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Last time you said it was 1 million, now 20 thousand. What happened with the 980k since then?
This shows quite well how much you're thinking before you say something.
Why do you compare Ilja's case to Reiza? There's nothing common in them.
Reiza bought the SMS engine to build and sell a new racing game. The income will be their income, quite simple.
Ilja has made a new launcher for AC (because it was useless) which was published on the official Kunos forum.
He was highly supported (like any other modders), because Kunos' philosophy was to create a game which will be
long living through the continously polishing of the modders community. They knew of everything what he was cooking.
They knew he was doing rain and night, which were IMPOSSIBLE WITH THIS ENGINE. Any moment they could have stopped him. But no,
they decided very wisely let him work because he is a genius, and the game will be so utterly good, it can be sold for many years.
And who is selling it, what do you think?
Don't panic, 505 Games loves Ilja.
I don't know why became it so popular to kick into Ilja lately. Without him maybe we wouldn't be here.
I'm very grateful to anybody for every little thing created for our hobby, I try to create myself to give back something, but this guy is
not doing skins or stupid animation (like I did) or camera sets, he is literally a game changer. Why are we jealous of his success?
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Peugeot 908_hdi_lmp1
REPAIRED LINK:
https://mega.nz/file/QR0WxQCb#9Q1LyQtI1hXgbBzYe5uPq1WjwJOyiSP6x1fqsnNHlhA
Enjoy
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Hey, thanks for reminding me. I pushed another update with the cameras by @DaBaeda and a few tweaks to the road texture. This will be the last update for a while, I promise!
You can grab the update here: https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/brno-1965.37239/
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I wouldn't bother replying to people who think Ilja is rolling in money right now since they don't seem to have a great understanding of how being compensated for one's time works.
Ilja has a dayjob, when he gets home he works on the patch for as long as he can before passing out and starting his day again.
Every other one of his sessions can bounce between 5 hours and 8 hours of just testing and debugging, the minimum wage in the middle of nowhere USA is $9/hr.
So let's do the math, pre-rain his patreon was in the low 100s.
For 5 hours a day, assuming he worked every day of the week (as he does usually) we're already at just 100 dollars a month minus CM Donations (which are one-time only)
Back then he was getting paid $0.66/ hr if we assume all of the above is correct and that he was working 35 hours a week on the patch.
Currently Patreon's reporting he's at $3,593 a month but that's not as simple as you might think.
The patch isn't developed by just one person, he has one other person on payroll which is JPG_18 on Discord aka Jackson from IER and they split even on the earnings. So if he were keeping it all for himself he would just be making $23/hr which is a medium-range job position in the US. But since that's cut in half between them he gets $1795.5 a month, and $11.84 an hour assuming everyone here is being paid per hour and they work equal amounts (35 hrs a week on the patch).
You can donate $1 to get CM and currently the AC community's highest all-time peak in players was 8,697. x4 also worked on Content Manager way longer than he had to work on the patch so you can see where this is going. Even if we assumed every single player of AC bought Content Manager for $1< it still only gives him a one-time payment, and i don't believe it for a minute that everyone just bought it at the same time. So please let's stop painting Ilja as some money-hungry dollar vacuum that's got a mansion up in whichever frozen hole of Russia he lives in. Thanks
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i took it down cuz it got some problems
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To clear things up i said 1 million and Rusty said it was 20k.... Actually.
He makes 2-3k a month from patreon and at least £1 per CM download, now the player base of AC is huge and i'd wager that a good 300k to 500k have now got CM...I doubt 100% of people only pay £1 for CM...so yeah...I recon my guess must be not too far off....
If he has only made 20k off of it in 2 years or whatever then he's doing something wrong...
BTW i don't mind if he makes that much from it, i have no issue with that... just its simple fact that he paid no licence fee to use the base sim...
So so far he's done very well avoiding any problematic run ins with Kunos...
As you say, they must be aware and must like him and most likely be lining up putting him on a payroll full time...
Lets hope so, and bring on AC2..
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I really don't get where this... mood... against Ilja suddenly came out from.
In order to support him, by the time he only had written CM, I bought it twice.
It was the minimum I could do to show the appreciation for the huge amount of work the launcher required.
Whoever knows a bit of programming languages more than writing 'hello world' in basic knows how huge that project is, and if you had the chance to take a look at the code you can easily understand how talented he is.
Right now I'm not playing with AC for a pretty long time still I am one of his patreons (the only one I support ) and I still haven't even tested the new rain stuff. Damn, he really deserves it.
I, for myself, had used a lot of mods from many other modders: apps, tracks, cars, skins... I donated a few $ to some of them, but the only way I found to give something back to the community was to write an app; it had to be a simple fps counter then it became some thousands lines of code in few BLM apps. Someone offered me a few beers and that's more than fine, because in the end it's more the mods that I've taken than what I've given back.
