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Pure 0.19x - upcomming features
With Pure 0.19x it will be possible to live edit the track adaption. They can be saved as your own custom settings. With a single click they are exported to clipboard and so its easy to paste them in a track config.As a major improvement for older tracks with limited far track geometry, i developed ...
Attention! Don't update to the newest CM 0.8.2561...
Please uncheck this option:CM - settings - Content Manager - general - "update to untested versions" !!!If you already updated it, please use this version:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tUusPtFLF2CNTqZY_ElM338lVNqkiti2/view?usp=sharingReplace your ContentManager.exe with the one in the zip...
Pure 0.180 development preview
How to install Pure:https://youtu.be/lv18r-b1nmAThis new Pure release is all about to support the new CSP features of 0.1.80p218 or later.!!! Please read the prior post, to install the new CM and CSP properly !!!https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-do-i-update-81980284Hello my dear Patreons,Pure 0.180 ...
How do i update to the new CSP properly?
(You don't get CSP here! I just inform you how to install it properly)You get the latest CSP here:https://www.patreon.com/x4fab/postsIf you like to try the new CSP update, please do this:First install the new Content Manager!!!Replace your existing ContentManger.exe with the new one!This is very...
Pure 0.165 development preview
How to install Content Manager and Custom Shaders Patch:https://youtu.be/VONsqJ7gOAgHow to install Pure:https://youtu.be/lv18r-b1nmAHello my dear Patreons,Pure 0.165 will bring some updated graphics. It comes with 5 new skydome textures, reworked skydome night looks and a reworked stars and moon loo...
Sol 2.2.7 + Pure 0.155 development preview
How to install Content Manager and Custom Shaders Patch:https://youtu.be/VONsqJ7gOAgHow to install Pure:https://youtu.be/lv18r-b1nmAChanges from Pure 0.154 -> 0.155correct scaling of rain sounds with CSP 1.80p115 and laterPure 0.155 is a complete pack with highres skydomes. You don't need former...
Sol 2.2.6 + Pure 0.154 development preview
Hello my dear Patreons,The new updates of Sol and Pure include the new Sol Planner app (3.8) and the new Sol controller (2.42). Both will support the recent CSP RainFx changes. In the new CSP preview versions, rain amount, wetness and puddles got a new scale and have a completely different influence...
Sol weather controller 2 upgrade
Hello,Here is a little upgrade of Sol weather controller 2, to work with the new CSP 0.180p108 (released on 24.12.2022).RainFX was updated! So wetness and puddles needs to be calculated differently.Just copy the extension folder inside the zip to your AC root folder!For this controller upgrade, you ...
Pure 0.148 development preview
AS ALWAYS, PLEASE READ THE INSTALL GUIDE !https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u5rFYPzMHgW8ErHgMrPsxKNzEflrOwMe/view?usp=sharingPlease use "Pure Config" app to check all needed settings !Pure 0.0148 needs at least CSP 1.76 public.For skydomes you need at least CSP 1.78 public!As always, for rain...
A sneak peek at the future of Pure
Just to show you, why it is a little bit quiet since some time.With the latest CSP versions, the integration of own shaders is possible. In the last months, i digged in the basics of shader coding and build in a dynamic shader environment into Pure. You already see it in Pure Config app (with the ra...
Reports of constant crashes with NVIDIA driver
!!! NVIDIA users with driver 526.98 !!!If you got AC/CSP crashes, please roll back to driver version 526.86.This will probably fix the crashes...
Sol 2.2.5 and Pure
Hello,If you use Sol and Pure, please install Sol 2.2.5 on top of your existing Pure.I prepare an update of Pure with all those changes and some other bug fixes.I hope i can release it in the next days.Sol 2.2.5 download links:mega: https://mega.nz/file/tWlR1QRL#XmGxRtz7TlxsNJT7VwnIzSS9-CRcu921D31cI...
0.142 Installer fix
For those who had problems with the 0.142 installer, please download the Pure 0.142b base and install again.https://www.patreon.com/posts/pure-0-142-72720063The former installer contains parts of Pure (PurePlanner app and Pure controller), which are still in development, so i removed it from the bas...
Pure 0.142 development preview
Hello my dear supporters,Here is Pure 0.142 development preview. Many, many bugs were fixed and many new features were implemented.Pure Config app got some features like the mouse-scroll parameter edit and right-mouse parameter reset. Also, there is an option, to have separate configs for different ...
