AC Real V1.24 - Release Build + Patch Notes

It's finally ready, after another long month of waiting for you all. First things first, we have surpassed over 2100 Members! Thanks so much for supporting my vision and being here with me to help this community push Assetto farther than it ever has been. I'd also like to thank Kunos for giving us modders a great base to work with. Now, on to the nitty gritty.

Many things have been changed, but I'll highlight the most important ones.

Firstly, the "Blindness Intensity" Option now will work much better and is the best on DC and GT7 bloom types. On others, it's still there, but is kind of muted. It also works in conjunction with a thing called "Movie Contrast." This heavily crushes blacks and gives that cinematic, movie-like feel that DC gave off. Here's stock pure for comparison. I'm using the DC bloom type for the purpose of showing this better.
There is also now a "Camera-Like exposure" button that just makes all of this more dramatic and faster.



The filter's ambient lighting system also saw some adjustments. There are now 3 options. "Cinema" slightly oversaturates everything and makes shadows have a slight bluish tint, while "neutral" removes this effect completely. There is also a 3rd option called "Azure". This was my attempt at faking how natural light works by adjusting all thee ambient lighting parameters to be more subtle and make the rest of the functions work harder. Let me know what you think of this.


The tone mapping also needed some minor adjustments after all this, especially at night. Now you should have punchier blacks and colors without as much crush, which matches the aesthetic i was going for very well. It also significantly improves the general look of nighttime as well.





But wait, there's more! With CSP 0.2.4, there is an amazing new approach to fog that enables you to Increase fog amounts exponentially with distance. I added this as an option called "DC Atmosphere". This works amazing for rainy weather, and is ones of thee biggest improvements to thee filter's overall looks. Combined with all the new Lightning tweaks, this creates a beautiful weather dynamic that truly captures the essence of Driveclub and what the community loved about it.





Another highlight is the current look of reflections. They should now take in more of the surroundings where needed, and will be de-intensified where they don't.




If you want to know everything that's been chained, there are patch notes below. Other than that, that's pretty much it. Enjoy, and let me know what you think!
Full Patch List:
--further improved blindness function by messing with YEBIS ae
--fixed blinding effect being too long
--drastically changed how base Atmosphere function works
--Added backwards Compatibility for older CSP versions down to 0.2.0
--atmosphere functions now makes use of a combination of new functions, taking their best parts and merging them together(dependent on your CSP version)
--fog is now increased exponentially based on distance, weather, etc
-- Added an option to help move the filter towards even better portrayal of colors. The sun's effect on the environment is now somewhat increased, and the color palette in general should be much more neutral. This allows the lighting system and exposure to have significantly more control over the visuals. Also made some significant changes to the ambient lighting system(it's much more aggressive now).
--reduced base fog saturation
--Reflections now adapt based on surroundings and exposure...
--Atmosphere has been HEAVILY reconfigured...
--Minor adjustments to exposure...
--Sunblinding shader re-configured from scratch...

--Ambient Light is reconfigured to be more realistic in all scenarios.
--Re-configured Movie++ and GT tonemapping curves to be much more purpose-serving.
--recalibrated Sun's effect on Atmosphere
--took longer than it should've, but lightning is now fully configured and is MUCH more frequent. No more looking for lightning.
ALL PHOTOS ARE RAW, UNEDITED, AND ARE COMPARED TO STOCK PURE.
LATEST PURE AND CSP REQIURED!
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