QUESTION Grass and backgrounds

[protomor]

Hi guys. I'm not sure if this forum is still active. I have 2 questions that I can't seem to find by searcing.

1. Grass - I found a tutorial for making 3d grass but, using blender, I just have a bunch of cubes. I suppose I should make them vertical planes and repeat? use a transparency so the grass stands up. But from what I'm seeing of other tracks, that's now how people make grass. Am I missing something?

2 Background images/textures - Lots of tracks have mountains in the distant background It makes the track look much more alive and real. But I can't seem to find how to do that. Right now, I just have a flat perimeter of trees and things just look flat and horrible.

 

[fughettaboutit]

yes, normal way would be to make small vertical planes and using ksGrass shader in ksEditor on them
https://assettocorsamods.net/threads/3d-grass.176/#post-13694

skybox, same, vert. plane, using ksPerPixelAT und Blendmode eAlphaTransparency, no shadow, no specular

trees:
http://www.racedepartment.com/threads/proper-technique-in-track-making-plus-tips.122794/#post-2397224

 

[protomor]

Where's good places to get textures for grass and backgrounds?

 

[protomor]

Man this grass looks pretty ugly. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[fughettaboutit]

oh the new way with CustomShadersPatch is here:
https://github.com/ac-custom-shaders-patch/acc-extension-config/wiki/Tracks-–-Grass-FX
https://assettocorsamods.net/threads/how-to-enable-grass-fx-on-my-track.1890/#post-13540

see brands hatch and nordschleife config for examples
https://github.com/ac-custom-shaders-patch/acc-extension-config/blob/master/config/tracks/ks_brands_hatch.ini
https://github.com/ac-custom-shaders-patch/acc-extension-config/blob/master/config/tracks/ks_nordschleife.ini

note: when only using grassfx - in vanilla ac you dont have any...

 

[protomor]

ooh it only works with that shader. Eh. no point in wasting my time.

I still can't get the background to work. I'm using a box but that seems to make everything dark. I guess I need to circle the whole map. But I can't find a background with an alpha.

 

[protomor]

I figured out getting grass fx to work in general but for some reason all my grass is black. The normals in blender point up so it's not a shadow thing. I have shadows turned off anyway and grass looks fine in other tracks.

[GRASS_FX]
GRASS_MATERIALS=Grass
HEIGHT_MULT=0.2
COLOR_FACTOR=0

 

[fughettaboutit]

dont use the shader "ksGrass" on your grass-ground texture, its meant for 3d-grass
dont use grassFX on your own original 3d-Grass, use it on the grass-ground texture only

see nords config for an example of how to use it
(grassFX starts at line 117)
https://github.com/ac-custom-shaders-patch/acc-extension-config/blob/master/config/tracks/ks_nordschleife.ini

 

[protomor]

Much better! Thank you!

 

[jonimik494]

Hello

I have seen this update on many tracks so I start to create my own tracks. I made a simple track with a grass field. I followed the tutorial but no grass appears ! My texture is classic, it comes from RTB : grass01.dds. I did all updates on CM, do you have an idea ? it works on downloaded tracks.


I see that I have an error message on my track:




[GRASS_FX]
GRASS_MATERIALS=Grass01, grass?, grass
HEIGHT_MULT=0.2
COLOR_FACTOR=0

 

[protomor]

Looks like you don't have the grass FX mod enabled. Are you using content manager? It's under the custom shaders patch

 

[fughettaboutit]

yes, i think its off by default

 

[jonimik494]

thanks mates. yeah, I have checked and updated the shaders and CM (0.1.52) and the grass fx works on other tracks. I see that I can't drive on the grass without falling and leaving the map too !!

 

[fughettaboutit]

to activate physics on your surface, rename the object (not material) to something with a number in front:
1GRASS_mesh1
1GRASS_anothermesh

 

[jonimik494]

really ? ok great idea mate ! for grass, the track use the basic texture (Grass01.dds) so I should have grass automatically with grass fx ? I think I followed the tutorial

on extension folder, my file ext_config.ini contains only this code (i have no object yet)

[GRASS_FX]
GRASS_MATERIALS=Grass01.dds
HEIGHT_MULT=0.2
COLOR_FACTOR=0

 

[fughettaboutit]

also try this:

[GRASS_FX]
GRASS_MATERIALS=Grass01, grass?, grass
SHAPE_SIZE = 2.0 ; general size
SHAPE_TIDY = 0.0 ; how tidy grass is (untidy grass in uneven, tilted more)
SHAPE_CUT = 0.0 ; how cut grass is
SHAPE_WIDTH = 1.0 ; grass width relative to its height

 

[fughettaboutit]

you need to insert material name (*) , not texture/image name

edit:
(*) after GRASS_MATERIALS=

 

[jonimik494]

thanks, but its same. I downloaded Road America 0.91 and the grassfx app works (grassfx debug app). On my track, I have an error message telling me that grassfx is not active (with your code its same)

 

[jonimik494]

Hello

its work with this code :
GRASS_MESHES = 1GRASS_?

Much better now ! Thank you !