad to add/correct it into the post/files
3 - Relax and enjoy it's just a game, fantastic, but juste a game !!

 

Great info, thanks.

I only want to change the default career mode to make races longer. The default of 4 laps drives me nuts- I want to change them to 14 laps for a nice, short sprint. I went into the event folders and changed the event.ini and changed race laps to 14 but it is not working. Is there another file I have to change? Please don't say 14 laps is too much for AC!!!!!

 

I am really itching to create a Ferrari Challenge (Europe) career. Thanks for the info!
~Bailey

 

http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/ferrari-challenge-2012.3777/

 

Thanks. I'll have to check this out. It just might have some extra features that I have in mind...
~Bailey

 

Hi, yes you can have more than 14 laps, at least I tried a mod with a 30 laps race.
Then, it's strange that you don't see your 14 laps.
No offense, I try to get if it's me or you that have missed something.

• I'm sure you did but I must ask Are you sure that you've played to the event that you have modified ?
• If so, the number of laps is in two places in the event file, make sure you modified both :
  • In the section [RACE] parameter RACE_LAPS=14
    
  • In the section [SESSION_X] parameter LAPS=14

Let me know if it's working now?

 

Are you planning to make career/season with full set of actual skins? There's not too many skins in that RD career. I'm definitely interested to drive a full Ferrari Challenge season.

Sorry for the OT.

Edit. And of course creat idea for the thread @Sguby Will come handy at some point to me too for sure.

 

That's what I missed! Thanks. But after setting them all to 14 laps, they now read 10 laps. On RD someone created a custom GT3 offline championship based on BES and those races are all only 10 laps. Must be some sort of hard limit?

 

Yes 10 laps is the limit with fuel consumption ON (keep forgeting it). It should (must) exist a parameter for the [RACE] section to disable it. Haven't find it yet, if someone knows it

 

Thank for the info I have been working on one for the last days - Making skins and championship .

This is great but I wish Kunos would make it possible to do an championship that is separate from the normal career! Will get messy in time!

What would make this even better was if we could choose the car used - One Championship I downloaded for the GT3 is actually 3 championships one for each car!

Maybe make it possible to link one step deeper in career folders that way you could first choose an GT3 icon on next page choose car and then the championship. That would be really cool!
Hope the can extend this an bit! but I am loving it right now as I wanted championships in AC!

EDIT: I edited series2,event4 to 15 laps and it worked. Non of Kunos events use fuel consumption on. (I have not unlocked the later ones)

 

Thanks for the info, that's what I thought but as I'm not at home to check I did answer by memory

 

Yea. It might be possible to make a full grid of so that you can have a proper fight for the points. I would have also used my "creative storytelling skills" with the pre-race texts, testing, and all that good stuff.

It might be a thing where you have one "Section" that are all the races and another "Section" of mid-season testing that can be visited at any time.

~Bailey

 

10 laps isn't even enough for a touring car series. Kunos needs to make some decisions- is this going to be a sim or an arcade game. Right now they are trying to straddle the fence

 

Um, right now I understand only half of it. ^^ can wie mix different car classes, Gt2 and Gt3? Anybody found a solution for longer races?

Kunos help us please.

 

I'm pretty sure Kunos already decided on the "sim or arcade" question, here's a quote from Wikipedia, just to be sure everyone's on the same page:

 

Of course you can mix GT2 and GT3 in fact you can mix what you want Just for fun I've juste added a Z4 GT3 to the the first Abarth 500 race default race with 14 laps. It's working fine !!! My event.ini attached to the post, have to zip it...
But I do agree that in the GUI you only see 10 laps

 

I have made an Championship race with 30 laps - you are talking about fuel consumption and the lack of pitstops - IE realism....
Pitstops are coming to single player according to info so whats the problem?

 

Don`t know what you are talking about.... Attached the ini - Series2/event4

 

Ok I got it!!! If you check fuel consumption ON then you have 10 laps only (in the GUI, race is OK), uncheck it and then bingo your true lap count appears Again this 10 laps AI/GUI limitation...

 

Cool now we know the issue - I set it to off some time ago since I like long races.

Thanks!