Car body and sky and not visible but wheels are

[Rob-bb]

Hi.

My car is not visible in game, but is in CM Showroom. However, the wheels do show in-game. But also the sky is black, and the track texture is black (only for my car)

I can load the ACM_tutorial_basic car fine and the track and sky look ok.

I had to manual turn up the brightness in this image so it's a bit washed out. You can see a couple of the cars on the track ready to start.

 

[Rob-bb]

EDIT: Solved. So the issue was scaling from blender when exporting the FBX file. Set the Blender units to Metric and Meters for the meshes, and then use these settings when exporting

 

[fughettaboutit]

check "data\lods.ini" if there is one section with IN=0

[LOD_0]
FILE=your_car.kn5
IN=0
OUT=17

also check "data\car.ini"

[BASIC]
GRAPHICS_OFFSET=...... ; this may be wrong

 

[Rob-bb]

my lod.ini is

[COCKPIT_HR]
DISTANCE_SWITCH=6
[DRIVER_HR]
DISTANCE_SWITCH=25
[LOD_0]
FILE=fuga.kn5
IN=0
OUT=200

and in car.ini

[BASIC]
GRAPHICS_OFFSET=0,-0.243,0.428

 

[fughettaboutit]

Ok that seems legit. You also got a "collider.kn5" already? If not make one according to page 36 in
...assettocorsa\sdk\dev\car_pipeline_2.0rev\AC_Pipeline_PUB_Rev2.0.pdf

or copy a similar one from another car for now

 

[Rob-bb]

Yes, I do, but it might be broken, so I copied other cars one, same result.

EDIT: Actually, the sky is still black, but the track is visible now, and the AI cars actually drive away, that was just from changing the collider.kn5

 

[Rob-bb]

Ok, I am not sure about the sky, but I added simple cube mesh to one wheel and it is visible. I also added a cube to the main car body, and the second cube is not visible. So enabled Free Camera and zoomed way out, I found the car.

I have a scaling issue and maybe a couple of other problems.

But it looks fine in ksEditor

 

[fughettaboutit]

scale everything down in blender by 0.01
(you may need to reposition the car center then...)

 

[fughettaboutit]

and then
Ctrl+A -> apply "All Transforms"

 

[fughettaboutit]

in ksEditor you dont have something to compare with, so ye, it looks good there

 

[Rob-bb]

Ah, I read something about deleting all the dummies and then scaling and redoing the dummies, so that where I am at at the moment. Why were the wheels ok in ksEditor and also in game, any ideas? I am worried I will redo all this and have the same result

The car is to scale in in blender already. I think I did that ctrl-A thing a couple of days ago for some other thing I saw on youtube, and the dimensions are right in meters.

 

[fughettaboutit]

No need to redo dummies if you apply transforms.
But meters in blender means its still 100x bigger in AC.
wheel size is actually calculated from stuff in the ini's.

 

[Rob-bb]

Are you sure about the meters thing? The docs say to use meters in 3ds (I am using blender though). I exported another car using ContentManager and it is a similar size, and in meters. Any was, Ill finish the redoing the dumies and then if it fails try scaling it down 1/100

 

[fughettaboutit]

erhm argh, 66% sure.

 

[Rob-bb]

ok, so the dummies didn't work, I then set it to export with a scale of 0.01 on export, and the car fits, but the wheels are all messed up. Not i the right positions , I think that is a ini setting file ?

 

[fughettaboutit]

puh, thats out of my knowledge...

 

[Rob-bb]

And it now doesn't show in CM Showroom. Winning at modding is harder than winning a race

 

[Rob-bb]

puh, thats out of my knowledge...

Thats cool, you've been very patient and a lot of help. Thanks,