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I’ve god some good news and some bad news. First of all, unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances rain physics needs some more time, very sorry about it. With that, I decided to take a little break from working on it and instead work on another project. I think it might be even more important, and I should have done it a long time ago, but it’s quite more complicated than anything else I’ve done so far, and it didn’t feel like I was ready for it before. So, announcing
The CM Workshop!
It’s like the Steam Workshop, but for Assetto Corsa!
(Sorry for trying to hype it up, but I really hope people would consider joining, so I’m trying to make it sound a bit more interesting.)
Key features for users:
- Browse and install mods seamlessly (without any confirmation);
- Get latest versions fully automatically;
- Rate and review mods;
- Follow curators you like to get notifications about new recommended content;
- Don’t like content converted from other games? Click a checkbox and you will never see it;
- Missing some content for an online server? Get it automatically when trying to connect (assuming content creator shared it on CM Workshop);
- View cars in CM Showroom without installation (requires to load some data, but less of it than the whole car);
- Filter content by various factors to find what you’re looking for;
- Keep things orderly: everything uploaded to CM Workshop would follow Kunos guidelines, including style of previews, tags, brands and so on;
- No need to register to start downloading things.
Key features for content creators:
- Share content via Content Manager, no need to worry anymore about where to upload large files;
- See how many people have downloaded or are using your mods currently;
- Feel free to push as many quick fixes as you feel are necessary — with automated updates, new versions will get distributed fast;
- Worry less about people copying your work without permission: CM Workshop would do its best to try and detect such cases automatically;
- Write detailed posts about your work on your feed, combine several mods into collections.
Some of these features are already ready, and I’m fairly confident I’ll be able to implement the rest, although it would take some more time. But, sadly, apart from that video with UI, I don’t have much else to show at the moment. I spent most time in the last few weeks designing server-side (usually a big problem for me, already had to rewrite everything three times), but now I believe the core concepts are working and are extendable enough to handle all the necessary features.
File storage, I believe, is figured out as well (thanks to Backblaze B2 and Cloudflare collaboration), although I might have to switch to a dedicated server later on if there would be any issues.
Again, very sorry for the delay with the rain, and for other bugs with CSP. Hopefully I’ll be able to release a rainless build of it with more fixes soon. And, as always, thank you so much for all the support! I definitely wouldn’t be able to create something like that without it.