Sorry, end of this boring post
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He wouldn't have to pay a license to use the base sim as he's not re-selling the game, Kunos is still profiting off people that are buying the game just to play with the patch so why on earth would they chase him down for a few pennies?
He's not in violation of any copyright so far as it's all been done in a clean room approach .
He's not doing something wrong, he's modding for fun and not for profit.
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Must be ignored my Friend ,really Toxic Oil .....
One way: Right click mouse over the members name (in thread). Click on the above option. Will open a window with members details.
Press the 'ignore' option.
I love You Man !!! These lines.... and this arrow .....
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I wonder if he still is alive and kicking. I wrote him several messages of several topics we have had together in the past but no response. Neither on patreon nor on discord. Have you been lately with him in contact, is he still doing well? I only wonder since we´ve heard nothing from him since more than a month.
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He's very much alive and kicking, just busy developing and fixing stuff. I report bugs to him every few days through a bit of a hotline he gave me to do so and occasionally chitchat. For now he seems focused on establishing CM Workshop as a thing, which will be like Steam Workshop but built into CM and curated so that it doesn't just become a landfill of Assettoland reposts.
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[QUOTE = "gutbomb, post: 13290969, member: 249871"] Hey, danke, dass du mich daran erinnert hast. Ich habe ein weiteres Update mit den Kameras von [USER = 312632] @DaBaeda [/ USER] und ein paar Änderungen an der Straßentextur vorgenommen. Dies wird das letzte Update für eine Weile sein, das verspreche ich!
Sie können das Update hier herunterladen : https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/brno-1965.37239/ [/ QUOTE]
Thank You, thanks for the hint about the download
Sie können das Update hier herunterladen : https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/brno-1965.37239/ [/ QUOTE]
Thank You, thanks for the hint about the download
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That's good then, my biggest fear (in the sim context obviously) would be i fire up CM one day and find Kunos had changed some lines somewhere and it was unusable (remember when they released the Ferrazer EVO recently, the message that popped up i thought that day had come!).
But yeah i digress, CM is wonderful and the rain fx is just utterly stunning.
So long as even though it gets bigger in its scope and ambition (the steam type workshop) Kunos are still turning a blind eye then great.
I have no issue at all with Ilja in fact he has the price of a AAA game from me, £25 for CM and £25 odd for patreon so far from me...
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Only advice is that if you can't find the data to verify which is most accurate, then use benchmarks. Choose a test track and set fast laps with reliable cars, the ones that you can verify data for, then use the 2km drag strip to test acceleration. Once you have a list of useful times then you can use that as a benchmark for new content, you'll then quickly realise what is realistic and what is not.
There is a warning that comes with this however and that is you will quickly find how horribly inaccurate most mods are, for example most mods don't take drivetrain power loss into account and a remarkably large number of mods create zero aerodynamic drag.
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I think imagination is the key. To me sim racing is all about the illusion that lets us pretend (let's be honest) that we're driving race cars. Take a single race car. Through it's life it changes through constant modification and wear. It's foolish to think that any simulated car is exactly right for all the possible states of that car.
I appreciate your comments on the ERAs. My impressionistic approach makes me like the Velo car more because of the stronger FFB which lets me feel more like a tough dare devil 1930's racer than the more dainty Legion version.
The insanely low grip of many of the vintage cars does bother me. I haven't driven a race car, but I have driven for decades in snow and ice. Some of the older sim cars have as little grip as a real RWD car in the worst slick ice conditions even when they're on a dry track.
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You're not wrong. I have donated CM,Crew Chief and SIMHUB at the same time. I remember to donated 5 and 2X10€, only thing is I can't remember to which one was 5€ and 10€, to be exactly.
I could search on my mails, but I will not have the trouble for this. It is irrelevant.
Therefore, you are right!
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This was pointed up more than once. In fact the majoraty of the car mods were made with ridiculous low levels of grip by their 'fathers'.
By watching some real time footage, is enough to perceive how the real cars had more grip, even not forgetting the difficulty in driving them.
I can be wrong (I'm not as some members, always being right), but maybe he is refering about posting links and not the quality of the mods.
But what I know? 💡
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That'd be rather annoying, but imagine the bloody meltdown from all those modding ***** (RTM, SD, the guys who encrypt **** mods, that guy who expects us to pay 20e for a single GTS port - seriously get a bloody job if you're chasing money pal). A day to remember. Wonder which community / game they'd target next.
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I say leave mod-fixing to people who can do more than press the download button on every piece of content they see
Great advice to anyone who wants to learn how to do something: Don't bother! Just leave it to the 'experts'! They'll tell you what you need*!
(* Warning. Following this suggestion may lead to the eventual extinction of the human race. No responsibility will be taken by the so-called 'experts' for any such scenario.)
