Mod that seems to make night racing in AC possible? (Working headlights)

Another fun feature added to the latest build, only E30 and Yellowbird supported so far:

https://gfycat.com/ColorlessMediocreAmericanwirehair

 

Track lighting is being worked on by several modders. Screenshot by kelnor34 from shaders Discord

 

How do the generic track lights work if you don't have a track specific .ini?

At Feldbergring there are lots of lights in strange places where I don't want them (see below) and none where I would like them e.g windows of buildings, maybe some tents lit up and the odd campfire and also the hot air balloons.
Can lights be placed using something in the lights mod or is it down to the track modder to set these up?

 

I probably should have added that I tried using a Feldbergring config for the lights patch but it just added more lights in strange places. I guess for things like a flickering fire light x4fab would have to add something and then the track makers themselves... Hopefully one day, need some campfire s and lit balloons.

 

What weather mod is recommended for night driving (in VR) and do we have yet day night day transition and if yes, how does it work?

 

You better ask Ilja, but I think day/night progression is possible with Peter Boese’s mod.

 

BTW i love how skeptical the title of this thread still is "seems to make"... more like "makes". No offense to OP btw, love that you brought this to people's attention in the first place.

 

I'd install black night, I use it on our server and I know at least 1 other server uses it for MP so one reason to download it. It is also dark enough for VR which is another. G&B has dynamic day night I think but dunno if it transitions between them, someone mentioned something about that but I forgot, it doesn't have a night only weather though so I haven't used it that much to know if the night is dark enough in VR, the misty sunrise is nice from G&B and I use that sometimes. It doesn't have a night specific weather though so no good for MP (AFAIK.) Assetto by night was way too light for me using VR so I wouldn't recommend that one and 4 seasons I downloaded but I don't get it and haven't tried it (made by the same person that made Assetto by night I think.) For a nice dark night in VR and a standalone night weather which can be used in MP BlackNight is the daddy.

 

Yeah, OP pls change the title to something more confident!

 

Well, I wrote it in June 3rd Shaders and project wasn't nowhere where it's now. No track lighting for most tracks, headlight power was lacking, FPS was bad compared to now. Today it's nothing short of having night racing in AC, with slight FPS cost (which would be the case even if it was made by Kunos). Absolutely everyone who plays AC should know about this mod, install it and use it

 

Actually, I updated the OP to raise awareness of this. If there's something I should correct, let me know

 

Sadly, still the same here.
Proof above....

 

No he meant he updated the original post. Which is a very good update btw.

 

Not sure if I can edit the actual title of a thread? OP has unlimited edit time for his post, but it excludes headline. But yeah I put some basic install info, if someone with no idea about this stumbles across

 

As usual with my luck, few hours after I decided to give it a shot.
Great idea with editing the post though.

I installed the custom shaders mod and along that the "Black night, ideal for the green hell" from RD as that was recommended to me. Until now I was using the Natural graphics mod and SweetFX. I turned them off before trying the night mod just in case, but anyone knows if all those mods can work together?
Common sense says that Natural mod was tweaked for standard (day) AC so it might not be suitable for night weather. And I'm not sure if SweetFX isn't actually messing with same stuff as custom shaders?

BTW CM isn't necessary to install the mod.

 

Personally been using latest GBW suite with included stuff. ReShade, and the GBW_reshade PP filter that comes with it. Seems to work pretty great in all weather and time combinations. It uses the CM function that switches PP filters automatically, to finetune the look of different weathers (this has to be enabled in CM > Settings > Drive > Use weather's custom PP + clouds)

I guess people can use wide variety of combinations. The shaders are the main thing. While imo the best weather mods work only with CM (due to it's ability to load weather-specific clouds and PP). Some use the Wet Mod in combination, but believable rain is a bit further away (probably unreachable) due to lack of working wipers, rain drops and aquaplaning. Night however works great

 

Actually all Kunos cars come with working wiper animations. Just go to the CM showroom and activate the animation in the car params tab by clicking on "Wipers". I guess Kunos was never really sure if they wouldn't find some way to implement rain and made wiper animations a requirement for their models just in case. But yeah, propper rain is not going to happen for a while. Ilya of course wants to look into it and mentioned "having his own ideas about doing rain" when the wet mod was mentioned on the discord, but right now his focus lays elsewhere.

 

Yes, but then how do you activate them when driving? there is no allocated button command that I could find.

 

You can't
Ilja made it possible in the custom showroom

 

I just click around different PP filters (when making videos in single screen mode) and use whatever. You should be fine with any of them when using BlackNight. So what did you think? Tried Feldbergring at night yet?