Just curious about this sparks.ini

This sparks.ini in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\assettocorsa\system\cfg

its suposed to be the exaust flames or sparks from scratches on the railguards ,asphalt etc?

 

I noticed last night that if you run the setup, video, benchmark, that there's a blue glow under the closest car you can see the back end of, and that it seems to be - I'm doing this from memory so don't blame me if I'm wrong - only under acceleration. I was wondering at the time if it was sparks under the car or just some weird graphics artifact. FYI, that's with PP off FWIW. Check it out for yourself.

 

I saw some blue glow behind lotus 25 online, quite weird, but for sure no sparks. Sparks would be so nice to have.

 

Sparks have been disabled since the tech preview; Stefano said he turned them off because every little car to car contact would cause them to appear and it looked horrible. Hopefully someday he finds time to properly re-enable them.

 

Sparks should only really be coming from the underside of the car upon bottoming. I don't really think they should be coming from car to car contact.

 

Which is why they aren't activated; apparently the code doesn't know which part of the car is the bottom.

 

thanks guys , i was thinking this spark.ini was about beautiful sparks like the green hell trailer at 1.02



its damn beautiful this effect

 

probably this is an ppfilter profile effect, some have these glow like cinematic lens flare

 

But it wasn't from the game engine, video was edited.

 

now i know , but mark the video as 'not actual gameplay' would be apropriate

 

Only thing not game play were the sparks.

 

And sounds.

 

I didn't want to open a new topic, about sparks.
So it is possible to mod it?
Do AC give some information about distance between the car bottom and track?
Modding guru's input needed!

 

Good idea. This way the engine doesnt have to know where the bottom of the car is but only if the distance between car and track is zero.
But I fear Stefano would have had this idea if it could be done so easy. Perhaps the engine also canˋt differentiate between carbody and tires. With tires included the difference to the track would (almost) always be zero...

 

its amazing how just a simple effect, that should be in the game, seems like an exotic request lol

us patient AC players eh /:

 

Right, but there are so many other games with all the bells and whistles and I still prefer AC by far, even without sparks&co...

 

It wouldn't need to differentiate between tires and car undercarriage, you could probably divine the car height relative to road from the suspention data.

 

I think at some point AC disabled collisions between car body and ground for performance reasons, so now it just has a single bottom plane that can collide with the track. Adding sparks would I guess mean shifting them to use that collider.

Collisions are one of more cpu intensive things the game does, "is the car touching the ground" is not a simple question by any means. So when majority of cars in the game would never hit the ground with something that sends up sparks, why add it? GT2/GT3/prototypes use wood bottoms.

 

They probably started testing to add sparks at some point but the result didn't come out as they wanted to, so they just left some files there. That's my point of view.

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