Pure development preview 0.115 bugfix
I found a littel bug in Pure 0.115.The colors are shifted a tiny bit. You will not notice this while looking at the landscape or cars. But this little shift is causing wrong colors with emissive lights, like shift lights. In its extreme form, shift lights can look purple, where as they are originall...
Pure development preview 0.115
New sky texturesPure got 5 new skydome textures (for Windy, Few Clouds and Scattered Clouds weather).Extended fog settingsReal distant tracks (tracks with real distant geometry, which have no faked distance objects) can now benefit from a much better fog look. Most of those real distance tracks are ...
Pure development preview 0.102
(its version "0" for development, "." for subversion, "102" incrementing subversion number)new features* rain and wind sounds* skydomes, 2d clouds - 360° sky picturesimprovements* fog, more advanced influences to sun and ambient light* ambient light, much better look* advanc...
The current work on Pure
I'm proud to present you a new way of drawing clouds in the sky!The current state of Pure 0.75 has already a nice color composition and more ways to have good tonemapping. It already has various solutions for old AC problems, like Autoexposure and the way weather is created. It is also way more ...
The meaning of your patreon subscription
My dear Patrons,You will see Pure on sharing sites in the future. There will always be people, who take the work of someone and share it for free. Thats an old behavior and actually, i don't think its stealing.Because you are not paying for a product, but you support the development. And i wante...
Pure 0.75 development preview
Please read the install guide! There is a new install method!!!You need at least CSP 1.76 public (1819) or 1.77preview1Pure 0.75 has done a big step. Some big problems are solved.Pure now uses its own exposure calculation.This works much better then YEBIS Autoexposure. CSP's Cubemap Brightness E...
New Pure development preview soon...
Sorry for the late next development preview of Pure. But i'm working still on some important things. The next build will have a complete new way of exposure control, which is no longer dependent of Yebis' AutoExposure. So nearly all problems of the behavoirs with the AE are solved.The next b...
Pure 0.58 development preview
!!! You need CSP 1.76 RELEASE VERSION (not preview)or later (like CSP 1.77 preview 1) !!!Please read the included Pure install guide.pdfSome important settings:Video:Do not use a static refelctions rendering frequency!CSP / Reflections FX:The modul itself and all "General Cubemap reflections"...
Teaser / What will be new in Pure 0.53
Here is a little teaser of Pure 0.53, which will be released soon.
Pure 0.32 development preview
Some small bugfixes:- fixed sounds (wiper sound now works)- removed some postprocessing limitations- added a simple ppfilter, which does not have a pure script, but new CSP advanced AE settingslink:https://drive.google.com/file/d/14ikrRlKzbK9TzAZAas7X5bt_FInBHLTP/view?usp=sharingPlease remove older ...
Pure 0.31 development preview
new features of Pure 0.31:- Sol's sound system (Sol needs to be installed)- Solar and lunar eclipse- Light adaption if PostProcessing is deactivated- Cloud's render distance setting- Clouds position earth curvature calculationmain bugfixes:- fixed bugs with new online weather controller- nig...
Pure 0.30 development preview
My dear patreons,In the last month i was optimizing Pure's complete code. I find out, how to speed it up. This took some days. Pure is now running very efficient and fast.After this, i was digging deep into the CSP clouds. I tried some new lighting models. With Pure 0.30 you see the one i prefer...
Proper wiper control with Sol Planner + Sol 2.x controller
Please deactivate Sol Weather's wiper control completely, to use Sol Planner's wiper control. Now you have a proper manual control via keys/buttons of the wipers, if you set them to:-2: Wipers are not controlled by Sol Planeror-1: Wipers are controlled by Sol Planner automatically
Pure tech preview 0.27
Changes:1) Converting / optimizing the whole code (resulted in a 100% performance boost)2) Added 3d cloud system:- fully functional positioning and appearing/disappearing system- multi layer cloud system (only Cumulus for now)- basic lighting model (becoming more advanced with future versions)3) Som...
The first test of 3d clouds in Pure
I tried a first implementation of "3D" clouds in Pure. I made the code from the ground and found and solved much problems of LUA.So actually you see unoptimized rendering. Everything is calculated every frame.There is no advanced clouds lighting code. This will cause more impact, but with th...
