Modded tracks, which are worth going for?

If you drive around the Kunos tracks you feel lumps and bumps, yet the community addon tracks mostly have no texture. Is this the norm or is there some I have missed that are as good as Kunos tracks?

 

There are, Paul Ricard is on pair if not better then some Kunos tracks, driving feel and bumps as well.
Hockenheim by tommy is also amazing to drive, graphically lacking just a few notches. Then donnington by brun, Bridgehampton, Luccaring.. Red Bull ring..

 

Bridgehampton for sure. Drive that for an hour & tell me there's no bumps I'll do an obligatory video plug:



Boris covered the others I drive regularily ( or would if the game would let me drive anything ... )

 

Tor Poznan, Gentrack 1, Grobnik

 

I don't know how Paul Ricard can be better than some Kunos tracks if Paul Ricard is Paul Ricard, and Spa-Francorchamps is Spa-Francorchamps, or insert other laserscanned track as example. They will do the track "feel" as is in real life, so doesn't matter if PR feels better for you, even if for e.g Spa is smoother, is as is in real life and can't be compared to PR or other track.

 

+1 for Paul Ricard, Tor Poznań (laserscanned version on the way), Donnington, Luccaring, Grobnik.
I haven't tried others like Bridgehampton, even though I have it installed.

 

To the already mentioned I would add Salzburgring, Castle Hill, Lake Louise, Barbagallo, Baskerville, Istanbul and Montreal (although the last two I mentioned are not finished yet).

 

Grobnik, Donnington, Hockenheim all layouts, I just downloaded and tried Sachsenring, it's challenging not many bumps...

Wow. I have to get this track.

And the Gt40 skin, where did you get that one?

Thanks.

Cheers
Robin

 

So is Tor Poznan (from racedepartment) laserscanned? Or will there be another laserscanned version (source?)?

 

Poznań it's going to be in laserscanned version.

 

It's not laserscanned at the moment, but it will be. Author is the same, thread is here too so you can check it out.

 

Define laser scanning.. yes it will use laser scan data, but so have most mod tracks. It doesn't compare to Kunos laser scanning as that has a huge resolution to pick up all the bumps in the asphalt.

Agree with most here, btw.
Donington Park, Barbagallo, Baskerville, Bridgehampton, Lake Louise, Grobnik, Tor Poznan, Lucca Ring, etc. Probably missing a few great ones still.

 

My Mills metropark has bumps, if it's all you're asking for

 

Ive recently gone through all of my mod tracks and sorted them as follows:

Tracks with high detail mesh featuring randomness giving very similar result to kunos LS tracks:
Aosta (bumpy but from detail rather than physics bug caused by low res mesh, best to use road cars)
Bridgehampton (the best example of how to do a track)
Gentrack
Lake Louise
LuccaRing
Modena
Transfargarasan (less randomness than others but given the length of the track its great)

Tracks with good resolution mesh but lacking much randomness:
Algarve
Blackwood/Blackwood Reloaded
Brno
Longford 67
Poznan
Spielberg
Thruxton

Tracks with generally lower resolution mesh than kunos non-LS tracks (monza 66, trento, zandvoort) but are still good to drive (although im sure they would be better if they followed lilskis guide linked in my sig)
Barbagallo
Donington
Le Mans
Miseluk
Paul Ricard

There are others that had good kunos-style meshes e.g. mills metropark, but i dont like something in the visuals so i dont keep them (low res mountain textures in this case)

and of course also good visual tracks like baskerville and montreal but i dont think the mesh quite there yet in those

 

I meant graphically, i enjoy Paul Ricard graphically more then Vallelunga, Nurburgring GP, Mugello etc..

Not sure how you've put PR as a lower mesh track? It's got amazing feedback through the wheel, that's why i drive it that much..

 

AFAIK tracks like Donington, Paul Ricard, Barbagallo are very well made.
Suggestions about good quality Hill Climb mods would be appreciated too.
IMO one of the best isKrajiska Zmija from RaceDepartment (hope to have written well ).

 

its not to say its bad, but its definitely pushing the limits on whats acceptable for the ac physics engine, too low and you get the suspsension oscillation highlighted nicely here: https://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/index.php?threads/rain´s-track-collection-update-28th-oct-mosport-release-eastern-creek-update.27538/page-4#post-576951

and also i have seen numerous people say that tyre heating and general behaviour isnt right on the lower resolution mesh (understandable really)

for reference:

Spoiler: track meshes of kunos tracks and paul ricard

monza 66

zandvoort


trento

paul ricard (4 triangles wide)

i think paul ricard is flat enough (in terms of elevation) that it just about gets away with it, but when the author can easily increase the resolution to ac standards (link to lilskis guide in my sig) it seems silly not to do so when it can be done with 0 fps cost. the same applies to all others that i put in that category, i have driven plenty of tracks that are also 4 triangles wide that do suffer from the aforementioned suspension issues, so they are definitely pushing the limit imo and for no good reason.

for reference, the tracks in my first category are generally looking like this:

Spoiler: good mesh

luccaring (very similar to what you see on kunos mesh)

edit: would be interested if @Nick Moxley or any other motion users would agree with my 1st list being the most akin to kunos tracks, and if they have any other suggestions of good examples

 

So is it just the number of 'triangles' that determines the mesh? Btw Zandvoort looks very low res if that's the case, which would confirm why i hate it. And looking at Trento, it seems it has plenty of them things but i still wouldn't put it on a high place when it comes to driving feel. It's wierd that... i honestly feel the track and what is going on on Paul Ricard very much, like i said i'm not driving it all the time cause of the moving trees

 

Well I just used that as a clear indicator of the general resolution, all of the kunos non ls tracks are around 8 wide (including zandvoort so IMO its still unclear why you hate it, it follows the same style of uniform patterns of triangles as paul ricard that I guess is what you get out of racetrack builder, just with more of them, particularly in the corners where it gets even more dense compared to Paul Ricard which doesn't increase that much in the corners) so modders should use that as a baseline, but as lilski has proved there's no reason you can't get close to an ls style mesh anyway

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@ears1991 No offense but your examples look more like a visual mesh than a physical mesh. All images I've seen from tracks like Spa, Mugello, 'Ring, etc look a lot more like what tracks should look like (Lilski's example and the like).
It doesn't mean that any mod track with a proper physics surface is a track that's worth it. But it has the potential at least to give you the feeling you're driving a track.