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Ginot Team - Circuit de Pau 1967, 1974, 2017 - EXT_CONFIG, VAO + TV Cameras by CrisT86
- New ext_config (Pau 2017 already have one via CSP. I added other stuff in mine which goes alongside the original to improve the track itself)
- New Track cameras (1 camera position, 3 FOVS). Original cameras set moved at the end of my set.
- Added VAO patches.
!!!! IMPORTANT !!!!
For personal taste i hided some banner which doesn't exist in real life, in order to activate it, just edit the relative ext_config in this way
Pau 1967: Remove or disable by adding ; before every line from this part
;;;;;;;;;;;;;; AD REMOVAL ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
[MESH_ADJUSTMENT_...]
MESHES = panneau, panneau_2,
IS_RENDERABLE = 0
Pau 1974: Remove or disable by adding ; before every line from this part
;;;;;;;;;;;;;; AD REMOVAL ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
[MESH_ADJUSTMENT_...]
MESHES = panneau_2, panneau
IS_RENDERABLE = 0
PAU 2017: Remove or disable by adding ; before every line from this part
;;;;;;;;;;;;;; AD REMOVAL ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
[MESH_ADJUSTMENT_...]
MESHES = Race07ads02, Race07ads03, Race07ads04, Race07ads05, Race07ads06, Race07ads07, Race07ads08, Race07ads09, Race07ads10, Race07ads11, Race07ads12, Race07ads13, Race07ads15,
IS_RENDERABLE = 0
In this case you also need to remove the ; before every line from this part in order to fix a problem with a value used by the author when lights are on at night.
;;;;;;;;;;;;;; PROBLEMATIC ADS FIXED ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;[MATERIAL_ADJUSTMENT_...]
;ACTIVE = 1
;DESCRIPTION = disable addboard lights glow
;MATERIALS= pub_buisson1
;KEY_0 = ksAmbient
;VALUE_0 = 0.25
;KEY_1 = ksDiffuse
;VALUE_1 = 0.25
Thanks to @slider666 for the help in this part of the problematic ADS fixed
https://sharemods.com/0cjy6jakn7i4/..._CONFIG__VAO___TV_Cameras_by_CrisT86.zip.html
Just drag and drop inside the track folder and overwrite. Keep a copy of these files for future updates of the track made by the author.
Enjoy!
- New ext_config (Pau 2017 already have one via CSP. I added other stuff in mine which goes alongside the original to improve the track itself)
- New Track cameras (1 camera position, 3 FOVS). Original cameras set moved at the end of my set.
- Added VAO patches.
!!!! IMPORTANT !!!!
For personal taste i hided some banner which doesn't exist in real life, in order to activate it, just edit the relative ext_config in this way
Pau 1967: Remove or disable by adding ; before every line from this part
;;;;;;;;;;;;;; AD REMOVAL ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
[MESH_ADJUSTMENT_...]
MESHES = panneau, panneau_2,
IS_RENDERABLE = 0
Pau 1974: Remove or disable by adding ; before every line from this part
;;;;;;;;;;;;;; AD REMOVAL ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
[MESH_ADJUSTMENT_...]
MESHES = panneau_2, panneau
IS_RENDERABLE = 0
PAU 2017: Remove or disable by adding ; before every line from this part
;;;;;;;;;;;;;; AD REMOVAL ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
[MESH_ADJUSTMENT_...]
MESHES = Race07ads02, Race07ads03, Race07ads04, Race07ads05, Race07ads06, Race07ads07, Race07ads08, Race07ads09, Race07ads10, Race07ads11, Race07ads12, Race07ads13, Race07ads15,
IS_RENDERABLE = 0
In this case you also need to remove the ; before every line from this part in order to fix a problem with a value used by the author when lights are on at night.
;;;;;;;;;;;;;; PROBLEMATIC ADS FIXED ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;[MATERIAL_ADJUSTMENT_...]
;ACTIVE = 1
;DESCRIPTION = disable addboard lights glow
;MATERIALS= pub_buisson1
;KEY_0 = ksAmbient
;VALUE_0 = 0.25
;KEY_1 = ksDiffuse
;VALUE_1 = 0.25
Thanks to @slider666 for the help in this part of the problematic ADS fixed
https://sharemods.com/0cjy6jakn7i4/..._CONFIG__VAO___TV_Cameras_by_CrisT86.zip.html
Just drag and drop inside the track folder and overwrite. Keep a copy of these files for future updates of the track made by the author.
Enjoy!
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That's my biggest pet peeve with many mods. Adding drivetrain losses to the power.lut from my experience is one of the easy aspects of physic changes(I barely know what the hell I'm doing and I know that). Some times when you point out this simple flaw to some people they lose their minds.
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